Communism category: 1567 books
by Lenny Flank
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
A history of American socialism and communism. Selected from the writings of America's most prominent leftists, including Robert Owen, Eugene V Debs, Jack London, Emma Goldman, Big Bill Haywood, Robert LaFollette, Norman Thomas, Louis Fraina, and others.
by Lenny Flank
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
A selection of writings from Friedrich Engels. Socialism, Utopian and Scientific; The Principles of Communism; The Part Played by Labour in the Transition From Ape to Man; Ludwig Feuerbach and the end of Classical German Philosophy; and The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State.
by Bruno Bosteels
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
One of the rising stars of contemporary critical theory, Bruno Bosteels discusses the new currents of thought generated by figures such as Alain Badiou, Jacques Rancière and Slavoj iek, who are spearheading the revival of interest in communism. Bosteels examines this resurgence of communist thought...
What Is Capitalism, Socialism, and Communism?
SHORT STORY # 53. Nonfiction series #1 - # 60.
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
What is capitalism, socialism, and communism? The author is very much familiar with both systems. She lived under socialism (in the former Soviet Union) and under capitalism (in the USA). The story gave definitions and introduced advantages and disadvantages of each system.
Why countries have...
You Don't Know What You Think You "Know" About . . . The Communist Revolution and the REAL Path to Emancipation
Its History and Our Future
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
This book takes on and refutes the conventional wisdom that communist revolution has been a disaster and nightmare. In a wide-ranging, provocative, and richly detailed interview, Raymond Lotta, a political economist and expert in the history of communism, guides the reader through the first wave”...
The Final Revolution
The Resistance Church and the Collapse of Communism
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2003
The collapse of communism in central and eastern Europe--the Revolution of 1989--was a singularly stunning event in a century already known for the unexpected. How did people divided for two generations by an Iron Curtain come so suddenly to dance together atop the Berlin Wall? Why did people who...
The Specter of Democracy
What Marx and Marxists Haven't Understood and Why
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
In this rethinking of Marxism and its blind spots, Dick Howard argues that the collapse of European communism in 1989 should not be identified with a victory for capitalism and makes possible a wholesale reevaluation of democratic politics in the U.S. and abroad. The author turns to the American and...
THE NEW COMMUNISM
The science, the strategy, the leadership for an actual revolution, and a radically new society on the road to real emancipation
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
This landmark work provides a sweeping and comprehensive orientation, foundation, and guide to making the most radical of revolutions: a communist revolution aimed at emancipating humanity— getting beyond all forms of oppression and exploitation on a world scale.This book is a masterwork and a master...
by Aaron Bastani
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2019
A different kind of politics for a new kind of society--beyond work, scarcity and capitalism
In the twenty-first century, new technologies should liberate us from work. Automation, rather than undermining an economy built on full employment, is instead the path to a world of liberty, luxury...
Populating No Man’s Land
Economic Concepts of Ownership under Communism
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
This edited volume opening the new series Revisiting Communism: Collectivist Economic Thought in Historical Perspective focuses on the concepts of ownership, the cornerstone of political economy in Soviet-type societies. The authors’ main objective is to contribute to the still unwritten chapter...
by Mark Carter
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Originally published in 1959, this is the true story of Mark Carter, who was born in Czarist Russia and experienced first-hand the aborted revolution of 1905, the Kerensky Revolution of 1917, the Bolshevik Revolution of October, 1917, and witnessed the coming of communism to the largest country on...
Budapest Diary
In Search of the Motherbook
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Budapest Diary: In Search of the Motherbook by Susan Rubin Suleiman (71,000 words and 2 photographs)
Can you forget the place you once called home? What does it take to make you recapture it? In this moving memoir, Susan Rubin Suleiman describes her returns to the city of her birth — where...
A Brief History of Communism
The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Empire
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
This book is the story of the men who believed they knew how to create an ideal world, and in its name did not hesitate to sacrifice millions of innocent lives.
On the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution in 1917, it is important to understand how a small band of Communists was able...
Down with Big Brother
The Fall of the Soviet Empire
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
"One of the great stories of our time . . . a wonderful anecdotal history of a great drama."
--San Francisco Chronicle Book Review
As Washington Post correspondent in Moscow, Warsaw, and Yugoslavia in the final decade of the Soviet empire, Michael Dobbs had a ringside seat to the...