Communism category: 1567 books
by Henri Lefebvre
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Leading French thinker with his key work on philosophical thought
In Metaphilosophy, Henri Lefebvre works through the implications of Marx’s revolutionary thought to consider philosophy’s engagement with the world. Lefebvre takes Marx’s notion of the “world becoming philosophical and...
by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (22 April 1870 21 January 1924) was a Russian revolutionary, author, lawyer, economic theorist, political philosopher, creator of the Soviet Communist Party, leader of the 1917 October Revolution, and founder of the USSR. As head of the Bolsheviks (19171924) he led the Red Army...
Facing the Anthropocene
Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Science tells us that a new and dangerous stage in planetary evolution has begun—the Anthropocene, a time of rising temperatures, extreme weather, rising oceans, and mass species extinctions. Humanity faces not just more pollution or warmer weather, but a crisis of the Earth System. If business...
Marxs Ecology
Materialism and Nature
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2000
Progress requires the conquest of nature. Or does it? This startling new account overturns conventional interpretations of Marx and in the process outlines a more rational approach to the current environmental crisis. Marx, it is often assumed, cared only about industrial growth and the development...
On Happiness Revolution
A Spiritual Interview with Hannah Arendt
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
Since 2010, Master Ryuho Okawa has published over two hundred spiritual messages, in Japanese, from the spirits of historical men and women and the guardian spirits of today's living figures. With this Spiritual Interview Series, Master Okawa is now making these important messages available in English....
Spiritual Interview with Liu Xiaobo
The Fight for Freedom Continues
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
On July 21, 2017, 8 days after his death, the spirit of Liu Xiaobo was resurrected to deliver his messages to those who are calling for a democratization of China, where suppression of human rights, Information control, and a countless number of purges are still rampant.
This book reveals...
Rethinking Mao
Explorations in Mao Zedong's Thought
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2007
Rethinking Mao offers an innovative perspective on the thought of Mao Zedong, the major architect of the Chinese Revolution and leader of the People's Republic of China until his death in 1976. Utilizing a number of recently discovered documents written by Mao, Nick Knight 'rethinks' Mao by subjecting...
The Retreat from Class
A New 'True' Socialsim
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
Exploring the connections between class, ideology and politics
In this classic study, which won the Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize, Ellen Wood provides a critical survey of influential trends in “post-Marxist” theory. Challenging their dissociation of politics from class, she elaborates...
by Tom Bottomore
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2010
First published in 1985, Theories of Modern Capitalism provides a succinct study of Marxist and non-Marxist theories of Capitalism, its recent development, and the prospects of a transition to socialism.
The study begins with a critical examination and comparison of four major theories of capitalism,...
by Cornel West
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1991
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1991
In this fresh, original analysis of Marxist thought, Cornel West makes a significant contribution to today's debates about the relevance of Marxism by putting the issue of ethics squarely on the Marxist agenda. West, professor of religion and director of the Afro-American studies program at Princeton...
Precarious Worlds
Contested Geographies of Social Reproduction
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
This collection contributes to the theoretical literature on social reproduction—defined by Marx as the necessary labor to arrive the next day at the factory gate—and extended by feminist geographers and others into complex understandings of the relationship between paid labor and the unpaid work...
New Socialisms
Futures Beyond Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
The major problems facing the world as it gets used to the twenty-first century are global inequality, poverty, war and militarism, oppression, exploitation and ecological sustainability. Far from solving these problems, economic and political neo-liberalism seems to be plunging us deeper into them....
Reading Capital
The Complete Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
A classic work of Marxist analysis, available unabridged for the first time
Originally published in 1965, Reading Capital is a landmark of French thought and radical theory, reconstructing Western Marxism from its foundations. Louis Althusser, the French Marxist philosopher, maintained that...
Between Hollywood and Moscow
The Italian Communists and the Challenge of Mass Culture, 1943–1991
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2000
In the postwar years, Italy underwent a far-reaching process of industrialization that transformed the country into a leading industrial power. Throughout most of this period, the Italian Communist Party (PCI) remained a powerful force in local government and civil society. However, as Stephen Gundle...