Communism category: 1567 books
by Michael D. Yates
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
One of the horrors of the capitalist system is that slave labor, which was central to the formation and growth of capitalism itself, is still fully able to coexist alongside wage labor. But, as Karl Marx points out, it is the fact of being paid for one's work that validates capitalism as a viable...
Sixteen for '16
A progressive agenda for a better America
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
The progressive movement is on the march in America and this accessible book points toward a destination. Sixteen for '16 offers a new agenda for the 2016 US election crafted around sixteen core principles that all progressives can believe in, from securing jobs to saving the Earth. Decades of destructive...
Hybrid Media Activism
Ecologies, Imaginaries, Algorithms
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
This book is an extensive investigation of the complexities, ambiguities and shortcomings of contemporary digital activism. The author deconstructs the reductionism of the literature on social movements and communication, proposing a new conceptual vocabulary based on practices, ecologies, imaginaries...
Conversations with Bourdieu
The Johannesburg Moment
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) is the most influential sociologist of our time. His works take in education, culture, sport, literature, painting, class, philosophy, religion, law, media, intellectuals, methodology, photography, universities, colonialism, kinship, schooling and politics. Not much remains...
by Chun Lin
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2006
In this significant contribution to both political theory and China studies, Lin Chun provides a critical assessment of the scope and limits of socialist experiments in China, analyzing their development since the victory of the Chinese communist revolution in 1949 and reflecting on the country’s...
Conservative Socialism
The Decline of Radicalism and the Triumph of the Left in France
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
This work on the decline of French radicalism was conceived after the fall of the Berlin Wall as an essay on the decline and decay of the revolutionary idea in European politics. The theme provided an organizing principle for Roger Kaplan's analysis of the evolution of the French left in the wake...
Student Politics in Communist Poland
Generations of Consent and Dissent
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
The book presents a chronological narrative of student political activity in Communist Poland and discusses it both from the point of view of those who supported and those who opposed the regime while elaborating on generational change within the country's student milieu. It sheds light on lesser-known...
by Thomas E. Vass
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
In his recent book, The Liberty Amendments, Mark Levin promotes the enactment of 10 amendments to the U. S. Constitution, using the second method of amendment outlined in Article V of the Constitution of 1788. Levin offers no clues to how or why he thinks on the 1000th effort, this path of amendment would be successful.
Political Pilgrims
Western Intellectuals in Search of the Good Society
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Why did so many distinguished Western Intellectuals from G.B. Shaw to J.P. Sartre, and. closer to home, from Edmund Wilson to Susan Sontag admire various communist systems, often in their most repressive historical phases? How could Stalin's Soviet Union, Mao's China, or Castro's Cuba appear at one...
Por qué soy comunista
Una reflexión sobre los nuevos retos de la izquierda
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 17, 2017
En los últimos años se ha hecho evidente que las crisis periódicas propias del capitalismo solo traen altos niveles de desempleo y desigualdad, desahucios y empobrecimiento, y una desestabilización política que afecta al conjunto de las instituciones. La irrupción de nuevos partidos, la desaparición...
Indefensible
Democracy, Counterrevolution, and the Rhetoric of Anti-Imperialism
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
Seeking to answer the question why so many self-professed anti-imperialists have supported totalitarian, fascist, theocratic and imperialist regimes, this book finds that in some cases, it is because they support Russian imperialism and have followed suit as Russia has moved to the far right, and...
Inequality and Democratic Egalitarianism
Marx's Economy and Beyond' and Other Essays
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
This book arose out of a friendship between a political philosopher and an economic sociologist, and their recognition of an urgent political need to address the extreme inequalities of wealth and power in contemporary societies.
It provides a new analysis of what generates inequalities in rights...
by Nader Nazmi
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
A detailed analysis of economic policy in Latin America with particular attention devoted to the problem of controlling inflation and stabilization. Contents include an analysis of economic policies of the 1990s; country case studies of Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Argentina, and Bolivia; a thorough review...
by Etienne Balibar
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Providing a lucid and accessible introduction to Marx, complete with pedagogical boxes, a chronology and guides to further reading, Etienne Balibar makes the most difficult areas of his philosophy easy to understand. One of the most influential French philosophers to have emerged from the 1960s, Balibar...