Communism category: 1567 books
The European debt crisis
The Greek case
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
In this book, former Greek Prime Minister Costas Simitis examines the European debt crisis with particular reference to the case of Greece. Greece was the first Eurozone country to face an enormous deficit, which reached 15% of GDP in 2009. As the Greek crisis unfolded, other Eurozone countries displayed...
by Erik Olin Wright
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2019
What is wrong with capitalism, and how can we change it?
Capitalism has transformed the world and increased our productivity, but at the cost of enormous human suffering. Our shared values - equality and fairness, democracy and freedom, community and solidarity - can both provide the basis...
The Authentic Tawney
A New Interpretation of the Political Thought of R.H. Tawney
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
R.H. Tawney is an iconic thinker in British left-wing circles, whose writings during the early-mid 20th century helped to forge the direction of democratic socialist thinking and Labour Party policies.This book provides a fresh and accessible guide to the ideas of Tawney for new readers and to set straight...
Electoral Structure and Urban Policy: Impact on Mexican American Communities
Impact on Mexican American Communities
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Gennady Andreevich Zyuganov is the leader of Russia's resurgent Communist Party and was Boris Yeltsin's strongest challenger in the summer 1996 presidential elections. This text provides a compilation of Zyuganov's writings on Russia's past and present and her place in the world.
by Major Thomas P. Reilly
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
This monograph examines the nature of operational art during the third and final phase of the Chinese Civil War, 1945-1949. During this period Mao Tse-Tung and the Red Army fought Chiang Kai-shek and the Nationalist Army for the military and political control of China.
The initial portion of...
Karl Korsch
Revolutionary Theory
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
There is growing interest in Europe and the United States in the work of the major German social-political philosopher Karl Korsch. Korsch participated in the turbulent struggles in Weimar Germany and while in exile continually reflected on history and politics. His work affords one of the most important...
Marxism, China, and Development
Reflections on Theory and Reality
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
China has always been something of a mystery to Westerners. For one genera-tion, Mao Zedong and his followers were simple "agrarian reformers," while for another they were the "communist emperor and his blue ants." In the 1970s, some of the finest Sinologists believed there was...
by Jean Jaurès
Language: French
Release Date: June 29, 2018
Language: French
Release Date: June 29, 2018
Jaurès est né en 59, 11 ans avant le conflit en 1870, ses parents étaient pauvres et ils vivaient dans le Tarne. Il avait fait ses petites études à Castres. C’était un garçon gentil, intelligent et quand on lui demandait vers 10 11 ans ce qu’il voulait faire, il disait qu’il voulait être...
La démocratie se lève à l'Est
Société civile et communisme en Europe de l'Est : Pologne et Hongrie
Language: French
Release Date: September 29, 2014
L'histoire au présent, un livre qui analyse l'Europe communiste jusqu'à la fin 1989. La réalité dépasse toutes les prévisions : l’Europe communiste est en pleine décomposition et des démocraties émergent après quarante ans de régime totalitaire. Le communisme s’interroge sur son passé...
by Antonio Labriola, Ligaran
Language: French
Release Date: February 6, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: February 6, 2015
Extrait : "Ce genre d'études, comme tant d'autres, mais celui-ci plus que tout autre, trouve une grande difficulté, bien plus, un empêchement fastidieux, dans ce vice des esprits instruits par les seuls moyens littéraires, dans ce qu'on appelle d'ordinaire le verbalisme."
South Africa and the Communist International
Volume 1: Socialist Pilgrims to Bolshevik Footsoldiers, 1919-1930
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
This is a comprehensive selection of documents pertaining to the Communist Party of South Africa from the formerly closed archives of the Communist International.
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Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
This book familiarizes the English-speaking reader with the debate on the originality of Gramsci’s thought and its importance for the development of Marxist theory. The contributors present the principal viewpoints regarding Gramsci’s theoretical contribution to Marxism, focussing in particular...
by Evgeny Pashukanis
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
E. B. Pashukanis was the most significant contemporary to develop a fresh, new Marxist perspective in post-revolutionary Russia. In 1924 he wrote what is probably his most influential work, The General Theory of Law and Marxism. In the second edition, 1926, he stated that this work was not to be seen...
The First Marx
A Philosophical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
Marx's early work is well known and widely available, but it usually interpreted as at best a kind of stepping-stone to the Marx of Capital. This book offers something completely different; it reconstructs, from his first writings spanning from 1835 to 1846, a coherent and well-rounded political philosophy....