Communism category: 1567 books

The book introduces the study of socialism as a phenomenon and socialist movements in America during the nineteenth century.

How a socialistic leader became involved in international affairs.

Achille Loria was a well-known Italian political economist and this translation of his work presents his views and discussions on famous socialist Karl Marx, bringing his work to an English audience. Originally published in 1917, the translators have included a detailed foreword which attempts to...

A selection of fascinating extracts from notes and digital recordings made by Peter Hain during his twelve years serving in government, The Hain Diaries offers an invaluable insight into the workings and workers of the New Labour Cabinet. Providing a unique record of the ups and downs of ministerial...

(english below) Compilación póstuma de cartas y documentos de León Trotsky escritos entre 1939 y 1940 que dan cuenta de una dura lucha fraccional al interior de la Cuarta Internacional, contra una fracción del SWP norteamericano, una de sus secciones más importantes. Esta fracción pequeñoburguesa...

The anarchist desire to abolish the State at one blow, and to abolish money, etc., in much the same way, springs from their inability to understand the institutions of capitalist society. To many of them the State is simply the result of people having faith in authority. Give up this belief and the...

Against the historical backdrop of successive socialist and post-socialist claims to have completely remade society, the contributors to this volume explore the complex and often paradoxical continuities between diverse post-socialist presents and their corresponding socialist and pre-socialist pasts....

Ernest Belfort Bax (23 July 1854 – 26 November 1926) was a British socialist, journalist and philosopher. Born into a nonconformist religious family in Leamington, he was first introduced to Marxism while studying philosophy in Germany. He combined Karl Marx's ideas with those of Immanuel Kant,...

In this 1904 pamphlet, italian anarchist composer and poet, Pietro Gori considers the moral and ethical evolution of human society from its origins to the present day. Gori challenges the bourgeois media's negative representation of anarchism as synonymous with disorder and violence:  i.e., propaganda...

Desde un enfoque contextualista, se describe y reflexiona sobre los inicios del discurso político constituido por la fracción intelectual Nueva Izquierda Intelectual e Independiente Argentina (NIIA). Un discurso que se desplegó en doble oposición: al discurso hegemónico, representado por la revista...

Ernest Belfort Bax (23 July 1854 – 26 November 1926) was a British socialist, journalist and philosopher. Born into a nonconformist religious family in Leamington, he was first introduced to Marxism while studying philosophy in Germany. He combined Karl Marx's ideas with those of Immanuel Kant,...

"Linke und Gewalt" dokumentiert Diskussionen der vergangenen 150 Jahre über die Rolle von Gewalt bei der Veränderung von politischen und sozialen Herrschaftsverhältnissen. Können auf staatlichen Gewaltmonopolen beruhende Systeme mit friedlichen Mitteln gestürzt werden oder ist Gewalt...

Rosa Luxemburg war eine einflussreiche Vertreterin der europäischen Arbeiterbewegung, des Marxismus und des "Proletarischen Internationalismus". Sie wirkte vor allem in der polnischen und deutschen Sozialdemokratie als marxistische Theoretikerin und Antimilitaristin. Gegen die Kriegsunterstützung...

In ihrem Hauptwerk Die Akkumulation des Kapitals von 1913 entwickelte Rosa Luxemburg ihre Imperialismustheorie. Sie zeigte ähnlich wie früher schon John Atkinson Hobsons Unterkonsumtionstheorie, dass der Imperialismus "eine historische Notwendigkeit, die abschließende Etappe der kapitalistischen Entwicklung sei".