Communism Socialism category: 1567 books
After Socialism
Reconstructing Critical Social Thought
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2006
Does socialism have a future in the world of the twenty-first century? If not, what is the future for progressive politics?
This is a major contribution to contemporary social and political thought written by one of the world's leading critical historians. Gabriel Kolko ask the difficult questions...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
First published in 1983, this book is concerned with the prospects for socialist politics in contemporary Britain, in particular with the limitations of political analysis produced both by Marxist socialism and the non-Marxist socialism of the Labour left. The author suggests ways in which socialist...
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”...
by Stephen E. Philion
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
This fascinating book is among the first to examine state workers’ protests against privatization in China. Philion discusses how Chinese state enterprise workers have engaged a discourse of ‘workers democracy’ in the process of struggle with the new social relations of work that are engendered...
Walt Whitman and British Socialism
‘The Love of Comrades’
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
This is the first sustained examination of Walt Whitman’s influence on British socialism. Harris combines a contextual historical study of Whitman’s reception with focused close readings of a variety of poems, books, articles, letters and speeches. She calls attention to Whitman’s own demand...
A World to Build
New Paths toward Twenty-first Century Socialism
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
Over the last few decades Marta Harnecker has emerged as one of Latin America’s most incisive socialist thinkers. In A World to Build, she grapples with the question that has bedeviled every movement for radical social change: how do you construct a new world within the framework of the old? Harnecker...
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...
by JOHN HUMPHREY NOYES.
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2017
The book introduces the study of socialism as a phenomenon and socialist movements in America during the nineteenth century.
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...
Advertising, Sex, and Post-Socialism
Women, Media, and Femininity in the Balkans
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
Advertising, Sex, and Post-Socialism explores the role of advertising and the consumption it promotes in changing cultural perceptions of sex and femininity across the Balkan region. Elza Ibroscheva theorizes how the marketing of gender identities that has taken place in the years of post-socialist...
by John Humphrey Noyes
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2019
The book introduces the study of socialism as a phenomenon and socialist movements in America during the nineteenth century.
by H.G. Wells
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2014
Mr. Wells claims the name of socialist without blindly subscribing to the programme of any present form of socialistic theory. He aims in this book (which is not a novel) to set forth the principles upon which socialism resets.
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...