Communism Socialism category: 1567 books
Three Sips of Gin
Dominating the Battlespace with Rhodesia's famed Selous Scouts
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
There is nothing that terrorized Russian and Chinese-backed guerillas fighting Rhodesia's bush war in the 1970s more than the famed Selous Scouts. The very name of the unit struck fear into the very heart and soul of even the most battle-hardened guerillas. Too afraid to even whisper the name amongst...
Secrets of the Cold War
US Army Europe's Intelligence and Counterintelligence Activities Against the Soviets During the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Secrets of the Cold War focuses on a dark period of a silent war and offers a new perspective on the struggle between the superpowers of the world told in the words of those who were there. The author, formerly an expert in counterintelligence in US Army Europe, weaves together exciting true accounts...
The Cuban Missile Crisis
Thirteen Days on an Atomic Knife Edge, October 1962
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
When the world held its breath …
It is more than 25 years since the end of the Cold War. It began over 75 years ago, in 1944 – long before the last shots of the Second World War had echoed across the wastelands of Eastern Europe – with the brutal Greek Civil War. The battle lines are...
Cold War Jet Combat
Air-to-Air Jet Fighter Operations 1950-1972
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2016
Recounted here are nine of the earliest wars involving jet aircraft. From the Korean War and beyond, it comprises a wealth of gripping insight. Many of the jet-to-jet dogfights that spanned these jet-powered wars are enlivened to thrilling effect, including those engaged in during the two Indo-Pak...
by Noam Chomsky
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
On Anarchism provides the reasoning behind Noam Chomsky's fearless lifelong questioning of the legitimacy of entrenched power. In these essays, Chomsky redeems one of the most maligned ideologies, anarchism, and places it at the foundation of his political thinking. Chomsky's anarchism is distinctly...
El Salvador
Dance of the Death Squads, 1980–1992
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
When the world held its breath …
It is more than 25 years since the end of the Cold War. It began over 75 years ago, in 1944 – long before the last shots of the Second World War had echoed across the wastelands of Eastern Europe – with the brutal Greek Civil War. The battle lines are...
Bay of Pigs
CIA's Cuban Disaster, April 1961
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Perhaps not in casualties but as far as prestige and standing in the world were concerned, the Bay of Pigs invasion of 1961 was the worst disaster to befall the USA since the War of 1812 when British forces burned the White House. Badly planned, badly organized, the affair was littered with mistakes...
by Jerry Crouso
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
Covert operation is "an operation that is so planned and executed as to conceal the identity of or permit plausible denial. CIA is the US Government agency legally allowed to carry out covert action. These special activities include covert political influence and paramilitary operations. A black op...
by Guy Debord, Sam Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
The Das Kapital of the 20th century,Society of the Spectacle is an essential text, and the main theoretical work of the Situationists. Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative. From its publication amid the social upheavals of the 1960's, in particular the May 1968...
by Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
A thrilling example of philosophy in action, Towards a New Manifesto reveals the fathers of critical theory, Adorno and Horkheimer, in a uniquely spirited and free-flowing exchange of ideas.
A record of their discussions over three weeks in the spring of 1956, recorded with a view to writing...
Continuity and Rupture
Philosophy in the Maoist Terrain
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2016
A philosophical examination of the theoretical terrain of contemporary Maoism premised on the counter-intuitive assumption that Maoism did not emerge as a coherent theory until the end of the 1980s.
THE POLITICS OF OBEDIENCE.
The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Étienne de la Boétie (1530-1563) wrote the following essay on the ultimate source and nature of political power in the early 1550s, while still a law student at the University of Orleans. In it he considers the origins of dictatorship and the means by which people can prevent political...
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by Henry Grady Weaver
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
Author Henry Grady Weaver was convinced that human liberty is the mainspring of progress, and that government tends always to tyranny. In this book, first published in 1947, Weaver popularizes these themes for the American people.
This is the Revised Edition first published in 1953, containing Weaver’s revisions discussed and agreed prior to his untimely death in 1949.
The Greatest Catastrophe of the 20th Century. Or, How the Soviet Union Disintegrated in 1991.
SHORT STORY # 31. Nonfiction series #1 - # 60.
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2016
The Soviet Union disintegration in 1991 was a curse and not a blessing for the USA and the Western Europe. Their economies eventually spiraled down due to rampant laws of a fee market economy, categorized by "expansion in all directions without any restrictions."
The USA is sinking...