Communism Socialism category: 1567 books
Marx After Marx
History and Time in the Expansion of Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
In Marx After Marx, Harry Harootunian questions the claims of Western Marxism and its presumption of the final completion of capitalism. If this shift in Marxism reflected the recognition that the expected revolutions were not forthcoming in the years before World War II, its Cold War afterlife helped...
Russia and the Idea of the West
Gorbachev, Intellectuals, and the End of the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2000
An intriguing "intellectual portrait" of a generation of Soviet reformers, this book is also a fascinating case study of how ideas can change the course of history. In most analyses of the Cold War's end the ideological aspects of Gorbachev's "new thinking" are treated largely...
The Soviet Scholar-Bureaucrat
M. N. Pokrovskii and the Society of Marxist Historians
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 1991
Mikhail Nikolaevich bridges 19th- and 20th-century Russian culture as well as Leninism and Stalinism, and later became an instrument in Khrushchev's effort at de-Stalinization. Pokrovskii was born in Moscow in 1868. He described the years before 1905 as his time of "democratic illusions and economic...
by Michel Bakounine
Language: French
Release Date: September 2, 2012
Language: French
Release Date: September 2, 2012
15 Oeuvres de Michel Bakounine
Ce livre numérique présente une collection de 15 oeuvres de Mikhaïl Aleksandrovitch Bakounine éditées en texte intégral. Une table des matières dynamique permet d'accéder directement aux différentes...
Wobblies and Zapatistas
Conversations on Anarchism, Marxism and Radical History
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
Wobblies and Zapatistas offers the reader an encounter between two generations and two traditions. Andrej Grubacic is an anarchist from the Balkans. Staughton Lynd is a lifelong pacifist, influenced by Marxism. They meet in dialogue in an effort to bring together the anarchist and Marxist traditions,...
Getting it Straight in Notting Hill Gate
A West London Psychogeography Report
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
From 43AD, and the building of the (no doubt very straight) Roman Great West Road to Silchester, to 2009, another bout of Carnival Riots and David Cameron getting his bike nicked outside Tescos on the Grove, (retrieved with the help of a friendly / non-class conscious Rasta), long time Portobello Road...
Hayek Versus Marx
And today's challenges
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2009
The aim of the book is to stimulate the realignment of political, theoretical and philosophical thinking that is now beginning in response to global warming. The author provides an examination of the theories of the most prominent social philosophers of the 19th and 20th centuries – Karl Marx and...
by Lenny Flank
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
A critical examination of the relationship between Marxism and other social justice movements, including feminism, anti-racism, gay liberation, environmentalism, anarchism and Native activism.
Evgeny Pashukanis
A Critical Reappraisal
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2007
A thorough examination of Pashukanis’ writings, this book is a significant contribution to a proper assessment of Pashukanis’ work, the value of his theoretical legacy and the contemporary relevance of Marxist legal theory.
Interest in the best-known Soviet legal scholar, Evgeny Pashukanis,...
A New Notion: Two Works by C. L. R. James
Every Cook Can Govern and The Invading Socialist Society
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Portraying C. L. R. James as a leading figure in the independence movement in the West Indies and in the black and working-class movements in both Britain and the United States, this volume provides an extensive introduction to James's life and thought before presenting two critical works that illustrate...
The two Trotskyisms confront Stalinism: texts
The Fate of the Russian Revolution volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
This book traces the decisive political divisions within the broadly-defined Trotskyist movement by presenting key texts from both sides of the political debate as it happened. The book's overall thesis, argued in the introduction to the printed edition, which is separately published as an ebook,...
by V. I. Lenin, Todd Chretien
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
It was here that Lenin justified his personal interpretation of Marxism, savaged his opponents and set out his trenchant views on class conflict, the lessons of earlier revolutions, the dismantling of the bourgeois state and the replacement of capitalism by the, dictatorship of the proletariat.
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
The year 2009 marked the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution and the thirtieth anniversary of the Grenadian and Nicaraguan Revolutions, and as such offered an occasion to assess the complex legacies of revolutionary politics in the Caribbean. This volume considers what we might learn from such...
The Marx Machine
Politics, Polemics, Ideology
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012
Karl Marx has rarely, if ever, been treated as a writer. Charles Barbour argues not only that we can examine the literary and rhetorical aspects of Marx’s texts, but also that, as soon as we begin to do so, those texts begin to take on new and entirely unexpected political implications. In the past,...