Communism Socialism category: 1567 books

Some people do sensational acts to attract mass, or world attention to themselves. Why some  cowards even defected to their country’s enemy? This story is described and examined this kind of people, 2 defectors from the Soviet Union who defected to the United States. These defectors lived  privileged...

Contending that Marxism achieved its unique position in part by adopting the content and functions of Christianity, MacIntyre details the religious attitudes and modes of belief that appear in Marxist doctrine as it developed historically from the philosophies of Hegel and Feuerbach, and as it has...

Long available to the readers of Soviet Russia, here is the first English translation, in book form, of the unexpurgated papers of Karl Marx on the so-called “Jewish question.” Most of Marx’s anti-Semitic diatribes were carefully eliminated by the translators and editors of his books,...

It is hard to believe that in this day and age that there could be any earth shattering secrets left in this world. But the truth of the matter is there are secrets that are so incredible, it is one of the main reasons they are still secrets. Just to give you an idea, there really is a cure for cancer;...

• A completely new theoretical contribution: the commons conceptualized not just as common goods, but as a set of social systems; • Links the literature on the commons to the literature on social movements, in what will be a paradigm shift in the theory; • “Is an unprecedented...

”Emmanuel Malynski spent thirty years of his life directly observing the development of the modern revolutionary movement around the world, devoting an almost visionary intelligence and clear-mindedness to this task. … From our mutual collaboration this book has sprung, which explores the secret...

A new beautiful edition of the Communist Manifesto, combined with Lenin’s key revolutionary tract It was the 1917 Russian Revolution that transformed the scale of The Communist Manifesto, making it the key text for socialists everywhere. On the centenary of this upheaval, this volume pairs...

Closing the Circle: A Memoir of Cuba, Exile, the Bay of Pigs and a Trans-Island Bike Journey is a family memoir in three parts intricately interwoven with historical events. The book is structured in 3 parts, somewhat akin to John McPhee's Coming Into the Country, where each part, though quite separate,...

At a time when the word “socialist” is but one of numerous political epithets that are generally divorced from the historical context of America’s political history, The Socialist Party of America presents a new, mature understanding of America’s most important minor political party of the...

Among tactical debates within the party, Gramsci's group was mainly distinguished by its advocacy of workers' councils, which had come into existence in Turin spontaneously during the large strikes of 1919 and 1920. For Antonio Gramsci (Rus. Антонио Грамши; Chin. 安东尼奥·葛兰西; 안토니오...

A major essay on the thought of the great Italian Marxist Perry Anderson’s essay “The Antimonies of Antonio Gramsci,” first published in New Left Review in 1976, was an explosive analysis of the central strategic concepts in the thought of the great Italian Marxist. Since then it has...

The ideological distortions of the conservative media, from Fox News to the Daily Mail, are widely acknowledged and often denounced among contemporary critics and commentators. But what if The Guardian newspaper and BBC news, in fact, constitute the most insidious forms of capitalist propaganda? In...

Chinese politics are at a crossroads as President Xi Jinping amasses personal power and tests the constraints of collective leadership. In the years since he became general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party in 2012, Xi Jinping has surprised many people in China and around the world with...

William Frank Buckley Jr.’s third book, originally published in 1959, is an urbane and controversial attack on the manners and meaning of American Liberalism in the 1950s. His thesis is that the leading American liberals can be shown, in their speeches and statements, in the tacit premises that...