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伊格頓舉出十項最常拿來反對馬克思主義的觀點，然後一一駁斥，擊破它們看似無堅不摧的立論。 當資本主義的正當性面臨一世紀以來的最大危機，當國家愈來愈被證明是為資產階級服務，當所謂中國模式的迷思正在不斷蔓延，當許多人把反美、反西方視為左翼的最高價值；我們真的應該面對馬克思始終未曾離去的幽靈。 ——張鐵志（政治與文化評論家） 他以過人的機智幽默，與文學家的妙喻用筆，針砭世人如何扭曲馬克思的思想， 如何將社會主義汙名化，同時，從抽絲剝繭的論述中，帶領讀者看見社會主義真正的理想與目標。 在現今西方這個日趨無階級、充滿社會流動可能、後工業時代的社會裡，馬克思主義顯然已經過時、無足輕重。 將馬克思主義付諸實踐時，總帶來暴政與大屠殺，它意味著饑荒、痛苦、強制勞動、殘缺不全的經濟與箝制一切的高壓國家。 馬克思主義是一種烏托邦式的夢想，信仰的是完美社會的可能性，卻對人性的邪惡視若無睹，天真到無以復加。 以上批判是事實，還是對社會主義的偏見與誤解？英國當代重要思想家伊格頓提醒：馬克思理論固然不是完美的，但批評它的論點有著更多缺陷。 【各界好評】 「伊格頓是位極具說服力的作家及說書人……這大概是唯一一本書同時提到傅立葉、傅柯，以及老虎伍茲、梅爾吉勃遜。」 ——...

One of the great tragedies of Africa is not only the fact that a million people – mostly civilians and a large proportion of them children – died in one of Africa’s first post-independence wars, but that until it happened the world thought Nigeria was immune from the wasting disease of tribalism....

Following the publication of Al Venter’s successful Portugal’s Guerrilla Wars in Africa - shortlisted by the New York Military Affairs Symposium’s 'Arthur Goodzeit Book Award for 2013' - his Battle for Angola delves still further into the troubled history of this former Portuguese African colony....

This book traces the development of EU-Russia relations in recent years. It argues that a major factor influencing the relationship is the changing internal dynamics of both parties, in Russia’s case an increasingly authoritarian state, in the case of the EU an increasing coherence in its foreign...

This volume, the first scholarly study of Labour and the left in the age of Michael Foot and Neil Kinnock, opens up a whole new area of historical inquiry, and demonstrates why the 1980s political inheritance has become timely once more.

Multiculturalism has been one of the dominant concerns in political theory over the last decade. To date, this inquiry has been mostly informed by, or applied to, the Canadian, American, and increasingly, the European contexts. This volume explores for the first time how the Australian experience...

A century after its underground beginnings, the Chinese Communist Party today exerts far-reaching control over every aspect of private life. Beyond its legendary control of the internet within China's borders, even seemingly non-political domains are subject to its authority: routine business deals...

A close-up look at the struggle for democracy in Hong Kong. Hong Kong in the Shadow of China is a reflection on the recent political turmoil in Hong Kong during which the Chinese government insisted on gradual movement toward electoral democracy and hundreds of thousands of protesters occupied...

This work presents an assessment of the migration from Hong Kong that has occurred since the second half of the 1980s. This pronounced outflow of highly educated people (a "brain drain") is having a profound impact on destination areas, as well as on Hong Kong itself.

'One of the most important books I've read in years' Brian Eno We are losing the commons. Austerity and neoliberal policies have depleted our shared wealth; our national utilities have been sold off to foreign conglomerates, social housing is almost non-existent, our parks are cordoned off...

As the party that championed trade union rights, the creation of the NHS and the establishment of a national minimum wage, Labour has played an undoubtedly crucial role in the shaping of contemporary British society. And yet, the leaders who have stood at its helm - from Keir Hardie to Ed Miliband,...

This book is Bakunin's version of the split between himself and Karl Marx that took place in the late 1860s and early 1870s. Bauknin saw the schism between them arising out of different perceptions of the function of the state in the Socialist program. Specifically, Bakunin held that the International...

The End of the Revolution shatters the myth that China’s recent history has been a miracle of progress. In this original and wide-ranging study, Wang Hui examines the intellectual roots of his nation’s social and political problems, arguing that China’s revolutionary history and its current...

A timely and provocative account of the fall of New Labour, the rise of Corbyn, and what it means for the left in Britain. ‘Lewis Goodall is one of the most exciting voices in British politics right now’ Emily Maitlis ‘Hugely illuminating, thought-provoking and moving in its seriousness and...