Communism Socialism category: 1567 books
Enduring Socialism
Explorations of Revolution and Transformation, Restoration and Continuation
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
Against the historical backdrop of successive socialist and post-socialist claims to have completely remade society, the contributors to this volume explore the complex and often paradoxical continuities between diverse post-socialist presents and their corresponding socialist and pre-socialist pasts....
Socialism Sucks
Two Economists Drink Their Way Through the Unfree World
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2019
The bastard step-child of Milton Friedman and Anthony Bourdain, Socialism Sucks is a bar-crawl through former, current, and wannabe socialist countries around the world. Free market economists Robert Lawson and Benjamin Powell travel to countries like Venezuela, Cuba, Russia, and Sweden to investigate the dangers and idiocies of socialism—while drinking a lot of beer.
Introducing Marxism
A Graphic Guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Was Marx himself a 'Marxist'? Was his visionary promise of socialism betrayed by Marxist dictatorship? Is Marxism inevitably totalitarian? What did Marx really say? "Introducing Marxism" provides a fundamental account of Karl Marx's original philosophy, its roots in 19th century European...
by Mao Tse-Tung, Mao Zedong
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung' is a volume of selected statements taken from the speeches and writings by Mao Mao Tse-Tung, published from 1964 to 1976. It was often printed in small editions that could be easily carried and that were bound in bright red covers, which led to its western moniker...
by Lenny Flank
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
The recent collapse of the Soviet Union made clear the weaknesses and deficiencies in Leninist theory and practice. In the period between the World Wars, however, an entirely different trend of socialism had rejected the Leninist model of centralized party and state. This movement was "council communism".
by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2009
Communism as a political movement attained global importance after the Bolsheviks toppled the Russian Czar in 1917. After that time the works of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, especially the influential Communist Manifesto (1848), enjoyed an international audience. The world was to learn a new political...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2013
*Examines the lives of Marx and Engels and explains who and what inspired their ideology. *Explains each section of the Communist Manifesto and the themes.discussed in the work. *Analyzes the history that led up to the Communist Manifesto and its legacy on subsequent communist revolutions in Russia and...
by Karl Marx
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2018
The Communist Manifesto (originally Manifesto of the Communist Party) is an 1848 political pamphlet by the German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Commissioned by the Communist League and originally published in London (in German as Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei) just as the revolutions...
Beyond the Color Line and the Iron Curtain
Reading Encounters between Black and Red, 1922–1963
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2002
Examining the significant influence of the Soviet Union on the work of four major African American authors—and on twentieth-century American debates about race—Beyond the Color Line and the Iron Curtain remaps black modernism, revealing the importance of the Soviet experience in the formation...
Rebel Mother
My Childhood Chasing the Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
“Those who enjoyed Jeannette Walls’s The Glass Castle will find much to admire” (Booklist, starred review) in this “thoroughly engrossing” (The New York Times Book Review) memoir about a boy on the run with his mother, as she abducts him to Latin America in search of the revolution.
Carol...
Totalitarianism and Political Religions, Volume 1
Concepts for the Comparison of Dictatorships
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2004
We are used to distinguishing the despotic regimes of the 20th century - communism, fascism, National Socialism, Maoism - very precisely according to place and time, origins and influences. But what should we call that which they have in common? On this question, there has been and is still a passionate...
by W. Cleon Skousen
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
Why? Why do some of the richest people in the world support communism and socialism? Why would they support what appears to be the pathway to their own destruction? Dr. Carroll Quigley of Harvard, Princeton and Georgetown Universities states that he has been associated with many of these dynastic...
Postcommunism from Within
Social Justice, Mobilization, and Hegemony
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
While the decline of communism in the late twentieth century brought democracy, political freedom, and better economic prospects for many people, it also produced massive social dislocation and engendered social problems that were far less pronounced under the old regimes. The fall of state socialism...
Anarchy and Anarchists
A History of the Red Terror and the Social Revolution in America and Europe
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2016
IT has seemed to me that there should be a history of the development, the revolt, and the tragedy of Anarchy in Chicago. This history I have written as impartially and as fairly as I knew how to write it. I have kept steadily before my eyes the motto,— “Nothing extenuate, nor set down aught...