Communism Socialism category: 1567 books
O Capital
Edição condensada
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: May 6, 2019
O Capital é um marco no pensamento econômico mundial e a obra-prima de Karl Marx. O filósofo e economista alemão reuniu nestes textos toda a sua teoria, que rompia de vez com o pensamento dos economistas clássicos. Esta é a única edição condensada de sua obra máxima autorizada por Marx.
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by Jan Winiecki
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2013
The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe provide unique examples of large-scale relatively highly developed centrally planned economies. In the 1980s economists in both the East and West began to focus with increasingly critical attention on the economies of the Soviet Bloc, in an attempt to explain why...
by Lynn R Kahle, Eda Gurel-Atay
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
With chapters written by experts in their field, this volume advances the understanding of theory and successful practice of marketing and promoting environmental sustainability. Some experts predict that the next big trend in business will involve the green economy. Yet, communicating sustainability...
Marxism and Media Studies
Key Concepts and Contemporary Trends
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
Although media studies is a popular academic discipline, there are remarkably few books that analyse it from a specifically Marxist perspective. Mike Wayne's book is ideal for all students of media studies who are interested in bringing a radical political methodology to bear on their work. He presents...
by Ludwig Von Mises
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2018
The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality by Austrian School economist and libertarian thinker Ludwig von Mises is an investigation into the psychological roots of the anti-capitalistic stance that is widespread in the general populations of the capitalist world. Von Mises suggests various reasons for this...
by Michael D. Yates
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
One of the horrors of the capitalist system is that slave labor, which was central to the formation and growth of capitalism itself, is still fully able to coexist alongside wage labor. But, as Karl Marx points out, it is the fact of being paid for one's work that validates capitalism as a viable...
Sixteen for '16
A progressive agenda for a better America
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
The progressive movement is on the march in America and this accessible book points toward a destination. Sixteen for '16 offers a new agenda for the 2016 US election crafted around sixteen core principles that all progressives can believe in, from securing jobs to saving the Earth. Decades of destructive...
Hybrid Media Activism
Ecologies, Imaginaries, Algorithms
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
This book is an extensive investigation of the complexities, ambiguities and shortcomings of contemporary digital activism. The author deconstructs the reductionism of the literature on social movements and communication, proposing a new conceptual vocabulary based on practices, ecologies, imaginaries...
Conversations with Bourdieu
The Johannesburg Moment
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) is the most influential sociologist of our time. His works take in education, culture, sport, literature, painting, class, philosophy, religion, law, media, intellectuals, methodology, photography, universities, colonialism, kinship, schooling and politics. Not much remains...
Student Politics in Communist Poland
Generations of Consent and Dissent
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
The book presents a chronological narrative of student political activity in Communist Poland and discusses it both from the point of view of those who supported and those who opposed the regime while elaborating on generational change within the country's student milieu. It sheds light on lesser-known...
by Thomas E. Vass
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
In his recent book, The Liberty Amendments, Mark Levin promotes the enactment of 10 amendments to the U. S. Constitution, using the second method of amendment outlined in Article V of the Constitution of 1788. Levin offers no clues to how or why he thinks on the 1000th effort, this path of amendment would be successful.
Political Pilgrims
Western Intellectuals in Search of the Good Society
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Why did so many distinguished Western Intellectuals from G.B. Shaw to J.P. Sartre, and. closer to home, from Edmund Wilson to Susan Sontag admire various communist systems, often in their most repressive historical phases? How could Stalin's Soviet Union, Mao's China, or Castro's Cuba appear at one...
Por qué soy comunista
Una reflexión sobre los nuevos retos de la izquierda
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 17, 2017
En los últimos años se ha hecho evidente que las crisis periódicas propias del capitalismo solo traen altos niveles de desempleo y desigualdad, desahucios y empobrecimiento, y una desestabilización política que afecta al conjunto de las instituciones. La irrupción de nuevos partidos, la desaparición...
Indefensible
Democracy, Counterrevolution, and the Rhetoric of Anti-Imperialism
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
Seeking to answer the question why so many self-professed anti-imperialists have supported totalitarian, fascist, theocratic and imperialist regimes, this book finds that in some cases, it is because they support Russian imperialism and have followed suit as Russia has moved to the far right, and...