Communism Socialism category: 1567 books
by Evgeny Pashukanis
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
E. B. Pashukanis was the most significant contemporary to develop a fresh, new Marxist perspective in post-revolutionary Russia. In 1924 he wrote what is probably his most influential work, The General Theory of Law and Marxism. In the second edition, 1926, he stated that this work was not to be seen...
The First Marx
A Philosophical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
Marx's early work is well known and widely available, but it usually interpreted as at best a kind of stepping-stone to the Marx of Capital. This book offers something completely different; it reconstructs, from his first writings spanning from 1835 to 1846, a coherent and well-rounded political philosophy....
Dangerous Citizens
The Greek Left and the Terror of the State
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
This book simultaneously tells a story—or rather, stories—and a history. The stories are those of Greek Leftists as paradigmatic figures of abjection, given that between 1929 and 1974 tens of thousands of Greek dissidents were detained and tortured in prisons, places of exile, and concentration...
Bishkek Boys
Neighbourhood Youth and Urban Change in Kyrgyzstan’s Capital
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
In this pioneering ethnographic study of identity and integration, author Philipp Schröder explores urban change in Kyrgyzstan’s capital Bishkek from the vantage point of the male youth living in one neighbourhood. Touching on topics including authority, violence, social and imaginary geographies,...
Il Futuro di Cuba c'è
Appunti di viaggio
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 3, 2014
Attraverso un incredibile viaggio nell'autentica provincia cubana, due donne vanno alla scoperta della vita quotidiana, della scuola, dell'attenzione alla salute e alla prevenzione, del cibo e dell'ironia di Cuba. Scopriranno un popolo che si prepara a scavalcare il muro che lo difende e allo stesso...
Active Defense
China's Military Strategy since 1949
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2019
What changes in China’s modern military policy reveal about military organizations and strategy
Since the 1949 Communist Revolution, China has devised nine different military strategies, which the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) calls “strategic guidelines.” What accounts for these numerous...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2013
Four reports from the National Defense University's Institute for National Strategic Studies examine crucial issues involving the Chinese military: assessing Chinese military transparency; civil-military relations in China and the PLA's role in elite politics; China's out of area naval operations;...
Women's Oppression Today
The Marxist/Feminist Encounter
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
Women’s Oppression Today is a classic text in the debate about Marxism and feminism, exploring how gender, sexuality and the “family-household system” operate in relation to contemporary capitalism. In this updated edition, Michèle Barrett surveys the social and intellectual changes that have...
The Beauty That Remains
A Vietnamese Refugee's Journey to Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
The Beauty That Remains charts the author's escape from communist Vietnam, her stay in a Malaysian refugee camp, and her first years in Australia, with all the drama and the hilarity of a bumbling young woman from a small town in Vietnam who tried to learn, adapt and make sense of Australian culture...
Los marxistas liberales
Antifascismo y cultura comunista en la Argentina del siglo XX
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Lucha antifascista y cultura comunista en la Argentina del siglo XX.
¿Un marxismo liberal? Sí, en la historia política argentina del siglo XX
se advierte ese vínculo evidente que faltaba explicar: por qué en la
esfera cultural del Partido Comunista Argentino, fue un marxismo de
corte liberal...
by Alan Duff
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
A gripping novel set in 1950s Hungary about a fight for freedom and a fight for love.'She screams one word: Szabad! Free. Again: Szabad!'It is the 1950s. The Soviets and the Secret Police have a choking grip on Hungary and the lives of its citizens. Attila Szabo is one of them, just a teenager, but...
Harbors Rich with Ships
The Selected Revolutionary Writings of Miroslav Krleža, Radical Luminary of Modern World Literature
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2017
Miroslav Krleža was a giant of Yugoslav literature, yet remarkably little of his writing has appeared in English. In a body of work that spans more than five dozen books, including novels, short stories, plays, poetry, and essays, Krleža steadfastly pursued a radical humanism and artistic integrity....
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2015
Set in a utopian community, founded upon anti-capitalist ideals.
by H. G. Wells
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2016
This book contains a fascinating essay presented by Wells to the Fabian Society in December 1905. The "unwearable boots" represent the unnecessary suffering caused by a system of privately owned capital-an imagine inspired by Wells' youth spent in an underground kitchen, the only view of the outside...