Far-left political ideologies and movements Books
Johns Hopkins University Press American AntiCommunism
Book SynopsisIn American Anticommunism Heale examines the various forms American reactions to this perceived threat have taken, from the attacks on workers in the Haymarket Riot to the widespread witch huntsof Senator Joe McCarthy.Trade ReviewThis succinct and sensible history shows how fear of 'Reds' was linked in the nineteenth century to the destabilizing impact of industrialization and in the twentieth century to perceptions of global insecurity. An excellent concluding chapter explains the fading of anticommunism since the days of Senator Joseph McCarthy. Foreign Affairs Fair-minded and dispassionate... Ends with a detailed bibliographic essay which is a thorough and valuable addition to the literature for those studying the movement of ideas in American life. Graduate students casting about for a dissertation topic could well find the essay a rewarding exercise. International AffairsTable of ContentsEditor's ForewordPrefacePart I. The Red Menace in Industrial AmericaChapter 1. An Ambiguous Legacy (1830-1870)Chapter 2. The Specter Emerges (1870-1900)Chapter 3. The Antianarchist Offensive (1900-1918)Chapter 4. The Big Red Scare (1918-1920)Chapter 5. One Hundred Percent Americanism (1920-1929)Part II. The Red Menace in Global AmericaChapter 6. The Red Menace Reaches Washington (1929-1938)Chapter 7. From Popular Front to Communist Front (1938-1948)Chapter 8. The Republican Offensive (1948-1952)Chapter 9. The Anticommunist Consensus (the1950s)Chapter 10. The Ebbing of Anticommunism?Bibliographical EssayIndex
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University of Toronto Press The Canadian State
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Stanford University Press Remaking the Economic Institutions of Socialism
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Stanford University Press From Bandwagon to BalanceofPower Politics
Book SynopsisA Stanford University Press classic.
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MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Black Marxism The Making of the Black Radical
Book SynopsisIn this text the author demonstrates that the efforts to understand black people's history of resistance solely through the prism of Marxist theory are incomplete and inaccurate, because it presupposes European models of history. Black radicalism, he argues, must be linked to the African traditions
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MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina China and the Vietnam Wars 19501975
Book SynopsisIn the quarter century after the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, Beijing assisted Vietnam in its struggle against France and the USA. This book examines China's conduct towards Vietnam, providing important insights into Mao Zedong's foreign policy and the motives behind it.
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MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Captive University The Sovietization of East German Czech and Polish Higher Education 19451956
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MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina A Failed Empire The Soviet Union in the Cold War
Book SynopsisArgues that Western interpretations of the Cold War have erred by exaggerating either the Kremlin's pragmatism or its aggressiveness. Explaining the interests, aspirations, illusions, fears, and misperceptions of the Kremlin leaders and Soviet elites, this book covers the Cold War from the Soviet side.Trade Review"Draw[s] on abundant new primary sources to refine our understanding of the Cold War, turning it from a melodrama into a nuanced tragedy....Zubok reveals the full extent of Stalin's brutal post - World War II suppression of the Soviet people." - Washington Post Book World"
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Northwestern University Press Cement European classics
Book SynopsisGleb, a soldier hero, returns from the revolution to a world in transition, as demonstrated by the reorganisation of the local cement factory for the massive national effort. A classic of socialist realism, Cement became a model for Soviet fiction in the decades following its publication in the early 1920s.Trade ReviewWritten with push and power, its action develops quickly and effectively, at times with real dramatic swing . . . Gladkov describes the life and customs of the Communist milieu with perfect realism and without idealization." —New York Times"The result is unnerving, fascinating, and in its unflinching way, magnificent. It is a fierce modern epic, born in troubled times, but it breathes with an immense energy." —Spectator
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Northwestern University Press From Text to Action Essays in Hermeneutics II Northwestern University Studies in Phenomenology Existential Philosophy Northwestern University in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
Book SynopsisWith his writings on phenomenology, psychoanalysis, Marxism, ideology, and religion, Paul Ricoeur has single-handedly redefined and revitalized the hermeneutic tradition. In From Text to Action, Ricoeur continues and extends his project of constructing a general theory of interpretation, positioning his work in relation to its own philosophical background.
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Rutgers University Press Making History Making Blintzes How Two Red
Book SynopsisThis book chronicles the political and personal lives of progressive activists Richard and Miriam Flacks. Their story, rooted in ‘old left’ childhoods, shaped by the sixties New Left, and culminating in intellectual and community leadership, is a valuable first-hand account of how progressive American activism has evolved over the last 100 years. Trade Review"Mickey and Dick's joint autobiography gives a window onto the strands of culture and commitment that connect the social movements of the 1930s and 1960s. Movements do indeed teach each other!" -- Frances Fox Piven * The Graduate Center, City University of New York *"A moving and intelligent memoir of radical political engagement from the 1960’s to the present by two extraordinary people. The deeply personal, intimate nature of the account makes it an especially compelling read." -- Joan Wallach Scott * Institute for Advanced Study *"This is a book of two people who are living to build movement for a better world and build a life together. It is a delicious read. And we are all better for the lives they led." -- Heather Booth * political strategist, feminist, and civil rights activist *"[A] significant, clearheaded memoir." * Santa Barbara Independent *"SB Authors: Dick and Mickey's Epic Memoir" feature by Jerry Roberts * Newsmakers with Jerry Roberts *"The message...in this book, that living one’s values is found in all the 'little' choices forging professional, family and movement connections into a coherent and livable whole. Bringing such supposedly small personal bits into the whole picture of activism, like chocolate chips into the cookie dough, changes the flavor of the whole. And, like the blintz recipe, it is one that I can recommend as being as tasty as it seems — and easily shareable." * Public Seminar *"Making History, Making Blintzes, written in the alternating voices of Mickey and Dick, is an engaging account of two intertwined and well-lived lives over more than a half century of left-wing engagement." * Public Seminar *"New Books Network - New Books in Sociology" interview with Dick and Mickey Flacks * New Books Network *"The delightful back and forth of Mickey and Dick, often talking about the same events in their own voices and with different memories or perspectives, carries throughout the entire book making for a fast read. It’s true that they made plenty of blintzes, and oh what history did this lovely couple make along the way!" * Washtenan Jewish News *Table of ContentsTABLE OF CONTENTS Foreword vii 1 Sonia Hartman 1 2 A Red Diaper Baby: Mickey’s Story 12 3 Mildred Flacks 34 4 The House I Lived In: Dick’s Story 54 5 Coming of Age in the Fifties 72 6 Starting out in the Sixties 96 7 Our Sixties: Blowin’ in the Wind 155 8 Our Sixties: Making History Together 179 9 Our Sixties: Some Scenes from the Theater of “Revolution” 237 10 Our Sixties: 1968 and Beyond 253 11 Moving to California 309 12 A Long March? 348 13 Socialism in One City 364 14 Confessions of a Tenured Radical 395 15 Playing for Change 434 16 Some Things We’ve Learned about What’s Left 451 17 Trump Time 463 18 Last Words 468 Acknowledgments 477 Notes 479 Index
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Wayne State University Press Your Comrade Avreml Broide
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University of Arizona Press Chicano Communists and the Struggle for Social
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Duke University Press Red Hangover Legacies of TwentiethCentury
Book SynopsisKristen Ghodsee examines the legacies of twentieth-century communism on the contemporary political landscape twenty-five years after the Berlin Wall fell, reflecting on the lived experience of postsocialism and how many ordinary men and women across Eastern Europe suffered from the massive social and economic upheavals in their lives after 1989.Trade Review"A banquet of a book, full of unexpected dishes.... Ghodsee writes with moral seriousness and exceptional force, and Red Hangover is the rare academic book that is compulsively readable and thoroughly compelling." -- Patrick Iber * Los Angeles Review of Books *"I have read and loved all Ghodsee's books, each one more than the last. Red Hangover is the most complex, melding personal and professional experience with history and political theory...." -- Deena Stryker * OpEd News *"This is an extraordinary book . . . Different genres are employed to great effect, offering a multidimensional view of the postcommunist world. . . . A real contribution to the re-narration of European history after 1989." -- Wim de Jong * H-Socialisms, H-Net Reviews *"Kristen Ghodsee wrote Red Hangover for the nonexpert, especially for the student born after 1989 who is trying to make sense of the present. The truly broad readership I can envision for this book, however, encompasses not only young people but rather anyone concerned about the fate of democracy." -- Adrienne J. Cohen * American Ethnologist *"Red Hangover is a brave book, one that brims with urgency concerning the current state of the world and the possibilities for improving it—possibilities that are enhanced, she believes, by taking the communist experience seriously. In short, she makes the study of eastern Europe, both under socialism and after it, crucial in effort to envisage a more viable future." -- Katherine Verdery * Slavic Review *Table of ContentsPrelude: Freundschaft xi Part I. Postsocialist Freedoms 1. Fires 3 2. Cucumbers 1 3. Pieces (Fiction) 24 4. Belgrade, 2015 (Fiction) 39 Part II. Re ing the Divided 5. #Mauerfall25 47 6. The Enemy of My Enemy 68 7. A Tale of Two Typewriters 84 Part III. Blackwashing History 8. Gross Domestic Orgasms 101 9. My Mother and a Clock 111 10. Venerating Nazis of Vilify Commies 129 Part IV. "Democracy Is the Worst Form of Government, Except All Those Other Forms that Have Been Tried from Time to Time" 11. Three Bulgarian Jokes 149 12. Post-Zvyarism: A Fable about Animals on a Farm (Fiction) 150 13. Interview witha Former Member of the Democractic Party of the United States (Fiction) 167 14. Democracy for the Penguins 179 Acknowledgments 201 Notes 205 Selected Bibliography 223
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Duke University Press Red Hangover
Book SynopsisKristen Ghodsee examines the legacies of twentieth-century communism on the contemporary political landscape twenty-five years after the Berlin Wall fell, reflecting on the lived experience of postsocialism and how many ordinary men and women across Eastern Europe suffered from the massive social and economic upheavals in their lives after 1989.Trade Review"A banquet of a book, full of unexpected dishes.... Ghodsee writes with moral seriousness and exceptional force, and Red Hangover is the rare academic book that is compulsively readable and thoroughly compelling." -- Patrick Iber * Los Angeles Review of Books *"I have read and loved all Ghodsee's books, each one more than the last. Red Hangover is the most complex, melding personal and professional experience with history and political theory...." -- Deena Stryker * OpEd News *"This is an extraordinary book . . . Different genres are employed to great effect, offering a multidimensional view of the postcommunist world. . . . A real contribution to the re-narration of European history after 1989." -- Wim de Jong * H-Socialisms, H-Net Reviews *"Kristen Ghodsee wrote Red Hangover for the nonexpert, especially for the student born after 1989 who is trying to make sense of the present. The truly broad readership I can envision for this book, however, encompasses not only young people but rather anyone concerned about the fate of democracy." -- Adrienne J. Cohen * American Ethnologist *"Red Hangover is a brave book, one that brims with urgency concerning the current state of the world and the possibilities for improving it—possibilities that are enhanced, she believes, by taking the communist experience seriously. In short, she makes the study of eastern Europe, both under socialism and after it, crucial in effort to envisage a more viable future." -- Katherine Verdery * Slavic Review *Table of ContentsPrelude: Freundschaft xi Part I. Postsocialist Freedoms 1. Fires 3 2. Cucumbers 1 3. Pieces (Fiction) 24 4. Belgrade, 2015 (Fiction) 39 Part II. Re ing the Divided 5. #Mauerfall25 47 6. The Enemy of My Enemy 68 7. A Tale of Two Typewriters 84 Part III. Blackwashing History 8. Gross Domestic Orgasms 101 9. My Mother and a Clock 111 10. Venerating Nazis of Vilify Commies 129 Part IV. "Democracy Is the Worst Form of Government, Except All Those Other Forms that Have Been Tried from Time to Time" 11. Three Bulgarian Jokes 149 12. Post-Zvyarism: A Fable about Animals on a Farm (Fiction) 150 13. Interview witha Former Member of the Democractic Party of the United States (Fiction) 167 14. Democracy for the Penguins 179 Acknowledgments 201 Notes 205 Selected Bibliography 223
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University of Pittsburgh Press The Pope in Poland The Pilgrimages of John Paul II 19791991 Russian and East European Studies
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University of Pittsburgh Press Not One Man Not One Penny
Book SynopsisThis book offers an introduction to the origins and development of German social democracy up to the First World War, by drawing upon protocols of the German Social Democratic Party, the party press, correspondence of leading figures, and scholarly research.Trade Review“This is a fine piece of work. . . . There is nothing like it in English, even in German there is nothing of the same scope or that is so well written.”—Richard Hunt
£40.50
University of Pittsburgh Press From Darkness To Light
Book SynopsisIn this interdisciplinary and controversial work, Igal Halfin takes an original and provocative stance on Marxist theory, and attempts to break down the divisions between history, philosophy, and literary theory.
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University of Pittsburgh Press Stalinist Confessions
Book SynopsisA study of the Great Purge in the setting of Leningrad Communist University, seen in the rhetoric of the accused and their accusors.
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University of Pittsburgh Press Books Are Weapons
Trade ReviewDoucette paints a vivid picture of Poland at the edge of 1989 revolution with a strong focus on the circulation of illicit publications, which bypassed state censors. She identifies the most important contributors to the maze of literary dissidence as well as factors that enabled independently written words to penetrate Polish society. This brilliant work deepens our understanding of what may be coined a resurrection of civil society in Poland."" - Pawel Sowinski, Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Science""Doucette’s major contribution is to frame a comprehensive history of the underground press in Poland from its origins in the mid-1970s, through the Solidarity period, Martial Law, and the underground struggle of 1980s. Previous work has presented this story fragmented by period. Thus, she offers a fresh evolutionary perspective on the question. She has also done a masterful job of building off the English language literature of the early 1990s and filled in many gaps by a comprehensive reading of the broad Polish-language literature that emerged after 1989. It is truly notable for its scope, ambition, accuracy, and exhaustiveness."" - Michael Bernhard, University of Florida
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Fordham University Press Bad Faith Teachers Liberalism and the Origins of
Book SynopsisBad Faith recounts the history of the Rapp-Coudert investigation into communist subversion in the public schools and municipal colleges of New York City, lasting from 1940 to 1942. This study explores how prominent depression-era liberals, as they joined in accusing Communists of “bad faith” and branded them enemies of American democracy, anticipated and made McCarthyism possible.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 PART I: The Hearings 1 The Threshold 21 2 The Stooge Grebanier 36 3 Coudertism 54 4 Vichy’s Lawyer? 70 PART II: Class War 5 The Dewey Trial 85 6 The Educational Front 108 7 Far from the Ivory Tower 129 PART III: The Mortal Storm 8 Bad Faith 149 9 CCNY 174 10 Flirting with the Right 195 11 Communism on Trial 212 12 Aftermath 227 Conclusion: The Coudert Legacy 241 Acknowledgments 255 Abbreviations Used in the Endnotes 259 Notes 265 Index 317
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Fordham University Press Bad Faith Teachers Liberalism and the Origins of
Book SynopsisBad Faith recounts the history of the Rapp-Coudert investigation into communist subversion in the public schools and municipal colleges of New York City, lasting from 1940 to 1942. This study explores how prominent depression-era liberals, as they joined in accusing Communists of “bad faith” and branded them enemies of American democracy, anticipated and made McCarthyism possible.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 PART I: The Hearings 1 The Threshold 21 2 The Stooge Grebanier 36 3 Coudertism 54 4 Vichy’s Lawyer? 70 PART II: Class War 5 The Dewey Trial 85 6 The Educational Front 108 7 Far from the Ivory Tower 129 PART III: The Mortal Storm 8 Bad Faith 149 9 CCNY 174 10 Flirting with the Right 195 11 Communism on Trial 212 12 Aftermath 227 Conclusion: The Coudert Legacy 241 Acknowledgments 255 Abbreviations Used in the Endnotes 259 Notes 265 Index 317
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University of Hawai'i Press Southeast Asias Cold War
Book SynopsisExamines the international politics of Southeast Asia from within. This book provides an up-to-date, coherent narrative of the Cold War as it played out in Southeast Asia against a backdrop of superpower rivalry.
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University of Hawai'i Press Mass Mobilization in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam 19451960
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University of Hawai'i Press Mass Mobilization in the Democratic Republic of
Book SynopsisExplores the way the exigencies of war, the dreams of Marxist-Leninist ideology, and the pressures of the Cold War environment combined with pride and patriotism to drive totalitarian state formation in northern Vietnam.Trade ReviewAlec Holcombe’s groundbreaking and superbly crafted manuscript—Mass Mobilization in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, 1945–1960—is even broader in scope than its capacious title implies. The book is the first serious English-language history of the policy orientation of the Vietnamese communist state during the critical fifteen-year period following World War II. The odd periodization here, conjoining segments of the pre- and post-1954 eras (when contending northern and southern Vietnamese states were first established), reveals insight into modern Vietnamese history that upsets conventional wisdom about continuity and change. Holcombe’s book advances a set of interesting and important arguments based on a deep reading of archival material. It suggests that communist policy toward "mass mobilization" was a key (perhaps the key) element of the movement’s remarkable success.
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University of Hawai'i Press Politics of Control
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University of Hawai'i Press Projectland
Book SynopsisAnthropologist Holly High combines an engaging first-person narrative of her fieldwork with a political ethnography of Laos, more than forty years after the establishment of the Lao PDR and more than seven decades since socialist ideologues first âœliberatedâ parts of upland country.Trade ReviewThis rich ethnographic study tells the story of how a Lao highland village community has successfully relocated to establish a new lowland village that is a ‘model’ in the eyes of the socialist state, but one that also expresses their own cultural values. The book breaks new methodological grounds in that it is not only a study of a village, but also a study from a village on important matters of general interest. Ten years in the making, the author’s vivid prose portrays the very human story of how people negotiate the conflicting demands of a socialist state, the market, kin, and the desires of different individuals to create a world that is meaningful to them. This book, a model of how ethnographic analysis should be done, will be of interest to scholars and students from all disciplines interested in understanding life in rural Southeast Asia today. In Projectland High destroys some simplistic assumptions concerning ethnic minorities and their relation to the (socialist) state. It takes individual subjectivities and desires seriously, and highlights the social fragmentation below the surface of village ""unity."" The author provides a lucid analysis of the functioning of the Lao socialist party state at the margins, discussing the dialectic of transformation and resilience. High’s analysis goes beyond many village studies that mainly focus on livelihood and economic transformation. Unlike most studies that rely on socioeconomic data, Projectland touches the individual subjectivities of the villagers and the affective dimensions of the socialist state. More than forty years after the communist revolution, the author examines the ideological, biopolitical, and affective outcomes of the socialist ""project"" in the Lao PDR."" - Oliver Tappe, University of Cologne
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University of Hawai'i Press Disunion
Book SynopsisSince the 1950s, the politics of the Republic of Vietnam has puzzled outside observers. Their bewilderment, however, has obscured a complex history. In this book, Nu-Anh Tran shows how factional struggles in the Saigon-based republic reflected serious disagreements about political ideas at a pivotal moment in the lead-up to the Vietnam War.
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University of Hawai'i Press Politics of Control
Book SynopsisUsing a unique interdisciplinary, cultural-institutional analysis, Politics of Control is the first comprehensive study of how, in the early decades of the People's Republic of China, the Chinese Communist Party reshaped people's minds using multiple methods of control.
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University of Hawai'i Press Building a Republican Nation in Vietnam 19201963
Book SynopsisArgues that republicanism shaped modern Vietnam no less profoundly than communism. Republicans championed representative government, the universal rights of man, civil liberties, and the primacy of the nation. These ideas infused the thinking of Vietnamese reformers, dissidents, and revolutionaries from the 1900s onward.
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Cornell University Press Spirit Fruit
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsTable of Contents 1 Seeking Utopia 2 Jacob 3 Spirit Fruit 4 Joining Jacob 5 Lisbon 6 Chicago 7 Ingleside 8 Hilltop 9 "Utopia is Possible" Notes Bibliography Index
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East European Monographs Perspectives on Democratic Consolidation in
Book SynopsisThis volume consists of twenty studies on problems related to transition to democracy in central and eastern Europe during the decade following the collapse of communist states. The book focuses on preconditions and problems of transitions, case studies, patterns of performance and consolidation and inter-regional comparative aspects.
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East European Monographs The Soviet Administration in Northern
Book SynopsisThis is the first systematic study of the Sovietization of northern Transylvania, ceded to Hungary by the Vienna Diktat of 1940. This historiography of that transitional period fills an imortant gap in the existing research.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Communist Manifesto
Book SynopsisEdited by Samuel H. Beer, with key selections from Capital and The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, this volume features an especially helpful introduction that serves as a guide to Marxist political and economic theory and to placing the specific writings in their contemporary setting. Included are a bibliography and list of important dates in the life of Karl Marx.Table of ContentsIntroduction vii Principal Dates in the Life of Marx xxx The Communist Manifesto 1 The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (Selections) 47 The General Law of Capitalist Accumulation (Selections from Chapter 25, Volume I, Capital) 65 Bibliography 95
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Research Handbook on Law and Marxism
Book SynopsisThis Research Handbook offers unparalleled insights into the large-scale resurgence of interest in Marx and Marxism in recent years, with contributions devoted specifically to Marxist critiques of law, rights, and the state.Trade Review‘This collection makes an important contribution at an inflection point crossed by the crisis of global capitalism and South Africa’s own challenges generated by the Radical Economic Transformation faction of the ruling party and fellow populist travellers. One can only express the tentative hope that some of this collection finds its way into the teaching of legal theory in South African law schools.’ -- The Hon Justice Dennis Davis, The South African Law Journal‘The modestly titled Research Handbook on Law and Marxism is in fact a pioneering venture that brings together as many as 29 contributions on a wide range of subjects relating to law, seen through the analytical prism of Marxism. It will prove to be a useful reference point for students and seasoned writers alike. -- Utsa Patnaik, Professor Emerita, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India‘This volume displays the breadth and vitality of research on law from within the traditions of Marxism. Written from many different perspectives and by a healthy mix of eminent and emerging scholars, the essays collected here ably guide the reader through a century and a half of debates and controversies. These are debates both among Marxists about the status, import, and structure of the law and modern legal institutions, and between Marxists and non-Marxist legal scholars, collectively demonstrating that Marxism has indelibly shaped legal theory, constitutional theory, the theory of the state, and the theory of international law. This will undoubtedly be my new go-to reference volume on all questions pertaining to Marxism and legal studies.’ -- William Clare Roberts, McGill University, Canada‘Paul O’Connell and Umut Özsu have done a great service to all scholars of Marxism. They have assembled a comprehensive volume that includes contributions of both noted experts and brilliant young researchers and that fills a void in the existing literature. The outcome is a wonderful Handbook that is useful for both specialists and readers who approach Marxism and law for the first time. This book will serve as a guide in the field for many years to come.’ -- Marcello Musto, York University, CanadaTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to the Research Handbook on Law and Marxism 1 Paul O’Connell and Umut Özsu PART I MARX AND THE MARXIST TRADITION 2 Legal and illegal political tactics in Marxist political theory 6 Clyde W Barrow 3 Marx on the Factory Acts: Law, exploitation, and class struggle 21 Daniel McLoughlin and Talina Hürzeler 4 ‘Putting weapons into the hands of the proletariat’: Marx on the contradiction between capitalism and liberal democracy 35 August H Nimtz 5 Marx’s concept of dictatorship 61 Cosmin Sebastian Cercel 6 Revolution, Lenin, and law 77 Michael Head 7 Marx, Engels, Lenin, and the right of peoples to self-determination in international law 98 Bill Bowring 8 Pashukanis’ commodity-form theory of law 115 Matthew Dimick 9 Thinking in a Gramscian way: Reflections on Gramsci and law 139 Pablo Ciocchini and Stéfanie Khoury 10 Poulantzas’ changing views on law and the state 156 Bob Jessop 11 The state as social relation: Poulantzas on materiality and political strategy 173 Rafael Khachaturian PART II CONTEMPORARY MARXIST ANALYSIS OF LAW, RIGHTS AND THE STATE 12 Marx’s critique and the constitution of the capitalist state 190 Rob Hunter 13 Marx and critical constitutional theory 209 Nimer Sultany 14 The reproduction of moral economies in capitalism: Reading Thompson structurally 242 Nate Holdren 15 Law and the state in Frankfurt School critical theory 261 Chris O’Kane 16 Feminist materialism and the laws of social reproduction 283 Miriam Bak McKenna 17 Marxism, labour and employment law, and the limits of legal reform in class society 299 Ahmed White 18 Karl Marx, Douglass North, and postcolonial states: The relation between law and development 319 BS Chimni 19 Transcending disciplinary fetishisms: Marxism, neocolonialism, and international law 335 Radha D’Souza 20 Taking political economy seriously: Grundriss for a Marxist analysis of international law 356 Rémi Bachand 21 From class-based project to imperial formation: European Union law and the reconstruction of Europe 375 Eva Nanopoulos PART III FUTURE ORIENTATIONS OF MARXIST LEGAL ANALYSIS 22 From free time to idle time: Time, work-discipline, and the gig economy 400 Rebecca Schein 23 Greening anti-imperialism and the national question 421 Max Ajl 24 Ideology, narrative, and law: ‘Operation Car Wash’ in Brazil 444 Enzo Bello, Gustavo Capela, and Rene José Keller 25 The poetry of the future: Law, Marxism, and social change 458 Paul O’Connell 26 Nomocratic social change: Reassessing the transformative potential of law in neoliberal times 477 Honor Brabazon 27 Beyond fetishism and instrumentalism: Rethinking Marxism and law under neoliberalism 497 Igor Shoikhedbrod 28 Law and the socialist ideal 512 Christine Sypnowich 29 Marx on law and method 529 Natalia Delgado 30 Principles for a dialectical-materialist analysis of law and the state 544 Dimitrios Kivotidis Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press Red Modernism
Book SynopsisPersuasively charting a history of the avant-garde modernist poem in relation to communism, beginning in the 1910s and reaching into the 1940s, Red Modernism is an audacious examination of the twinned history of politics and poetry.Trade ReviewSteven's audacious redefinition of modernist historiography ventures much further than previous attempts to read political inferences into post-imagist poetry. . . It does so by viewing the Russian Revolution as a foundational event in the narrative of modern American verse. A much needed counter to ideological micro-criticism, Red Modernism unfolds on an ambitiously broad canvas, seeking to highlight the epic global backdrop to the poems containing history that so preoccupied Pound and his compatriots William Carlos Williams and Louis Zukofsky. Red Modernism argues meticulously for the centrality of the communist ideal in the work of Pound, Williams, and Zukofsky.—Literature and HistoryTable of ContentsAcknowledgments1. Introduction2. Ezra Pound3. William Carlos Williams4. Louis ZukofskyEpilogueNotes Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Socialist Republic of Rumania
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1969. Rumania faced the problem, shared by other independently minded communist states in the era of the Soviet bloc, of pursuing independent policies in foreign and intra-bloc relations and in its domestic affairs without provoking the Soviet Union to a military reaction. The efforts of the Rumanian leadership in this direction were aided by the fact that there was no politically relevant pro-Moscow elite that could take over if Ceausescu and his followers were deposed by force. Writing his study during the communist period, Professor Fischer-Galati concludes that the future of Rumanian integration into the communist party-state system hinges on the resolution of differences with the Soviet Union and that no meaningful reconciliation appears likely while the present Rumanian and Russian elites remain in power. The author believes, however, that the Rumanians will continue to pursue their independent courseone that could stimulate greater popular support and parTable of ContentsForewordGeneral InformationMapIntroductionChapter 1. Rumania in the Pre-Entry PeriodChapter 2. The Entry of Rumania Into the Communist Party-State SystemChapter 3. Intensive Socilalist Development of Rumania: StalinismChapter 4. The ThawChapter 5. The Present StageSelected Bibliography
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Temple University Press,U.S. Against Capital in the TwentyFirst Century
Book SynopsisThe problems of capitalism have been studied from Karl Marx to Thomas Piketty. The latter has recently confirmed that the system of capital is deeply bound up in ever-growing inequality without challenging the continuance of that system. Against Capital in the Twenty-First Century presents a diversity of analyses and visions opposed to the idea that capital should have yet another century to govern human and non-human resources in the interest of profit and accumulation. The editors and contributors to this timely volume present alternatives to the whole liberal litany of administered economies, tax policy recommendations, and half-measures. They undermine and reject the logic of capital, and the foregone conclusion that the twenty-first century should be given over to capital just as the previous two centuries were. Providing a deep critique of capitalism, based on assessment from a wide range of cultural, social, political, and ecological thinking, Against Capital in the Twenty-Fir
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Gramsci
Book SynopsisThis unique collection is the first to bring attention to Antonio Gramsci's work within geographical debates. Presenting a substantially different reading to Gramsci scholarship, the collection forges a new approach within human geography, environmental studies and development theory. Offers the first sustained attempt to foreground Antonio Gramsci's work within geographical debates Demonstrates how Gramsci articulates a rich spatial sensibility whilst developing a distinctive approach to geographical questions Presents a substantially different reading of Gramsci from dominant post-Marxist perspectives, as well as more recent anarchist and post-anarchist critiques Builds on the emergence of Gramsci scholarship in recent years, taking this forward through studies across multiple continents, and asking how his writings might engage with and animate political movements today Forges a new approach within human geography, environmental stTrade Review“This edited collection is a beacon of critical engagement with Gramsci’s philosophical and theoretical work and his political practice. This could be expected from the co-editors, each of whom has already critically appropriated and applied Gramsci’s ideas, and they have now added 12 impressive contributors to their number … This is an important contribution to the urgent critical work of recovering, appropriating and recontextualizing Gramsci’s concepts, methods and analyses, and, above all, ‘translating’ them for the current conjuncture, in which issues of political ecology as well as political economy are ever more critical to human flourishing.” (Antipode, 1 November 2013) “A book that has just landed on my desk is the fantastic volume edited by Michael Ekers, Gillian Hart, Stefan Kipfer and Alex Loftus entitled Gramsci: Space, Nature, Politics ... My hope is that this intervention and the outstanding chapters from all the additional contributors in the book will provoke renewed debate on space, nature, and politics in and beyond Gramsci!” (Adam Morton, adamdavidmorton.com, 13 November 2012) Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors vii Abbreviations of Works by Antonio Gramsci ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xiii Framings 1 “A Barbed Gift of the Backwoods”: Gramsci’s Sardinian Beginnings 3 Michael Ekers, Gillian Hart, Stefan Kipfer, and Alex Loftus How to Live with Stones 6 John Berger Introduction 13 1 Gramsci: Space, Nature, Politics 15 Michael Ekers and Alex Loftus Part I Space 45 2 Traveling with Gramsci: The Spatiality of Passive Revolution 47 Adam David Morton 3 “Gramsci in Action”: Space, Politics, and the Making of Solidarities 65 David Featherstone 4 City, Country, Hegemony: Antonio Gramsci’s Spatial Historicism 83 Stefan Kipfer 5 State of Confusion: Money and the Space of Civil Society in Hegel and Gramsci 104 Geoff Mann Part II Nature 121 6 The Concept of Nature in Gramsci 123 Benedetto Fontana 7 Space, Ecology, and Politics in the Praxis of the Brazilian Landless Movement 142 Abdurazack Karriem 8 On the Nature of Gramsci’s “Conceptions of the World” 161 Joel Wainwright 9 Gramsci, Nature, and the Philosophy of Praxis 178 Alex Loftus 10 Difference and Inequality in World Affairs: A Gramscian Analysis 197 Nicola Short 11 Gramsci and the Erotics of Labor: More Notes on “The Sexual Question” 217 Michael Ekers Part III Politics 239 12 Cracking Hegemony: Gramsci and the Dialectics of Rebellion 241 Jim Glassman 13 Gramsci at the Margins: A Prehistory of the Maoist Movement in Nepal 258 Vinay Gidwani and Dinesh Paudel 14 Accumulation through Dispossession and Accumulation through Growth: Intimations of Massacres Foretold? 279 Judith Whitehead 15 Gramsci, Geography, and the Languages of Populism 301 Gillian Hart Conclusion 321 16 Translating Gramsci in the Current Conjuncture 323 Stefan Kipfer and Gillian Hart Index 345
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The University of North Carolina Press Commonsense Anticommunism
Book SynopsisBetween the Great War and Pearl Harbor, conservative labor leaders declared themselves America's first line of defense against Communism. In this surprising account, Jennifer Luff shows how the American Federation of Labor fanned popular anticommunism but defended Communists' civil liberties in the aftermath of the 1919 Red Scare. The AFL's commonsense anticommunism, she argues, steered a middle course between the American Legion and the ACLU, helping to check campaigns for federal sedition laws. But in the 1930s, frustration with the New Dealorder led labor conservatives to redbait the Roosevelt administration and liberal unionists and abandon their reluctant civil libertarianism for red scare politics. That frustration contributed to the legal architecture of federal anticommunism that culminated with the McCarthyist fervor of the 1950s. Relying on untapped archival sources, Luff reveals how labor conservatives and the emerging civil liberties movement debated the proper role of th
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Duke University Press Marx for Cats
Book SynopsisAt the outset of Marx for Cats, Leigh Claire La Berge declares that “all history is the history of cat struggle.” Revising the medieval bestiary form to meet Marxist critique, La Berge follows feline footprints through Western economic history to reveal an animality at the heart of Marxism. She draws on a twelve-hundred-year arc spanning capitalism’s feudal prehistory, its colonialist and imperialist ages, the bourgeois revolutions that supported capitalism, and the communist revolutions that opposed it to outline how cats have long been understood as creatures of economic critique and liberatory possibility. By attending to the repeated archival appearance of lions, tigers, wildcats, and “sabo-tabbies,” La Berge argues that felines are central to how Marxists have imagined the economy, and by asking what humans and animals owe each other in a moment of ecological crisis, La Berge joins current debates about the need for and possibility of eco-sociaTrade Review“Marx for Cats is an undomesticated and indefinable meow de coeur. You can open this book anywhere---it's a Marxist Choose Your Own Adventure---and come away as unsettled, possessed, and reflective as any transportative encounter with a cat might leave you.” -- Jordy Rosenberg, author of * Confessions of the Fox *“Who knew that following cats could open up history and enliven Marxism? This delightful archive of the feline in class struggle reminds us that cats are our comrades. Hand in paw, we have a world to win!” -- Jodi Dean, author of * Comrade: An Essay on Political Belonging *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Cat out of the Bag 1 Part I. Menace and Menagerie: The Feudal Mode of Production and Its Cats, 800–1500 1. Lion Kings 25 Intermezzo 1. The Lion-Cat Dialectic 53 2. The Devil’s Cats 58 Part II. The Feline Call to Freedom: Slavery and Revolution in the Age of Empire, 1500–1800 3. Divine Lynxes 95 Intermezzo 2. The Tiger-Tyger Dialectic 125 4. Revolutionary Tigers 129 Part III. Our Dumb Beasts: The Rise of the Bourgeoisie and Its Appropriation of Cats, 1800–1900 5. Wildcats 177 Intermezzo 3. The Cat-Mouse Dialectic 207 6. Domestic Cats, Communal and Servile 212 Part IV. Every Paw Can Be a Claw: Revolutions with Cats, Revolutions Against Capitalism, 1900–2000 7. Sabo-Tabbies 251 Intermezzo 4. The Cat-Comrade Dialectic 288 8. Black Panthers 294 Epilogue. Pussy Cats 329 Notes 339 Bibliography 363 Index 383
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Baylor University Press Voices of the Voiceless
Book SynopsisPresents readers with twenty-five essays on a curated selection of images and artifacts from the Keston Archive. Some of the world's leading authorities on religion and communism as well as experts personally involved with the operation of Keston College carefully selected and provided commentary for these images.Table of Contents Introduction New Voices: Activists, Archivists, and Academics on the Keston Collection Julie deGraffenried and Zoe Knox Essays Archival References
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University of Toronto Press German Social Democracy through British Eyes
Book SynopsisGerman Social Democracy through British Eyes uses diplomatic reports sent from Germany to Britain to document the rise of social democracy as well as efforts to repress it.Trade Review“Retallack has assembled a rich selection of reports written by British diplomats, most of whom were posted to Dresden, the Saxon capital. The bulk of them are from George Strachey, Britain’s envoy to Saxony from October 1873 to July 1897. Impressive in quality and range, they make for fascinating reading.” -- Jan Rüger, University of London * Journal of Modern History *Table of ContentsList of Tables List of Figures List of Maps Preface Note on the Documents Introduction Historical Overview Documents Part I: 1870–1877 Part II: 1878–1889 Part III: 1890–1897 Part IV: 1898–1909 Part V: 1910–1914
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University of Toronto Press German Social Democracy through British Eyes
Book SynopsisOn the eve of the First World War, the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) was the largest and most powerful socialist party in the world. German Social Democracy through British Eyes examines the SPD’s rise using British diplomatic reports from Saxony, the third-largest federal state in Imperial Germany and the cradle of the socialist movement in that country. Rather than focusing on the Anglo-German antagonism leading to the First World War, the book peers into the everyday struggles of German workers to build a political movement and emancipate themselves from the worst features of a modern capitalist system: exploitation, poverty, and injustice. The archival documents, most of which have never been published before, raise the question of how people from one nation view people from another. The documents also illuminate political systems, election practices, and anti-democratic strategies at the local and regional levels, allowing readers to test hypotheses Trade Review“Retallack has assembled a rich selection of reports written by British diplomats, most of whom were posted to Dresden, the Saxon capital. The bulk of them are from George Strachey, Britain’s envoy to Saxony from October 1873 to July 1897. Impressive in quality and range, they make for fascinating reading.” -- Jan Rüger, University of London * Journal of Modern History *Table of ContentsList of Tables List of Figures List of Maps Preface Note on the Documents Introduction Historical Overview Documents Part I: 1870–1877 Part II: 1878–1889 Part III: 1890–1897 Part IV: 1898–1909 Part V: 1910–1914
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Cornell University Press Revolution Goes East
Book SynopsisRevolution Goes East is an intellectual history that applies a novel global perspective to the classic story of the rise of communism and the various reactions it provoked in Imperial Japan. Tatiana Linkhoeva demonstrates how contemporary discussions of the Russian Revolution, its containment, and the issue of imperialism played a fundamental role in shaping Japan''s imperial society and state.In this bold approach, Linkhoeva explores attitudes toward the Soviet Union and the communist movement among the Japanese military and politicians, as well as interwar leftist and rightist intellectuals and activists. Her book draws on extensive research in both published and archival documents, including memoirs, newspaper and journal articles, political pamphlets, and Comintern archives. Revolution Goes East presents us with a compelling argument that the interwar Japanese Left replicated the Orientalist outlook of Marxism-Leninism in its relationship with the rest of AsTrade ReviewTatiana Linkhoeva's meticulously detailed Revolution Goes East shows that Japanese responses to Soviet socialism during the 1920s and 30s were no exception to this. Indeed given the country's situation at the time, the diversity of views on the revolution held by various government factions, the military, and society at large was especially diverse. * New Books Network *Revolution Goes East is the first in-depth study in English of the diplomatic and ideological impact of the Bolshevik Revolution on Japan. Linkhoeva's study is a welcome addition to the existing body of scholarship, and is a badly needed corrective to the Eurocentric bias in Western research on the history of Japanese foreign relations. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of Japan's foreign policy or in the development of leftist ideologies in early twentieth-century Japan. * The Russian Review *The almost picturesque histories of diplomats, intellectuals and underworld political agents in interwar Japan are all woven together by Linkhoeva's clear and punctual prose in such a way that makes the reader actually curious to know more and dig deeper. Beyond the remarkable historiographical contribution, perhaps the key quality that makes Revolution Goes East such a critical book is the fact that despite all the questions it answers, it is able to raise many new ones. * Japan Society *Revolution Goes East is an important addition to the growing literature on Japanese imperialism and nationalism of the interwar period. It offers a unique angle on this crucial period when the failure of the Japanese left to provide a viable alternative to nationalism and militarism, coupled with the repressions against the vibrant civil society, enabled the rise of nationalist extremism in the 1930s. Its chapters, built on a close and discerning reading of a broad range of Japanese leftist writings, will serve for a long time as go-to texts for scholars and students alike. * The Journal of Japanese Studies *Tatiana Linkhoeva's Revolution Goes East: Imperial Japan and Soviet Communism is the first comprehensive work focusing on an enigma at the heart of the modern history of Japan. Revolution Goes East is indispensable for thinking more deeply about the history of Japan in the frst half of the twentieth century from an international perspective, and for reflecting more carefully on the history of the Soviet Union and communism in the East Asian world. * Japan Review *Revolution Goes East is a welcome addition to the study of both Japanese and Russian foreign policy, and a fruitful discussion of the history of the left in Japan. * Ab Imperio *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Two Russias 1. Before 1917 2. Revolution and Intervention 3. The Anti-Western Revolution 4. Anticommunism Within 5. Anarchism against Bolshevism 6. The Japanese Communist Party and the Comintern 7. National Socialism and Soviet Communism Conclusion: Imperial Japan and Soviet Communism in the 1930s
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Cornell University Press Under Stalins Shadow
Book SynopsisUnder Stalin''s Shadow examines the history of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) from 1918 to 1956, showing how closely national Communism was related to international developments. The history of the KKE reveals the role of Moscow in the various Communist parties of Southeastern Europe, as Nikos Marantzidis shows that Communism''s international institutions (Moscow Center, Comintern, Balkan Communist Federation, Cominform, and sister parties in the Balkans) were not merely external factors influencing orientation and policy choices. Based on research from published and unpublished archival documents located in Greece, Russia, Eastern and Western Europe, and the Balkan countries, Under Stalin''s Shadow traces the KKE movement''s interactions with fraternal parties in neighboring states and with their acknowledged supreme mentors in Stalin''s Soviet Russia. Marantzidis reveals how, because the boundaries between the national and international in tTrade ReviewBased on a rich multiarchival and multilingual source pool from Greece, eastern Europe, and western Europe, Marantzidis succeeds in presenting a fascinating story of a rather tragic nature in which ideology, dreams, ambitions, and ideals clashed with harsh realities, power dynamics, and more than often shrewd expediency. * H-Net *Nikos Marantzidis's new book on the history of the Greek Communist Party (Kommounistiko Komma Ellados, KKE) is a much-needed addition to the often self-centered historiography of Greek communism. The stated ambition of the book is not simply to tell the story of a national communist party but rather to provide "a history of international Communism from the perspective of its periphery in southeastern Europe" (p. 12) through the case study of the KKE. It does so successfully. * H-net *Table of ContentsIntroduction: A Global History of Greek Communism Part I: Interwar, 1918-39 1. Becoming Balkan Bolsheviks 2. Balkan Communism and the National Question 3. Becoming Greek Stalinists Part II: World War II and the Early Cold War Years, 1939-56 4. Greek Dilemmas 5. Balkan Decisions 6. The Displaced People's Republics Epilogue
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Cornell University Press A Slow Reckoning
Book SynopsisA Slow Reckoning examines the Soviet Union's and the Afghan communists' views of and policies toward Islam and Islamism during the Soviet-Afghan War (19791989). As Vassily Klimentov demonstrates, the Soviet and communist Afghan disregard for Islam was telling of the overall communist approach to reforming Afghanistan and helps explain the failure of their modernization project. A Slow Reckoning reveals how during most of the conflict Babrak Karmal, the ruler installed by the Soviets, instrumentalized Islam in support of his rule while retaining a Marxist-Leninist platform. Similarly, the Soviets at all levels failed to give Islam its due importance as communist ideology and military considerations dominated their decision making. This approach to Islam only changed after Mikhail Gorbachev replaced Karmal by Mohammad Najibullah and prepared to withdraw Soviet forces. Discarding Marxism-Leninism for Islam proved the correct approach, but it came too late to salvage the Soviet nation-building project. A Slow Reckoning also shows how Soviet leaders only started seriously paying attention to an Islamist threat from Afghanistan to Central Asia after 1986. While the Soviets had concerns related to Islamism in 1979, only the KGB believed the threat to be potent. The Soviet elites never fully conceptualized Islamism, continuing to see it as an ideology the United States, Iran, or Pakistan could instrumentalize at will. They believed the Islamists had little agency and that their retrograde ideology could not find massive appeal among progressive Soviet Muslims. In this, they were only partly right.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd What Is To Be Done?: A Dialogue on Communism,
Book SynopsisThe fall of the Berlin wall was seen by many as the final triumph of liberal democracy over communism. But now, in the wake of the great financial crisis of 2008 and its aftermath, things look a little different. New questions are arising about capitalism and democracy, new social movements are challenging established institutions and new political possibilities are emerging. Is democracy an inevitable hostage of capitalism, or can it reinvent itself to meet the challenge of globalization? In an exclusive, previously unpublished dialogue, Alain Badiou, a key figure of the radical left and a leading advocate of the communist idea, and Marcel Gauchet, a major exponent of anti-totalitarianism and a champion of liberal democracy, confront one another. Together, they take stock of history, interrogate one another�s views and defend their respective projects: on the one side, the revival of �the communist hypothesis,� and on the other, the radical reform of a contested democratic model.Table of Contents Foreword: The Future of an Alternative, by Martin Duru and Martin Legros 1. The encounter with communism 2. From Marx to Lenin 3. Totalitarianism 4. The return of the communist hypothesis? 5. What is the meaning of the crisis? 6. The end of imperial logic, or the continuation? 7. The deconstruction of capitalism 8. Why we�re not finished with politics Conclusion: In search of a lost deal? Appendix
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