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Cambridge University Press Friedrich Engels and Marxian Political Economy Historical Perspectives on Modern Economics
Book SynopsisThis book rejects the commonly encountered perception of Friedrich Engels as perpetuator of a 'tragic deception' of Marx, and the equally persistent body of opinion treating him as 'his master's voice'. Engels' claim to recognition is reinforced by an exceptional contribution in the 1840s to the very foundations of the Marxian enterprise, a contribution entailing not only the 'vision' but some of the building blocks in the working out of that vision. Subsequently, he proved himself to be a sophisticated interpreter of the doctrine of historical materialism and an important contributor in his own right. This volume serves as a companion to Samuel Hollander's The Economics of Karl Marx (Cambridge University Press, 2008).Trade Review'Based upon an extraordinarily close and careful reading of the texts, Hollander presents a detailed, comprehensive, and sophisticated assessment of key issues in the development of Engels's (and Marx's) economic ideas - this is a major and impressive contribution to scholarship in the field.' Greg Claeys, Royal Holloway, University of London'A valuable, incisive, and compelling account of Engels's contribution to the economics of Marxism. At last, Hollander has revealed the great debt which Marxian political economy owes to Marx's right-hand man.' Tristram Hunt MP, Queen Mary, University of London'Hollander's critical dissection of Friedrich Engels's economic thought is scholarly, provocative, and engaging. This book makes a major contribution to our understanding of one of nineteenth-century socialism's most important, and most neglected, economists.' John King, La Trobe University'Samuel Hollander is the leading authority on classical economics. His erudite and incisive accounts of Smith, Ricardo, Malthus, Mill, Say, and Marx are definitive. In his new book, Friedrich Engels and Marxian Political Economy, Hollander shows that Engels was more than the junior partner of a famous man, the second author of The German Ideology and The Communist Manifesto. Engels was an important and influential thinker in his own right. Disentangling Engels from Marx, exploring the intricacies of Engels on economic theory, applied economics, history, legislation, and the State, Hollander fills a major gap in the literature of ideas. The book is a major contribution to the social sciences. It will be the definitive analysis of an important author who is seldom read and even less frequently understood.' D. A. Reisman, Nanyang Technological University and University of Surrey'This volume adds substantially to our understanding of the distinctive contribution made by Engels to nineteenth-century socialist political economy. Hollander's work makes clear Engels's role in shaping Marxian political economy in the 1840s and subsequently. Engels emerges in this work as a thinker whose capacity for self-effacement and deference to Marx too-often obscured the originality and importance of his contribution to socialist thinking. Engels in Hollander's rendition proves a more subtle and original theorist than he is often presented and certainly not as a proponent of the crude determinism which some have seen as his corruption of the Marxian legacy. Taken with his earlier volume … The Economics of Karl Marx, Hollander's Friedrich Engels and Marxian Political Economy represents a major addition to the scholarly literature on these two titans of socialist thought.' Noel Thompson, University of Wales, SwanseaTable of ContentsProlegomena; 1. Engels' early contribution; 2. The surplus-value doctrine, Rodbertus' charge of plagiarism, and the transformation; 3. Economic organization, income distribution, and the price mechanism; 4. Revisionism I: constitutional reform versus revolution; 5. Revisionism II: social reform; 6. The Engels–Marx relationship; 7. A methodological overview; Epilogue: the immediate legacy.
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Cambridge University Press International Law and World Order
Book SynopsisThis book articulates a new approach to international law combining the insights of Marxism, socialist feminism and postcolonial theory. It offers a critique of the principal contemporary perspectives to international law, and analyzes a range of world order issues that include imperialism, the states system, and democracy.Trade Review'Chimni offers many useful and refreshing insights, both on substantive international law and on the authors he takes to task, and he is nothing if not a fair critic.' Jan Klabbers, Journal of Economic LiteratureTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. The classical realist approach to international law: the world of Hans Morgenthau; 3. The policy-oriented or new haven approach to international law: the contributions of Myres McDougal and Harold Lasswell; 4. Richard Falk and the Grotian quest: toward transdisciplinary jurisprudence; 5. New approaches to international law: the critical scholarship of David Kennedy and Martti Koskenneimi; 6. Feminist approaches to international law: the work of Hilary Charlesworth and Christine Chinkin; 7. Toward an integrated Marxist approach to international law (IMAIL).
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Cambridge University Press The Chinese Communist Party
Book SynopsisTen engaging personal histories introduce readers to what it was like to live in and with the most powerful political machine ever created: the Chinese Communist Party. Detailing the life of ten people who led or engaged with the Chinese Communist Party, one each for one of its ten decades of its existence, these essays reflect on the Party''s relentless pursuit of power and extraordinary adaptability through the transformative decades since 1921. Demonstrating that the history of the Chinese Communist Party is not one story but many stories, readers learn about paths not taken, the role of chance, ideas and persons silenced, hopes both lost and fulfilled. This vivid mosaic of lives and voices draws together one hundred years of modern Chinese history - and illuminates possible paths for China''s future.Trade Review'In this brilliantly structured anthology, the last century of the Chinese Communist Party is told through the perspectives of ten individuals. Their stories are the perfect antidote to heated political rhetoric on China that can obscure the human cost of geopolitical conflicts.' Joanna Chiu, Toronto Star'This collection does something brilliant but increasingly rare in the present day - to treat the Chinese communist movement not as an abstract to be glorified or condemned, but as a series of human moments, complex, sometimes contradictory, and always fascinating. Whether it's a Moscow-returned activist in wartime China or the actions of a Mao-inspired fanatic in Peru, the extraordinary journey of this world-changing movement comes to life in this volume.' Rana Mitter, author of China's Good War: How World War II is Shaping a New Nationalism'The rich and complicated stories in these 'Ten Moments' call into question the overly simplistic portrayals of the Chinese Communist Party that dominate our understanding. The erudite but eminently readable tales in this book make cutting-edge scholarship in PRC history and politics accessible to a broad audience.' Aminda Smith, author of Thought Reform and China's Dangerous Classes: Reeducation, Resistance, and the People'Edited with care and creativity by a trio of accomplished historians, this well paced anthology uses life stories to place the Chinese Communist Party's first century in existence into a fascinating new perspective. An impressive volume.' Jeffrey Wasserstrom, author of Vigil: Hong Kong on the Brink'This timely work, compiled by the renowned Sinologists Hans Van de Ven (University of Cambridge), Timothy Cheek (University of British Columbia) and Klaus Mühlhahn (Zeppelin University), illustrates through personal stories why there is not one single narrative about the Party, but many, often wildly contradictory ones.' Ernst Herb, Asia Sentinel'… There is plenty of color and moxie in The Chinese Communist Party: A Century in Ten Lives. Its 11 contributors, mostly historians from China, the United States, and Europe … present 'a series of snapshots' that explain what it was like, in each decade of the Party's history, 'to live in and with the most powerful political machine ever created'.' Martin Laflamme, The Los Angeles Review of Books'… impressive in calling for, and offering, a more nuanced and historically grounded response.' Christopher Harding, Daily Telegraph'The most original of the books just published on the CCP is this one, edited by renowned scholars and sinologists Timothy Cheek, Hans van de Ven, and Klaus Mühlhahn - published by Cambridge University. Portraying ten lives that are not always the most obvious, more than a dozen authors from China, Europe, and America contribute to a book that follows the history of the party, its agents, and its achievements. One person is highlighted for each decade of the CCP's existence, and attempts are made to demonstrate that the Party's history is not one, but many stories.' Hélder Beja, Parágrafo'Dickson's book gives a useful overview of the various bodies that run China and the party's involvement in them.' Ian Johnson, New York Review of Books'… ten attractively written pen portraits of figures mostly unknown in the West, but who deserve to be better known. Taken collectively, however, something interesting, and perhaps unintentionally telling, emerges, for almost all of the authors have chosen to profile someone who was, in one way or another, a failure within the broader context of CCP history.' Yuan Zhu, Mekong Review'… a very welcome and very readable contribution to broader debates on the Chinese Communist Party.' Carolin Kautz, Pacific Affairs'For experts, the book offers a welcome alternative to the dominant master narratives about the history of the party. … The authors have succeeded in creating a conceptually and analytically impressive anthology that is hoped to reach a broad readership.' Stefan Messingschlager, Arbeit - Bewegung - GeschichteTable of ContentsIntroduction. Telling the story of the Chinese Communist Party; 1. 1920s: a Dutchman's fantasy: Henricus Sneevliet's united front for the Chinese Communist Party Tony Saich; 2. 1930s: Wang Ming's Wuhan moment: a brief flowering of popular front communism Hans J. van de Ven; 3. 1940s: Wang Shiwei's rectification: intellectuals and the party in yan'an Timothy Cheek; 4. 1950s: from fallen star to red star: Shangguan Yunzhu Zhang Jishun; 5. 1960s: Wang Guangmei and peach garden experience Elizabeth J. Perry; 6. 1970s: The death of Mao and life of Chairman Gonzalo Julia Lovell; 7. 1980s: Zhao Ziyang and the voices of reform Klaus Mühlhahn; 8. 1990s: Wang Yuanhua: a party intellectual reflects Xu Jilin; 9. 2000s: Jiang Zemin and the naughty Auties Jeremy Goldkorn; 10.2010s: Guo Meimei: the story of a young netizen portends a political throwback Guobin Yang; Afterword. The party and the world Philip Bowring; Index.
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HarperCollins Seven Things You Cant Say about China
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Penguin Books Ltd Communist Manifesto Penguin Classics Deluxe
Book SynopsisMarx and Engel's landmark treatise - in a graphic deluxe editionOne of the most important and influential political theories ever formulated, The Communist Manifesto is a revolutionary summons to the working class-an incisive account of a new theory of communism that would be brought about by a proletarian revolution. Arguing that increasing exploitation of industrial workers will eventually lead to a rebellion in which capitalism will be overthrown, Marx and Engels propose a vision of a society without classes, private property, or a state. The theoretical basis of political systems in Russia, China, Cuba, and Eastern Europe, The Communist Manifesto continues to influence and provoke debate on capitalism and class.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and
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OUP India Titos Secret Empire How the Maharaja of the
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MIT Press Ltd Yesterdays Tomorrow On the Loneliness of
Book SynopsisHow the communist revolution failed, presented in a series of catastrophes.The communist project in the twentieth century grew out of utopian desires to oppose oppression and abolish class structures, to give individual lives collective meaning. The attempts to realize these ideals became a series of colossal failures. In Yesterday's Tomorrow, Bini Adamczak examines these catastrophes, proceeding in reverse chronological order from 1939 to 1917: the Hitler-Stalin Pact, the Great Terror of 1937, the failure of the European Left to prevent National Socialism, Stalin's rise to power, and the bloody rebellion at Kronstadt. In the process, she seeks a future that never happened.
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WW Norton & Co The Communist Manifesto
Book SynopsisKarl Marx's 1848 text is reframed in this revised Norton Critical Edition in the context of twenty-first-century theoretical debates, capitalist globalization, the information technology revolution, and contemporary struggles up to and including the 2011 Arab Spring.Table of ContentsDownload Contents (pdf)
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The University of Michigan Press A County of Culture
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The University of Michigan Press Illusive Utopia
Book SynopsisA rare glimpse into North Korean propagandain parades, posters, murals, theater, and filmsTrade Review"North Korea is not just a security or human rights problem (although it is those things) but a real society. This book gets us closer to understanding North Korea beyond the usual headlines, and does so in a richly detailed, well-researched, and theoretically contextualized way." - Charles K. Armstrong, Center for Korean Research, Columbia University"
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Mariner Books Spain in Our Hearts
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Random House USA Inc The Rebel and the Kingdom
Book SynopsisHow did an Ivy League activist become a global fugitive? The New York Times bestselling co-author of Billion Dollar Whale and Blood and Oil chronicles the heart-pounding tale of a self-taught operative his high-stakes attempt subvert the North Korean regime. “Propulsive . . . Hope’s account is both deeply reported and novelistic.”—Ed Caesar, contributing staff writer for The New Yorker, author of The Moth and the MountainIn the early 2000s, Adrian Hong was a soft-spoken Yale undergraduate looking for his place in the world. After reading a harrowing account of life inside North Korea, he realized he had found a cause so pressing that he was ready to devote his life to it. What began as a trip down the safe and well-worn path of organizing soon morphed into something more dangerous. Hong journeyed to China, outwitting Chinese security services as he helped asylum-s
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Random House USA Inc Open Letters
Book SynopsisSpanning twenty-five years, this historic collection of writings shows Vaclav Havel's evolution from a modestly known playwright who had the courage to advise and criticize Czechoslovakia's leaders to a newly elected president whose first address to his fellow citizens begins, I assume you did not propose me for this office so that I, too, would lie to you. Some of the pieces in Open Letters, such as Dear Dr. Husak and the essay The Power of the Powerless, are by now almost legendary for their influence on a generation of Eastern European dissidents; others, such as some of Havel's prison correspondence and his private letter to Alexander Dubcek, appear in English for the first time. All of them bear the unmistakable imprint of Havel's intellectual rigor, moral conviction, and unassuming eloquence, while standing as important additions to the world's literature of conscience.
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Irish Academic Press Ltd Sen Murray MarxistLeninist Irish Socialist
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Pluto Press Gramsci on Tahrir
Book SynopsisExplores the relevance of the Gramscian concept of passive revolution and Caesarism in the context of the Egyptian revolution and counter-revolution.Trade Review'An important contribution to debates which should concern us all as researchers and students of potential revolutionary transformation, of Egyptian politics and of Gramsci's political thought' -- Dr. Maha Abdelrahman, Reader in Development Studies and Middle East Politics, University of Cambridge, and author of 'Egypt's Long Revolution: Protest Movements and Uprisings' (Routledge, 2014)'A wide-ranging and innovative work that will be of invaluable use to scholars of the Middle East, revolution, and 'democratic transition' and the use of Gramscian political concepts in global political economy' -- Dr. Jamie Allinson, Lecturer in International Relations, University of Edinburgh, and Editor at 'Salvage''This is undoubtedly one of the most interesting and provocative analyses of not only the recent Egyptian revolution' -- Progress in Political EconomyTable of ContentsSeries Preface Acknowledgements Abbreviations 1. Introduction Part I: On the Subject of Revolution 2. From Bourgeois to Permanent Revolution 3. A Criterion for Interpretation 4. Caesarism Part II: Gramsci in Egypt 5. Passive Revolution and Imperialism 6. Lineages of Egyptian Caesarism 7. The 25 January Revolution 8. Revolution and Restoration 9. Conclusions Notes Bibliography Index
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Pluto Press Revolutionary Learning
Book SynopsisA collection of essays exploring the Marxist and feminist theorisation in education and learning.Trade Review'A tremendously insightful, compelling book which promises to revolutionise thinking around adult learning and education' -- Aziz Choudry, Associate Professor, Department of Integrated Studies in Education, McGill University'Addresses the totality of capitalist social relations through a theoretical and historical lens, offering a fresh analysis of abstraction, ideology and critical consciousness' -- Kumkum Sangari, William F. Vilas Research Professor of English and the Humanities, Department of English, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee'Superbly written and invites the reader into an engaging exchange on the most important theoretical development in our field today' -- John Holst, Associate Professor, Leadership, Policy and Administration, University of St ThomasTable of ContentsDedication Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Revolutionary Feminist Praxis 2. What is ‘Critical’ About Critical Educational Theory? 3. Learning and the ‘Matter’ of Consciousness in Marxist Feminism 4. Centring Marxist Feminist Theory in Adult Learning 5. Institutional Ethnography: A Marxist Feminist Analysis 6. Capitalist Imperialism as Social Relations: Implications for Praxis, Pedagogy and Resistance 7. Learning by Dispossession: Democracy Promotion and Civic Engagement in Iraq and the United States Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press Democracy after Communism A Journal of Democracy
Book SynopsisTamas formerly of Georgetown University; Vladimir Tismaneanu, University of Maryland at College Park; Grigory Yavlinsky, member of the Russian State Duma (parliament).Trade ReviewA thoughtful collection of essays on the hazards, practical and conceptual, of one of the monumental changes in world affairs in our time. -- Bohdan Harasymiw International Journal 2004Table of ContentsContents: I. The Exit from Communism 1. How Different Are Postcommunist Transitions: Ghia Nodia 2. Comparing East and South: Valerie Bunce 3. The Persistence of Postcommunist Elites: John Higley, Judith Kullberg, and Jan Pakulsk i4. Civil Society after Communism: Aleksander Smolar 5. Understanding Postcommunist Transitions: Leszek Balcerowicz 6. Estonia's Success Story: Mart Laar 7. The Postcommunist Wars: Charles H. Fairbanks, Jr. II. The East European Experience 8. The Postcommunist Divide: Jacques Rupnik 9. Europe Transformed: Richard Rose 10. Reassessing the Revolutions of 1989: Vladimir Tismaneanu 11. The Transformation of Central Europe: Bronislaw Gereme k12. Victory Defeated: G.M. Tamas 13. The International Context: Jacques Rupnik 14. A Diverging Europe: Richard Rose 15. History and Memory: The Revolutions of 1989-91: Aleksander Smolar III. The Post-Soviet Experience 16. One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: Michael McFaul 17. The Primacy of History and Culture: Zbigniew Brzezinski 18. The Impact of Nationalism: Ghia Nodia 19. From Democratization to "Guided Democracy": Archie Brown 20. The Advantages of Radical Reform: Anders Aslund 21. Disillusionment in the Caucasus and Central Asia: Charles H. Fairbanks, Jr. 22. Sovereignty and Uncertainty in Ukraine: Nadia Diuk 23. Russia's Hybrid Regime: Lilia Shevtsova 24. Putin's Path: M. Steven Fish 25. Going Backwards: Grigory Yavlinsky 26. A Mixed Record, an Uncertain Future: Michael McFaul
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The Catholic University of America Press Victim of History Cardinal Mindszenty a
Book Synopsis‘Victim of history’, ‘a martyr from behind the Iron Curtain’, ‘the Hungarian Gandhi’ - these are just some of the epithets which people used to describe Cardinal Mindszenty, archbishop of Esztergom, who was the last Hungarian prelate to use the title of prince primate.
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The University of Alabama Press Legacy of a False Promise A Daughters Reckoning
Book SynopsisMargaret Fuchs was thirteen in June 1955 when she learned that her parents had been Communists while working for the US government in the 1930s and '40s. This book chronicles the years during which her parents were exposed and her father was subpoenaed before the House Un-American Activities Committee.Trade ReviewLively, personal, and a nice read.... I've worked with a number of red diaper babies all trying to come to terms with their parents' pasts, and I think Ms. Singer is to be congratulated for her persistence in writing this book and her forthrightness in telling her story and that of her parents. - R. Bruce Craig, Executive Director of the National Coalition for History in Washington, D.C., and author of Treasonable Doubt: The Harry Dexter White Spy Case
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Hoover Institution Press,U.S. One Day We Will Live Without Fear Everyday Lives
Book SynopsisWhat was life in the Soviet Union really like? Through a series of true stories, One Day We Will Live Without Fear describes what people's day-to-day life was like under the regime of the Soviet police state. Drawing on events from the 1930s through the 1970s, Mark Harrison shows how, by accident or design, people became entangled in the workings of Soviet rule.
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Hoover Institution Press,U.S. Breaking with Communism Intellectual Odyssey of
Book SynopsisPresenting Wolfe's letters from 1939 with unpublished speeches and writings from the Hoover Archives, this volume illuminates his struggle to uncover the truth about the history of Soviet Russia and his anguish over his earlier allegiances not only to Lenin but to Karl Marx as well.
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Hoover Institution Press,U.S. The Collapse of Communism Hoover Institution
Book SynopsisTen years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and eight years after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, experts continue to debate one of the most important political questions of the twentieth century - why did Communism collapse so suddenly? A comprehensive and often unexpected answer is provided in this unique volume of essays.
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Monthly Review Press,U.S. Whose Millennium Theirs or Ours
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Monthly Review Press,U.S. In Defense of History Marxism and the Postmodern
Book SynopsisIntellectuals on the left are returning to historical materialism, to class analysis. This collection reflects that move, and challenges the limits imposed on action and resistance by those who see liberating "new times" in the contradictions of contemporary capitalism.Table of ContentsPart 1 Introduction - what is the "postmodern" agenda? Ellen Meiksins Wood. Part 2 Postmodernism and intellectuals: where do postmodernists come from? Terry Eagleton; language, history and class struggle, David McNally; the politics of cultural studies, Francis Mulhern; culture, nationalism, and the role of intellectuals, Aijaz Ahmad interviewed I; old positions/new necessities - history, class and Marxist metanarrative, Bryan D. Palmer; against social de(con)struction of science - cautionary tales from the Third World, Meera Nanda. Part 3 Postmodernism and movements: issues of class and culture, Aijaz Ahmad interviewed II; the mirror of race - postmodernism and the celebration of difference, Kenan Malik; postmodernism, feminism and Marx - notes from the abyss, Carol A. Stabile; Marx and the environment, John Bellamy Foster; northern intellectuals and the EZLN, Daniel Nugent; five thesis on actually existing Marxism, Frederic Jameson. Part 4 Afterword: in defense of history, John Bellamy Foster.
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University of Exeter Press British Theatre and the Red Peril The Portrayal
Book SynopsisBritish Theatre and the Red Peril examines how communism was portrayed in plays in the British theatre between 1917 and 1945, and how at a time when the capitalist system seemed on the verge of collapse, the theatre played a significant part in communicating and manipulating political propaganda in order to influence audiences.Trade Review 'This book appears to be that extreme rarity, a genuinely original contribution to our knowledge and understanding of twentieth-century British theatre. I don't know of anybody else besides Steve Nicholson who has delved so deeply or so keenly into the archives of the Lord Chamberlain to uncover a shoal of apparently subversive, politically-motivated play scripts, as well as the extraordinary and devious machinations of the censor and his friends in high places to block and suppress them. The result is a book which is at once refreshingly original and depressingly predictable . . . British Theatre and the Red Peril emerges as a truly significant and courageous work.' (New Theatre Quarterly , 2002) 'Political theatre comes in many shapes and sizes and, more often than not, is assumed to be left-wing in character. Steve Nicholson's fascinating study of the impact the Bolshevik revolution had on the British theatre shows that, whilst this common assumption is frequently correct, there is another and seldom recounted history of political theatre associated with the right.' (Theatre Research International, Vol. 26:2 , 2001) 'An attractively produced volume carefully researched and accessibly written. The book is likely to become (and remain) a standard work on the subject.' (Albion, Vol. 33, Issue 1 , Spring 2001) 'Steve Nicholson offers us a meticulously researched and critically astute study of a fascinating period of theatre in the UK. The main text is supported by a very useful chronological chart of plays and events between 1918 and 1946, a series of mini-biographies of the leading characters involved, a good number of pertinent and informative illustrations and a very helpful bibliography.' (Studies in Theatre and Performance, Vol 20, no 2 , June 2000) 'I know of no other book that investigates the depiction of the Soviet Union between 1917 and 1945. The author charts the response to plays dealing with the 'Red Peril' from the terrified reaction of the early twenties, through the more inquisitive tone of the 'intellectual' thirties to the paradoxical situation of the war years when the 'evil empire' became an essential ally.' (Dominic Shellard, Department of English Literature, The University of Sheffield) ‘After discussing censorship in the first two chapters, Nicholson turns to the plays themselves and the rest of the book is largely a series of plot summaries. But what plots! It is to Nichols’s credit that after reading the book I immediately wanted to run out and read many of the plays he describes. This would be no easy feat, since many of the plays Nicholson examines were never published.’ (Theatre Journal, Dec 2002) Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgements Brief Chronology 1. Not a Political Arena? 2. The Revolution will not be Dramatised 3. No More than a Bad Smell from the North East 4. Wakening the Devil 5. When England goes Communist 6. The Land of the Free Afterword Notes Appendix: Biographies and Production Details Select Bibliography Index
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Pathfinder Books Ltd An Introduction to Marxist Economic Theory
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Hassell Street Press Famous Utopias of the Renaissance
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Picador USA The World Turned Upside Down
Book SynopsisYang Jisheng's The World Turned Upside Down is the definitive history of the Cultural Revolution, in withering and heartbreaking detail.As a major political event and a crucial turning point in the history of the People's Republic of China, the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (19661976) marked the zenith as well as the nadir of Mao Zedong's ultra-leftist politics. Following Tombstone, his groundbreaking and award-winning history of the Great Famine, Yang Jisheng presents the only history of the Cultural Revolution by an independent scholar based in mainland China, and makes a crucial contribution to understanding the lasting influence of those years.The World Turned Upside Down puts every political incident, major and minor, of those ten years under extraordinary and withering scrutiny, and arrives in English at a moment when contemporary Chinese governance is leaning once more toward a highly centralized power structure and a Mao-st
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Hungarian AvantGarde and Socialism
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis astute monograph offers a survey of Hungarian avant-garde art of the 1960s-80s that is at once accessible and methodologically rigorous. Its elucidation of the entanglements between the first (official) public sphere and its counterpart, the second (unofficial) public sphere, is thoroughly invigorating. * Klara Kemp-Welch, The Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, UK *‘This timely and expertly researched study of unofficial Kádár-era art explores the resourcefulness and ingenuity of Hungarian artists keen to push the limits of artistic freedom. The book is indispensable for anyone interested in the question what it meant to be radical for an artist in post-1956 Hungary, and beyond.’ * Sven Spieker, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA *Drawing on a wealth of research, Cseh-Varga provides a new and accessible interpretation of radical art phenomena in Hungary under socialism. The book points to the importance of the public sphere for the democratic ambitions and battles with authority of the East European neo-avant-garde. * Edit Sasvári, Art historian and Director of the Kassák Múzeum, Budapest, Hungary *Table of Contents1. Acknowledgements 2. Introduction 3. Public Spheres and Spatiality 4. The Happening and the Consolidation of the Art of the Second Public Sphere 5. Places of Resonance – Artist Studios 6. Official Venues, Semi-Official Art: Party-Run Locations 7. Turning Private into Public – Apartment Culture 8. Avant-Garde above the Ground 9. Conclusion 10. Bibliography
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National Geographic Kids Martin Luther King Jr National Geographic Readers
Book SynopsisThe most effective method used to influence children to read is to incorporate the information that interests them the most. National Geographic Readers are educational, high-interest, and comprehensive for children. In this title, readers will learn about the fascinating life and legacy civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. In this level three biography, difficult concepts are made understandable and transitioned into a more approachable manner. This includes the use of sidebars, timetables, diagrams and fun facts to hold the interest of the young reader. The colorful design and educational illustrations round out this text as an exemplary book for their young minds to explore. National Geographic supports K-12 educators with ELA Common Core Resources.Visit www.natgeoed.org/commoncore for more information.
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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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Arcadia Publishing Chicago Socialism The Peoples History
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Royal Collins Publishing Company Intelligence Et Vision Diplomatiques de XI
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Royal Collins Publishing Company World Socialism Studies
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PublicAffairs Russia Upside Down: An Exit Strategy for the
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Monthly Review Press Working Classes, Global Realities: Socialist
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Monthly Review Press,U.S. Ecology Against Capitalism
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Monthly Review Press,U.S. Jose Carlos Mariategui: An Anthology
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Monthly Review Press,U.S. In Walt We Trust: How a Queer Socialist Poet Can
Book SynopsisLife in the United States today is shot through with uncertainty: about our jobs, our mortgaged houses, our retirement accounts, our health, our marriages, and the future that awaits our children. For many, our lives, public and private, have come to feel like the discomfort and unease you experience the day or two before you get really sick. Our life is a scratchy throat. John Marsh offers an unlikely remedy for this widespread malaise: the poetry of Walt Whitman. Mired in personal and political depression, Marsh turned to Whitman--and it saved his life. In Walt We Trust: How a Queer Socialist Poet Can Save America from Itself is a book about how Walt Whitman can save America's life, too. Marsh identifies four sources for our contemporary malaise (death, money, sex, democracy) and then looks to a particular Whitman poem for relief from it. He makes plain what, exactly, Whitman wrote and what he believed by showing how they emerged from Whitman's life and times, and by recreating the places and incidents (crossing Brooklyn ferry, visiting wounded soldiers in hospitals) that inspired Whitman to write the poems. Whitman, Marsh argues, can show us how to die, how to accept and even celebrate our (relatively speaking) imminent death. Just as important, though, he can show us how to live: how to have better sex, what to do about money, and, best of all, how to survive our fetid democracy without coming away stinking ourselves. The result is a mix of biography, literary criticism, manifesto, and a kind of self-help you're unlikely to encounter anywhere else.Trade Review"Walt Whitman has been and remains our unacknowledged founder. Born as Thomas Jefferson was fretting that the revolutionary 'Spirit of 76' was being lost, Whitman grabbed the twin standards of enlightenment and possibility and carried them across the bridge from the days of Tom Paine to the present. His radical journey is our radical journey, and John Marsh captures the very essence of Whitman, and America, in this brilliant book."-John Nichols, Washington correspondent for "The Nation"
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Pathfinder Press The Communist Manifesto
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Bloomsbury Publishing USA China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower
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Not Stated Guerrilla Warfare
Book SynopsisChe Guevara’s classic text on revolutionary tactics and strategy.Since Guerrilla Warfare was first published in 1961, it has joined the canon of classic military literature, consulted by revolutionaries and counterrevolutionaries alike. In this book, Che Guevara outlines the lessons he learned as a guerrilla soldier in the Cuban revolution and explains how a small group of dedicated fighters grew in strength with the support of the Cuban people, overcoming the odds to vanquish the US-backed dictator’s army and overthrow the dictatorship. Guerrilla Warfare is both an insightful account of one of the decisive revolutionary movements of the twentieth century and a timeless resource for freedom fighters the world over. This edition includes Che’s corrections and his suggestions for further revisions to the text—revisions his murder in 1967 prevented him from making.
£13.46
Astra Publishing House Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto
Book Synopsis"[A] well-reasoned and eye-opening treatise . . . [Kohei Saito makes] a provocative and visionary proposal." —Publishers Weekly, (starred review)"Saito’s clarity of thought, plethora of evidence, and conversational, gentle, yet urgent tone . . . are sure to win over open-minded readers who understand the dire nature of our global. . . . A cogently structured anti-capitalist approach to the climate crisis." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)Why, in our affluent society, do so many people live in poverty, without access to health care, working multiple jobs and are nevertheless unable to make ends meet, with no future prospects, while the planet is burning?In his international bestseller, Kohei Saito argues that while unfettered capitalism is often blamed for inequality and climate change, subsequent calls for “sustainable growth” and a “Green New Deal” are a dangerous compromise. Capitalism creates artificial scarcity by pursuing profit based on the value of products rather than their usefulness and by putting perpetual growth above all else. It is therefore impossible to reverse climate change in a capitalist society—more: the system that caused the problem in the first place cannot be an integral part of the solution. Instead, Saito advocates for degrowth and deceleration, which he conceives as the slowing of economic activity through the democratic reform of labor and production. In practical terms, he argues for: the end of mass production and mass consumption decarbonization through shorter working hours the prioritization of essential labor over corporate profits By returning to a system of social ownership, he argues, we can restore abundance and focus on those activities that are essential for human life, effectively reversing climate change and saving the planet.Trade Review"If you want to get a jump on the book everyone will be talking about this winter, you should preorder Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto now."—Jeva Lange, Heatmap News"Saitō’s proposal is simple, salient, and adapts Marx for the modern day."—The Millions"Looking to start out the year with some big ideas? Look no further."—Tobias Carroll, InsideHook"[A] well-reasoned and eye-opening treatise . . . [Kohei Saito makes] a provocative and visionary proposal." —Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Saito’s clarity of thought, plethora of evidence, and conversational, gentle, yet urgent tone—even when describing the most alarming aspects of the climate crisis—are sure to win over open-minded readers who understand the dire nature of our global situation and that 'green capitalism is a myth.' A cogently structured anti-capitalist approach to the climate crisis."—Kirkus (starred review)"Achieving degrowth communism, [Saito] believes, is less about personal choices and more about changing overarching political and economic structures. Marxism, he argues, offers a viable model for reorienting society around the maximization of public goods as opposed to the endless pursuit and concentration of wealth."—Ben Dooley & Hisako Ueno, The New York Times"This necessary and energizing 21st Century manifesto is a truth mirror inviting us to see ourselves and our place in the metastatic growth engine that is our current economic system. Saito is a well-read soothsayer -- one who loves this world, who has done his homework, and who is eager to share a viable way forward." —John Vaillant, bestselling author of Fire Weather, The Tiger and The Golden Spruce"Kohei Saito is one of the most important scholars in the world. In Slow Down, he delivers a Karl Marx for the climate crisis and a vision of communism for the 21st century. No work could be more vital today." —Malcolm Harris, bestselling author of Palo Alto"Slow Down has an almost magic ability to formulate complex thoughts in clear language, as well as to combine strict conceptual thinking with passionate personal engagement. Saito's book is not just for anyone interested in ecology or in the problems of today's global capitalism, it is simply indispensable for those of us who want to SURVIVE—in short, to all of us."—Slavoj Žižek, author of Violence and The Sublime Object of Ideology "Saitō unites Marxism with ecology and lights a path out of our present crisis. A powerful book from one of the most compelling young thinkers of our time." —Jason Hickel, author of Less is MoreTable of ContentsSlow Down: The Deceleration Manifesto by Kohei Saito, translated by Brian Bergstrom Table of Contents Introduction: SDGs are the Opiate of the Masses! Chapter One Climate Change and the Imperial Mode of Living Chapter Two The Limits of Green Keynesianism Chapter Three Shooting for Degrowth within a Capitalist System Chapter FourMarx in the AnthropoceneChapter Five The Escapism Known as Accelerationism Chapter Six Capitalism’s Scarcity, Communism’s Abundance Chapter Seven Degrowth Communism Will Save the World Chapter Eight The Lever of Climate Justice Conclusion: How to Prevent History’s End
£21.60
Verso Books The Dilemmas of Lenin: Terrorism, War, Empire,
Book Synopsis"Without Lenin there would have been no socialist revolution in 1917. Of this much we can be certain."Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, leader of the October 1917 uprising, is one of the most misunderstood leaders of the twentieth century. In his own time, there were many, even among his enemies, who acknowledged the full magnitude of his intellectual and political achievements. But his legacy has been lost in misinterpretation; he is worshipped but rarely read.On the centenary of the Russian Revolution, Tariq Ali explores the two major influences on Lenin's thought-the turbulent history of Tsarist Russia and the birth of the international labour movement-and explains how Lenin confronted dilemmas that still cast a shadow over the present. Is terrorism ever a viable strategy? Is support for imperial wars ever justified? Can politics be made without a party? Was the seizure of power in 1917 morally justified? Should he have parted company from his wife and lived with his lover?In The Dilemmas of Lenin, Ali provides an insightful portrait of Lenin's deepest preoccupations and underlines the clarity and vigour of his theoretical and political formulations. He concludes with an affecting account of Lenin's last two years, when he realized that "we knew nothing" and insisted that the revolution had to be renewed lest it wither and die.Trade ReviewReading this book on your vacation will make your life better and your mind broader. -- Branko MilanovicAli encourages the reader to take a fresh look at Lenin's choices in the context of a repressive autocracy, the poverty and misery of the bulk of the population under tsarism and the industrialised slaughter of the first world war. What underpins his book is the view that October was an "innocent and utopian birth" that was subsequently "twisted" into Stalinism by three devastating years of civil war. -- Daniel Beer * Guardian *A powerful tool for those wanting to understand the real Lenin and therefore the real politics behind those revolutionaries who fought so hard but ultimately failed in their goal. -- Lindsey German * Counterfire *[The Dilemmas of Lenin] aims to rescue Lenin from both liberal caricature and Soviet hagiography by recovering the realism and dynamism of his political thought. -- David Sessions * The New Republic *An incredibly powerful, panoramic, and insightful study of the central revolutionary figure of the twentieth century ... The Dilemmas of Lenin helps attentive readers comprehend something of what happened in history, the realities of our time, and how the future could unfold if we approach it with understanding and commitment. -- Paul Le Blanc * International Socialist Review *
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Verso Books Class, Race, and Marxism
Book SynopsisSeen as a key figure in the critical study of whiteness, US historian David Roediger has sometimes received criticism, and praise, alleging that he left Marxism behind in order to work on questions of identity. This volume collects his recent and new work implicitly and explicitly challenging such a view. In his historical studies of the intersections of race, settler colonialism, and slavery, in his major essay (with Elizabeth Esch) on race and the management of labour, in his detailing of the origins of critical studies of whiteness within Marxism, and in his reflections on the history of solidarity, Roediger argues that racial division is part of not only of the history of capitalism but also of the logic of capital.Trade ReviewDavid Roediger's work is always as learned as it is profoundly engaged with the pursuit of social justice. From his signature study of The Wages of Whiteness, to the analysis of links between settler colonial dispossession, gendered social reproduction, plantation management, and immigrant labor in the making of modern racial capitalism - Roediger's bold commitments to demonstrating the historical and ongoing imbrications of race and class in the United States are timely, and more necessary than ever. -- Lisa Lowe, author of The Intimacies of Four ContinentsOn Wages of Whiteness:The Celestine Prophecy of whiteness studies. * SPIN *On Wages of Whiteness:An extremely important and insightful book. * The Nation *On Seizing Freedom:Seizing Freedom persuasively documents theself-emancipation of the enslaved Black folk of the American South. A meticulously researched book, it offers close readings of verbal and visualtexts, unfailingly attentive to issues of race, gender, and labor coming together and falling apart. It brilliantly brings together disability studies, race in the Civil War, and the disappearance of the gold standard. A worthy supplement to Du Bois's Black Reconstruction. -- Gayatri Chakravorty SpivakOn Seizing Freedom:This sparkling book does more than merely restore and underscore the agency of bold worker-slaves in attempts to make the US democratic and free. It aims artfully at the underlying mechanisms of revolutionary transformation: imagination and solidarity, time, labor and the human body, gender, class and race. In Roediger's hands, these are neither dry nor overly abstract categories. The insurgent history of abolition gets resuscitated and used vividly to address a host of stalled contemporary debates and ossified styles of thought. -- Paul GilroyOn How Race Survived US History:A pithy little book ... Remind[s] us that whiteness was built over centuries on a foundation of deceit and confusion and disguised political imperatives. -- Kelefa Sanneh * The New Yorker * On How Race Survived US History:Starred Review. This rousing, thought-provoking history illuminates the enveloping 400-year-old history of race in America, and the issues [Roediger] raises are as relevant as ever. * Publishers Weekly *Excellent * Counterpunch *A wealth of interesting historical insights and a breath of fresh air for anyone who feels there is a space to be found between the caricatures that "Tumblr social justice warriors" and "old white men of the left" paint of each other. -- Nathan Akehurst * Morning Star *David Roediger wades into the fray with refreshing nuance and generosity. * In These Times *Roediger's book couldn't have appeared at a more timely moment. * Brooklyn Rail *A scintillating compilation...Roediger's book explains exactly why even the most sickening atavisms of racism are fully compatible with the capitalist order, with ramifications into the 21st century. -- Alan Wald * Against the Current *Roediger addresses the challenges that class and race continue to present for U.S. radicals ... should be required reading for anyone trying to understand the era of Trumpian politics. This is an important book, with lessons that some way wish to ignore, but at their peril. -- Working Class Studies Association C.L.R. James Award"Studying, understanding, struggling against, and ultimately replacing this centuries-old, foundational, and deep societal reality remains essential, as Roediger, a consistently pathbreaking historian, makes clear in these insightful essays." -- Monthly Review"Amid the cacophony of competing perspectives, David Roediger's Class, Race and Marxismnot only expertly evaluates the historical, theoretical, and political stakes of contemporary debates on race and class, but also significantly contributes to scholarship that "refus[es] to place race outside of the logic of capital"." -- The Black Scholar Journal
£12.99
Verso Books Salvage 12
Book SynopsisSummer 2022 issue of Salvage, featuring Richard Seymour, Stuart Hall, Sita Balani, and Sophie LewisA Ceaseless Storm includes an essay on Stuart Hall by Richard Seymour, and an essay by Stuart Hall on Marxism, Sita Balani on the nuclear family, Anne Rumberger on the evangelical anti-abortion movement, Robert Knox on conservatives selectively venerating institutions, Jamie Allinson on counter-revolution, Nadia Bou Ali on Lebanon, Brendan O’Connor on abolition and the state, Oliver Eagleton on Keir Starmer, and Sophie Lewis on abortion and bodily autonomy.With poetry by Mira Mattar and fiction by Anka Dabrowska.
£17.95
Verso Books The Communist Manifesto / The April Theses
Book SynopsisIt was the 1917 Russian Revolution that transformed the scale of the Communist Manifesto, making it the key text for socialists everywhere. On the centenary of this upheaval, this volume pairs Marx and Engels's most famous work with Lenin's own revolutionary manifesto, "The April Theses," which lifts politics from the level of everyday banalities to become an art-form.The Communist Manifesto"Oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes."The Communist Manifesto is the most influential political text ever written-few other calls to action have stirred and changed the world. Now, in the wake of a punishing financial crisis, in a world built on regimes of permanent austerity, each rife with horrific disparities in wealth, this short book remains a reference point for those trying to understand the transformations being wrought by capitalism and its concomitant forms of exploitation.This centenary edition includes a new introduction by Tariq Ali, contextualizing the period-the eve of the 1848 revolutions-in which Marx and Engels penned their masterpiece and argues that it desperately needs a successor."The April Theses""The chain breaks first at its weakest link."In Lenin's "April Theses," written in 1917, he presented his ten analytical maxims, outlining a programme to accelerate and complete the revolution that had begun in February of that year. Now, on the revolution's centenary, Verso presents them here alongside Lenin's 'Letters from Afar', written in exile that March and addressed to his comrades in Petrograd. In these missives, he offers advice and instruction to comrades pushing ahead with their ideals in the aftermath of the February revolution.The introduction by Tariq Ali traces The Communist Manifesto's influence on Lenin's "April Theses," the text that brought the manifesto to life and made it one of the most widely read books in history. For Lenin, writes Ali, it was the birth of imperialism, the legitimate offspring of capitalism, that signalled the end of the latter's "progressive capacities."Trade ReviewIt is still one of the most influential political documents ever written. * Guardian *
£999.99
Paths International Ltd China in the New Era: Interviews with Politicians
Book SynopsisFrom the perspective of China's new era by the former Communist Party and state leaders in the former Soviet region and Eastern Europe, this book examines China's political development. In the form of summaries and interviews, it shows how the former party and state leaders see the new era, reviews the history of relations with China. Meanwhile, the book makes an in-depth observation and reflection on the rapid changes and development of China and on the history, reality and future of socialism on a global level.
£107.10
