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Book SynopsisThis edition of the English translation of J. V. Stalin''s Works has been reproduced faithfully from the text of the English-based on the Russian edition-prepared by the Marx-Engels-Lenin Institute of the Central Committee, C.P.S.U. Iskra Books, the imprint of the Center for Communist Studies, has chosen to publish the full series of the Collected Works due to an academic scarcity of the materials, an increasing inaccessibility of used copies of the original Foreign Languages Publishing House editions of the 1950s, and a growing scholarly and practical interest in the writings and ideas of one of the Twentieth Century''s most impactful socialist heads of state. Stalin''s Works are both pedagogically accessible and theoretically important, and they deserve to be studied not only as world-historical and practical applications of the development of Marxist-Leninist political theory, but - especially in an era where the rise of hegemonic imperialism and the decay of capitalism lead to an increasing global fascism - also as political-theoretical texts in their own right; as the core theoretical works underpinning extant socialist state governance, policy, legislation, and practice.

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Book SynopsisThe victories and failures of millennial socialism, as told by the writer who lived it.Amber A''Lee Frost came to New York City from her home state of Indiana as a working class activist (and member of then-unknown Cold War hold-out, Democratic Socialists of America), just before the first major movement for economic justice of the millennium, Occupy Wall Street. Of course, Occupy went bust, then Bernie Sanders went boom, and she threw herself into the campaign with everything she had. Frost has been one of the foremost evangelists of labor and socialist politics ever since, as a writer, activist, former staff and lifetime member of DSA, and cohost of the wildly popular Chapo Trap House podcast.Dirtbag is the much-anticipated debut from one of the most engaging and insightful writers of her generation. This book is more than a political memoir; it is a chapter in the story of the only movement that has a chance to reshape our world into something

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Book SynopsisPeadar Kirby is Emeritus Professor of International Politics and Public Policy and Director of the Institute for the Study of Knowledge in Society, at the University of Limerick, Ireland.Trade ReviewOur increasingly unstable world is not lacking contemporary examinations of the forces remaking it: the climate emergency, a crisis of economic and political legitimacy, technological transformation, and urgent debates over how we conceptualise our relationships to place, borders, social identities and each other. But few writers have been bold or skilful enough to pull these complex threads together and successfully anchor their analysis in the intellectual history of thinkers who can help us make sense of how we got here, and where we might be going next. In his vital and brilliant study of Karl Polanyi’s relevance in the 21st century, Peadar Kirby has not only achieved this but also sketched out the beginnings of the world we need to fight for. * Jack Shenker, journalist and author *Polanyi is the inspirational thinker, whose work grasps the zeitgeist of our times. His genius is recaptured in Professor Kirby’s magnificent book that will enthral readers in search of meanings and explanations for the disturbing state of the planet. * Fred Powell, Professor of Social Policy, University College Cork, Ireland *Peadar Kirby undertakes a new reading of Polanyi and discovers a fertile narrative to confront today’s manifold crises – the recovery of the public world. It provides a novel thread to guide us through and beyond this second ‘age of unprecedented transition’. * Ian Gough, Visiting Professor in CASE and Associate of GRI, London School of Economics and Emeritus Professor, University of Bath, UK *Kirby’s book must be read by Polanyi scholars, students, activists, journalists and policy makers. In analyzing the roots of contemporary crises, Peadar Kirby brings Karl Polanyi into conversation with critical contemporary thinkers, including Paul Mason, Wolfgang Streeck, Kate Raworth, Ian Gough, among others. Identifying this period as a Polanyi moment of unprecedented transition, for Kirby, Karl Polanyi is the inspiration for a new eco-social paradigm rooted in a diversity of citizen based initiatives around the world that will shape the contours of a new society and rescue humanity from crisis. * Marguerite Mendell, Distinguished Professor Emerita, School of Community and Public Affairs and Director of the Karl Polanyi Institute of Political Economy, Concordia University, Canada *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1: A world in transition Chapter 2: Understanding the crisis Chapter 3: Identifying root causes Chapter 4: Mapping a socialist future Chapter 5: Fictitious commodities: Land Chapter 6: Fictitious commodities: Labour Chapter 7: Fictitious commodities: Money Chapter 8: Towards a new public philosophy Chapter 9: Beyond market society Bibliography Index

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Trade ReviewAlthough there have been earlier studies of Tawney’s life and thought that were broadly biographical in structure, Lawrence Goldman’s is the first to be based on a full examination of the surviving archives, including family papers hitherto closed to researchers. The resulting book is notably thorough, judicious and fair-minded. It is also – and this is something that can be said of all too few biographies – informed by a disciplined understanding of the main currents of the political, social and economic history that provided the setting for Tawney’s work. And, to his great credit, Goldman is not inclined to exaggerate his subject’s importance. -- Stefan Collini * Times Literary Supplement *Stopping far short of uncritical hero worship, this admiring portrait of Tawney as educator, socialist, public servant and historian nonetheless does full justice to a remarkable man -- R. C. Richardson, emeritus professor of History, University of Winchester, UK * The Times Higher Education Supplement *What emerges from Goldman’s study is a more rounded and multidimensional picture of Tawney the man than any we have previously had. -- Noel Thompson, University of Swansea, UK * American Historical Review *[Goldman] thoroughly researches Tawney’s life, using new materials, and with fine discrimination analyses every aspect of his thought ... In a brilliant concluding assessment, Goldman agrees that [Tawney] was “the most representative of Labour’s twentieth-century intellectuals”. -- Paul Crook, School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, The University of Queensland * Australian Journal of Politics and History *Goldman's careful scholarship and lucid prose are likely to ensure that this one becomes the definitive study. * English Historical Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Calcutta, Rugby, Oxford, Whitechapel 2. Courtship and Marriage 3. Workers' Education 4. The Somme 5. Reconstruction after the First World War: Coal 6. Tawney between the Wars 7. Socialism and Christianity 8. Education 9. History 10. London and Washington: The Second World War 11. Last Things: 1945-62 12. Conclusion: Politics, Reputation and Style Post Script: Tawney Fifty Years on Notes Illustrations Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisJose Carlos Mariategui is widely considered one of Latin America's greatest Marxist theoreticians and activists and remains nearly unknown in the English-speaking world. This collection of essays is an attempt to introduce the breadth and depth of Mariategui's thought to a new generation of English-speaking students of history, philosophy, literature, radical theory and practice.

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Book SynopsisTHE ELITES LOATHE THE IDEA THAT THE U.S. CONSTITUTION RESTS POWER IN THE HANDS OF THE PEOPLE.It has become a common observation that a pernicious agenda—sometimes called Progressive, “woke,” or “equity based”—has spread throughout American society. Every aspect of life and culture—from schooling, to television, to the workplace, and to sports—is now suffused with this program. The agenda has multiple overt aims, including the rectification of historical racial injustice by deconstructing legacy notions of merit and the value of work, now redefined as the values of white privilege. It seeks to undo segregated residential patterns by altering the political geography of the country, concentrating the population in dense urban areas, reversing “white flight” by eliminating the suburbs that have caused so much harm. It plans to undermine the traditional family structure by cultivating confusion about gender norms and sexuality among American children. It aims to end the system of punishment for violating the law by redefining crime and “reimagining” the function of the police in order to turn them into enforcement agents for socio-political standards rather than protectors of people and property. And it seeks to end the meaning of “America” as a nation by dissolving the difference between citizen and foreigner.These are all familiar tendencies in modern life—we hear people complain generally about them on social media or cable news all the time—even if we don’t necessarily connect them or see them as part of a unified, revolutionary effort to change America. Seth Barron’s WEAPONIZED proves exactly how the Left is waging war on the American people by attacking specific institutions of the American way of life, essentially sucking all power up the chain, away from the people and into the hands of a managerial, administrative class that has its own vision for the future of the country.This elite class wants control over everything. It is intolerable for them that any corner of American life is being run contrary in any way to the totalizing, even totalitarian, vision they have of our society. The elites loathe the idea that the U.S. Constitution rests power in the hands of the people, and that states and localities are reserved certain key rights. Our historical system enshrines self-rule—the principle that communities comprised of self-regulating subjects can govern themselves best—while the Left believes that the people who don’t live somewhere are the best equipped to set the rules there.This is a war against the sovereignty of the American people, and the hour is late.

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