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Cambridge University Press Democratic Statecraft Political Realism and Popular Power
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Cambridge University Press The Socialist Response to Antisemitism in Imperial Germany
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Cambridge University Press Democratic Statecraft
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Cambridge University Press Community Anarchy and Liberty
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Cambridge University Press Community Anarchy and Liberty
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Cambridge University Press Alienation Marxs Conception of Man in a Capitalist Society Cambridge Studies in the History and Theory of Politics
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Cambridge University Press An Introduction to Karl Marx
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Cambridge University Press Analytical Foundations Marxian Thry
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Cambridge University Press Bernstein
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Cambridge University Press Bernstein
Book SynopsisA 1993 translation of Bernstein's famous and influential work. It will provide students with an accurate and unabridged edition of the classic defence of democratic socialism and the first significant critique of revolutionary Marxism from within the socialist movement.Trade Review"Its timely appearance gives students of political theory another reason to be thankful for this marvellous series of Cambridge Texts." Mark Garnett, Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsEditor's notes; Introduction; Principal events in Bernstein's life; Bibliographical note; Foreword; 1. The basic tenets of Marxist socialism; 2. Marxism and the Hegelian dialectic; 3. The economic development of modern society; 4. The tasks and the opportunities of social democracy; Conclusion; The final goal and the movement.
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Cambridge University Press Gramsci
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Cambridge University Press Marxism at Work
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Cambridge University Press The Transformation of European Social Democracy
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Cambridge University Press Kropotkin
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Cambridge University Press Transformation European Democracy Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
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Cambridge University Press The Victorian Christian Socialists
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Cambridge University Press Marxism and the Failure of Organised Socialism in Spain 1879 1936
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Cambridge University Press Democratic Ideas and the British Labour Movement 18801914
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Cambridge University Press Subversive Institutions
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Cambridge University Press Subversive Institutions
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Cambridge University Press Ecology and Historical Materialism
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Cambridge University Press Ecology and Historical Materialism
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Cambridge University Press Radicals in America
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Cambridge University Press The Currency of Socialism
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Cambridge University Press The Socialism of Fools
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Cambridge University Press The Socialist Response to Antisemitism in Imperial Germany
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Cambridge University Press Citizens and Saints
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Cambridge University Press Socialist Europe and Revolutionary Russia
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Cambridge University Press Marxism at Work
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Cambridge University Press Building Socialism
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Cambridge University Press Practical Social Democracy
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Cambridge University Press The End of Socialism
Book SynopsisThe End of Socialism explores the exact nature of the practical difficulties socialism faces and then examines the extent to which its moral ideals can, or should, guide policy nonetheless.Trade Review'Distinguishing between what socialism has meant 'in principle' and what it has meant 'in practice', James Otteson deftly dissects the key claims that underlie the resurgent reliance on the state in society. In doing so, he harks back to a pre-Marxist conception of 'socialism', finessing a narrow focus on state-owned enterprise. This debate - the real debate - over socialism is as old as Plato, and as new as tomorrow's newspaper. A serious treatment of a serious subject.' Michael Munger, Duke University'James Otteson is a very rare beast: he combines profound understanding with crystal-clear writing. This book is a devastating elucidation of the practical and theoretical difficulties that have caused the repeated failure of all systems of centralized planning, and socialism in particular.' Matt Ridley, author of The Rational Optimist'James Otteson has written a comprehensive challenge to the socialist ideal that will be of interest to anyone concerned with the moral claims and implications of what are essentially the two competing economic systems of the world: socialism and capitalism … The book is written for nonspecialists, but it nonetheless makes a powerful intellectual case that the moral values of socialism, which seem worthy in the abstract, lose their appeal when they are translated into public policy.' Bradley C. S. Watson, Journals of Market and MoralityTable of Contents1. What socialism and capitalism are; Part I. Socialism's Problems in Practice: 2. Knowledge and planning; 3. Knowledge: value, equality, and experts; 4. Knowledge and community; 5. The day-two problem; Part II. Socialism's Problems in Principle: 6. Economics and morality; 7. Respect and individuality; 8. Socialism's great mistake; 9. Prosperity; 10. Equality and freedom; 11. Fairness; Conclusion. Grapes sweet and sour.
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Cambridge University Press Socialist Planning
Book SynopsisSocialist planning played an enormous role in the economic and political history of the twentieth century. Beginning in the USSR it spread round the world. It influenced economic institutions and economic policy in countries as varied as Bulgaria, USA, China, Japan, India, Poland and France. How did it work? What were its weaknesses and strengths? What is its legacy for the twenty-first century? Now in its third edition, this textbook is fully updated to cover the findings of the period since the collapse of the USSR. It provides an overview of socialist planning, explains the underlying theory and its limitations, looks at its implementation in various sectors of the economy, and places developments in their historical context. A new chapter analyses how planning worked in the defence-industrial complex. This book is an ideal text for undergraduate and graduate students taking courses in comparative economic systems and twentieth-century economic history.Trade Review'Michael Ellman's book is a true classic, erudite, exhaustive and meticulously researched. Written by one of the leading authorities in the field, it remains the ultimate source on the theory and experience of socialist economic planning. Both students and fellow scholars will be pleased to see it brought up to date, incorporating what has been learned since the collapse of the USSR.' Stefan Hedlund, Research Director at the Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Uppsala University, Sweden'In the Great Depression of the 1930s many people concluded that socialist planning must be a better way to run the economy. But how did it really work - and how well did it work? No one has wider or deeper knowledge of its history than Michael Ellman. This revised edition of his classic Socialist Planning draws new archival revelations from Russia and Eastern Europe and recent lessons from China.' Mark Harrison, University of Warwick'If there was one professor from whom I learned a lot in my undergraduate, then it was Michael Ellman. He had deep knowledge about how the Soviet system actually worked. He taught me about its successes in eliminating illiteracy and reducing poverty, but above all about its failures. In some sense, learning about the problems of planned economy is the best way to understand the accomplishment of a market economy. This book takes stock of a lifelong scholarship analyzing the rise and collapse of the Soviet planning system. It is a must for anyone who is seriously interested in comparative economic systems in the twentieth century.' Coen Teulings, Montagu Burton Professor of Industrial Relations and Labour Economics, University of Cambridge'Clear, concise, and remarkably comprehensive, the book is written in a style that makes the complexity of the information accessible to inexperienced readers.' S. J. Linz, ChoiceTable of ContentsPreface to third edition; Abbreviations and glossary; Important dates; 1. The rise and fall of socialist planning; 2. The traditional model; 3. The reform process; 4. Planning the defence-industrial complex; 5. Investment planning; 6. Planning agriculture; 7. Planning labour and incomes; 8. Planning consumption; 9. Planning international trade; 10. An evaluation of socialist planning; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Antisemitism and the American Far Left
Book SynopsisStephen H. Norwood has written the first systematic study of the American far left's role in both propagating and combating antisemitism. This book covers Communists from 1920 onward, Trotskyists, the New Left and its black nationalist allies, and the contemporary remnants of the New Left. Professor Norwood analyzes the deficiencies of the American far left's explanations of Nazism and the Holocaust. He explores far left approaches to militant Islam, from condemnation of its fierce antisemitism in the 1930s to recent apologies for jihad. Norwood discusses the far left's use of long-standing theological and economic antisemitic stereotypes that the far right also embraced. The study analyzes the far left's antipathy to Jewish culture, as well as its occasional efforts to promote it. He considers how early Marxist and Bolshevik paradigms continued to shape American far left views of Jewish identity, Zionism, Israel, and antisemitism.Trade Review'If you've ever wondered why 'do-gooder' is a pejorative label, Stephen H. Norwood's new book, Antisemitism and the American Far Left will enlighten you.' Chicago Jewish Star'… [a] bracing new book …' Ronald Radosh, Commentary'Norwood's documentation provides a detailed and useful tool for understanding a[n] under-illuminated aspect of … US anti-Semitism …' Sina Arnold, translated from H-Soz-u-KultTable of Contents1. Promoting a socialism of fools: the new left's debt to the old left; 2. American communists' tangled responses to antisemitism and nazism, 1920–39; 3. World War II: the limits of American far left concern for European Jewry; 4. Assimilation abandoned: communist resistance to antisemitism and celebration of Jewish culture in the immediate postwar period; 5. 'Two, four, six, eight, we demand a Jewish state': American communist support for partition and the Jewish war of liberation, 1947–8; 6. 'Fiends in human form': taking conspiratorial antisemitism to a new level; 7. The Jewish question discarded: far left hostility to Jews and Israel, 1956–73; 8. Shaping the next generations: the persistence of far left antisemitism, 1973–2012.
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Cambridge University Press Inventing a Socialist Nation
Book SynopsisThis book shows how 'national' identity was invented in the German Democratic Republic and how citizens engaged with it, exposing the reasons why individuals found it hard to identify with the GDR and explaining how an apparently stable society fell apart with such ease when the revolution came.Trade ReviewReview of the hardback: 'East Germany's selective use of homeland culture in its reconstruction is illuminating.' Gareth Dale, The Times Higher Education SupplementReview of the hardback: 'This remarkable study deepens our understanding of how power functioned in the SED state and proves the explanatory value not just of its formal mechanisms of power, but also its cultural history. Not least owing to its comprehensive temporal range - from 1945 to 1990 - this study will provide a fruitful foundation for further work. The book is, moreover, written in the most lively prose.' Frankfurter Allgemeine ZeitungReview of the hardback: 'Palmowski has brilliantly captured the complexities of the GDR, including the juxtaposition of the combination of dictatorship and control of language against social development and subversion of language. He has written a remarkable book indeed.' Peter C. Caldwell, H-Net ReviewsTable of Contents1. Introduction; Part I. Socialism, Heimat, and the Construction of Identity: 2. Cultural renewal and national division, 1945–c.1958; 3. Trace of stones; Part II. Public and Private Transcripts: 4. Heimat and identity in the Honecker era; 5. Citizenship and participation in the local community - 'Join In!'; 6. Environmental destruction; Part III. Power, Practices and Meanings: 7. Social drama and the euphemization of power; 8. Cultural practices, Eigen-Sinn, and obfuscated meanings; Conclusion: from citizens to revolutionaries.
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OUP India Titos Secret Empire How the Maharaja of the
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University of Chicago Press Socialism and War Essays Documents Reviews
Book SynopsisThroughout the 20th century socialism and war have been intimately connected, the two world wars providing the impetus for a variety of socialist experiments. This volume in a series of works by Hayek, documents the evolution of his thought on socialism and war during the 1930s and 1940s.
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The University of Chicago Press Wrong Turnings How the Left Got Lost
Book SynopsisThe Left is in crisis. Despite global economic turbulence, left-wing political parties in many countries have failed to make progress in part because they have grown too ideologically fragmented. Today, the term Left is associated with state intervention and public ownership, but this has little in common with the original meaning of the term. What caused what we mean by the Left to change, and how has that hindered progress? With Wrong-Turnings, Geoffrey M. Hodgson tracks changes in the meaning of the Left and offers suggestions for how the Left might reclaim some of its core values. The term Left originated during the French Revolution, when revolutionaries sought to abolish the monarchy and privilege and to introduce a new society based on liberty, equality, fraternity, and universal rights. Over time, however, the meaning radically changed, especially through the influence of socialism and collectivism. Hodgson argues that the Left must rediscover its roots in the Enlightenment and
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Random House USA Inc The Communist Manifesto
Book SynopsisThe Communist Manifesto was first published in London in 1848 by two young men in their twenties, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, and its impact reverberated across the globe and through the next century. Foreshadowing globalization 150 years before it happened, the Manifesto brims with prescient insights into the crisis facing capitalism today. It is an essential read for anyone seeking to understand the modern political landscape. This edition includes a new introduction by the bestselling author of And the Weak Suffer What They Must? and Talking to My Daughter About the Economy, Yanis Varoufakis.
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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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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Politics of the New Centre
Book SynopsisEurope is entering a new political epoch. The centre--left, now in government in many EU countries, has struggled to modernize itself and is now defining the shape of politics for the future.Trade Review"Bodo Hombach had a major role in the reconstruction of leftist politics in Germany that led to the electoral victory of the Social Democractic Party in 1998. The history of German social democracy over the past two decades or so quite closely resembles that of the Labour Party in Britain and it isn't surprising that in The Politics of the New Centre the author makes considerable play with the changes initiated by New Labour in the UK. The ideas presented in this book give form and substance to the evolutuion of the debate about third way politics in the English-speaking world. This translation of Hombach's book is a welcome event. His work should provoke as much interest, and controversy, as it did on its initial appearance in Germany." Anthony Giddens, London School of Economics and Poltical Science.Table of ContentsPreface: Anthony Giddens. Introduction: Mark Leonard. Foreword to the Original German edition. 1. Breaking the Mould. 2. The Maxims of a Proactive State. 3. The Future of the Parties. 4. The Beginnings of a New Corporatism. 5. What Can We Learn From Others?. 6. New Paths to Growth and Full Employment. 7. Policies for a Proactive Society. Postscript: Gerhard Schröder. Appendix: The Third Way, Die Neue Mitte: Tony Blair and Gerhard Schröder. Index.
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University of British Columbia Press Rethinking the Spectacle
Book SynopsisDrawing on radical democratic theory and the ideas of political theorist Guy Debord, Rethinking the Spectacle examines the tension between spectacles and political agency in our digital society.Table of ContentsIntroduction1 The Spectacle in Theory: Debord’s Conception and Beyond2 Practical Implications: From the Situationist International to Autonomist Marxism3 Rethinking the Spectacle 1: Lessons from the Situationist International4 Rethinking the Spectacle 2: Toward a Radically Democratic Approach5 The Spectacular Politics of the 2011 Occupy MovementConclusionNotes; Bibliography; Index
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Rise of Abraham Cahan Jewish Encounters
Book SynopsisPart of the Jewish Encounters seriesThe first general-interest biography of the legendary editor of the Jewish Daily Forward, the newspaper of Yiddish-speaking immigrants that inspired, educated, and entertained millions of readers; helped redefine journalism during its golden age; and transformed American culture. Already a noted journalist writing for both English-language and Yiddish newspapers, Abraham Cahan founded the Yiddish daily in New York City in 1897. Over the next fifty years he turned it into a national newspaper that changed American politics and earned him the adulation of millions of Jewish immigrants and the friendship of the greatest newspapermen of his day, from Lincoln Steffens to H. L. Mencken. Cahan did more than cover the news. He led revolutionary reforms—spreading social democracy, organizing labor unions, battling communism, and assimilating immigrant Jews into American society, most notably via his groundbreaking a
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Hoover Institution Press,U.S. North Korea after KimIl Sung Continuity or Change
Book SynopsisInternational scholars debate the state of change or continuity in North Korea's post-Kim II Sung regime - shedding light on one of the world's most closed societies, its potential to adapt to post-cold war realities, and the prospects for a peaceful and stable Korean peninsula.
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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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Cengage Learning, Inc Cj
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PublicAffairs Russia Upside Down: An Exit Strategy for the
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