Political Ideologies

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780465098873Author Tamler SommersFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Basic Civitas BooksPublisher INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES USWeight(grams)...

American democratic capitalism is in danger. How can we save it?For its first two hundred years, the American economy exhibited truly impressive performance. The combination of democratically elected governments and a capitalist system worked, with...

By blending serious research with relevant contemporary examples, Our Political Nature casts important light on the ideological clashes that so dangerously divide and imperil our world today. It shows how political orientations arise from three clusters...

The climate crisis is the greatest existential threat humanity faces today. The need for a radical societal transformation in the interests of social justice and ecological sustainability has never been greater. But where can we turn to find systemic...

Throughout his career Stuart Hall engaged with Marxism in varying ways, actively rethinking it to address the political and cultural exigencies of the moment. This collection of Hall's key writings on Marxism surveys the questions central to his...

This history of the Palestinian Communist Party upends the caricature of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as an ancient religious blood feud. Musa Budeiri is a Palestinian political scientist, professor at al-Quds University in Jerusalem. Here, he shows...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804510254Author Kevin WrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250307774Author Heather Mac DonaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams)...

After decades of occupation and creeping annexation, the situation on the ground in Palestine/Israel can only be described as a system of apartheid. Peace efforts have failed because of one, inconvenient truth: the Israeli maximum on offer does not meet...

Between the winter of 1936 and the autumn of 1938, approximately three quarters of a million Soviet citizens were subject to summary execution. More than a million others were sentenced to lengthy terms in labour camps. Commonly known as 'Stalin's Great...

A BBC History Magazine Best Book of the YearA Foreign Affairs Best Book of the YearThe history the Chinese Communist Party has tried to erase: the dramatic political debates of the 1980s that could have put China on a path to greater openness.On a hike...

In 1908 Ellen Wilkinson, a fiery adolescent from a working-class family in Manchester, was "the only girl who talks in school debates." By midcentury, Wilkinson had helped found Britain's Communist Party, earned a seat in Parliament, and become a...

Karl Marx was the first theorist of global capitalism and remains perhaps its most trenchant critic. This clear and innovative book, from one of the leading contemporary experts on Marx's thought, gives us a fresh overview of his ideas by framing them...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648859369Author Josh NealFormat PaperbackPage Count 440Imprint Imperium PressPublisher Imperium PressWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 23mm

The East German Ministry for State Security stood for Stalinist oppression and all-encompassing surveillance. The "shield and sword of the party," it secured the rule of the Communist Party for more than forty years, and by the 1980s it had...

In the late 1950s Stuart Hall, Edward Thompson and Raymond Williams, among others, came together as part of a promising new political formulation, the New Left. The six years of the group's formal existence represents one of the richest and most exciting...

Why have Russians chosen unlimited autocracy throughout their history? Why is democracy unable to flourish in Russia? Russian Conservatism and Its Critics provides the first account of Russia's immemorial commitment to the theory and practice of...

Robert Nozick's Anarchy, State and Utopia is one of the works which dominates contemporary debate in political philosophy. Drawing on traditional assumptions associated with individualism and libertarianism, Nozick mounts a powerful argument for a...

Is socialism desirable? Is it even possible? In this concise book, one of the world's leading political philosophers presents with clarity and wit a compelling moral case for socialism and argues that the obstacles in its way are exaggerated. There are...

Originally written as a libretto for the Berlin State Opera, Elfriede Jelinek's rein GOLD reconstructs the events of Wagner's epic Ring cycle and extends them into the present day. Brunnhilde diagnoses Wotan, father of the gods, to be a victim of...

A sharp, funny, and engaging introduction to socialist ideas, movements, and solutions for a world in crisis.Now with 50% more socialism!Socialism...Seriously is a warm and witty introduction to the radical traditions of protest and politics that stretch...

"Schattenberg has done a service in rescuing the Brezhnev period from obscurity." The Morning Star "[Offers an] unparalleled examination of the Brezhnev papers." Literary Review Leonid Brezhnev was leader of the Soviet Union for eighteen years, a...

The Chinese Communist Party and China's Capitalist Revolution examines issues of political change and development in China. In the last 30 years China has experienced a profound political transformation and a degree of political progress but these are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781008973152Author Robert MichelsFormat PaperbackPage Count 482Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 148g

This study seeks to resolve the paradox of Hannah Arendt's ideas; that she intended her work to liberate and empower and to restore our capacity for concerted political action whilst at the same time developed a metaphor of "the social" as an alien, all...

Far-right populist politics have arrived in the mainstream. We are now witnessing the shameless normalization of a political discourse built around nationalism, xenophobia, racism, sexism, antisemitism and Islamophobia. But what does this change...

Winston Churchill spent his early childhood in Ireland, had close Irish relatives, and was himself much involved in Irish political issues for a large part of his career. He took Ireland very seriously - and not only because of its significance in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781898876908Author Tom BehanFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Bookmarks PublicationsPublisher Bookmarks PublicationsWeight(grams) 162g

The world is undergoing vast social, economic and political transformations. From the Arab Spring to the Occupy movement, it is clear that people are seeking out new forms of democracy. A new historical vista is opening before us. Democracy at Work is a...

In Europe today, staunchly nationalist parties such as France's National Front and the Austrian Freedom Party are identified as far-right movements, though supporters seldom embrace that label. More often, "far right" is pejorative, used by liberals to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781523095032Author Howard J. RossFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Berrett-Koehler PublishersPublisher Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781873176047Author Murray BookchinFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint AK PressPublisher AK PressWeight(grams) 426g

'Witty, rigorous, and as urgent as a fire alarm' Dorian Lynskey 'Cooly prosecutorial' Guardian Nobody meant for this to happen. Facebook didn't mean to facilitate a genocide. Twitter didn't want to be used to harass women. YouTube never...

"My aim is to get you to read a book by Karl Marx called Capital, Volume 1, and to read it on Marx's own terms."The biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression has generated a surge of interest in Marx's work in the effort to understand the...

"Belew's book helps explain how we got to today's alt right." Terry Gross, Fresh AirThe white power movement in America wants a revolution. Its soldiers are not lone wolves but highly organized cadres motivated by a coherent and deeply troubling...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781500133894Author Ernest UntermannFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Modernity has been defined by humanity's capacity for self-destruction. In this timely and explosive book, philosopher and YouTuber Jonas Ceika (aka Cuck Philosophy) re-invigorates socialism for the 21st century. Leaving behind its past associations...

During the Second World War the British infantry found itself lacking suitable transport to cope with the fast moving German Blitzkrieg tactics. Various stop-gap measures were introduced with mixed success but, with the pots-war nuclear biological and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911658030Author Dan SharpFormat HardbackPage Count 218Imprint Mortons Media GroupPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 959gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...