Political Ideologies

The far right is on the rise. The rhetoric of anger and resentment is emanating from personalities like Donald Trump, Marine Le Pen, Rodrigo Duterte and Viktor Orban and is captivating and mobilizing large numbers of people. In an increasing number of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583672457Author Harry E. VandenFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S.

The years since Karl Marx's death have seen the emergence of movements, organizations and governments declaring themselves to be "Marxist." How can we make sense of this development? This short book is an attempt to untangle these "Marxisms," to...

This volume offers the essential theoretical thought of the Austro-Marxist thinkers Otto Bauer, Max Adler, Karl Renner, Friedrich Adler, Rudolf Hilferding, and Otto Neurath over the span of their Austrian Social-Democratic careers, from the decades...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474454766Author David G. LewisFormat HardbackPage Count 334Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press

From the world's most repressive state comes rare good news: the escape to freedom of a small number of its people. It is a crime to leave North Korea. Yet increasing numbers of North Koreans dare to flee. They go first to neighboring China, which...

Toward the United Front is a record of the proceedings of the last congress of the Communist International in which Lenin participated, now at last available in English. Newly translated and richly annotated, it discloses a rich spectrum of viewpoints...

This book is a lively intellectual history of a small circle of thinkers, especially, but not solely, Harry Jaffa and Walter Berns, who challenged the "mainstream" liberal consensus of political science and history about how the American Founding should...

While the COVID-19 pandemic overshadowed all else and would quickly have a lasting impact on our daily lives, other events related to the radical right in 2020 soon surfaced. From terrorist attacks in Germany and India to anti-mask protests across the U...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583674437Author E P P ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S.Weight(grams)...

"Here, the treatment of pathologies-such as cancers or viruses-is considered as important as dismantling the causes of pathologies, including the social problems of debt, homelessness, police violence, and isolation. We must grasp how the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995503144Author David BoyleFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint RadixPublisher RadixWeight(grams) 336gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 15mm

Translating Anarchy tells the story of the anti-capitalist anti-authoritarians of Occupy Wall Street who strategically communicated their revolutionary politics to the public in a way that was both accessible and revolutionary. By "translating" their...

A smart take on the true meaning of the West, its recent decline, and our chance to save it. The West is limping along. Weighed down by economic woes, the seemingly endless war on terror, the rise of authoritarian politics and the declining power of...

The violent actions of a few extremists can alter the course of history, yet there persists a yawning gap between the potential impact of these individuals and what we understand about them. In Engineers of Jihad, Diego Gambetta and Steffen Hertog...

This book is the first to outline the history of the tactic of 'no platforming' at British universities since the 1970s, looking at more than four decades of student protest against racist and fascist figures on campus. The tactic of 'no platforming'...

Was October 1917 a coup d'etat or a social revolution? Writing as both a historian and political activist, Ernest Mandel vigorously reasserts the deep legitimacy of the Russian Revolution. He considers mistakes made by the Bolshevik leadership in 1917-21...

Now a quarter of a century after the opening of the archives in Berlin and Moscow, the role of the German Communist Party (KPD) has been the subject of a new wave of studies. With this book, this new field of scholarship will be available in English for...

The Catholic Church has long been one of the most important - but least understood - authorities on capitalism and democracy.For well over a century popes have offered profound reflections on the economic and political order in their social encyclicals -...

Available for the first time in English! Francesco Giubilei explores the most important people, places, and ideas of conservatism from a European perspective, from Edmund Burke to the modern day.About the AuthorFrancesco Giubilei is an author, publisher,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865971271Author Hippolyte TaineFormat PaperbackPage Count 1600Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 2940g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781902593906Author Iain McKayFormat PaperbackPage Count 555Imprint AK PressPublisher AK PressWeight(grams) 1282g

An Anthropology of Marxism offers Cedric Robinson's analysis of the history of communalism that has been claimed by Marx and Marxists. Suggesting that the socialist ideal was embedded both in Western and non-Western civilizations and cultures long before...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593296837Author Yascha MounkFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 202mm * 134mm *...

Karl Marx did not write Das Kapital for the bookshelves of economists and philosophers. It is economics for working people, from their viewpoint and history. It is the classic masterpiece of revolutionary working-class politics. Here, David Smith and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400052943Author Tammy BruceFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Three Rivers PressPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

The focus of Spectrum is the range of contemporary ideas that runs from conservative to liberal to radical conceptions of state and society, rarely considered in the same optic. It looks at the theories of major minds of the twentieth-century Right,...

If the question of communism is making a comeback today, this renewed interest is often accompanied by an abandonment of any concrete political perspective. Critical philosophies are flourishing and proliferating, but, folded into the academic terrain,...

Packaged in handsome, affordable trade editions, Clydesdale Classics is a new series of essential works. From the musings of intellectuals such as Thomas Paine in Common Sense to the striking personal narrative of Harriet Jacobs in Incidents in the Life...

The twentieth century, a time of profound disillusionment with nationalism, was also the great age of internationalism. To the twenty-first-century historian, the period from the late nineteenth century until the end of the Cold War is distinctive for...

Commissioned by Oliver Stone in 2015 to commemorate the Russian Revolution, Tariq Ali's captivating screenplay of the life and times of Vladimir Lenin puts flesh on the bones of the historical record and gets its pulse racing. From the author of The...

This title looks at the role nostalgia plays in the radical imagination to offer a new guide to the history and politics of the left. In "Left in the Past", Bonnett re-assesses the place of nostalgia within radical politics and, in doing so,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781137280039Author Edward LucasFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm)...

In Thick and Thin: Moral Argument at Home and Abroad, Michael Walzer revises and extends the arguments in his influential Spheres of Justice, framing his ideas about justice, social criticism, and national identity in light of the new political world...

Only in 1995 did the United States government officially reveal the existence of the super-secret Venona Project. For nearly fifty years American intelligence agents had been decoding thousands of Soviet messages, uncovering an enormous range of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604860412Author Andrej GrubacicFormat PaperbackPage Count 261Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 328g

The Germans and the Final Solution stand as the fullest assessment to date of the attitudes of the German public to the Nazi policy of antisemitism and its genocidal conclusion. David Bankier's pathbreaking work will be widely read by scholars and...

Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth century. From Kapital sprung the economic and political systems that at one time dominated half the earth and for nearly a century kept the world on the brink...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629631370Author Elliot LiuFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 148g