Political Ideologies

The bastard step-child of Milton Friedman and Anthony Bourdain, Socialism Sucks is a bar-crawl through former, current, and wannabe socialist countries around the world. Free market economists Robert Lawson and Benjamin Powell travel to countries like...

An SS colonel goes underground at the end of WWII Eugen Dollmann was a scholar and member of the SS whose connections among Italian society led to a posting as a liaison officer attached to Mussolini during World War II. In his work as a diplomat and...

It is a little-known fact that during the Cold War, two U.S. Army Special Forces detachments were stationed far behind the Iron Curtain in West Berlin. The existence and missions of the two detachments were highly classified secrets.The massive armies of...

In Mortal Republic, prize-winning historian Edward J. Watts offers a new history of the fall of the Roman Republic that explains why Rome exchanged freedom for autocracy. For centuries, even as Rome grew into the Mediterranean's premier military and...

This major new text critically assesses the key political ideologies of the 20th century. The 1970s and 1980s witnessed a flowering of new and popular ideologies, such as feminism and ecologism, and a revival of others, notably liberalism. The upheavals...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781902593708Author Alexander BerkmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint AK PressPublisher AK PressWeight(grams) 327g

An expansive and ambitious intellectual history of democratic socialism from one of the world's leading intellectual historians and social ethicists The fallout from twenty years of neoliberal economic globalism has sparked a surge of interest in the...

The Italian Communist Party was once one of the most powerful and vibrant parties of the West. In this detailed and probing work, Lucio Magri, one of the towering intellectual figures of the Italian left, assesses the causes for its demise. The PCI...

The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was created in a surge of revolutionary self-determination that rejected both the free-market-Capitalism of Europe, and the bureaucratic-Socialism of the Soviet Union. Yet this early experimentation and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781728290225Author Clay CaneFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Sourcebooks, IncPublisher Sourcebooks, IncWeight(grams) 554gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 161mm *...

This book is a comprehensive, thematic examination of political values, political activity, voting, and public images of government within a cross-national context. The updated edition of this bestseller also explores how cultural issues, populism, Trump...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608467297Author Soma MarikFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Haymarket BooksPublisher Haymarket Books

In Disobedience and Democracy, the inimitable leftist thinker Howard Zinn lays out a clear and dynamic case for civil disobedience and protest as legitimate vehicles for social change. Zinn challenges the dominant arguments against forms of protest that...

For almost a decade, journalists and pundits have been asking why we don't see successful examples of political satire from conservatives or of opinion talk radio from liberals. This book turns that question on its head to argue that opinion talk is the...

Economic and cultural globalization and the worldwide threat of terrorism have contributed to the resurgence of patriotic loyalty in many parts of the world and made the issues it raises highly topical. This collection of new essays by philosophers and...

Democracy today is widely regarded as an ideal form of government. Yet in practice it sometimes seems a sham, a political puppet show in which hidden elites pull all the strings. As trust in elected representatives around the world plunges, it is no...

Esther Leslie's path-breaking study of Walter Benjamin is unlike any other book presently available in English on Benjamin, in seeking to make a case for a more politicised reading of Benjamin's oeuvre. In looking at the entirety of Benjamin's work -...

For years, the critique of capitalism was lost from public discourse; the very word "capitalism" sounded like a throwback to another era. Nothing could be further from the truth today. In this new intellectual atmosphere, Sociology, Capitalism,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307409591Author John DerbyshireFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Crown Publishing GroupPublisher Crown Publishing GroupWeight(grams)...

An authoritative introduction to history's most important political document, with the full text of The Communist Manifesto by Marx and Engels. This beautifully organised and presented edition of The Communist Manifesto is fully annotated, with clear...

Rethinking the central categories of Marx's work, this study provides a critical analysis of his political and theoretical development. By integrating the paradigm of the spatialisation of time with that of the temporalisation of space, Tomba shows that...

Foreign Fighters in Ukraine is the first comprehensive academic study taking an in-depth look at foreigners who have chosen to fight in the conflict in Ukraine. While there has been considerable focus in policy, security and academic circles on the...

A major work of interpretation and criticism, written over fifteen years by one of the foremost representatives of the European Marxist tradition. Rosdolsky investigates the relationship between various versions of Capital and explains the reasons for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945509353Author Seth KatzFormat PaperbackPage Count 20Imprint Silver SprocketPublisher Silver SprocketWeight(grams) 45gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 132mm * 5mm

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Democracy requires a connection to the 'will of the people'. What does that mean in a world of 'fake news', relentless advocacy, dialogue mostly among the like-minded, and massive spending to manipulate public opinion? What kind of opinion can the public...

Acclaimed journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hedges is one of the great moral voices of our age. He has the rare combination of decades of experience reporting from conflict zones in Central America, the Middle East, Africa, and the Balkans, and...

The idea of socialism is making a comeback, particularly among rising generations. Their interest is likely to prove transitory, however, if socialism ignores their yearning for individual autonomy. Why should "soloists" embrace socialism? In this highly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593489697Author Philip BumpFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Viking Press IncPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789354208829Author Leon TrotzkyFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Lector HousePublisher Lector HouseWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 5mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780670090310Author Vikram SampathFormat HardbackPage Count 712Imprint PenguinPublisher Penguin Random House IndiaWeight(grams) 1045gDimensions(mm) 240mm *...

A reprint of the Doubleday edition of 1967.The most comprehensive one-volume collection in English of Marx's early writings (1835-1847) on the nature of religion, freedom of the press, the relation of the state to democracy, the humanistic critique of...

with a new introduction by ERIC J. HOBSBAWM "Very usefully pulls the key passages from Gramsci's writings into one volume, which allows English-language readers an overall view of his work. Particularly valuable are the connections it draws across his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904491309Author Rob RayFormat PaperbackImprint Freedom PressPublisher Freedom Press

The Road Map to Nowhere is a devastating and timely book, essential to understanding the current state of the Israel/Palestine crisis and the propaganda that infects its coverage. Based on analysis of information in the mainstream Israeli media, it...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780902869356Author Neil FaulknerFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Resistance BooksPublisher Resistance Books

One of the greatest American presidents, Franklin Delano Roosevelt built a coalition of labour, ethnic, urban, low-income and African American voters that underwrote the Democratic Party's national ascendancy from the 1930s to the 1980s. Over his four...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629639635Author Ruth KinnaFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press

Around the world, populist movements are gaining traction among the white working class. Meanwhile, the professional elite--journalists, managers, and establishment politicians--is on the outside looking in, and left to argue over the reasons why. In...

Freudianism is a major icon in the history of ideas, independently rich and suggestive today both for psychoanalysis and for theories of language. It offers critical insights whose recognition demands a change in the manner in which the fundamental...