Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism

When Value and Naturalism in Marx was first published in English in 1979, recent controversies in socialist economic theory had been concentrated on the tenability or untenability of Marx's labour theory of value. Marco Lippi's provocative book accepts...

In this groundbreaking book, Katrina Schwartz examines the intersection of environmental politics, globalization, and national identity in a small East European country: modern-day Latvia. Based on extensive ethnographic research and lively discourse...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550655995Author Merrily WeisbordFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Vehicule PressPublisher Vehicule PressWeight(grams) 140g

From the perspective of China's new era by the former Communist Party and state leaders in the former Soviet region and Eastern Europe, this book examines China's political development. In the form of summaries and interviews, it shows how the former...

This is the first monograph in English on how China's agricultural collectivization began. In 1953, the Chinese Communist Party launched a system of agricultural collectivization to lean the countryside toward socialism. It led to the Utopian Commune...

Based on primary sources as well as personal contacts and interviews, this timely book examines the origin, evolution, and the role of the Communist party in Egypt. The picture painted of Egyptian domestic politics, especially of the differences among...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781442652309Author Professor of History Peter BrockFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto...

The Petrograd Workers in the Russian Revolution is a study of the Russian Revolutions of 1917 and of the first months of Soviet power as viewed and experienced 'from below'About the AuthorDavid Mandel, Ph.D. (1977), Columbia University, is a professor of...

This provocative book assesses the implications of a disturbing trend in U.S. security policy: an increased willingness to use military force as an instrument of diplomacy. In The Illusion of Control , Seyom Brown shows how U.S. officials are relying on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802061553Author Gad HorowitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams) 426g

BL With a new preface by the authors This is an important work of original scholarship by two of the most distinguished East European economists now working in the West. The authors, both of whom were involved in the Planning Office of the Polish...

Jose 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...

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...

This book evaluates the transformational process of left populism across grassroots, national and European levels and asks what we can do to harness the power of broad-based, popular left politics. While the right is using populist rhetoric to great...

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...

This is an entirely new collection of Lenin's writing. For the first time it brings together crucial shorter works, to show that Lenin held a life-long commitment to freedom and democracy. Le Blanc has written a comprehensive introduction, which gives an...

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

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...

Ever since the First World War, socialists have considered imperialism a calamity: responsible for militarism, economic stagnation, and assaults on democracy in the metropolitan countries, an impediment to economic and cultural development in the Third...

At the end of the English Civil War, Gerrard Winstanley and his comrades, known as Diggers, went to St. George's Hill, to farm the common land and to distribute the food for free amongst themselves. Winstanley's extraordinary writings from this period...

'An accessibly written distillation of two centuries worth of reproductive class struggle; a revived vision of revolutionary 'beloved community' for an age of climate catastrophe. Spread this book around, and start communizing care!' Sophie Lewis, author...

What's gone wrong with capitalism and how should governments respond? What does the future hold for the Left in the UK in the face of the austerity straitjacket around our politics and media? Anthony Crosland's The Future of Socialism (1956) provided a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853152125Author Karl MarxFormat HardbackPage Count 491Imprint Lawrence & Wishart LtdPublisher Lawrence & Wishart Ltd

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...

Based on many original documents, this book surveys Iranian political history from 1941 through 1957, focusing on the Tudeh Party: the only substantial left-wing organization in Iran during this period.Book InformationISBN 9780850366563Author Cosroe...

What would a viable free and democratic society look like? Poverty, exploitation, instability, hierarchy, subordination, environmental exhaustion, radical inequalities of wealth and power-it is not difficult to list capitalism's myriad injustices. But is...

What shape can radical politics take today in a time abandoned by the great revolutionary projects of the past? In light of recent uprisings around the world against the neoliberal capitalist order, Saul Newman argues that anarchism - or as he calls it...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911628682Author David FrancoisFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

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

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143037514Author Karl MarxFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Penguin BooksPublisher Penguin BooksWeight(grams) 100g

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,...

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...

In this major new book, Andre Gorz expands on the political implications of his prescient and influential Paths to Paradise and Critique of Economic Reason. Against the background of technological developments which have transformed the nature of work...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781491040966Author Joseph StalinFormat PaperbackPage Count 792Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

This collection is designed to answer the demands of students and socialists, teachers and interested readers, for a comprehensive critique of the major schools of European Marxism since the October Revolution. It is composed of a series of carefully...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781300029069Author Josip Broz TitoFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 195gDimensions(mm) 178mm * 108mm * 14mm