Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism

A revealing exploration of political disruption and violence in a rural Chinese county during the Cultural RevolutionA Decade of Upheaval chronicles the surprising and dramatic political conflicts of a rural Chinese county over the course of the Cultural...

WHAT SHOULD THE LEFT AIM TO ACHIEVE TODAY? This book addresses the challenges facing socialists and the recent shift from protest to politics. It examines the limits and possibilities for class, party and state transformation and the democratic and...

Part of a definitive English-language edition, prepared in collaboration with the Institute of Marxism-Leninism in Moscow, which contains all the works of Marx and Engels, whether published in their lifetimes or since. The series includes their complete...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781720869139Author C James GreenFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

In this third volume of his definitive study of Karl Marx's political thought, Hal Draper examines how Marx, and Marxism, have dealt with the issue of dictatorship in relation to the revolutionary use of force and repression, particularly as this debate...

A history of the Communist (third) International, from its auspicious beginnings in 1919 as the centre of world revolution, its first five years as a school of strategy and tactics, through to its degeneration at the hands of the Stalinist bureaucracy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851244242Author Thomas SpenceFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Spokesman BooksPublisher Spokesman Books

Socialism 101 is a comprehensive and accessible guide to the historical and modern applications of socialism.In today's political climate, more and more presidential candidates are espousing socialist-or democratic socialist-policies. Once associated...

A crown jewel of New Left historiography, this overview of U.S. Marxism was hailed on its first publication for its nuanced storytelling, balance and incredible sweep.Brimming over with archival finds and buoyed by the recollections of witnesses and...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780900384165Author Vernon RichardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Freedom PressPublisher Freedom Press

In this concise but rich book, Syverson refutes the common notion that reality television is superficial or inauthentic, explaining how such criticisms fail to appreciate the way that we form social reality in the first place. By examining shows like The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578855455Author Frank ChapmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Freedom Road Socialist OrganizationPublisher Freedom Road Socialist...

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* Shortlisted for the Academy of British Cover Design Awards, 2015* Greece's recent political turmoil captured the imagination of the left across Europe. Elected in January 2015 under the leadership of Alexis Tsipras, the radical Syriza party sought...

When the world held its breath It is 25 years since the end of the Cold War, now a generation old. It began over 75 years ago, in 1944 long before the last shots of the Second World War had echoed across the wastelands of Eastern Europe with the brutal...

November 9, 2009, will mark twenty years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the monumental event that signalled the beginning of the end of Communism in the former Soviet Union. Why was this collapse of Communism considered final, while the many failures...

Ernest Mandel's book is a study of Eurocommunism unlike any other. Written in the polemical tradition of Trotsky, its sweep extends well beyond the immediate prospects of the Communist Parties of Western Europe. Mandel traces the long historical process...

In this study, distinguished international contributors project an 'open' Marxism - a rejection of the determinism and positivism which characterise so much of contemporary left-wing thought. Topics covered in the two volumes include Marxism and...

Evo Morales is one of the world's most controversial political leaders. His story is extraordinary: poor shepherd-boy, persecuted coca grower, self-professed admirer of Che Guevara, hero of the anti-globalization movement, and first indigenous president...

Part of a definitive English-language edition, prepared in collaboration with the Institute of Marxism-Leninism in Moscow, which contains all the works of Marx and Engels, whether published in their lifetimes or since. The series includes their complete...

The fall of the Berlin Wall sent shock waves around the world. It was, quite literally, a world-changing event. Now, more than two decades after the Wall's collapse, this book brings together leading authorities who offer a fresh look at how leaders in...

Over the last few decades Marta Harnecker has emerged as one of Latin America's most incisive socialist thinkers. In A World to Build, she grapples with the question that has bedeviled every movement for radical social change: how do you construct a new...

'The problem is not how to manage the capital system, but to get rid of it'. And who will do the job? These are the questions posed at the start of Cliff Slaughter's latest book. Recognising the importance of Istvan Meszaros's analysis - in Beyond...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853153863Author Antonio GramsciFormat PaperbackPage Count 393Imprint Lawrence & Wishart LtdPublisher Lawrence & Wishart Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780717800438Author Karl MarxFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint International Publishers Co Inc.,U.S.Publisher International Publishers Co Inc.,U.S...

When COVID-19 erupted from Wuhan, China under mysterious circumstances, the Communist Party of China covered up its existence for as long as possible. It is now apparent that there is more to COVID than what the authorities wish for us to know...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541252028Author John Stuart MillFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Part of a definitive English-language edition, prepared in collaboration with the Institute of Marxism-Leninism in Moscow, which contains all the works of Marx and Engels, whether published in their lifetimes or since. The series includes their complete...

Why has there been no viable, independent labor party in the United States? Many people assert "American exceptionalist" arguments, which state a lack of class-consciousness and union tradition among American workers is to blame. While the racial,...

Offering an in-depth interpretation of Sigmund Freud's 'collective' or 'social' works, Leon Rozitchner insists that the Left should consider the ways in which capitalism inscribes its power in the subject as the site for the verification of history...

Can Marxism emerge from the long shadow cast by Stalinism, and challenge capitalism? There is undoubtedly a growing interest in Marxism and socialism. Opinion polls show a majority that regard socialism as a real option. It is against this reality, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873489621Author Malcolm XFormat PaperbackPage Count 153Imprint Pathfinder Books LtdPublisher Pathfinder Books LtdWeight(grams) 200g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781902593562Author Anton PannekoekFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint AK PressPublisher AK PressWeight(grams) 359g

Considered by many to be the most innovative British Marxist writer of the twentieth century, Christopher Caudwell was killed in the Spanish Civil War at the age of 29. Although already a published writer of aeronautic texts and crime fiction, he was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999735527Author Justin HaskinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Henry Dearborn Institute for LibertyPublisher Henry Dearborn Institute for...

When Miroslav Krleza traveled through Russia for six months between the end of 1924 and the beginning of 1925, the celebrated Croatian writer was there to figure out what it all meant. The sprawling country was still coming to terms with the events of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781642591286Author Leo PanitchFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Haymarket BooksPublisher Haymarket Books

This book-length treatment of Gyorgy Lukacs' major achievement, his Marxist aesthetic theories. Working from the thirty-one volumes of Lukacs' works and twelve separately published essays, speeches, and interviews, Bela Kiralyfalvi provides a full and...

Though generally associated with the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci, the idea of hegemony had a crucial history in revolutionary Russia where it was used to conceptualise the dynamics of political and cultural leadership. Drawing on extensive archival...