Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism

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...

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...

On the centenary of the Russian Revolution of 1917, Mike Makin-Waite surveys the history of the communist movement, tracking its origins in the Enlightenment, and through nineteenth-century socialism to the emergence of Marxism and beyond. As we...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604863352Author George CaffentzisFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 379g

In The Labor of Job, the renowned Marxist political philosopher Antonio Negri develops an unorthodox interpretation of the Old Testament book of Job, a canonical text of Judeo-Christian thought. In the biblical narrative, the pious Job is made to suffer...

Here is a tasty paradox: How did the Leftist legions regroup after history delivered its fatal blow to the Soviet system? Simple, argues Jean-Francois Revel: the Left retreated to the impregnable fortress of the Utopian ideal. After all, socialism...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791449660Author Andrew FeenbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

Born in 1879, Eugen Varga became the most prominent Marxist economist in the Soviet Union, referred to as 'Stalin's economist.' As the official theorist of the early USSR, Varga was easily one of the most influential economists of the 20th century, yet...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781505684513Author V I LeninFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

A study of Communism and a history of the myth of Communism as perpetuated by its admirers. Francois Furet illuminates how the support for Communism and its embodiment, the Soviet Union, became virtually synonymous with "anti-Fascism" and how this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782491251123Author Karl MarxFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Les Prairies NumeriquesPublisher Les Prairies NumeriquesWeight(grams) 50gDimensions(mm)...

The theory of imperialism is primarily associated with the most prominent figures in the history of European Marxism. However, the theory was actually developed through engaged debates within the Second International from 1898-1916. This volume assembles...

Twenty years after the demise of the Communist Party of Great Britain, eight former members, all of whom who stayed in the party until the bitter end, reflect here on some of the personal, political and cultural changes of the last twenty years. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629636405Author Nicolas WalterFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629630427Author Vernon RichardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 720Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press

Religion has always been an object of philosophical analysis and a platform for political practice. Philosophical thinking is unimaginable without its relation to religion, whether it negates or affirms the latter. Indeed, religion serves as a condition...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781642591347Author Greg AlboFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Haymarket BooksPublisher Haymarket Books

The Burning Forest is an empathetic, moving account of what drives indigenous peasants to support armed struggle despite severe state repression, including lives lost, homes and communities destroyed.Over the past decade, the heavily...

Very few authors have addressed the origins of capitalism in France as the emergence of a distinct form of historical society, premised on a new configuration of social power, rather than as an extension of commercial activities liberated from feudal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780902869738Author Alan ThornettFormat PaperbackPage Count 388Imprint I.M.G.PublicationsPublisher Resistance BooksWeight(grams) 543gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780902869714Author Ian ParkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Resistance BooksPublisher Resistance Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781900007337Author Alan WoodsFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Well Red PublicationsPublisher Well Red Publications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781900007337Author Alan WoodsFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Well Red PublicationsPublisher Well Red Publications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781843919919Author Philip HittiFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Hesperus Press LtdPublisher Hesperus Press LtdWeight(grams) 494gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Before seizing power the Nazi movement assembled an exceptionally broad social coalition of activists and supporters. Many were working class, but there remains considerable disagreement over the precise size and structure of this constituency and still...

The theory and practice of revolutionary social transformation, Bruce Brown argues, cannot rest content with the exclusive emphasis of traditional Marxism on world-historic processes and the struggle of the working classes for their collective...

This volume brings together Gramsci's writings on religion, education, science, philosophy and economic theory. The theme that links these writings is the investigation of ideology at its different levels, and the structures which embody and reproduce it...

No-one and nothing, not even the Congress of a Communist Party, can abolish the dictatorship of the proletariat. That is the most important conclusion of this book by Etienne Balibar. Balibar spells out his reasoning against the background of the 22nd...

These three essays by the independent German Marxist Karl Korsch offer expositions, often in polemical form, of basic Marxist ideas. Since they cover both sociology and economics, they are excellent guides for the student on the most introductory, though...

This collection of documents, sealed for years in Stalin's secret archives, gathers some of Karl Bernhardovich Radek's most important contributions to the early Soviet debates about China and its working-class. Radek (1885-1939) was the foremost Soviet...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780902869806Author Pierre FrankFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint I.M.G.PublicationsPublisher Resistance BooksWeight(grams) 266gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262533331Author Albrecht KoschorkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 178mm * 114mm * 6mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781494744335Author John Stuart MillFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

The fall of Communism has been an epoch-making event. The distinguished contributors to After the Fall explain to us the meaning of Communism's meteoric trajectory - and explore the rational grounds for socialist endeavour and commitment in a world which...

A panoramic account of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and its aftermath animated by the lives, ideas and experiences of workers, peasants, intellectuals, artists, and revolutionaries of diverse persuasions - October Song vividly narrates the triumphs of...

From Vacillation to Resolve tells the little-known story of the French Communist Party's role in the Resistance movement against the Nazis during World War II. Author Julian McPhillips Jr. researched this story and published it as his senior thesis at...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583679869Author Greg AlboFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint Monthly Review PressPublisher Monthly Review PressWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781490908427Author Joseph StalinFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Stephen Hanson traces the influence of the Marxist conception of time in Soviet politics from Lenin to Gorbachev. He argues that the history of Marxism and Leninism reveals an unsuccessful revolutionary effort to reorder the human relationship with time...