Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789176372227Author Karl MarxFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint Chiron Academic PressPublisher Chiron Academic PressWeight(grams) 77gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

While Karl Marx's ideas remain influential in the social sciences, there is considerable disagreement and debate on the methodological principles that inform his work. Marx often aligned himself with both "scientific" and "dialectical" principles, at...

Bowling for Communism illuminates how civic life functioned in Leipzig, East Germany's second-largest city, on the eve of the 1989 revolution by exploring acts of "urban ingenuity" amid catastrophic urban decay. Andrew Demshuk profiles the creative...

Karl Kautsky was, for three decades before the First World War, the main authority on the intellectual heritage of Marx and Engels. His interpretation of Marx's Capital and the basic laws and contradictions of capitalism was the reference point for both...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851245843Author G. A. CohenFormat PaperbackPage Count 8Imprint Spokesman BooksPublisher Spokesman Books

In 1980, Polish workers astonished the world by demanding and winning an independent union with the right to strike, called Solidarity. It was the beginning of the end of the Soviet empire. Jack M. Bloom's Seeing Through the Eyes of the Polish Revolution...

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The re-publication of Karl Korsch's Karl Marx (originally published in 1938) makes available to a new generation of readers the most concise account of Karl Marx's thought by one of the major figures of 20th-century Western Marxism. It brings Marx's work...

This promising addition to the growing literature on the history of late socialism charts the development of youth culture and politics in socialist Yugoslavia, focusing on the 1980s. Rather than examining the 1980s as a mere prelude to the violent...

In Marx and the Commons, Luca Basso provides a detailed reconstruction of the late Marx's connection of the collective dimension of communism and the element of individual realisation. Through an original analysis of a vast range of Marx's writings -...

Spanish Marxism Versus Soviet Communism is the first historical study of the P.O.U.M. to appear in English. Drawing from his multi-volume work on the subject, which was published in Spanish and Catalan, Victor Alba has collaborated with Stephen Schwartz...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781468096996Author Enver HoxhaFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Three years before publication of the "Communist Manifesto" Karl Marx began work on a critique of a movement that was gaining popularity as a challenge to capitalism - nationalism, as put forth by the German economist Friedrich List. Long...

The historical studies presented here examine four ideologies Leninism, Trotskyism, anarchism, and anti-imperialism still with us, however different and diffuse in form. In approaching these critically across cases from Russia, Turkey, Spain and Bolivia,...

Cultures of Uneven and Combined Development represents an extraordinary contribution to our understanding of Leon Trotsky's concept of uneven and combined development. This groundbreaking collection brings together the work of scholars from both the...

Communist Parties in the Middle East: 100 Years of HistoryOne hundred years since the Russian Revolution, Communist parties have undergone great changes, in an evolution that has affected the entire Left and the social movements. Given that the impact of...

This book shows how the leaders of the USA, Soviet Union, Europe (East and West), and China viewed the world in the aftermath of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Newly available records reveal what political leaders thought of the shattering, and largely...

This book shows how the leaders of the USA, Soviet Union, Europe (East and West), and China viewed the world in the aftermath of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Newly available records reveal what political leaders thought of the shattering, and largely...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780902869509Author Neil FaulknerFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Resistance BooksPublisher Resistance BooksWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991030330Author Party for Socialism and LiberationFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Liberation MediaPublisher Liberation MediaWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781456455774Author Erich WollenbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

What does it mean to follow Marx? In this examination of Marx's methodology combined with specific applications on topics in political economy such as neo-Ricardian theory, analytical Marxism, the falling rate of profit, crisis-theory, monopoly-capital,...

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...

Wily Odysseus. Bold Achilles. Brave Hektor. Beautiful Helen of Troy. For centuries, people around the world have been fascinated by these figures and their tragic war as recounted in Homer's Iliad, long admired and studied as one of the foremost epic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781460985618Author Enver HoxhaFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

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 9780919618206Author Sam DolgoffFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Black Rose BooksPublisher Black Rose BooksWeight(grams) 316gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

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...

In this important contribution to political theory, Massimo Modonesi develops the thesis that a Marxist theory of political action can be developed from the notion of antagonism, defined as a distinctive feature of struggle and of the political...

This highly original case study, which adopts a material culture perspective, is unprecedented in social and cultural histories of the Soviet period and provides a unique window on social relations. The author demonstrates how Moisei Ginzburg's...

First published in 1987, Althusser, The Detour of Theory was widely received as the fullest account of its subject to date. Drawing on a wide range of hitherto untranslated material, it examined the political and intellectual contexts of Althusser's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940625393Author Zsuzsa SelyemFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Contra Mundum PressPublisher Contra Mundum PressWeight(grams) 186gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

When the world held its breath It is more than 25 years since the end of the Cold War. 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 Greek Civil...

First published in English in 1920, this work is a reissue of Karl Kautsky's seminal work dealing with the origins and history of the forces at work in revolutionary epochs, which offers pathbreaking insights on the development of civilisation. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780717806478Author Vladimir Ilich LeninFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint International Publishers Co Inc.,U.S.Publisher International Publishers Co Inc...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909639270Author Sean MatgamnaFormat PaperbackImprint Phoenix PressPublisher Phoenix Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909639270Author Sean MatgamnaFormat PaperbackImprint Phoenix PressPublisher Phoenix Press

An extraordinary new work by the leading Marxian philosopher of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, "The Challenge and Burden of Historical Time" represents a breakthrough in the development of socialist thought. It can be seen both as a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781898876984Author Frederick EngelsFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Bookmarks PublicationsPublisher Bookmarks PublicationsWeight(grams) 62g

In the 1980s, leading philosophers at Oxford, Chicago and UCLA undertook a controversial reassessment of Marxism using the techniques of analytical philosophy. The aim of these so-called "Non-Bullshit" Marxists was no less than the complete...