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After the fall of the Soviet Union and its global empire, most observers assumed that the seventy-year argument that socialism was superior to capitalism was over. Socialism in its various formsーCo……続きを見る

Addressing the question of how neoliberal ideology has served to conflate the radical left with extremism, this book examines how the Arab left has asserted itself in the context of authoritarianism……続きを見る

The collapse of communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe was supposed to bring about the “end of history” with capitalism and liberal democracy achieving decisive victories. Europe would now……続きを見る

During World War I, in the period of the Red Scare, and throughout the Great Depression, the army's domestic spy agency mounted an extensive surveillance campaign focused on civilians and groups dee……続きを見る

The definitive history of the Cultural Revolution, Yang Jisheng's The World Turned Upside Down offers a withering and heartbreaking account of a devastating decade in Chinese history. As a major pol……続きを見る

Rudyard Kipling collected the short stories he had published in various magazines in the mid-1890s into "The Day’s Work", published in 1898. In "The Day's Work", Kipling uses a series of short stori……続きを見る

The complex and hard-fought movement for political freedom in India coincided with the rise of a wealthy capitalist class of Indian industrialists who had profited under British rule. By 1947, these……続きを見る

"Destined to become a classic" (Iris Chang, author of The Rape of Nanking), this harrowing memoir of life inside North Korea was the first account to emerge from the notoriously secretive country --……続きを見る

**From an award-winning cultural theorist, the classic work on the intricate relationship between longing and belonging “A remarkable book… brilliant.”ーNew York Times** Can one be nostalgic for the……続きを見る

Beijing presents a clear and gathering threat to Washington -- but not for the reasons you think. China's challenge to the West stems from its transformative brand of capitalism and an entirely diff……続きを見る

The implosion of the Soviet Union was the culmination of a gripping game played out between two men who intensely disliked each other and had different concepts for the future. Mikhail Gorbachev, a ……続きを見る

The year 1945 was a chaotic one, both for the world, of course, and for Winston Churchill. Communism was on the march and the people of Bulgaria, Romania, Yugoslavia, and Poland all found themselves……続きを見る

The early years of Bolshevik rule were marked by dynamic interaction between Russia and the West. These years of civil war in Russia were years when the West strove to understand the new communist r……続きを見る

"Most Americans first heard of Michael Harrington with the publication of The Other America, his seminal book on American poverty. Isserman expertly tracks Harrington's beginnings in the Catholic Wo……続きを見る

Learn the core principles of socialism -- one of the world's most misunderstood ideologies -- with this easy-to-follow guide for today's political conversation. From Bernie Sanders' presidential cam……続きを見る

This comprehensive collection draws upon and reengages with a long history of Marxian-anchored thought to analyze the potential for social transformation through a reinvigorated radical Left, all wi……続きを見る

Historians of political history are fascinated by the rise and fall of political parties and, for twentieth-century Britain, most obviously the rise of the Labour Party and the decline of the Libera……続きを見る

The Prison House of Alienation is an exploration ofthe humanist theme of alienation that Marx theorized in his Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844. It relates this theme of alienation with ……続きを見る

Sullo sfondo della Guerra Mondiale e del crollo della II Internazionale, quando dominano disorientamento, senso di vuoto e impotenza e sembra che nulla si possa fare per cambiare le cose, “proprio q……続きを見る

La filosofía frente al comunismo pone en escena la intensa labor intelectual que Alain Badiou, uno de los pensadores más destacados e influyentes de nuestra época, ha desplegado en los últimos años ……続きを見る

En ¿Qué fue de los intelectuales? Enzo Traverso plantea, desde el título mismo, la preocupante ausencia del intelectual en la escena contemporánea. Y reseña, en una formidable síntesis, la actitud c……続きを見る

Distintos partidos y referentes de ultraderecha ganan espacios tanto en Europa como en los Estados Unidos y América Latina, y cuesta articular respuestas efectivas a ese avance. ¿Qué hay de nuevo y ……続きを見る

Una vez superado el clima de antimarxismo dominante en los años ochenta y noventa, el Marx del siglo XXI quedó liberado de la pesada hipoteca de ser el "padre" de los comunismos reales del siglo XX.……続きを見る

El capital es la obra que consagra mundialmente a Marx, que conoce reediciones y traducciones en vida del autor y que será recomendada por la Internacional como la "biblia del proletariado". Y así c……続きを見る

Escrito en 1848 por dos revolucionarios de 28 y 30 años, olvidado o revitalizado según el momento histórico, el Manifiesto Comunista se irradió por todo el globo y se tradujo a todas las lenguas, ex……続きを見る

Questo volume ripercorre la penetrazione della figura di Nietzsche nella cultura socialista italiana di fine Ottocento e inizio Novecento attraverso l'elaborazione del «superuomo socialista». Proget……続きを見る

Compared with modes of representation such as literature, drama, poetry and dance, the world of sport has been largely neglected in postcolonial studies. At both local and global levels, however, sp……続きを見る

“The Conquest of Bread” is an 1892 work by Peter Kropotkin. Kropotkin outlines what he believes are the main problems with both feudalism and capitalism, and explains why they require and encourage ……続きを見る

This book comprises a fascinating discussion of the future of agriculture as conceived at the start of the twentieth century. It explores the advantages which societies could derive from a combinati……続きを見る

This vintage book contains Peter Kropotkin's 1886 address “The Place of Anarchism in Socialistic Evolution” on the subject of Anarchism. A passionate and scholarly discourse that deals with the real……続きを見る