In the space of a single year, the largest country on Earth tore up three centuries of monarchy, briefly became the freest nation in the world, and then fell to a party of revolutionaries who promised bread, peace, and land — and delivered a civil war, a secret police, and a new kind of state that would shadow the entire twentieth century.
Written for a workers' congress in the tumultuous years before Europe's revolutions of 1848, this short, blazing pamphlet lays out a theory of history as class struggle and a direct call to action for the industrial workers of the world.
Dentro de los textos filosóficos del marxismo, entre lo que se pueden contar los "Manuscritos de economía y filosofía" y "El dieciocho Brumario de Luis Bonaparte" -ya en esta colección-, ocupa un lugar destacado "La ideología alemana" (1845-1847, aunque publicada por primera vez en 1932), obra en la que Karl Marx y Friedrich Engels sientan las bases del materialismo histórico en oposición a la filosofía de los jóvenes hegelianos.
La desigualdad creciente, la destrucción de las clases medias, el menosprecio por el medio ambiente, los retrocesos sociales hacen pensar que, efectivamente, hubo una lucha de clases que a la postre ¡HAN GANADO LOS RICOS!
'Lively and insightful' - The Times'Magnificent' - The Guardian'A masterly piece of scholarship, written like a political thriller' - The Irish Times'Superb .
No se trata de una historia de los pensadores socialistas y sus planteamientos (como una galería de las figuras grandes y pequeñas de esta concepción social); tampoco de un registro puntual de la repercusión que el ideario socialista ha tenido y tiene en la vida de los diferentes países, aunque no deja de aludir a ambos asuntos, en la medida en que ello es necesario para la exposición del tema central del texto.
No se trata de una historia de los pensadores socialistas y sus planteamientos (como una galería de las figuras grandes y pequeñas de esta concepción social); tampoco de un registro puntual de la repercusión que el ideario socialista ha tenido y tiene en la vida de los diferentes países, aunque no deja de aludir a ambos asuntos, en la medida en que ello es necesario para la exposición del tema central del texto.
A LitHub most anticipated book of 2025 It will become an underground classic New York Times A wonderful, loving, tenderly teasing and often moving portrait Standout Wall Street Journal An irresistibly smart and funny novel Jenny Offill, author of Weather, shortlisted for the Women s Prize For FictionRuth is raised in a snow globe of Christian communism, a world without private property, television, or tolerance for idle questions.
"e;Easily the most comprehensive and useful work on American socialism, including its history, theories, and impact on life, culture, and economic and political parties in the United States.
The political and ideological turmoil of the late 1960's stimulated among Anglo-American philosophers a new interest in applying moral philosophy to the problems of contemporary society, and a search for critical perspectives on Marx and Marxist thought.
This study, based largely on Chinese journals rarely available to Western scholars, explores the abrupt turnabout of Chinese views of the Soviet Union from condemnations of revisionism"e; to appreciation for problems common to both countries.
During the years that the German Social Democratic party organization was legally suppressed by the Socialist Law, the movement underwent a fundamental transformation in its relationship to the traditions of political democracy and socialist theory with which it began in the 1860's.
The author has "e;tried to understand the realities of Soviet society, drawing both upon a superb critical judgment and a warmly sympathetic human insight.
This study, based on an extensive program of interviewing former American, British, French, and Italian Communists, provides many answers to these questions and gives a convincing insight into the motivations, tensions, and loyalties of Party members.
Political scientists generally have been disposed to treat Italian Fascism--if not generic fascism--as an idiosyncratic episode in the special history of Europe.
In this collection of excerpts from the essential works of Hendrik de Man (1885-1953), Peter Dodge reinstates in historical consciousness this pioneer sociologist of the European socialist movement and of labor in industrial society.
In a period marked by growing fluidity between the West and the Communist nations, the role of revolution as an instrument of political and social change takes on an intense, possibly dangerous importance.
"e;Easily the most comprehensive and useful work on American socialism, including its history, theories, and impact on life, culture, and economic and political parties in the United States, is as important a contribution as the essays.
Judith Hallett illuminates a paradox of elite Roman society of the classical period: its members extolled female domesticity and imposed numerous formal constraints on women's public activity, but many women in Rome's leading families wielded substantial political and social influence.
A decade after the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China established their formidable alliance in 1950, escalating public disagreements between them broke the international communist movement apart.
For about eight months in 1968 Czechoslovakia underwent rapid and radical changes that were unparalleled in the history of communist reform; in the eight months that followed, those changes were dramatically reversed.
How socialist architects, planners, and contractors worked collectively to urbanize and develop the Global South during the Soviet eraIn the course of the Cold War, architects, planners, and construction companies from socialist Eastern Europe engaged in a vibrant collaboration with those in West Africa and the Middle East in order to bring modernization to the developing world.
De la mano de las derechas radicales, el pensamiento libertario se hizo un lugar en el sentido común global, y nombres como Murray Rothbard, Ayn Rand o Milton Friedman –antes reservados a especialistas y militantes– se han convertido en referencias corrientes.
Nearly two years before his powerful Communist Manifesto, Marx (1818-1883) co-wrote The German Ideology in 1845 with friend and collaborator Friedrich Engels expounding a new political worldview, including positions on materialism, labor, production, alienation, the expansion of capitalism, class conflict, revolution, and eventually communism.
Nearly two years before his powerful Communist Manifesto, Marx (1818-1883) co-wrote The German Ideology in 1845 with friend and collaborator Friedrich Engels expounding a new political worldview, including positions on materialism, labor, production, alienation, the expansion of capitalism, class conflict, revolution, and eventually communism.
Written in July 1955, Livio Maitan's 'Relations Between the Communist Vanguard and the Mass Movement' addresses the central problem of Marxist politics: how does a revolutionary organisation relate to the class it seeks to lead?
