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Today 700 million Chinese citizens-more than fifty-four percent of the population-live in cities.

Jose Carlos Mariategui (1894-1930) is widely recognized across Latin America as one of the most important and innovative Marxist thinkers of the twentieth century.

Originally published in 1983 Approaches to Welfare provides a unique introduction to the study of social welfare in Britain.

Following the break-up of the Soviet Union, Marx was regarded as a thinker doomed to oblivion about whom everything had already been said and written.

This book elaborates an empirical approach to the study of historical legacies of communism, revolving around relationships and mechanisms rather than correlation and outward similarities.

First published in 1987, this is an analysis of the contemporary breakdown of political and economic systems within the Eastern European communist countries.

This book provides an intimate picture of international communism during the Spanish Civil War.

This second volume of the highly successful, A History of Marxian Economics, covers the period from 1929 to the present.

Postmodern Racial Dialectics is a collection of ten essays on African American philosophy.

Today's antisemitism is difficult to recognize because it does not come dressed in a Nazi uniform and it does not openly proclaim its hatred or fear of Jews.

In what is the first sustained analysis of Marx's attitude to the puzzle of the individual in history and society, this book, first published in 1990, challenges received views on the importance of class analysis and the place of a theory of human nature in Marx's thought.

Ernesto Laclau has blazed a unique trail in political theory and philosophy since the early 1970s.

Socialism 101 is a comprehensive and accessible guide to the historical and modern applications of socialism.

The essays and letters of Ervin Szabo (1877-1918) present proof of his critical insight into Marxist theory and of his perceptive analysis of socialism around the turn of the century.

This the first of a new three-part series in which Antonio Negri, a leading political thinker of our time, explores key ideas that have animated radical thought and examines some of the social and economic forces that are shaping our world today.

The Making of a Marxist Philosopher is a revealing and beautifully written memoir and family history from renowned Marxist philosopher Sean Sayers.

After the Second World War, two contrasting political movements became increasingly active in Italy - the communist and feminist movements.

In celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Paris Commune, leftist writers Olivier Besancenot and Michael Lowy offer a deeply informed, and eminently enjoyable, imagined history of what might have been if Karl Marx and his eldest daughter, Jenny, had travelled to Paris during the heady weeks of April 1871.

In this third decade of the 21st century, deep problems plague our world.

BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.

Reveals how the legacy of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union affects modern politics, society and economic development in post-Communist Russia.

Since the early 2000s, authoritarianism has risen as an increasingly powerful global phenomenon.

Georg Lukács stands as a towering figure in the areas of critical theory, literary criticism, aesthetics, ethical theory and the philosophy of Marxism and German Idealism.

First published in English in 1929, this is a reissue of Otto Ruhle's comprehensive biography of Karl Marx.

A portentous tale of rural rebellion unfolds in Bruce Gilley's moving chronicle of a village on the northern China plains during the post-1978 economic reform era.

Commonwealth and Independence in Post-Soviet Eurasia (1998) examines the various attempts to create new forms of integration by the new states of Eurasia.

How would Marx have understood twenty-first-century capitalism?

It is 2011, and all universities in North Korea have been shut down for an entire year, except for the all-male Pyongyang University of Science and Technology.

China and the Soviet Union, first published in 1950, is written by a Chinese former diplomat and university professor, and calls on his many years of experience to provide an even-handed analysis of Sino-Russian relations.

Examining the past, current, and potential future roles of the Communist Party in governing ChinaThe Chinese Communist Party and its polices touch nearly every aspect of life in China and dominate some.

First published in 1984, this study examines closely the shifting attitudes towards, and theories concerning, imperialism, from the colonial wars of the late nineteenth century to America's involvement in Vietnam.

'Two Romes have fallen.

Drawing upon a range of resources of critique (including critical realist social theory, realist international relations theory, the sociology of globalization, the Marxist critique of imperialism, and dependency theory), this book is an essential contribution to the critical understanding of nationalism and imperialism in the global age.

Despite a resurgence of interest in Lacanian psychoanalysis, particularly in terms of the light it casts on capitalist ideology-as witnessed by the work of Slavoj Zizek-there remain remarkably few systematic accounts of the role of Marx in Lacan's work.

This book, first published in 1935, examines the lives of seven revolutionary women: Charlotte Corday, Theroigne de Mericourt, Flora Tristan, Louise Michel, Vera Figner, Emma Goldman and Rosa Luxemburg.

Richard Wright's memoir of his childhood as a young black boy in the American south of the 1920s and 30s is a stark depiction of African-American life and a powerful exploration of racial tension.

Although the product of a self-proclaimed proletarian revolution, Soviet Russia was always dominated by an elite.

First published in 1941, Marxism: Is it Science?

Antonio Gramsci was an Italian Marxist thinker whose radical ideas on how to build an alternative world from below remain vigorously relevant today.

This book, originally published in 1940, is primarily intended to tell the English reader what is contained in the earlier works of Marx, with emphasis on what seemed to throw most light on the man and his systematic thought.

By linking building theory to the emancipatory project of critique advanced by radical thinkers in our time, this work investigates the key conceptual and historical elements that culminate in an emancipatory theory of building entitled: 'Toward a philosophy of shelter'.

American-Soviet Relations (1993) is a study of American policy towards the Soviet Union from 1917 to the fall of Communism.

The book offers an interdisciplinary qualitative study of the history of policing in Brazil and its colonial underpinnings, providing theoretical accounts of the relationship between biopolitics, space, and race, and post-colonial/decolonial work on the state, violence, and the production of disposable political subjects.