Far-left political ideologies and movements

THE TIMES, THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND ECONOMIST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2016'Twice I missed my stop on the Tube reading this book.

Throughout history, some books have changed the world.

China's secret rulers are the elephant in the room.

The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (1884), was a provocative and profoundly influential critique of the Victorian nuclear family.

Vladimir Lenin created this hugely significant Marxist text to explain fully the inevitable flaws and destructive power of Capitalism: that it would lead unavoidably to imperialism, monopolies and colonialism.

Written during Karl Marx's brilliant career as a polemical journalist, these blazing pieces tackle subjects ranging from the strikes of angry British workers to insurrection in Europe, from the American Civil War to the misery of colonial rule in India, demonstrating the radical spirit and outrage at social injustice that would make him one of the most influential political philosophers of all time.

In July 1917, when the Provisional Government issued a warrant for his arrest, Lenin fled from Petrograd; later that year, the October Revolution swept him to supreme power.

A LANDMARK WORK OF POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY.

What caused the Russian Revolution?

Friedrich Engels is one of the most attractive and contradictory figures of the nineteenth century.

'A groundbreaking work of economic analysis.

Half a century after their deaths, the dictatorships of Stalin and Hitler still cast a long and terrible shadow over the modern world.

'An astonishing masterpiece .

What changes in China's modern military policy reveal about military organizations and strategySince the 1949 Communist Revolution, China has devised nine different military strategies, which the People's Liberation Army (PLA) calls "e;strategic guidelines.

'The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains.

Written during the winter of 1857-8, the Grundrisse was considered by Marx to be the first scientific elaboration of communist theory.

A trenchant defense of hierarchy in different spheres of our lives, from the personal to the politicalAll complex and large-scale societies are organized along certain hierarchies, but the concept of hierarchy has become almost taboo in the modern world.

On the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the epic story of an enormous apartment building where Communist true believers lived before their destructionThe House of Government is unlike any other book about the Russian Revolution and the Soviet experiment.

How the Chinese Communist Party maintains its power by both repressing and responding to its peopleSince 1949, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has maintained unrivaled control over the country, persisting even in the face of economic calamity, widespread social upheaval, and violence against its own people.

Over the past century, democracy spread around the world in turbulent bursts of change, sweeping across national borders in dramatic cascades of revolution and reform.

DiLorenzos book is a pleasure to read and should be put in the hands of every young person in this country - and elsewhere!

Wahrheit, Lüge & Vernunft - Über die Macht der ManipulationWir alle sind Fakten und Emotionen ausgesetzt und nicht immer sind die Grenze zwischen Wahrheit und Täuschung klartrennbar.

Ignite your mind with the revolutionary ideas that shaped the world.

Cuando el capitalismo pone en serios aprietos al planeta, volvemos la vista a Marx, redescubierto una y otra vez como el pensador que nos legó la crítica más penetrante y feraz.

Die Grenzen ungebremsten Wirtschaftswachstums wurden nach 1970 auch von der DDR-Opposition diskutiert.

';This is the book we've been waiting for!

This carefully crafted ebook: "e;This Misery of Boots (or Socialism Means Revolution) - The original unabridged edition"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.