The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is the largest and one of the most powerful, political organizations in the world today, which has played a crucial role in initiating most of the major reforms of the past three decades in China.
First published in 1920, Paul Miliukov's book concerns the international nature of Bolshevism, both in terms of its ideologically internationalist doctrine of World Revolution and in terms of the attempts to spread Bolshevism in the period immediately preceding and following the First World War and the Russian revolution of October 1917.
In eleven incisive, biting essays, Marxist philosopher Darko Suvin suggests that "e;capitalism (and all of us in Leviathan's belly) stands today in the presence of Yeats's rough beast advancing toward Bethlehem, that finance capitalism is not simply a stage but a recurrent 'Autumn' signal of transition from one world regime of accumulation and domination to another; it signals the destruction of the old regime and creation of a 'new' one.
Considering the suspicions, jealousies, bigotry and greed inherent when a foreign power occupies another Golden Ghetto: How the Americans and French Fell In and Out of Love during the Cold War tells an improbable story.
The Nobel PrizeDwinning author's great anti-Bolshevik diary of the Russian Revolution, translated into English for the first time, with an Introduction and Notes by Thomas Gaiton Marullo.
In this provocative and now-classic work, Friedrich Engels explores the interrelated development of the family and the state from ancient society to the Victorian era.
Arrested in 1960 for being philosophically and religiously opposed to communism, Armando Valladares was interned at Cubas infamous Isla de Pinos Prison (from whose barred windows he watched the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion).
This volume analyzes two decisive factors that have become embedded in the world spread of capitalism, a shift toward dominance of the financial sector, now entailing massive greed and calling into question whether the 'rules' of capitalism have been broken, and of global wage differentials so deep that recognition of a labor aristocracy cannot be avoided.
First published in Italian in 1977, Mario Mieli's groundbreaking book is an early landmark of revolutionary queer theory - now available for the first time in a complete and unabridged English translation.
No other country and no other period has produced a tradition of major aesthetic debate to compare with that which unfolded in German culture from the 1930s to the 1950s.
Cet ouvrage se donne comme tâche une lecture de la troisième - et finale - partie du fameux essai de Georg Lukács, La réification et la conscience du prolétariat (1923) qui concerne le point de vue matérialiste, dialectique et révolutionnaire de la classe ouvrière sur l’être social-historique réifié de la société bourgeoise/capitaliste moderne.
Follow Peter Millar on a journey in the heart of Cold War Europe, from the carousing bars of 1970s Fleet Street to the East Berlin corner pub with its eclectic cast of characters who embodied the reality of living on the wrong side of the wall.
Foucault descalifica la sobredeterminación marxista del campo histórico y la equivalencia entre marxismo y proceso revolucionario que se proponía como dogma.
China's explosive transformation from a planned economy to a more market-oriented one over the past three decades owes much to the charismatic reformer Zhu Rongji.
Este libro propone un análisis del discurso kirchnerista (2003-2007) en relación con la memoria del pasado reciente: ¿de qué modos es evocado y representado el pasado, y en especial el imaginario de la militancia setentista, en ese discurso político?
El peronismo no compone una realidad palmaria que está allí, una sustancia histórica en el pasado ante la cual el pensamiento laborioso en los archivos se reconoce en su capacidad reflexiva.
This edited volume explores the past, present, and future of the Korean Peninsula, with special focus on South Korea, by connecting developments in politics with those in international relations and diplomacy.
This edited volume explores the past, present, and future of the Korean Peninsula, with special focus on South Korea, by connecting developments in politics with those in international relations and diplomacy.
This volume presents the way the discourse of memory and identity in the post-Soviet territory of Kaliningrad Oblast has altered over time, examining the ways in which politically motivated German myths about East Prussia, which emerged after the unification of Germany in 1871, were reused and adapted after 1991 and the role the region has played in wider memory policies of the Russian Federation, particularly since Vladimir Putin's third presidential term began in 2012.
This book, spanning the years 1954-1956, is the first in a four-part collection of documents from the archives of the Russian Federation's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Israel State Archives portraying relations between the Soviet Union and the State of Israel.
This book, spanning the years 1961-1964, is the third in a four-part collection of documents from the archives of the Russian Federation's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Israel State Archives portraying relations between the Soviet Union and the State of Israel.
En cette époque impérialiste moderne il faut revoir la politique prolétarienne sur la question nationale afin de la replacer dans une perspective de lutte des classes - la gauche a oublié que le prolétariat n'a pas de patrie et que les luttes de libération nationale bourgeoises n'entraîneront jamais de combat révolutionnaire des prolétaires pour ériger le mode de production communiste.
Témoin de son époque, Pierre Naville participe à tous les débats qui agitent la gauche révolutionnaire et le monde des lettres et des sciences de 1924 à nos jours.
Ce second tome porte sur l'économie politique communiste pensée comme une analyse de la signification du travail, comme une critique de l'aliénation et des différentes formes qu'elle peut revêtir dans l'espace économique et politique contemporain.
L'emprise technologique s'est accentuée avec la grande industrialisation du XVIIIe siècle, dominatrice et exploitant les personnes, les sociétés et la nature.
Témoin de son époque, Pierre Naville participe à tous les débats qui agitent la gauche révolutionnaire et le monde des lettres et des sciences de 1924 à nos jours.
La chute du mur de Berlin, en 1989, suivie de l'effondrement de plusieurs des régimes politiques qui se réclamaient du marxisme, a constitué pour plusieurs la faillite de la pensée de Marx.
Depuis l'accession des pays africains à l'indépendance, un grand débat se déroule en Afrique sur le thème suivant : le marxisme, élaboré en Europe au XIXe siècle par Karl Marx, est-il applicable à l'Afrique ?
