Far-left political ideologies and movements

Eleanor Marx is one of the most tragically overlooked feminist intellectuals in history, usually overshadowed by her father, Karl Marx.

In this ambitious and original study, Stathis Kouvelakis paints a rich panorama of the key intellectual and political figures in the effervescence of German thought before the 1848 revolutions.

Karl Marx has fascinated and inspired generations of radicals in the past 200 years.

Among the most influential political and social forces of the twentieth century, modern communism rests firmly on philosophical, political, and economic underpinnings developed by Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, later known as Lenin.

Really Existing Nationalisms challenges the conventional view that Marx and Engels lacked the theoretical resources needed to understand nationalism.

Skillfully deploying a large cast of characters, Sheehan retraces the development of Marxist philosophy of science through detailed and highly readable accounts of the debates that have characterized it.

Few terms are so widely used in the literature of international relations and political science, with so little agreement about their exact meaning, as hegemony.

Written in the white heat of revolutionary Russia's Civil War, Trotsky's Terrorism and Communism is one of the most potent defenses of revolutionary dictatorship.

These early philosophical writings underpinned the Chinese revolutions, and their clarion calls to insurrection remain some of the most stirring of all time.

Lenin's originality and importance as a revolutionary leader is most often associated with the seizure of power in 1917.

The basic discoveries underlying Marx's critique of political economy - labour power, surplus value, use value - are all in some way built upon the concept of need.

The Italian Communist Party was once one of the most powerful and vibrant parties of the West.

Christopher Caudwell's The Crisis in Physics is a stylish and readable analysis of the lines of connection between scientific theories and economic realities.

An attack on the idea that nature and society are impossible to distinguish from each otherIn a world careening towards climate chaos, nature is dead.

"e;If you didn't know whether to risk doing something, what's the worst that could happen?

An explosive analysis of the central strategic concepts in Gramsci's thought, as revelatory today as on first publication in New Left Review in 1976.

Today power is in the hands of Wall Street and Silicon Valley.

First published in 1951, this is both a personal narrative and forensic analysis of the methods employed by Stalin and the G.

Toward Soviet America is a book written by Communist Party, USA Chairman William Z.

The shocking and absorbing account of life in the hell of the Soviet Gulag system is told in all his horrific details here by Elinor Lipper.

The Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation explains the startling facts about the major menace of our time, communism: what it is, how it works, what its aims are, the real dangers it poses, and what loyal American citizens must know to protect their freedom.

General Alberto Bayo is possibly the one individual most responsible for Fidel Castro's military successes against the Batista regime.

This monograph examines the nature of operational art during the third and final phase of the Chinese Civil War, 1945-1949.

The Maoist-inspired Communist Party of the Philippines celebrated its 37th anniversary on December 2005.

The Classic text on Communist Guerrilla warfare includes an excellent introduction by Brigadier General Samuel Griffith USMC who was also the translator.

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Commissioned by Oliver Stone in 2015 to commemorate the Russian Revolution, Tariq Ali's captivating screenplay of the life and times of Vladimir Lenin puts flesh on the bones of the historical record and gets its pulse racing.

In today's globalised world, and after the collapse of Stalinism, what remains of Marx's 'the working class as the gravediggers of capitalism'?

A detailed look into the economic and political conditions of our present moment from a Marxist perspective.

The everyday of politics is the politics of the everyday.

The story of Greece's resistance to European domination past and present.

A historical study for the purpose of understanding today's world and finding a path to a better world tomorrow.

Located in the far-western Tarai region of Nepal, Kailali has been the site of dynamic social and political change in recent history.

Using Nietzsche's categories of monumentalist, antiquarian and critical history, the author examines the historical and theoretical contexts of the collapse of the GDR in 1989 and looks at the positive and negative legacies of the GDR for the PDS (the successor party to the East German Communists).

In Metaphilosophy, Henri Lefebvre works through the implications of Marx's revolutionary thought to consider philosophy's engagement with the world.

This influential collection of essays focuses on the elusive concept of "e;value,"e; and aims to answer the question "e;Why is Marx's theory of value so important?

The republication of Suzanne de Brunhoff's classic investigation into Karl Marx's conception of "e;the money commodity"e; shines light on commodities and their fetishism.

Raymond Chandler, a dazzling stylist and portrayer of American life, holds a unique place in literary history, straddling both pulp fiction and modernism.

Originally published in 1965, Reading Capital is a landmark of French thought and radical theory, reconstructing Western Marxism from its foundations.

In 1961, the prolific French intellectual Jean-Paul Sartre was invited to give a talk at the Gramsci Institute in Rome.

Germany in the mid 1920s, a place and time of looming turmoil, brought together Walter Benjamin-acclaimed critic and extraordinary literary theorist-and Bertolt Brecht, one of the twentieth century's most influential playwrights.

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.

An international bestseller, originally published in 1970, when Shulamith Firestone was just twenty-five years old, The Dialectic of Sex was the first book of the women's liberation movement to put forth a feminist theory of politics.

Since Plato, philosophers have dreamed of establishing a rational state ruled through the power of language.

Raymond Williams made a central contribution to the intellectual culture of the Left in the English-speaking world.

Althusser delivered these lectures on Rousseau's Discourse on the Origins of Inequality at the ,cole normale sup,rieure in Paris in 1972.

Reflecting on the fate of the Russian Revolution one hundred years after October, Ronald Grigor Suny-one of the world's leading historians of the period-explores the historiographical controversies over 1917, Stalinism, and the end of "e;Communism"e; and provides an assessment of the achievements, costs, losses and legacies of the choices made by Soviet leaders.

Written by one of political theory's leading thinkers, The Philosophy of Marx examines all the key areas of Marx's writings in their wider historical and theoretical context-including the concepts of class struggle, ideology, humanism, progress, determinism, commodity fetishism, and the state.

In 1923, a group of young radical German thinkers and intellectuals came together to at Victoria Alle 7, Frankfurt, determined to explain the workings of the modern world.