Far-left political ideologies and movements

The Soviet Union and Egypt, first published in 1993, sheds new light on Soviet policy towards the Middle East after 1945.

Written between 1857 and 1858, the Grundrisse is the first draft of Marx's critique of political economy and, thus, also the initial preparatory work on Capital.

Exploring the origins and development of the labour theory of value, Peter Dooley examines its emergence from the natural law philosopher of the sixteenth and seventeenth century and its domination of the classical school of economics.

Over the past decades, waves of political contention involving the use of information and communication technologies have swept across the globe.

This book is a collection of Sylvia Pankhurst's writing on her visits to North America in 1911-12.

Drawing on recently declassified material from Stalin’s personal archive in Moscow, this is the first attempt by scholars to systematically analyze the way Stalin interpreted and envisioned his world—both the Soviet system he was trying to build and its wider international context.

Nach der Auflösung der Sowjetunion 1991 durch die stalinistische Bürokratie sind trotz zahlreicher historischer Detailstudien weder der Charakter der Oktoberrevolution noch die Degeneration und das Scheitern des aus ihr hervorgegangenen Arbeiterstaates einer breiteren Öffentlichkeit klar, obwohl die Existenz der Sowjetunion die gesamte Geschichte des 20.

The academic debate in Western social science about the growing "e;convergence"e; or similarities between American and Soviet society acquired political significance in the diverse relationships that made up the global Cold War.

Marx's Grundrisse is acknowledged as the vital link between Marx's early and late work.

Interest in the study of Marx's thought has shown a revival in recent years, with a number of newly established academic societies, conferences, and journals dedicated to discussing his thought.

This new exploration of Marx as a Jewish thinker presents "e;a perceptive and fair-minded corrective to superficial treatments"e; of his life and work (Jonathan Rose, Wall Street Journal).

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Marxismus und Menschenrechte" verfügbar.

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.

This reissued work, first published in 1987, examines the problematic and divisive attitudes which bourgeois and socialist feminists take to the question of the links between patriarchy and capitalism and the importance of class conflict as a major cause of women's subordination.

Walter Benjamin was fascinated by the impact of new technology on culture, an interest that extended beyond his renowned critical essays.

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

In The Longing for Total Revolution: Philosophic Sources of Discontent from Rousseau to Marx and Nietzsche (1986), the eminent intellectual historian and political theorist Bernard Yack offered a sweeping reinterpretation of modern thought.

Nearly half a century after his death, Ernesto ';Che' Guevara remains a compelling and controversial figure.

Economists, historians and social scientists have offered a variety of conflicting answers to the issue of the beginnings of capitalism and these deviating answers imply different conceptualizations of what capitalism actually is.

The book analyses under what conditions was it possible to develop scientific atheism which was by the contemporaries in the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia understood not only as a branch of propaganda but as a specific scholarly discipline.

Soviet Literature in the Sixties (1965) examines the Soviet literary scene and its changes following the death of Stalin.

Constitutional Development in the USSR (1981) looks at the political institutions and practices of the Soviet state through the prism of its own constitutional texts.

An account and technical assessment of Marx''s economic analysis in Capital and other documents.

The Russian Workers' Republic (1921) is a result of the author's two-month travels through Soviet Russia.

This monograph focuses on the challenges that interwar regimes faced and how they coped with them in the aftermath of World War One, focusing especially on the failure to establish and stabilize democratic regimes, as well as on the fate of ethnic and religious minorities.

This book provides a comprehensive and in-depth survey of the foundational research orientations of contemporary Chinese Marxism.

'This book rests on a lifetime's thinking about history.

This is Laski's most important book after A Grammar of Politics.

Drawing on the work of Allan Schnaiberg, this book returns political economy to green criminology and examines how the expansion of capitalism shapes environmental law, crime and justice.

KONRAD FARNER (1903-1974), aus einer alten und gut situierten Zürcher Familie stammend, zählt zu den BEDEUTENDEN SCHWEIZER DENKERN.

This book examines the policy, ideology and politics of Xi Jinping, State President and General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and China's "e;ruler for life.

Although successive generations of the Frankfurt School have attempted to adapt Critical Theory to new circumstances, the work done by its founding members continues in the 21st century to unsettle conventional wisdom about culture, society and politics.

This book examines the fate of post-Soviet press freedom and media culture in the context of the growing impact of globalisation.

As fought in 1950s Berlin, the cold war was a many-headed monster.

This book offers a unique re-conceptualization of Marxism in bringing together leading scholars across disciplines - history, philosophy, economics, politics, sociology, and literary and culture studies - into one comprehensive corpus.

Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) is the most influential sociologist of our time.

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin visited London on six occasions at the beginning of the twentieth century and it was in this city, where Marx wrote Das Kapital, that the roots of Lenin's political thought took shape.

Advancing an intersectional theory of hegemony, this book shows how various power relations interact through capitalist structures of othering.

The Soviet Union and Cuba (1987) examines the thesis that Cuba acted as an extension of Soviet foreign policy or surrogate of the USSR in the Third World.

This book, first published in 1983, examines the significant economic reforms undergone by China following the death of Mao and the downfall of the Gang of Four.

Leadership Selection and Patron-Client Relations in the USSR and Yugoslavia (1983) examines the system of nomenklatura, the semi-secret network of quasi-bureaucratic rules and personal relationships through which careers in Soviet politics were managed.

Winner of the 2020 European Walter Benjamin Prize, The Revolution is the Emergency Break is a rich discussion of Walter Benjamin's lesser-known writings by renowned social scientist Michael Lowy.

This book, first published in 1992, provides a detailed analysis of the reform programme in post-Mao China.

This book asks why dominant political parties emerge in some authoritarian regimes, but not in others, focusing on Russia''s experience under Putin.