Far-left political ideologies and movements

In 1847, while in Brussels, the German Communist League asked Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx to draft a pamphlet on the principles of communism.

Until now the innumerable and widely distributed Soviet writings on the third world haven been scrutinized for the clues they contain on the Kremlin's aid, trade, and foreign policies, on Soviet strategies for local communist parties, and even on shifts in the Sino-Soviet Relationship.

The monolithic nature of the communist movement during the Stalinist period overlay pluralist tendencies.

Influenced by Kojève's interpretation of Hegel as well as his direct political experience of the second world war, Maurice Merleau-Ponty abandoned the religious and philosophical position he had assumed in the 1930s and turned to Marxism.

p>Over the last few decades, critical theory which examines issues of race and racism has flourished.

Over the last few decades, critical theory which examines issues of race and racism has flourished.

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.

The Marx Dictionary is a comprehensive and accessible guide to the world of Karl Marx.

New Economic Democracy establishes a self-governing civil society, unifying the private sphere of production and the public sphere of citizenship within a non-statist scheme of communal ownership.

Why has the European Left become so antagonistic towards Israel?

The Marx Dictionary is a comprehensive and accessible guide to the world of Karl Marx.

It is widely acknowledged that Karl Marx was one of the most original and influential thinkers of modern times.

Marx's influence is evident in a range of often incompatible and contradictory political movements and intellectual approaches.

Why has the European Left become so antagonistic towards Israel?

Marx's influence is evident in a range of often incompatible and contradictory political movements and intellectual approaches.

This book looks at the role nostalgia plays in the radical imagination to offer a new guide to the history and politics of the left.

This comparative survey of the secularization policies of the Soviet Union and China looks at the suppression, survival, and revival of religion in both countries.

This compelling, critical analysis of anti-communism illustrates the variety of anti-Communist styles and agendas, thereby making a persuasive case that the "e;threat"e; of domestic communism in Cold War America was vastly overblown.

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.

Im April 1968, zwei Jahre bevor sich die Rote Armee Fraktion gründet, wird Andreas Baader in Frankfurt festgenommen und zusammen mit Gudrun Ensslin, Thorwald Proll und Horst Söhnlein wegen eines nächtlichen Brandanschlags in zwei Kaufhäusern in Untersuchungshaft verbracht.

Gudrun Ensslin – Pastorentochter, Studienstiftlerin, Terroristin: Was sagen diese Schlagworte über die Person?

Winner of the 2010 W.

The second volume of the remarkable autobiography of Arthur Koestler, author of Darkness at Noon.

One of the most enduring dreams is of a Utopian society in which all possessions are held in common ownership, and there is never a quarrel over "e;mine"e; and "e;thine"e;.

The extraordinary and dramatic biography of the first modern feminist, who spent her entire life fighting for the principle of equality'Gripping .

The appearance of a hastily-constructed barbed wire entanglement through the heart of Berlin during the night of 12-13 August 1961 was both dramatic and unexpected.

The definitive biography of the playwright who become a president: Vaclav Havel, the final president of Czechoslovakia and the first president of the new Czech RepublicVaclav Havel is revered as one of the 20th-century's great playwrights, dissidents, and honest champions of democracy.

This book explores the various ways in which socialists have understood the relationship between their political beliefs and different religious and philosophical traditions.

Between 1970 and 1975 Jon Swain, the English journalist portrayed in David Puttnam's film, The Killing Fields, lived in the lands of the Mekong river.

For the first time, here is the extraordinary true story of one of the most powerful men, and ruthless dictators, who ever lived.

As part of its effort to expose Communist infiltration in the United States and eliminate Communist influence on movies, from 1947-1953 the House Committee on Un-American Activities subpoenaed hundreds of movie industry employees suspected of membership in the Communist Party.

Social Theory and Postcommunism undertakes a thorough study of the implications of post-communism for sociological theory.

The first comprehensive political history of the communist partyVanguard of the Revolution is a sweeping history of one of the most significant political institutions of the modern world.

It has long been assumed that the historical legacy of Soviet Communism would have an important effect on post-communist states.

Marx's Inferno reconstructs the major arguments of Karl Marx's Capital and inaugurates a completely new reading of a seminal classic.

The first book to trace the evolution of Russian politics from the Bolsheviks to PutinWhen the Soviet Union collapsed, many hoped that Russia's centuries-long history of autocratic rule might finally end.

Isaiah Berlin's intellectual biography of Karl Marx has long been recognized as one of the best concise accounts of the life and thought of the man who had, in Berlin's words, a more "e;direct, deliberate, and powerful"e; influence on mankind than any other nineteenth-century thinker.

A compelling look at the origins of British socialismThe Making of British Socialism provides a new interpretation of the emergence of British socialism in the late nineteenth century, demonstrating that it was not a working-class movement demanding state action, but a creative campaign of political hope promoting social justice, personal transformation, and radical democracy.

A compelling case for why it's time for socialismIs socialism desirable?

FULLY UPDATED'A fascinating and often violent odyssey, spanning more than 1,000 years of conflict and culture'INDEPENDENTFlat, fertile, and fatally tempting to invaders, for centuries Ukraine was fought over by more powerful neighbours.

A guide blending the history behind a U.

This book explores the various ways in which socialists have understood the relationship between their political beliefs and different religious and philosophical traditions.

First published in 1988, this books argues with received accounts to reclaim Brecht's emphasis on his self-described 'dialectical theatre', re-examining firstly the concepts of Gestus and Verfremdung and their realisation in Brecht's poetry in terms of his attempt to consciously apply the methods of dialectical materialism to art and cultural practice.

First published in 1988, this books argues with received accounts to reclaim Brecht's emphasis on his self-described 'dialectical theatre', re-examining firstly the concepts of Gestus and Verfremdung and their realisation in Brecht's poetry in terms of his attempt to consciously apply the methods of dialectical materialism to art and cultural practice.