Left-of-centre democratic ideologies

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This volume is concerned with the re-evaluation and criticism of Capital itself.

David Lane outlines succinctly yet comprehensively the development and transformation of state socialism.

After the breakdown of socialist and communist systems in the East, it had become fashionable to declare the so-called "e;end of utopia"e; ("e;end of history,"e; "e;end of narratives"e;).

Marxism, one of the few philosophies that turned into an effective movement, not so long ago was the official ideology in one form or another of much of humanity.

Despite the fact that socialist parties have proved to be a major political force across the world, this has not been the case in Asian countries.

This book, first published in 1979, examines the little-studied forerunners of the Russian revolutionary movement - the Russian section of the First International.

In Internet for the People, leading tech writer Ben Tarnoff offers an answer.

This book examines the coming of age experiences of young men and women who became active in radical Left circles in 1960s England.

Moving past the conflation of state socialism with all socialist projects, this book opens up avenues for addressing socialist projects rooted in decolonial and antiracist politics.

As the centres of world capitalism struggle to overcome long-term stagnation and existential crisis, this book aims to recover the legacy of revolutions against capitalism and imperialism.

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.

Soviet Science (1936) gives information about the sort and conditions of research in Soviet scientific institutes in the 1930s.

Until recently, histories of women tended to be segregated from the larger historical context.

Social democracy is clearly at a dead end, but is it actually dead?

'ONE OF THE MOST OUTSTANDING, ORIGINAL INTELLECTUALS OF HIS GENERATION', Stuart Hall, author of The Hard Road to RenewalThe work of the pioneering historian Raphael Samuel opened up new vistas of historical enquiry.

How successful are social movements and left parties at achieving social and political change?

Although there is an established historiography on women's roles during the Spanish Civil War (1936-9), little has been written on Nationalist women in the Republican-held zones.

Whilst the Chinese Communist Party is one of the most powerful political institutions in the world, it is also one of the least understood, due to the party's secrecy and tight control over the archives, the press and the Internet.

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

Democratic Economic Planning presents a concrete proposal for how to organize, carry out, and integrate comprehensive annual economic planning, investment planning, and long-run development planning so as to maximize popular participation, distribute the burdens and benefits of economic activity fairly, achieve environmental sustainability, and use scarce productive resources efficiently.

How and why cities have become the predominant sites for revolutionary upheavals in the contemporary worldExamining the changing character of revolution around the world, The Revolutionary City focuses on the impact that the concentration of people, power, and wealth in cities exercises on revolutionary processes and outcomes.

The End of Social Inequality (1982) examines class and social stratification under state socialism and in particular in the Soviet Union.

This study evaluates how the ideology of Socialist Realism, developed by the Soviets in policies and the practices of art, has been influential in the Asia-Pacific region from 1917 until today.

This volume offers new perspectives on the appeal and profound cultural meaning of socialism over the past two centuries.

Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung' is a volume of selected statements taken from the speeches and writings by Mao Mao Tse-Tung, published from 1964 to 1976.

This edited collection reassesses East-Central European art by offering transnational perspectives on its regional or national histories, while also inserting the region into contemporary discussions of global issues.

Although the most pernicious consequences of the crisis have apparently abated, the long-term political repercussions remain unclear.

Nearly twenty years after the collapse of socialism, the countries of post-socialist Eastern Europe have experienced divergent trajectories of political development.

Ernest Mandel's book is a study of Eurocommunism unlike any other.

On the eve of the First World War, the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) was the largest and most powerful socialist party in the world.

This collection, originally published in 2007, offers a diachronic analytical study of new and alternative social movements in Spain from the democratic transition to the first decade of the 21st century, paying attention to anti-war mobilizations and the use of new technologies as a mobilizing resource.

Dialectical Materialism (1958) surveys the history of dialectical materialism from its Hegelian beginnings to the death of Stalin, and its sequel in the celebrated XXth Party Congress of the C.

On 1 July 2018, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador was elected as the next President of Mexico.

First published in 1983, this book is concerned with the prospects for socialist politics in contemporary Britain, in particular with the limitations of political analysis produced both by Marxist socialism and the non-Marxist socialism of the Labour left.

In this widely praised book, Vladislav Zubok argues that Western interpretations of the Cold War have erred by exaggerating either the Kremlin's pragmatism or its aggressiveness.

This book traces and analyzes the legislation and implementation of pension reforms in four Central, Eastern and Southeastern European countries: Croatia, Hungary, Poland and Slovenia.

The concept of a public sphere has traditionally been associated with urban spaces.

This is the first major historical study of Tanzania''s socialist experiment: the ujamaa villagization initiative of 1967–75.

This book offers the very first collaborative analysis of various conditions and aspects of developmental citizenship in China and its practical and ideological implications for Chinese post-socialism.

This book aims to unpack the core message of the Labour Church and question the accepted views of the movement by pursuing an alternative way of analysing its history, significance and meaning.

From the 1960s to the 1990s, seven members of the Quimpo family dedicated themselves to the anti-Marcos resistance in the Philippines, sometimes at profound personal cost.

This revelatory memoir from Britain's former Prime Minister offers vital insights into our extraordinary times.

Does socialism have a future in the world of the twenty-first century?

Why are socialists, communists and social democrats concerned with the distribution of wealth?

Freiheit, Gleichheit, ChatGPT: Wie Künstliche Intelligenz eine gerechtere Gesellschaft ermöglichen kannDieses Buch beleuchtet auf einzigartige Weise die Chancen und Risiken moderner Technologien im Kontext sozialistischer Ideale.

This comprehensive handbook examines relationships between religion, politics and ideology, with a focus on several world religions - Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism and Judaism - in a variety of contexts, regions and countries.

Within many societies across the world, new social and political movements have sprung up that either challenge formal parliamentary structures of democracy and participation, or work within them and, in the process, fundamentally alter the ideological content of democratic potentials.