Left-of-centre democratic ideologies

I urge everyone to read this important new book.

Regimes of Capital in the Post-Digital Age provides a view of the current state of capitalism, through the interrogation of key diagnoses offered by philosophers and social theorists.

A behind-the-scenes look at how the United States aided the Velvet RevolutionDemocracy's Defenders offers a behind-the-scenes account of the little-known role played by the U.

Public Libraries and Marxism provides a Marxist analytical framework for understanding public libraries and presents a set of proposals for transforming the capitalist libraries of today.

Socialism Vanquished, Socialism Challenged examines the twenty-year aftermath of the 1989 assaults on established, state-sponsored socialism in the former Soviet bloc and in China.

The concept of predistribution is increasingly setting the agenda in progressive politics.

In recent decades, left political projects in the United States have taken a strong legalistic turn.

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It's no secret that "e;the 1%"e; - the business elite that commands the largest corporations and the connected network of public and private institutions- exercise enormous control over U.

Fifty-five years after its founding at the dawn of the cold war, North Korea remains a land of illusions.

The book focuses on the debate about myth as a counter-concept to contemporary scientific thinking.

Roger Garaudy was for many years at the centre of the French Communist Party but was eventually expelled for his liberal views.

What has happened to the European radical left after the collapse of the USSR?

An examination of the narrative strategies employed in the most dangerous book of the twentieth century and a reflection on totalitarian literature.

The first part of this fascinating book outlines the dreams of liberal economics and political scientists.

Against the grain is the first general history of the British far left to be published in the twenty-first century.

From longtime labor organizer Jane McAlevey, a vital call-to-arms in favor of unions, a key force capable of defending our democracyFor decades, racism, corporate greed, and a skewed political system have been eating away at the social and political fabric of the United States.

Back in 1997, New Labour came to power amid much talk of regenerating the inner cities left to rot under successive Conservative governments.

Die polemischen Schriften in diesem Band handeln von der vielschichtigen Beziehung zwischen Geschichte, Philosophie und Politik.

This volume in the Critical Theory and Contemporary Society series examines the role critical theory plays in today's political, social, and economic crises, showing how it can help to both diagnose and remedy such problems.

Herbert Daniel was a significant and complex figure in Brazilian leftist revolutionary politics and social activism from the mid-1960s until his death in 1992.

The third volume includes a range of pamphlets, lectures and other documents which help illustrate the intellectual and political activities and environment which shaped the British mainstream left of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Rarely as in the collection here can one encounter an essayist, novelist, historian, and political leader like the late C.

"e;Progress and Poverty is not so much a book as an event.

With capitalism vulnerable and out-of-step in the wake of financial crises this book investigates the alternatives that are on offerincluding socialism, anarchism, and deep ecology.

There has been little analysis of the forces that have contributed to the rise of radicalism in Canada, or to the organizations that subsequently resulted.

This book, first published in 1965, is a scrupulously fair study of the origins and evolution of Castroism and an assessment of the impact of the Cuban revolution and of Castro's subsequent domestic and foreign policies on the rest of Latin America.

An encyclopedic guide to 20th-century communism around the worldThe first book of its kind to appear since the end of the Cold War, this indispensable reference provides encyclopedic coverage of communism and its impact throughout the world in the 20th century.

In 1950, just five years after the end of World War II, Britain and America again went to war--this time to try and combat the spread of communism in East Asia following the invasion of South Korea by communist forces from the North.

"e;Easily the most comprehensive and useful work on American socialism, including its history, theories, and impact on life, culture, and economic and political parties in the United States, is as important a contribution as the essays.

For historians of the international labour movement, the decades before 1914 were the golden age of Marxist thought.

Across a range of disciplines, urban morphology has offered lenses through which we can read the city.

Provides a new way of thinking about parties formed by social movements, and their evolution over time.

This promising addition to the growing literature on the history of late socialism charts the development of youth culture and politics in socialist Yugoslavia, focusing on the 1980s.

Timely and unique, this innovative volume provides a critical examination of the role of civil society and its relation to the state throughout left-led Latin America.

The notion of social policy as a productive investment and a prerequisite for economic growth became a core feature in the ideology of Swedish social democracy, and a central component of the universalism of the Swedish welfare state.

This study is a comprehensive analysis of the Marxist debate in Japan over how capitalism developed in that country.

Die vielbändigen Werkausgaben, in denen die Schriften von Karl Marx und Friedrich Engels bisher publiziert wurden, belegen die beispiellose Produktivität der Begründer des Historischen Materialismus.

This volume describes the way in which the Fabian Society works, the distinctive contributions of individuals to that work, the structure they have built and the methods they have evolved to facilitate their labours.

Trotsky--brilliant publicist, enthusiastic speaker, organizer of the Red Army, eminent member of the Bolshevik Party during the first years of the Russian Revolution--has often been depicted as a romantic figure by biographers.

My great friend and author of 'Dark Agenda,' David Horowitz, is out with a new book, 'Final Battle: The Next Election Could Be the Last.

BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.

Maloy explores whether and how statecraft and democratic ways of thinking can be reconciled and combined.

This book offers a geneaological understanding of the condition of our time by reconstructing the complex story of the transition from the "e;cyclical time"e; of the classic era to the "e;linear and infuturant time"e; of the modern world.

*AGuardianBook of the Day*The defeat of socialist firebrand Jeremy Corbyn as Labour Leader in 2019 confirmed Tony Benns famous retort 'the Labour party has never been a socialist party, although there have always been socialists in it.

Die Wirtschaftskrise und all ihre Facetten haben das Grundverständnis der modernen Industriegesellschaft erschüttert.

Refusing Ecocide: From Fossil Capitalism to a Liveable World provides a critical analysis of the central role of fossil capitalism in causing climate change and argues that only alternatives based upon democratic eco-socialism can prevent the deepening of the climate crisis.

The political tradition loosely termed 'the left' has been brought to crisis point as the twentieth century draws to a close.

A study of the German minority in the Serbian Banat during World War II, its self-perception and its collaboration with the Nazis.