I wrote this book for my niece, and I realized if I could help her understand, then I could reach out to other teens and youths of America to understand the dangers of socialism and how it can impact your life as an American.
In 1988, 19 year-old Jana Kandlova (aka Jane Benson) escaped from communist Czechoslovakia and came to the United States to live and thrive in a free country.
In the early decades of the twentieth century, tens of thousands of Yiddish speaking immigrants actively participated in the American Socialist and labor movement.
The bastard step-child of Milton Friedman and Anthony Bourdain, Socialism Sucks is a bar-crawl through former, current, and wannabe socialist countries around the world.
Schumpeter's Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy is perhaps the most important and influential book on the subject ever written This volume is the result of an effort to weld into a readable form the bulk of almost forty years' thought, observation and research on the subject of socialism.
AMERICAN DEMOCRACY IS AT RISKNo oneconservative or liberalshould be comfortable with a few Silicon Valleyoligarchs having a monopoly over the marketplace of ideas, and with it, democracy itself.
Presented at a time when fascism was a new and little-understood phenomenon, Zetkins work proposed a sweeping plan for the unity of all victims of capitalism in an ideological and political campaign against the fascist danger.
Using an analysis of imperialism and case studies of Syria, Iran, Iraq, Bosnia, Russia and Ukraine, Global Democracy and the Crisis of Anti-Imperialism shows that the purported anti-imperialism of many self-professed socialists amounts to explicit or implicit support for totalitarianism, fascism, Islamist theocracy and imperialism.
A panoramic account of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and its aftermath animated by the lives, ideas and experiences of workers, peasants, intellectuals, artists, and revolutionaries of diverse persuasions October Song vividly narrates the triumphs of those who struggled for a new society and created a revolutionary workers state.
Inside the rise of the political party, once subordinate to the IRA, that is on the brink of taking power in Ireland Sinn F in, long widely-regarded as the political wing of the Provisional IRA, is the most popular political party in both Northern Ireland and the Republic.
In this book you will find the following essays by anarchist Emma Goldman * Anarchism: What It Really Stands For * Minorities Versus Majorities * The Psychology of Political Violence * Prisons: A Social Crime and Failure * Patriotism: A Menace to Liberty * Francisco Ferrer and The Modern School * The Hypocrisy of Puritanism * The Traffic in Women * Woman Suffrage * The Tragedy of Woman's Emancipation * Marriage and Love * The Drama: A Powerful Dissimenator of Radical Thought
The idea of socialism has given normative grounding and orientation to the outrage over capitalism for more than 150 years, and yet today it seems to have lost much of its appeal.
The Everyday Nationalism of Workers upends common notions about how European nationalism is lived and experienced by ordinary people-and the bottom-up impact these everyday expressions of nationalism exert on institutionalized nationalism writ large.
In 1939, residents of a rural village near Chengdu watched as Lei Mingyuan, a member of a violent secret society known as the Gowned Brothers, executed his teenage daughter.
';Those who enjoyed Jeannette Walls's The Glass Castle will find much to admire' (Booklist, starred review) in this ';thoroughly engrossing' (The New York Times Book Review) memoir about a boy on the run with his mother, as she abducts him to Latin America in search of the revolution.
The prevailing view of Marx's early writings suggests that they comprise a set of disconnected works which share only the same author, that Marx was philosophically an idealist or Hegelian and politically a 'liberal' or 'democrat' throughout much of this period, and that he possessed no particular method of inquiry.
