Left-of-centre democratic ideologies

French socialism traces its origins to the revolutionary communist Gracchus Babeuf (1760-1797) and for a time during the Second Republic socialists such as Louis Blanc, Etienne Canet, Victor Considerant, Jeanne Deroin, Pauline Roland, Blanqui, and Raspail occupied a prominent place in the attempt to create a reforming social democracy.

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).

This is the first in a five volume series that will collect much of trade unionist and Socialist Party founding father Eugene V.

Wall Street JournalBestseller| USA TodayBestsellerReally an interesting read, would make a great Christmas gift!

Wie wenige andere öffentliche Personen der Bundesrepublik verkörperte Peter Glotz den Typus des Parteiintellektuellen und politischen Intellektuellen in der deutschen Nachkriegsdemokratie.

German Social Democracy and the Rise of Nazism explores the failure of Germany's largest political party to stave off the Nazi threat to the Weimar republic.

This book is the first study of the mentality of anti-Communist underground fighters and presents, especially, their thinking, ideals, stereotypes and customs.

A new progressive generation is on the rise in the United States, reflected in the mushrooming rolls of the Democratic Socialists of America (90,000 mostly twentysomething members), Marxist explainers in Teen Vogue, and perhaps most famously of all, the youngest woman ever elected to Congress, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

The first detailed reconstruction of the late work of John Rawls, further developing his ideas of ''justice-as-fairness''.

Volume II offers a world-encompassing overview of movements and parties that wanted to promote social justice by social reform – the conquering and transforming of state power.

This book looks at contemporary political violence, in the form of jihadism, through the lens of a philosophical polemic between Hannah Arendt and Frantz Fanon: intellectual representatives of the global north and global south.

The crisis of the neoliberal order has resuscitated a political idea widely believed to be consigned to the dustbin of history.

In this classic exposition of Marxist thought, Raya Dunayevskaya, with clarity and great insight, traces the development and explains the essential features of Marx's analysis of history.

Examining the past, current, and potential future roles of the Communist Party in governing ChinaThe Chinese Communist Party and its polices touch nearly every aspect of life in China and dominate some.

The spectres of Marx and Lenin have long loomed prominently in Africa and Asia and they still do so in the 21st century.

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

This book explores the writings of Norberto Bobbio (1909-2004) who was Italy's foremost political, legal, and democratic theorist, a distinguished historian of political and legal ideas, and one of the country's most perceptive public intellectuals throughout the second half of the twentieth century in Europe.

The Soviet Intelligentsia (1973) is a valuable study of the composition and structure of the Soviet intelligentsia during the 1960s.

This book, first published in 1935, examines the lives of seven revolutionary women: Charlotte Corday, Theroigne de Mericourt, Flora Tristan, Louise Michel, Vera Figner, Emma Goldman and Rosa Luxemburg.

Decades of Western Cold War propaganda were designed to depict socialism as inimical to genuine aesthetic acheivement.

Why has Europe's centre-left failed to respond to the crisis of neoliberalism in Europe?

We are constantly told that New Labour forms an historic departure from the traditions of the Labour Party.

Based on documents collected in six European countries, European Socialists Respond to Fascism: Ideology, Activism and Contingency in the 1930s is a transnational study of largely parallel developments in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, and Spain in the years 1933-1936.

This book sets forth a clear and systematic approach to Marx's thought that finally makes possible a coherent interpretation of all of his published works.

Robert Owen (1771-1858) was the founder of British socialism, and one of the most influential reformers in Britain and America in the first half of the 19th century.

First published in 1981 The Italian Communist Party looks at the debate within the party and how its strategy was forged.

The Brown Government provides an interim evaluation of Gordon Brown's Labour administration through identifying continuities and discontinuities with the Blair governments from 1997.

This book focuses on an important but neglected aspect of the Spanish Civil War, the evolution of medical and surgical care of the wounded during the conflict.

Garish churches, gabled panel blocks, neo-historical tenements-this book is about these and other architectural oddities that emerged in Poland between 1975 and 1989, a period characterised by the decline of the authoritarian socialist regime and waves of political protest.

This book focuses on an important but neglected aspect of the Spanish Civil War, the evolution of medical and surgical care of the wounded during the conflict.

For over twenty-five years Noam Chomsky's prolific political intervention has enlightened and inspired radicals while enraging their opponents in the halls of power.

What configuration of institutions and policies is most conducive to human flourishing?

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.

This volume is the first to contain all of Rosa Luxemburg's eloquent writings on the 1917 Russian and 1918-19 German revolutions.

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

Almost 80 years after Leon Trotsky founded the Fourth International, there are now Trotskyist organizations in 57 countries, including most of Western Europe and Latin America.

Vincent Oliver Erickson gibt eine Zusammenschau der sozialen, kulturellen, religiösen, politischen und wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung Ostfrieslands bis 1964 am Beispiel Pewsum in der Krummhörn.

';Dalla Costa shows that with the New Deal, the state began to plan the ';social factory'that is, the home, the family, the school, and above all women's labor, on which the productivity and pacification of industrial relations was made to rest.

This study examines the spread of socialism in late-Victorian and Edwardian Wales, paying particular attention to the relationship between socialism and Welsh national identity.

'THE POLITICAL BOOK OF THE YEAR' Tim ShipmanA blistering narrative expos of infighting, skulduggery and chaos in Corbyn's Labour party, now revised and updated.

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.

An intellectual who did not like intellectuals, a socialist who did not trust the state, a writer of the left who found it easier to forgive writers of the right, a liberal who was against free markets, a Protestant who believed in religion but not in God, a fierce opponent of nationalism who defined Englishness for a generation.

Eight of the nine pieces in The Sense of Reality are published here for the first time.

GUARDIAN AND NEW STATESMAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017**Winner of best memoir at the Parliamentary Book Awards**'Compelling .

The United States today cries out for a robust, self-respecting, intellectually sophisticated left, yet the very idea of a left appears to have been discredited.

Originally published as a pamphlet in 1979 and again by Pluto in 1980, In and Against the State brought together questions of working-class struggle and state power, exploring how revolutionary socialists might reconcile working in the public sector with their radical politics.

Bernd Stegemann, Mitinitiator und Stratege der linken Sammlungsbewegung "Aufstehen", analysiert scharfsinnig die fatalen Sackgassen linker Politik, die eine realistische Betrachtung der Welt durch aggressives Moralisieren ersetzt hat, und zeigt auf, dass die Kritik an sozialer Ungleichheit wieder ins Zentrum der Debatte gestellt werden muss.

The second part of the book series, The Crisis of Bourgeois Ideology, and the Doctrine of the Mode of Thinking, deals with the essential variants of bourgeois ideology since the reorganization of international capitalist production in the 1990s.

Instant New York Times bestseller ';Howard Zinn on acid or some bullsh*t like that.

Climate change and other ecological ills are driving the creation of a grassroots global movement for change.