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Dimensions of Radical Democracy: Pluralism, Citizenship, CommunityThe themes of citizenship and community are today at the center of a fierce debate as both left and right try to mobilize them for their cause. For the left such notions are crucial in all the current attempts to redefine political struggle through...
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Food and Urbanism: The Convivial City and a Sustainable FutureCities are home to over fifty percent of the world's population, a figure which is expected to increase enormously by 2050. Despite the growing demand on urban resources and infrastructure, food is still often overlooked as a key factor in planning and designing cities....
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A European Memory?: Contested Histories and Politics of RemembranceAn examination of the role of history and memory is vital in order to better understand why the grand design of a United Europe--with a common foreign policy and market yet enough diversity to allow for cultural and social differences--was overwhelmingly turned down by...
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Phantom AfricaOne of the towering classics of twentieth century French literature, Phantom Africa is a singular and ultimately unclassifiable work: a book composed of one man's compulsive and constantly mutating daily travel journal--by turns melodramatic, self-deprecating, ecstatic, and morose--as well as an exhaustively detailed account...
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The Leopard and the Fox: A Pakistani TragedyThe BBC commissioned Tariq Ali to write a three-part TV series on the circumstances leading to the overthrow, trial and execution of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, the first elected prime minister of Pakistan. As rehearsals were about to begin, the BBC hierarchy--under pressure from the...
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Multiculturalism and Its Discontents: Rethinking Diversity After 9/11Our contemporary celebration of difference, respect for pluralism, and avowal of identity politics have come to be regarded as the hallmarks of a progressive, modern democracy. Yet despite embracing many of its values, we have at the same time become wary of multiculturalism in...
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Considerations on Western MarxismThis synoptic essay considers the nature and evolution of the Marxist theory that developed in Western Europe, after the defeat of the proletarian rebellions in the West and the isolation of the Russian Revolution in the East in the early 1920s. It focuses particularly...
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Landscape: Politics and PerspectivesThis book is about the complexity and power of landscape. The authors - geographers, anthropologists and archaeologists - explore landscape as something subjective that alters through time and space and that is created by people through their experience and contact with the world around...
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Dictatorship of ProletariatAuthor: Hal DraperPublisher: Monthly Review PressPublished: 01/01/1987Pages: 192Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.53lbsSize: 8.25h x 5.50w x 0.44dISBN: 9780853457268This title is not returnable
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Studies in the Labor Theory of ValueThis pioneering survey of the development of the "labor theory of value," advances Marxian economic categories for contemporary conditions.Author: Ronald L. MeekPublisher: Monthly Review PressPublished: 01/01/1956Pages: 379Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.07lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.85dISBN: 9780853454281
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Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution Vol. IIThis is the second installment of Hal Draper's incomparable treatment of Marx's political theory, policy, and practice. In forceful and readable language, Draper ranges through the development of the thought of Marx and Engels on the role of classes in society. This series, Karl...
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Poverty of TheoryThis classic collection of essays by E.P. Thompson, one of England's most renowned socialist voices, remains a staple text in the history of Marxist theory. The bulk of the book is dedicated to Thompson's famous polemic against Louis Althusser and what he considers the...
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The Economic Theory of the Leisure ClassBukharin completed this work in 1914; it represented an attempt to grapple with the Austrian School of political economy, as represented chiefly by Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk. Bukharin interprets the school as reflecting the social position of the rentier stratum of the capitalist class, which...
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The Debt Trap: The International Monetary Fund and the Third WorldDetails the history of the first thirty years of the system of aid and credit in which the IMF is the keystone.Author: Cheryl PayerPublisher: Monthly Review PressPublished: 01/01/1974Pages: 264Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 7.94h x 5.39w x 0.95dISBN: 9780853453765
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Imperialism and World EconomyBukharin's 1919 anticipation of the growth of the internationalization of capital.Author: Nikolai BukharinPublisher: Monthly Review PressPublished: 01/01/1929Pages: 224Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.51lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.41dISBN: 9780853452904
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Capitalism and Underdevelopment in Latin AmericaThe four essays in this book offer a sweeping reinterpretation of Latin American history as an aspect of the world-wide spread of capitalism in its commercial and industrial phases. Dr. Frank lays to rest the myth of Latin American feudalism, demonstrating in the process...
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Marxism and PhilosophyMarxism and Philosophy is Karl Korsch's masterwork. In it he argues for a reexamination of the relationship between Marxist theory and bourgeois philosophy, and insists on the centrality of the Hegelian dialectic and a commitment to revolutionary praxis. Although widely attacked in its time,...
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The Explosion: Marxism and the French UpheavalExplores the full sweep of Marxist thinking on social change in the light of the 1968 French explosion.Author: Henri LefebvrePublisher: Monthly Review PressPublished: 01/01/1968Pages: 160Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.47lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.38dISBN: 9780853451020
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Intro to SocialismThis introduction to socialist thought is by two men perhaps better qualified than any other Americans to have written it. Leo Huberman and Paul Sweezy, founding editors and publishers of the independent socialist magazine Monthly Review, built an impressive reputation as keen observers, acute...
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Reading PoulantzasThe Greek Marxist political sociologist, Nicos Poulantzas (1936-1979) is one of the most influential of post-war European left thinkers. His works were: Political Power and Social Classes; Fascism and Dictatorship; Classes in Contemporary Capitalism; The Crisis of the Dictatorships, and State, Power, SocialismAuthor: Alexander...
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