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Reminiscences of LeninNadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya was a founding member of the Russian Bolshevik Party and the wife of Vladimir Lenin from 1898 until his death in 1924. As both his closest political collaborator and personal confidant, Krupskaya offers invaluable insights into the life and thought of...
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Lessons of OctoberIn this sharply polemical account, Leon Trotsky draws up a balance sheet of the world's first successful workers' revolution. Written primarily for members of the newly created Communist International, Trotsky focuses on the specific role played by the Bolshevik Party in leading Russian workers...
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US Politics in an Age of Uncertainty: Essays on a New RealityThe Electoral College's selection of Donald Trump as 45th president of the United States continues to shock on many levels. A transition from the first African American president to someone who made racism a cornerstone of his campaign is one element. Another is that...
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1905In January of 1905, thousands of Russian workers, led by a priest on the payroll of the Tsar himself, marched to the gates of the Winter Palace with the intention of humbly petitioning their ruler for an eight hour work day. They were met...
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Revolution TodaySusan Buck-Morss asks: What does revolution look like today? How will the idea of revolution survive the inadequacy of the formula, "progress = modernization through industrialization," to which it has owed its political life?Socialism plus computer technology, citizen resistance plus a global agenda of...
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Marxism and Social MovementsMarxism and Social Movements is the first sustained engagement between social-movement theory and Marxist approaches to collective action. The chapters collected here, by leading figures in both fields, discuss the potential for a Marxist theory of social movements. Exploring struggles on six continents over...
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Radical Unionism: The Rise and Fall of Revolutionary SyndicalismDuring the first two decades of the twentieth century the ideas of revolutionary syndicalism developed into a major influence within the trade union movement. Committed to destroying capitalism through direct industrial action and revolutionary trade union struggle, the movement raised fundamental questions for activists...
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Lineages of Revolt: Issues of Contemporary Capitalism in the Middle EastWhile the outcomes of the tumultuous uprisings that continue to transfix the Arab world remain uncertain, the root causes of rebellion persist. Drawing upon extensive empirical research, Lineages of Revolt tracks the major shifts in the region's political economy over recent decades. In this...
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The Debt System: A History of Sovereign Debts and Their Repudiation"A compelling explanation of the deep-seated mechanisms at work in the international credit system" from the coauthor of Debt, the IMF, and the World Bank (Counterfire).For as long as there have been rich nations and poor nations, debt has been a powerful force for...
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The Revolutionary Ideas of Karl MarxFew thinkers have been declared irrelevant and out of date with such frequency as Karl Marx. Hardly a decade since his death has gone by in which establishment critics have not announced the death of his theory. Whole forests have been felled to produce...
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The Paris Commune: A Revolution in DemocracyFor two months in 1871, the workers of Paris took control of Europe's most celebrated capital city. When they established the world's first workers' democracy--the Paris Commune--they found no ready-made blueprints, and no precedents to study for how to run their city without princes,...
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Civil Wars in U.S. Labor: Birth of a New Workers' Movement or Death Throes of the Old?BETWEEN 2008 AND 2010, the progressive wing of the U.S. labor movement tore itself apart in a series of internecine struggles. More than $140 million was expended, by all sides, on organizing conflicts that tarnished union reputations and undermined the campaign for real health...
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Ours to Master and to Own: Workers' Control from the Commune to the PresentFrom the dawning of the industrial epoch, wage earners have organized themselves into unions, fought bitter strikes, and gone so far as to challenge the very premises of the system by creating institutions of democratic self-management aimed at controlling production without bosses. With specific...
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Essays"Full of what you might call conversation starters: tricky propositions about morality... politics, privilege, runaway nationalist fantasies, collective guilt, and art as a force for change (or not)...It's a treat to hear him speak his curious mind."--O MagazineIn these beautiful essays, Wallace Shawn takes...
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Marx and Social Justice: Ethics and Natural Law in the Critique of Political EconomyIn Marx and Social Justice, George E. McCarthy presents a detailed and comprehensive overview of the ethical, political, and economic foundations of Marx's theory of social justice in his early and later writings. What is distinctive about Marx's theory is that he rejects the...
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Independence: The Struggle to Set America FreeNo event in American history was more pivotal-or more furiously contested-than Congress's decision to declare independence in July 1776. Even months after American blood had been shed at Lexington and Concord, many colonists remained loyal to Britain. John Adams, a leader of the revolutionary...
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The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States of AmericaCollected here in one affordable volume are the most important documents of the United States of America: The Constitution of the United States of America, with the Bill of Rights and all of the Amendments; The Declaration of Independence; and the Articles of Confederation....
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Public Opinion by Walter Lippmann"Public Opinion" is the fascinating study of the role of citizens in a democracy by Walter Lippmann, an American writer, reporter and political commentator. Lippmann's notable career spanned decades and produced some of the most important journalism in American history. He was the first...
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Symbolism and Folk Imagery in Early Egyptian Political Caricatures: The Wafd Election Campaign, 1920-1923Art is politics and politics is art in this study of post-World War I caricature art in Egypt and Egyptian politics. This book explores the complex meaning and significance of caricature art drawn to support the ascendant Egyptian Wafdpolitical party and its push for...
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Occult Secrets Of The Third ReichSHOCKING REVELATIONS DETAIL HITLER'S FASCINATION WITH OCCULTISM AND THE SUPERNATURAL Some historians believe Hitler was uniquely evil, wicked beyond even the human capacity for wickedness. Many of the impressions regarding the Fuhrer's involvement with "demonic forces" can be attributed to such pop culturebooks such...
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