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The Great Successor - The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un (Paperback): Anna Fifield The Great Successor - The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un (Paperback)
Anna Fifield
R471 R357 Discovery Miles 3 570 Save R114 (24%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Lenin and his Rivals - The Struggle for Russia's Future, 1898-1906 (Paperback): Donald W. Treadgold Lenin and his Rivals - The Struggle for Russia's Future, 1898-1906 (Paperback)
Donald W. Treadgold
R1,160 Discovery Miles 11 600 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Originally published in 1955, this is an illuminating study of the political thought and action of the Russian intelligentsia, in the decade up to and including the Revolution of 1905-6. It is based on the writings, including those in the revolutionary press, by which the chief figures of the main opposition parties expressed their political theory, strategy and tactics and related them to the turbulent events of those years. It is also based on personal interviews with some of the survivors of these political struggles. The book is focused on the emergence, starting in 1889 of the major political parties in Russia and it tells of their efforts to form a common front against Tsarism in the revolution which they confidently expected in the early years of the century.

Lenin and The End of Politics (Paperback): A. J. Polan Lenin and The End of Politics (Paperback)
A. J. Polan
R1,150 Discovery Miles 11 500 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Originally published in 1984 this book reconsiders the effect of Lenin on the politics and culture of the 20th Century. In a detailed examination of Lenin's famous text, The State and Revolution, the author argues that the peculiar status of this work presents readers with major problems of interpretation and shows how a failure to identify these problems has prevented an adequate understanding of important issues in modern politics, history and social theory. The book compares Lenin's 'radical utopia' with the ideas of politics offered by other theorists, centrally Weber and Sartre, but also writers such as Jefferson and Habermas. This original approach shows the impact of Lenin's text on political history and theory and leads to a new understanding of the connection between revolution and violence, social change and authoritarianism.

Leninism - Volume Two (Paperback): Joseph Stalin Leninism - Volume Two (Paperback)
Joseph Stalin; Translated by Eden Paul, Cedar Paul
R1,184 Discovery Miles 11 840 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Translated from the Russian in 1933, this and the first volume of the same title give an invaluable picture of what the Russian leader Joseph Stalin understood by Leninism. Building on the pamphlet Foundations of Leninism, (which forms the first part of this book) the work presents a unified and complete work on the problems of Leninism and socialist construction as they were manifested in the 1920s, as well as discussion of the October Revolution and the relationship of the USSR and the West in the years following the First World War.

Class Consciousness and Education in Sweden - A Marxist Analysis of Revolution in a Social Democracy (Paperback): Alpesh... Class Consciousness and Education in Sweden - A Marxist Analysis of Revolution in a Social Democracy (Paperback)
Alpesh Maisuria
R1,268 Discovery Miles 12 680 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Emerging from a Marxist perspective, this book focuses on the importance of social class and the role of education broadly in relation to the possibility of revolutionary change in Sweden and beyond. Critically tracing the celebrated so-called 'Swedish model' from its inception to its current neoliberalisation, Maisuria explores the contours of class as part of social democratic history, culture and education, especially against the alternatives of communism and fascism. Presenting empirical research on class consciousness within a higher education context, Maisuria analyses student testimonies on their perceptions of social democracy and 'Swedishness' with ethno-racial dynamics, which is subjected to a Gramscian and Critical Realist derived explanatory critique for social transformation.

Marxism - Is it Science? (Hardcover): Max Eastman Marxism - Is it Science? (Hardcover)
Max Eastman
R3,495 Discovery Miles 34 950 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1941, Marxism: Is it Science? was written to present the author's criticisms of Marxism and, in doing so, to further exemplify his 'Method of Instruction' first proposed in an earlier work. The book is divided into six parts to provide six complete presentations of Marxism and why the author considers it unscientific. The six different approaches, varying in focus and complexity, work together to give the reader a detailed overview of Marxism and the authors critique of it.

Marxism - With and Beyond Marx (Paperback): Amiya Bagchi, Amita Chatterjee Marxism - With and Beyond Marx (Paperback)
Amiya Bagchi, Amita Chatterjee
R1,277 Discovery Miles 12 770 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book offers a unique re-conceptualization of Marxism in bringing together leading scholars across disciplines history, philosophy, economics, politics, sociology, and literary and culture studies into one comprehensive corpus. It demonstrates the engaging relevance of the perspectives and techniques of the analyses adopted by Karl Marx, Fr

Leninism - Volume One (Paperback): Joseph Stalin Leninism - Volume One (Paperback)
Joseph Stalin; Translated by Eden Paul, Cedar Paul
R1,067 Discovery Miles 10 670 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Translated from the Russian in 1928, this and the second volume of the same title give an invaluable picture of what the Russian leader Joseph Stalin understood by Leninism. Building on the pamphlet Foundations of Leninism, (which forms the first part of this book) the work presents a unified and complete work on the problems of Leninism and socialist construction as they were manifested in the 1920s, as well as discussion of the October Revolution and the relationship of the USSR and the West in the years following the First World War.

Money as a Social Institution - The Institutional Development of Capitalism (Paperback): Ann Davis Money as a Social Institution - The Institutional Development of Capitalism (Paperback)
Ann Davis
R1,146 Discovery Miles 11 460 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Money is usually understood as a valuable object, the value of which is attributed to it by its users and which other users recognize. It serves to link disparate institutions, providing a disguised whole and prime tool for the "invisible hand" of the market. This book offers an interpretation of money as a social institution. Money provides the link between the household and the firm, the worker and his product, making that very division seem natural and money as imminently practical. Money as a Social Institution begins in the medieval period and traces the evolution of money alongside consequent implications for the changing models of the corporation and the state. This is then followed with double-entry accounting as a tool of long-distance merchants and bankers, then the monitoring of the process of production by professional corporate managers. Davis provides a framework of analysis for examining money historically, beyond the operation of those particular institutions, which includes the possibility of conceptualizing and organizing the world differently. This volume is of great importance to academics and students who are interested in economic history and history of economic thought, as well as international political economics and critique of political economy.

The Intellectual Origins of Modernity (Hardcover): David Ohana The Intellectual Origins of Modernity (Hardcover)
David Ohana
R3,909 Discovery Miles 39 090 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Intellectual Origins of Modernity explores the long and winding road of modernity from Rousseau to Foucault and its roots, which are not to be found in a desire for enlightenment or in the idea of progress but in the Promethean passion of Western humankind. Modernity is the Promethean passion, the passion of humans to be their own master, to use their insight to make a world different from the one that they found, and to liberate themselves from their immemorial chains. This passion created the political ideologies of the nineteenth century and made its imprint on the totalitarian regimes that arose in their wake in the twentieth. Underlying the Promethean passion there was modernity-humankind's project of self-creation-and enlightenment, the existence of a constant tension between the actual and the desirable, between reality and the ideal. Beneath the weariness, the exhaustion and the skepticism of post-modernist criticism is a refusal to take Promethean horizons into account. This book attests the importance of reason, which remains a powerful critical weapon of humankind against the idols that have come out of modernity: totalitarianism, fundamentalism, the golem of technology, genetic engineering and a boundless will to power. Without it, the new Prometheus is liable to return the fire to the gods.

Classical Marxism in an Age of Capitalist Crisis - The Past is Prologue (Hardcover): William Briggs Classical Marxism in an Age of Capitalist Crisis - The Past is Prologue (Hardcover)
William Briggs
R3,907 Discovery Miles 39 070 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Will capitalism survive forever? Capitalism has always lived in and with crisis. Wars, revolutions, economic depression and repeated recessions, the threat of nuclear annihilation and ecological disaster have all failed to break the dominance of this economic and political system. Challenging the predominance of capitalism in a world fraught with inequalities, this book returns to classical Marxism to reaffirm its relevance. It explores the contradictions within capitalism as well as explains why Marxism has been unable to mount a sustained challenge to capitalism. In order to explore concrete alternatives in a period of increasing capitalist globalisation and crisis, it goes on to present perspectives by which theory and practice might be reunited to building independent political and organisational structures. A search for "something better", this volume will be an engaging read for scholars and researchers of politics, especially political theory and political economy, economics, and sociology.

The Mobilization and Demobilization of Middle-Class Revolt - Comparative Insights from Argentina (Hardcover): Daniel Ozarow The Mobilization and Demobilization of Middle-Class Revolt - Comparative Insights from Argentina (Hardcover)
Daniel Ozarow
R3,913 Discovery Miles 39 130 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Adopting Argentina's popular uprisings against neoliberalism including the 2001-02 rebellion and subsequent mass protests as a case study, The Mobilization and Demobilization of Middle-Class Revolt analyzes two decades of longitudinal research (1995-2018), including World Bank and Latinobarometer household survey data, along with participant interviews, to explore why nonpolitically active middle-class citizens engage in radical protest movements, and why they eventually demobilize. In particular it asks, how do they become politicized and resist economic and political crises, along with their own hardship? Theoretically informed by Gramsci's notions of hegemony, ideology and class consciousness, Ozarow posits that to affect profound and lasting social change, multisectoral alliances and sustainable mobilizing vehicles are required to maintain radical progressive movements beyond periods of crisis. With the Argentinian revolt understood to be the ideological forbearer to the autonomist-inspired uprisings which later emerged, comparisons are drawn with experiences in the USA, Spain, Greece UK, Iceland and the Middle East, as well as 1990s contexts in South Africa and Russia. Such a comparative analysis helps understand how contextual factors shape distinctive struggling middle-class citizen responses to external shocks. This book will be of immense value to students, activists and theorists of social change in North America, in Europe and globally.

Towards a Jurisprudence of State Communism - Law and the Failure of Revolution (Paperback): Cosmin Cercel Towards a Jurisprudence of State Communism - Law and the Failure of Revolution (Paperback)
Cosmin Cercel
R1,357 Discovery Miles 13 570 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

More than twenty-five years after the collapse of the Socialist bloc, the nature of the regimes in Eastern Europe between 1945 and 1989 continues to evade the attempts of political theorists and scholars of post-communism to define and classify them. Drawing on philosophical inquiry, jurisprudential analysis and intellectual history, this book traces the impact of communist ideology and practice on legal thought: from its critical roots in the midst of the nineteenth century to its reactionary stand in the later years of the twentieth. Exploring how the communist experience - both in its revolutionary and authoritarian guises - has been articulated within the legal theoretical field, the book addresses two central theoretical lacunae fostered by the historiography of authoritarianism in Central and Eastern Europe: the status of law, and its relationship to the broader ideological framework legitimising authoritarian regimes. Moving beyond the limits of the contemporary discourse on communism - particularly as it is channelled through transitional justice and memory studies - Cosmin Cercel develops a theoretical framework that is able to uncover law's complicity with the extreme ideologies that dominated Central and Eastern Europe. For it is, he argues, in its recourse to legal concepts that the communist experience raises important jurisprudential questions for our contemporary understanding of law, the limits of state sovereignty, and law's relationship to historical violence.

A Collective Bargain - Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy (Paperback): Jane McAlevey A Collective Bargain - Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy (Paperback)
Jane McAlevey
R289 Discovery Miles 2 890 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

From longtime labor organizer Jane McAlevey, a vital call-to-arms in favor of unions, a key force capable of defending our democracy For decades, racism, corporate greed, and a skewed political system have been eating away at the social and political fabric of the United States. Yet as McAlevey reminds us, there is one weapon whose effectiveness has been proven repeatedly throughout U.S. history: unions. In A Collective Bargain, longtime labor organizer, environmental activist, and political campaigner Jane McAlevey makes the case that unions are a key institution capable of taking effective action against today's super-rich corporate class. Since the 1930s, when unions flourished under New Deal protections, corporations have waged a stealthy and ruthless war against the labor movement. And they've been winning. Until today. Because, as McAlevey shows, unions are making a comeback. Want to reverse the nation's mounting wealth gap? Put an end to sexual harassment in the workplace? End racial disparities on the job? Negotiate climate justice? Bring back unions. As McAlevey travels from Pennsylvania hospitals, where nurses are building a new kind of patient-centered unionism, to Silicon Valley, where tech workers have turned to old-fashioned collective action, to the battle being waged by America's teachers, readers have a ringside seat at the struggles that will shape our country-and our future.

The French and Italian Communist Parties - Comrades and Culture (Paperback): Cyrille Guiat The French and Italian Communist Parties - Comrades and Culture (Paperback)
Cyrille Guiat
R1,034 Discovery Miles 10 340 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Beginning with a review of the numerous studies that tend to emphasize the national, societal dimension of the Italian and French communist parties, Cyrille Guiat's book is a comparative study of the two parties from the early 1960s to the early 1980s.

Bolshevism and the Labour Movement (Paperback): Robert Hunter Bolshevism and the Labour Movement (Paperback)
Robert Hunter
R1,181 Discovery Miles 11 810 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Originally published in 1916, this volume discusses the history of the labour movement during the latter part of the 19th and early part of the 20th centuries, in so far as it relates to the advocacy and use of violence. A contentious issue which divided the labour movement during the 19th century, the author presents arguments made by both sides of this controversy. Nonetheless, the book remains a Marxist critique of violence as practised by direct action anarchists.

Revival: Anti-Bolshevik Communism (1978) (Paperback): Paul Mattick Jr. Revival: Anti-Bolshevik Communism (1978) (Paperback)
Paul Mattick Jr.
R1,268 Discovery Miles 12 680 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This title was first published in 1978: Communism aims at putting working people in charge of their lives. A multiplicity of Councils, rather than a big state bureaucracy is needed to empower working people and to focus control over society. Mattick develops a theory of a council communism through his survey of the history of the left in Germany and Russia. He challenges Bolshevik politics: especially their perspectives on questions of Party and Class, and the role of Trade Unions. Mattick argues that a??The revolutions which succeeded, first of all, in Russia and China, were not proletarian revolutions in the Marxist sense, leading to the a??association of free and equal producersa??, but state-capitalist revolutions, which were objectively unable to issue into socialism. Marxism served here as a mere ideology to justify the rise of modified capitalist systems, which were no longer determined by market competition but controlled by way of the authoritarian state. Based on the peasantry, but designed with accelerated industrialisation to create an industrial proletariat, they were ready to abolish the traditional bourgeoisie but not capital as a social relationship. This type of capitalism had not been foreseen by Marx and the early Marxists, even though they advocated the capture of state-power to overthrow the bourgeoisie a?? but only in order to abolish the state itself.a??

Thatcher Stole My Trousers (Paperback): Alexei Sayle Thatcher Stole My Trousers (Paperback)
Alexei Sayle 1
R395 R321 Discovery Miles 3 210 Save R74 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

'Enlightening ... Funny, smart, original and provocative ... It is hard to imagine the stalwarts of Mock the Week recognising the Druze militia leader Walid Jumblatt in a London cinema' NEW STATESMAN 'Few standups have come close to capturing a fraction of this creative energy in a book ... Alexei Sayle is an exception' GUARDIAN "What I brought to comedy was an authentic working-class voice plus a threat of genuine violence - nobody in Monty Python looked like a hard case who'd kick your head in." In 1971, comedians on the working men's club circuit imagined that they would be free to continue telling their tired, racist, misogynistic gags forever. But their nemesis, a nineteen-year-old Marxist art student, was slowly coming to meet them... Thatcher Stole My Trousers chronicles a time when comedy and politics united in electrifying ways. Recounting the founding of the Comedy Store, the Comic Strip and the Young Ones, and Alexei's friendships with the comedians who - like him - would soon become household names, this is a unique and beguiling blend of social history and memoir. Fascinating, funny, angry and entertaining, it is a story of class and comedy, politics and love, fast cars and why it's difficult to foul a dwarf in a game of football.

Critique of the Gotha Programme (Paperback, New edition): Karl Marx Critique of the Gotha Programme (Paperback, New edition)
Karl Marx
R94 Discovery Miles 940 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Socialist Manifesto - The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality (Paperback): Bhaskar Sunkara The Socialist Manifesto - The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality (Paperback)
Bhaskar Sunkara 1
R466 R352 Discovery Miles 3 520 Save R114 (24%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Marxism and Human Nature (Paperback): Sean Sayers Marxism and Human Nature (Paperback)
Sean Sayers
R1,343 Discovery Miles 13 430 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Is there such a thing as human nature? Here Sean Sayers defends the controversial theory that human nature is in fact an historical phenomenon. He gives an ambitious and wide ranging defence of the Marxist and Hegelian historical approach and engages with a wide range of work at the heart of the contemporary debate in social and moral philosophy.

Freedom - Negative and Positive Conceptions (Paperback): Yildiz Silier Freedom - Negative and Positive Conceptions (Paperback)
Yildiz Silier
R1,034 Discovery Miles 10 340 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Isaiah Berlin made a now classic distinction between negative and positive conceptions of freedom. This book, first published in 2005, introduces a fresh way of looking at these conceptions and presents a new defence of the positive conception of freedom. Revealing how the internal debate between various versions of negative freedom give rise to hybrid conceptions of freedom which in turn are superseded by various versions of the positive conception of freedom, Silier concludes that Marx's concrete historical account of positive freedom resolves many of the key debates in this area and provides a fruitful framework to evaluate the freedoms and unfreedoms that are specific to capitalism.

Environmentalism under Authoritarian Regimes - Myth, Propaganda, Reality (Hardcover): Stephen Brain, Viktor Pal Environmentalism under Authoritarian Regimes - Myth, Propaganda, Reality (Hardcover)
Stephen Brain, Viktor Pal
R3,914 Discovery Miles 39 140 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Since the early 2000s, authoritarianism has risen as an increasingly powerful global phenomenon. This shift has not only social and political implications, but also environmental implications: authoritarian leaders seek to recast the relationship between society and the government in every aspect of public life, including environmental policy. When historians of technology or the environment have investigated the environmental consequences of authoritarian regimes, they have frequently argued that authoritarian regimes have been unable to produce positive environmental results or adjust successfully to global structural change, if they have shown any concern for the environment at all. Put another way, the scholarly consensus holds that authoritarian regimes on both the left and the right generally have demonstrated an anti-environmentalist bias, and when opposed by environmentalist social movements, have succeeded in silencing those voices. This book explores the theme of environmental politics and authoritarian regimes on both the right and the left. The authors argue that in instances when environmentalist policies offer the possibility of bolstering a country's domestic (nationalist) appeal or its international prestige, authoritarian regimes can endorse and have endorsed environmental protective measures. The collection of essays analyzes environmentalist initiatives pursued by authoritarian regimes, and provides explanations for both the successes and failures of such regimes, looking at a range of case studies from a number of countries, including Brazil, China, Poland, and Zimbabwe. The volume contributes to the scholarly debate about the social and political preconditions necessary for effective environmental protection. This book will be of great interest to those studying environmental history and politics, environmental humanities, ecology, and geography.

Higher Education in the Post-Communist World - Case Studies of Eight Universities (Hardcover): Paula Sabloff Higher Education in the Post-Communist World - Case Studies of Eight Universities (Hardcover)
Paula Sabloff
R3,638 Discovery Miles 36 380 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Originally published in 1999, Higher Education in the Post-Communist World focuses on specific public universities during their, and their nations' early transition years (1989-1995) from communism to democracy and the changes from centrally planned, to free-market economies. The book offers a detailed view of universities in transition rather than case studies of entire systems of higher education, providing an opportunity for readers to understand the national politico-economic transition on higher education- individual faculty, students, and administrator; departments; and university - in a more immediate way than a system-wide approach would. The book presents information on specific universities and how the demise of the Soviet Union affected the governance, finance, faculty, students, and curriculum in several post-communist countries.

Socialist Imaginations - Utopias, Myths, and the Masses (Hardcover): Stefan Arvidsson, Jakub Benes, Anja Kirsch Socialist Imaginations - Utopias, Myths, and the Masses (Hardcover)
Stefan Arvidsson, Jakub Benes, Anja Kirsch
R3,907 Discovery Miles 39 070 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This volume offers new perspectives on the appeal and profound cultural meaning of socialism over the past two centuries. It brings together scholarship from various disciplines addressing diverse national contexts, including Britain, China, France, Germany, Norway, Sweden, and the USA. Taken together, the contributions highlight the aesthetic, narrative, and religious dimensions of socialism as it has developed through three broad phases in the modern era: early nineteenth-century beginnings, mass-based political organizations, and the attainment of state power in the twentieth century and beyond. Socialism did not attract millions of people primarily because of logical argument and empirical evidence, important though those were. Rather, it told the most compelling story about the past, present, and future. Refocusing attention on socialism's imaginative dimensions, this volume aims to revive scholarly interest in one of the modern world(1)s most important political orientations.

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