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Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > Marxism & Communism

Marx - Justice and Dialectic (Paperback, illustrated edition): James Daly Marx - Justice and Dialectic (Paperback, illustrated edition)
James Daly
R460 Discovery Miles 4 600 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Victor Grayson - In Search of Britain's Lost Revolutionary (Hardcover): Harry Taylor Victor Grayson - In Search of Britain's Lost Revolutionary (Hardcover)
Harry Taylor; Foreword by Jeremy Corbyn
R817 R709 Discovery Miles 7 090 Save R108 (13%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Steeped in conspiracy, scandal and socialism - the disappearance of radical icon Victor Grayson is a puzzle that's never been solved. A firebrand and Labour politician who rose to prominence in the early twentieth century, Grayson was idolised by hundreds of thousands of Britons but despised by the establishment. After a tumultuous life, he walked out of his London apartment in September 1920 and was never seen again. After a century, new documents have come to light. Fragments of an unpublished autobiography, letters to his lovers (both men and women), leading political and literary figures including H.G. Wells and George Bernard Shaw, and testimonies from members of the Labour elite such as Clement Attlee have revealed the real Victor Grayson. New research has uncovered the true events leading up to his disappearance and suggests that he was actually blackmailed by his former Party. In a time when homosexuality was illegal, and socialism an international threat to capitalism, Grayson was a clear target for those wanting to stamp out dissent. This extraordinary biography reinstates to history a man who laid the foundations for a whole generation of militant socialists in Britain.

Biopolitics in Central and Eastern Europe in the 20th Century - Fearing for the Nation (Hardcover): Barbara Klich-Kluczewska,... Biopolitics in Central and Eastern Europe in the 20th Century - Fearing for the Nation (Hardcover)
Barbara Klich-Kluczewska, Joachim Von Puttkamer, Immo Rebitschek
R3,959 Discovery Miles 39 590 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

The field of biopolitics encompasses issues from health and hygiene, birth rates, fertility and sexuality, life expectancy and demography to eugenics and racial regimes. This book is the first to provide a comprehensive view on these issues for Central and Eastern Europe in the twentieth century. The cataclysms of imperial collapse, World War(s) and the Holocaust but also the rise of state socialism after 1945 provided extraordinary and distinct conditions for the governing of life and death. The volume collects the latest research and empirical studies from the region to showcase the diversity of biopolitical regimes in their regional and global context - from hunger relief for Hungarian children after the First World War to abortion legislation in communist Poland. It underlines the similarities as well, demonstrating how biopolitical strategies in this area often revolved around the notion of an endangered nation; and how ideological schemes and post-imperial experiences in Eastern Europe further complicate a 'western' understanding of democratic participatory and authoritarian repressive biopolitics. The new geographical focus invites scholars and students of social and human sciences to reconsider established perspectives on the history of population management and the history of Europe.

Khrushchev: A Political Life (Hardcover): William Tompson Khrushchev: A Political Life (Hardcover)
William Tompson
R2,896 Discovery Miles 28 960 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

'a vivid startling biography ...drawing on a wealth of untapped material from Moscow archives ...This reassessment makes a cogent case for Khrushchev's regime as a harbinger of Gorbachev's perestroika' - Publishers Weekly;Khrushchev: a Political Life traces the rise and fall of the late Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev. Drawing on newly available archival materials and a wealth of recently published Russian and Ukrainian sources, this standard biography provides much new information on Khrushchev's life and career. Khrushchev's ultimate failure to realise his vision of the Soviet future is linked to the unrealistic optimism of that vision as well as to the contradictions inherent in Khrushchev's views and policies.

Communists in Closets - Queering the History 1930s-1990s (Paperback): Bettina Aptheker Communists in Closets - Queering the History 1930s-1990s (Paperback)
Bettina Aptheker
R1,267 Discovery Miles 12 670 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

- Will be accessible to any college level and the general reader - Spans the fields of Sexuality history, Gender History and Political Science - Author has personal and academic expertise in the area

Dictatorship - New Trajectories in Law (Paperback): Dimitrios Kivotidis Dictatorship - New Trajectories in Law (Paperback)
Dimitrios Kivotidis
R743 Discovery Miles 7 430 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

This book analyses the institution and concept of dictatorship from a legal, historical and theoretical perspective, examining the different types of dictatorship, their relationship to the law, as well as the analytical value of the concept in contemporary world. In particular, it seeks to codify the main theories and conceptions of 'dictatorship', with the goal of unearthing their contradictions. The book's main premise is that the concept of dictatorship and the different types of the dictatorial form have to be assessed and can only be understood in their historical context. On this basis, the elaborations on dictatorship of such diverse thinkers as Carl Schmitt, Donoso Cortes, Karl Marx, Ernst Fraenkel, Franz Neumann, Nicos Poulantzas, and V. I. Lenin, are discussed in their historical context: 'classical and Caesaristic dictatorship' in ancient Rome, 'dictatorship' in revolutionary France of 1789 and counterrevolutionary France of 1848, 'fascist dictatorship' in Nazi Germany, and 'dictatorship of the proletariat' in Russia of 1917. The book contributes to the theory of dictatorship as it outlines the contradictions of the different typologies of the dictatorial form and seeks to explain them on the basis of the concept of 'class dictatorship'. The book's original claim is that the dictatorial form, as a modality of class rule that relies predominantly on violence and repression, has been essential to the reproduction of bourgeois rule and, consequently, of capitalist social relations. This function has given rise to different types and conceptualisations of dictatorship depending on the level of capitalist development. This book is addressed to anyone with an interest in law, political theory, political history and sociology. It can serve as core text for courses that seek to introduce students to the institution or theory of dictatorship. It may also serve as a reference text for post-graduate programs in law and politics, because of its interdisciplinary and critical approach.

Capital and Politics - Socialist Register 2023 (Paperback): Greg Albo, Alfredo Saad-Filho, Nicole Aschoff Capital and Politics - Socialist Register 2023 (Paperback)
Greg Albo, Alfredo Saad-Filho, Nicole Aschoff
R924 Discovery Miles 9 240 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Soviet Communist Party in Disarray - The XXVIII Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Hardcover): E. Rees,... The Soviet Communist Party in Disarray - The XXVIII Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Hardcover)
E. Rees, Cristina F. Rosa
R4,348 Discovery Miles 43 480 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

An analysis of the proceedings of the 37th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Setting the Congress in its context, and focusing on the issues of political reform, economic restructuring, the nationalities question and foreign policy, this book explores the struggle for power between radicals, reformers and conservatives in the USSR. It highlights the Party's changing role in the Soviet political system and its changing relationship with the military and the KGB. It examines the ongoing reappraisal of the Soviet past, particularly the Stalin era, and its significance for the rethinking of Soviet socialism, the democratization of the society and the dismantling of the command-administrative economy. The Congress, forecast by some as heralding the demise of the CPSU as a ruling party, examines the debates raging within the Party and the wider society concerning the future of the USSR and the fate of perestroika.

Russia on the Move - Railroads and the Exodus from Compulsory Collectivism, 1861-1914 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022): Sylvia Sztern Russia on the Move - Railroads and the Exodus from Compulsory Collectivism, 1861-1914 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Sylvia Sztern
R3,195 Discovery Miles 31 950 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book explores the impact of railroads on 19thcentury Russian peasant collectivism. The mutual-insurance mechanism in a precarious agricultural environment, provided bya structured communal-village system predicated on the reputation and authorityof community norms,is exposed to rationalist exchange-occasioning an institutional adaptation process:the individualization of property rights in land. Spatial-mobility technology animated market integration, specialization, literacy,and human-capital acquisition among peasant wage workers who commuted from their villages.Temporarily rising transaction costs forced the Tsar to concede household property rights in land in the so-called Stolypin reform of 1906.This challenge to the imperial patrimony, powered by the railroads, steered late imperial Russia toward constitutional governance.The spatial-mobility technology gave peasants access to centers of agglomeration of knowledge, changedcognitive perceptions of distance, and reduced the uncertainty and opportunity costs of travel. The empirical findings in this monograph corroborate the conclusion that the railroads occasioned a cultural revolution in late imperial Russia and made Stalin unnecessary for the modernization of the Euro-asian giant. This book highlights the profound effect that the development of the railroads had on Russian economic and political institutions and practices. It will be of indispensable valueto students and researchers interested in transitional economics and economic history.

In an Era of Wars and Revolutions - American Socialist Cartoons of the Mid-Twentieth Century (Paperback): , Carlo In an Era of Wars and Revolutions - American Socialist Cartoons of the Mid-Twentieth Century (Paperback)
, Carlo; Edited by Sean Matgamna
R301 Discovery Miles 3 010 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Marxism and Religion in Eastern Europe - Papers Presented at the Banff International Slavic Conference, September 4-7,1974... Marxism and Religion in Eastern Europe - Papers Presented at the Banff International Slavic Conference, September 4-7,1974 (Hardcover, 1976 ed.)
R.T. De George, Robert H. Scanlan
R2,987 Discovery Miles 29 870 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Since the Bolshevik revolution of 1917, two of the most significant but at the same time least understood areas of that revolution's cultural impact have been philosophy and religion. The impact has of course been massive, not only in the Soviet Union but, after the second World War, in Soviet dominated Eastern Europe as well. Yet the consequences of Communism for philosophy and religion throughout the Soviet orbit are far from having the simplicity suggested by the stereotypes of a single, monolithic 'Marxism' and a consistent, crushing assault on the Church and on re ligious faith. Unquestionably Marxism is the ruling philosophy throughout Eastern Europe. In the Soviet Union, 'Marxism-Leninism' or 'dialectical ma terialism' is the official and the only tolerated philosophy, and most of the other countries of Eastern Europe follow the Soviet lead in philosophy as in other fields. But in the latter countries Marxism was imposed only after W orId War II, and its deVelopment has not always copied the Soviet model. Original thinkers in Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Poland, and Hungary have thought their own way through the writings of Marx and his followers, and have arrived at Marxist positions which are consider ably at variance with the Soviet interpretations - and often with each other. Moreover in recent years the Soviet philosophers themselves have been unable to ignore the theoretical questions raised by the other East of Marxism in the West."

Stalin's Terror - High Politics and Mass Repression in the Soviet Union (Hardcover, 2003 ed.): B. McLoughlin, K. McDermott Stalin's Terror - High Politics and Mass Repression in the Soviet Union (Hardcover, 2003 ed.)
B. McLoughlin, K. McDermott
R2,882 Discovery Miles 28 820 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The British, Irish, Russian, American, German, and Austrian contributors examine the intricate nature of the mass repression unleashed by the Stalinist leader of the USSR during 1937-38. The first part of the collection deals with annihilation policies against the Soviet elite and the Communist International. The second section of the volume looks at mass operations of the secret police (NKVD) against social outcasts, Poles and other 'hostile' ethnic groups. The final section comprises micro-studies about targeted victim groups among the general population.

Freedom After the Critique of Foundations - Marx, Liberalism, Castoriadis and Agonistic Autonomy (Hardcover, New): A.... Freedom After the Critique of Foundations - Marx, Liberalism, Castoriadis and Agonistic Autonomy (Hardcover, New)
A. Kioupkiolis
R1,528 Discovery Miles 15 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

An exploration of the contemporary re-conception of freedom after the critique of objective truths and ideas of an unchanging human nature, in which modern self-determination was grounded. This book focuses on the radical theorist Cornelius Castoriadis and the new paradigm of 'agonistic autonomy' is contrasted with Marxian and liberal approaches.

The Great Red Menace - United States Prosecution of American Communists, 1947-1952 (Hardcover): Peter Steinberg The Great Red Menace - United States Prosecution of American Communists, 1947-1952 (Hardcover)
Peter Steinberg
R2,798 Discovery Miles 27 980 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

During the years 1947-1952 the Cold War, the anti- communist foreign policy of the U.S. government, and the reassertion by the American Communist party of its allegiance to the Soviet Union, the international communist movement, and a literal Marxist-Leninist ideology gradually gave rise to an anti-communist hysteria and to the repression and persecution of American Communists. Author Peter L. Steinberg shows that both the Truman Administration and the Communist Party were in part responsible for the McCarthy era that followed. Both were reacting to the ideologiical warfare conducted by J. Edgar Hoover. Using his allies in government, Hoover took advantage of the Cold War atmosphere to demand demonstrable action against communists. The Truman Administration responded with a loyalty program that seemed to legitimze the American people's worst fears, leading to demands for further action. The Communist Party's decision to "go underground" played into the hands of its enemies. Steinberg sees the attack on American communists as a necessary prelude to the demand for patriotic conformity and as a factor contributing to the development of an internal political police.

Communism and Nationalism in Postwar Cyprus, 1945-1955 - Politics and Ideologies Under British Rule (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016):... Communism and Nationalism in Postwar Cyprus, 1945-1955 - Politics and Ideologies Under British Rule (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Alexios Alecou
R2,573 R1,907 Discovery Miles 19 070 Save R666 (26%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book analyzes the events that impacted the structure and competitive processes of the two dominant Cypriot political factions while under the watchful eye of British rule. Based on new archival research, Alecou addresses the social and political environment in which the Cypriot Communists and Nationalists fought each other while at the same time had to fight the British Empire. The differences between communists and nationalists brought the two sides to a frontal collision in the wake of the events of the Greek civil war. The class conflict within Cypriot society would at some point inevitably lead, in one way or another, to a clash between the two factions. The civil war in Greece constituted another field of conflict between Left and Right, accelerating the formation of a bipolar party system in which the vertical division of the Greek community in Cyprus eventually expressed itself.

The Revolution - III - The Revolutionary Government (Hardcover, New, ed.): Hippolyte Adolphe Taine The Revolution - III - The Revolutionary Government (Hardcover, New, ed.)
Hippolyte Adolphe Taine; Translated by John Durand
R1,999 Discovery Miles 19 990 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Between Class and Discourse: Left Intellectuals in Defence of Capitalism (Paperback): Boris Kagarlitsky Between Class and Discourse: Left Intellectuals in Defence of Capitalism (Paperback)
Boris Kagarlitsky; Translated by Renfrey Clarke
R1,340 Discovery Miles 13 400 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

This provocative book addresses the ideological and political crisis of the Western left, comparing it with the problems facing leftist politics in Russia and other countries. The author presents a radical critique of the current state of the Western left which puts discourse above class interest and politics of diversity above politics of social change. The trajectory away from class politics towards feminism, minority rights and the coalition of coalitions led to the destruction of the basic strategic pillars of the movement. Some elements of this broad progressive agenda became mainstream, but in fact this made the crisis of the left even deeper and contributed to the disintegration of the left's identity. The author demonstrates that a simple return to 'the good old times' of classical socialist politics of the industrial age is not possible, suggesting that class politics must be redefined and reinvented through the experience of new radical populism. This book speaks directly to the way the identity politics/class politics divide has been framed within the English-speaking world. It will be of great interest to scholars and students of political science and political sociology, international relations, security studies and global studies, as well as socialist activists.

Collected Works, v. 3 - Marx, Engels, 1843-44 (Hardcover): Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels Collected Works, v. 3 - Marx, Engels, 1843-44 (Hardcover)
Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels
R1,547 Discovery Miles 15 470 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Part of a definitive English-language edition, prepared in collaboration with the Institute of Marxism-Leninism in Moscow, which contains all the works of Marx and Engels, whether published in their lifetimes or since. The series includes their complete correspondence and newly discovered works.

Collected Works, v.48 - Correspondence (Hardcover): Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels Collected Works, v.48 - Correspondence (Hardcover)
Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels
R1,548 Discovery Miles 15 480 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Part of a definitive English-language edition, prepared in collaboration with the Institute of Marxism-Leninism in Moscow, the series contains all the works of Marx and Engels, whether published in their lifetimes or since. It includes their complete correspondence and newly discovered works.

Economics in a Changing World - Volume 1: System Transformation- Eastern and Western Assessments (Hardcover): A. Aganbegyan, O.... Economics in a Changing World - Volume 1: System Transformation- Eastern and Western Assessments (Hardcover)
A. Aganbegyan, O. Bogomolov, M. Kaser
R4,382 Discovery Miles 43 820 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A theme that emerges from the papers on systemic transition selected from the IEA 1992 Congress in Moscow is the contemporary battle of post-communist countries with time. Most chapters deal with newly-democratised governments which are switching from command to market both quickly and on a scale never previously attempted. Others re-examine the transition to capitalism in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries from rural England to the Caucasian oilfields.

Democracy, direct action, and socialism - A debate on fundamentals (Paperback): Sean Matgamna Democracy, direct action, and socialism - A debate on fundamentals (Paperback)
Sean Matgamna
R187 Discovery Miles 1 870 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Transformations in Central Europe between 1989 and 2012 - Geopolitical, Cultural, and Socioeconomic Shifts (Hardcover): Tomas... Transformations in Central Europe between 1989 and 2012 - Geopolitical, Cultural, and Socioeconomic Shifts (Hardcover)
Tomas Kavaliauskas
R2,585 Discovery Miles 25 850 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Transformations in Central Europe between 1989 and 2012: Geopolitical, Cultural, and Socioeconomic Shifts by Tomas Kavaliauskas, is an in-depth study of the transformations in Central Europe in the years since the fall of Communism. Using a comparative analysis of geopolitical, ethical, cultural, and socioeconomic shifts, this essential text investigates postcommunist countries including Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and Slovenia. Next to transitological interpretations, this study ventures upon negative and positive freedom (Isaiah Berlin) in Central Europe after two decades of post-communist transition. Kavaliauskas questions the meaning of completeness of postcommunist transition, both geopolitical and socioeconomic, when there are many transformations that do not necessarily mean unequivocal progress. The author also analyses why Central Europe in 1989, armed with civil disobedience, could not maintain its moral politics. But the book touches sensitive issues of memory as well: an examination of May 9th is provided from the Russian and the Baltic perspectives, revealing two opposing world views regarding this date of liberation or occupation. Finally, Kavaliauskas analyzes the tragedy at Smolensk airport, which became an inseparable part of Central European identity. Transformations in Central Europe between 1989 and 2012 is an essential contribution to the literature on Central Europe and the lasting effects of Communism and its aftermath.

Stalinism: Its Nature and Aftermath - Essays in Honour of Moshe Lewin (Hardcover): Nick Lampert, Gabor T. Rittersporn Stalinism: Its Nature and Aftermath - Essays in Honour of Moshe Lewin (Hardcover)
Nick Lampert, Gabor T. Rittersporn
R4,366 Discovery Miles 43 660 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This is a collection of essays (with contributors from Britain, Continental Europe and the USA) dealing with the character and aftermath of Stalinism in the USSR. The focus is on the interwar years and on the methodological problems of studying this period, but the volume highlights also the links between Stalinism and the Tsarist past, and the ways in which Stalinism, in its very formation, prepared the ground for its own demise. In this way it contributes to a historical understanding of the current upheavals in the Soviet Union.

Principle of Interest Politics - Logic of Political Life from China's Perspective (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022): Puqu Wang Principle of Interest Politics - Logic of Political Life from China's Perspective (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Puqu Wang; Translated by Fu Qiong, Zang Leizhen, Zhao Yong, Xu Xinwu
R2,978 Discovery Miles 29 780 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The book aims to build a political theory of interest politics by adopting an interest-analyzing approach of Marxism to explore the dual characteristics of social interests. Based on the logical start-point, the book unveils the foundations, nature, and characteristics of social-political life such as political power and political right. Then, a systematic research is conducted from perspectives of political behavior, political system, and political culture, following the two logical thread lines as political power and right. Finally, the book sees the analysis of social and political development in accordance with the inter-function of political power and political rights caused by the changes and development of social interests. It is a must-read book for readers interested in the political theory and political development in China.

Theology and Marxism in Eagleton and Zizek - A Conspiracy of Hope (Hardcover): O. Sigurdson Theology and Marxism in Eagleton and Zizek - A Conspiracy of Hope (Hardcover)
O. Sigurdson
R2,873 Discovery Miles 28 730 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Taking its cue from the renewed interest in theology among Marxist and politically radical philosophers or thinkers, this study inquires into the reasons for this interest in theology focusing on the British literary theorist Terry Eagleton and the Slovenian philosopher and psychoanalyst Slavoj Zizek, as two contemporary prominent Marxist thinkers.

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