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Rethinking the Normative Content of Critical Theory - Marx, Habermas and Beyond (Hardcover): B. Cannon Rethinking the Normative Content of Critical Theory - Marx, Habermas and Beyond (Hardcover)
B. Cannon
R1,519 Discovery Miles 15 190 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

One of Marxism's chief failings is its dependence on trans-historical categories. Theorists such as Jürgen Habernas also fall short by restricting their critique to the cultural sphere. This book extends the reach of critical theory and its key idea of intersubjectivity to the economic system. The economy is a realm of morality that social movements influence in the course of their struggles.

Marxian Economics: A Reappraisal - Volume 1: Essays on Volume III of Capital - Method, Value and Money (Hardcover): Riccardo... Marxian Economics: A Reappraisal - Volume 1: Essays on Volume III of Capital - Method, Value and Money (Hardcover)
Riccardo Bellofiore
R2,898 Discovery Miles 28 980 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Springing from a conference held in Bergamo University on the occasion of the centenary of the publication by Engels of the third book of Capital, the papers collected in these two volumes reinstate Marx's as the first genuinely evolutionary economic theory. In this, the capitalist process incessantly brings about states which will by themselves generate the next ones. Thus as Schumpeter remarked, Marx was the first to 'visualise what even at the present time is still the economic theory of the future for which we are slowly and laboriously accumulating stone and mortar, statistical facts and functional equations'.

Marx and the Proletariat - A Study in Social Theory (Hardcover): Timothy McCarthy Marx and the Proletariat - A Study in Social Theory (Hardcover)
Timothy McCarthy
R2,194 Discovery Miles 21 940 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This study taps the whole range of Marxist philosophy--historical materialism, economic theory, Marx's opinions of the labor movement--in its analysis of the revolutionary proletariat.

Alienation and Emancipation in the Work of Karl Marx (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019): George C. Comninel Alienation and Emancipation in the Work of Karl Marx (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
George C. Comninel
R2,204 R1,500 Discovery Miles 15 000 Save R704 (32%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book considers Karl Marx's ideas in relation to the social and political context in which he lived and wrote. It emphasizes both the continuity of his commitment to the cause of full human emancipation, and the role of his critique of political economy in conceiving history to be the history of class struggles. The book follows his developing ideas from before he encountered political economy, through the politics of 1848 and the Bonapartist "farce,", the maturation of the critique of political economy in the Grundrisse and Capital, and his engagement with the politics of the First International and the legacy of the Paris Commune. Notwithstanding errors in historical judgment largely reflecting the influence of dominant liberal historiography, Marx laid the foundations for a new social theory premised upon the historical consequences of alienation and the potential for human freedom.

Tailoring Truth - Politicizing the Past and Negotiating Memory in East Germany, 1945-1990 (Paperback): Jon Berndt Olsen Tailoring Truth - Politicizing the Past and Negotiating Memory in East Germany, 1945-1990 (Paperback)
Jon Berndt Olsen
R892 Discovery Miles 8 920 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

By looking at state-sponsored memory projects, such as memorials, commemorations, and historical museums, this book reveals that the East German communist regime obsessively monitored and attempted to control public representations of the past to legitimize its rule. It demonstrates that the regime's approach to memory politics was not stagnant, but rather evolved over time to meet different demands and potential threats to its legitimacy. Ultimately the party found it increasingly difficult to control the public portrayal of the past, and some dissidents were able to turn the party's memory politics against the state to challenge its claims of moral authority.

East Central Europe and Communism - Politics, Culture, and Society, 1943-1991 (Hardcover): Sabrina P. Ramet East Central Europe and Communism - Politics, Culture, and Society, 1943-1991 (Hardcover)
Sabrina P. Ramet
R4,030 Discovery Miles 40 300 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The communists of East Central Europe came to power promising to bring about genuine equality, paying special attention to achieving gender equality, to build up industry and create prosperous societies, and to use music, art, and literature to promote socialist ideals. Instead, they never succeeded in filling more than a third of their legislatures with women and were unable to make significant headway against entrenched patriarchal views; they considered it necessary (with the sole exception of Albania) to rely heavily on credits to build up their economies, eventually driving them into bankruptcy; and the effort to instrumentalize the arts ran aground in most of the region already by 1956, and, in Yugoslavia, by 1949. Communism was all about planning, control, and politicization. Except for Yugoslavia after 1949, the communists sought to plan and control not only politics and the economy, but also the media and information, religious organizations, culture, and the promotion of women, which they understood in the first place as involving putting women to work. Inspired by the groundbreaking work of Robert K. Merton on functionalist theory, this book shows how communist policies were repeatedly undermined by unintended consequences and outright dysfunctions.

A Critical Theory of Economic Compulsion - Wealth, Suffering, Negation (Hardcover): Werner Bonefeld A Critical Theory of Economic Compulsion - Wealth, Suffering, Negation (Hardcover)
Werner Bonefeld
R4,011 Discovery Miles 40 110 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book explores a variety of interconnected themes central to contemporary Marxist theory and its further development as a critical social theory. Championing the critique of political economy as a critical theory of society and rejecting Marxian economics as a contradiction in terms, it argues instead that economic categories are perverted social categories, before identifying the sheer unrest of life - the struggle to make ends meet - as the negative content of the reified system of economic objectivity. With class struggle recognised as the negative category of the cold society of capitalist wealth, which sees in humanity a living resource for economic progress, the author contends that the critique of class society finds its rational solution in the society of human purposes, that is, the classless society of communist individuals. A theoretically sophisticated engagement with Marxist thought, A Critical Theory of Economic Compulsion will appeal to scholars of social and political theory with interests in critical theory and post-capitalist imaginaries.

The Fate of the Russian Revolution, v. 1 - Lost Texts of Critical Marxism (Paperback): Max Shachtman The Fate of the Russian Revolution, v. 1 - Lost Texts of Critical Marxism (Paperback)
Max Shachtman; Volume editing by Sean Matgamna; Hal Draper, C. L. R. James, Al Glotzer, …
R304 Discovery Miles 3 040 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Routledge Handbook of Non-Violent Extremism - Groups, Perspectives and New Debates (Hardcover): Elisa Orofino, William Allchorn Routledge Handbook of Non-Violent Extremism - Groups, Perspectives and New Debates (Hardcover)
Elisa Orofino, William Allchorn
R6,270 Discovery Miles 62 700 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This Handbook provides the first in-depth analysis of non-violent extremism across different ideologies and geographic centres, a topic overshadowed until now by the political and academic focus on violent and jihadi extremism in the Global North. Whilst acknowledging the potentiality of non-violent extremism as a precursor to terrorism, this Handbook argues that non-violent extremism ought to be considered a stand-alone area of study. Focusing on Islamist, Buddhist, Hindu, far-right, far-left, environmentalist and feminist manifestations, the Handbook discusses the ideological foundation of their 'war on ideas' against the prevailing socio-political and cultural systems in which they operate, and provides an empirical examination of their main claims and perspectives. This is supplemented by a truly global overview of non-violent extremist groups not only in Europe and the United States, but also in Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Middle East. The Handbook thus answers a call to decolonise knowledge that is especially prescient given both the complicity of non-violent extremists with authoritarian states and the dynamic of oppression towards more progressive groups in the Global South. The Handbook will appeal to those studying extremism, radicalisation and terrorism and intersects several relevant disciplines, including social movement studies, political science, criminology, Islamic studies and anthropology.

Proposed Roads to Freedom (Hardcover): Bertrand Russell Proposed Roads to Freedom (Hardcover)
Bertrand Russell
R596 Discovery Miles 5 960 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
East Central Europe and Communism - Politics, Culture, and Society, 1943-1991 (Paperback): Sabrina P. Ramet East Central Europe and Communism - Politics, Culture, and Society, 1943-1991 (Paperback)
Sabrina P. Ramet
R1,238 Discovery Miles 12 380 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The communists of East Central Europe came to power promising to bring about genuine equality, paying special attention to achieving gender equality, to build up industry and create prosperous societies, and to use music, art, and literature to promote socialist ideals. Instead, they never succeeded in filling more than a third of their legislatures with women and were unable to make significant headway against entrenched patriarchal views; they considered it necessary (with the sole exception of Albania) to rely heavily on credits to build up their economies, eventually driving them into bankruptcy; and the effort to instrumentalize the arts ran aground in most of the region already by 1956, and, in Yugoslavia, by 1949. Communism was all about planning, control, and politicization. Except for Yugoslavia after 1949, the communists sought to plan and control not only politics and the economy, but also the media and information, religious organizations, culture, and the promotion of women, which they understood in the first place as involving putting women to work. Inspired by the groundbreaking work of Robert K. Merton on functionalist theory, this book shows how communist policies were repeatedly undermined by unintended consequences and outright dysfunctions.

The Media of Testimony - Remembering the East German Stasi in the Berlin Republic (Hardcover): S. Jones The Media of Testimony - Remembering the East German Stasi in the Berlin Republic (Hardcover)
S. Jones
R1,942 Discovery Miles 19 420 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Media of Testimony explores testimony relating to the Stasi in different cultural forms: autobiographical writing, memorial museums and documentary film. Combining theoretical models from diverse disciplines, it presents a new approach to the study of testimony, memory and mediation.

What is to be done? (Paperback): Althusser What is to be done? (Paperback)
Althusser
R449 Discovery Miles 4 490 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

What is to be done? This was the question asked by Lenin in 1901 when he was having doubts about the revolutionary capabilities of the Russian working class. 77 years later, Louis Althusser asked the same question. Faced with the tidal wave of May '68 and the recurrent hostility of the Communist Party towards the protests, he wanted to offer readers a succinct guide for the revolution to come. Lively, brilliant and engaged, this short text is wholly oriented towards one objective: to organise the working class struggle. Althusser provides a sharp critique of Antonio Gramsci's writings and of Eurocommunism, which seduced various Marxists at the time. But this book is above all the opportunity for Althusser to state what he had not succeeded in articulating elsewhere: what concrete conditions would need to be satisfied before the revolution could take place. Left unfinished, it is published here in English for the first time.

Communist Logistics in the Korean War (Hardcover): Charles R Shrader Communist Logistics in the Korean War (Hardcover)
Charles R Shrader
R2,781 Discovery Miles 27 810 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book describes the logistical systems and requirements of the North Korean People's Army and Chinese Communist forces during the Korean War. The author examines the performance of the Communist logistical system from June 1950 to July 1953, explaining the failure of the United Nations air interdiction campaign in terms of the constant improvement of Communist logistical capabilities. The author concludes that the United Nations air force damaged, but was unable to destroy, the Communist distribution system. The North Koreans and Chinese Communists were able to supply their front line units sufficiently to enable them to conduct a strong static defense, which prevented a United Nations victory, and in the last months of the war, to mount strong, sustained offensive actions.

Today's Struggles, Tomorrow's Revolutions - Afro-Caribbean Liberatory Thought (Paperback): Drucilla Cornell Today's Struggles, Tomorrow's Revolutions - Afro-Caribbean Liberatory Thought (Paperback)
Drucilla Cornell
R901 Discovery Miles 9 010 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The black insurgence movement and experiments in Caribbean socialism, following the work of the committed revolutionary CLR James, have resounding significance for the political struggles of today. This book addresses class struggle and the battle against racialized capitalism, which in turn makes us reconceptualize the idea of revolution, liberation and rebellion by focusing on this great revolutionary theorist. Renowned political theorist Drucilla Cornell argues that the universal heartbeat of the struggle for socialism is a new praxis of being human together beyond the exploitation of colonial-racial capitalism. On this basis, this book's intervention emphasizes the continuous history of revolution, rather than understanding revolutions as "events" that either succeed or fail. In today's moment, with the simultaneity of the collapse of the post-Cold War neoliberal order and climate change, the struggle over what it means to be human on the planet today has taken on a new urgency. Cornell argues that today, the greatest vectors of this revolutionary struggle for a new humanity are Black, decolonial, and queer movements, as they show us ways of being beyond the reign of white economic man. Placing the insights of these struggles in conversation with "traditional" Marxist thought, this book speaks to the pragmatic questions of insurrection, insurgency, rebellion, revolution in a way that speaks to the politics of our time.

Marx - The Alternative to Capitalism (Paperback): Kieran Allen Marx - The Alternative to Capitalism (Paperback)
Kieran Allen
R541 R504 Discovery Miles 5 040 Save R37 (7%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

If we are serious about finding a different way to run the post-credit crunch society, we must start by introducing alternatives to undergraduates. Kieran Allen begins the task with an accessible and comprehensive look at the ideas of Karl Marx. Dispensing with the dryness of traditional explanations of Marx, Allen shows how Marx's ideas apply to modern society. The first section briefly outlines Marx's life and the development of his work, then goes on to clearly explain his key theories, including historical materialism and surplus value. The second section examines alternatives to capitalism, the concept of 'anti-capitalism' and provides concrete, contemporary examples of Marx's theories being put into practice in today's world.

Repression and Resistance in Communist Europe (Paperback): Jason Sharman Repression and Resistance in Communist Europe (Paperback)
Jason Sharman
R1,462 Discovery Miles 14 620 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

This book explores the role of coercion in the relationship between the citizens and regimes of communist Eastern Europe. Looking in detail at Soviet collectivisation in 1928-34, the Hungarian Uprising of 1956 and the Polish Solidarity Movement of 1980-84, it shows how the system excluded channels to enable popular grievances to be translated into collective opposition; how this lessened the amount of popular protest, affected the nature of such protest as did occur and entrenched the dominance of state over society.

Solidarnosc - The Workers' Movement and the Rebirth of Poland in 1980-1 (Paperback): Mark Osborn Solidarnosc - The Workers' Movement and the Rebirth of Poland in 1980-1 (Paperback)
Mark Osborn
R161 Discovery Miles 1 610 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Time for Telling Truth Is Running Out - Conversations with Zhang Shenfu (Hardcover, New): Vera Schwarcz Time for Telling Truth Is Running Out - Conversations with Zhang Shenfu (Hardcover, New)
Vera Schwarcz
R1,861 Discovery Miles 18 610 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Zhang Shenfu, a founder of the Chinese Communist party, participated in all the major political events in China for four decades following the Revolution of 1919. Yet Zhang had become a forgotten figure in China and the West--a victim of Mao's determined efforts to place himself at the center of China's revolution--until Vera Schwarcz began to meet with him in his home on Wang Fu Cang Lane in Beijing. Now Schwarcz brings Zhang to life through her poignant account of five years of conversations with him, a narrative that is interwoven with translations of his writings and testimony of his friends. Moving circuitously, Schwarcz reveals fragments of the often contradictory layers of Zhang's character: at once a champion of feminism and an ardent womanizer, a follower of Bertrand Russell who also admired Confucius, and a philosophically inclined political pragmatist. Schwarcz also meditates on the tension between historical events and personal memory, on the public amnesia enforced by governments and the "forgetfulness" of those who find rememberance too painful. Her book is not only a portrait of a remarkable personality but a corrective to received accounts and to the silences that abound in the official annals of the Chinese revolution.

Marx - An Introduction (Hardcover): Michel Henry Marx - An Introduction (Hardcover)
Michel Henry; Translated by Kristien Justaert; Preface by Frederic Seyler
R1,890 R1,775 Discovery Miles 17 750 Save R115 (6%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

According to Michel Henry, no thinker has been more influential than Marx, and no one has been more misunderstood. With his characteristic clarity and elegance, Henry seeks to pull out the philosophical heart of Marx's work and the reasons this complex philosophy has so often been simplified, distorted and obscured. Marx: An Introduction is not just a recovery of the theoretical centre of Marx's thinking, but also a brilliant introduction to the work of Marx in general; concise and punchy without glossing over the difficult material, it provides a totally fresh reading of Marx's corpus. Michel Henry shares with Marx a concern for the living work and the living individual and this shared preoccupation is brilliantly conveyed throughout the book. An essential read for those wrestling with Marx for the first time, and those looking for a new way to approach well-trodden territory.

Communist Propaganda at School - The World of the Reading Primers from the Soviet Bloc, 1949-1989 (Paperback): Joanna Wojdon Communist Propaganda at School - The World of the Reading Primers from the Soviet Bloc, 1949-1989 (Paperback)
Joanna Wojdon
R1,305 Discovery Miles 13 050 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Communist Propaganda at School is based on an analysis of reading primers from the Soviet bloc and recreates the world as presented to the youngest schoolchildren who started their education between 1949 and 1989 across the nine Eastern European countries. The author argues that those first textbooks, from their first to last pages, were heavily laden with communist propaganda, and that they share similar concepts, techniques and even contents, even if some national specificities can be observed. This volume reconstructs the image of the world presented to schoolchildren in the first books they were required to read in their school life, and argues that the image was charged with communist propaganda. The book is based on the analysis of over sixty reading primers from nine countries of the Soviet bloc: Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, the German Democratic Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia from the period. Written with simplicity and straightforwardness, this book will be a valuable resource, not only to international academics dealing with the issues of propaganda, censorship, education, childhood and everyday life under communism in Eastern and Central Europe, but can also academics dealing with education under communism or with the content of primary education. It also brings educational experiences of the Soviet bloc to international researchers, in particular to researchers of education under totalitarian and authoritarian regimes.

Milan Rastislav Stefanik - The Slovak National Hero and Co-Founder of Czechoslovakia (Paperback): Michal Ksinan Milan Rastislav Stefanik - The Slovak National Hero and Co-Founder of Czechoslovakia (Paperback)
Michal Ksinan
R1,325 Discovery Miles 13 250 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This is the first scientific biography of Milan Rastislav Stefanik (1880-1919) that is focused on analysing the process of how he became the Slovak national hero. Although he is relatively unknown internationally, his contemporaries compared him "to Choderlos de Laclos for the use of military tactics in love affairs, to Lawrence of Arabia for vision, to Bonaparte for ambition ... and to one of apostles for conviction". He played the key role in founding an independent Czechoslovakia in 1918 through his relentless worldwide travels during the First World War in order to create the Czechoslovak Army: he visited Serbia and Romania on the eve of invasion by the Central Powers, Russia before the February revolution, the United States after it declared war on Germany, Italy dealing with the consequences of defeat in the Caporetto battle, and again when Russia plunged into Civil War. Several historical methods are used to analyse the aforementioned central research question of this biography such as social capital to explain his rise in French society, the charismatic leader to understand how he convinced and won over a relatively large number of people; more traditional political, military, and diplomatic history to show his contribution to the founding of Czechoslovakia, and memory studies to analyse his extraordinary popularity in Slovakia. By mapping his intriguing life, the book will be of interest to scholars in a broad range of areas including history of Central Europe, especially Czechoslovakia, international relations, social history, French society at the beginning of the 20th century and biographical research.

Public Libraries and Marxism (Paperback): Joe Pateman, John Pateman Public Libraries and Marxism (Paperback)
Joe Pateman, John Pateman
R759 Discovery Miles 7 590 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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. Evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of this Marxist framework, the authors also provide a critical examination of the history, theory and practice of libraries in the Soviet Union and North Korea. Considering what a Marxist library service would look like in the Western capitalist countries of today, Pateman and Pateman synthesise the insights provided throughout the book into a set of Marxist proposals designed to promote the transformation of contemporary Western public librarianship. These proposals suggest how Western public libraries can change their organisation and practices - their strategies, structures, systems and culture - in order to best serve those with the most needs, particularly as society evolves in response to new challenges. Public Libraries and Marxism will be relevant for scholars and students of library and information science, history, politics and sociology. Outlining the rudiments of a Marxist library service that should be applicable around the world, the book will also appeal to library practitioners who want to develop libraries in a community-led and needs-based direction.

Politics and the Slavic Languages (Paperback): Tomasz Kamusella Politics and the Slavic Languages (Paperback)
Tomasz Kamusella
R1,332 Discovery Miles 13 320 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

During the last two centuries, ethnolinguistic nationalism has been the norm of nation building and state building in Central Europe. The number of recognized Slavic languages (in line with the normative political formula of language = nation = state) gradually tallied with the number of the Slavic nation-states, especially after the breakups of Czechoslovakia, the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia. But in the current age of borderless cyberspace, regional and minority Slavic languages are freely standardized and used, even when state authorities disapprove. As a result, since the turn of the 19th century, the number of Slavic languages has varied widely, from a single Slavic language to as many as 40. Through the story of Slavic languages, this timely book illustrates that decisions on what counts as a language are neither permanent nor stable, arguing that the politics of language is the politics in Central Europe. The monograph will prove to be an essential resource for scholars of linguistics and politics in Central Europe.

Football in the Land of the Soviets (Paperback): Carles Vinas Football in the Land of the Soviets (Paperback)
Carles Vinas; Translated by Luke Stobart
R511 R440 Discovery Miles 4 400 Save R71 (14%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Mistrusted and derided, instrumentalised and adored - the story of football in Tsarist and early Soviet Russia is as wild and intriguing as that of the country itself. In many ways it is the same story... Football in the Land of the Soviets offers a fresh perspective on a momentous chapter in modern political history. Carles Vinas shows how the Russian game was transformed in just a few decades: from a minor emigre pastime, to a modernising driver of society, to a vanguard for Soviet diplomacy and internationalism, and finally, with the first championship of the Soviet League in 1936, into a truly mass phenomenon. So exactly how did a bourgeois game end up as the collective passion of the Soviet working class? And why does it matter? Football in the Land of the Soviets brings these questions to the fore in this thrilling, unorthodox account of the fall of an imperial dynasty and the rise of the world's first socialist state.

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