|
Showing 1 - 25 of
89 matches in All Departments
The definitive introduction to history’s most influential and
controversial political document, updated for a new generation of
readers. Since it was first written in 1848, The Communist
Manifesto has been translated into more languages than any other
modern text. All across the world—in countless places and
idioms—it has been debated, shared, brandished, invoked, banned,
burned, and even declared “dead.” But in an era of escalating
political, economic, health, and environmental crises, Marx and
Engels’ fierce indictment of capitalism is more relevant than
ever, and their Manifesto remains required reading from the
classroom to the picket line. Scholar Phil Gasper draws on his
decades of teaching and organizing experience to produce a
beautifully organized edition of the Manifesto that brings the text
to life. By fully annotating the Manifesto with clear historical
references and explication, a glossary, and including additional
related texts, Gasper provides an accessible and comprehensive
reference edition suited to first-time readers and dedicated
partisans alike.
The second edition of this strong collection brings together
classical statements on social stratification with current and
original scholarship, providing a foundation for theoretical debate
on the nature of race, class, and gender inequality. Designed for
students in courses on social stratification, inequality, and
social theory, this new edition includes a revised and updated
editor's introduction and conclusion, along with five new chapters
on race and gender from distinguished scholars in the field.
The second edition of this strong collection brings together
classical statements on social stratification with current and
original scholarship, providing a foundation for theoretical debate
on the nature of race, class, and gender inequality. Designed for
students in courses on social stratification, inequality, and
social theory, this new edition includes a revised and updated
editor's introduction and conclusion, along with five new chapters
on race and gender from distinguished scholars in the field.
This book contains four classic writings of Marxism by Marx,
Engels, Lenin and Trotsky. There is no better explanation of
Marxism than in the words of its foremost thinkers. This volume
includes: The Communist Manifesto by Marx and Engels. Socialism:
Utopian and Scientific by Frederick Engels. The State and
Revolution by V. I. Lenin. The Transitional Programme by Leon
Trotsky.
The famous lectures to workers on the economic laws that determine
wages and profits.
Using the authorized English translation, edited and annotated by
Engels, this edition features an extensive and provocative
introduction by historian Martin Malia.
Dialectics of Nature is one of the classics of Marxist liturature.
Engels, analysing the advances of science, demonstrates how
dialectical materialism, the philosophy of Marxism, corresponds to
the very way in which nature unfolds. The revolutionary advances of
nineteenth century science, most notably the discovery of the cell,
the law of conservation and transformation of energy, and Darwinian
evolution, provided the material basis for a dialectical
understanding of nature. For Engels, the dialectics of human
history grew out of the dialectics of nature. Throughout the work,
Engels battles with various unscientific schools of thought
prevalent among scientists, especially idealism and vulgar
materialism. Dialectics of Nature deals more fully than any other
work of Marxism with such problems and categories of dialectics
such as causality, chance (freedom) and necessity, relationship of
induction and deduction, and many more. Even though unfinished,
this outstanding work is amazing for its rich and profound
theoretical content. Despite certain aspects being obsolete,
notably some factual data and timescales, resulting from the
prevailing state of natural science at that time, the general
method and conception of the book remain valid today. The book also
contains Engels' brilliant essay, The Part Played by Labour in the
Transition from Ape to Man, which explains how and by what means
our species originated. It has been described by Richard Levins and
Richard Lewontin as capturing "the essential feature of human
evolution."
This title is the classic communist party manifesto which started
this one and a half decade political movement. The seven rarely
published prefaces, mostly written by Frederick Engels after the
death of Karl Marx, are included making this publication the
complete communist manifesto. Although this title is known as one
of the most famous left-wing propagandist publications, it serves
as a lesson for those of all political philosophies. The Communist
Manifesto should be required reading when studying political
science, radicalism and radical political thought.
"At the request of my friend, Paul Lafargue, ... I arranged three
chapters of this book (Anti-Duhring) as a pamphlet, which he
translated and published in 1880, under the title: Socialisme
utopique et Socialisme scientifique. From this French text, a
Polish and a Spanish edition were prepared. In 1883, our German
friends brought out the pamphlet in the original language. Italian,
Russian, Danish, Dutch, and Roumanian transla-tions, based upon the
German text, have since been published. Thus, the present English
edition, this little book circulates in 10 languages. I am not
aware that any other Socialist work, not even our Communist
Manifesto of 1848, or Marx's Capital, has been so often translated.
In Germany, it has had four editions of about 20,000 cop-ies in
all." Frederick Engels: from the Preface to the 1892 English
Edition]
The present work carries us back to a period which, although
chronologically no more than a generation or so behind us, has
become as foreign to the present generation in Germany as if it
were already a full hundred years old. Yet it was the period of
Germany's preparation for the Revolution of 1848; and all that has
happened in our country since then has been merely a continuation
of 1848, merely the execution of the last will and testament of the
revolution. Just as in France in the eighteenth century, so in
Germany in the nineteenth, a philosophical revolution ushered in
the political collapse. But with what a difference The French were
in open combat with all official science, with the church and often
also the state; their writings were printed beyond the frontier, in
Holland or England, while they themselves were often on the point
of landing in the Bastille. But the Germans were professors,
state-appointed instructors of youth; their writings were
recognized textbooks, and the system rounding off the whole
development---the Hegelian system---was even raised, in some
degree, to the rank of a royal Prussian philosophy of state Was it
possible that a revolution could hide behind these professors,
behind their pedantically obscure phrases, their ponderous,
wearisome sentences? Were not the liberals, the very people who
then passed as the representatives of the revolution, the bitterest
opponents of this brain-befuddling philosophy? But what neither
governments nor liberals saw was seen by at least one man as early
as 1833, and indeed by a man called Heinrich Heine.
|
|