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The Development of Socialism, Social Democracy and Communism
Historical, Political and Socioeconomic Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
This book examines how socioeconomic and institutional factors shaped the development of Socialism and its two contending variants of Social Democracy and Communism, investigating why each of these factions enjoyed varying levels of popularity in different societies between 1840 and 1945. It places...
What Is Capitalism, Socialism, and Communism?
SHORT STORY # 53. Nonfiction series #1 - # 60.
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
What is capitalism, socialism, and communism? The author is very much familiar with both systems. She lived under socialism (in the former Soviet Union) and under capitalism (in the USA). The story gave definitions and introduced advantages and disadvantages of each system.
Why countries have...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
The revolutions in Eastern Europe and the recasting of socialism in Western Europe since 1989 have given rise to intense debate over the origins, character, and implications of the “crisis” of socialism. Is socialism in ideological, electoral, or organizational decline? Is the decline inevitable...
Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!
The Marx Code—Socialism with a Human Face: (A New World Order)
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2017
This work is divided into two autonomous books. The first book, The State, represents a radically new political system of society, one which is the most democratic system ever possible! This is a completely new society, a real civil society, which otherwise in the capitalist system is only a utopia....
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
*Includes pictures of Marx and important people in his life.*Explains the origins of Marx's philosophical thinking and his most famous works"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it. Karl MarxDuring the 19th century, Europe witnessed one...
THE POVERTY OF STATISM
Anarchism versus Marxism A debate with Nikolai Bukharin, Luigi Fabbri and Rudolf Rocker (Introduced by Albert Meltzer)
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2014
Anarchist response to Nikolai Bukharin’s ‘Anarchy and Scientific Communism’; a libertarian critique of the proletarian state, the dictatorship of the proletariat, the organisation of production, etc., by two of Bukharin’s anarchist contemporaries. Includes Rocker’s essay ‘Marx and Anarchism’....
by Lenny Flank
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
A history of American socialism and communism. Selected from the writings of America's most prominent leftists, including Robert Owen, Eugene V Debs, Jack London, Emma Goldman, Big Bill Haywood, Robert LaFollette, Norman Thomas, Louis Fraina, and others.
by Lenny Flank
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
A selection of writings from Friedrich Engels. Socialism, Utopian and Scientific; The Principles of Communism; The Part Played by Labour in the Transition From Ape to Man; Ludwig Feuerbach and the end of Classical German Philosophy; and The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State.
Heaven on Earth
The Rise, Fall, and Afterlife of Socialism
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
Socialism was man's most ambitious attempt to supplant religion with a doctrine claiming to ground itself in “science.” Each failure to create societies of abundance or give birth to “the New Man” inspired more searching for the path to the promised land: revolution, communes, social democracy,...
by Michael Newman
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2005
What is socialism? Does it have a future, or has it become an outdated ideology in the 21st century? Michael Newman examines and explains the successes and failures of modern socialism by taking an international perspective — ranging from communism in Cuba to social democracy in Sweden. Discussing...
by Kris Romaniuk
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
Rum Socialism follows author Kris Romaniuk off the resort and onto the streets of Trinidad, Cuba where he encounters street hustlers, witch doctors, corrupt cops, foreign operatives, and host of colorful characters. The result is a week-long bender of booze, satire and insight into Cuban Communism...
by Georgii Valentinovich Plekhanov
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
The general conception of anarchism that a beginner often gets is that it is something extremely advanced. It is often expressed somewhat as follows: "After capitalism comes socialism and then comes anarchism." Plechanoff very ably explodes such notions.
Within the pages of this work the...
by Filip Spagnoli
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The all-out rejection of communist states and communist theory was an example of intellectual laziness. With the fall of the Berlin Wall and the implosion of the USSR, the West's rejection of all that smacked of socialism or communism was bolstered all the more, but that rejection was already close...
From Stalinism to Eurocommunism
The Bitter Fruits of 'Socialism in One Country'
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
Ernest Mandel’s book is a study of Eurocommunism unlike any other. Written in the polemical tradition of Trotsky, its sweep extends well beyond the immediate prospects of the Communist Parties of Western Europe. Mandel traces the long historical process which has transformed the once embattled detachments...