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“benjamin m sutcliffe”

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  • Soviet Society in the Era of Late Socialism, 1964–1985

    by Kate Brown, Dominic Boyer, Larisa Honey, Olga Livshin, Anna Paretskaya, Benjamin M. Sutcliffe, Sergei I. Zhuk, Robert Edelman ...
    What did it mean to be a Soviet citizen in the 1970s and 1980s? How can we explain the liberalization that preceded the collapse of the USSR? This period in Soviet history is often depicted as stagnant with stultified institutions and the oppression of socialist citizens. However, the socialist state was not simply an oppressive institution that dictated how to live and what to think—it also ... Read more

    $49.39 USD

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  • Capital: The Process of Capitalist Production

    by Karl Marx ...
    Translated by Frederick Engels, Samuel Moore, Edward Aveling ...
    This book is a critical analysis of political economy, meant to reveal the contradictions of the capitalist mode of production, how it was the precursor of the socialist mode of production and of the class struggle rooted in the capitalist social relations of production. Karl Marx (1818–1883) was a famous German philosopher, economist, historian, political theorist, sociologist, journalist and ... Read more

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  • Why Not Socialism?

    by Gerald A. Cohen ...
    A compelling case for why it's time for socialismIs socialism desirable? Is it even possible? In this concise book, one of the world's leading political philosophers presents with clarity and wit a compelling moral case for socialism and argues that the obstacles in its way are exaggerated.There are times, G. A. Cohen notes, when we all behave like socialists. On a camping trip, for example, ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Witness to the German Revolution

    by Victor Serge ...
    Dispatches from a workers' revolt by the Memoirs of a Revolutionary author, "one of the most compelling of twentieth-century ethical and literary heroes" (Susan Sontag, winner of the National Book Award).Following in the wake of the carnage reaped across Europe by World War I, German workers undertook a struggle that would prove decisive in determining the course of the entire twentieth century. ... Read more

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  • The Communist Manifesto

    A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document

    by Karl Marx, Frederick Engels ...
    “What is globalization? Here is one of the best answers. It is the ‘constant revolutionizing of production’ and the ‘endless disturbance of all social conditions.’ It is ‘everlasting uncertainty.’ Everything ‘fixed and frozen’ is ‘swept away,’ and ‘all that is solid melts into air.’ Yes, you have read this before. It is from The Communist Manifesto, by Messrs. Marx and Engels.”—The New York ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Were You Born on the Wrong Continent?

    How the European Model Can Help You Get a Life

    by Thomas Geoghegan ...
    Try to imagine your life in a full-blown European social democracy, especially the German version. Free public goods, a bit of worker control, and whopping trade surpluses? Social democracy doesn't sound too bad. Were You Born on the Wrong Continent? reveals where you might have been happier—or at least had time off to be unhappy properly. It explains why Americans should pay attention to Germany, ... Read more

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  • The Fate of the Russian Revolution

    Lost Texts of Critical Marxism vol.1

    by Max Shachtman, Hal Draper, C L R James ...
    This book opens with a quotation from Albert Einstein, stating the case for socialism. Einstein, like almost every great mind of the 20th century who concerned himself or herself with the welfare of the working people, wanted common ownership and a democratic planned economy. But Einstein was stumped by the enigma of the USSR. He saw that there "the planned economy" was "accompanied by the ... Read more

    $3.58 USD

  • After the Future

    by Franco Bifo Berardi ...
    After the Future explores a century-long obsession with the concept of the "future," starting with Marinetti's "Futurist Manifesto," tracing it through the punk movement of the early 70s, and into the media revolution of the 90s. The future, Bifo argues, has come and gone, the concept has lost its usefulness. Now it's our responsibility to decide what comes next. ... Read more

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  • Revolution in Rojava

    Democratic Autonomy and Women's Liberation in Syrian Kurdistan

    by Michael Knapp, Anja Flach, Ercan Ayboga ...
    A new kind of society is being built in Syria, but it's not one you would expect. Surrounded by deadly bands of ISIS and hostile Turkish forces, the people living in Syria's Rojava cantons are carving out one of the most radically progressive societies on the planet today. Western visitors have been astounded by the success of their project, a communally organised democracy which considers women's ... Read more

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  • Vanguard of the Revolution

    The Global Idea of the Communist Party

    by A. James McAdams ...
    The first comprehensive political history of the communist partyVanguard of the Revolution is a sweeping history of one of the most significant political institutions of the modern world. The communist party was a revolutionary idea long before its supporters came to power. In this book, A. James McAdams argues that the rise and fall of communism can be understood only by taking into account the ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • The Greengrocer and His TV

    The Culture of Communism after the 1968 Prague Spring

    by Paulina Bren ...
    The 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia brought an end to the Prague Spring and its promise of "socialism with a human face." Before the invasion, Czech reformers had made unexpected use of television to advance political and social change. In its aftermath, Communist Party leaders employed the medium to achieve "normalization," pitching television stars against political dissidents in a ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Molotov

    by Geoffrey Roberts ...
    The orthodox view of Vyacheslav Molotov is that he was no more than Stalins faithful servant, a dogmatic communist, and a conservative hard-liner of little or no imagination.Molotov was, indeed, Stalins right-hand man; from the 1920s to the early 1950s the two men presided over a brutal, authoritarian communist system that resulted in the deaths of millions of people. But there was far more to ... Read more

    $29.95 USD