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Preparation determines success. Thus revolutionaries better do everything possible to prepare themselves for revolution. Sometimes, one does not know exactly how to prepare for revolution, so this work provides key principles for revolution preparation. If you want to become a successful revolutionary, read this book! 25 pages.
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Get the Summary of Steven Levitsky & Daniel Ziblatt's How Democracies Die in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "How Democracies Die" by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt examines the erosion of democratic norms and the rise of authoritarian leaders through historical and contemporary examples. The authors highlight the cases of Mussolini, Hitler, and Chávez, where political elites mistakenly believed they could...
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Get the Summary of Stuart Stevens's The Conspiracy to End America in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Conspiracy to End America" by Stuart Stevens offers an in-depth analysis of the transformation of the Republican Party and the role of conservative media in shaping political narratives. Stevens, a former political consultant, reflects on his career and the influence of figures like Roger Ailes, who later led...
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Publié pour la première fois en 1976, cet ouvrage retrace tambour battant l'histoire de l'anarchisme en Espagne depuis la fin du XIXe siècle jusqu'à la veille de la révolution sociale de 1936. Fondé sur une variété de sources et salué comme une pierre angulaire de l'historiographie de l'anarchisme, ce classique de l'écologiste libertaire Murray Bookchin est traduit en français pour la première fois. Non content de rendre accessibles au...
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President Obama may have delivered on his campaign promise to kill Osama bin Laden, but as an Al-Qaeda strategist bin Laden has been dead for years. This book introduces and examines the new generation of Al-Qaeda leaders who have been behind the most recent attacks.
Investigative journalist Syed Saleem Shahzad dedicated his life to revealing the strategies and inner workings of Al-Qaeda and the Taliban. He had access to top-level commanders...
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Palestinians in Israel considers a key issue ignored by the official 'peace process' and most mainstream commentators: that of the growing Palestinian minority within Israel itself.
What the Israeli right-wing calls 'the demographic problem' Ben White identifies as 'the democratic problem' which goes to the heart of the conflict. Israel defines itself not as a state of its citizens, but as a Jewish state, despite the substantial and increasing...
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The editor of Current Affairs artfully and efficiently debunks a series of common right-wing arguments.
Are taxes theft? Is abortion murder? Does regulation destroy jobs? Is white privilege a lie? Conservative talking points are everywhere, and through well-funded media like Fox News, Breitbart, and YouTube's "Prager University," the right has an impressive record of packaging its views for a general audience. Clearly, the left needs to do a better...
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New from Voices of the Tea Party. Deeply upset at the way the Republican Party abandoned its conservative base in the elections of 2008, Larry Naritelli had taken to yelling at his television, prompting his 13-year-old son to ask if there would be a revolution in the country. Naritelli responded by taking his son to a Tea Party protest, to teach him about the freedoms granted by our Constitution. Naritelli began speaking publicly about the government-imposed...
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Get the Summary of Tim Alberta's American Carnage in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "American Carnage" by Tim Alberta delves into the tumultuous shifts within American politics, focusing on the internal strife and ideological battles within the Republican Party, as well as the broader cultural and political transformations affecting both major parties. The narrative traces the evolution of the GOP from the 2008...
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Get the Summary of Richard Evans's The Coming of the Third Reich in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Otto von Bismarck's governance, marked by suppression of liberal ideologies and militarization, laid the groundwork for the Third Reich by fostering authoritarianism and nationalism. The ineffective Anti-Socialist Law paradoxically strengthened the Social Democratic Party, making it a significant political force....
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In "Shifting Allegiances: The Struggle for Control and the 2024 Precipice," the undercurrents of political power play out against the backdrop of an imminent election that promises to be as tumultuous as it is transformative. The book delves deep into the strategic maneuvers within America's corridors of power, where the 'Patriots' and the establishment-labeled as the 'Deep State'-vie for the soul of the nation.
Through the lens of an insider's perspective,...
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Nunca se cansó Andrés Saborit de escribir sobre Julián Besteiro. Y en cada texto, podemos encontrar una nueva aportación. En esta ocasión realiza una breve semblanza donde incluye un "resumen de una vida" con gran rigor y utilidad, donde dejó escrita la intencionalidad del mismo: "puede servir de base para estudiar la vida y la obra de tan preclaro patricio". Además, defiende a Besteiro partiendo de su esencia socialista, porque "no fue un...
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El presente libro recopila valiosas aportaciones de expertos en el área de las Industrias Culturales y Creativas (en adelante ICC), las cuales han cobrado una mayor importancia en las últimas dos décadas. Esto ha permitido, tanto a nivel internacional como en los gobiernos locales, observar actualmente que, año tras año, son más las ciudades que promueven o que incluyen en sus políticas públicas este tipo de industrias. No obstante, con todo...
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Leon Trotsky was a key political figure of the twentieth century – a leader of the Russian Revolution, founder of the Red Army, author of books on literature, history, morality and politics.
Leon Trotsky: Writings in Exile contains some of his most insightful and penetrating works. Thrown out of Russia by Stalin, Trotsky settled in Mexico, and turned to the only weapon he had left – words. In these writings he defends the 1917 Bolshevik revolution,...
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Do you want a better democracy with more power for the voters; to restore the balance of power between the three federal branches; have the people elect the President and Vice President, not the Electoral College that has been choosing candidates with the lesser of the popular vote; to finally get true representation in the Senate based on population; have the voters able to overrule the Supreme Court by constitutional amendment; to take big and dark...
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By Yves Engler; Owen Schalk In Books and Featured Books Tagged In Canada, Chile, Congo, Coup d'État, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Imperialism, Iran, Palestine, Ukraine, and Venezuela.
Canada's Long Fight Against Democracy
Published Date: February 1, 2024
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Canada's Long Fight against Democracy is a sweeping overview of Canadian-backed coups since 1950....
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Part of Pluto's 21st birthday series Get Political, which brings essential political writing in a range of fields to a new audience.
This is an entirely new collection of Lenin's writing. For the first time it brings together crucial shorter works, to show that Lenin held a life-long commitment to freedom and democracy. Le Blanc has written a comprehensive introduction, which gives an accessible overview of Lenin's life and work, and explains...
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"A Foreign Affairs Best of Books" Larry M. Bartels is University Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Law and May Werthan Shayne Chair of Public Policy and Social Science at Vanderbilt University. His books include Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age and (with Christopher H. Achen) Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government (both Princeton).
Why leaders, not citizens, are the...
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