While waiting to hear whether his newest play will be approved for production, playwright Rudian Stefa is called in for questioning by the Party Committee. A girl -- Linda B. -- has been found dead, with a signed copy of his latest book in her possession. He soon learns that Linda's family, considered suspect, was exiled to a small town far from the capital, and that she committed suicide. Under the influence of a paranoid regime, Rudian finds himself...

Written in 1844 as a series of notes, Marx's posthumously published critiques on the conditions of modern industrialist societies forms the foundation of the author's denunciation of capitalism. Combining elements of psychology, sociology, and anthropology, it is a profound examination of the human condition rooted in a philosophy of economics. In this concise treatise, Marx presents an indictment of capitalism and its threat to the working man, his...

'The Debordian analysis of modern life resonates more deeply and darkly than perhaps even its creator thought possible...' - The New Yorker 'Never before has Debord's work seemed quite as relevant as it does now' - The Guardian 'Guy Debord is a time bomb, and a difficult one to defuse.' - Michael Löwy First published in 1967, Guy Debord's stinging revolutionary critique of contemporary society, The Society of the Spectacle has since...

Excerpt: "One of the minor peculiarities of this unprecedented war is the Tour of the Front. After some months of suppressed information-in which even the war correspondent was discouraged to the point of elimination-it was discovered on both sides that this was a struggle in which Opinion was playing a larger and more important part than it had ever done before. This wild spreading weed was perhaps of decisive importance; the Germans at any rate...

Vladimir Ilich Lenin's Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism, originally published in 1916, was one of the first attempts to account for the increasing importance of the world market in the twentieth century. The essay is a synthesis of Lenin's modifications and developments of economic theories that Karl Marx formulated in 'Das Kapital'. This remarkable Marxist text explains fully the inescapable flaws and destructive power of Capitalism. Lenin...

El mito de Lawrence de Arabia, o El Orenz, ha dado a la historia un personaje de novela, casi descomunal. Son innumerables los estudios literarios, psicológicos e históricos sobre su figura y sus escritos, sin olvidar la superproducción rodada por David Lean en 1962 inspirada en el famoso "diario" árabe. Pero su teoría bélica, sintetizada en la Enciclopedia Británica bajo la voz Guerrilla en 1929 (y anticipada la década anterior en Los siete...

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, where ordinary people can work three hundred to four...

Hoy como nunca el capitalismo controla todo el planeta y atraviesa nuestras subjetividades deshilachadas y deseantes. Y aunque los mares nos inundan, los robots nos reemplazan, el empleo asalariado disminuye y la exclusión se multiplica, el capitalismo se las ingenia una vez más para soñar y seguir vendiéndonos postales felices. Ahí están los emprendedores y freelancers en las oficinas de WeWork o de cualquier espacio de coworking, con su filosofía...

The Naked leftist: A Conservative's Perspective to Understanding Liberals & Socialists delivers legitimate sentiments from a common man; a politically incorrect philosophical enlightenment for conservatives, a conservative self-help book. As the title suggests, this book explains and proves with evidence, the conviction, the questionable motivation and tactics of leftists. Randy's political composition analyzes, exemplifies the reasoning and behavior...

Manuel Cruz, uno de los filósofos españoles más prestigiosos, desvela para los lectores de ED Libros -el sello editorial de Economía Digital- la deriva de la política. Sitúa a Podemos, la formación que lidera Pablo Iglesias, en el centro del análisis. La expresión que da título al libro, "dar(se) cuenta", alberga un doble sentido sobre el que conviene advertir. Alude a la vez a la comprensión "date cuenta de lo que estás haciendo" y a...