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61) The Marx Reader: Manifesto of the Communist Party; Wage Labour & Capital; and Value, Price & Profit
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Whenever a collection of Marx's works is published, a few questions inevitably arise. Is Marx still relevant today? Do we still have something to gain from reading the great man's thoughts about economic structures? To put this question another way - if Marx was wrong, in the end, about what communism would look like, then why do we still read his writings?
One way to answer this is by looking at the similarities between Marx's world and ours. The...
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What's gone wrong with capitalism and how should governments respond? Did Big Government or Big Banking cause the global financial crisis? Is the answer austerity or investment in growth; untrammelled market forces or regulating for the common good? Anthony Crosland's The Future of Socialism (1956) provided a creed for governments of the centre left until the global banking crisis. Now Peter Hain, with over 50 years' experience in politics, revisits...
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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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Marx published "The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte" in 1852. The "Eighteenth Brumaire" refers to November 9, 1799 in the French Revolutionary Calendar-the day Napoleon Bonaparte made himself dictator. In this piece, Marx traces how the clash of different public interests manifest themselves in the complex net of political struggles, and in particular the contradictory relationships between the external form of a struggle and its real social...
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This study examines the spread of socialism in late-Victorian and Edwardian Wales, paying particular attention to the relationship between socialism and Welsh national identity. Welsh opponents of socialism often claimed it to be a foreign import, whereas socialists often asserted that the Welsh were socialist by nature. This study—the first full-scale study of the influence of early socialism across all of Wales—demonstrates that the reality...
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A doscientos años del nacimiento de Marx, el marxismo es el nombre de una derrota. La modernidad democrática del capital, con sus voceros y sus propagandistas, se ocupa de recordárnoslo una y otra vez: lo presentan como un error grosero y además una utopía criminal. A él se adhiere otra palabra maldita, "comunismo", un espectro que carga con el peso de un estigma. Pero el marxismo, dice Alain Badiou en este texto inspirador, sigue proponiendo...
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Over two decades have passed since the collapse of the USSR, yet the words "Soviet Union" still carry significant weight in the collective memory of millions. But how often do we consider the true meaning of the term "Soviet"? Drawing extensively on left-wing press archives, Romancing the Revolution traces the reactions of the British Left to the idealized concept of Soviet democracy. Focusing on the turbulent period after the 1917 Russian Revolution,...
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This is a political biography of one of the 20th century's most emblematic left-wing figures - Salvador Allende, who was president of Chile until he was ousted by General Pinochet in a US-supported coup in 1973.
Victor Figueroa Clark guides us through Allende's life and political project, answering some of the most frequently asked questions. Was he a revolutionary or a reformist? A bureaucrat or inspirational democrat? Figueroa Clark argues...
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El bolchevismo se caracteriza por utilizar todos los medios y tácticas al servicio de la estrategia de construir el partido, movilizar a los obreros y tomar el poder. Las demás corrientes del movimiento obrero se caracterizan por lo opuesto: confundir estrategia con táctica, y elevar esta última a estrategia permanente. La historia del bolchevismo es una lucha constante por imponer los medios y las tácticas adecuadas para cada momento de la lucha...
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El enorme impacto de la Revolución rusa hizo que en los partidos socialdemócratas de toda Europa comenzasen a surgir agrupaciones de izquierdas, que acabaron convirtiéndose en los diferentes partidos comunistas, atrayendo a millones de trabajadores que empezaban a ver posible la construcción de otro mundo, sin desigualdad y pobreza. Sin embargo, la falta de experiencia de los jóvenes dirigentes comunistas provocaba que siguieran una política...
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"THE FEMINISTS" is the most explosive expose of the 21st century. It's all here! Over one hundred years of lies, deceit, murder, evil beyond measure, complicit politicians, sex, genocide and the complete corruption of American youth! The book will crush the feminist abortion rights organization and cast it into the dustbin of worthless, evil, historically malevolent causes! Learn about the lies blaming your Grandmothers for being cowards after World...
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"Communization" means something quite straightforward: a revolution that starts to change social relations immediately. It would extend over years, decades probably, but from Day One it would begin to do away with wage-labor, profit, productivity, private property, classes, States, masculine domination, and more. There would be no "transition period" in the Marxist sense, no period when the "associated producers" continue furthering economic growth...
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En diciembre de 1871 había llegado a España el yerno de Marx, Paul Lafargue para intentar que el marxismo prosperase en el movimiento obrero español. A raíz de este hecho y después de intensas vicisitudes, el Partido Socialista Obrero Español nació el día 2 de mayo de 1879 en la madrileña calle de Tetuán, en una fonda a espaldas de la Puerta del Sol. En aquella taberna se reunieron veinticinco personas: dieciséis tipógrafos, el núcleo...
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In 1979, the Sandinista government established itself in power in Managua, the capitol of Nicaragua. It found the country ruined by the long war against the Somosa dictatorship and natural disasters alike, and nearly half of the population either homeless or living in exile. Attempting to restructure and recover the underdeveloped economy, Sandinisas introduced a wide range of reforms and a cultural revolution.
Considering the Sandinistas to be...
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When the world held its breath It is 25 years since the end of the Cold War, now a generation old. It began over 75 years ago, in 1944long before the last shots of the Second World War had echoed across the wastelands of Eastern Europe with the brutal Greek Civil War. The battle lines are no longer drawn, but they linger on, unwittingly or not, in conflict zones such as Iraq, Somalia and Ukraine. In an era of mass-produced AK-47s and ICBMs, one such...
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Les réflexions politiques d'Antonio Gramsci, qui sont contenues dans une trentaine de cahiers rédigés dans les geles de Mussolini de 1929 à 1935, révèlent une pensée complexe, originale et profonde. En centrant son analyse sur la notion d'intellectuel, Jean-Marc Piotte donne une interprétation cohérente de l'ensemble de cette œuvre et explique l'apport important de ce penseur, qui renouvelle la théorie marxiste en soulignant le rle crucial...
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The beginning story of the communism was like this: A ghost walks in Europe - the ghost of communism. All the forces of old Europe entered into a sacred alliance to defeat this ghost: the Pope and the Tsar, Metternich and Guizot, French radicals and German police agents. Where is the opposition party not being accused of being communist by its opponents? Where is the opposition, which has not thrown this blightful communism accusation back to its...
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¿Qué fantasma recorre hoy Europa? No es desde luego el comunismo -ese "fantasma" del que hablaran Marx y Engels en 1848-, sino el capitalismo neoliberal y sus expectativas plenas de desolación y de ruina el que, de hecho, recorre hoy Europa y el mundo entero.
¿Cómo ha conseguido el capitalismo volver invisible su auténtica infraestructura de explotación, permeando de tal modo nuestro inconsciente y hasta nuestra piel? ¿Cómo es que hablamos...
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A Short History of Socialist Money is a historical and institutional account of the role of money in the planned economies. The monetary developments in the Soviet Union, East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and China up to 1989 are all examined. The approach is straightforward and firmly empirical, using simple statistics and diagrams to illustrate the major points of theory and evidence. A consistent framework is used to explain the nature...
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Capitalism as a global system of rule that tells us that there is no alternative, and this is accompanied by its terrible twin, 'stalinist realism' that works its way into ideas about political camps, bodies, identity and organisation. Ian Parker provides an analysis and an alternative, 'open communism' that is democratic and plural, and which must be built now
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