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“brian s roper”

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  • The History of Democracy

    A Marxist Interpretation

    by Brian S. Roper ...
    Democracy under neoliberalism has become tarnished, as governments become disconnected from voters and pursue policies against the interests of the people. And yet the ideal of democracy continues to inspire movements around the world.Brian Roper refreshes our understanding of democracy using a Marxist framework. He traces the history of democracy from ancient Athens to the emergence of liberal ... Read more

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  • The Naked God

    The Writer and the Communist Party

    by Howard Fast ...
    Fast's book on his break with the Communist Party, and a riveting tribute to the importance of justice and beauty over dogma and rigidityThe Naked God is Howard Fast's public repudiation of the Communist Party, of which he was a devoted member for thirteen years until reading about the full scope of atrocities committed by the Soviet Union under Stalin. The bestselling author of Spartacus and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Latin America's Turbulent Transitions

    The Future of Twenty-First Century Socialism

    by Roger Burbach, Michael Fox, Federico Fuentes ...
    Over the past few years, something remarkable has occurred in Latin America. For the first time since the Sandinista Revolution in Nicaragua in the 1980s, people within the region have turned toward radical left governments - specifically in Venezuela, Bolivia, and Ecuador. Why has this profound shift taken place and how does this new, so-called Twenty-First-Century Socialism actually manifest ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Deng Xiaoping

    A Revolutionary Life

    by Alexander V. Pantsov, Steven I. Levine ...
    Deng Xiaoping joined the Chinese Communist movement as a youth and rose in its ranks to become an important lieutenant of Mao's from the 1930s onward. Two years after Mao's death in 1976, Deng became the de facto leader of the Chinese Communist Party and the prime architect of China's post-Mao reforms. Abandoning the Maoist socio-economic policies he had long fervently supported, he set in motion ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • Privatizing Poland

    Baby Food, Big Business, and the Remaking of Labor

    by Elizabeth Cullen Dunn ...
    Series series Culture and Society after Socialism
    The transition from socialism in Eastern Europe is not an isolated event, but part of a larger shift in world capitalism: the transition from Fordism to flexible (or neoliberal) capitalism. Using a blend of ethnography and economic geography, Elizabeth C. Dunn shows how management technologies like niche marketing, accounting, audit, and standardization make up flexible capitalism's unique form of ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Reds, White and Blue: An Anthology of American Socialism and Communism 1880-1920

    by Lenny Flank ...
    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. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Thought Reform and China's Dangerous Classes

    Reeducation, Resistance, and the People

    by Aminda M. Smith ...
    Series series Asia/Pacific/Perspectives
    Thought reform is arguably China’s most controversial social policy. If reeducation’s critics and defenders agree on little else, they share the conviction that ideological remolding is inseparable from its Mao-era roots. This is the first major English-language study to explore one of the most important aspects of those origins, the essential relationship between thought reform and the “dangerous ... Read more

    $109.99 USD

  • Aesthetics and Marxism

    Chinese Aesthetic Marxists and Their Western Contemporaries

    by Kang Liu, Stanley Fish, Fredric Jameson ...
    Series series Post-Contemporary Interventions
    Although Chinese Marxism—primarily represented by Maoism—is generally seen by Western intellectuals as monolithic, Liu Kang argues that its practices and projects are as diverse as those in Western Marxism, particularly in the area of aesthetics. In this comparative study of European and Chinese Marxist traditions, Liu reveals the extent to which Chinese Marxists incorporate ideas about aesthetics ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Luigi Nono

    A Composer in Context

    by Carola Nielinger-Vakil ...
    Series series Music since 1900
    The anti-fascist cantata Il canto sospeso, the string quartet Fragmente - Stille, an Diotima and the 'Tragedy of Listening' Prometeo cemented Luigi Nono's place in music history. In this study, Carola Nielinger-Vakil examines these major works in the context of Nono's amalgamation of avant-garde composition with Communist political engagement. Part I discusses Il canto sospeso in the context of ... Read more

    $145.99 USD

  • New Asian Marxisms

    by William Pietz, Michael Dutton, Douglas R. Howland, Dai Jinhua ...
    Series series a positions book
    Displaying the particular vitality of the global traditions of Marxism and neomarxism at the beginning of the twenty-first century, New AsianMarxisms collects essays by a diverse group of scholars—historians, political scientists, literary scholars, and sociologists—who offer a range of studies of the Marxist heritage focusing on Korea, Japan, India, and China.While some of these essays take up ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • China and the New Maoists

    by Simone van Nieuwenhuizen, Professor Kerry Brown ...
    Series series Asian Arguments
    Forty years after his death, Mao remains a totemic, if divisive, figure in contemporary China. Though he retains an immense symbolic importance within China's national mythology, the rise of a capitalist economy has seen the ruling class become increasingly ambivalent towards him. And while he continues to be a highly visible and contentious presence in Chinese public life, Mao's enduring ... Read more

    $97.99 USD

  • Gendering Radicalism

    Women and Communism in Twentieth-Century California

    by Beth Slutsky ...
    Series series Women in the West
    In 1919 Charlotte Anita Whitney, a wealthy white woman, received one of the first Communist Labor Party membership cards for the charter group of the northern California Communist Labor Party. Less than a decade later in Berkeley, California, a Jewish woman named Dorothy Ray Healey became a card-carrying member of the Young Communist League. Nearly forty years later, in 1966, Kendra Claire Harris ... Read more

    $32.39 USD