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Prisoners of the American Dream is Mike Davis's brilliant exegesis of a persistent and major analytical problem for Marxist historians and political economists: Why has the world's most industrially advanced nation never spawned a mass party of the working class?

Part memoir, part history, part political manifesto, Seeking Social Democracy offers the first full-length treatment of Ed Broadbent's ideas and remarkable seven-decade engagement in public life. In dialogue with three collaborators from different generations, Broadbent leads listeners through a life spent fighting for equality in Parliament and beyond: exploring the formation of his social democratic ideals, his engagement on the international stage, and his relationships with historical figures from Pierre Trudeau and Fidel Castro to Tommy Douglas, Rene Levesque, and Willy Brandt.

Following the end of the Cold War, the world experienced a remarkable wave of democratization. Over the next two decades, numerous authoritarian regimes transitioned to democracies, and it seemed that authoritarianism as a political model was fading. But as recent events have shown, things have clearly changed. In Dictating the Agenda, authors Alexander Cooley and Alexander Dukalskis reveal how today's authoritarian states are actively countering liberal ideas and advocacy surrounding human rights and democracy across various global governance domains.

Since 1949, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has maintained unrivalled control over the country, persisting even in the face of economic calamity, widespread social upheaval, and violence against its own people. Yet the party does not sustain dominance through repressive tactics alone - it pairs this with surprising responsiveness to the public. The Party and the People explores how this paradox has helped the CCP endure for decades, and how this balance has shifted increasingly toward repression under the rule of President Xi Jinping.

The Radical Mind is a groundbreaking analysis of the origins of the Christian Right, whose political victories are radically reshaping the landscape of American society. Scholars and the public alike have traditionally regarded the New Right and the Christian Right as separate movements. Insofar as both are conservative efforts, most people view them as reactionary and driven by a culture-war backlash against liberal changes to society.

Le socialisme est voué à l'échec, car il parie que le lapin proverbial mangera le renard à la 101e tentative alors que le renard a mangé le lapin les 100 fois précédentes, tout comme le socialisme a échoué dans les pays qui l’ont adopté 100 fois sur 100 en raison d'une seule erreur fondamentale : l’idée selon laquelle les gens travailleraient aussi dur, aussi souvent et aussi longtemps pour une collectivité qu'ils le feraient pour eux-mêmes. Cela ne s'est jamais produit. Cela ne se produira jamais.

El socialismo tiene un defecto fatal porque apuesta a que el proverbial conejo se comerá al zorro la vez número 101, cuando el zorro se ha comido al conejo las últimas 100 veces, ya que el socialismo ha fallado a sus países 100 de 100 veces basado en un único error fundamental: que las personas trabajarán tan duro, a menudo y por tanto tiempo para un colectivo como lo harían para sí mismas. Nunca ha sucedido. Nunca sucederá.

Das "Ich" ist politisch nicht im Trend. Wer sich zur individuellen Freiheit als Ideal bekennt, steht schnell im Verdacht des rücksichtslosen Egoismus. Zu Unrecht, meint die Juristin und Journalistin Anna Schneider. In ihrem Debattenbuch schwärmt und wirbt sie im Dialog mit großen Denkerinnen und Denkern des Liberalismus für die Freiheit, das unbeliebte Ideal. Sie prangert antiliberale Tendenzen im politischen Diskurs der Gegenwart an und sucht eine Erklärung für die Freiheitsskepsis, die sie den Deutschen diagnostiziert.

Karl Marx / Friedrich Engels - "Das kommunistische Manifest". Die industrielle Revolution verursachte eine massive Landflucht. Unzählige Menschen aus bäuerlichen Verhältnissen versuchten ihr Glück als Arbeiter in den Städten, gehen dort jedoch in äußerst prekären Verhältnissen unter. Das Massenelend der Arbeiterklasse führte zum Aufkommen sozialistischer, bzw. kommunistischer Ideen in der ersten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts und die beiden deutschen Philosophen Karl Marx und Friedrich Engels verfassten ihr bis heute vielbeachtetes Werk "Das kommunistische Manifest".

Socialism is fatally flawed because it bets on the proverbial rabbit to eat the fox the 101st time when the fox has eaten the rabbit the last 100 times. Socialism has failed their countries 100 out of 100 times based on one single foundational error: People will work as hard, often, and long for a collective as they would work for themselves personally. Never happened. Never will happen.