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Living in exile in England, where this work was largely written, Marx drew on a wide-ranging knowledge of its society to support his analysis. Arguing that capitalism would cause an ever-increasing division in wealth and welfare, he predicted its abolition and replacement by a system with common ownership of the means of production. Capital rapidly acquired readership throughout the world, to become a work described by Marx's collaborator Friedrich Engels as 'the Bible of the working class'.

The "forgotten" second volume of Capital, Marx's world-shaking analysis of economics, politics, and history. Capital rapidly acquired readership throughout the world, to become a work described by Marx's collaborator Friedrich Engels as 'the Bible of the working class'. This volume also contains the vital discussion of commodity - the cornerstone to Marx's theories. This audiobook is expertly read by Audie award-winning narrator, Malk Williams, and translated by Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling. It is edited by Friedrich Engels.

"Political Ideals" was written during the upheaval of World War One. It is, in many ways, a statement, of Russell's beliefs, a declaration of the ideas that influenced his thinking on the major events of the 20th century. In this sense, it is essential learning for every student of this great philosopher.

Marx started work on this book in January 1847, as can be judged from Engel's letter to Marx on January 15, 1847. By the beginning of April 1847, Marx's work was completed in the main and had gone to the press. On June 15, 1847, he wrote a short foreword. Published in Paris and Brussels in 1847, the book was not republished in full during Marx's lifetime. Excerpts from section five of Chapter Two appeared in different years, mostly between 1872-1875 in papers such as La Emancipacion, Der Volksstaat, Social-Demokrat, and others.

Written in 1916 against the backdrop of the First World War, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism explains the flaws and power of capitalism, which inevitably lead to monopolies, imperialism and colonialism. Lenin develops Marx’s theories of political economy, which had been put forward 50 years earlier in Das Kapital. He goes on to argue that imperialism is the most advanced state of capitalism, characterised by the domination of monopolies on an international scale, with the export of capital leading to the big imperialist powers carving up the world.

Come il benessere ha impedito all'Occidente di vedere dieci anni fa l'arrivo di una profonda crisi finanziaria, così oggi sembra che un lungo periodo di pace abbia cancellato la memoria delle tragedie del Novecento e i sacrifici per la democrazia. In queste pagine Federico Fubini e Ivan Krastev riflettono sul grande rischio che corre quell'impero diviso che è oggi l'Unione europea: spaccato fra ricchi e poveri, fra sicuri e insicuri, orientali e occidentali, meridionali e nordici.

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.

"Questa è una storia parziale e non ha la pretesa di ricostruire alla perfezione gli accadimenti storici. È una storia d'amore personale, a tratti assai stramba e picaresca, che però somiglia a quella di tanti altri. Una storia, quella del comunismo italiano, tanto forte da far tremare i polsi." Sergio Staino è uno dei più importanti vignettisti italiani.

"Todo el país vibra de indignación ante esos desalmados que quieren, por el fuego y el terror, sumir a la España democrática y popular en un infierno de terror. Pero no pasarán…" Aquel legendario llamamiento por radio del 19 de julio de 1936 convirtió a Dolores Ibárruri, a la sazón diputada del Frente Popular por Asturias, en el símbolo universal de la resistencia republicana frente al fascismo. Mario Amorós ha escrito un relato biográfico riguroso y sobre todo necesario de una de las grandes figuras del movimiento obrero y comunista internacional.

THE ANTI-CAPITALISTIC MENTALITY by Austrian School economist and libertarian thinker Ludwig von Mises is an investigation into the psychological roots of the anti-capitalistic stance that is widespread in segments of the general population of the capitalist world. Von Mises suggests various reasons for this mentality, primarily his claim that free competition in the market economy allows no excuses of one's failures. Rather, he argues, it creates great incentive for one's desire for improvement and greater effort to succeed, as well as a greater reward for that success.

Questo volume traccia la parabola dell'Urss dalle origini fino al suo trionfo sul nazismo. Attingendo alla documentazione resasi disponibile dopo il collasso dell'Urss e alle ricerche condotte su di essa, l'autore ha potuto operare una ricostruzione nuova, e diversamente credibile, di una storia che ha affascinato e impaurito il XX secolo.

Le pagine di La sublime pazzia della rivolta sono un esempio di grande reportage giornalistico. Montanelli, che nel 1956 ha raccontato da inviato del "Corriere della Sera" l'invasione sovietica ai danni dell'Ungheria, fu tra i più spietati osservatori della violenza dell'aggressione russa e della coraggiosa resistenza dei cittadini di Budapest. Pagine che ricordano da vicino quanto vediamo oggi in atto in Ucraina, quasi a creare un parallelo, a distanza di quasi settant'anni, tra la brutalità della guerra fredda e quella dei conflitti attuali.

In this ambitious work, Cedric Robinson demonstrates that efforts to understand Black people's history of resistance solely through the prism of Marxist theory are incomplete and inaccurate. Marxist analyses tend to presuppose European models of history and experience that downplay the significance of Black people and Black communities as agents of change and resistance. Black radicalism, Robinson argues, must be linked to the traditions of Africa and the unique experiences of Blacks on Western continents, and any analyses of African American history need to acknowledge this.

La historia del comunismo transcurre entre la revolución y la utopía, entre la violencia y lo criminal. A lo largo de los tiempos, en cualquier lugar donde se haya impuesto o haya tratado de imponerse un régimen de estas características, se han cometido multitud de crímenes, algunos especialmente aberrantes como los de las tiranías de Stalin, Mao o Pol Pot.

In 1955, Katharine Clark, the first American woman wire reporter behind the Iron Curtain, saw something none of her male colleagues did. What followed became one of the most unusual adventure stories of the Cold War. While on assignment in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, Clark befriended a man who, by many definitions, was her enemy. But she saw something in Milovan Djilas, a high-ranking Communist leader who dared to question the ideology he helped establish, that made her want to work with him. It became the assignment of her life.

Die Rechte und die autoritären Aspirationen mancher Politiker und Regierenden machen uns wieder Angst—die Geschichte darf sich doch nicht wiederholen. Die Linken müssen sich neu aufstellen, müssen kämpfen, damit es in unseren globalisierten Gesellschaften ein Gleichgewicht der verschiedenen Kräfte und Denkweisen gibt. Dabei dürfen sie ihre Wurzeln nicht vergessen—erwachsen aus der Dialektik der Aufklärung besitzen die Linken die stärkste Waffe, die sie progressiv einsetzen können: die Utopie. Nur mit einer Utopie im Gepäck kann die Linke getrost in die Zukunft schauen.

"Non pensi che ora il PCI dovrebbe cambiare nome?" è la domanda che viene rivolta ad Achille Occhetto, leader del più grande e anomalo partito comunista d'Occidente, nel giorno in cui cade il Muro di Berlino. Da quel novembre del 1989 saranno molte cose a cambiare mentre un mondo finisce, la storia accelera e la Sinistra italiana cerca con difficoltà di tenere il passo. Quella delle sue metamorfosi, dalla Svolta a oggi, è una vicenda che passa per molti leader - da Occhetto fino a Zingaretti - e si consegna a un presente pieno di sfide.

I en lille bjerglandsby i et kommunistisk land bliver livet en dag vendt på hovedet. Staten har besluttet at tildele en partitro tilflytter en del af en lokal bjergbondes land. Det er bonden naturligvis imod, og der opstår helt fra starten modvilje mellem de to familier. Så griber en endnu større magt end staten ind i affæren. En lavine ruller ned fra bjerget, og på den måde tvinger naturen de to familier til at samarbejde. Niels E.

Tra i fondatori del Partito Comunista d'Italia, Antonio Gramsci trascorse gran parte della propria vita politica da recluso, accusato di marxismo e antifascismo. Il 25 aprile 1937, nel giorno in cui sarebbero state sospese le misure di detenzione nei suoi confronti, Gramsci venne colpito da un'emorragia cerebrale, rimanendo semiparalizzato. Morì due giorni dopo, lasciandosi alle spalle un numero di quesiti irrisolti e testimonianze contraddittorie.

In 1848, The Communist Manifesto was published by two émigrés from Germany. Marx and Engels' apocalyptic vision of an insatiable system that penetrates every corner of the world reduces every relationship to that of profit, and burst asunder the old forms of production and of politics. It is still a recognisable picture of our world—the vampiric energy of the system being once again highly contentious. This is a strikingly imaginative take on Marx and what his most haunting book has to say to us today.