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When Orwell went to the north of England in the thirties to find out how industrial workers lived, he not only observed but shared in their experience. He stayed in cramped, dreary lodgings and subsisted on the scant, cheerless diet of the poor. He went down into the coal mines and walked...

The momentous new book from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag and Iron Curtain. In 1932-33, nearly four million Ukrainians died of starvation, having been deliberately deprived of food. It is one of the most devastating episodes in the history of the 20th century. With unprecedented authority and detail, Red Famine investigates how this happened, who was responsible and what the consequences were. It is the fullest account yet published of these terrible events.

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...

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 Soul of Man under Socialism" is an 1891 essay by Oscar Wilde, following his conversion to anarchist philosophy after having read the works of the philosopher Peter Kropotkin. Propounding a libertarian socialist worldview, Wilde argues that - under capitalism - most people are forced to spoil their lives through an unhealthy altruism trying to solve the social problems caused by capitalism, instead of developing their true talents. He did not object to altruism per se, but was concerned about its misapplication in a way that does not address the root of the problem.

5 जून 1974 को पटना के गाँधी मैदान से, ‘सिंहासन खाली करो कि जनता आती है’ के शंखनाद के साथ जेपी ने जिस आंदोलन की नींव रखी, और सत्ता की जड़ें हिला दीं, उसी आंदोलन से निकले उनके दो ‘सिपाही’ बिहार को कहाँ लेकर गए यह ‘राजनीति शास्त्र’ की किताबों में कहीं दर्ज नहीं है। कैसे एक ने अपने कार्यकाल में अपहरण, फिरौती, रंगदारी और सुपारी किलिंग की इंडस्ट्री जमा दी, प्रतिभा का पलायन करवा दिया और जाति की राजनीति के सहारे जम गए, तो दूसरे ने ‘सुशासन बाबू’ बनने की आड़ में ‘शराब के ठेकों’ के सहारे कुर्सी हथिया ली।

Remember when "socialism" was a dirty word? Now students at America's elite universities are parroting socialist talking points and "sure-thing" Hillary Clinton is struggling to win the Democratic nomination against a 74-year-old avowed socialist who promises to make the nation more like Europe. What's happened?

A internet é um poço sem fundo de informação. É preciso atenção para encontrar algo de bom. Em ZEN SOCIALISMO (Os melhores post do blog Socialista Morena), de Cynara Menezes, reúne o que de melhor esta jornalista que prega a necessidade de...

The long-buried truth about the dawn of the Space Age: lies, spies, socialism, and sex magick. Los Angeles, 1930s: Everyone knows that rockets are just toys, the stuff of cranks and pulp magazines. Nevertheless, an earnest engineering student named Frank Malina sets out to prove the doubters...

The 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 best-selling author of Spartacus and Citizen Tom Paine, Howard Fast lent his writing talents and celebrity to the communist cause as a steadfast advocate and public figure. However, he felt increasingly ill at ease with the superior manner Party leaders took with rank-and-file members and with rumors of Soviet anti-Semitism.

The implosion of the Soviet Union was the culmination of a gripping game played out between two men who intensely disliked each other and had different concepts for the future. Mikhail Gorbachev, a sophisticated and urbane reformer, sought to modernize and preserve the USSR; Boris Yeltsin, a coarse and a hard drinking “bulldozer,” wished to destroy the union and create a capitalist Russia. The defeat of the August 1991 coup attempt, carried out by hardline communists, shook Gorbachev’s authority and was a triumph for Yeltsin.

The Naked Communist has sold almost two million copies. It found its way into the libraries of the CIA, the FBI, the White House, and homes all across America and the world. The Naked Communist contains a distillation of more than a hundred books and treatises on communism, many written by Marxist authors. We see the communist the way he sees himself - stripped of propaganda and pretense. Explained here is the amazing appeal of communism, its history, and its basic and unchanging concepts.

Liberals scoff when conservatives denounce Obama and his policies as socialist. After all, they argue, Obama isn’t Stalin and America is nothing like the Soviet Union. But socialism doesn’t always resemble the Berlin Wall or the Iron Curtain, as National Review editor Kevin Williamson proves in his new book, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Socialism.

Профессор Пенсильванского университета, автор семи книг Кристен Годси объясняет, почему триумф капитализма в странах первого и второго мира не стал выходом для большинства женщин.

Wer hat Euch verraten? Christdemokraten! Es sind die Scheinkonservativen, die in der täglichen politischen Rhetorik vorgeblich konservative Standpunkte propagiert haben, aber diese so wie ihre Wähler überall in Europa verraten haben. In Deutschland heißt der prominenteste Fall des Umfallens Friedrich Merz. Mit dem Erhalt der Schuldenbremse, mit dem Versprechen für eine scharfe Migrationspolitik, einer Law-&-Order-Politik, bürgerlicher Redlichkeit und einer konservativen Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik hat er die Wähler geködert.

Aun a riesgo de ser considerado como utópico, Lafargue defendió que no era el trabajo, sino el placer, el objetivo máximo que debía perseguir la clase obrera. No había, en su opinión, trabajo enajenado y trabajo liberado como pensó Marx; la auténtica posición enfrentaba al trabajo embrutecedor con el ocio placentero.

"The wisest, most eloquent history of the Communist Party USA that has ever been written" (Michael Kazin, author of What It Took to Win), revealing how party members contributed to struggles for justice and equality in America even as they championed a brutal, totalitarian state, the USSR After...

The behind-the-scenes story of the rise and reign of the world's strangest and most elusive tyrant, Kim Jong Un, by the journalist with the best connections and insights into the bizarrely dangerous world of North Korea. Since his birth in 1984, Kim Jong Un has been swaddled in myth and...

Uncover the polarizing history of political revolution and economic equality that forever reshaped our global society. Perfect for an educational commute, this gripping historical analysis unpacks the soaring hopes and deep fears driving the quest for a just society. Whether you are seeking a...

Uncover the definitive political history of the global movement that actively challenged industrial capitalism. From early worker uprisings to modern debates over climate change and economic inequality, this thought-provoking narrative charts a profound evolution. Perfect for an informative...