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Price: $16.00
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Sale: $2.98
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Manufacturer: Da Capo Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Walter Bernstein
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Publisher: Da Capo Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 791
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Publication Date: 2000-05-02
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Reading Level: 320
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Description: Walter Bernstein was a war correspondent for the U.S. army magazine Yank. During World War II, he joined the Communist Party in 1946 after he was inspired by the Communist partisans in France and Yugoslavia. (He had interviewed Marshall Tito for the magazine.) Shortly afterwards Joe McCarthy's House Committee on Un-American Activities initiated its notorious witch-hunt for Reds in the government and, to garner publicity, in Hollywood, where Bernstein had become a writer for film and television. Though he successfully avoided appearing before the Committee, Bernstein was blacklisted, and forced to scrape a living together by selling his scripts through front men. In this memoir, he recalls the days of the blacklist, celebrates the movie business, and defends his political allegiances.
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Price: $20.00
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Sale: $6.88
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Jonathan Wolff
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Dewey Decimal Number: 320
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Publication Date: 2003-10-30
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Reading Level: 144
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Description: The fall of the Berlin Wall had enormous symbolic resonance, marking the collapse of Marxist politics and economics. Indeed, Marxist regimes have failed miserably, and with them, it seems, all reason to take the writings of Karl Marx seriously. Jonathan Wolff argues that if we detach Marx the critic of current society from Marx the prophet of some never-to-be-realized worker's paradise, he remains the most impressive critic we have of liberal, capitalist, bourgeois society. The author shows how Marx's main ideas still shed light on wider concerns about culture and society and he guides the reader through Marx's notoriously difficult writings. Wolff also argues that the value of a great thinker does not depend on his or her views being true, but on other features such as originality, insight, and systematic vision. From this perspective, Marx still richly deserves to be read. Why Read Marx Today? reinstates Marx as an important critic of current society, and not just a figure of historical interest.
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Price: $23.95
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Sale: $20.00
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Manufacturer: Duke University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Neil Harding
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Publisher: Duke University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 335.43
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Publication Date: 1996
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Reading Level: 356
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Description: In this volume, Neil Harding presents the first comprehensive reinterpretation of Leninism to be produced in many years. Challenging much of the conventional wisdom regarding Leninism’s effectiveness as a mobilizing body of ideas, its substance, and its origins and evolution, Harding offers both a controversial exposition of this ideology and a critical engagement with its consequences for the politics of contemporary communism.
Rather than tracing the roots of Leninism to the details of Lenin’s biography, Harding shows how it emerged as a revolutionary Marxist response to the First World War and to the perceived treachery—the support of that war—by social democratic leaders. The economics, politics, and philosophy of Leninism, he argues, were rapidly theorized between 1914 and 1918 and deeply imprinted with the peculiarities of the wartime experience. Its complementary metaphysics of history and science was as intrinsic to its confidence and sureness of purpose as it was to its contempt for democratic practice and tolerance. But, as Harding also shows, although Leninism articulated a complex and coherent critique of capitalist civilization and held a powerful appeal to a variety of constituencies, it was itself caught in a timewarp that fatally limited its capacity to adapt. This book will engage not only Russian and Soviet specialists, but also readers concerned with the varieties of twentieth-century socialism.
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Price: $17.95
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Sale: $10.19
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Manufacturer: AK Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: George Katsiaficas
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Publisher: AK Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 320
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Publication Date: 2006-06-01
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Reading Level: 312
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Description: "A scholarly gem which is indispensable reading for anyone interested in how social change occurs, especially in the advanced industrial countries."-Carl Boggs, National University "This book is an important corrective to the all-too-common view that global capitalism is triumphant, that there is no basis for opposing the values it promotes."-Barbara Epstein, University of California at Santa Cruz Since the modern anti-globalization movement kicked off with the 1999 WTO protests in Seattle, a new generation has been engaging in anti-capitalist direct action. Its aims, politics, lifestyles, and tactics grow directly out of the autonomous social movements that emerged in Europe from the 1970s through the mid-1990s. In fact, today's infamous "Black Blocs" are the direct descendants of the European "Autonomen." But these important historical connections are rarely noted, and never understood. The Subversion of Politics sets the record straight, filling in the gaps between the momentous events of 1968 and 1999. Katsiaficas presents the protagonists of social revolt-Italian feminists, squatters, disarmament and anti-nuclear activists, punk rockers, and anti-fascist street fighters-in a compelling and sympathetic light. At the same time, he offers a work of great critical depth, drawing from these political practices a new theory of freedom and autonomy that redefines the parameters of the political itself. George Katsiaficas-Fulbright fellow, former student of Herbert Marcuse, and long-time activist-is Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences at Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston, Massachusetts. Author or editor of more than 10 books, he is Managing Editor of the journal New Political Science.
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Price: $18.00
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Sale: $47.20
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Manufacturer: Univ of Chicago Pr (Tx)
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Perry Anderson
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Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr (Tx)
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Dewey Decimal Number: 335.4
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Publication Date: 1984-04
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Reading Level: 120
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Sale: $13.49
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Manufacturer: Monthly Review Press
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: William Hinton
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Publisher: Monthly Review Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 335
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Publication Date: 1972-12-01
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Reading Level: 288
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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $12.90
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Manufacturer: Rutgers University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Fraser M. Ottanelli
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Publisher: Rutgers University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 324.2737509
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Publication Date: 1991-03
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Reading Level: 320
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Manufacturer: Verso
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Perry Anderson
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Publisher: Verso
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Dewey Decimal Number: 335.4
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Publication Date: 1979-09
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Reading Level: 125
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Price: $12.95
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Sale: $5.06
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: John Stuart Mill
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Dewey Decimal Number: 335
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Publication Date: 1999-02-04
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Reading Level: 512
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Description: This volume unites, for the first time, Books IV and V of Mill's great treatise on political economy with his fragmentary Chapters on Socialism. It shows him applying his classical economic theory to policy questions of lasting concern: the desirability of sustained growth of national wealth and population, the merits of capitalism versus socialism, and the suitable scope of government intervention in the competitive market economy. His answers to those questions have profound relevance today, and they serve to illustrate the enduring power and imagination of his distinctive liberal utilitarian philosophy. The lucid introduction and explanatory notes clarify Mill's philosophy in relation to his economic theory, and make full use of the most recent scholarship.
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Price: $35.95
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Sale: $24.79
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Manufacturer: Routledge
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Andr Merrifield
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Publisher: Routledge
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 307.76
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Publication Date: 2002-08-16
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Reading Level: 224
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Description: This highly accessible account of Marxism and the city covers their relationship from the 1850s to the present through biographical chapters on eight towering figures in the Marxist tradition - Marx, Engels, Walter Benjamin, Henri Lefebvre, Guy Debord, Manuel Castells, David Harvey, and Marshall Berman. Each chapter combines interesting biographical anecdotes with a readable analysis of each individual's contribution to the evolving Marxist theory of the city. Merrifield highlights the dialectical nature of the modern city in both its industrial and post-industrial phases. Cities are the places where capital organizes itself and inequality is most intense, but also where the potential for progressive change is most real. The interplay between these two forces, he demonstrates, has produced a major corpus of work that both takes stock of the capitalist city and attempts to advance progressive social transformations. Merrifield emphasizes the cultural, aesthetic side of the Marxist urban tradition in particular. He situates his subject in the streets of the city, showing how the theorists he examines fed off the energy and dialectical tension there. The resulting book is the most engaging and optimistic study of the topic available and will enlighten interested readers at many levels.
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