China's Revolution and the Quest for a Socialist Future
China's Revolution and the Quest for a Socialist Future

Author: Ken Hammond

Publisher:

Published: 2023

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781736850084

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"China pursues its distinctive path of socialist construction. Long the most prosperous and sophisticated country in the world, China was subjected to the military, economic, and political domination of Western imperialism for over a hundred years. This volume traces the crisis of Old China and revolutionary struggle up to 1949, the development of New China with Mao Zedong, reform under Deng Xiaoping, and the beginning of a new era led by Xi Jinping. China has generated contradictions as well as dramatic growth in education, health care, and other social services. But the process of socialist construction remains an unfinished and ongoing venture, and the future of the revolution is very much a work in progress"--

Searching for Socialism
Searching for Socialism

Author: Leo Panitch

Publisher: Verso Books

Published: 2020-05-05

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1788738527

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A new and essential history of the Labour new left from Tony Benn to Jeremy Corbyn. Jeremy Corbyn’s rapid ascent to the leadership of the Labour Party, driven by a groundswell of popular support particularly among the young, was met at the time by a baffled media. Just where did Jeremy Corbyn come from? In Searching for Socialism, Leo Panitch and Colin Leys argue that it is only by understanding Corbyn’s roots in the Bennite Labour New Left’s long struggle to transcend the limits of “parliamentary socialism” and democratise the party, as a precondition for democratising the state, can you understand his surge to become leader of the party. Closely analyzing the forces inside the party aligned against Corbyn’s leadership, Panitch and Leys explain what happened between the validation of the Corbyn project in the 2017 election, while advancing an ambitious programme of democratic socialist measures unmatched anywhere since the 1970s, and the electoral defeat amidst the Brexit conjuncture of 2019. They argue that while this defeat marked the farthest point to which the generation formed in the 1970s was able to carry the Labour new left project, it seems unlikely that the new generation of activists will quickly see any other way forward than continuing the struggle inside the Labour Party, so as to fundamentally change it. In the face of the contradictions being generated by twenty-first-century capitalism, and the need for discovering and developing new political forms adequate to addressing them, this book is required reading for democratic socialists, not just in Britain but everywhere.

Socialism Or Barbarism
Socialism Or Barbarism

Author: István Mészáros

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2001-05

Total Pages: 127

ISBN-13: 1583670521

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"This bold new study analyzes the historical choices facing us at the outset of the new millennium. The author gives new meaning and urgency to the alternatives posed by Rosa Luxemburg at the beginning of the century. His detailed analysis of the roots and development of US global power shows how its supremacy has come at the cost of exhausting the universalising pretensions of capitalism. The destructive tendencies of capitalism are a greater threat today than every before." -- BACK COVER.

The Socialist Temptation
The Socialist Temptation

Author: Iain Murray

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2020-07-28

Total Pages: 167

ISBN-13: 1684510759

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IT'S BACK! Just thirty years ago, socialism seemed utterly discredited. An economic, moral, and political failure, socialism had rightly been thrown on the ash heap of history after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Unfortunately, bad ideas never truly go away—and socialism has come back with a vengeance. A generation of young people who don’t remember the misery that socialism inflicted on Russia and Eastern Europe is embracing it all over again. Oblivious to the unexampled prosperity capitalism has showered upon them, they are demanding utopia. In his provocative new book, The Socialist Temptation, Iain Murray of the Competitive Enterprise Institute explains: Why the socialist temptation is suddenly so powerful among young people That even when socialism doesn’t usher in a bloody tyranny (as, for example, in the Soviet Union, China, and Venezuela), it still makes everyone poor and miserable Why under the relatively benign democractic socialism of Murray's youth in pre-Thatcher Britain, he had to do his homework by candlelight That the Scandinavian economies are not really socialist at all The inconsistencies in socialist thought that prevent it from ever working in practice How we can show young people the sorry truth about socialism and turn the tide of history against this destructive pipe dream Sprightly, convincing, and original, The Socialist Temptation is a powerful warning that the resurgence of socialism could rob us of our freedom and prosperity.

The Coming Socialist Revolution in America
The Coming Socialist Revolution in America

Author: Juan R Céspedes, PH D

Publisher:

Published: 2020-08

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13:

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The United Socialist States of America is in the making! In one of his most recent and highly praised works, Dr. Céspedes forecasts a socialist future. With excellent writing and formidable arguments he establishes that there have always been those who have wanted the establishment of a socialist economic system in the United States. They are forever undeterred in their quest for a socialist revolution. What are their ultimate and often undisclosed aims? What happens when the legislation they propose is defeated? Why do their policies have great appeal to significant sectors of society? What are the identities of the socialist sympathizers, what are their numbers, and who are their allies? Theirs are the seedlings of a myopic vision of class warfare and envy that will be nourished year after year despite all setbacks to eventually create a socialist America. They unalterably believe that the United States and its institutions are hopelessly corrupt, and therefore have to be cleared away to make room for something new. If you are politically in the center or the right you are on the weak team, they are much more organized and have been for many years. Do not underestimate the power of the left. Educating yourself is the first priority. The era of socialism is underway.

The Quest for Evolutionary Socialism
The Quest for Evolutionary Socialism

Author: Manfred B. Steger

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1997-03-27

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 0521582008

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The Quest for Evolutionary Socialism studies the interaction between social democratic politics and socialist ideals.

In Search of Democracy in Socialism
In Search of Democracy in Socialism

Author: Svetozar Stojanović

Publisher:

Published: 1981

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13:

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From the Blurb: This book is written by a prominent dissident Marxist philosopher. It presents a radical critique of Marxist theory and practice in contemporary communist societies in Eastern Europe, based upon his experience in Yugoslavia. Among the lively issues that Stojanovic examines are: the ambiguities of Marx's theory of history and its vulnerability to ideological distortion, the problem of charisma, the legacy of Stalinism, the ideological consciousness of the statist ruling class in the USSR, the experience of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, and the moral issues faced by the communist revolutionary who parts ways with his Party. Throughout, Stojanovic defends a humanist interpretation of Marxism and a passionate commitment to democratic socialism. The author discusses the opportunities for the realization of a genuinely democratic socialist order in Yugoslavia today and reaffirms his conviction that the protection of the dignity of the human individual, even in the most difficult of circumstances, is the paramount condition of socialism.