The Myth of Capitalism Reborn
Author: Michael Goldfield
Publisher:
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13:
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Revolution in the Air
Author: Max Elbaum
Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 2018-04-10
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 1786634597
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first in-depth study of the long march of the US New Left after 1968 The sixties were a time when radical movements learned to embrace twentieth-century Marxism. Revolution in the Air is the definitive study of this turning point, and examines what the resistance of today can learn from the legacies of Lenin, Mao and Che. It tells the story of the “new communist movement” which was the most racially integrated and fast-growing movement on the Left. Thousands of young activists, radicalized by the Vietnam War and Black Liberation, and spurred on by the Puerto Rican, Chicano and Asian-American movements, embraced a Third World oriented version of Marxism. These admirers of Mao, Che and Amilcar Cabral organized resistance to the Republican majorities of Nixon and Ford. By the 1980s these groups had either collapsed or become tiny shards of the dream of a Maoist world revolution. Taking issue with the idea of a division between an early “good sixties” and a later “bad sixties,” Max Elbaum is particularly concerned to reclaim the lessons of the new communist movement for today’s activists who, like their sixties’ predecessors, are coming of age at a time when the Left lacks mass support and is fragmented along racial lines. With a new foreward by Alicia Garza, cofounder of #BlackLivesMatter.
The Southern Key
Author: Michael Goldfield
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 433
ISBN-13: 0190079320
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The South is today, as it always has been, the key to understanding American society, its politics, its constitutional anomalies and government structure, its culture, its social relations, its music and literature, its media focus, its blind spots, and virtually everything else. The Golden Key argues that much of what is important in American politics and society today was largely shaped by the successes and failures of the labor movements of the 1930s and 1940s, and most notably the failures of southern labor organizing during this period. It also argues that these failures, despite some important successes in organizing interracial unions, left the South (and consequentially much of the rest of the United States as well) racially backward and open to right-wing demagoguery. These failures have led to a nationwide decline in unionization, growing economic inequality, and overall failures to confront white supremacy head on. In an in-depth look at unexamined archival material and detailed data, The Golden key challenges established historiography, both telling a tale of race, radicalism, and betrayal and arguing that the outcome was not at all predetermined"--
State Capitalism, Contentious Politics and Large-Scale Social Change
Author: Vincent Pollard
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2011-03-22
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9004194452
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThrough a careful analysis of the former Soviet Union and China, and South Asian societies of India and the Phillipines, this volume examines the creation of a state capitalism, its roll in economic development, and its impact on social change.
The Real North Korea
Author: Andrei Lankov
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 0199390037
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn The Real North Korea, Lankov substitutes cold, clear analysis for the overheated rhetoric surrounding this opaque police state. Based on vast expertise, this book reveals how average North Koreans live, how their leaders rule, and how both survive
Herbert Marcuse and the Crisis of Marxism
Author: Douglas Kellner
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 524
ISBN-13: 9780520052956
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCritical overview of the entirety of Marcuse's work and discusses his enduring importance. Kellner had extensive interviews with Marcuse and provides hitherto unknown information about his road to Marxism, his relations with Heidegger and Existentialism, his involvement with the Frankfurt School, and his reasons for appropriating Freud in the 1950s. In addition Kellner provides a novel interpretation of the genesis and structure of Marcuse's theory of one-dimensional society, of the development of his political theory, and of the role of aesthetics in his critical theory.
The Historiography of Communism
Author: Michael E. Brown
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 261
ISBN-13: 1592139213
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCommunism, society, and history -- History and history's problem -- Issues in the historiography of communism : part one -- Issues in the historiography of communism : part two -- Ideology and the metaphysics of content -- Society against the state : the fullness of the primitive -- Left futures (with Randy Martin) -- Rethinking the crisis of socialism (with Itin) -- Rethinking socialism.
After the Digital Tornado
Author: Kevin Werbach
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-07-23
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 1108645259
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNetworks powered by algorithms are pervasive. Major contemporary technology trends - Internet of Things, Big Data, Digital Platform Power, Blockchain, and the Algorithmic Society - are manifestations of this phenomenon. The internet, which once seemed an unambiguous benefit to society, is now the basis for invasions of privacy, massive concentrations of power, and wide-scale manipulation. The algorithmic networked world poses deep questions about power, freedom, fairness, and human agency. The influential 1997 Federal Communications Commission whitepaper “Digital Tornado” hailed the “endless spiral of connectivity” that would transform society, and today, little remains untouched by digital connectivity. Yet fundamental questions remain unresolved, and even more serious challenges have emerged. This important collection, which offers a reckoning and a foretelling, features leading technology scholars who explain the legal, business, ethical, technical, and public policy challenges of building pervasive networks and algorithms for the benefit of humanity. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
International Political Economy Yearbook
Author: W. Ladd Hollist
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-01-29
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 0429716311
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe International Political Economy Yearbook will be published annually under the sponsorship of the International Political Economy Section of the International Studies Association at the Department of Political Science, Brigham Young University. The intent of the series is to describe and explain the structure and the dynamic operation of the international political economy and to explore their political, social, and economic impact on different countries, be they advanced market economies, newly industrializing countries, or underdeveloped countries. This first volume is an overview of the policy and research field of international political economy studies. It explores what international political economy is; what approaches and theories might broaden and deepen our understanding of the phenomena addressed; what perspectives seem inappropriate or misdirected; and why neither international relations scholars nor mainstream economists can any longer claim status as senior partners in the community of scholars and policymakers interested in these issues. It also addresses major policy problems confronting both advanced and developing countries, including commodity trade, foreign investment, regulation of multinational corporations, food shortages and other development problems, industrial crises in the United States and Europe, international debt, and the increased role of the state in different economies.
The New Latin American Left
Author: Patrick S. Barrett
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
Published: 2008-10-20
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13:
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