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41) The Communist Manifesto; The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844; Socialism: Utopian a
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In a world where capitalism is no longer held in check by fear of a communist alternative, The Communist Manifesto (with Socialism Utopian and Scientific, Engels's brief and clear exposition of Marxist thought) is essential reading. The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844 is Engels's first, and probably best-known, book.
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Manuel Cruz, uno de los filósofos españoles más prestigiosos, desvela para los lectores de ED Libros -el sello editorial de Economía Digital- la deriva de la política. Sitúa a Podemos, la formación que lidera Pablo Iglesias, en el centro del análisis.
La expresión que da título al libro, "dar(se) cuenta", alberga un doble sentido sobre el que conviene advertir.
Alude a la vez a la comprensión "date cuenta de lo que estás haciendo" y a...
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Try to imagine your life in a full-blown European social democracy, especially the German version. Free public goods, a bit of worker control, and whopping trade surpluses? Social democracy doesn't sound too bad. Were You Born on the Wrong Continent? reveals where you might have been happier-or at least had time off to be unhappy properly. It explains why Americans should pay attention to Germany, where ordinary people can work three hundred to four...
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The fast-accelerating world crisis is driving us towards barbarism and extinction. The capitalist system means ecological and social collapse. Mainstream politics, embedded in the system, has been reduced to irrelevance. Revolution has become an existential imperative. This book offers critical Marxist thinking about the nature of the crisis and what must be done to turn mass protest into the revolutionary transformation on which our survival depends....
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Este libro contiene historias atemporales que traspasan lugares, influyendo en la vida y el pensamiento de innumerables generaciones. El autor de los discursos, el Primer Ministro de China, es un gran narrador, en sus discursos públicos, charlas académicas y comparecencias internacionales, logra convencer a sus audiencias con historias vívidas y concretas, tomando relatos populares para hacer llegar sus mensajes. Este libro muestra la habilidad...
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Hoy como nunca el capitalismo controla todo el planeta y atraviesa nuestras subjetividades deshilachadas y deseantes. Y aunque los mares nos inundan, los robots nos reemplazan, el empleo asalariado disminuye y la exclusión se multiplica, el capitalismo se las ingenia una vez más para soñar y seguir vendiéndonos postales felices.
Ahí están los emprendedores y freelancers en las oficinas de WeWork o de cualquier espacio de coworking, con su filosofía...
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The continued existence of every man, woman, child and family pet balances on what I am writing here and how it is, received. In this book my audience is literally everybody in America and accordingly. The whole world. Many of the things I discuss in this book have never been, heard of before, and most of the other issues herein are still unsolved today, even though they, have been explored, explained, and in essence, solved by hundreds of the most,...
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A Short History of Socialist Money is a historical and institutional account of the role of money in the planned economies. The monetary developments in the Soviet Union, East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and China up to 1989 are all examined. The approach is straightforward and firmly empirical, using simple statistics and diagrams to illustrate the major points of theory and evidence. A consistent framework is used to explain the nature...
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The Naked leftist: A Conservative's Perspective to Understanding Liberals & Socialists delivers legitimate sentiments from a common man; a politically incorrect philosophical enlightenment for conservatives, a conservative self-help book. As the title suggests, this book explains and proves with evidence, the conviction, the questionable motivation and tactics of leftists. Randy's political composition analyzes, exemplifies the reasoning and behavior...
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La filosofía frente al comunismo pone en escena la intensa labor intelectual que Alain Badiou, uno de los pensadores más destacados e influyentes de nuestra época, ha desplegado en los últimos años en torno a los problemas de la filosofía, el sujeto y la política. Entendiendo al comunismo como representación intelectual que provee una perspectiva crítica sobre las políticas existentes, el autor renueva la apuesta y explica por qué, pese...
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The United Kingdom faces a historic turning point in 2014. A 'Yes' vote in the referendum on Scottish independence would see the break-up of the 300-year-old union, adding a constitutional crisis to a deep economic crisis.
An accessible polemic written for progressives both north and south of the border, Yes argues that independence can reinvigorate campaigns against austerity across Britain and deal a blow to the imperialist ambitions of the...
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Nacido de una serie de cursos y talleres realizados desde ANCLA (Agrupación Nacional Clasista Antiburocrática), la corriente sindical del MST. Aporta conceptos y herramientas para la actividad sindical. Material para la formación, capacitación y la consulta. No se trata de un "manual para el delegado" como los ya editados, sino un compendio de conceptos políticos básicos, un marco de referencia del sindicalismo clasista y de herramientas que...
53) Antología
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Una vez superado el clima de antimarxismo dominante en los años ochenta y noventa, el Marx del siglo XXI quedó liberado de la pesada hipoteca de ser el "padre" de los comunismos reales del siglo XX. De los escombros del Muro de Berlín surgió un Marx capaz de ofrecer claves válidas para entender el mundo globalizado por fuera de las interpretaciones canónicas de un partido o una ideología. Más cerca en el tiempo, el estallido financiero de...
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En diciembre de 1871 había llegado a España el yerno de Marx, Paul Lafargue para intentar que el marxismo prosperase en el movimiento obrero español. A raíz de este hecho y después de intensas vicisitudes, el Partido Socialista Obrero Español nació el día 2 de mayo de 1879 en la madrileña calle de Tetuán, en una fonda a espaldas de la Puerta del Sol. En aquella taberna se reunieron veinticinco personas: dieciséis tipógrafos, el núcleo...
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While electorally weak, the Communist Party of Great Britain and its Welsh Committee was a constant feature of twentieth century Welsh politics, in particular through its influence in the trade union movement. Based on original archival research, the present volume offers the first in-depth study of the Communist Party's attitude to devolution in Wales, to Welsh nationhood and Welsh identity, as well as examining the party's relationship with the...
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El mejor homenaje a George Orwell, un referente del pensamiento antitotalitario del siglo XX- es revisar su 'Rebelión en la granja'. Miquel Porta Perales se atreve. Hoy, en el marco mental del populismo rampante y la izquierda indignada dominantes, ¿por qué no pasar de la rebelión a la sumisión?
Algunos de ellos se alzan de nuevo contra la dominación. Igual que sus homólogos originales. Aunque con otras armas y objetivos. Cualquier parecido...
57) Somalia
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When the world held its breath It is 25 years since the end of the Cold War, now a generation old. It began over 75 years ago, in 1944long before the last shots of the Second World War had echoed across the wastelands of Eastern Europe - with the brutal Greek Civil War. The battle lines are no longer drawn, but they linger on, unwittingly or not, in conflict zones such as Iraq, Somalia and Ukraine. In an era of mass-produced AK-47s and ICBMs, one...
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The book is, spread over 12 chapters. Efforts have been, made to provide as many details as possible on quality of vegetable oils obtained from different sources and nutritional significance of different classes of fatty acids, especially the role of saturates, w-6 and w-3 fatty acids and trans fatty acids, as well as other components such as tocopherols and sterols in terms of human health and nutrition. Oilseed meal is a rich source of nutraceuticals,...
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Spain In Our Hearts by Adam Hochschild | Summary & Analysis Preview: Adam Hochschild's Spain In Our Hearts is an account of the involvement of US citizens in the Spanish Civil War. It focuses on the experiences of a number of individual volunteers and reporters and provides a broad view of how the war affected Spain, the United States, and Europe. The Spanish Civil War began as a conflict between a democratically elected left-wing government, the...
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Marx's 'Das Kapital' cannot be put into a box marked "economics." It is a work of politics, history, economics, philosophy and even in places, literature (yes Marx's style is that rich and evocative). Marx's 'Das Kapital' For Beginners is an introduction to the Marxist critique of capitalist production and its consequences for a whole range of social activities such as politics, media, education and religion. 'Das Kapital' is not a critique of a...
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