Why Political Democracy Must Go is an insightful analysis of the origins of the socialist movement in the United States, written by famed journalist John Reed, one of the most distinguished American writers on the subject. One of socialism's fiercest proponents, Reed exposes the myth of 'democratic socialism.' He provides an overview of the development of socialist thought, demonstrating that socialism cannot be achieved through political democracy. Originally...

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In his foreword to an earlier collection of essays on libertarian communism, Daniel Guérin addressed himself to younger people "alienated from ideologies and 'isms' shorn of any meaning by an earlier generation" and particularly from "socialism, which has so often been betrayed by those who claimed to speak in its name, and which now provokes an understandable skepticism." In this collection of essays, written between the 1950s and 1980s and published...

When The Hunger Games series began in 2008, many commentators lumped it in with other young adult genre fiction. But, The Hunger Games was always more political. It's since, become the defining story for a generation that's grown up with economic crisis and never ending war. An uber-rich ruling class gorge themselves in their gleaming high-tech Capitol, while working people, are left, behind to survive in exploited districts. Revolution is a forgotten...

The first edition of The New Cold War was published to great critical acclaim. Edward Lucas has established himself as a top expert in the field, appearing on numerous programs, including Lou Dobbs, MSNBC, NBC Nightly News, CNN, and NPR. Since The New Cold War was first published in February 2008, Russia has become more authoritarian and corrupt, its institutions are weaker, and reforms have fizzled. In this revised and updated third edition, Lucas...

In 1906, my great-grandfather Dr. Alexander Fitzgerald Irvine was the secretary of the Socialist Party of Connecticut and a fellow at Yale University where he taught studies in divinity. He sought to shed some light on the subject of social protection. He had first-hand experience as a reverend in the New Haven religious community. He became very aware of parishioner stealing and other forms of skulduggery used to acquire the most prosperous benefactors....

We live in an age dominated by the cult of efficiency. Efficiency in the raging debate about public goods is often used as a code word to advance political agendas. When it is used correctly, efficiency is important: it must always be part of the conversation when resources are scarce and citizens and governments have important choices to make among competing priorities. Even when the language of efficiency is used carefully, that language alone is...

"Del socialismo utópico al socialismo científico consta de tres capítulos que Engels extrajo de su Anti-Dühring, con el fin de ofrecer a los obreros una exposición popular de la doctrina marxista como concepción íntegra. En él, Engels consigue explicar de una forma sencilla la génesis del materialismo dialéctico y cómo de las condiciones materiales del sistema capitalista surge la posibilidad de construir una sociedad sin clases, es decir,...

¿Dónde está hoy el socialism, se preguntaba G. Bernard Shaw en 1932 y muchas décadas después la respuesta sigue marcada por interpretaciones y versiones contradictorias. La palabra generalmente se asocia a las ideas y propuestas políticas que apuestan a la máxima justicia social, y de allí que haya servido como sustento teórico para revoluciones, ideologías y procesos históricos a lo largo de los años y en las más remotas regiones del...

Zur Kritik der Hegelschen Rechts-Philosophie ist eine Schrift von Karl Marx aus den Jahren 1843 und 1844. Sie besteht aus einer von März bis August 1843 verfassten Kritik des Hegelschen Staatsrechts, die 1927 erstmals veröffentlicht wurde, und einer Ende 1843 bis Januar 1844 entstandenen Einleitung, die im Jahr 1844 erschien. Ersterer Text ist auch als Kreuznacher Manuskript bekannt. Dieser berühmte Text erschien 1844 in den Deutsch-Französischen...