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'The Debordian analysis of modern life resonates more deeply and darkly than perhaps even its creator thought possible...' - The New Yorker
'Never before has Debord's work seemed quite as relevant as it does now' - The Guardian
'Guy Debord is a time bomb, and a difficult one to defuse.' - Michael Löwy
First published in 1967, Guy Debord's stinging revolutionary critique of contemporary society, The Society of the Spectacle has since...
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A doscientos años del nacimiento de Marx, el marxismo es el nombre de una derrota. La modernidad democrática del capital, con sus voceros y sus propagandistas, se ocupa de recordárnoslo una y otra vez: lo presentan como un error grosero y además una utopía criminal. A él se adhiere otra palabra maldita, "comunismo", un espectro que carga con el peso de un estigma. Pero el marxismo, dice Alain Badiou en este texto inspirador, sigue proponiendo...
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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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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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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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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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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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Les réflexions politiques d'Antonio Gramsci, qui sont contenues dans une trentaine de cahiers rédigés dans les geles de Mussolini de 1929 à 1935, révèlent une pensée complexe, originale et profonde. En centrant son analyse sur la notion d'intellectuel, Jean-Marc Piotte donne une interprétation cohérente de l'ensemble de cette œuvre et explique l'apport important de ce penseur, qui renouvelle la théorie marxiste en soulignant le rle crucial...
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Stephen Hanson traces the influence of the Marxist conception of time in Soviet politics from Lenin to Gorbachev. He argues that the history of Marxism and Leninism reveals an unsuccessful revolutionary effort to reorder the human relationship with time and that this reorganization had a direct impact on the design of the central political, socioeconomic, and cultural institutions of the Soviet Union from 1917 to 1991. According to Hanson, westerners...
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When the world held its breath It is more than 25 years since the end of the Cold War. It began over 75 years ago, in 1944 long 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 Syria, Somalia and Ukraine. In an era of mass-produced AK-47s and ICBMs, one such flashpoint...
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What's gone wrong with capitalism and how should governments respond? Did Big Government or Big Banking cause the global financial crisis? Is the answer austerity or investment in growth; untrammelled market forces or regulating for the common good? Anthony Crosland's The Future of Socialism (1956) provided a creed for governments of the centre left until the global banking crisis. Now Peter Hain, with over 50 years' experience in politics, revisits...
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One of the most notorious works of modern times, as well as one of the most influential, Capital is an incisive critique of private property and the social relations it generates. Living in exile in England, where this work was largely written, Marx drew on a wide-ranging knowledge of its society to support his analysis and generate fresh insights. Arguing that capitalism would create an ever-increasing division in wealth and welfare, he predicted...
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The British Labour Party is in crisis. A prolonged period of government between 1997 and 2010 saw the party intellectually exhausted. The subsequent leadership of Ed Miliband ultimately failed with the loss of the 2015 General Election, and the party now finds itself without a clearly defined set of aims and values. Reclaiming Social Democracy is the first major reappraisal of social democracy and thinking on the centre-left since election of...
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Socialism is tempting, seductive, alluring. It comes in many forms and speaks in many different ways. It appeals to people who value fairness, who value freedom, and who value security. It comes in many varieties, sometimes clothing itself in the dress of nationalism, sometimes in the garb of environmentalism. Yet there is one single, unifying feature — subjugation of the individual to the collective. While Americans have always been skeptical of...
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Nunca se cansó Andrés Saborit de escribir sobre Julián Besteiro. Y en cada texto, podemos encontrar una nueva aportación. En esta ocasión realiza una breve semblanza donde incluye un "resumen de una vida" con gran rigor y utilidad, donde dejó escrita la intencionalidad del mismo: "puede servir de base para estudiar la vida y la obra de tan preclaro patricio". Además, defiende a Besteiro partiendo de su esencia socialista, porque "no fue un...
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Philosopher and economist Karl Marx was known for his theory of Marxism on which the modern form of communism is based. Communism can be defined as the thought of economic equality where the concept of private property doesn't exist. The vision of communism was built by Marx on the technological and human possibilities that were available and visible at his time while also considering the fact that it would be adopted by the new socialist society.
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El presente libro recopila valiosas aportaciones de expertos en el área de las Industrias Culturales y Creativas (en adelante ICC), las cuales han cobrado una mayor importancia en las últimas dos décadas. Esto ha permitido, tanto a nivel internacional como en los gobiernos locales, observar actualmente que, año tras año, son más las ciudades que promueven o que incluyen en sus políticas públicas este tipo de industrias. No obstante, con todo...
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Como Marx expone en el prólogo a la Crítica de la Economía política, la finalidad que Marx y Engels perseguían al escribir La ideología alemana era "desentrañar conjuntamente el antagonismo entre nuestra concepción y la de la ideológica de la filosofía alemana, en realidad, ajustar cuentas con nuestra conciencia filosófica anterior. Y el propósito se llevó a cabo bajo la forma de una crítica de la filosofía posthegeliana". En carta...
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Randall W. Stone is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Rochester. The dissertation on which this book is based won the Charles Sumner Prize from Harvard University and the 1994 Helen Dwight Reid Award from the American Political Science Association. He is also the author of Lending Credibility (Princeton).
Why did the Soviet Union squander the political leverage afforded by its trade subsidy to Eastern Europe? Why did...
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En 2011 fuimos testigos (y partícipes) de una serie de acontecimientos emancipadores que sorprendieron a todo el mundo, incluidos sus agentes: desde las primaveras árabes hasta los movimientos 15M (en España) y Occupy Wall Street (en EEUU), desde la revuelta griega hasta los disturbios en el Reino Unido. Ahora, pasado el tiempo, no pasa un día que no aporte nuevas pruebas sobre lo frágil e inconsistente que fue ese despertar, cuyas múltiples...