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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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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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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 China Record provides readers with an ambitious, detailed, and wide-ranging examination of the People's Republic of China (PRC) under the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) both as an alternative mode of political system and a distinctive model of socioeconomic development. Fei-Ling Wang assesses the record of the economy under the CCP, people's lives and rights, and China's spiritual and physical ecology. He focuses on issues of political representation,...
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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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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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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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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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In 1979, the Sandinista government established itself in power in Managua, the capitol of Nicaragua. It found the country ruined by the long war against the Somosa dictatorship and natural disasters alike, and nearly half of the population either homeless or living in exile. Attempting to restructure and recover the underdeveloped economy, Sandinisas introduced a wide range of reforms and a cultural revolution.
Considering the Sandinistas to be...
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Jim Sillars argues convincingly that the referendum gives the Scottish people the power to create a better country, helps renew our belief in socialism as the answer to the economic and social crisis facing the country, and challenges the idea in the Yes campaign that independence means "change but no change" and that a Yes voter endorses Alex Salmond and the SNP. There is a far more radical road, with better policies than those Salmond is offering...
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This book tells the compelling story of Brother J, who became a Christian in North Korea, where such faith is forbidden, in the spring of 1996 through Gods Providence. Brother J reminds our readers that God has not forgotten the people of North Korea; His light is shining even in that dark land. North Koreans are coming to Jesus Christ for salvation. Once they become Christians, these underground North Korean brothers and sisters are steadfast and...
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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...
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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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During the period between the two world wars, the Independent Labour Party (ILP) was the main voice of radical democratic socialism in Great Britain. Founded in 1893, the ILP had, since 1906, operated under the aegis of the Labour Party. As that party edged nearer to power following World War I, forming minority governments in 1924 and again in 1929, the ILP found its own identity under siege. On one side stood those who wanted the ILP to subordinate...
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In this book Karl Marx's observations on history, which are found scattered throughout his voluminous writings, are brought together and subjected to searching analysis-in refreshingly direct language, without jargon.
For the first time we have a thoughtful assessment of Marx's views on all the epochs that cross his historical vision. D. Ross Gandy treats Marx's ideas on primitive societies, on ancient Roman and Asiatic civilization, on the structure...
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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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An A-to-Z reference of the great social reformer's own words. Among modern philosophers, few have had a greater impact on history than Karl Marx. Now this easy-to-use introduction to the nineteenth-century theorist breaks down his work into definitions of his terms and concepts, including Bourgeois State, Classless Society, and Freedom of the Press. Accompanied by an insightful introductory essay that puts the included excerpts from his works in context,...
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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...