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61) 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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What is the future for progressive politics in advanced capitalism? With its political fortunes so low, how might the Left move forward?
These essays from leading left intellectuals – Dean Baker, Fred Block, David Coates, Hilary Wainwright, Colin Crouch, Wolfgang Streeck, Leo Panitch, Sam Gindin and Matthew Watson – reflect on the scale and nature of the task that the Left now faces and consider the following questions:
• What in modern...
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Over two decades have passed since the collapse of the USSR, yet the words "Soviet Union" still carry significant weight in the collective memory of millions. But how often do we consider the true meaning of the term "Soviet"? Drawing extensively on left-wing press archives, Romancing the Revolution traces the reactions of the British Left to the idealized concept of Soviet democracy. Focusing on the turbulent period after the 1917 Russian Revolution,...
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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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El bolchevismo se caracteriza por utilizar todos los medios y tácticas al servicio de la estrategia de construir el partido, movilizar a los obreros y tomar el poder. Las demás corrientes del movimiento obrero se caracterizan por lo opuesto: confundir estrategia con táctica, y elevar esta última a estrategia permanente. La historia del bolchevismo es una lucha constante por imponer los medios y las tácticas adecuadas para cada momento de la lucha...
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El enorme impacto de la Revolución rusa hizo que en los partidos socialdemócratas de toda Europa comenzasen a surgir agrupaciones de izquierdas, que acabaron convirtiéndose en los diferentes partidos comunistas, atrayendo a millones de trabajadores que empezaban a ver posible la construcción de otro mundo, sin desigualdad y pobreza. Sin embargo, la falta de experiencia de los jóvenes dirigentes comunistas provocaba que siguieran una política...
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This is a political biography of one of the 20th century's most emblematic left-wing figures - Salvador Allende, who was president of Chile until he was ousted by General Pinochet in a US-supported coup in 1973.
Victor Figueroa Clark guides us through Allende's life and political project, answering some of the most frequently asked questions. Was he a revolutionary or a reformist? A bureaucrat or inspirational democrat? Figueroa Clark argues...
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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...
69) 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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Have you ever looked up into the night sky and wondered just how many stars there are in space? This question has fascinated scientists as well as philosophers, musicians and dreamers throughout the ages. Have you tasted the Kentucky Fried Chicken lately, and marveled at the secret formula behind the finger licking good chicken? What is the formula behind the Coca-Cola drink, Face book, Google, and the theory of everything, I can't stop to look but...
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From the world's most repressive state comes rare good news: the escape to freedom of a small number of its people. It is a crime to leave North Korea. Yet increasing numbers of North Koreans dare to flee. They go first to neighboring China, which rejects them as criminals, then on to Southeast Asia or Mongolia, and finally to South Korea, the United States, and other free countries. They travel along a secret route known as the new underground railroad....
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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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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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If you thought Moscow's propaganda campaigns ended with the Cold War, think again. The Kremlin's efforts to influence global discourse has only grown more sophisticated with the creation of state-run, English-language broadcaster RT. Leading the charge of several increasingly polished, government-run, English language channels, RT has won fans by billing itself as a network willing to challenge the narrative offered by traditional broadcasters like...
75) On Religion
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When Karl Marx declared religion the opium of the people, he voiced a central tenet of the philosophy that bears his name. In this collection of essays and letters by Marx and his colleague, Friedrich Engels, the founders of Marxism discuss their perspectives on the origins and essence of religion. These writings constitute the theoretical basis of proletarian Marxist atheism. The authors trace the rise of religious belief from primitive humans' struggles...
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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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Published in 1937, and now recognized as one of the most influential, yet highly accessible, volumes on naval command and organization, Running a Big Ship provides a truly unique insight into life at sea during the Second World War.
O'Conor famously commenced the book with his "ten commandments," a concise code of orders that comprise "a little that everyone must know." The main body of the book sets out each of the duties required of a Royal Navy...
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Situated in a particular historical moment marked by the violent crises of capitalism-the rise of the alt-right, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the Black Lives Matter movement-The Future of Lenin collects essays by an international cohort of scholars to assert Lenin's relevance for twenty-first-century politics and thought. Taking different and sometimes opposing vantage points on Lenin's value for the future, the contributions to this volume reveal an...
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Part of Pluto's 21st birthday series Get Political, which brings essential political writing in a range of fields to a new audience.
This is an entirely new collection of Lenin's writing. For the first time it brings together crucial shorter works, to show that Lenin held a life-long commitment to freedom and democracy. Le Blanc has written a comprehensive introduction, which gives an accessible overview of Lenin's life and work, and explains...
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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...