Автобиография марксистского экономиста и социолога Самира Амина - A Life Looking Forward Memoirs of an Independent Marxist

Samir Amin, one of the twentieth century's leading radical intellectuals, has lived his personal and political life at the intersection of various cultures and international progressive currents - from Egypt to France to West Africa, from communism to national-liberation socialism, Maoism and finally a mature anti-imperialism. His memoirs are not only a fascinating personal narrative but a penetrating historical-political analysis, as well as an introduction to his most important theoretical contributions. They offer a unique vantage point for observing the operations of global capitalism and the evolution, crises and potentialities of radical movements, especially in the third world. This book will be invaluable not only to readers interested in Amin's profoundly influential work or in the history of the global left but to anyone concerned with today's worldwide struggles against capitalist globalization.

Книга Самира Амина - The Implosion of Contemporary Capitalism

Renowned political economist Samir Amin, engaged in a unique lifelong effort both to narrate and affect the human condition on a global scale, brings his analysis up to the present the world of 2013. The key events of our times financial crisis, the emerging nations, globalization, financialization, political Islam, Euro-zone implosion are related in a coherent, historically based, account. Changes in contemporary capitalism require an updating of definitions and analysis of social classes, class struggles, political parties, social movements and the ideological forms in which they express their modes of action in the transformation of societies. Amin meets this challenge and lays bare the reality of monopoly capitalism in its general, global form. Ultimately, Amin demonstrates that this system is not viable and that the implosion in progress is unavoidable. Whether humanity will rise to the challenge of building a more humane global order free of the contradictions of capital, however, is yet to be seen

Книга Самира Амина - Global History: A View from the South

Responding to the need to take a fresh look at world history, hitherto dominated by Eurocentric ideologues and historians in their attempt to justify the nature and character of modern capitalism, Samir Amin looks in this book at the ancient world system and how it has influenced the development of the modern world. He analyses the origin and nature of modern globalization and the challenges it presents in achieving socialism and examines the role played by Central Asia in determining the course of world history as well as the different roads taken by Europe and China. The book looks closely at a theme that has been primordial to his contribution to political and economic thought: the question of unequal development.

Статья Тобиаса Абзе о кризисе Итальянской коммунистической партии из журнала New Left Review (сентябрь-октябрь 1985 года)

https://newleftreview.org/I/153/tobias-abse-judging-the-pci?utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=from_the_archive&token=tlfKH2ksA8Su&utm_medium=social_media

Статья из журнала Jacobin о причинах устойчивости авторитарно-популистского правительства В. Орбана в Венгрии

https://jacobinmag.com/2018/03/viktor-orban-hungary-fidesz-authoritarian-opposition

Пьер Паоло Пазолини - Компартия – молодежи!

Стихотворение 1968-го года, в котором известный поэт и режиссёр - коммунист декларировал своё сочувствие полицейским, подавлявшим студенческие выступления. Текст вызвал ожесточенную дискуссию, совсем не утратившую актуальность.

Книга Герберта Маркузе - Эссе об освобождении

In this concise and startling book, the author of One-Dimensional Man argues that the time for utopian speculation has come. Marcuse argues that the traditional conceptions of human freedom have been rendered obsolete by the development of advanced industrial society. Social theory can no longer content itself with repeating the formula, "from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs," but must now investigate the nature of human needs themselves. Marcuse's claim is that even if production were controlled and determined by the workers, society would still be repressive unless the workers themselves had the needs and aspirations of free men. Ranging from philosophical anthropology to aesthetics An Essay on Liberation attempts to outline in a highly speculative and tentative fashion the new possibilities for human liberation.

Книга Мишеля Пешо - Язык, семантика и идеология

Pecheux was a student of L. Althusser and in this book he pulls heavily from his mentor's theoretical toolbox to write critique of the practice of semantics by contemporary linguists. Pecheux's central thesis is that semantics, or the treatment and study of meaning, is a philosophical issue rather than a linguistic one.  Like a scuttling crab at the "edge" of linguistics, semantics becomes a "spontaneous philosophy" that jumps from the edge of linguistics, absorbs the ideologies and interdiscursivities around it, and becomes an instrument of dominant interests without the awareness that it is doing so.  To really "get to meaning," then, students of semantics must also be students of ideology and be well-versed in (though not taken in by) the philosophy of the subject.  Pecheux's argument is an extension of Althusser's theories into the study of language: he proposes that complex systems of dominant ideologies historically articulate meaning, on a constant basis, via the "interpellation" of various "subject positions" that are modulated by idealism, on the one hand, and materialism, on the other.  Ideology creates the subject with a built-in natural interpretation of meaning, then, and not the other way around.

Книга Антонио Негри Майкла Хардта - Commonwealth

When Empire appeared in 2000, it defined the political and economic challenges of the era of globalization and, thrillingly, found in them possibilities for new and more democratic forms of social organization. Now, with Commonwealth, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri conclude the trilogy begun with Empire and continued in Multitude, proposing an ethics of freedom for living in our common world and articulating a possible constitution for our common wealth. Drawing on scenarios from around the globe and elucidating the themes that unite them, Hardt and Negri focus on the logic of institutions and the models of governance adequate to our understanding of a global commonwealth. They argue for the idea of the “common” to replace the opposition of private and public and the politics predicated on that opposition. Ultimately, they articulate the theoretical bases for what they call “governing the revolution.”

Статья Сержа Халими из журнала Jacobin о глубоком кризисе левоцентристских сил во Франции

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/03/the-french-lefts-long-march-to-the-right

Книга Вальтера Беньямина - The Arcades Project

"To great writers," Walter Benjamin once wrote, "finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they labor their entire lives." Conceived in Paris in 1927 and still in progress when Benjamin fled the Occupation in 1940, The Arcades Project  is a monumental ruin, meticulously constructed over the course of thirteen years "the theater," as Benjamin called it, "of all my struggles and all my ideas." Focusing on the arcades of nineteenth-century Paris-glass-roofed rows of shops that were early centers of consumerism Benjamin presents a montage of quotations from, and reflections on, hundreds of published sources, arranging them in thirty-six categories with descriptive rubrics such as "Fashion," "Boredom," "Dream City," "Photography," "Catacombs," "Advertising," "Prostitution," "Baudelaire," and "Theory of Progress." His central preoccupation is what he calls the commodification of things a process in which he locates the decisive shift to the modern age. The Arcades Project is Benjamin's effort to represent and to critique the bourgeois experience of nineteenth-century history, and, in so doing, to liberate the suppressed "true history" that underlay the ideological mask. In the bustling, cluttered arcades, street and interior merge and historical time is broken up into kaleidoscopic distractions and displays of ephemera. Here, at a distance from what is normally meant by "progress," Benjamin finds the lost time(s) embedded in the spaces of things.