Книга Anne Sassoon - Gramsci and Contemporary. Politics Beyond Pessimism of the Intellect

Книга Николаса Хиггинса - Осмысливая восстание в Чиапасе

As those who have written one will know, a book is always vulnerable to correction or further amendment. At some point, however, a line must be drawn and the writing shared and opened to the scrutiny of a public. This book is no different, especially as it is born of a doctoral thesis completed some three years ago. Although further contributions to our understanding of the Chiapas confl ict have appeared since I fi rst completed my doctorate, I still consider the central tenet of my thesis to remain unchanged. It has always been my intention to provide an alternative understanding of the Zapatista confl ict, and to do so initially required an intellectual journey through the highways and byways of social theory and political philosophy. It has perhaps been an idiosyncratic journey, in many ways peculiar to the academic study of international relations, but I believe the inclusion of this journey within the fi nal text remains instructive and also explains why I hope this book will have a multidisciplinary relevance.

Сборник посвященный американской организации "Партия черных пантер"

Emerging from the tumultuous first half of the 19608, the founding of the Black Panther Party by Ruey P. Newton and Bobby Seale in October 1966 marked the beginning of a new era for a tired, troubled, and confused America. One phrase, simultaneously both a flat statement of resistance to impoverished conditions of life and a stirring cry to action to change those conditions, best characterizes and sums up this new epoch. It was a phrase initiated by the Black Panther Party in its early days in Oakland, California, which spread like wildfire across this land-north, east, south, and west-calling forth the emergence of hitherto unknown numbers of Black, poor, and dispossessed people into conscious political activity, in their own name and in their own interests. Five simple words seized America's soul in an attempt to make it whole: "All Power to the People!"

Книга итальянского марксиста Лучио Колетти - От Руссо до Ленина. Исследования идеологии и общества.

This collection of Colletti's (1924-2001)  principal Marxist essays will be welcomed by non-Italian readers.  Colletti's concern as a Marxist was twofold: to interpret Marxism as  profoundly and as flexibly as possible; and to investigate the  relationships between Marx's thought and that of a number of other  thinkers as widely separated in time as Rousseau and Marcuse. His  thought ranges widely through philosophy, history, sociology, politics,  and economics, without pausing at boundaries. Colletti's work from his  Marxist period attempted to place the work of Marx in a line of descent  that de-emphasizes Hegel, while giving a novel focus to the relationship  between Marxism and Kant.

Книга Брайна Тернера - Маркс и конец ориентализма

First published in 1978, this title analyses a range of problems that arise in the study of North Africa and the Middle East, bridging the gap between studies of Sociology, Islam, and Marxism. Both Sociology and the study of Islam draw on an Orientalist tradition founded on an idealist epistemology, ethnocentric values and an evolutionary view of historical development. Bryan Turner challenges the basic assumptions of Orientalism by considering such issues as the social structure of Islamic society, the impact of capitalism in the Middle East, the effect of Israel on territories, revolutions, social classes and nationalism. A detailed and fascinating study, Marx and the End of Orientalism will be of particular interest to students studying the sociology of colonialism and development, Marxist sociology and sociological theory.

Статья Жана Поля Сартра - Массы,  спонтанность, партия

During the May events in France, and in the course of the working class struggle of 1968 generally, movements at the base attacked the Communist parties not only for their bureaucratic degeneration or for their reformist options; they also criticized the very notion of the party as the political, structured organization of the class. When these movements suffered setbacks, a number of "leftist" groups came to emphasise organization against spontaneity, and advocated a return to "pure" Leninism. Neither of these attitudes seems to us satisfactory.
It seems to us that one can only properly criticize spontaneity-and this was the lesson of 1968-if it is realized that the subjective maturity of the working class requires today a new form of organization, adapted to the conditions of struggle in the societies of advanced capitalism.

Книга Джоди Дин - Коммунистический горизонт

In this new title in Verso Pocket Communism series, Jodi Dean unshackles the communist ideal from the failures of the Soviet Union. In an age when the malfeasance of international banking has alerted exploited populations the world over to the unsustainability of an economic system predicated on perpetual growth, it is time the left ended its melancholic accommodation with capitalism.
In the new capitalism of networked information technologies, our very ability to communicate is exploited, but revolution is still possible if we organize on the basis of our common and collective desires. Examining the experience of the Occupy movement, Dean argues that such spontaneity can’t develop into a revolution and it needs to constitute itself as a party.
An innovative work of pressing relevance, The Communist Horizon offers nothing less than a manifesto for a new collective politics.