Certain Books Some Comrades May Find Helpful

[Kiev Communard]

I have a log-in on Gigapedia, and therefore would like to spread the opportunity of downloading for free some useful and interesting books for those who lack such chance ;)

So, there are my offerings:

Tony Smith. Globalisation: A Systematic Marxian Account (Historical Materialism Book Series)

Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Number Of Pages: 360
Publication Date: 2006-01
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 9004147276
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9789004147270
Binding: Hardcover


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Book Description:

Part One of this book examines the social-state, neoliberal, catalytic-state, and democratic-cosmopolitan models of globalisation. Each necessarily tends to function in a manner contradicting essential claims made by its leading advocates. This "immanent contradiction" provides a theoretical warrant for moving to a new position, addressing the shortcomings of the previous framework. The first three chapters of Part Two are devoted to a Marxian model of capitalist globalisation, in which the irresolvable contradictions and social antagonisms of the capitalist global order are explicitly recognised. The final chapter is devoted to a Marxian model of socialist globalisation, in which those contradictions and antagonisms are overcome, bringing the systematic dialectic of globalisation to a close.

Hyperlink - 1. http://filefactory.com/file/3479c6/n/marx0_rar

2. http://ifile.it/kmr5hsp/ZQ6q2FPLthG.7z (http://ifile.it/kmr5hsp/ZQ6q2FPLthG.7z) (ebook file type: .pdf; archive password: ebooksclub.org; ebook file size: 0.96 MB (1008782 bytes);


Peter Mason. Science, Marxism and Big Bang: A Critical Review of 'Reason in Revolt'

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Science, Marxism and the Big Bang: a Critical Review of 'Reason in Revolt'

By Peter Mason


Publisher: Socialist Books
Number Of Pages: 80
Publication Date: 2007-10-31
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1870958411
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9781870958417

FROM THE INTRODUCTION OF THE BOOK -


Reason in Revolt, Marxist Philosophy and Modern Science, written by Ted Grant and Alan Woods (hereafter abbreviated to Woods), attempts a Marxist critique of science.

A Marxist critique of science is a laudable project. But such a critique requires not only an understanding of Marxist theory, but also a thorough comprehension of scientific theories and their historical development. Marxism does not provide a ready-made key for making judgements about scientific ideas. It cannot substitute for a detailed knowledge of the appropriate scientific material. Unfortunately, Woods’ analysis, as we will show, reveals a poor understanding of the science he seeks to elucidate.

The past century has seen a transformation of the world through scientific development, whether for good or bad. There has also been a transformation of science itself, many times over, since Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels began the development of what they termed ‘scientific socialism’, which came to be known as Marxism. Marx and Engels often exchanged correspondence about scientific matters and they were close friends with Carl Schorlemmer, a member of the Royal Society (the UK's national academy of science), who advised them on the latest advances in chemistry.

Engels highlighted the role of scientists in human history. The "immortal work" of Nicolaus Copernicus showed that the earth revolved around the sun. Engels describes its publication as a "revolutionary act". Copernicus "shows theology the door" at the dawn of the Enlightenment, but Isaac Newton closes the period with his "divine first impulse". (Dialectics of Nature, Introduction) Engels endorses Immanuel Kant’s realisation, at that time unproven, that all "celestial bodies" originated from swirling clouds of gas. Engels calls this conception, "the greatest advance made by astronomy since Copernicus". For the first time, Engels comments, "the conception that nature had no history in time began to be shaken. Until then the celestial bodies were believed to have been always, from the very beginning, in the same states." (Anti-Dühring, p72)

Marx and Engels particularly admired Charles Darwin, a revolutionary, iconoclastic scientist in his own modest and hesitant way. Darwin showed how species developed and changed, discovering the secret of life’s evolution on our planet. Engels emphasises that "nature does not just exist, but comes into being and passes away".

One of the cornerstones of scientific socialism is usually termed ‘dialectical materialism’, although Marx and Engels never used the term themselves. Marx and Engels took the dialectical method of the German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and used it as a tool to understand the historical development of human society, once they had placed his philosophical method on a materialist basis.

In the last century, Marxists debated the revolutionary work of Albert Einstein and the Big Bang theory of the universe, with its origins in the observations of Edwin Hubble. Einstein’s theory of relativity and the Big Bang theory combined to overturn every last remnant of the old Newtonian science, which was saturated with the belief in the "absolute immutability of nature", as Engels emphasises. It is these two revolutionary theories, the theory of relativity and the Big Bang, with which the first half of Reason in Revolt (first published in 1995) is chiefly concerned.

For this reason our study of the relationship between Marxism and science will focus on the historical development of cosmology and in particular the contribution of Einstein and the Big Bang. We know that our universe exists, but did it come into being and will it pass away?

Hyperlink - (Zipped CHM, 1.08 MB) http://www.megaupload.com/?d=L7LNOMXZ

Markus van der Linden. Western Marxism and the Soviet Union (Historical Materialism Book Series)

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Western Marxism and the Soviet Union (Historical Materialism Book Series)
By Marcel van der Linden


Publisher: BRILL
Number Of Pages: 380
Publication Date: 2007-07-30
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 9004158758
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9789004158757


Product Description:

If the Soviet Union did not have a socialist society, then how should its nature be understood? The present book presents the first comprehensive appraisal of the debates on this problem, which was so central to twentieth-century Marxism.

Hyperlink - (PDF, 19 MB) http://ifile.it/wjiv675/van_der_linden_western_marxism_and_soviet_union.pd f

If anyone would like to get some book, please, write your requests in this thread. If it is on Gigapedia, I would be most glad to provide you with it - for free.

[NoOneIsIllegal]

I read Western Marxism and the Soviet System a few months ago. Kind of disappointing.

[Kiev Communard]

Some more books:

John Bellamy Foster. Marx's Ecology: Materialism and Nature

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Publisher: Monthly Review Press
Number Of Pages: 310
Publication Date: 2000-03-01
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1583670122
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9781583670125



Product Description:



Progress requires the conquest of nature. Or does it? This startling new account overturns conventional interpretations of Marx and in the process outlines a more rational approach to the current environmental crisis.

Marx, it is often assumed, cared only about industrial growth and the development of economic forces. John Bellamy Foster examines Marx's neglected writings on capitalist agriculture and soil ecology, philosophical naturalism, and evolutionary theory. He shows that Marx, known as a powerful critic of capitalist society, was also deeply concerned with the changing human relationship to nature.

Marx's Ecology covers many other thinkers, including Epicurus, Charles Darwin, Thomas Malthus, Ludwig Feuerbach, P. J. Proudhon, and William Paley.

By reconstructing a materialist conception of nature and society, Marx's Ecology challenges the spiritualism prevalent in the modern Green movement, pointing toward a method that offers more lasting and sustainable solutions to the ecological crisis.

Hyperlink - http://ifile.it/o8yg7ud/marxs_ecology_materialism_and.pdf (OCR PDF, 25.244 MB)

Erik Olin Wright. Classes (Verso Classics, 16).

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Publisher: Verso
Number Of Pages: 360
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1859841791
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9781859841792


Product Description:

In this seminal re-examination of social class, Eric Olin Wright gives a complete reformulation of the Marxist concept, bridging the gap between abstract structural accounts of class and descriptions of particular class configurations.

Hyperlink - http://ifile.it/ivzeg9x/wright_-_classes.pdf (Scanned PDF (15.44 MB).


Kevin B. Anderson. Marx at the Margins: On Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Non-Western Societies.

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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: 2010-05-15
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0226019829
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780226019826

Product Description:

In Marx at the Margins, Kevin Anderson uncovers a variety of extensive but neglected texts by the well-known political economist which cast what we thought we knew about his work in a startlingly different light. Analyzing a variety of Marx’s writings, including journalistic work written for the New York Tribune, Anderson presents us with a Marx quite at odds with our conventional interpretations. Rather than providing us with an account of Marx as an exclusively class-based thinker, Anderson here offers a portrait of Marx for the twenty-first century: a global theorist whose social critique was sensitive to the varieties of human social and historical development, including not just class, but nationalism, race, and ethnicity, as well.

Marx at the Margins ultimately argues that alongside his overarching critique of capital, Marx created a theory of history that was multi-layered and not easily reduced to a single model of development or revolution. Through highly-informed readings on work ranging from Marx’s unpublished 1879–82 notebooks to his passionate writings about the antislavery cause in the United States, this volume delivers a groundbreaking and canon-changing vision of Karl Marx that is sure to provoke lively debate in Marxist scholarship and beyond.

Hyperlink - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=7DHM86DJ (PDF, with bookmarks, 1.7 MB).

[Kiev Communard]

I read Western Marxism and the Soviet System a few months ago. Kind of disappointing.

Why? It seems to be that this is basically decent compilation of different thinkers' approaches on the character of Soviet society. Personally I found a lot of interesting concepts there.

[Kiev Communard]

Daniel Woodley. Fascism and Political Theory: Critical Perspectives on Fascist Ideology (Routledge Issues in Contemporary Political Theory).

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Publisher: Routledge
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: 2009-10-21
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0415473543
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780415473545


Product Description:


Fascism and Political Theory offers both students and researchers a thematic analysis of fascism, focusing on the structural and ideological links between fascism, capitalism and modernity. Intended as a critical discussion of the origins and development of fascist ideology, each chapter deals with a core substantive issue in political theory relevant to the study of fascism and totalitarianism, beginning with an assessment of the current state of debate.

The emphasis on formal ideology in contemporary Anglo-American historiography has increased our awareness of the complexity and eclectic nature of fascist ideologies which challenge liberalism and social democracy. Yet in too many recent works, a programmatic or essentialist reading of fascist ideology as a ‘secular religion’ is taken for granted, while researchers remain preoccupied with the search for an elusive ‘fascist minimum’.

In this book Woodley emphasizes that many outstanding questions remain, including the structural and ideological links between fascism and capitalism, the social construction of fascist nationalism, and the origins of fascist violence in European colonialism. This volume consolidates the reader’s theoretical understanding and provides the interdisciplinary skills necessary to understand the concrete social, economic and political conditions which generate and sustain fascism.

A timely critique of culturalist and revisionist approaches in fascism studies which provides a concise overview of theoretical debates between liberalism, Marxism and poststructuralism, this text will be of great interest to students of politics, modern history and sociology.

Contents
List of illustrations x
Preface xi
1 Fascism and political theory 1
Introduction 1
Fascism and historiography 3
Criticisms of typological approaches 10
Towards a critical theory of fascism 13
Conclusion 19
2 Fascism, rationality and modernity 21
Introduction 21
The dominant social paradigm of modernity 25
Philosophical anti-rationalism and the conservative revolution 31
The fascist synthesis: modernism and counter-enlightenment 38
Conclusion 48
3 Fascism and social structure 49
Introduction 49
Social stratification and political power 54
The class basis of fascism in the interwar period 58
Fascism and the contemporary far right 70
Conclusion 76
4 Fascism, sovereignty and the state 77
Introduction 77
Theorizing the state 79
From authoritarian liberalism to fascism 83
viii Contents
The political constitution of fascism 90
The prerogative state in Nazi Germany 96
The fascist aestheticization of politics 100
Conclusion 104
5 Fascism and violence 105
Introduction 105
Power, violence and modernity 106
The legacy of colonialism 112
The specificity of fascist violence 120
Neofascist violence 128
Conclusion 130
6 Fascism, capitalism and the market 132
Introduction 132
Fascism and postliberal capitalism 134
Economic ideologies of fascism 141
The political economy of fascism 146
Corporate liberalism in the United States 157
Conclusion 160
7 Fascism and nationalism 162
Introduction 162
Theories of nationalism 164
Integral nationalism 170
The nation form in fascist ideology 174
Neonationalism and the far right 181
Conclusion 185
8 Fascism and race 187
Introduction 187
Race and race-thinking in Europe 189
White supremacism and antisemitism 191
Eugenics and racial hygiene in the interwar period 196
Fascist racial ideology 200
Conclusion 209
Contents ix
9 Fascism, gender and sexuality 211
Introduction 211
The social construction of gender in late bourgeois culture 213
Fascism and the cult of masculinity 218
Representations of femininity in fascist ideology 222
Fascism and homosexuality 226
Conclusion 230
Notes 232
Bibliography 243
Index 269

Hyperlink - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=APJDG89W (RAR'ed PDF, RAR: 2 MB, PDF: 2.3 MB, no password)



Serge Bricianer. Pannekoek and the Workers' Councils.

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Publisher: Telos Press, Limited
Number Of Pages: 308
Publication Date: 1978-06
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0914386182
ISBN-13 / EAN: 978091438618

From the introduction (by John Gerber)

The Dutch Marxist theoretician and astronomer, Anton Pannekoek (1873-1960), has remained a largely neglected and unknown figure in the history of European socialist thought. Yet Pannekoek's long life and political career spanned several distinct stages of socialist history, resulting in some of the most significant and fundamental contributions to twentieth-century Marxist thought. His political maturity coincided with the rise of Social Democracy, his death with the rise of the New Left; his writings left their imprint on both movements.

Despite his professional commitment to science, the contours of Pannekoek's political activity are almost without parallel. Prior to 1914 he participated as a militant in both the Dutch and German Social Democratic parties, taught in the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) schools, and collaborated with Kautsky on the Neue Zeit. Along with Rosa Luxemburg, he emerged as one of the leaders of the left wing of the German SPD, gaining fame with his 1912 Neue Zeit polemic against Kautsky. Pannekoek was one of the first in Europe to understand the fundamental contradictions and weaknesses of the Social Democratic movement and to anticipate its eventual collapse. Following the outbreak of the First World War, Pannekoek was the first to call for the formation of a new International, and later became a leading figure in the Zimmerwald anti-war movement.

Although he had played a major role in the initial formation of European Communism and was a leader of the Comintern's Western European bureau, Pannekoek emerged in 1920 as a formidable left-wing critic of Leninism, becoming a leading theoretician of the left-Communist Kommunistischen Arbeiter-Partei Deutschlands (KAPD). Under the pseudonym Karl Horner he gained fame as Lenin's adversary in Left-Wing Communism; An Infantile Disorder. From 1929 until his death in 1960 he was the intellectual mentor of the quasi-syndicalist "Council Communist" movement.

Given its enormous circumfrence, it seems difficult to find a single entry into Pannekoek's theoretical work. Yet in seeking out those categories which unify his thought, one finds one particular area in which his thinking remains remarkably constant: the set of philosophical assumptions undergirding his political theories. Pannekoek's Marxism can, therefore, be made more intelligible by focusing on the key philosophical concepts he built his Marxism on early in his career and which he retained with only slight revision and reformulation throughout his life. The aim of this essay will be to explore these philosophical foundations and their implications through an examination of: (1) The basic Marx-Dietzgen synthesis on which his thought rests; (2) His extension and broadening of these categories into a conception of science and Marxism; (3) Some of the main implications these philosophical and scientific conceptions had for his political thought; (4) The final crystallization of these ideas in his unified philosophical, scientific and political assault on Leninism.

In posing the question of Pannekoek as philosopher, it must be noted that his concern was not philosophy in the formal sense, but one of developing and understanding certain philosophical and scientific categories of analysis for practical application to a variety of more immediate political questions.

Hyperlink - http://mediafire.com/?7rb1p1iexfn5ao8 (No password,7.34 MB PDF OCRed with bookmarks).


Simon Clarke. Marx, Marginalism and Modern Sociology: From Adam Smith to Max Weber (Second Edition).

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Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Number Of Pages: 349
Publication Date: 1991-12-02
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0333548299
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780333548295



Product Description:

Develops an interpretation of Marx's work as the basis of a critique of both orthodox Marxism and of both modern economics and sociology. The core of this book is an analysis of Marx's theory of alienated labour as the basis of Marx's critique of liberal social theory. This leads to both an original interpretation of Marx's work and to the liberal foundations of the subjects of economics and sociology. This critique is developed through an account of revolution, and of the parallel revolution in sociology carried through by Max Weber. The conclusion relates the critique to the subsequent developments in both Marxism and sociology.


Preface to the Second Edition

I originally wrote this book because I felt that it was important to take liberal social theory more seriously than did the ‘radical’ social thought of the 1970s. The main aim of the book was to develop a Marxist critique of liberal social theory, which could identify both the scientific strengths and the ideological limitations of such theories. The book was well-received, but critical responses made it apparent I that the central argument had not been widely understood, particularly by those who could only read Marx through the eyes of his orthodox interpreters, and so missed the distinctiveness of the interpretation of Marx presented here. The book was also read as an historical study, because it did not include an explicit discussion of the liberal foundations of contemporary economic and social theory, ending with the marginalist revolution in economics and Weber’s sociology.

Since the book was originally published the intellectual landscape has changed dramatically. An uncritical return to liberal social theory has replaced its uncritical rejection, while the collapse of state socialism, in both East and West, has inspired the proclamation of the ‘death of Marxism’. I believe that these changes have made the argument developed in this book more, and not less, relevant than when it was first written. There is no better testimony to the inadequacy of the orthodox Marxist and radical critiques of liberal social theory than the recent resurgence of liberalism. The development of a theoretically sound critique is all the more urgent as liberalism once more comes up against its limits.

The recent strength of liberalism has owed much more to its critique of the theory and practice of Orthodox Marxism than it has to its own positive virtues. Despite the ‘death of Marxism’, the inhumanity of capitalism is as evident today as it was when Marx wrote. The central theme of this book is that nobody more clearly grasped the source of this inhumanity, and the possibility of its overcoming, than did Marx. But at the same time we have to recognise the limits of Marx’s achievement. Marx laid the foundations of a critical social theory but, contrary to Marxist orthodoxy, he did not provide an all-encompassing world-view. Marx marked out a critical project, which was to understand and to transform society from the standpoint of the activity and aspirations of concrete human individuals. Marx’s critique of liberalism sought to recover, both in theory and in practice, the constitutive role of human subjectivity behind the immediacy of objective and constraining social relations within which our social identity confronts us in the form of an external thing. This insight is as much a critique of the metaphysics of orthodox Marxism as it is of liberalism, a critique which I have sought to bring out in this second edition of the book.

Although the central argument of the book is unchanged in this edition, the miracles of modern technology have made it it possible substantially to revise and expand the text. The main additions are in Chapter Three and at the beginning of Chapter Four, where I have related my interpretation of Marx to those which dominate the secondary literature, and the additional Chapters Seven and Nine, which sketch the implications of the critique of marginalism and of Weberian sociology for the critique of modern economics. orthodox Marxism and modern sociology. As with the original edition, I have tried to write the book in such a way that each chapter can be read independently of the whole.

I am very grateful to Chris Arthur, Tom Bottomore, Gillian Rose, and particularly Bob Fine, for their comments on drafts of parts of this new edition, and to those many colleagues and students with whom I have had the pleasure of discussing the issues over the years.

Hyperlink - http://ifile.it/h7ow8cm/Marx%20Marginalism%20and%20Modern.rar (RARed PDF, double pages, first 50 sheets vector, the rest scan with OCR, no cover, no bookmarks, 17,56 MB).

[Thirsty Crow]

I second this.
Anyone with a request can send me a PM.

[Kiev Communard]

Sorry for necro-threading, but over previous months I've found out several other books I would like to share:

Change in Putin's Russia: Power, Money and People

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by: Simon Pirani

Publisher: Pluto Press
Number Of Pages: 240
Publication Date: 2010-01-15
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0745326900
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780745326900

Product Description:


Simon Pirani investigates the interaction of power, money and people in Russia during the presidencies of Vladimir Putin and his successor Dmitry Medvedev. Profiling the Putin team, including contingents from the security services and pro-market economic "reformers," Pirani argues that the economic growth it presided over during the oil boom was one-sided. The gap between rich and poor widened. Now the boom is over, inequalities will multiply further. As well as explaining Russia's economic trajectory, the book provides a unique account of the social movements that are working against an increasingly authoritarian government to change Russia for the better. This is the perfect introduction for undergraduates approaching Russia for the first time and those who wish to know how Russia will change during the economic crisis.

Hyperlink: http://mediafire.com/?w6oz81chkrcv7p3

Password: ebooksclub.org



Worker Resistance under Stalin: Class and Revolution on the Shop Floor (Russian Research Center Studies)

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by: Jeffrey J. Rossman

Product Description:

Challenging the claim that workers supported Stalin's revolution "from above" as well as the assumption that working-class opposition to a workers' state was impossible, Jeffrey Rossman shows how a crucial segment of the Soviet population opposed the authorities during the critical industrializing period of the First Five-Year Plan.

Marshaling an impressive range of archival evidence, Rossman recounts in vivid detail myriad individual and collective acts of protest, including mass demonstrations, food riots, strikes, slowdowns, violent attacks against officials, and subversive letters to the authorities. Male and female workers in one of Russia's oldest, largest, and "reddest" manufacturing centers--the textile plants of the Ivanovo Industrial Region--actively resisted Stalinist policies that consigned them to poverty, illness, and hunger.

In April 1932, 20,000 mill workers across the region participated in a wave of strikes. Seeing the event as a rebuke to his leadership, Stalin dispatched Lazar Kaganovich to quash the rebellion, resulting in bloodshed and repression. Moscow was forced to respond to the crisis on the nation's shop floors with a series of important reforms.

Rossman uncovers a new dimension to the relationship between the Soviet leadership and working class and makes an important contribution to the debate about the nature of resistance to the Stalinist regime.

Hyperlink: http://mediafire.com/?5btbqgzj91b7omb

Password: ebooksclub.org

The Furies: Violence and Terror in the French and Russian Revolutions

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by: Arno J. Mayer

Publisher: Princeton University Press
Number Of Pages: 656
Publication Date: 2000-03-20
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0691048975
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780691048970
Binding: Hardcover

Product Description:

Rather informative comparison of dynamics of revolutionary terror during the First French Republic and Soviet Union up to the end of Stalin's time. Written from broadly left-wing positions.

Hyperlink: http://ifile.it/pdnbzws/_f4eC1nH7aso.7z

Password: ebooksclub.org

[Lunatic Concept]

Thanks for these man, this sort of thing is really useful :D

[Burn A Flag]

Dunno if any of these are reposts but here anyway.

Che- Guerrilla Warfare
Trotsky: The Revolution Betrayed and Terrorism and Communism
Robert Reich: Supercapitalism (not leftist but a decent analysis of capitalism)
Ishmael Beah: A long way gone: Memoirs of a boy soldier

[NoOneIsIllegal]

Robert Reich: Supercapitalism (not leftist but a decent analysis of capitalism)
Saw that in a store a while ago. I set it back on the shelf when I noticed it was written from someone who was in the Clinton Administration.


Black Flame: The Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism - Lucien van der Walt and Michael Schmidt
THEE book on anarchism. It's history, it's ideas, the revolutionaries, the movement. I read a lot and haven't read a book that has better research and clear explanations on various topics of Anarchism. Highly recommended.

No One is Illegal: Fighting Racism and State-Violence on the U.S.-Mexico Border - Justin Akers Chacon and Mike Davis
This is the book I was always refer to for immigration. Mike Davis presents a clear and vivid history of immigration in this country (along with radicals help to unionize and organize them). Justin Akers Chacon writing and research is phenomenal. With great logic, statistics, and truth backing him up, he disproves all the far-right claims of how immigrants "ruin this country" and many of the other myths and lies (taxes, violence, jobs, etc.) Fantastic book.

The Lost Revolution: Germany 1918 - 1923 - Chris Harman
Harman is one of my favorite Marxist writers. Along with his A People's History of the World, The Lost Revolution is also one of my favorites of his. He gives a good presentation of the situation Germany and it's working-class were facing after WW1 and the chaos that descended. Gives many different details of what happened and who was doing what, how it eventually was lost, and the rise of fascism that was to come.

The American Socialist Movement 1897 - 1912 - Ira Kipnis
While not the most important book, I think it should be of interest of those wondering what happened to the American socialist movement (specifically the S.P.A. though it touches the S.L.P. as well) in the early 20th century.



There are a lot of other books I would recommend, and that I'm reading or want to read, so I'll definitely have to come back to this thread.

[TheGodlessUtopian]

Does anyone know of a book (or books) that really goes into the detail about the class system? The things I've read so far have been a disappointment.

[graymouser]

Does anyone know of a book (or books) that really goes into the detail about the class system? The things I've read so far have been a disappointment.
If you can find a copy, the second volume of Hal Draper's lengthy work Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution was called The Politics of Social Classes. It goes into considerable detail about what Marx wrote and discussed about social classes, and offers an excellent picture of what class society means.

[Kiev Communard]

Does anyone know of a book (or books) that really goes into the detail about the class system? The things I've read so far have been a disappointment.
http://ifile.it/ivzeg9x/wright_-_classes.pdf


I have posted Eric Olin Wright's book Classes in this thread earlier. The link thereto is above. Hope you'll find it useful.

[Kiev Communard]

OK, some more books:

Black Flame: The Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism (Counter-Power vol 1)

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by: Lucien van der Walt, Michael Schmidt


Product Description:

Black Flame is the first of two volumes that reexamine anarchism’s democratic class politics, its vision of a decentralized planned economy, and its impact on popular struggles in five continents over the last 150 years. From the nineteenth century to today’s anticapitalist movements, it traces anarchism’s lineage and contemporary relevance. It outlines anarchism’s insights into questions of race, gender, class, and imperialism, significantly reframing the work of previous historians on the subject, and critiquing Marxist approaches to those same questions.

Lucien van der Walt teaches at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

Michael Schmidt is a Johannesburg-based senior investigative journalist.

Hyperlink: http://mediafire.com/?otf9bt53k69r115

Password: ebooksclub.org



Critical Companion to Contemporary Marxism (Historical Materialism Book Series)

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Edited by: Jacques Bidet, Stathis Kouvelakis

Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Number Of Pages: 813
Publication Date: 2008-01-15
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 9004145982
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9789004145986

Product Description:

The Critical Companion to Contemporary Marxism is an international and interdisciplinary volume which aims to provide a thorough and precise panorama of recent developments in Marxist theory in the US, Europe, Asia and beyond. Drawing on the work of thirty of the most authoritative scholars, the Companion spans all the humanities and social sciences, with particular emphasis on philosophy. The work is divided into three parts: 'General Trends', which provides a broad intellectual and historical context; 'Currents', which tracks the trajectories of twenty specific currents or disciplinary fields; and 'Figures', which examines in detail the work of fifteen key actors of Marxist or para-Marxist theory (Adorno, Althusser, Badiou, Benjamin, Bhaskar, Bourdieu, Deleuze, Derrida, Foucault, Gramsci, Habermas, Jameson, Lefebvre, Uno, Williams). The Companion is set to be unsurpassed for many years, in breadth and depth, as the definitive guide to contemporary Marxism.

Hyperlink: http://ifile.it/j3zedx8/_5wAd8cG4.7z
(http://ifile.it/j3zedx8/_5wAd8cG4.7z)

Password: gigapedia.com


Impersonal Power (Historical Materialism Book Series)

by: Gerstenberger, H., Fernbach, D. (tr.)

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Publisher: BRILL
Number Of Pages: 804
Publication Date: 2007-08-30
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 9004130276
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9789004130272


Product Description:

In this volume. Heide Gerstenberger investigates the development of bourgeois state power by on the one hand proposing a critique of different variants of the structural-functionalist theory of the state and on the other hand analysing the examples of England and France. The central thesis of the work is that the bourgeois form of capitalist state power arose only where capitalist societies developed out of state structures that were already rationalised.

Hyperlink: http://ifile.it/yx164aj/_4tEXlV7Tc.7z

Password: ebooksclub.org

Theory as History (Historical Materialism Book Series)

by: Jairus Banaji

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Product Description:

The essays collected here straddle four decades of work in both historiography and Marxist theory, combining source-based historical work in a wide range of languages with sophisticated discussion of Marx's categories. Key themes include the distinctions that are crucial to restoring complexity to the Marxist notion of a 'mode of production'; the emergence of medieval relations of production; the origins of capitalism; the dichotomy between free and unfree labour; and essays in agrarian history that range widely from Byzantine Egypt to 19th-century colonialism. The essays demonstrate the importance of reintegrating theory with history and of bringing history back into historical materialism. An introductory chapter ties the collection together and shows how historical materialists can develop an alternative to Marx's 'Asiatic mode of production'.

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Merchants and Revolution: Commercial Change, Political Conflict, and London's Overseas Traders, 1550-1653

by: Robert Brenner

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Publisher: Verso
Number Of Pages: 750
Publication Date: 2003-08
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1859843336
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9781859843338

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In this major reinterpretation of the activities of London's merchant community during the early Stuart period, Robert Brenner explains the factors behind the opening of long-distance commerce to the south and east, describes the growing power of the great City merchants, and pro-files the new colonial traders, who became the chief architects of the Common-wealth's dynamic commercial policy.


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Summary: The doyen of Marxist historiography strikes again
Rating: 5

This book is both exhaustive and, at times, exhausting. Brenner's thesis, encapulated in the lengthy postscript to the book, is that socio-political forces remain at the forefront of explanations of the English Civil War, despite the overthrowing of the older consensus that the Revolution represented the comprehensive destruction of feudal remnants by an increasingly confident, largely urban bourgegoisie. In this Brenner is at odds with revisionist historians like Conrad Russell and Mark Kishlansky, both of whom stress the exogenous character of factors like religion and war.

Brenner painfully amasses evidence for the decisive role of what he calls the London colonial, inter-loping merchants, whose radical religious and commercial agendas were finally fully adopted in the establishment of the Commonwealth in opposition to the older London merchants elites ensconced first in the Merchant Adventurers and then in the East Indies Company. These latter had their power and prestige directly from the monarchy and thus represented a form of socio-political power that was anti-capitalist even if still bourgeois and based on mercantile trade.

The battle between the Royalists and the Parliamentary forces represented divergent understandings of the place of the sovereign in a country whose principal subjects were increasingly coming under the sway of capitalist values, and whose ideas of absolute ownership of property, religion, political consensus and the proper use of foreign policy were repeatedly traduced by a monarchy who insisted on out-moded concepts of sovereignty.

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Labour, Globalization and the State (Routledge Contemporary South Asia)

by: Debdas Banerjee

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Publisher: Routledge
Number Of Pages: 263
Publication Date: 2008-01-07
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0415449235
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780415449236
Binding: Hardcover

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Broadly neo-Marxist account of the impact of neoliberal globalization on labour and the state structures in South Asia. May be interesting for Indian comrades here.

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The Myth of 1648: Class, Geopolitics, and the Making of Modern International Relations

by: Benno Teschke

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Winner of the 2003 Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize, a fresh reinterpretation of the origins of modern international relations. The Treaty of Westphalia in 1648 is widely interpreted as the foundation of modern international relations. Benno Teschke exposes this as a myth. In the process he provides a fresh re-interpretation of the making of modern international relations from the eighth to the eighteenth century. Inspired by the groundbreaking historical work of Robert Brenner, Teschke argues that social property relations provide the key to unlocking the changing meaning of 'international' across the medieval, early modern, and modern periods. He traces how the long-term interaction of class conflict, economic development, and international rivalry effected the formation of the modern system of states.

Yet instead of identifying a breakthrough to interstate modernity in the so-called 'long sixteenth century' or in the period of intensified geopolitical competition during the seventeenth century, Teschke shows that geopolitics remained governed by dynastic and absolutist political communities, rooted in feudal property regimes.

The Myth of 1648 argues that the onset of specifically modern international relations only began with the conjunction of the rise of capitalism and modern state-formation in England. Thereafter, the English model caused the restructuring of the old regimes of the Continent. This was a long-term process of socially uneven development, not completed until World War I.

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That's all - for today :D

[southernmissfan]

Kiev, thank you so much. I will be grabbing a few of these. Great work.