Venezuela's Communal Movement and Its Socialist Project
A front-row seat to Venezuela's most innovative socialist project, with important lessons for movements worldwide Commune or Nothing! Venezuela's Communal Movement and Its Socialist Project opens a window on one of the most ambitious revolutionary projects of our time, as it took shape in a country suffering the cruel consequences of US ......
Mathematical Economics and the Central Plan in Eastern Europe and China
This volume examines failed attempts at modernizing the communist economy by means of optimal planning. It traces the rise and fall of the concept in Eastern Europe and China, explaining why the mission of optimization was doomed to fail and why it may nevertheless be relaunched today.
Offering a comprehensive look at the policymaking process, this title examines the motivations of public officials, the resources they have for shaping opinion, the influence of interest groups, and the evolution of waste reduction programs in Minnesota and other states.
"Selected essays by Christopher Caudwell, on culture, psychology, and capitalism. Material drawn from Caudwell's previous book, "Illusion and Reality, Studies in a Dying Culture" and his essay, "Heredity and Development.""--
"Selected essays by Christopher Caudwell, on culture, psychology, and capitalism. Material drawn from Caudwell's previous book, "Illusion and Reality, Studies in a Dying Culture" and his essay, "Heredity and Development.""--
Cycles and Circuits of Struggle in High Technology Capitalism
In this highly readable and thought-provoking work, Nick Dyer-Witheford assesses the relevance of Marxism in our time and demonstrates how the information age, far from transcending the historic conflict between capital and its laboring subjects, constitutes the latest battleground in their encounter. Dyer-Witheford maps the dynamics of modern ......
U.S. Embassy Prague, the Fall of Communism in Czechoslovakia, and its Af
Offers a behind-the-scenes account of the little-known role played by the US embassy in Prague in the collapse of communism in what was then Czechoslovakia. Featuring fifty-two newly declassified diplomatic cables, the book shows how the staff of the embassy worked with dissident groups and negotiated with the communist government.
Steven P. Feldman argues that Chinese political culture, based on the core principle of small group loyalties, is inherently unstable, resulting in an ongoing tendency for leaders to concentrate power in order to accomplish their goals. He examines this trend in Xi Jinping's regime through the concept of pre-totalitarianism.
E. P. Thompson is a towering fi gure in the fi eld of labor history, best known for his monumental and path-breaking work, The Making of the English Working Class. But as this collection shows, Thompson was much more than a historian: he was a dedicated educator of workers, a brilliant polemicist, a skilled political theorist, and a tireless ......
