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What Is to Be Done?

2011-12-29T23:22:50Z

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'''Author:''' Vladimir Lenin

'''Year:''' 1902

'''Pages:''' 236

==Description==

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What Is to Be Done?

2011-12-29T23:22:40Z

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'''Author:''' Vladimir Lenin

'''Year:''' 1902

'''Pages:''' 236

''Also available to buy''

==Description==

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2011-11-02T15:15:47Z

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Socialist Students Library

2011-10-23T18:26:52Z

Socialist.students:

'''Welcome to the GROWING Socialist Students Southampton library!'''

This is the ever-expanding library of books, pamphlets, and other material we collectively own. Find something you'd like to borrow, follow the instructions, and we'll get it to you as soon as we can. Left-wing material can be particularly expensive, especially stuff that has been printed sparingly over the years, and as students we want to save as much money as we can. This is why we've created this library.

==The Library==
[[:Category:Everything|View all material alphabetically]]

'''View by author:'''

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[[:Category:Marx|Marx]]

[[:Category:Trotsky|Trotsky]]

[[:Category:Misc|Other authors]]

[[:Category:Socialist Party material|Socialist Party material]]

'''Other categories:'''

[[:Category:Fiction|Fiction]]

==How to take out a book==
Follow the instructions on [[Take out a book|this page]].

V for Vendetta

2011-10-23T18:19:19Z

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'''Author:''' Alan Moore (writer), David Lloyd (illustrator)

'''Year:''' 1982 - 1989

'''Pages:''' 265

==Description==
The well-known graphic novel ''V for Vendetta''. It isn't socialist in its outlook, but it's a great story with fantastic art work, and, judging by how often this particular copy gets borrowed and read, it's quite popular.

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V for Vendetta

2011-10-23T18:16:53Z

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'''Author:''' Alan Moore (writer), David Lloyd (illustrator)

'''Year:''' 1982 - 1989

'''Pages:''' 265

==Description==
The well-known graphic novel ''V for Vendetta''. It isn't socialist in its outlook, but it's a great story with fantastic art work, and, judging by how often this particular copy gets borrowed and read, it's quite popular.

[[Category:Everything]]
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2011-10-23T18:16:37Z

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Capital, Volume I

2011-10-23T18:15:01Z

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'''Author:''' Karl Marx

'''Year:''' 1867

'''Pages:''' 900+

<span style="color:#E00000">'''* * * Currently on loan * * *'''</span>

==Description==
''Capital, Volume I'', by Karl Marx, is a critical analysis of capitalism as political economy, meant to reveal the economic laws of the capitalist mode of production, how it was the precursor of the socialist mode of production, and of the class struggle rooted in the capitalist social relations of production. The first of three volumes of ''Das Kapital, Kritik der politischen Ökonomie'' (Capital: Critique of Political Economy) was published on 14 September 1867, and was the sole volume published in Marx’s lifetime.

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V for Vendetta

2011-10-23T18:14:36Z

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'''Author:''' Alan Moore (writer), David Lloyd (illustrator)

'''Year:''' 1982 - 1989

'''Pages:''' 265

==Description==
The well-known graphic novel ''V for Vendetta''. It isn't socialist in its outlook, but it's a great story with fantastic art work, and, judging by how often this particular copy gets borrowed and read, it's quite popular.

[[Category:Everything]]
[[Category:Fiction]]

V for Vendetta

2011-10-23T18:12:59Z

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'''Author:''' Alan Moore

'''Year:''' 1982 - 1989

'''Pages:''' 265

==Description==
The well-known graphic novel ''V for Vendetta''. It isn't socialist in its outlook, but it's a great story with fantastic art work, and, judging by how often this particular copy gets borrowed and read, it's quite popular.

[[Category:Everything]]
[[Category:Fiction]]

Lenin for Beginners

2011-10-16T22:39:51Z

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'''Author:''' Richard Appignanesi (text), Oscar Zarate (illustrations)

'''Year:''' 1977

'''Pages:''' 169

<span style="color:#E00000">'''* * * Currently on loan * * *'''</span>

==Blurb==
Tsars and peasants, Bloody Sunday and War Communism, Rasputin and Kerensky, Narodniks and Bolsheviks, exiles and commissars... With a cast of thousands, ''Lenin for Beginners'' brings one of the major revolutionary figures of this century within any reader's grasp.

This zany documentary comic strip is the perfect introduction to Lenin's writings and a wonderful take-off point for anybody who wants to plunge into the tumultuous history of the Russian Revolution.

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2011-10-16T22:35:53Z

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Capital, Volume I

2011-10-16T22:26:52Z

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'''Author:''' Karl Marx

'''Year:''' 1867

'''Pages:''' 900+

==Description==
''Capital, Volume I'', by Karl Marx, is a critical analysis of capitalism as political economy, meant to reveal the economic laws of the capitalist mode of production, how it was the precursor of the socialist mode of production, and of the class struggle rooted in the capitalist social relations of production. The first of three volumes of ''Das Kapital, Kritik der politischen Ökonomie'' (Capital: Critique of Political Economy) was published on 14 September 1867, and was the sole volume published in Marx’s lifetime.

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Value, Price and Profit

2011-10-16T22:26:17Z

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'''Author:''' Karl Marx

'''Year:''' 1865

'''Pages:''' 36

''Also available to buy''

==Blurb==
Although delivered as a speech, this paper remained unpublished until after Marx's death. It reads like a condensed version of [[Capital, Volume I]], and contains Marx's essential arguments about the workings of capital. Although we highly recommend reading Capital Volume 1 for a thorough understanding of capitalist economics, this volume provides an excellent introduction to Marx's ideas.

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Value, Price and Profit

2011-10-16T22:26:00Z

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'''Author:''' Karl Marx

'''Year:''' 1865

'''Pages:''' 36

''Also available to buy''

==Blurb==
Although delivered as a speech, this paper remained unpublished until after Marx's death. It reads like a condensed version of [[Capital Volume I]], and contains Marx's essential arguments about the workings of capital. Although we highly recommend reading Capital Volume 1 for a thorough understanding of capitalist economics, this volume provides an excellent introduction to Marx's ideas.

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[[Category:Marx]]

Value, Price and Profit

2011-10-16T22:25:47Z

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'''Author:''' Karl Marx

'''Year:''' 1865

'''Pages:''' 36

''Also available to buy''

==Blurb==
Although delivered as a speech, this paper remained unpublished until after Marx's death. It reads like a condensed version of [Capital Volume I], and contains Marx's essential arguments about the workings of capital. Although we highly recommend reading Capital Volume 1 for a thorough understanding of capitalist economics, this volume provides an excellent introduction to Marx's ideas.

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[[Category:Marx]]

Capital

2011-10-16T22:24:54Z

Socialist.students: moved Capital to Capital, Volume I

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Capital, Volume I

2011-10-16T22:24:54Z

Socialist.students: moved Capital to Capital, Volume I

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'''Author:''' Karl Marx

'''Year:''' 1867

'''Pages:''' 900+

==Description==
'''Capital, Volume I''', by ''Karl Marx'', is a critical analysis of capitalism as political economy, meant to reveal the economic laws of the capitalist mode of production, how it was the precursor of the socialist mode of production, and of the class struggle rooted in the capitalist social relations of production. The first of three volumes of ''Das Kapital, Kritik der politischen Ökonomie'' (Capital: Critique of Political Economy) was published on 14 September 1867, and was the sole volume published in Marx’s lifetime.

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[[Category:Marx]]

Capital, Volume I

2011-10-16T22:24:35Z

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Capital, Volume I

2011-10-16T22:23:48Z

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'''Author:''' Karl Marx

'''Year:''' 1867

'''Pages:''' 900+

==Description==
'''Capital, Volume I''', by ''Karl Marx'', is a critical analysis of capitalism as political economy, meant to reveal the economic laws of the capitalist mode of production, how it was the precursor of the socialist mode of production, and of the class struggle rooted in the capitalist social relations of production. The first of three volumes of ''Das Kapital, Kritik der politischen Ökonomie'' (Capital: Critique of Political Economy) was published on 14 September 1867, and was the sole volume published in Marx’s lifetime.

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[[Category:Marx]]

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2011-06-24T21:04:25Z

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Category:Fiction

2011-06-23T23:55:00Z

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Fiction books.

Basic Writings on Politics and Philosophy

2011-06-23T23:53:47Z

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'''Author:''' Karl Marx and Frederick Engels

'''Year:''' Various

'''Pages:''' 535

==Blurb==
Professor Feuer's wide-ranging selection from the works of Marx and Engels is drawn from books, essays, journalism and letters. He adds useful prefatory notes and he contributes a reflective introduction in which he discusses, in particular, Marx's historical materialism and the influence it has had in Europe and Russia, Africa and Asia during last century and this. Each generation, he says, sees a refutation of Marx: it sees also a revival of neo-Marxism - for, Marx not only, in Professor Feuer's words, 'shaped the historical movement of a century'; he also gave to that movement 'its most distinctive vision and language'.

==Description==
'''Contains:'''

''Manifesto of the Communist Party'', by Marx and Engels

''A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy'', by Marx (excerpt)

''On Historical Materialism'', by Engels

''Socialism: Utopian and Scientific'', by Engels

''Critique of the Gotha Programme'', by Marx

''Capital: A Critique of Political Economy'', by Marx (excerpts)

''On the History of Early Christianity'', by Engels

''Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy'', by Engels

''Theses on Feuerbach'', by Marx

''The German Ideology'', by Marx and Engels (excerpts)

''Toward the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right'', by Marx (excerpt)

''The Communism of the Paper'' Rheinischer Beobachter, by Marx (excerpt)

''Herr Eugen Dühring's Revolution in Science'', by Engels (excerpts)

''The Class Struggles in France, 1848 to 1850'', by Marx (excerpts)

''The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte'', by Marx (excerpts)

''The Civil War in France'', by Marx (excerpts)

''The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State'', by Engels (excerpt)

''Letters on Historical Materialism'', by Engels

''The Peasant War in Germany'', by Engels (excerpts)

''Letters and Essays on Political Sociology'', by Marx and Engels

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[[Category:Marx]]
[[Category:Engels]]

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2011-06-23T23:53:41Z

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British Capitalism: Workers and the Profits Squeeze

2011-06-23T23:51:38Z

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'''Author:''' Andrew Glyn, Bob Sutcliffe

'''Year:''' 1972

'''Pages:''' 271

==Blurb==
According to the authors of this provocative Penguin Special, British capitalism has in the last few years given the lie to the basic assumption of the great majority of Western economists. Work-force's share of the economic cake, like that of Profit, remains more or less constant. They see the implications to be revolutionary, in a literal sense.

They analyse the situation as follows. Because of increasing international competition, firms have been unable to pass on as higher prices the increased wages they have been forced to concede. Profit margins have narrowed. The evidence is clear and plentiful. But without profit to finance dividends and reinvestment, capitalism cannot survive. So which will be sacrificed - the System itself or the prosperity of ninety per cent of the population? Either way the political consequences will be formidable.

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2011-06-23T23:51:33Z

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Communism and the Family

2011-06-23T23:49:55Z

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'''Author:''' Alexandra Kollontai

'''Year:''' 1920

'''Pages:''' 20

==Description==

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2011-06-23T23:49:46Z

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Divide and Rule

2011-06-23T23:48:09Z

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'''Author:''' Peter Hadden

'''Year:''' 1980

'''Pages:''' 91

==Blurb==
'''Labour and the partition of Ireland'''

Why was Ireland divided?

What was the true role of organisations like Sinn Fein?

Why did Carson and the UVF gain a basis of support in the North?

What was the role of the labour movement, above all of James Connolly, during the years before partition?

''Divide and Rule'' deals with these questions. It provides a Marxist analysis of the events leading to the division of Ireland. It refutes the muth that Catholic and Protestant workers have not and cannot be united. Above all it explains how the unification of Ireland can be posed in a class manner by socialists today.

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2011-06-23T23:47:58Z

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Karl Marx and His Teaching

2011-06-23T23:46:43Z

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'''Author:''' Vladimir Lenin

'''Year:''' Various

'''Pages:''' 55

==Description==
A collection of Lenin's writings.

'''Contains:'''

''The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism''

''Karl Marx'' (A Brief Biographical Sketch with an Exposition of Marxism)

''Frederick Engels''

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2011-06-23T23:46:23Z

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Love of Worker Bees

2011-06-23T23:44:23Z

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'''Author:''' Alexandra Kollontai

'''Year:''' 1923

'''Pages:''' 222

==Blurb==
''Love of Worker Bees'', written by one of the most famous and gifted Russian women of our century, was greeted on publication in 1923 as sexually too explicit. Fifty years later, this new translation makes available - for the first time on forty years - a remarkable work of fiction which is both a moving love story and a graphic and rare portrait of Russian life in the 20s.

Set in Russia immediately after the October revolution and the end of the Civil War, the heroine Vasya - one of the most delightful in Russian literature - struggles to come to terms with her passionate need and love for her husband, and the demands of the new world in which she lives. Her story unfolds against a backcloth of the 'ordinary' Russian people of the time - the Party workers, entrepreneurs, prostitutes, manipulators, idealists.

As a portrait of a society in transition, ''Love of Worker Bees'' is unique; as a love story, a fascinating and poignant work of art.

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2011-06-23T23:44:14Z

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Manifesto of the Communist Party

2011-06-23T23:42:41Z

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'''Author:''' Karl Marx, Frederick Engels

'''Year:''' 1848

'''Pages:''' 81

''Also available to buy''

==Description==
The classic work of Marx and Engels. A must read.

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2011-06-23T23:42:27Z

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Marx and Engels: Selected Works

2011-06-23T23:40:41Z

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'''Author:''' Karl Marx, Frederick Engels

'''Year:''' Various

'''Pages:''' 36

==Description==
'''Contains:'''

''Karl Marx'', by Lenin

''Frederick Engles'', by Lenin

''The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism'', by Lenin

''Theses on Feuerbach'', by Marx

''Manifesto of the Communist Party'', by Marx and Engels

''Wage Labour and Capital'', by Marx

''The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte'', by Marx

''Wages, Price and Profit'', by Marx

''Historical Tendency of Capitalist Accumulation'', by Marx (chapter 32 of Capital)

''The Civil War in France'', by Marx

''Apropos of Working-class Political Action'', by Engels

''Critique of the Gotha Programme'', by Marx

''The Part Played by Labour in the Transition from Ape to Man'', by Engels

''Karl Marx'', by Engels

''Socialism: Utopian and Scientific'', by Engels

''On the History of the Communist League'', by Engels

''The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State'', by Engels

''Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy'', by Engels

''The Peasant Question in France and Germany'', by Engels

Also contains letters, prefaces, introductions, and more.

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2011-06-23T23:40:30Z

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Marx on Economics

2011-06-23T23:38:59Z

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'''Author:''' Karl Marx

'''Year:''' Various

'''Pages:''' 241

==Blurb==
It is all too easy to agree or disagree with the theories of Karl Marx without having read them. It is not so easy to read them. His great work, ''Capital'', and his other writings (which include the famous ''Communist Manifesto'', published in 1848) are - to quote Professor Freedman's preface - 'forbidding in volume and turgid in prose'.

This condensed version enables the ordinary reader, for the first time, to make an impartial and intelligent study of Marx's economic theories and his critique of capitalism. It is a systematic compilation of extracts which are drawn from all his publications and presented in a logical order with brief summaries of the argument.

These extracts throw into sharp relief those economic truths with which Marx and Engels showed a pioneering insight: and they also reveal the major shortcomings of Marxian doctrine - in particular its failure to foresee the extent to which capitalism was capable of reform and also its vague Utopianism when viewed as a political programme.

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2011-06-23T23:38:49Z

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Marxism Opposes Individual Terrorism

2011-06-23T23:37:00Z

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'''Author:''' Leon Trotsky, Peter Taaffe

'''Year:''' 1909, 1982

'''Pages:''' 29

==Description==

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[[Category:Trotsky]]
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2011-06-23T23:36:48Z

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Reform or Revolution

2011-06-23T23:35:10Z

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'''Author:''' Rosa Luxemburg

'''Year:''' 1900

'''Pages:''' 64

==Blurb==
How does Marxism support the struggles for reforms?

Hasn't capitalism changed since the days of Marx?

Can capitalism be gradually reformed into socialism?

If not, how will socialism be achieved?

These ideas and questions, frequently raised in the labour movement today, are not new. Eduard Bernstein, one of Marx and Engels' literary executors and a respected leader of the German Social Democratic Party, argued at the turn of the century for revising Marx's theories "in the light of more recent evidence." Rosa Luxemburg, an outstanding revolutionary figure until her murder in 1919, led the struggle against "revisionism". ''Reform or Revolution'' was Rosa's reply to Bernstein's ideas.

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2011-06-23T23:34:48Z

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Reformation to Industrial Revolution

2011-06-23T23:33:15Z

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'''Author:''' Christopher Hill

'''Year:''' 1967

'''Pages:''' 288

==Blurb==
The period 1530-1780 witnessed the making of modern English society. Under the Tudors England was a society of subsistence agriculture in which it was taken for granted that a fully human existence was possible only for the landed ruling class. In 1780 England was a national market on the threshold of industrial revolution, and the ideology of self-help had permeated into the middle ranks. A universal belief in original sin had been supplanted by the romanticism of 'Man is good'. And the first British Empire had already been won and lost. In this masterly study one of the great historians of the seventeenth century analyses the transformation of British society and the complex interaction of economic, cultural and political change in the period. In particular he stresses the political ferment of the seventeenth century and its influence on the revolutions in trade and agriculture, which in their turn prepared English society for the take-off into the modern industrial world.

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[[Category:Misc]]

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2011-06-23T23:33:06Z

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Selected Writings in Sociology and Social Philosophy

2011-06-23T23:31:25Z

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'''Author:''' Karl Marx

'''Year:''' Various

'''Pages:''' 262

==Blurb==
Modern sociology owes much to Marx: the definition of the field of study, the analysis of the economic structure and its relations with other parts of the social structure, the theory of social classes, and the theory of ideology. Marx worked to transform speculative philosophy into a critical social theory which would be of use to the largest, and most degraded, section of society. The techniques he used, no less than his conclusions, are still worthy of consideration.

The necessity for an extensive selection from Marx's work is shown by the fact that many of his writings in translation are not well known, and that in some cases the translations are unsatisfactory. Most of the passages in this book have been newly translated, and many appear in English for the first time. This selection, from the whole of Marx's writing, with the exception of his correspondence, endeavours to present the evolution of his ideas, the main features of his method, and the chief conclusions of his research.

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2011-06-23T23:31:09Z

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Socialism Made Easy

2011-06-23T23:29:13Z

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'''Author:''' James Connolly

'''Year:''' 1909

'''Pages:''' 24

==Description==

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2011-06-23T23:29:05Z

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Stalinism and Bolshevism

2011-06-23T23:27:39Z

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'''Author:''' Leon Trotsky

'''Year:''' 1937

'''Pages:''' 20

==Blurb==
What happened to the Russian Revolution?

How did Stalin come to power?

Is Stalinism inevitable?

In this pamphlet Trotsky shows the roots of the Stalinist bureaucracy were not in the victory of the Bolsheviks in the revolution of October 1917, but lay in the conditions of backwardness which followed the isolation of the revolution to Russia, and the destruction of four years of civil war.

Stalinism represented not the development of Bolshevism but a political counter-revolution, bringing forth the task of a new political revolution, to restore workers democracy to the state and economy.

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