Author: Heysun Bak
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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I lived in North Korean until I was 15. This was before Kim Jung-Eun came to power. Kim Jung-Il had just passed away. The entire country was in pain.That is all I say about leaving.This is all I say about personal life. I don't want this to be about me. Anything too personal is kept inside me. Otherwise, the focus should be others-especially the most in need among us. This is for westerners who aim for Communism in America. I longed to be a soldier and fight. I was young when I left and so I don't know the intricate details of the politics and inner workings of the North Korean government. I am sorry for that, because there are many who want to hear about that. Cover art by Samuele Brugnara.Edited by Julian Collins.Special thanks to Jamal Smith.
Author: Sunil Kumar Sarker
Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Dist
ISBN: 9788171565153
Category : Communism
Languages : en
Pages : 182
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Marx Posed As The Mesiah To The Down¬Trodden. He Declared That Communism Will, In The Words Of The German Poet Lessing, Blotch(Es) Up The Loopholes In The Structures Of The World. There Will Be One World, One Flag, One Humanity, And One Ideology. Being Carried Away By The Charisma Of Lenin And Stalin, The Down¬Trodden Conquered About One-Third Of The World To Be Governed From Moscow. The Hammer, Sickle And Star Embossed Red Flag Fluttered In The Sky. The Whole Bourgeois World Trembled. But Very Soon The Hammer Fell On The Head Of Trotsky And Soon The Teeth Of The Sickle Got Rusted And Lastly The Star Fell To The Ground Like A Burnt Up Meteor. Why Did The People Get Attracted To Communism? How Did Communism Temporarily Succeed In Con¬Quering A Part Of The World? What Did The People Get From Communism? Why One Communism Broke Up Into Many Com¬Munisms ? Why Did Communism Fall? And, Lastly, What Political Garb The World May Wear In The Near Future?These Are The Questions The Author Tries To Answer Here.
Author: Mark Fisher
Publisher: Pattern Books
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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A short zine collecting an introduction to the concept by Matt Colquhoun that appeared in 'krisis journal for contemporary philosophy Issue 2, 2018: Marx from the Margins' and the unfinished introduction to the unfinished book on Acid Communism that Mark Fisher was working on before his death in 2017. "In this way ‘Acid’ is desire, as corrosive and denaturalising multiplicity, flowing through the multiplicities of communism itself to create alinguistic feedback loops; an ideological accelerator through which the new and previously unknown might be found in the politics we mistakenly think we already know, reinstantiating a politics to come." —Matt Colquhoun
Author: Richard H Hudelson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000305201
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 245
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Writing this book has been a rewarding but challenging experience. Along the way I• have had the helpful comments and criticisms of a number of friends and colleagues. Pat Maus, Susanna Frenkel, Kit Christensen, and Carl Ross read the entire manuscript. Steve Chilton, Milan Kovacovic, and .Marina Rumyantseva read parts of it. They and the reviewers for Westview Press have weeded out many errors and forced me to think through a number of difficult points. The errors and confusions that remain do so in spite of their best efforts. I thank them all. I would also like to thank Spencer Carr of Westview Press for his support of this project and for his editorial suggestions, which resulted in major improvements. Finally, thanks to Jean Vileta for her editorial assistance in preparing the manuscript for publication.
Author: Ernesto Che Guevara
Publisher: Ocean Press
ISBN: 0987228331
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 186
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“If you are curious and open to the life around you, if you are troubled as to why, how and by whom political power is held and used, if you sense there must be good intellectual reasons for your unease, if your curiosity and openness drive you toward wishing to act with others, to ‘do something,’ you already have much in common with the writers of the three essays in this book.” — Adrienne Rich With a preface by Adrienne Rich, Manifesto presents the radical vision of four famous young rebels: Marx and Engels’ Communist Manifesto, Rosa Luxemburg’s Reform or Revolution and Che Guevara’s Socialism and Humanity.
Author: Karl Marx
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0857088777
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 176
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DISCOVER THE WORK THAT LAUNCHED REVOLUTIONS AROUND THE WORLD Although it was published in 1848, The Communist Manifesto is as controversial and provocative as ever. Its stirring and poetic language helped spread Marx and Engels' socialist message far and wide, unleashing a century of political revolution. In an age of great inequality, the Manifesto's message of an exploited and suffering working class that must rise up and claim the means of production and wealth continues to resonate. This deluxe edition features an insightful introduction from Tom Butler-Bowdon which explains how the text came to be written, and why it remains popular.
Author: Archie Brown
Publisher: Doubleday Canada
ISBN: 0307372243
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 743
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Published to coincide with the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall — a definitive and ground-breaking account of the revolutionary ideology that changed the modern world. The inexorable rise of Communism was the most momentous political phenomenon of the first half of the twentieth century. Its demise in Europe and its decline elsewhere have produced the most profound political changes of the last few decades. In this illuminating book, based on forty years of study and a wealth of new sources, Archie Brown provides a comprehensive history as well as an original and highly readable analysis of an ideology that has shaped the world and still rules over a fifth of humanity. A compelling new work from an internationally renowned specialist, The Rise and Fall of Communism promises to be the definitive study of the most remarkable political and human story of our times.
Author: Joshua Muravchik
Publisher: Encounter Books
ISBN: 1893554783
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 438
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"The search for the Promised Land took socialists in diverse directions: revolution, communes and kibbutzim, social democracy, communism, fascism, Third Worldism. But none of these paths led to the prophesied utopia. Nowhere did socialists succeed in creating societies of easy abundance or in midwifing the birth of a "New Man," as their theory promised. Some socialist governments abandoned their grandiose goals and satisfied themselves with making slight modifications to capitalism, while others plowed ahead doggedly, often inducing staggering human catastrophes. Then, after two hundred years of wishful thinking and fitful governance, socialism suddenly imploded in the 1990s in a fin du siecle drama of falling walls, collapsing regimes and frantic revisions of doctrine."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: George W. Breslauer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197579698
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 369
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A concise, readable, and novel interpretation of the history of communist states. Sixteen states came to be ruled by communist parties during the 20th century. One, the Soviet Union, was geographically the largest nation in the world and a superpower. Another, China, had the world's largest population. At communism's high point, its adherents envisioned global triumph. Today, however, only five communist regimes remain in power. Why? In The Rise and Demise of World Communism, George Breslauer, a specialist who has spent decades observing the evolution of communist states, provides a sweeping history of the world communist movement, focusing in particular on what communist states shared in common and why they began to differ from each other over time. Throughout, Breslauer explores the relations among communist states as well as the relations between those states and the world of increasingly affluent, and militarily formidable, democratic-capitalist powers. He finds that these regimes all came to power in the context of warfare or its aftermath, followed by the consolidation of power by a revolutionary elite that valued "revolutionary violence" as the preferred means to an end, based upon Marx's vision of apocalyptic revolution and Lenin's conception of party organization. As Breslauer shows, all these regimes went on to "build socialism" according to a Stalinist template and were initially dedicated to "anti-imperialist struggle" as members of a world communist movement. But their common features gave way to diversity, difference, and defiance after the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953. For many reasons, and in many ways, those differences soon blew apart the world communist movement and eventually led to the collapse of European communism. Even though a few communist regimes still remain in power, the dream of world communism is dead. But the future of the remaining communist regimes is uncertain. An accessible history of one of the most important political phenomena of the past 150 years, The Rise and Demise of World Communism provides readers with a crisp account of the entire movement--from the theories of Marx and Lenin to the on-the-ground policies of Stalin, Mao, Gorbachev, Deng, and other communist leaders-that culminates in our own era.
Author: Ted Gottfried
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN: 9780761325574
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 158
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Chronicles the Czarist Russian Empire in the 1800s, the birth of Bolshevism, events leading to the Russian Revolution of 1917, and the development of new political structures in its aftermath.
