Author: Rosa Luxemburg
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Published: 2024-04-09
Total Pages: 195
ISBN-13: 1644212811
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The three texts this book, all written in vastly different eras —The Communist Manifesto (1848) by Marx and Engels, Reform or Revolution (1899) by Rosa Luxemburg and Socialism and Man in Cuba (1965) by Ernesto Che Guevara—illuminate socialist ideas of the 19th and 20th centuries. For a new generation of activists, these are classic revolutionary writings by four famous rebels, including The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels; Reform or Revolution by Rosa Luxemburg; and Che Guevara’s Socialism and Man in Cuba. Includes an introduction by Cuban Marxist intellectual Armando Hart and a preface by US radical poet Adrienne Rich. The essays in this book, Manifesto, were written by three relatively young people—Karl Marx when he was 30, Rosa Luxemburg at 27, Che Guevara at the age of 37. Born into different historical moments and different generations, they shared an energy of hope, an engagement with history, a belief that critical thinking must inform action, and a passion for the world and its human possibilities. Here are urgent conversations from the past that are still being carried on, among new voices, throughout the world.
Author: Gus Hall
Publisher:
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A collection of writings on the U.S. working class and the class struggle by a lifelong participant, with new material especially for this volume.
Author: Anthony Bimba
Publisher: New York, International [1937]
Published: 1927
Total Pages: 396
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Michael D. Yates
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2018-10-02
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 1583677127
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →One of the horrors of the capitalist system is that slave labor, which was central to the formation and growth of capitalism itself, is still fully able to coexist alongside wage labor. But, as Karl Marx points out, it is the fact of being paid for one's work that validates capitalism as a viable socio-economic structure. Beneath this veil of “free commerce” – where workers are paid only for a portion of their workday, and buyers and sellers in the marketplace face each other as “equals” – lies a foundation of immense inequality. Yet workers have always rebelled. They've organized unions, struck, picketed, boycotted, formed political organizations and parties – sometimes they have actually won and improved their lives. But, Marx argued, because capitalism is the apotheosis of class society, it must be the last class society: it must, therefore, be destroyed. And only the working class, said Marx, is capable of creating that change. In his timely and innovative book, Michael D. Yates asks if the working class can, indeed, change the world. Deftly factoring in such contemporary elements as sharp changes in the rise of identity politics and the nature of work, itself, Yates asks if there can, in fact, be a thing called the working class? If so, how might it overcome inherent divisions of gender, race, ethnicity, religion, location – to become a cohesive and radical force for change? Forcefully and without illusions, Yates supports his arguments with relevant, clearly explained data, historical examples, and his own personal experiences. This book is a sophisticated and prescient understanding of the working class, and what all of us might do to change the world.
Author: Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev
Publisher: Moscow, Foreign Languages Publishing House
Published: 1963
Total Pages: 124
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Roy A. Ockert
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 19??
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13:
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