The Devil and Karl Marx
Author: Paul Kengor
Publisher:
Published: 2020-08-18
Total Pages: 552
ISBN-13: 9781505114447
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A chilling account of an evil ideology and the man whose nefarious thoughts made it possible.
Author: Paul Kengor
Publisher:
Published: 2020-08-18
Total Pages: 552
ISBN-13: 9781505114447
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Author: Paul Kengor
Publisher:
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 461
ISBN-13: 9781505120059
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A look at Karl Marx and how his fascination with the devil influenced Marxism and his political writings. Examines Marx's antagonism to organized religion, particularly the Catholic Church.
Author: Vladimir Tismaneanu
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2014-03-14
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 0520282205
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Devil in History is a provocative analysis of the relationship between communism and fascism. Reflecting the author’s personal experiences within communist totalitarianism, this is a book about political passions, radicalism, utopian ideals, and their catastrophic consequences in the twentieth century’s experiments in social engineering. Vladimir Tismaneanu brilliantly compares communism and fascism as competing, sometimes overlapping, and occasionally strikingly similar systems of political totalitarianism. He examines the inherent ideological appeal of these radical, revolutionary political movements, the visions of salvation and revolution they pursued, the value and types of charisma of leaders within these political movements, the place of violence within these systems, and their legacies in contemporary politics. The author discusses thinkers who have shaped contemporary understanding of totalitarian movements—people such as Hannah Arendt, Raymond Aron, Isaiah Berlin, Albert Camus, François Furet, Tony Judt, Ian Kershaw, Leszek Kolakowski, Richard Pipes, and Robert C. Tucker. As much a theoretical analysis of the practical philosophies of Marxism-Leninism and Fascism as it is a political biography of particular figures, this book deals with the incarnation of diabolically nihilistic principles of human subjugation and conditioning in the name of presumably pure and purifying goals. Ultimately, the author claims that no ideological commitment, no matter how absorbing, should ever prevail over the sanctity of human life. He comes to the conclusion that no party, movement, or leader holds the right to dictate to the followers to renounce their critical faculties and to embrace a pseudo-miraculous, a mystically self-centered, delusional vision of mandatory happiness.
Author: Jonathan Sperber
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2013-03-11
Total Pages: 687
ISBN-13: 0871404672
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This major biography fundamentally reshapes our understanding of a towering historical figure.
Author: Stéphane Courtois
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 920
ISBN-13: 9780674076082
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This international bestseller plumbs recently opened archives in the former Soviet bloc to reveal the accomplishments of communism around the world. The book is the first attempt to catalogue and analyse the crimes of communism over 70 years.
Author: Shlomo Avineri
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2019-08-06
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 0300248776
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This new exploration of Marx as a Jewish thinker presents “a perceptive and fair-minded corrective to superficial treatments” of his life and work (Jonathan Rose, Wall Street Journal). A philosopher, historian, sociologist, economist, current affairs journalist, and editor, Karl Marx was one of the most influential and revolutionary thinkers of modern history. But he is rarely thought of as a Jewish thinker, and his Jewish background is either overlooked or misrepresented. Here, distinguished scholar Shlomo Avineri argues that Marx’s Jewish origins made a significant impression on his work. Marx was born in Trier, then part of Prussia, and his family had enjoyed full emancipation under earlier French control of the area. But then its annexation to Prussia deprived the Jewish population of its equal rights. These developments led to the reluctant conversion of Marx’s father, and similar tribulations radicalized many other Jewish intellectuals of that time. Avineri puts Marx’s Jewish background in its proper and balanced perspective, and traces Marx’s intellectual development in light of the historical, intellectual, and political contexts in which he lived.
Author: Richard Wurmbrand
Publisher: Living Sacrifice Book Company
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 143
ISBN-13: 9780891073796
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Corinne Maier
Publisher: Nobrow Press
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781907704734
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →I changed lives. I'm famous around the world. My name is Sigmund Freud and I invented psychoanalysis. No big deal!
Author: George E. McCarthy
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Marx and the Ancients is the first book-length treatment to detail the relationship between classical Greek philosophy and Karl Marx's critique of political economy. From his dissertation on the physics and astronomy of Epicurus and Democritus to his later economic writings, Marx's view of the classical polis left its mark. George McCarthy argues that this forgotten element in Marx's thought helps clarify his positions on ethics and social justice.