Marxism in a Lost Century retells the history of the radical left during the twentieth century through the words and deeds of Paul Mattick. An adolescent during the German revolutions that followed World War I, he was also a recent emigre to the United States during the 1930s Great Depression, when the unemployed groups in which he participated were among the most dynamic manifestations of social unrest. Three biographical themes receive special attention -- the self-taught nature of left-wing activity, Mattick s experiences with publishing, and the nexus of men, politics, and friendship. Mattick found a wide audience during the 1960s because of his emphasis on the economy s dysfunctional aspects and his advocacy of workplace councils a popularity mirrored in the cyclical nature of the global economy."

Product Description: The first major study on the making of new cultures, movements and public celebrations of transnational solidarity in Weimar Germany. The book shows how solidarity was used to empower the oppressed in their liberation and resistance movements and how solidarity networks transferred visions and ideas of an alternative global community...read more

Product Description: Throughout the 1920s, German politician and activist Ernst Thälmann (1886–1944) was the leader of the largest Communist Party organization outside the Soviet Union. Thälmann was the most prominent left-wing politician in the country's 1932 election and ran third in the presidential race after Hitler and von Hindenberg...read more

Product Description: More than 60 million books sold in the Teach Yourself series!Everything you need to know about Marx in one handy guide Marx--The Key Ideas quickly familiarizes you with the revolutionary thinking of this influential socialist thinker...read more

Product Description: Containing footnotes and an extensive bibliography, this edition of Franz Mehring's classic biography is designed to assist the English-speaking reader towards a better understanding of Marx, his work and a history of Marxism. The book is divided into parts as follows: Early Years; A Pupil of Hegel; Exile in Paris; Friedrich Engels; Exile in Brussels; Revolution and Counter-Revolution; Exile in London; Marx and Engels; The Crimean War and the Crisis; Dynastic Changes; The Early Years of the International; 'Das Kapital'; The Zenith and Decline of the International; The Last Decade...read more

Product Description: This new Che Guevara book makes an insightful contribution to the revival of interest in Marxism.Commenting on Marx’s humanism, Che writes: “Such a humane man, whose capacity for affection extended to all those suffering throughout the world, offering a message of committed struggle and indomitable optimism, has been distorted by history and turned into a stone idol...read more

Product Description: This volume merges two manuscripts--Alfred G. Meyer's memoir of his distinguished career in the field of political science during the 1950s and 1960s, and his biography Friedrich Engels. The result is a radically new experiment in portraiture--an intellec

Recounts the life of the Communist revolutionary Olga Benario, who was imprisoned in Brazil and deported to Germany, where she died in a Nazi death camp in 1942. Reprint.

Product Description: Willy Münzenberg-an Old Bolshevik who was also a self-promoting tycoon-became one of the most influential Communist operatives in Europe between the World Wars. He created a variety of front groups that recruited well-known political and cultural figures to work on behalf of the Soviet Union and its causes, and he ran an international media empire that churned out enormous amounts of propaganda and raised money for Communist concerns...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Explores the life and work of the author of 'The Communist Manifesto,' tracing his family relationships, correspondence, and early writings (view table of contents)

Product Description: Following the generation of Marx and Engels, Karl Kautsky was the leading theorist, interpreter, and popularizer of Marxism. In numerous publications he fought against Eduard Bernstein's revisionism and Rosa Luxemburg's radicalism...read more

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Traces the life of Marx's wife, the former Baroness Jenny von Westphalen, and describes the many sacrifices she made during her forty years of marriage to the political theorist