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Hardbound. Condition: As New. New. Contents 1. The school and social progress (1909). 2. The school and the life of the child (1907). 3. Waste in education (1907). 4. Three years of the university elementary school (1907). 5. The psychology of elementary education (1915). 6. Froebel's educational principles (1915). 7. The psychology of occupations (1915). 8. The development of attention (1915). 9. The aim of history in elementary education (1915). The School and Society may be Dewey's most popular (and most translated) publication. It describes the rationale behind the university elementary school that made his pedagogic approach famous. Dewey's approach to education is the basis of Mead's later work on educational reform particularly as that work relates to vocational education and approaches to curriculum development in general. First published in 1990 The School and Society is regarded as the seminal work on educational ideas by one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century. 128 pp.

Paperback. Condition: As New. New. Contents Preface. Introduction. I. Central and peripheral tributary cultures 1. The formation of tributary ideology in the Mediterranean Region. 2. Tributary culture in other regions of the precapitalist world. II. The culture of capitalism 1. The decline of metaphysics and the reinterpretation of religion. 2. The construction of Eurocentric culture. 3. Marxism and the challenge of actually existing capitalism. 4. The culturalist evasion provincialism and fundamentalism. 5. For a truly universal culture. In this original and provocative essay Samir Amin the author of a number of pathbreaking studies on the structure of the world economy takes on one of the great ideological deformations of our time Eurocentrism. Rejecting the dominant Eurocentric view of world history which narrowly and incorrectly posits a progression from the Greek and Roman classical world to Christian Feudalism and the European capitalist system Amin presents a sweeping reinterpretation that emphasizes the crucial historical role played by the Arab Islamic world. Throughout the work Amin addresses a broad set of concerns ranging for the ideological nature of scholastic metaphysics to the meanings and shortcomings of contemporary Islamic fundamentalism. Consistently subversive of the established pieties of the west this book breaks new theoretical and historiographical ground by outlining a compelling non Eurocentric vision of world history. 152 pp.

Paperback. Condition: As New. Reprint. Contents 1. Events and situations. 2. On Marxist thought. 3. On the need for theory. 4. The revolutionary crisis. 5. French society in 1968. 6. Three tendencies. 7. Contestation spontaneity violence. 8. Strategies for outflanking and the outflanking of strategies. 9. On dual power. 10. On self management. 11. The world situation. 12. Urban phenomena. 13. Mutation. 14. Alternative or Alibi. 15. Old and new contradictions theses and hypotheses. 16. The twofold status of knowledge (social and theoretical). Events belie forecasts the author begins and the French events of the spring of 1968 laid waste the forecasts of sociologists and political scientists throughout the world. In this remarkable analysis Henri Lefebvre took hold of both the immediate importance and the long range significance of the movement which began at Nanterre where he taught sociology at the University of Paris. Professor Lefebvre rehearses for the reader the full sweep of Marxist thinking about social change and investigates carefully and critically the work of Herbert Marcuse in the light of the French explosion. His thought ranges far beyond the streets of Paris taking as the starting point issues raised by the radical student movement and ultimately presenting a significant new theory about the nature of power and politics under condition of modern capitalism. 158 pp.

Paperback. Condition: As New. New. Contents Introduction. One Night somewhere in Bolivia. 1. A Marxist humanism. 2. Socialist revolution or caricature of revolution. 3. In search of a new model of socialism. 4. The Guevarist heritage in Latin America. 5. From internationalism to alterglobalism from the tricontinental to the Intercontinental. Appendix. Chronology of important dates. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Deep inside that T Shirt where we have tried to trap him notes the celebrated Chilean novelist Ariel Dorfman the eyes of Che Guevara are still burning with impatience. Olivier Besancenot and Michael Lowy deftly capture this burning impatience revealing Guevara as a powerful political and ethical thinker still capable of speaking directly to the Challenges of our time. In this masterful new study Besancenot and Lowy explore and situate Guevara's ethical revolutionary and humanist legacy. They explicate Guevara's emphasis on the importance of the individual coming to understand and accept socialism at a personal level. For Guevara Besancenot and Lowy Show the revolutionary project demands more than a transformation of the mode of production it demands a profound transformation of the individual the birth of what Guevara termed the new man. Besancenot and Lowy also explore Guevara's pragmatic approach to the question of state power and unique theoretical contributions to the question of the transition to socialism. 144 pp.

Paperback. Condition: As New. New. This volume deals with the contemporary ecological crisis. Focused on the threat that capitalism as a system governed by the logic of profit maximisation and capital accumulation has today come to pose to the ecology of our planet as the habitat of the hu 160 pp.

Paperback. Condition: As New. New. Contents Preface. 1. The internationalism of peoples in the twentieth century. 2. New era new challenges. 3. What to do. Appendix 1. Political Islam in the service of imperialism. 2. The Bamako Appeal. Notes. Index. The World We Wish to See presents a sweeping view of twentieth century political history and a stirring appeal to take political organization seriously. Amin offers provocative analysis of contemporary resistance to neoliberalism while boldly calling for a new global movement an internationalism of peoples to challenge the current order and fashion a better world. Throughout the last century great revolutions the community and socialist internationals and National Liberation Movements presented a serious challenge to global capital. Neoliberalism and the U.S. Drive for military hegemony have given rise to new political and social movements and new attempts at International Organizations such as the World Social Forum. Amin maps these oppositional formations new and old critically assessing their potential and limitations for the revolutionary project today. Included in this volume is the full text of the Bamako Appeal described as a Communist Manifesto for our age and Amin's provocative new essay Political Islam in the Service of Imperialism. Amin's masterful analysis offers new ground for realizing the world we wish to see. 144 pp.

Paperback. Condition: As New. New. Contents Preface. Foreword. I. Socialism or Barbarism From the American Century to the Crossroads 1. Capital the living contradiction. 2. The potentially deadliest phase of imperialism. 3. Historical challenges facing the socialist movement. 4. Conclusion. II. Marxism the Capital System and social revolution an interview Notes. Index. This bold new study analyzes the historical choices facing us at the outset of the new millennium. Drawing on the theoretical arguments of his monumental and widely acclaimed Beyond Capital Istvan Meszaros gives new meaning and urgency to the alternatives posed by Rosa Luxemburg at the beginning of the century. His detailed analysis of the roots and development of US global power shows how its supremacy has come at the cost of exhausting the universalizing pretensions of capitalism. The destructive tendencies of capitalism are a greater threat today than ever before. As a sequel to this important study an extended interview discusses the main categories underlying his analysis and their relevance to contemporary politics. 126 pp.

Paperback. Condition: As New. New. Contents Acknowledgements. Introduction the making of an American democratic socialist of African descent. 1. Radical historicism. 2. Marx's road to radical historicism. 3. Marx's adoption of radical historicism. 4. The classical Marxist position Engels teleological quest. 5. The positivist Marxist position Kautsky's naturalistic quest. 6. The Hegelian Marxist position Lukacs Ontological quest. 7. Conclusion Marx vs. the Marxist philosophers. Notes. Index. In this fresh original analysis of Marxist thought Cornel West makes a significant contribution to today's debates about the relevance of Marxism by putting the issue of ethics squarely on the Marxist agenda. West professor of religion and director of the Afro American studies program at Princeton University shows that not only was ethics an integral part of the development of Marx's own thinking throughout his career but that this crucial concern has been obscured by such leading and influential interpreters as Engels Kautsky Lukacs and others who diverted Marx's theory into narrow forms of positivism economism and Hegelianism. He then argues that only by seeing Marx in a broader manner can we highlight the crucial values of individuality democracy and social freedom in Marx's own thought. In an extended introductory essay West shows how his own intellectual development led him to emphasize the ethical dimensions of Marxist thought and links this autobiographical exploration to the present crises in U.S. Society. 184 pp.

Paperback. Condition: As New. New. Contents Preface. 1. The dialectical and metaphysical conception of the concrete. 2. The unity of the abstract and the concrete as a law of thought. 3. Ascent from the abstract to the concrete. 4. Logical development and concrete historicism. 5. The method of ascent from the abstract to the concrete in Marx's Capital. Name and Subject index. The book presents an integral Marxist conception of the dialectics and methodology of scientific theoretical cognition of the dialectical interrelation between the abstract and the concrete of the unity of the historical and the logical of the correlation between dialectical and formal logic etc. These problems are considered against the background of a profound philosophical analysis of Marx's Capital. The meaningful discussion of the material is accompanied by a critical analysis of various Non Marxist philosophical trends (neopositivism existentialism and others). The book also touches on a number of controversial issues the expression of real contradictions in concepts the problem of the universal and so on. The writer has set forth his ideas in a vivid imaginative language. 294 pp.

Paperback. Condition: As New. New. Essentially a theoretical exercise this slim volume T. Nagi Reddy Memorial Lecture offers a Marxist view of the current economic and political situation in India. Focussed on and detailing the post independence (Nehruvian) National Project its outcome and collapse the ruling classes shift to globalisation an openly avowed capitalist path of development as their new strategic option and contemporary India's most important unraised political question the question of a people's strategic option an alternative path of development distinct from and in opposition to that of India's ruling classes the argument touches upon such issues as the concepts of globalisation and development the current crisis of global capitalism Marx's perspective on socialism and the changed reality of the world the Soviet experience and achievement the need to dissociate socialism from authoritarianism it has come to be associated with the pursuit of revolutionary politics in regimes of bourgeois democracy and so on. Pointing out that development as something desirable is not synonymous with capitalist development the author argues for a socialism oriented path of development for the country and concludes with a brief comment addressed to the revolutionary Left in India that T. Nagi Reddy was associated with. 120 pp.

Paperback. Condition: As New. New. Contents Introduction/John Bellamy Foster. Biographical data. Authors foreword. 1. The dream of the whole man. 2. Creative labor. 3. Division of labor and alienation. 4. The Fetish character of the commodity. 5. Classes and the class struggle. 6. Historical materialism. 7. Value and surplus value. 8. Profit and capital. 9. The problem of increasing misery. 10. The theory of revolution. 11. Dictatorship of the proletariat socialism communism. 12. Labor movement and international. 13. The philosophy of practice. 14. Marxism today. Appendix 1. Marx's method/Paul M. Sweezy. 2. Marx's starting point these on Feuerbach. 3. The base superstructure metaphor from preface to A contribution to the critique of political economy. 4. The philosophy of history from the eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte. Notes. Index. Has any major thinker been more poorly understood than Karl Marx. Over the last 150 years his name has been invoked in connection with everything from unemployment insurance to Hollywood to Guerilla Wars. Any number of international movements have claimed his teachings as their inspiration. Time after time authorities have proclaimed the death of Marx's Theories while new and old audiences continue to draw vital insight from the works of the most important philosopher and economist of the industrial era. Ernst Fischer has crafted a brief clear and faithful exposition of Marx's main premises with particular emphasis on historical context. This new edition of the English translation of Was Marx Wirklich Sagte (1968) includes new contributions by John Bellamy Foster that sharpen Fischer's focus for today's readers. Also included are a biographical chronology extracts from major works of Marx and Marx's Method a valuable essay by the political economist Paul M. Sweezy. 192 pp.

Hardbound. Condition: As New. New. Contents 1. A poetics of anticolonialism/Robin D.G. Kelley. 2. Discourse on colonialism/Aime Cesaire. 3. An interview with Aime Cesaire/Rene Depestre. Notes. This classic work first published in France in 1955 profoundly influenced the generation of schol 102 pp.

Paperback. Condition: As New. New. Contents Introduction. I. Marx's Theory of Commodity Fetishism 1. Objective basis of commodity fetishism. 2. The production process and its social form. 3. Reification of production relations among people and personification of things. 4. Thing and social function (Form). 5. Production relations and material categories. 6. Struve on the Theory of Commodity Fetishism. 7. Marx's Development of the Theory of Fetishism. II. Marx's Labor Theory of Value 8. Basic characteristics of Marx's Theory of Value. 9. Value as the regulator of production. 10. Equality of commodity producers and Equality of Commodities. 11. Equality of commodities and Equality of labor. 12. Content and form of value. 13. Social labor. 14. Abstract Labor. 15. Qualified labor. 16. Socially necessary labor. 17. Value and social need. 18. Value and production price. 19. Productive labor. According to the prevailing theories of economists economics has replaced political economy and economics deals with scarcity prices and resource allocation. In the definition of Paul Samuelson Economics or Political economy as it used to be called is the study of how men and society choose with or without the use of money to employ scarce productive resources which could have alternative uses to produce various commodities over time and distribute them for consumption now and in the future among various people and groups in society. If economics is indeed merely a new name for political economy and if the subject matter which was once covered under the heading of political economy is now covered by economics then economics has replaced political economy. However if the subject matter of political economy is not the same as that of economics then the replacement of political economy is actually an omission of a field of knowledge. If economics answers different questions from those raised by political economy and if the omitted questions refer to the form and the quality of human life within the dominant social economic system then this omission can be called a great evasion. Economic theorist and historian I.I. Rubin suggested a definition of political economy which has nothing in common with the definition of economics quoted above. According to Rubin Political Economy deals with human working activity not from the standpoint of its technical methods and instruments of labor but from the standpoint of its social form. It deals with production relations which are established among people in the process of production. In terms of this definition political economy is not the study of prices or of scarce resources it is a study of social relations a study of culture. 276 pp.

Hardbound. Condition: As New. New. Contents Preface. 1. Concerns of governance in health sector. 2. Governance in rural healthcare Pre Reform period. 3. Health sector reforms impact on governance. 4. Government response. 5. Dynamics of health sector governance. 6. Health governance the two paradigms. References. Notes. Index. The primary health care in the rural areas is beset with many problems which affect delivery of services to the people in need. This paper examines various facets of rural health care and major issues of governance which impact its performance in the context of health policy and changes introduced in it after the onset of economic reforms. It also discusses major interests which impinge upon health governance. A major policy intervention by the Government called the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) which attempts to address these issues has also been briefly dealt with. In this brief treatment of the subject the reader would get an overview of the major problems in the public health system in the rural areas why they arise and why they have failed to get resolved. 144 pp.

Hardbound. Condition: As New. Reprint. Contents Preface. 1. The calm before the storm. 2. What makes capitalism tick. 3. Capitalist economies are prone to crises. 4. Mature capitalism's concentration of production and slow growth. 5. Can the tendency to slow growth be overcome. 6. Economic sta 144 pp.

Paperback. Condition: As New. New. Contents Preface. Introduction. I. On Education 1. Popular education. 2. Itinerant teachers. 3. Rafael Maria de Mendive. 4. Bronson Alcott. 5. Peter Cooper. 6. The false myth of Latin inferiority. 7. Education for the masses. 8. A false concept of public education. 9. The school for deaf mutes. 10. A Spanish American University. 11. Learning on the farms. 12. Man and the land. 13. Obligatory education. 14. A French normal high school. 15. The new school. 16. Physical education. 17. Variety in teaching oral classes. 18. Equality of women. 19. Manual schools for girls. 20. The education of woman. 21. Classical and scientific education. 22. A scientific education. 23. A school of mechanics. 24. A school of electricity. 25. Manual work in the schools. 26. Living languages and dead languages. 27. The distribution of diplomas in one United States College. 28. Chautauqua The university of the poor. 29. A university without metaphysics. 30. An education consistent with life. 31. Education and nationality. 32. Education and freedom. 33. The annual assembly of the American Association for the advancement of science. 34. Mondays at The League. 35. A beautiful night at The League. II. For Children Selections from the age of Gold (La Edad de Oro) 1. To the children who read The age of Gold. 2. Three heroes. 3. Homer's Iliad. 4. An excursion in the land of the Annamese. 5. Naughty Nene. 6. The history of man told by way of his houses. 7. A new game and some other old ones. 8. The Indian ruins. 9. Musicians poets and painters. 10. The Paris exposition. 11. The rose colored slippers. 12. Advice to a young girl on what she should read A letter to Maria Mantilla. Index. This English language edition presents the celebrated Cuban writer and revolutionary Jose Marti's thoughts on educational theory pedagogy and the relationship between education and popular democracy. For students of education at all levels On Education has an uncanny relevance to contemporary concerns and helps us to better understand through his own words one of the most important figures in Latin American history. 320 pp.

Paperback. Condition: As New. Reprint. Contents Introduction. I. Late Marx 1. Late Marx Gods and craftsmen/Teodor Shanin. 2. Marx and revolutionary Russia/Haruki Wada. 3. Late Marx continuity contradiction and learning/Derek Sayer and Philip Corrigan. II. The Russian road 1. Marx Zasulich correspondence letters and drafts. 2. David Ryazanov the discovery of the drafts. 3. Karl Marx a letter to the editorial board of Otechestvennye Zapiski. 4. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. 5. Karl Marx Confessions. 6. Marx after capital a biographical note/Derek Sayer. 7. The Russian scene a biographical note (1867 1883)/Jonathan Sanders. III. The Russian revolutionary tradition 1850 to 1890 1. Nikolai Chernyshevskii selected writings. 2. The people's will basic documents and writings. 3. Marxism and the vernacular revolutionary traditions/Teodor Shanin. Index. Late Marx and the Russian Road addresses in a new way Marx's attitudes to societies we describe today as developing or peripheral and to social and socialist theories which originated in them and which reflect their particularities. It argues that the intensive research coupled with public silence during the last decade of Marx's life represented a new theoretical post capital threshold. This phase corresponded not accidentally with intensive studies of Russia and contacts with its theorists and revolutionaries. Russia was the first developing society in the sense accepted today and its social and intellectual context were to produce by the turn of the century the first wave of modernization theories and strategies as well as Leninism. Included in this work are the translations of Marx's notes from the late 1880s hailed as one of the most important finds of the last century. 286 pp.

Paperback. Condition: As New. Reprint. Contents Introduction. History 1. European expansion since 1763. 2. Imperialist expansion accident and design. 3. Imperialism a historical survey. Theory and the third world 4. Imperialism without colonies. 5. Economic myths and imperialism. 6. The multinational corporation and development a contradiction. 7. Militarism and imperialism. 8. The impact of U.S. Foreign policy on underdeveloped countries. 9. Capital technology and development. Reply to critics 10. Is imperialism really necessary. 11. How to make a molehill out of mountain. This volume contains a series of essays aimed at illuminating from a Marxist point of view the theory history and roots of imperialism ranging from the period of Western Europe's global expansion associated with the industrial revolution to the era of the multinational corporation and from the days of colonialism to modern imperialism without colonies. This work covers the history of European global expansion from 1763 to the 1970s and discusses the leading theories of imperialism such as those of Hobson Lenin and Schumpeter. Also included are Magdoff's answers to his critics specifically concerning causal interconnections between capitalism and imperialism and the necessity of imperialism. 280 pp.

Paperback. Condition: As New. Reprint. Contents A note from the publisher. Introduction call to mutiny Daniel Ellsberg. I. 1. E.P. Thompson a letter to America. II. Armaments and armorers 2. Dan Smith the European nuclear theater. 2. David Holloway war militarism and the Soviet State. 4. Emma Rothschild the American arms boom. 5. George Kistiakowsky the arms race and Nuclear War an interview. 6. Jonathan A. Leonard danger Nuclear War. 7. Henry T. Nash the bureaucratization of Homicide. III. Disarmament and peace 8. Appeal for European nuclear disarmament. 9. W.H. Ferry by what right. 10. Mary Kaldor disarmament the armament process in reverse. 11. Ken Coates European nuclear disarmament. Notes on contributors. Originally published in 1981 Protest and Survive presents a broad spectrum of opinion and information on the dangers inherent in U.S. Military and foreign policy and the nuclear confrontation between Washington and Moscow that threatened the entire globe. Decades later its words are just as relevant. The United States continues to wield a massive nuclear arsenal and use it to advance a strategy of global imperialism. First strike policies tactical nuclear weapons and pre emptive war are becoming increasingly central to the expansion of U.S. Empire thus putting the security of all humanity at risk. More than a historical document Protest and Survive helps us better understand the dangers of long term U.S. nuclear strategy and reminds us that it is a strategy we can resist. 216 pp.

Hardbound. Condition: As New. New. Contents Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Education sector in Punjab. 3. Health Services in Punjab. 4. Agricultural Extension Services in Punjab. 5. Summary conclusions and policy recommendations. Bibliography. The book is a gripping account of transformation 136 pp.

Hardbound. Condition: As New. New. Contents Preface. 1. Feasibility of another modernity. 2. Art of resistance in the era of cultural globalization. 3. Transcending limiting identities striving for an inclusive world. References. Index. Enough has already been said and written about modernity globalization and identity. What however distinguishes the book is its reflexivity the politico ethical questions in raises and the way it makes us confront our own ambiguities and life experiences. It uses contemporary sociological literature negotiates with diverse sources of creative imagination and remains immensely sensitive to the specificity of our own social reality the trajectory of Indian modernity the dynamics of cultural memory and globalization and the dialectic of identity politics. With its argumentative style it pleads for a humane/reflexive modernity narrates the possibility of a profound art of resistance against asymmetrical globalization and strives for a more open and dialogic society that inspires one to overcome segmented identities. Here is a book that needs to be read by sociologists social activists and all those who celebrate criticality and reflexivity. 175 pp.

Hardbound. Condition: As New. New. Contents Foreword. Preface. Introduction China and socialism. 1. China's rise to model status. 2. China's economic transformation. 3. Contradictions of China's transformation domestic. 4. Contradictions of China's transformation international. 5. China and socialism conclusion. Appendix Tables. Notes. Index. The fastest growing economy in the world today is that of China. For many on the left the Chinese economy seems to provide an alternative model of development to that of neoliberal globalization. Although it is a disputed question whether the Chinese economy can be still described as socialist there is no doubting the importance for the global project of socialism of accurately interpreting and soberly assessing its real prospects. Hart Landsberg and Burkett's China and Socialism argues that market reforms in China are leading inexorably toward a capitalist and foreign dominated development path with enormous social and political costs both domestically and internationally. The rapid economic growth that accompanied these market reforms have not been due to efficiency gains but rather to deliberate erosion of the infrastructure that made possible a remarkable degree of equality. The transition to the market has been based on rising unemployment intensified exploitation declining health and education services exploding government debt and unstable prices. At the same time China's economic transformation has intensified the contradictions of capitalist development in other countries especially in East Asia. Far from being a model that is replicable in other third world countries China today is a reminder of the need for socialism to be built from the grassroots up through class struggle and international solidarity. 159 pp.

Hardbound. Condition: As New. Reprint. Contents Chronology. Introduction to the Indian edition by Lal Khan. 1. Revolution and counter revolution in Venezuela. 2. Venezuela the revolution at the point of no return. 3. The Venezuelan revolution in danger. 4. Venezuela between revolution and counter revolution. 5. Encounters with Hugo Chavez. 6. Marxists and the Venezuelan Revolution. 7. Foxes and grapes sectarian stupidity and the Venezuelan Revolution. 8. The targets are Venezuela and Cuba new intrigues of US imperialism. 9. Theses on revolution and counter Revolution in Venezuela. 10. As August 15 approaches why we are fighting for a No next Sunday. 11. The recall referendum in Venezuela a crushing blow to the counter revolution. 12. The nationalisation of Venepal what does it signify. 13. Chavez capitalism must be transcended. 14. The agrarian revolution revolutionary realism versus reformist Utopia. Glossary/names. This book by Alan Woods is essential reading for all those who want to understand what is happening in Venezuela today. But this is no mere description of events. It is a powerful Marxist analysis of the Venezuelan Revolution its weakness and strengths its contradictions and unique characteristics. The book was not written with hindsight. Every chapter beginning with the coup of April 2002 was written as the events themselves were unfolding and traces the winding course of the revolution. They reflect the immediacy and lightening speed of events happening before our very eyes. Today Latin America is in the Vanguard of world revolutionary developments and within the Latin American continent Venezuela stands out sharply as the country most affected by this process. It would be no exaggeration to say that Venezuela is now the key to the international situation. It therefore follows that the class conscious workers and youth in Britain and elsewhere must closely follow the events in Venezuela and assist the revolution with every means possible. Alan Woods has been a consistent champion of the Venezuelan Revolution since its inception. He helped initiate the hands off Venezuela Campaign. He has held personal discussions with President Hugo Chavez which are recounted in this book. The author concludes that the Venezuelan Revolution cannot stop half way and holds up the perspective of a victorious socialist transformation. Only by expropriating the power of the oligarchy can it succeed and spread to the rest of the continent. This is no foreign idea but in essence is the vision of Simon Bolivar in the context of the 21 century of the creation of a democratic socialist federation of Latin America. 188 pp.

Paperback. Condition: As New. Reprint. Contents Foreword by Vsievolod Volkov. Introduction. 1. 1969 introduction. 2. From the history of Bolshevism (1). 3. From the history of Bolshevism (2). 4. The theory of the permanent revolution. 5. Trotsky and Brest Litovsk. 6. The rise of Stalinism. 7. Lenin's struggle against bureaucracy. 8. Socialism in one country. 9. Conclusion. Appendices. Bibliography. The ideas of Lenin and Trotsky are without doubt the most distorted and slandered ideas in history. For more than eighty years they have been subjected to an onslaught from the apologists of capitalism who have attempted to present their ideas Bolshevism as both totalitarian and Utopian. An entire industry was developed in an attempt to equate the crimes of Stalinism with the regime of workers democracy that existed under Lenin and Trotsky. On the other hand ever since the invention of Trotskyism in 1924 the Stalinist bureaucracy has systematically falsified the real relationship between these two leaders of the October revolution. Originally written as a reply to Monty Johnstone a leading theoretician of the British Communist Party it systematically demolishes all the arguments used to discredit Trotsky's ideas and his role in the Bolshevik Party. This book uncovers the real ideas of Lenin and Trotsky. 224 pp.

Hardbound. Condition: As New. New. Contents Foreword/Raghbendra Chattopadhyay. Preface. Abbreviation. 1. The rationale and scope of the study. 2. The monetary system use of money and commerce in Mughal India. 3. Viewpoints on the monetary system and use of money in the pre colonial South and the Decean. 4. An overview of the pre colonial Bengal economy. 5. Sarrafs and bankers in the transitional economy of Bengal. 6. The characteristics circulation and decline of the Cowrie currency. Epilogue. Select bibliography. Index. This book is a study of the pre colonial and transitional phase of India's monetary and commercial history with special reference to Bengal and brings into focus the changes that were brought about by the colonial rule. It emphasises that there were considerable elements of conflict in the process of transition along with significant discontinuities and breaks. One of the important aspect of this transition the author argues is the disappearance of the humble currency media and the eclipse of the autonomy of the rural economy reasons for which need to be carefully examined. In this way the study brings to light some hitherto neglected aspects of the monetary and commercial transition in India. In this work the author has combined his study of history with his command of the tools of economic theory. 200 pp.

Hardbound. Condition: As New. Reprint. Contents Introduction/Noam Chomsky. Preface. 1. The basic ideas of Anarchism. 2. In search of a new society. 3. Anarchism in revolutionary practice i. 1880 1914. ii. Anarchism in the Russian Revolution. iii. Anarchism in the Italian Factory Councils. iv. Anarchism in the Spanish Revolution. By way of conclusion. Postscript May 1968. Bibliography. 166 pp.

Hardbound. Condition: As New. New. Contents Introduction. 1. Historical materialism as a science. 2. Social being and social consciousness. 3. Forms of social consciousness and their social function. 4. Material production the basis of social life. 5. The socioeconomic formation. 6. Social revolution. 7. Social classes and class struggle. 8. The political organisation of society. 9. The historical forms of human community. 10. The Marxist conception of history and revolutionary optimism. Notes. Mainstream social science fragments the study of society into a number of unconnected disciplines such as archaeology social anthropology economics political science history none of which is concerned with actually uncovering the fundamental lass which govern the origin development and organisation of society. Marxism however is concerned with the big picture. Furthermore it regards history and society as the product of collective human action which can therefore be changed by the struggle of the working people. But in order to do this we need a scientific understanding of the laws that govern and shape social life. That is what historical materialism provides. This book is a comprehensive introduction to the Marxist theory of history and politics. 214 pp.

Hardbound. Condition: As New. New. Contents Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Globalisation in a different sense. 3. The international monetary fund the harsh ethics of global capital. 4. The World Bank the humane mask. 5. Rent appropriation and capitalist occupation. 6. The World Trade Organisation the police of global capital. 7. The new strategy of global capital. 8. Another globalisation. 9. Tracing the roots. 10. Situating the position. References. Index. The focus of the book is on the international economic organisation the World Bank IMF and the WTO. In some sense one can also use this as common person's guide to the logic of international economic organisations in the age of globalisation. The age of globalisation is examined from a critical Marxist perspective. It weaves a fascinating and novel view of our age with a serious revaluation of the theory and practice of Marxism today. In spite of the density of the ideas prior exposure of the reader to the theoretical approaches on which these ideas are based is not necessary. Knowledge of economics which is the stuff of globalisation is also not demanded. Wherever necessary theoretical issues and concepts have been explained with adequate illustrations. The book builds on the critique of globalisation to argue for a particular vision of the alternative course of development nirman aur sangharsh (construction and struggle). This position advocates that a meaningful struggle against the suffocating order of global capital can take shape only if it is supplemented with a positive programme of construction (both material and moral) through community effort. This conception of struggle is rooted in the ideas of nationalists like Tagore and Gandhi as much as it is in the ideas of the Marxist Revolutionary Shankar Guha Neogi. 232 pp.