<p>Monopoly Capital is a Marxian investigation of trends already noted by liberal economists - the price-fixing, the cartels, the inbuilt tendency towards monopoly within the American economic and social system.  The author's analysis of the implications of corporate monopoly and the dynamics of exploitation in the Third World amounts to a rigorous twentieth-century reinterpretation of traditional Marxian theory.</p>

Monopoly Capital: An Essay on the American Economic and Social Order

Business & Money

Baran, Paul A.

Economics

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Autobiography and Analysis of Kenya's Peasant Revolt

Mau Mau from within

History

Barnett Donald L. Njama Karari

Africa

From the proliferation of novels written by white women in the late 18th cent. to the rise of rap music composed by black men in the late 20th, popular culture has been a powerful force in the U.S. In this fascinating history written for the general reader, Cullen traces the development of this culture over two centuries. He uses the novels of the late 18th & early 19th cent., the theater & minstrel shows of the mid-19th cent., the movies & TV of the 20th cent. to demonstrate the boundaries of form & geography. Cullen shows how unique & vibrant popular cultural forms have overcome initial resistance from the elites & enabled historically marginalized groups to gain access to the fruits of society & recognition from the mainstream. Illustrated.

Art of Democracy: A Concise History of Popular Culture in the United States

Politics & Social Sciences

Jim Cullen

Social Sciences

What is civilization? The term, commonly identified with "uplift" and "order," has come to take on another meaning: the "civilized" versus the "primitive." This book is about the idea of civilization and how, at different times, the concept has been used by the powerful in order to defend their status. Drawing on his extensive knowledge of early societies, anthropologist Thomas C. Patterson shows how class, sexism, and racism have been integral to the appearance of "civilized" societies in Western Europe.

Inventing Western Civilization

Thomas C. Patterson

World

Revolution in Guinea: African People's Struggle

Cabral, Amílcar

Art and society: Essays in Marxist aesthetics

Adolfo Sa?nchez Vazquez

Socialist Register

Radical politics have been defined in modern times -- and distinguished from earlier traditions of protest -- by the idea that economic, social and political structures are contradictory. Systems of exploitation creates not only wealth and prosperity for the powerful, but at the same time bring into being the forces which ensure their own eventual downfall. But it is a large step from the general assertion that social forms contain their own contradictions to analysis of the specific contradictions which occur in a given historical context, their interaction and movement, and their possible historical outcomes.This collection of essays examines social contradictions in the age of globalization in which old antagonisms often appear to be overcome, and new cracks are emerging in the facade of capitalist progress. Where do they occur? Where can they be expected to appear in future? How can they be grasped in a spirit of sober radicalism, which neither accepts the limits of the present nor overcomes them through wishful thinking alone? What possibilities do they offer for mobilizing resistance? These issues define an agenda which is critical for socialism in our time.

Panitch, Leo

Leys, Colin [Editors]

A new global labour force is being created working in call centres, homes and electronic sweatshops. New technologies are also transforming daily life. This book presents a coherent conceptual framework within which these developments can be understood. - Explains the impact of technology on the workplace, and relates its arguments and analyses to the work-situations of real people, showing how larger trends influence daily activities and shape the possibilities of collective action. - A portrait of working conditions experienced by both men and women, but focuses especially on the double impact on women both as workers and as consumers.. - Foreword by Colin Leys-a well-known figure in Marxist political analysis- describing the unique contribution of Huws's work. In the development of a new feminist-influenced political economy - Huws has been engaged with the social meaning of the new digital technologies from their first introduction into the workplace in the 1970s. Avoiding technological determinism, Huws locates developments in a long economic and political trajectory, so that their significance for understanding globalisation processes stands out clearly.

The Making of a Cybertariat : Virtual Work in a Real World

Business Culture

<p>This intriguing work deals with the plight of the alienated individual, estranged from humanity and the surrounding world. It examines such questions as: Why do writers like Kafka, Thomas Wolfe, Rilke, and the existential philosophers, who portray the individual as a stranger in the world, have such a strong appeal? Is estrangement limited to individual cases or has it become a universal fate? Is alienation a consequence of the triumph of the machine? Is it characteristic of the human condition, or is it a specific development of modern society? Should humanity resign itself to alienation, or can it be overcome, conquered?</p>

Alienation Modern Man

Literature & Fiction

Pappenheim, Fritz

Literary

Cuba: Anatomy of a Revolution

Biographies & Memoirs

Huberman, Leo

Sweezy, Paul M.

Historical

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