Political and Social Criticism
by Alexandra Kollontai. ISBN 978-1-934941-70-6. Paperback 6x9, 84pp, List Price $10.99.
A manifesto of the Workers Opposition, a group within the USSR's Communist Party that rejected Leninist centralization and Stalinist dictatorship, and argued for direct worker control of the industries, democratic socialism, the rights of labor unions, the right of free criticism of Party leaders and programs, the end of Party repression, and a return to the original worker-organized Council-based state structure. Most of the Workers Opposition died in Stalin's jails.
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Reds, White and Blue: An Anthology of American Socialism and Communism 1880-1920
Edited by Lenny Flank. ISBN 978-1-934941-44-7. Paperback 6x9, 388pp, List Price $16.99.
A history of American socialism and communism. Selected from the writings of America's most prominent leftists, including Robert Owen, Eugene V Debs, Jack London, Emma Goldman, Big Bill Haywood, Robert LaFollette, Norman Thomas, Louis Fraina, and others.
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by Carlos Marighella, ISBN 978-1-934941-30-0. Paperback 6x9, 80pp, list price $10.99.
Written in 1969 by Brazilian revolutionary Carlos Marighella, the Minimanual of the Urban Guerrilla is a practical handbook of urban warfare. As such, it has served as a Bible for guerrilla groups and resistance networks around the world. The Minimanual of the Urban Guerrilla remains today, decades after it was written, one of the most comprehensive manuals of urban resistance ever written.
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by Emma Goldman, ISBN 9781934941249. Paperback 6x9, 256pp, list price $13.99.
A scathing look at the Russian Revolution in the aftermath of the Bolshevik takeover. Prominent anarchist Emma Goldman describes the repression practiced by the Leninists against political dissidents and their own workers, in order to maintain their system of centralized party-dominated state capitalism.
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Writings of Eugene V Debs: A Collection of Essays by America's Most Famous Socialist
by Eugene V Debs. ISBN 978-1-934941-48-5. Paperback 6x9, 172pp, List Price $12.99.
A collection of speeches, pamphlets and writings from Eugene V Debs, from 1888 to 1925. Beginning his career as an organizer for the American Railway Union, Debs ran for President on the Socialist Party ticket 5 times, polling up to 6 percent of the total vote in 1912. Jailed in 1919 for an antiwar speech in Ohio, Debs ran for President from his jail cell in 1920, polling almost a million votes -- 3.4 percent of the total votes cast.
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by James Connolly, ISBN 9781934941362. Paperback 6x9, 263pp, list price $14.99.
Labor organizer James Connolly combined Irish nationalism with socialist criticism and a willingness for armed insurrection. His influence extended as far as the United States, where he played an active role in the Industrial Workers of the World (the "Wobblies"), to Russia, where they guided Lenin's thoughts on imperialism and colonialism. Connolly was executed by the British Government for his role in the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin.
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by Daniel DeLeon, ISBN 978-1-934941-38-6. Paperback 6x9, 220pp, List price $12.99
American socialist Daniel DeLeon was born in 1852 on the Caribbean island of Curacao. He joined the Socialist Labor Party on 1890 and soon became one of its leading figures. DeLeon was a fierce critic of the American trade union movement, dismissing its reformist goals. As a syndicalist and industrial unionist, he helped to form the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) in 1905.
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Hegemony and Counter-Hegemony: Marxism, Capitalism And Their Relation to Sexism, Racism, Nationalism, and Authoritarianism
by Lenny Flank, ISBN 978-0-979-1813-7-5. Paperback 6x9, 176pp. List price $11.99
A critical examination of the relationship between Marxism and other social justice movements, including feminism, anti-racism, gay liberation, environmentalism, anarchism and Native activism. The capitalist social order is like a Hydra, a many-headed dragon. Try to cut off one head, and the others will kill you. The only way to kill the beast is to cut off all its heads at once. The social revolution must grow to encompass not merely the economic means of production, but the entire mode of social life, including its familial, sexual, racial, national, gender and authority roles. The tactics of the traditional Leninists are entirely unsuited for that task. Only a wider-ranging social movement can hope to defeat capitalist hegemony.
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IWW: A Documentary History
Edited by Lenny Flank, ISBN 978-0-9791813-5-1. Paperback 6 x 9, 280pp. List price $13.99 .
A history of the Industrial Workers of the World, the "Wobblies", in their own words, from the opening speech at the IWW's founding convention in 1905, to the tactics of strike and sabotage which made it the most feared labor union in the US, to its role in the 1919 General Strike that shut down the city of Seattle. With 12 pages of photographs.
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History of the Paris Commune of 1871
By Prosper Olivier Lissagaray, Translated by Eleanor Marx. ISBN 978-0-979-1813-4-4. Paperback 6x9, 364pp. List price $14.99.
The Paris Commune was a pivotal event in the history of socialist thought. It had such a profound effect on Karl Marx that he amended a portion of his "Communist Manifesto" in response to it. "History of the Paris Commune" is an eyewitness account of the Commune, written in its immediate aftermath by a French worker who participated in the events he describes. Illustrated with 8 pages of photographs.
"This is not a light read, but for the historically minded willing to put in the effort to engage it, it will yield a wonderful treasure of knowledge that will take the reader directly into the meetings of the Communard government and also right into the thick of the street fighting. It is hard to find a more detailed work on the Paris Commune, and Lissagaray even goes so far as to explore in detail the short lived Communard uprising that rose up in French provinces at the same time, a subject usually neglected by contemporary histories."
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by Marx, Engels, Bakunin, Kropotkin, and Lenin. ISBN 978-1-934941-28-7. Paperback 6x9, 125pp. List price $11.99.
The Paris Commune in 1871 played a key role in the development of socialist thought. In the midst of a siege by German troops, the workers of Paris rose in revolt and established their own government. Both communists and anarchists claimed the Commune for their own. This volume includes essays on the Paris Commune by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Mikhail Bakunin, Peter Kropotkin, and Vladimir Lenin.
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Non-Leninist Marxism: Writings on the Workers Councils
by Gorter, Pannekoek, Pankhurst and Ruhle. ISBN 978-0-979-1813-6-8. Paperback 6x9, 174pp. List price $11.99.
The recent collapse of the Soviet Union made clear the weaknesses and deficiencies in Leninist theory and practice. In the period between the World Wars, however, an entirely different trend of socialist thought had briefly flowered in Europe, a trend which rejected the Leninist model of centralized party and state, and instead affirmed the democratic self-emancipation of the working class. This movement was "council communism". "Non-Leninist Marxism" presents a selection of the most influential writings from the council communists, including Hermann Gorter, Anton Pannekoek, Sylvia Pankhurst, and Otto Ruhl.
"This is an important and well selected of writings by some of the leading figures in the Council Communist tendency of revolutionary Marxism. Most of the writings included in this volume have been largely unavailable in print for some time and their return to publication is an extremely welcome development."
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Contradictions of Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics
by Lenny Flank. ISBN 978-0-979-1813-9-9. Paperback 6x9. 120pp. List price $11.99.
A beginner's guide to Marxist economics, from the beginnings of capitalism within the feudalist system, to its modern incarnation as corporate monopoly. Also covers the rise and fall of the non-market Leninist economies.
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by Ernest Untermann. ISBN 978-1-934941-71-3. Paperback 6x9, 196pp, List Price $12.99.
The classic explanation of Karl Marx's economic theories, by American socialist Ernest Untermann. The theory of historical materialism, the labor theory of value, the theory of surplus value, wage labor and profits, pre-capitalist societies, and the economic transition from feudalism to capitalism. Written for an audience of rank-and-file working people during the early union movement, "Marxist Economics" presents the most influential economic theories in history, in a non-technical way for non-economists.
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Philosophy of Revolution: Towards a Non-Leninist Marxism
by Lenny Flank. ISBN 978-0-979-1813-8-2. Paperback 6x9. 136pp. List price $11.99.
A critique of authoritarian Leninism from the viewpoint of "council communism". Social revolutionaries must reject the failed leninist model as being unsuited to the social conditions existing in the industrialized nations. It is clear that our revolutionary methods and organizations must be broad-based, mass-supported, and based on the decentralized self-organization of the producers. That is the essence of the Worker's Council.
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by Betrand Russell. ISBN 978-1-934941-74-4. Paperback 6x9, 162pp, List Price $11.99
Bertrand Russell's classic treatise. The strengths and weaknesses of the social systems proposed by the socialists, anarchists and syndicalists.
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By John Spargo. ISBN 978-1-934941-67-6. Paperback 6x9. 136pp, List Price $11.99.
A history of the Syndicalist movement, and a critique of the Syndicalist program from the point of view of parliamentary Socialism.
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by GDH Cole. ISBN 978-1-8934941-75-1. Paperback 6x9, 148pp, List Price $11.99.
Guild Socialism was a British version of French Syndicalism, which advocated that economic and political functions be united into structures called "guilds", by which workers would directly control industry through elected councils, while consumers would also be represented by elected councils. This is GDH Cole's classis treatise on the theory and practice of Guild Socialism.
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History of the Fabian Society: The Origins of English Socialism
by Edward R Pease. ISBN: 978-1-934941-32-4. Paperback 6x9, 204pp, List Price $12.99.
The Fabian Society was founded in 1884, by a group of British intellectuals. Idealistic, enthusiastic and, perhaps, naive reformers, the Fabianb Society was the first major socialist group in the UK. Among its most prominent members were George Bernard Shaw, H.G. Wells, Bertrand Russell, and John Maynard Keynes.
The Fabians were instrumental in forming the British Labour Party in 1900.
Edward R Pease served as Secretary of the Fabian Society for several decades. This book gives the history of the Fabian Society from its founding to the First World War.
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The Communistic Societies of the United States: Harmony, Oneida, the Shakers, and Others
by Charles Nordhoff. ISBN: 978-1-934941-33-1. Paperback 6x9, 320pp, List Price $14.99.
In the 19th century, a number of utopian social groups, most of them religious sects, formed communal societies as an experiment in social living. This contemporary account describes the communal societies of New Harmony, Oneida, the Shakers, the Amana Society, the Icarians, the Social Freedom Community, and others.
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