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Author
Series
Very short introductions volume 28
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Language
English
Description
Karl Marx's theories have shaped and directed political economic, and social thought for 150 years. Here the renowned philosopher Peter Singer describes Marx's life and early ideas before clearly and concisely identifying the central vision that unifies Marx's thought and enables us to grasp it as a whole. In this new edition. Singer explores whether Marx and his ideas remain relevant to politics and society today. Assessing Marx's impact and the...
Author
Publisher
South End Press
Pub. Date
c1999
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xxii, 55 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
A one-man play featuring Karl Marx in today's New York. In a monologue, he observes capitalism committing the same abuses he railed against a century and a half earlier in his Communist Manifesto. And just for the record he reminds everyone, "I am not a Marxist." By the author of A People's History of the United States.
9) The outsider
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
[1969? c1953]
Physical Desc
440 p. 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
[The author] presents a compelling story of a black man's attempt to escape his past and start anew in Harlem. Cross Damon is a man at odds with society and with himself, a man who hungers for peace but who brings terror and destruction wherever he goes.
10) The sympathizer
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Follows a Viet Cong agent as he spies on a South Vietnamese army general and his compatriots as they start a new life in 1975 Los Angeles.
"It is April 1975, and Saigon is in chaos. At his villa, a general of the South Vietnamese army is drinking whiskey and, with the help of his trusted captain, drawing up a list of those who will be given passage aboard the last flights out of the country. The general and his compatriots start a new life in Los...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xx, 648 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map, portraits ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A biography of the philosopher and political revolutionary describes his childhood and family life along with his public life as an agitator and dissident and compares him to his contemporaries.
12) Emma Goldman
Author
Series
Twayne's United States authors volume TUSAS 515
Publisher
Twayne Publishers
Pub. Date
c1987
Physical Desc
182 p. : port. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xii, 756 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The globalized world of the twenty-first century has many parallels with that of the period running up to the cataclysm of 1914, namely the world predicted by Karl Marx. Communications go that much faster, but this is a difference of degree, not type. People, messages, and ideas are flung around the globe. Money circulates in a never-ceasing torrent, poverty lives side by side with wealth, and capital exercises its impersonal power over each and...
15) Rosa: a novel
Author
Series
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
405 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
November 1918. A socialist revolution is sweeping across Germany, wreaking havoc on war-torn Berlin. Amid the ruin of the city's slums, four women are found dead-all with identical scars on their backs. Detective Inspector Nikolai Hoffner and his assistant, Hans Fichte, are baffled by the killings, and when another body is discovered, the case takes an ominous and unexpected turn. The fifth victim is none other than Rosa Luxemburg-a leader of the...
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