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From its foundation in 1919, the American Communist party exerted a remarkable influence on American life for a small, often despised, and sometimes persecuted group. Whether the party was seen as a progressive vanguard, a group of misguided idealists, or a serious threat to the nation's security, the party has attracted more attention from politicians, scholars, and ordinary citizens than its size or political success would seem to warrant. More...
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The European socialist tradition has embodied over the past century and a half a rich variety of theories and movements that have helped shape the modern world. In this book the most important documents of socialist thought have been arranged and interpreted to produce a continuous history from the Communist utopianism of pre-revolutionary France down to the present day.
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From the Blurb: This authoritative book presents the distillation of J. Edgar Hoover's views on communism in America as he has studied it for fifty years. In a long introductory essay he appraises the Party's "new look" as well as the pressing issues of the moment-including the role of the New Left, the civil rights movement and black nationalism-and evaluates the menace of communism today. Since 1919, when he studied the earliest documents of communism...
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Providing easy and direct access to the writings of major Marxist thinkers--including Marx himself, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, Mao, Marcuse, Guevara, and Cabral--this anthology provides a comprehensive view of both classical and contemporary Marxism. Accompanying each excerpt is an introduction, putting the writer in historical and political context, and recommendations for further reading, making this book an indispensable first-hand guide to...
16) Communism
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"'Communism' shows how the modern communist movement emerged out of radical millenarian movements of the Middle Ages and the English Civil War, becoming a mass movement of industrial society, seeking to overturn capitalism and replace it with a society of equality, justice, harmony and cooperation. It traces the growth of modern communism from its beginnings in the early nineteenth century to its position of global power at the end of the Second World...
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