Author : Jack London
Publisher :
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 47,38 MB
Release : 1910
Category : American essays
ISBN :
Jack London was a Socialist at heart, having been born into the working class and rising through hard work to be one of the most successful writers in the world. Though it was that system that made him rich, he had disdain for capitalism in general. His stories told of rugged individualism, but he believed in socialism. This book contains 13 short essays that convey those beliefs.
Author : Rosa Luxemburg
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 12,44 MB
Release : 2012-07-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0486147223
A refutation of revisionist interpretations of Marxist doctrine, the title essay (1899) explains why capitalism can never overcome its internal contradictions and defines the character of the proletarian revolution. 3 other essays.
Author : Gore Vidal
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 21,25 MB
Release : 2018-08-22
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0525565825
These nineteen essays richly confirm Gore Vidal's reputation as "America's finest essayist" (The New Statesman), and are further evidence of the breadth and depth of his intelligence and wit. Included here are his highly praised essays on Theodore Roosevelt ("An American Sissy"), F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edmund Wilson ("This Critic and This Gin and These Shoes"), the need for a new constitutional convention—as well as his controversial study of relations between the homosexual and Jewish communities ("Pink Triangle and Yellow Star"). Vidal's other subjects range from Christopher Isherwood to L. Frank Baum ("The OZ BOoks"), from the question of "Who Makes the Movies?" to the misadventures—religious and financial—of Bert Lance.
Author : Charles Foran
Publisher : Biblioasis
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,42 MB
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1897231725
In Join the Revolution, Comrade, Charles Foran brings to the essay form the same restlessness and originality that mark his novels and non-fiction. Foran visits places in Vietnam that have been 'colonized' by western war films, talks to Shanghai residents about their colossal city and commiserates with the people of Bali about the effects of terrorist bombs on their island. In Beijing he looks up old friends he had known back in 1989 during the days before and after the June 4th massacre. "Join the revolution, Comrade," a friend had loved to say, quoting a line from a Bertolucci film. Foran also 'encounters' Miguel de Cervantes, the Buddha of Compassion, and the pumped-up American Tom Wolfe. He maps the geography of Canadian literature and pinpoints the 'inner-Newfoundland' of Wayne Johnston. He defends the novel against those who would tame it and uses an ancient Chinese philosopher to explain how one imagination -- his own-- works. Whether exploring the waterways of Thailand or the streets of his childhood in suburban Toronto, meditating on raising children in post-9/11 Asia or the music of good prose, Charles Foran's writing is fresh, alert, and free of convention.
Author : Craig Rosebraugh
Publisher : PM Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 35,5 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780974288475
An effort to further the discussion of the necessity of a fundamental political and social revolution in the United States, this collection contains essays by 12 activists and authors, all of whom have demonstrated a lifelong commitment to revolutionary change. As inspiring as it is educational, this anthology is a must read for those involved with or considering advocating political or social change within. Arguing that reformist measures cannot be relied upon to correct the fundamental problems caused by the corporate elite and political structure, the contributors are unified in their call for a significant revolutionary change in the United States.
Author : Albert Jay Nock
Publisher : Ludwig von Mises Institute
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 13,50 MB
Release : 1928
Category : United States
ISBN : 1610163788
"Various aspects of...the quality of civilization in the United States."- Pref. Artemus Ward.--The decline of conversation.--On making low people interesting.--A cultural forecast.--Towards a new quality-product.--Anarchist's progress.--On doing the right thing.--A study in manners.--Thoughts on revolution.--To youngsters of easy means.
Author : Angelo Parra
Publisher : Benchmark Education Company
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 39,29 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1450929575
To some, England had the right to govern the thirteen American colonies. To others, England was violating the colonists' rights. Still others took no side. Which would prevail loyalty to the king, freedom now, or peace at any price? Read these essays to find out.
Author : Rosa Luxemburg
Publisher :
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 39,84 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781934941911
Selected writings from "Red Rosa" Luxemburg, one of the founders of the German Communist Party. Contains "The National Question," concerning the relationship of subject nations to socialism; "Reform or Revolution?," concerning the reformist program of parliamentary socialism; "The Socialist Crisis in France," concerning the entry of the Socialist Party into the French Government; and other essays.
Author : Stephen G. Kurtz
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 25,1 MB
Release : 2013-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0807839949
These eight original essays by a group of America's most distinguished scholars include the following themes: the meaning and significance of the Revolution; the long-term, underlying causes of the war; violence and the Revolution; the military conflict; politics in the Continental Congress; the role of religion in the Revolution; and the effect of the war on the social order. This is the product of the celebrated Symposium on the American Revolution held in 1971 by the institute. Originally published 1973. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
Author : Yevgeny Zamyatin
Publisher : Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 28,42 MB
Release : 2023-03-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9356844836
We is a dystopian novel written by Russian writer Yevgeny Zamyatin. Originally drafted in Russian, the book could be published only abroad. It was translated into English in 1924. Even as the book won a wide readership overseas, the author's satiric depiction led to his banishment under Joseph Stalin's regime in the then USSR. The book's depiction of life under a totalitarian state influenced the other novels of the 20th century. Like Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-four, We describes a future socialist society that has turned out to be not perfect but inhuman. Orwell claimed that Brave New World must be partly derived from We, but Huxley denied this. The novel is set in the future. D-503, a spacecraft engineer, lives in the One State which assists mass surveillance. Here life is scientifically managed. There is no way of referring to people except by their given numbers. The society is run strictly by reason as the primary justification for the construct of the society. By way of formulae and equations outlined by the One State, the individual's behaviour is based on logic.
