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Everyone knows that Marx wrote, “religion is the opium of the people,” but all too frequently this aphorism is regarded as exhausting what he and Engels had to say on the subject. In fact, they presen
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Israel's Operation Cast Lead thrust the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip into the center of the debate about the Israel/Palestine conflict. In this updated and expanded edition, Noam Chomsky and
This book of essays by Deutscher Prize–winning historian Neil Davidson insightfully explores themes running through historical materialism to show how Marxism can retain a sense of historical traditio
This book sheds crucial new light on the epochal US interventions in Southeast Asia after World War II. Antiwar activist Fred Branfman describes the tragic lives of Laotian peasants under US bombing.
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The Women Incendiaries tells the inspirational story of women who played a leading role in the Paris Commune, one of history’s greatest moments of social upheaval. This is the first paperback edition
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Just as blues influenced the Harlem Renaissance and jazz influenced the Black Arts Movement, hip-hop's musical and cultural force has shaped the aesthetics of and given rise to a new generation of Ame
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Written from a Marxist perspective, this book argues that the global economy is in a depression. The profitability of capital is too low and debt built up before the Great Recession is too high. This
Today China is a global superpower, still dominated by a party that calls itself Communist. In this classic history of the Chinese Revolution, originally published in 1978, Nigel Harris traces the cla