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- Taylor, Astra author.
- First edition. - New York, New York : Metropolitan Books, 2019.
- Description
- Book — x, 357 pages ; 22 cm
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- Introduction: Living in the tension
- Free to be winners and losers (freedom/equality)
- Shouting as one (conflict/consensus)
- Reinventing the people (inclusion/exclusion)
- Choose this, or else! (coercion/choice)
- Is this what democracy looks like? (spontaneity/structure)
- A Socratic mob (expertise/mass opinion)
- New world order (local/global)
- A ruin or a habitation (present/future)
- Conclusion: From Founding Fathers to perennial midwives.
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2. The down-deep delight of democracy [2013]
- Purcell, Mark
- Chichester, West Sussex : John Wiley & Sons, 2013.
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource.
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- Acknowledgments viii
- 1 What Is to Be Done? 1
- 2 What Democracy Means 29
- 3 Becoming Democratic 75
- 4 Becoming Active 92
- 5 Revolutionary Connections 122
- 6 Conclusion 143 References 159 Index 168.
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3. A reader's guide to Marx's Capital [2019]
- Choonara, Joseph, author.
- Chicago, Illionis : Haymarket Books, 2019.
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource.
- Summary
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This book carefully guides the reader through each chapter of the first volume of Capital. It sets Marx's arguments in context, and explains their relevance today, and it offers insights into Marx's method, highlighting key concepts running through the book. It also offers pointers to wider works that can provide further illumination.
4. How communism shaped our world [2018]
- Berlin : PUV, Pro Universitate Verlag im Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, [2018]
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource.
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2013]
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource (xiii, 546 pages) : illustrations
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- Poststructuralism and Modern European Philosophy-- From Marxism to Poststructuralism-- From Structuralism to Poststructuralism-- On Language and Text-- On Structure and Subject-- On Image and Form-- On Economy and Institution-- On Resistance and Limit-- Archaeology and Genealogy-- Deconstruction-- Schizoanalysis-- Ecriture feminine-- Poststructuralism and its Critics-- From Poststructuralism to Postcolonialism-- Poststructuralism and Discourse Analysis-- Receptions (Cultural Theory)-- Receptions (Film Theory)-- Poststructuralism as French Theory-- Poststructuralism: The Geography of its Dispersal.
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- Barone, Charles A., author.
- London : Taylor and Francis Ltd, [2015]
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource.
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This straightforward introduction to radical political economy strikes a balance between breadth and depth and was written for the beginning student and others interested in a relatively short text on radical economics.
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- Niemietz, Kristian, author.
- London : Institute of Economic Affairs, in association with London Publishing Partnership Ltd, 2019.
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource (xix, 374 pages)
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Socialism is strangely impervious to refutation by real-world experience. Over the past hundred years, there have been more than two dozen attempts to build a socialist society, from the Soviet Union to Maoist China to Venezuela. All of them have ended in varying degrees of failure. But, according to socialism's adherents, that is only because none of these experiments were "real socialism". This book documents the history of this, by now, standard response. It shows how the claim of fake socialism is only ever made after the event. As long as a socialist project is in its prime, almost nobody claims that it is not real socialism. On the contrary, virtually every socialist project in history has gone through a honeymoon period, during which it was enthusiastically praised by prominent Western intellectuals. It was only when their failures became too obvious to deny that they got retroactively reclassified as "not real socialism".
8. Marx's economic manuscript of 1864-1865 [2015]
- Kapital. Selections. English
- Marx, Karl, 1818-1883.
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015]
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource.
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- Translator's Note Introduction by Fred Moseley Chapter One: The Transformation of Surplus-Value into Profit
- 1. Surplus-Value and Profit [2. Cost Price]
- 3. Economy in the Use of Constant Capital
- 4. The Effect of Changes in Raw Material Prices
- 5. Release and Tying-up of Capital, Depreciation and Appreciation, Revaluation and Devaluation of Capital
- 6. The Influence of Changes in Circulation Time, its Shortening or Lengthening (and also changes in the means of communication connected with this) on the Rate of Profit
- 7. Profit (as it appears to the bourgeois) Chapter Two: The Transformation of Profit into Average Profit
- 1. Different Compositions of Capital in Different Branches of Production and the Resulting Variation in Rates of Profit
- 2. Formation of a General Rate of Profit (Average Profit) and Transformation of Commodity Values into Prices of Production
- 3. The Equalisation of the General Rate of Profit through Competition. Market Prices and Market Values. Surplus Profit.
- 4. The Effects of a General Increase or Reduction (Fall) in Wages on the Prices of Production of the Different Commodities
- 5. The Capitalist's Grounds for Compensation Supplement on Prices of Production Chapter Three: The Law of the Tendential Fall in the General Rate of Profit with the Advance of Capitalist Production Chapter Four: The Transformation of Commodity Capital and Money Capital into Merchant's Capital (Commodity-Dealing Capital and Money-Dealing Capital)
- 1. Commodity-Dealing Capital (Commercial Profit)
- 2. Commercial Profit and its Characteristics
- 3. The Turnover of Mercantile Capital. Prices
- 4. Money-Dealing Capital
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- Chapter Five: The Division of Profit into Interest and Profit of Enterprise. (Industrial or Commercial Profit). Interest-Bearing Capital
- 1. [Interest-Bearing Capital]
- 2. Division of Profit. Rate of Interest. The Natural Rate of Interest
- 3. Interest and Profit of Enterprise
- 4. The Externalisation of Surplus-Value and the Capital Relation in General in the Form of Interest-Bearing Capital
- 5. Credit. Fictitious Capital
- 6. Pre-Bourgeois Relations Chapter Six: The Transformation of Surplus Profit into Ground-Rent (a) Introduction (c) Absolute Ground-Rent (b) Differential Rent
- [The First Form of Differential Rent]
- [The Second Form of Differential Rent] Chapter Seven: The Revenues and their Sources
- 1. The Trinity Formula
- 2. [On the Analysis of the Production Process]
- 3. The Illusion Created by Competition
- 4. Relations of Production and Distribution
- 5. Classes Appendix Bibliography Index.
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- Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter Akademie Forschung, 1990.
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource (1211)
- Linehan, Thomas P., author.
- Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, [2007]
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource (213 pages) Digital: data file.
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- Preface and acknowledgements List of abbreviations Introduction
- PART I: The communist life cycle: the early years
- 1 In the home: communist mothercraft and child rearing
- 2 Into the Party structure: the communist children movement
- 3 A bright and purposeful life: youth and the Young Communist League PART II: The communist life cycle: adulthood
- 4 A single communist personality?: communist couples and Red families
- 5 Being in a familiar place: the life of the adult activist PART III: The communist life cycle: Shaping communists
- 6 Tending the communist body: the quest for physical fitness
- 7 Communist life style: fostering correct habits, good behaviour, and right ways of living
- 8 Communists at play
- 9 Culture from below: a culture for proletarians PART IV: The communist life cycle: end of the cycle
- 10 In memoriam Afterword Select Bibliography Index
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- Mitchell, William, 1952- author.
- London : Pluto Press, 2017.
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource (302 pages)
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- Introduction Part One: The Great Transformation Redux: From Keynesianism To Neoliberalism - And Beyond
- 1. Broken Paradise: A Critical Assessment of the Keynesian `Full Employment' Era
- 2. Destined to Fail: Understanding the Crisis of Keynesianism and the Rise of Neoliberalism
- 3. That Option No Longer Exists: How Britain - and the British Labour Party - Fell into the Monetarist Trap (late 1960s-late 1970s)
- 4. The Paris Consensus: the French Left and the Creation of Neoliberal Europe (1981-1995)
- 5. The State Never Went Away: Neoliberalism as a State-driven Project
- 6. Apres elle, le deluge: Are we Entering a Post-neoliberal Age? Part Two: A Progressive Strategy For The 21st Century
- 7. Towards a Progressive Vision of Sovereignty
- 8. A Currency-issuing Government is Not Like a Household: an Introduction to Modern Monetary Theory
- 9. I Have a Job For You: Why a Job Guarantee is Better Than a Basic Income
- 10. We Have a (Central) Plan: the Case for Re-nationalisation Conclusions Notes Index.
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12. In the midst of alarms [1894]
- Barr, Robert, 1849-1912, author.
- Toronto, Buffalo, N.Y. : University of Toronto Press, ©1973.
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource (275 pages) : illustrations. Digital: data file.
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This satirical and witty first novel is a high-spirited account of the 1866 Fenian 'invasion' of Canada near Ridgeway. Adding spice to the novel are the romances of the two leading men, a Toronto professor and an American reporter, who become involved with farmer's daughters.
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- Starosta, Guido, author.
- Brill : Boston, 2016.
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource (xii, 350 pages) Digital: data file.
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- Acknowledgements Introduction: On the Current State of Revolutionary Theory Part I. Marx's Early Critique of Political Economy: The Discovery of the Revolutionary Subject and the Development of Science as Practical Criticism
- 1. The Dialectic of Alienated Labour and the Determinations of Revolutionary Subjectivity in the Paris Manuscripts
- 2. The Overcoming of Philosophy and the Development of a Materialist Science
- 3. Marx on Proudhon: The Critique of Dialectical Logic and the Political Determination of Science as Practical Criticism
- Part II. Dialectical Knowledge in Motion: Revolutionary Subjectivity in Marx's Mature Critique of Political Economy
- 4. The Commodity Form and the Dialectical Method
- 5. The Role and Place of Commodity Fetishism in Marx's Dialectical Exposition in Capital
- 6. The Commodity Form, Subjectivity and the Practical Nature of Defetishising Critique
- 7. Capital Accumulation and Class Struggle: On the Content and Form of Social Reproduction in Its Alienated Form
- 8. Real Subsumption and the Genesis of the Revolutionary Subject
- 9. By Way of a Conclusion: Further Explorations into the Determinations of Revolutionary Subjectivity Bibliography Index.
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- Grossmann, Henryk, 1881-1950, author.
- Chicago, Illinois : Haymarket Books, 2017.
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource (294 pages)
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Collected and translated by Deutscher Prize-Winning Grossman biographer Rick Kuhn, assembles several of Henryk Grossman's most important essays, and serves as an introduction to his project of recovering Marx. Grossman highlights distinctive features of Marx's economic theory by contrasting it with the views of his forerunners, from Adam Smith to Sismondi.
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- Schoen, Douglas E., 1953- author.
- New York : Encounter Books, 2019.
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- Book — 1 online resource
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- Introduction : when the world knew
- The collapse of institutional legitimacy
- A worldwide movement against elites
- The breakdown of alliances
- Authoritarianism rising, democracy declining
- The rogue menace
- The Islamist challenge
- Third world in crisis
- A global energy war?
- Religion and American leadership
- Assertive democratic idealism.
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- Scriven, Tom, author.
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017.
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
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- Introduction
- 1 A 'Radical Underworld'? The infidel roots of Chartist culture
- 2 Politics and everyday life in early Chartism
- 3 From insurrection to the 'little republic of the home'
- 4 Medicine, popular science, and Chartism's improvement culture
- 5 Communal self-improvement after the 'disasters of the Strike'
- 6 The fragmented legacies of Chartist moral politics Conclusion Index
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- Pretoria, South Africa : Africa Institute of South Africa, 2017.
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource (236 pages) : illustrations
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- South Africa's complex party system after the 2016 local government elections
- Introduction
- Wither the ANC's dominance? Waning electoral dominance, rising hegemonic dominance
- The need to reform the electoral system in South Africa : A constitutional engineering perspective
- Women, the electoral system and political parties
- Political parties and political leadership : Sewing reconciliation or divisions?
- Do political parties still shift public opinion?
- Securing their future : Using election campaigns to safeguard the party system
- Political parties and their capacity to provide parliamentary oversight
- ANC hegemony : Social and economic ramifications for South Africa
- The African National Congress and South Africa's foreign policy and diplomacy : A decolonial African perspective
- Conclusion : Moving South Africa forward?
- Montambeault, Françoise, author.
- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2016]
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource (xvi, 265 pages) : illustrations
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- Contents and Abstracts 1Introduction chapter abstract The Introduction sets up the theoretical and empirical puzzles of the book. In Mexico and Brazil, participatory democracy reforms have been implemented as part of an emerging democratizing discourse among political parties to which citizen participation was central. In practice, however, these reforms have had mixed results, between countries and also between municipalities within a single country, as in the case of Mexico and Brazil. How do we explain success? And more important, how do we define success? The Introduction poses the debate around these two questions, presenting the theoretical arguments developed and the novel comparative method used to empirically demonstrate these arguments.
- 2How Does Success Vary? Redefining Democratic Success chapter abstract
- Chapter 2 makes the case for a redefinition of the democratic success of local participatory democracy, determined by the nature of the state-society relationships that develop through formal and informal participatory interactions. The chapter presents a typology to account for variation along the two defining dimensions of state-society relationships: the nature of mobilization (from individual to collective forms) and the level of autonomy of the participants (from controlled to autonomous). It defines the four ideal types used throughout the book to categorize the diversity of empirical outcomes observed across cases: clientelism, disempowering cooption, fragmented inclusion, and democratic cooperation.
- 3Why Do Cases Vary? A Comparative Approach chapter abstract
- Chapter 3 presents the four cities selected in greater detail, exploring existing explanations for variations in success by emphasizing the cases' historical and institutional similarities. It offers a framework for explaining the various state-society relationship outcomes-- defining the indicators for a series of cultural, institutional, and agency-related factors that, combined and in interaction with one another, can explain variation along both the mobilization and the autonomy dimensions of state-society relationships across and within cases.
- 4Ciudad Nezahualcoyotl: Participatory Democracy or Clientelistic Participation? chapter abstract
- Chapter 4 shows that the case of participatory planning in Nezahualcoyotl closely corresponds to the ideal type of clientelism. The persistence of this traditional type of state-society relationship in the city despite the existence of formal participatory channels is explained by two factors. First, a tendency of institutional design to encourage individual and particularistic forms of mobilization is observed. Second, the local sociopolitical context-characterized by high political competition among and within parties and an imbalance of civil society organizations engaged in the process that maintain unequal understanding of state and society actors' roles in the process-contributes to maintenance of control strategies in participatory mechanisms that, in turn, undermine the autonomy of civil society participants.
- 5Leon: Participation as Fragmented Inclusion chapter abstract
- Chapter 5 shows that the case of participatory planning in Leon corresponds to the ideal type of fragmented inclusion. The development of such a relationship is explained by two main elements. First, the case points to a tendency of the chosen institutional design to encourage individual forms of mobilization, organized around particularistic demands. Second, the sociopolitical context characterized by a relatively stable situation of political competition among and within parties and by participation of all sectors of civil society tends to encourage development of a partnership understanding of the state's and society's roles in the participatory process and to minimize the use of control strategies and open up possibilities for increased autonomy among participants.
- 6Recife: From Clientelism to Disempowering Co-option chapter abstract
- Chapter 6 moves the analysis to the case of Recife, in Brazil. This city presents two cases in one, and as such allows a unique time-based comparison that adds to the space-based comparisons undertaken throughout the book. The chapter shows that Recife's two distinct experiences of participatory budgeting, implemented under different local governments, reveal contrasting patterns of state-society relationships: the first one (1993-2000 under a PMDB/PFL coalition) closely corresponds to an ideal type of clientelism, while the other one (2001-2009, under the PT) has the characteristics of disempowering co-option. These varying outcomes thus represent a variation on the mobilization axis, which is best explained by the important changes introduced in the institutional design by the PT in
- 2001. The sociopolitical context, however, sustained an unequal partnership and political control practices in both experiences.
- 7Belo Horizonte: The Route Toward Democratic Cooperation? chapter abstract
- Chapter 7 presents the most successful case, Belo Horizonte, showing how it more closely corresponds to a case of democratic success, with democratic cooperation emerging between state and society actors. This is best explained by two main elements. On the one hand, the institutional design adopted in Belo Horizonte fostered collective organization of groups of citizens to define the common good. On the other hand, the sociopolitical context within which the process was implemented fostered the autonomy of participants and, rather than sustain strategies of political control, led to development of an equal partnership (understood as such) between state and society actors in the participatory process.
- 8Conclusion: Comparative Lessons for Participatory Democracy Theory chapter abstract
- Chapter 8 places the conclusions in a comparative perspective, highlighting the theoretical and policy lessons that can be learned from the five empirical cases presented in the book. It then explores the differentiated consequences each type has for the deepening of local democratic practices in governance processes, highlighting the limits and potential of each model as well as discussing the implications for the quality of democracy and its procedures, processes, and policy outcomes. The chapter discusses the theoretical implications of the findings for the study of institutional reform, civic engagement, and democratization, and also the policy implications for the policy makers and politicians who lead such types of participatory democracy reforms throughout Latin America, as well as in municipalities around the world.
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19. Why democracy is oppositional [2015]
- Medearis, John, author.
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2015.
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource (257 pages)
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- Introduction
- 1. The ironic place of movements in democratic theory
- 2. Episodes in the history of alienation and democratic theory
- 3. A contemporary theory of alienation
- 4. Oppositional democracy
- 5. Contesting the welfare state
- Epilogue: On alienation and the contemporary security state.
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- Montréal, Québec : Black Rose Books, 2017.
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- Book — 1 online resource. Digital: data file.
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"In Karl Polanyi in Dialogue, Nancy Fraser meets Karl Polanyi and the New Left meets the Old Left. An important German researcher specialising in Polanyi (author of the classic The Great Transformation), editor Michael Brie grapples with a time when the Left worldwide is on the retreat: while the Old Left lies in ruin, the New Left faces a determined neoliberal attack on the social state and social rights. Meanwhile, an aggressive New Right is taking the streets, the parliaments and even governmental power. Amidst the vertiginous tension of such a crisis, this book urgently argues for an alliance of socialist liberals and libertarian communists to reunite contemporary campaigns for recognition, difference and human dignity with more traditional struggles for social welfare and economic democracy. The book powerfully reinterprets Polanyi's thought for present times and includes two articles by the classic thinker which have been translated into English for the first time."-- Provided by publisher.
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