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Reading Afghanistan: Books to help you understand the quagmire | rabble.ca
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Richard Seymour, a young British writer, rips the humanitarian veil off of this apologia for imperialism, and traces its long history -- everybody from the infamous, inebriated turncoat Christopher Hitchens, to born-again Canadian Michael Ignatieff, to John Stuart Mill (whose 'defense of liberty' proved less than vigorous when it came to colonial subjects) gets taken to task for their warmongering in Seymour's tour de force debut, The Liberal Defense of Murder.
Logic of Desire: An Introduction to Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit by Peter Kalkavage
In order to better understand Marx one must read Hegel. This book is a great introduction to Hegel's thought and it will help in understanding where Marx is coming from and will illuminate his works for us.
"There is much to commend the study of Hegel:
Total Capitalism by Colin Leys
"Like total war, total capitalism demands the subordination of everything to a single goal - national competitiveness, as defined by trans-national corporate elites. The result is a dramatic erosion of democracy, social cohesion and honesty in public life
Further Selections from The Prison Notebooks By Antonio Gramsci edited and translated by Derek Boothman
"This volume brings together Gramsci's writings on religion, education, science, philosophy, and economic theory. The theme that links these writings is the investigation of ideology at its different levels, and the structures that embody and reproduce it
CorpWatch : Book Release: "Halliburton's Army: How A Well-Connected Texas Oil Company Revolutionized The Way America Makes War"
"In "HALLIBURTON’S ARMY: How a Well-Connected Texas Oil Company Revolutionized the Way America Makes War" (Nation Books; February 9, 2009; $26.95), muckraking journalist Pratap Chatterjee conducts a highly detailed investigation into Halliburton and its f
Althusser: The Detour of Theory
"First published in 1987, Althusser, The Detour of Theory was widely received as the fullest account of its subject to date. Drawing on a wide range of hitherto untranslated material, it examined the political and intellectual contexts of Althusser’s ‘ret
Spaces of Global Capitalism by David Harvey
"Fiscal crises have cascaded across much of the developing world with devastating results, from Mexico to Indonesia, Russia and Argentina. The extreme volatility in contemporary political economic fortunes seems to mock our best efforts to understand the
Palestine Inside Out: an Everyday Occupation by Saree Makdisi
"How the “peace process” has made life impossible for ordinary Palestinians."
Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate by Leila Ahmed
"Throughout, Ahmed not only considers the Islamic texts in which central ideologies about women and gender developed or were debated but also places this discourse in its social and historical context. Her book is thus a fascinating survey of Islamic deba
M. Junaid Levesque-Alam: The Only Good Muslim is the Anti-Muslim
The book, "The Trouble With Islam Today" is totaly un-academic garbage. I'm pretty sure she doesn't even know Arabic.
"What could a Muslim have written that would delight supporters of bombing and torturing Muslims? What sweet words could have moved Dan
The Revolutionary Ideas of Karl Marx by Alex Callinicos (pdf)
pdf format of Callinicos' 1983 book.
The Rise of China by Minqi Li
"With the decline of the economic power of the United States, its current hegemonic role will deteriorate and the unprecedented growth of China will so erode the foundations of capital accumulation — by pushing wages and environmental costs up, for exampl
The Liberal Defence of Murder--Socialist Review
"Pro-war liberals more recently take their cue from the varied fortunes of US imperialism. The McCarthyite period in the 1950s saw a generation of ex-left wingers make their peace with US capitalism in revulsion at Stalin's Russia. The defeat for imperial
The Peoples Bible edited by Curtiss Paul DeYoung, et. al.
"In a world marked by cultural, racial, and class divisions, a new study Bible just published by Fortress Press breaks new ground. The Peoples' Bible underscores the role of cultures in shaping the Bible and the way people read the Bible today while empha
Critical Perspectives on Mao Zedong's Thought edited by Arif Dirlik, et. al.
"Here, distinguished contributors from a variety of disciplines offer a critical reevaluation of Mao Zedong's thought in light of post-Mao developments in Marxism in general, and Chinese Marxism in particular. Conceptually, the essays share common ground
Reading Capital by Louis Althusser and Etienne Balibar
"Together with Louis Althusser's book For Marx, Reading Capital represents one of the foundational texts of the school of “structuralist Marxism” which transformed the face of modern philosophy and social theory. Presided over by the magnetic and intellec
Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays by Louis Althusser (online version)
"No figure among the western Marxist theoreticians has loomed larger in the postwar period than Louis Althusser. A rebel against the Catholic tradition in which he was raised, Althusser studied philosophy and later joined both the faculty of the Ecole nor
A People’s History of Poverty in America by Stephen Pimpare
"Through prodigious archival research and lucid analysis, Pimpare details the ways in which charity and aid for the poor have been inseparable, more often than not, from the scorn and disapproval of those who would help them. In the rich and often surpris
From Marx to Gramsci : A Reader in Revolutionary Marxist Politics by George Breitman, Paul Le Blanc, and Alan Wald
"Paul Le Blanc's introductory essay probes the structure and dynamics of Marxism as a political orientation, tracing connections among components that can be found in the readings: the theory of capitalist development, the theory of the labor movement, th
How to Read Marx by Peter Osborne
"Drawing on passages from a wide range of Marx’s writings, and showing the links among them, Osborne refutes the myth of Marx as a reductively economistic thinker. What Marx meant by “materialism,” “communism,” and the “critique of political economy” was
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