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The "Yellow Book" is the annual fruit of research conducted by the World Socialism Research Center attached to the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, which is a selection of cutting-edge and representative research articles dealing with the issues of world socialism and the world socialist movement as its driving force. Following up the newest developments, changes and transformations of our era, the global predicament resulting from the still ongoing...
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Communes in America: 1975–2000 is the final volume in Miller's trilogy on the history of American intentional communities. Providing a comprehensive survey of communities during the last quarter of the twentieth century, Miller offers a detailed study of their character, scope, and evolution.
Between 1975 and 2000, the American communal experience evolved dramatically in response to social and environmental challenges that confronted American society...
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Where did the state come from? Where is it going? This study in politogenesis shakes up the status quo. Worshiping Power cuts through inadequate theories of early state formation to offer a new analysis of the roles that kinship, religious practice, and commerce have played in stifling self-organization. Gelderloos's partisan approach to human social complexity is highly innovative, yet comprehensible to the layperson. A formidable assault on a social...
64) Tricking Power into Performing Acts of Love: How Tricksters Through History Have Changed the World
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Comedian Richard Pryor narrated the George Floyd murder in 1979, forty years before it occurred. A murder no one is laughing about. Yet when Pryor tells the story in very raw terms, and with his comic talent, the audience laughs. As a time-traveling trickster, Pryor is preparing the audience, lubricating their psychic joints-spiritually, psychologically, politically-in a foreshadowing today's reckoning. It can be checked out on Richard Pryor: Live...
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The history of modern Nicaragua is populated with leaders promising a new and better day. Inevitably, as Nicaragua and the Politics of Utopia demonstrates, reality casts a shadow and the community must look to the next leader. As an impoverished state, second only to Haiti in the Americas, Nicaragua has been the scene of cyclical attempts and failures at modern development. Author Daniel Chavez investigates the cultural and ideological bases of what...
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Public Religions in the Future World is the first book to map the utopian terrain of the political-religious movements of the past four decades. Examining a politically diverse set of utopian fictions, this book cuts across the usual Right/Left political divisions to show a surprising convergence: each political-religious vision imagines a revived world of care and community over and against the economization and fragmentation of neoliberalism. Understanding...
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Et si un Printemps français devenait un jour réalité ?
Mai 2012. Rien ne s'est passé comme prévu. Le président sortant et son concurrent le plus sérieux ont été tous deux balayés par un grand souffle d'air frais. En toute légalité, sans violence, le peuple français vient d'accomplir une nouvelle révolution. Après une campagne éclair marquée par un véritable enthousiasme populaire, le candidat du Mouvement indépendant pour une réelle...
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Critics of American exceptionalism usually view it as a destructive force eroding the radical energies of social movements and aesthetic practices. In A Desire Called America, Christian P. Haines confronts a troubling paradox: Some of the most provocative political projects in the United States are remarkably invested in American exceptionalism. Riding a strange current of U.S. literature that draws on American exceptionalism only to overturn it in...
69) Daily Stoic: A Daily Journal on Meditation, Stoicism, Wisdom and Philosophy to Improve Your Life
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This book is a collection of Stoic sayings organized to allow daily reference and inspiration.Including quotes from: Marcus Aurelius Seneca Epictetus And much more...The Stoic advice covered in this volume runs the gambit from personal problems, to interpersonal relationships, to advice on work and productivity, to dealing with the hand of fate.Meditiations in this book are split up by seasons. There are meditations for each season, covering the four...
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Un programme complet d'actions à mettre en place pour une meilleure société. Retour sur Utopia est un essai qui a pour but la prise de conscience et la sensibilisation à une thèse : la fatalité n'est due qu'à notre indifférence et notre déficit d'implication dans tous les grands domaines de notre société. L'écologie, la consommation, les OGM, les infrastructures débordantes, l'immigration subie mais organisée par l'État, les délocalisations,...
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This book surveys revolutionary socialist ideas and engages a gallery of contentious political thinkers, offering an indispensable assessment of the place of revolutionary collectives in this radical tradition.
Beginning with a broad and informative survey of scholarship on V.I. Lenin and "Leninism," Le Blanc goes on to explore the multifaceted "collective" qualities of the Russian Bolshevik organization. He then turns his attention to several...
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How transatlantic thinkers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries promoted the unification of Britain and the United States
Between the late nineteenth century and the First World War an ocean-spanning network of prominent individuals advocated the unification of Britain and the United States. They dreamt of the final consolidation of the Angloworld. Scholars, journalists, politicians, businessmen, and science fiction writers invested...
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Le terme d'utopie, inconnu du grec, a été forgé par Thomas More pour figurer dans le titre donné par lui à ce qui, de son propre aveu, ne devait être qu'une « bagatelle littéraire échappée presque à son insu de sa plume », c'est-à-dire ce petit libelle sur la « meilleure des Républiques » sise en la nouvelle île d'Utopie.
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Oneida Utopia is a fresh and holistic treatment of a long-standing social experiment born of revival fervor and communitarian enthusiasm. The Oneida Community of upstate New York was dedicated to living as one family and to the sharing of all property, work, and love. Anthony Wonderley is a sensitive guide to the things and settings of Oneida life from its basis in John H. Noyes's complicated theology, through experiments in free love and gender equality,...
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As the 50th anniversary of the events of May 68' passes, it leaves a familiar, image heavy trail in it's wake - young street fighting Parisians, earnest but chic looking Sorbonne occupiers, the iconic graffiti /posters : imagery all long since passed into the mythology of pop culture, endlessly recycled and recuperated, stripped bare of real political legacy. Within that mythology, the role of the Situationists has long been contested: underplayed...
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This book is a learned essay at the intersection of politics, philosophy, and religion. It is first and foremost a diagnosis and critique of the secular religion of our time, humanitarianism, or the "religion of humanity." It argues that the humanitarian impulse to regard modern man as the measure of all things has begun to corrupt Christianity itself, reducing it to an inordinate concern for "social justice," radical political change, and an increasingly...
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The must-read summary of Mark Levin's book: "Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America".
This complete summary of "Ameritopia" by Mark Levin, a New York Times #1 bestseller outlines the author's description of an ideal, utopian American society. He argues that when the government enacts laws to create distribute wealth in a fairer way, they are in reality getting closer to tyranny. The popular work leaves the reader with a compelling message about freedom...
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In his seminal socio history of Punk, "England's Dreaming", Jon Savage makes the bald assertion that "Charles Radcliffe laid the foundation for the next twenty years of sub-cultural theory", referring in particular to his 1966 piece "the Seeds of Social Destruction' that appeared in the first of two issues of Radcliffe's co-authored, insurrectionary street-zine, 'Heatwave'. Teddy Boys, Ton Up Kids, Mods and Rockers, Beats, Ban the Bombers, The Ravers...
79) Utopias of One
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Joshua Kotin is associate professor of English at Princeton University and an affiliated faculty member in the university's Program in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies.
Utopias fail. Utopias of one do not. They are perfect worlds. Yet their success comes at a cost. They are radically singular-and thus exclusive and inimitable.
Utopias of One is a major new account of utopian writing. Joshua Kotin examines how eight writers-Henry David...
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Nitzan Lebovic claims that political melancholy is the defining trait of a generation of Israelis born between the 1960s and 1990s. This cohort came of age during wars, occupation and intifada, cultural conflict, and the failure of the Oslo Accords. The atmosphere of militarism and conservative state politics left little room for democratic opposition or dissent.
Lebovic and others depict the failure to respond not only as a result of institutional...
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