socialism

"Piketty challenges us to revolutionize how we think about politics, ideology, and history. He exposes the ideas that have sustained inequality for the past millennium, reveals why the shallow politics of right and left are failing us today, and outlines the structure of a fairer economic system . . . Piketty explores the material and ideological interactions of conflicting social groups that have given us slavery, serfdom, colonialism, communism, and hypercapitalism, shaping the lives of billions. He concludes that the great driver of human progress over the centuries has been the struggle for equality and education and not, as often argued, the assertion of property rights or the pursuit of stability. The new era of extreme inequality that has derailed that progress since the 1980s, he shows, is partly a reaction against communism, but it is also the fruit of ignorance, intellectual specialization, and our drift toward the dead-end politics of identity. . . Piketty argues for a new 'participatory' socialism, a system founded on an ideology of equality, social property, education, and the sharing of knowledge and power"--Provided by publisher.

"Savannah Riddle feels suffocated by her life as the daughter of an upper class African American family in Washington, D.C., until she meets a working-class girl named Nella who introduces her to the suffragette and socialist movements and to her politically active cousin Lloyd"--Provided by publisher.

Contains articles that provide a variety of perspectives on the question of whether socialism is harmful, and its impact on American values, health care, the military, education, and other aspects of life in the United States.

Contains speeches, essays, and articles that show Helen Keller as a political activist and thinker, offering her sometimes radical opinions on disability and class, socialism, war, and women.

Describes the political system called socialism.

"... economist Meghnad Desai argues that capitalism's recent efflorescence is something Karl Marx anticipated and indeed would, in a certain sense, have welcomed ..."--Amazon.

A short study of the Socialist Party during the early twentieth century examining the radical politics of the American working class and the election of Eugene Debs as the Socialist candidate for president in 1921.

Presents an English translation of the 1848 treatise on the economic, political, and social conditions of the working class, which served as the platform of the Communist League.