Socialism

Few ideas have shaped the modern world as profoundly as socialism, and this collection brings together the essential voices — from Marx and Lenin to contemporary thinkers — who have debated, defended, and dissected it. Here you'll find sweeping economic analyses, revolutionary manifestos, and critical examinations of socialist experiments in power, offering a complete picture of an ideology that continues to spark fierce debate today.

Socialism ملخصات الكتب

Wealth, Poverty and Politics

بقلم Thomas Sowell • 2015

Four forces create wealth. None of them is redistribution.

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🏛️ Political Economy 🗺️ Economic Geography 🎭 Cultural Economics 📊 Income Inequality 🏥 Welfare State Critique

تجربة غامرة

Wealth, Poverty and Politics

Four forces create wealth. None of them is redistribution.

بقلم Thomas Sowell 2015 509 صفحة

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🏛️ Political Economy 🗺️ Economic Geography 🎭 Cultural Economics 📊 Income Inequality 🏥 Welfare State Critique

Capital

بقلم Karl Marx • 1887

Profit is unpaid labor. That single idea dismantles all the economics that came before it.

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💰 Political Economy 🔨 Labor Theory Of Value ➕ Surplus Value 🎭 Commodity Fetishism ⚔️ Class Struggle

Capital

Profit is unpaid labor. That single idea dismantles all the economics that came before it.

بقلم Karl Marx 1887 1152 صفحة

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💰 Political Economy 🔨 Labor Theory Of Value ➕ Surplus Value 🎭 Commodity Fetishism ⚔️ Class Struggle

Slow Down

بقلم Kōhei Saitō • 2020

Capitalism cannot go green. Marx's late notebooks show he understood why, and what must replace it.

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🔻 Degrowth 🌍 Ecological Economics 📕 Marxist Ecology 🔄 Post-Capitalism ✊ Anti-Capitalism

Slow Down

Capitalism cannot go green. Marx's late notebooks show he understood why, and what must replace it.

بقلم Kōhei Saitō 2020 273 صفحة

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🔻 Degrowth 🌍 Ecological Economics 📕 Marxist Ecology 🔄 Post-Capitalism ✊ Anti-Capitalism

The Relevance of the Communist Manifesto

بقلم Slavoj Žižek • 2018

The Communist Manifesto foresaw virtual money, debt bondage, false choices. But offered no way out.

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🔻 Marxist Theory 🧠 Critical Theory 🏛️ Political Economy 🏢 Late Capitalism 💰 Financialization

The Relevance of the Communist Manifesto

The Communist Manifesto foresaw virtual money, debt bondage, false choices. But offered no way out.

بقلم Slavoj Žižek 2018 70 صفحة

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🔻 Marxist Theory 🧠 Critical Theory 🏛️ Political Economy 🏢 Late Capitalism 💰 Financialization

Applied Economics

بقلم Thomas Sowellm • 2003

Popular policies trade visible benefits for invisible costs. Applied economics reads the price tag.

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🗳️ Political Economy 🔮 Unintended Consequences 🧠 Economic Reasoning 🏠 Property Rights 🌍 Immigration Economics

Applied Economics

Popular policies trade visible benefits for invisible costs. Applied economics reads the price tag.

بقلم Thomas Sowellm 2003 348 صفحة

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🗳️ Political Economy 🔮 Unintended Consequences 🧠 Economic Reasoning 🏠 Property Rights 🌍 Immigration Economics

The Revolution Betrayed

بقلم Leon Trotsky • 1937

Not socialism, not capitalism. Trotsky charts the third system the Russian Revolution produced.

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🏛️ Soviet History 📖 Marxist Theory 💰 Political Economy 🏭 State Capitalism 📋 Bureaucratic Critique

The Revolution Betrayed

Not socialism, not capitalism. Trotsky charts the third system the Russian Revolution produced.

بقلم Leon Trotsky 1937 240 صفحة

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🏛️ Soviet History 📖 Marxist Theory 💰 Political Economy 🏭 State Capitalism 📋 Bureaucratic Critique

Marx and Satan

بقلم Richard Wurmbrand • 1986

Marxism isn't politics. It's devil worship wearing an atheist mask, and Marx's own play betrays him.

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🗡️ Spiritual Warfare 📜 Christian Apologetics ⛓️ Communist Persecution 😈 Satanic Panic 🌐 Cold War Christianity

Marx and Satan

Marxism isn't politics. It's devil worship wearing an atheist mask, and Marx's own play betrays him.

بقلم Richard Wurmbrand 1986 143 صفحة

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🗡️ Spiritual Warfare 📜 Christian Apologetics ⛓️ Communist Persecution 😈 Satanic Panic 🌐 Cold War Christianity

What Is to Be Done?

بقلم Vladimir Lenin • 1902

Workers alone only win wage fights. A secret vanguard must bring revolutionary thought from outside.

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🧠 Marxist Theory ⚔️ Revolutionary Strategy 🏭 Class Consciousness 📋 Political Organizing 🔥 Reform Vs Revolution

What Is to Be Done?

Workers alone only win wage fights. A secret vanguard must bring revolutionary thought from outside.

بقلم Vladimir Lenin 1902 272 صفحة

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🧠 Marxist Theory ⚔️ Revolutionary Strategy 🏭 Class Consciousness 📋 Political Organizing 🔥 Reform Vs Revolution

China After Mao

بقلم Frank Dikötter • 2022

Deng's reforms weren't a path to democracy; they were the same dictatorship with a market face.

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📜 Modern Chinese History 💰 State Capitalism ⛓️ Authoritarian Rule 📹 Surveillance State 🌫️ Environmental Damage

China After Mao

Deng's reforms weren't a path to democracy; they were the same dictatorship with a market face.

بقلم Frank Dikötter 2022 416 صفحة

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📜 Modern Chinese History 💰 State Capitalism ⛓️ Authoritarian Rule 📹 Surveillance State 🌫️ Environmental Damage

Main Currents Of Marxism

بقلم Leszek Kołakowski • 2005

Marxism's own contradictions made authoritarianism inevitable, not an aberration.

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📖 Intellectual History ⚒️ Marxist Theory 🔍 Critique Of Ideology 🚩 Party Vanguardism 🏭 Historical Materialism

Main Currents Of Marxism

Marxism's own contradictions made authoritarianism inevitable, not an aberration.

بقلم Leszek Kołakowski 2005 1284 صفحة

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📖 Intellectual History ⚒️ Marxist Theory 🔍 Critique Of Ideology 🚩 Party Vanguardism 🏭 Historical Materialism

The German Ideology / Theses on Feuerbach / Introduction to the Critique of Political Economy

بقلم Karl Marx • 1846

History's engine is not ideas but the struggle over who controls the tools of survival.

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🏭 Materialist History ⚒️ Class Struggle 🎭 Ideology Critique 🛠️ Division Of Labor 😔 Alienation

The German Ideology / Theses on Feuerbach / Introduction to the Critique of Political Economy

History's engine is not ideas but the struggle over who controls the tools of survival.

بقلم Karl Marx 1846 584 صفحة

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🏭 Materialist History ⚒️ Class Struggle 🎭 Ideology Critique 🛠️ Division Of Labor 😔 Alienation

The People’s Republic of Walmart

بقلم Leigh Phillips • 2019

Big corporations already plan like socialist states. The final step is not computing but democracy.

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🧮 Economic Planning 🔴 Socialist Economics 🗳️ Democratic Planning ⚖️ Calculation Debate 🏗️ Post-Capitalism

The People’s Republic of Walmart

Big corporations already plan like socialist states. The final step is not computing but democracy.

بقلم Leigh Phillips 2019 256 صفحة

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🧮 Economic Planning 🔴 Socialist Economics 🗳️ Democratic Planning ⚖️ Calculation Debate 🏗️ Post-Capitalism

The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism

بقلم Bertrand Russell • 1920

Russell expected a workers' paradise. He found a religion enforced by secret police.

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🚩 Bolshevik Critique 🔨 Soviet History 🪓 Revolutionary Politics 🔎 Ideology Critique 🧠 Power And Psychology

The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism

Russell expected a workers' paradise. He found a religion enforced by secret police.

بقلم Bertrand Russell 1920 122 صفحة

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🚩 Bolshevik Critique 🔨 Soviet History 🪓 Revolutionary Politics 🔎 Ideology Critique 🧠 Power And Psychology

Essential Works of Lenin

بقلم Vladimir Lenin • 1964

Monopoly, finance capital, and empire: Lenin's thesis on capitalism's inevitable last chapter.

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⚒️ Marxist Theory 📈 Political Economy ⚔️ Class Struggle 🌍 Imperialism 🏢 Monopoly Capitalism

Essential Works of Lenin

Monopoly, finance capital, and empire: Lenin's thesis on capitalism's inevitable last chapter.

بقلم Vladimir Lenin 1964 400 صفحة

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⚒️ Marxist Theory 📈 Political Economy ⚔️ Class Struggle 🌍 Imperialism 🏢 Monopoly Capitalism

Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism

بقلم Kristen R. Ghodsee • 2018

Women have better sex when economically independent. A Cold War experiment proves it.

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✊ Socialist Feminism 🧹 Care Work 👩‍💼 Women And Work 🏥 Welfare State 🏢 State Feminism

Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism

Women have better sex when economically independent. A Cold War experiment proves it.

بقلم Kristen R. Ghodsee 2018 240 صفحة

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✊ Socialist Feminism 🧹 Care Work 👩‍💼 Women And Work 🏥 Welfare State 🏢 State Feminism

The Communist Manifesto and Other Writings

بقلم Karl Marx • 2005

History is class struggle, and the bourgeoisie forged the weapons now aimed at its own throat.

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🚩 Marxism 🏛️ Political Philosophy 📜 Historical Materialism ⚒️ Class Struggle 🏢 State Theory

The Communist Manifesto and Other Writings

History is class struggle, and the bourgeoisie forged the weapons now aimed at its own throat.

بقلم Karl Marx 2005 224 صفحة

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🚩 Marxism 🏛️ Political Philosophy 📜 Historical Materialism ⚒️ Class Struggle 🏢 State Theory

A Planet to Win

بقلم Kate Aronoff • 2019

What if fighting climate change meant universal housing, public power, and a four-day week?

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📗 Green New Deal 🌍 Climate Justice 🌱 Ecosocialism 🌹 Democratic Socialism ⚡ Energy Transition

A Planet to Win

What if fighting climate change meant universal housing, public power, and a four-day week?

بقلم Kate Aronoff 2019 208 صفحة

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📗 Green New Deal 🌍 Climate Justice 🌱 Ecosocialism 🌹 Democratic Socialism ⚡ Energy Transition

Socialism Betrayed

بقلم Roger Keeran • 2004

The Soviet collapse wasn't inevitable: a pro-market faction inside the Party dismantled it.

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🏛️ Soviet History 📖 Marxist Historiography 🔨 Class Analysis 🕶️ Shadow Economies 🏢 One-Party State

Socialism Betrayed

The Soviet collapse wasn't inevitable: a pro-market faction inside the Party dismantled it.

بقلم Roger Keeran 2004 230 صفحة

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🏛️ Soviet History 📖 Marxist Historiography 🔨 Class Analysis 🕶️ Shadow Economies 🏢 One-Party State

A People's Guide to Capitalism

بقلم Hadas Thier • 2018

The dirty secret of every price tag: profit comes from work that was never paid for.

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🏛️ Political Economy ☭ Marxist Theory ⛓️ Labor Exploitation ✊ Class Struggle 📉 Crisis Theory

A People's Guide to Capitalism

The dirty secret of every price tag: profit comes from work that was never paid for.

بقلم Hadas Thier 2018 300 صفحة

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🏛️ Political Economy ☭ Marxist Theory ⛓️ Labor Exploitation ✊ Class Struggle 📉 Crisis Theory

Contesting Democracy

بقلم Jan-Werner Müller • 2006

It wasn't democracy versus its enemies. It was a fight over what 'democracy' actually meant.

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🧠 Intellectual History 🏛️ Political Thought 🛑 Totalitarianism 🚩 State Socialism 👊 Fascist Ideology

Contesting Democracy

It wasn't democracy versus its enemies. It was a fight over what 'democracy' actually meant.

بقلم Jan-Werner Müller 2006 304 صفحة

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🧠 Intellectual History 🏛️ Political Thought 🛑 Totalitarianism 🚩 State Socialism 👊 Fascist Ideology

Broke

بقلم Glenn Beck • 2010

America's real debt tops $64 trillion. Rome and Spain collapsed the same way.

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💸 National Debt 🪙 Fiscal Conservatism 🏛️ Limited Government 📈 Austrian Economics 🗽 Federalism

Broke

America's real debt tops $64 trillion. Rome and Spain collapsed the same way.

بقلم Glenn Beck 2010 406 صفحة

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💸 National Debt 🪙 Fiscal Conservatism 🏛️ Limited Government 📈 Austrian Economics 🗽 Federalism

Economics in Three Lessons and One Hundred Economics Laws

بقلم Hunter Lewis • 2017

Prosperity requires free prices, not central plans, and the hundred laws that explain why.

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🧐 Austrian Economics 🗽 Classical Liberalism 📚 Economic Literacy 🏷️ Price Theory 💵 Monetary Inflation

Economics in Three Lessons and One Hundred Economics Laws

Prosperity requires free prices, not central plans, and the hundred laws that explain why.

بقلم Hunter Lewis 2017 425 صفحة

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🧐 Austrian Economics 🗽 Classical Liberalism 📚 Economic Literacy 🏷️ Price Theory 💵 Monetary Inflation

Capitalism Unbound

بقلم Andrew Bernstein • 2009

Before capitalism, life expectancy was under 35. The moral case for freedom starts with that number.

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🗿 Objectivism 💼 Laissez-Faire ⚖️ Moral Philosophy ✊ Individual Rights 🏛️ Classical Liberalism

Capitalism Unbound

Before capitalism, life expectancy was under 35. The moral case for freedom starts with that number.

بقلم Andrew Bernstein 2009 146 صفحة

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🗿 Objectivism 💼 Laissez-Faire ⚖️ Moral Philosophy ✊ Individual Rights 🏛️ Classical Liberalism

What Is Property?

بقلم Pierre-Joseph Proudhon • 1840

Every defense of private property, from first occupation to labor, logically requires its abolition.

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🏛️ Political Economy 📜 Property Rights Ⓐ Anarchist Theory 💸 Economic Rent 🔨 Labor Theory Of Value

What Is Property?

Every defense of private property, from first occupation to labor, logically requires its abolition.

بقلم Pierre-Joseph Proudhon 1840 310 صفحة

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🏛️ Political Economy 📜 Property Rights Ⓐ Anarchist Theory 💸 Economic Rent 🔨 Labor Theory Of Value

Che Guevara Reader

بقلم Ernesto Che Guevara • 1997

Winning the war is step one. Che Guevara's collected writings on what revolutions do after victory.

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🇨🇺 Cuban Revolution 🪖 Guerrilla Warfare 🌍 Anti-Imperialism 📕 Marxism Leninism 🌾 Agrarian Reform

Che Guevara Reader

Winning the war is step one. Che Guevara's collected writings on what revolutions do after victory.

بقلم Ernesto Che Guevara 1997 420 صفحة

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🇨🇺 Cuban Revolution 🪖 Guerrilla Warfare 🌍 Anti-Imperialism 📕 Marxism Leninism 🌾 Agrarian Reform

Chaotic Neutral

بقلم Ed Burmila • 2022

Democrats swapped the working class for Wall Street. The collapse started with Bill Clinton.

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🏛️ Democratic Party 💼 Neoliberal Centrism 🗳️ Electoral Strategy ⚒️ Economic Populism 🏙️ State And Local Politics

Chaotic Neutral

Democrats swapped the working class for Wall Street. The collapse started with Bill Clinton.

بقلم Ed Burmila 2022 352 صفحة

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🏛️ Democratic Party 💼 Neoliberal Centrism 🗳️ Electoral Strategy ⚒️ Economic Populism 🏙️ State And Local Politics

The Age of Acquiescence

بقلم Steve Fraser • 2015

Mass movements once made America ungovernable for the rich. Now extreme inequality meets silence.

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✊ Class Conflict 💰 Wealth Inequality 👷 Labor Movements 🏢 Corporate Power 🏦 American Capitalism

The Age of Acquiescence

Mass movements once made America ungovernable for the rich. Now extreme inequality meets silence.

بقلم Steve Fraser 2015 480 صفحة

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✊ Class Conflict 💰 Wealth Inequality 👷 Labor Movements 🏢 Corporate Power 🏦 American Capitalism

The Acquisitive Society

بقلم R.H. Tawney • 1920

When property rights outrank social purpose, owners collect without contributing. The diagnosis.

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🏛️ Political Economy 💰 Critique Of Capitalism ✝️ Christian Socialism 📜 Moral Economy ⚖️ Economic Justice

The Acquisitive Society

When property rights outrank social purpose, owners collect without contributing. The diagnosis.

بقلم R.H. Tawney 1920 192 صفحة

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🏛️ Political Economy 💰 Critique Of Capitalism ✝️ Christian Socialism 📜 Moral Economy ⚖️ Economic Justice

The Moral Economists

بقلم Tim Rogan • 2017

Capitalism's best critics fought for its moral toll, not its material one. We lost that fight.

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🏛️ Political Economy 🧠 Intellectual History 🤝 Ethical Economics ✝️ Christian Socialism 🔨 Marxist Humanism

The Moral Economists

Capitalism's best critics fought for its moral toll, not its material one. We lost that fight.

بقلم Tim Rogan 2017 270 صفحة

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🏛️ Political Economy 🧠 Intellectual History 🤝 Ethical Economics ✝️ Christian Socialism 🔨 Marxist Humanism

Un espectro recorre el mundo. Sobre el Manifiesto comunista

بقلم China Miéville • 2022

A novelist on the Communist Manifesto as a live spell and the moral case for class hatred.

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🧠 Marxist Theory 📜 Communist History ⚒️ Class Struggle 🏢 Capitalist Critique 🔥 Revolutionary Thought

Un espectro recorre el mundo. Sobre el Manifiesto comunista

A novelist on the Communist Manifesto as a live spell and the moral case for class hatred.

بقلم China Miéville 2022 338 صفحة

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🧠 Marxist Theory 📜 Communist History ⚒️ Class Struggle 🏢 Capitalist Critique 🔥 Revolutionary Thought

October

بقلم China Miéville • 2017

Ten months, one empire, and a revolution that no one had written the ending for.

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🇷🇺 Russian Revolution ☭ Soviet History ✊ Revolutionary Movements 🏴 Political Insurrection 👥 Mass Movements

October

Ten months, one empire, and a revolution that no one had written the ending for.

بقلم China Miéville 2017 369 صفحة

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🇷🇺 Russian Revolution ☭ Soviet History ✊ Revolutionary Movements 🏴 Political Insurrection 👥 Mass Movements

Global Civil War

بقلم William I. Robinson • 2022

Tech giants, banks, and the military used Covid to fuse into a global surveillance order.

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📊 Political Economy 🌐 Global Capitalism 📈 Marxist Economics 👁️ Surveillance Capitalism 💻 Digital Capitalism

Global Civil War

Tech giants, banks, and the military used Covid to fuse into a global surveillance order.

بقلم William I. Robinson 2022 224 صفحة

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📊 Political Economy 🌐 Global Capitalism 📈 Marxist Economics 👁️ Surveillance Capitalism 💻 Digital Capitalism

انهيار الرأسمالية المعاصرة

بقلم سمير أمين • 2013

Monopoly capitalism's financialized phase is terminal, not a crisis. The only way out: socialism.

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🏛️ Political Economy 🔨 Marxist Economics 🌐 Dependency Theory 📉 Financialization Critique ⚖️ Class Polarization

انهيار الرأسمالية المعاصرة

Monopoly capitalism's financialized phase is terminal, not a crisis. The only way out: socialism.

بقلم سمير أمين 2013 144 صفحة

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🏛️ Political Economy 🔨 Marxist Economics 🌐 Dependency Theory 📉 Financialization Critique ⚖️ Class Polarization

Reconstructing Karl Polanyi

بقلم Gareth Dale • 2016

Polanyi didn't want a friendlier market. He wanted democracy to rule the economy outright.

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📖 Intellectual History 📊 Political Economy 🏛️ Economic History ⚖️ Market Critique 🏷️ Commodification

Reconstructing Karl Polanyi

Polanyi didn't want a friendlier market. He wanted democracy to rule the economy outright.

بقلم Gareth Dale 2016 258 صفحة

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📖 Intellectual History 📊 Political Economy 🏛️ Economic History ⚖️ Market Critique 🏷️ Commodification

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