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 도서 요약

Wealth, Poverty and Politics

저자: 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

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Wealth, Poverty and Politics

Four forces create wealth. None of them is redistribution.

저자: Thomas Sowell 2015 509 페이지

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

Capital

저자: 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.

저자: Karl Marx 1887 1152 페이지

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

Slow Down

저자: 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.

저자: Kōhei Saitō 2020 273 페이지

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

공산당 선언의 현재성

저자: 슬라보예 지젝 • 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

공산당 선언의 현재성

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

저자: 슬라보예 지젝 2018 70 페이지

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

Applied Economics

저자: 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.

저자: Thomas Sowellm 2003 348 페이지

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

The Revolution Betrayed

저자: 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.

저자: Leon Trotsky 1937 240 페이지

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

Marx and Satan

저자: 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.

저자: Richard Wurmbrand 1986 143 페이지

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

What Is to Be Done?

저자: 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.

저자: Vladimir Lenin 1902 272 페이지

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

China After Mao

저자: 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.

저자: Frank Dikötter 2022 416 페이지

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

Main Currents Of Marxism

저자: 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.

저자: Leszek Kołakowski 2005 1284 페이지

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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

저자: 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.

저자: Karl Marx 1846 584 페이지

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

The People’s Republic of Walmart

저자: 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.

저자: Leigh Phillips 2019 256 페이지

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

The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism

저자: 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.

저자: Bertrand Russell 1920 122 페이지

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

Essential Works of Lenin

저자: 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.

저자: Vladimir Lenin 1964 400 페이지

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

Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism

저자: 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.

저자: Kristen R. Ghodsee 2018 240 페이지

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

The Communist Manifesto and Other Writings

저자: 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.

저자: Karl Marx 2005 224 페이지

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

A Planet to Win

저자: 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?

저자: Kate Aronoff 2019 208 페이지

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

Socialism Betrayed

저자: 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.

저자: Roger Keeran 2004 230 페이지

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

A People's Guide to Capitalism

저자: 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.

저자: Hadas Thier 2018 300 페이지

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

Contesting Democracy

저자: 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.

저자: Jan-Werner Müller 2006 304 페이지

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

Broke

저자: 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.

저자: Glenn Beck 2010 406 페이지

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

Economics in Three Lessons and One Hundred Economics Laws

저자: 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.

저자: Hunter Lewis 2017 425 페이지

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

Capitalism Unbound

저자: 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.

저자: Andrew Bernstein 2009 146 페이지

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

What Is Property?

저자: 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.

저자: Pierre-Joseph Proudhon 1840 310 페이지

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

Che Guevara Reader

저자: 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.

저자: Ernesto Che Guevara 1997 420 페이지

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

Chaotic Neutral

저자: 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.

저자: Ed Burmila 2022 352 페이지

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

The Age of Acquiescence

저자: 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.

저자: Steve Fraser 2015 480 페이지

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

The Acquisitive Society

저자: 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.

저자: R.H. Tawney 1920 192 페이지

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

The Moral Economists

저자: 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.

저자: Tim Rogan 2017 270 페이지

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

Un espectro recorre el mundo. Sobre el Manifiesto comunista

저자: 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.

저자: China Miéville 2022 338 페이지

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

October

저자: 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.

저자: China Miéville 2017 369 페이지

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

Global Civil War

저자: 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.

저자: William I. Robinson 2022 224 페이지

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

The Implosion of Contemporary Capitalism

저자: Samir Amin • 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

The Implosion of Contemporary Capitalism

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

저자: Samir Amin 2013 144 페이지

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

Reconstructing Karl Polanyi

저자: 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.

저자: Gareth Dale 2016 258 페이지

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

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