The Permanent Revolution, Results and Prospects
7 best books like The Permanent Revolution, Results and Prospects (Leon Trotsky): Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent, Socialism: Utopian and Scientific, Mother Courage and Her Children, Left-Wing Communism, an Infantile Disorder: A Popular Essay in Marxian Strategy and Tactics, Estado y revolución, German Ideology, El hombre que amaba a los perros
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
| Author | Eduardo Galeano |
| ISBN | 0853459916 |
Since its U.S. debut a quarter-century ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America. It is also an outstanding political economy, a social and cultural narrative of the highest quality, and perhaps the finest description of primitive capital accumulation...
| Author | Friedrich Engels |
| ISBN | 0873485793 |
In my opinion, this is a better introduction to Marxism than the Communist Manifesto. The first chapter focuses on utopian socialist who tried to make reforms but ran up against roadblocks of the bourgeoisie, and since it was based on an unscientific view, it lead to a "mish-mash of critical statements,...
Mother Courage and Her Children
Widely considered one of the great dramatic creations of the modern stage, "Mother Courage and Her Children" is Bertolt Brecht's most passionate and profound statement against war. Set in the seventeenth century, the play follows Anna Fierling -- "Mother Courage" -- an itinerant trader, as she pulls...
Left-Wing Communism, an Infantile Disorder: A Popular Essay in Marxian Strategy and Tactics
| Author | Vladimir Lenin |
| ISBN | 0898754488 |
"Left-Wing" Communism, An Infantile Disorder: A Popular Essay in Marxian Strategy and Tactics Vladimir Ilich Lenin (1870-1924) was the founder of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), inspirer and leader of Bolshevik Revolution (1917), and the architect, builder, and first head (1917-24)...
If you happen to get the version which has a forward by Richard Pipes, I strongly suggest reading the text of Vladimir Lenin first, maybe Google or Wikipedia some of the historical references, and draw your own conclusion. Richard Pipes is your classical establishment propaganda clerk who's job is...
| Author | Karl Marx |
| ISBN | 0717803015 |
2011 Reprint of 1939 Edition. Parts I & III of "The German Ideology". Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Originally published by the Marx-Engels Institute in Moscow in 1939. "The German Ideology" was written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels...
El hombre que amaba a los perros
| Author | Leonardo Padura |
| ISBN | 8483831368 |
En 2004, a la muerte de su mujer, Iván, aspirante a escritor y ahora responsable de un paupérrimo gabinete veterinario de La Habana, vuelve los ojos hacia un episodio de su vida, ocurrido en 1977, cuando conoció a un enigmático hombre que paseaba por la playa en compañía de dos hermosos galgos rusos....
