Author: Mao Zedong
Publisher: Verso
Keywords: revolutions, contradiction, practice
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2007-01-22
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1844675874
ISBN-13: 9781844675876

In this dazzling new series, philosopher and cultural critic Slavoj Zizek interrogates key writings on revolution.These early philosophical writings underpinned the Chinese revolutions and their clarion calls to insurrection remain some of the most stirring of all time. Drawing on a dizzying array of references from contemporary culture and politics, Zizek’s firecracker commentary reaches unsettling conclusions about the place of Mao’s thought in the revolutionary canon."Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer, which we use to crush the enemy."—Mao Zedong

Authors:Luc Boltanski, Eve Chiapello,  Gregory Elliot,
Publisher: Verso
Keywords: capitalism, spirit, new
Number of Pages: 656
Published: 2007-09-17
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1844671658
ISBN-13: 9781844671656

A century after the publication of Max Weber’s The Protestant Ethic and the “Spirit” of Capitalism a major new work examines network-based organization, employee autonomy and post-Fordist horizontal work structures. Why is the critique of capitalism so ineffective today? In this major work, the sociologists Eve Chiapello and Luc Boltanski suggest that we should be addressing the crisis of anticapitalist critique by exploring its very roots. Via an unprecedented analysis of management texts which influenced the thinking of employers and contributed to reorganization of compani

Author: Christopher Hitche
Publisher: Verso
Keywords: theory, practice, teresa, mother, position, missionary
Number of Pages: 98
Published: 1997-04-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 185984054X
ISBN-13: 9781859840542

What’s next--The Girl Scouts: The Untold Story? How could anybody write a debunking book about Mother Teresa and her Missionaries of Charity order? Well, in this little cruise missile of a book, Hitchens quickly establishes that the idea is not without point. After all, what is Mother Teresa doing hanging out with a dictator’s wife in Haiti and accepting over a million dollars from Charles Keating? The most riveting material in the book is contained in two letters: one from Mother Teresa to Judge Lance Ito--then weighing what sentence to dole out to the convicted Keating--which cit

Author: Benedict Anderso
Publisher: Verso
Keywords: spread, nationalism, origin, reflections, communities, imagined
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1991-07-01
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0860915468
ISBN-13: 9780860915461

What makes people love and die for nations, as well as hate and kill in their name? While many studies have been written on nationalist political movements, the sense of nationality - the personal and cultural feeling of belonging to the nation - has not received proportionate attention. In this widely acclaimed work, Benedict Anderson examines the creation and global spread of the ’imagined communities’ of nationality. Anderson explores the processes that created these communities: the territorialisation of religious faiths, the decline of antique kingship, the interaction between

Author: David Harvey
Publisher: Verso
Keywords: geographical, development, uneven, theory, global, capitalism, spaces
Number of Pages: 140
Published: 2006-05-15
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 1844675505
ISBN-13: 9781844675500

An essential introduction to the field of historical geography, which offers a radical new way of understanding global capitalism.Fiscal crises have cascaded across much of the developing world with devastating results, from Mexico to Indonesia, Russia and Argentina. The extreme volatility in contemporary political economic fortunes seems to mock our best efforts to understand the forces that drive development in the world economy.In this groundbreaking book, David Harvey shows how the disciplines of historical geography yield decisive new insights into the workings of global capitalism, and i

Authors:Gil Eyal, Ivan Szelenyi, Eleanor R. Townsley, Elea
Publisher: Verso
Keywords: elites, eastern, europe, ruling, new, capitalism, capitalists, making
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2001-03-11
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 1859843123
ISBN-13: 9781859843123

Making Capitalism without Capitalists guides us towards a deeper understanding of the origins of modern capitalism. Classical social theory in its search for the genesis of capitalism explored the process of transition from feudalism to capitalism. Making Capitalism without Capitalists focuses instead on the transition from socialism to capitalism, where capitalism is made without a capitalist class. Making Capitalism without Capitalists reflects on the sociological characteristics of the Communist system breakdown in 1989 and offers a theory of social structure of post-Communist societies. 19

Authors:Terry Bell, Dumisa Buhle Ntsebeza, Dumisa Buhle Nt
Publisher: Verso
Keywords: apartheid, truth, africa, south, business, unfinished
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2003-09-04
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 1859845452
ISBN-13: 9781859845455

Many people, both in South Africa and abroad, hoped that the Truth and Reconciliation Commission established in 1996 would uncover the hidden history of South Africa’s apartheid past. It is a widely propagated myth that it did so. In fact, most of the thirty-three-year mandate of the Commission was ignored. Behind a façade of time constraints and managerial short comings, some intended investigations never proceeded, others were bungled. Most importantly, no serious examination was made of the system that gave rise to some of the most horrific, racist social engineering of modern times.