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"Both a unique witness of transformative events in the late 20th century, and a prescient analysis of our present economic crises from a major French philosopher, Michel Henry's From Communism to Capitalism adds an important economic dimension to his earlier social critique. It begins by tracing the collapse of communist regimes back to their failure to implement Marx's original insights into the irreplaceable value of the living individual. Henry goes on to apply this same criticism to the surviving capitalist economic systems, portending their eventual and inevitable collapse. The influence of Michel Henry's radical revision of phenomenological thought is only now beginning to be felt in full force, and this edition is the first English translation of his major engagement with socio-economic questions. From Communism to Capitalism reinterprets politics and economics in light of the failure of socialism and the pervasiveness of global capitalism, and Henry subjects both to critique on the basis of his own philosophy of life. His notion of the individual is one that, as subjective affect, subtends both Marxist collectivism and liberalism simultaneously. In addition to providing a crucial economic elaboration of Henry's influential social critiques, this work provides a context for understanding the 2008 financial shock and offers important insights into the political motivations behind the 'Arab spring'"--

Communism --- Socialism

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Factory of Strategy is the last of Antonio Negri's major political works to be translated into English. Rigorous and accessible, it is both a systematic inquiry into the development of Lenin's thought and an encapsulation of a critical shift in Negri's theoretical trajectory.Lenin is the only prominent politician of the modern era to seriously question the "withering away" and "extinction" of the state, and like Marx, he recognized the link between capitalism and modern sovereignty and the need to destroy capitalism and reconfigure the state. Negri refrains from portraying Lenin as a ferocious dictator enforcing the proletariat's reappropriation of wealth, nor does he depict him as a mere military tool of a vanguard opposed to the Ancien Régime. Negri instead champions Leninism's ability to adapt to different working-class configurations in Russia, China, Latin America, and elsewhere. He argues that Lenin developed a new political figuration in and beyond modernity and an effective organization capable of absorbing different historical conditions. He ultimately urges readers to recognize the universal application of Leninism today and its potential to institutionally-not anarchically-dismantle centralized power.

Communism --- History. --- History

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Until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, historians knew relatively little about the secretive world of communist states and parties. Since then, the opening of state, party, and diplomatic archives of the former Eastern Bloc has released a flood of new documentation. The 35 essays in this handbook, written by an international team of scholars, draw on this new material to offer a global history of communism in the 20th century.

Communism --- History --- History.

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Civil society --- Democratization --- Post-communism

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De quelle manière Marx a-t-il renouvelé ses idées politiques face aux problèmes posés par les évolutions historiques de son temps ? Comment sa critique de la philosophie s'est-elle développée et radicalisée ? À quelle théorie économique cette « sortie de la philosophie » aboutit-elle dans Le Capital ? Pour comprendre la cohérence du projet de Marx et la force de ses idées, c'est dans ses écrits mêmes qu'il convient de se plonger. Tel est précisément le but de cet ouvrage qui encadre sa lecture à partir d'un choix de textes situés dans leurs contextes et suivis d'explications. En dévoilant les principes et les enjeux fondamentaux de ces « morceaux choisis », cette introduction permet au lecteur d'appréhender la pensée de Marx hors de toute caricature, et de saisir son étonnante actualité, à la lumière des débats contemporains.

Communism. --- Marx, Karl, --- Criticism and interpretation.