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"Vorwärts und nicht vergessen"?
Wallstein Verlag 2012; US$ 26.08Hauptbeschreibung Keine der im Deutschen Bundestag vertretenen Parteien steht so sehr im Banne der eigenen Geschichte wie die Partei DIE LINKE und ihre Vorgängerin PDS. Keine andere hat eine so wechselhafte Geschichte, wie diese aus der SED hervorgegangene Partei. Daraus ergibt sich die Frage, wie DIE LINKE dieses Erbe verwaltet und wie sie ihre... more...
Administering Civil Society
Palgrave Macmillan 1996; US$ 148.00To preserve social order the state must administer civil society, with a threefold purpose - the fashioning of the market, the constitution of legal subjectivity and the subsumption of struggle. In Administering Civil Society Mark Neocleous offers a rethinking of the state-civil society distinction through the idea of political administration. This... more...
Advances in E-Democracy, Volume 58, Issue 5
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006; US$ 199.00This e-book is devoted to an analysis of progress in electronic government. It contains a series of papers by experts in the field who report on a range of real world e-government projects and associated evaluative studies. These cover the analysis of parliamentary and central government web sites, and a variety of more specialized national and local... more...
After Capitalism
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2011; US$ 29.95Since first published in 2002, After Capitalism has offered students and political activists alike a coherent vision of a viable and desirable alternative to capitalism. David Schweickart calls this system Economic Democracy, a successor-system to capitalism which preserves the efficiency strengths of a market economy while extending democracy to... more...
After Liberalism
Princeton University Press 2001; US$ 28.95In this trenchant challenge to social engineering, Paul Gottfried analyzes a patricide: the slaying of nineteenth-century liberalism by the managerial state. Many people, of course, realize that liberalism no longer connotes distributed powers and bourgeois moral standards, the need to protect civil society from an encroaching state, or the virtues... more...
Against the Masses
OUP Oxford 2001; US$ 134.99Given the almost universal assumption that democracy is a 'good thing', the goal of mankind, it is easy to forget that 'rule by the people' has been vehemently opposed by some of the most distinguished thinkers in the Western tradition. The author attempts to combat collective amnesia by systematically exploring and evaluating anti-democratic... more...
Amady Aly Dieng Memoires díun Etudiant Africain Volume II
CODESRIA 2011; US$ 26.95The advent of formal independence in former French colonies in Black Africa meant the dawn of a new era: the struggle against neocolonialism. African students rallying around this struggle became new strangers and targets for expulsion out of France. The French government of the time resorted, therefore, to massive expulsions against their labour and... more...
American Fascists
Free Press 2007; US$ 15.00Twenty-five years ago, when Pat Robertson and other radio and televangelists first spoke of the United States becoming a Christian nation that would build a global Christian empire, it was hard to take such hyperbolic rhetoric seriously. Today, such language no longer sounds like hyperbole but poses, instead, a very real threat to our freedom and... more...
Analyse demokratischer Regierungssysteme
Springer Fachmedien 2009; US$ 84.99Arbitrary Rule
University of Chicago Press 2013; US$ 44.00Slavery appears as a figurative construct during the English revolution of the mid-seventeenth century, and again in the American and French revolutions, when radicals represent their treatment as a form of political slavery. What, if anything, does figurative, political slavery have to do with transatlantic slavery? In Arbitrary Rule , Mary Nyquist... more...









