The World's Best Place Norway and the Norwegians    by Solveig Torvik
Price: $9.99 USD. 54200 words. Language: English. Published on January 30, 2010. Nonfiction » Politics and Current Affairs » Communism and socialism.
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The United Nations says Norway is the world's best place to live. So what's it like to live there? Who are these people, and what are their civic and cultural values? An unblinking look at celebrated, and uncelebrated, aspects of this paradoxical socialist welfare state by a Norwegian-American journalist.

Writings of Rosa Luxemburg: Reform or Revolution, The National Question, and Other Essays    by Lenny Flank
Price: $9.99 USD. 95080 words. Language: English. Published on November 21, 2009. Nonfiction » Politics and Current Affairs » Communism and socialism.
Selected Writings from "Red Rosa" Luxemburg, one of the founders of the German Communist Party. Contains "Reform or Revolution?", concerning the reformist program of parliamentary socialism; "The Socialist Crisis in France", concerning the entry of the Socialist Party into the French Government; and other essays.

Writings of the Utopian Socialists    by Lenny Flank
Price: $9.99 USD. 127440 words. Language: English. Published on November 21, 2009. Nonfiction » Politics and Current Affairs » Communism and socialism.
A collection of writings from the Utopian Socialists, who tried to build the perfect human societies. Includes Robert Owen's "A New View of Society", Edward Bellamy's "Looking Backward", and Charles Fourier's "On Trade". Preface gives brief biographies and a history of Utopian socialism.

Writings of William Z Foster: A Collection of Essays From one of the Founders of the American Communist Party    by Lenny Flank
Price: $9.99 USD. 58960 words. Language: English. Published on November 21, 2009. Nonfiction » Politics and Current Affairs » Communism and socialism.
Writings from William Z Foster, the former Wobbly and union organizer who helped found the American Communist Party,and whose organization played a leading role in forming the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) during the 1930's.

Writings of Karl Radek: The "Left Opposition" in Soviet Russia    by Lenny Flank
Price: $9.99 USD. 61480 words. Language: English. Published on November 21, 2009. Nonfiction » Politics and Current Affairs » Communism and socialism.
A collection of essays and pamphlets from Karl Radek, the Russian Communist who became a leader in the "Left Opposition" faction within the Bolshevik Party, advocating party democracy and a greater role for the rank-and-file trade unions in the Soviet state.

Our Own Path: Selected Writings From Yugoslav Communism    by Lenny Flank
Price: $9.99 USD. 75820 words. Language: English. Published on November 10, 2009. Nonfiction » Politics and Current Affairs » Communism and socialism.
Yugoslavia was unique among the Communist nations.Defying both Moscow and Beijing, Yugoslavia under Tito followed its own path, building a system that practiced relative political openness, economic decentralization through market socialism, and a neutral foreign policy. This anthology contains writings from both supporters and critics of the Yugoslav system.

The Essential Writings of Karl Marx; Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts, The Communist Manifesto, Wage Labor and Capital, and Critique of the Gotha Program    by Lenny Flank
Price: $9.99 USD. 100850 words. Language: English. Published on November 10, 2009. Nonfiction » Politics and Current Affairs » Communism and socialism.
The basic texts of Marxist socialism. Preface gives an easy-to-understand introduction to Marxist philosophy.

Essential Writings of Friedrich Engels: Socialism, Utopian and Scientific; The Principles of Communism; and Others    by Lenny Flank
Price: $9.99 USD. 100900 words. Language: English. Published on November 10, 2009. Nonfiction » Politics and Current Affairs » Communism and socialism.
A selection of writings from Friedrich Engels. Socialism, Utopian and Scientific; The Principles of Communism; The Part Played by Labour in the Transition From Ape to Man; Ludwig Feuerbach and the end of Classical German Philosophy; and The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State.

Paradise Lost    by Robert Gates, Sr.
Price: $2.99 USD. 89700 words. Language: English. Published by Elderberry Press, Inc.  on November 3, 2009. Nonfiction » Politics and Current Affairs » Communism and socialism.
(4.75 from 4 reviews)
The misconceptions some have about political parties and their followers is astounding. One must understand that all countries are controlled by political parties. Some usurp their power. Some are elected. It doesn't matter what they call themselves---its their economic philosophy that is important.

Non-Leninist Marxism: Writings on the Workers Councils    by Lenny Flank
Price: $9.99 USD. 57350 words. Language: English. Published on September 29, 2009. Nonfiction » Politics and Current Affairs » Communism and socialism.
The recent collapse of the Soviet Union made clear the weaknesses and deficiencies in Leninist theory and practice. In the period between the World Wars, however, an entirely different trend of socialism had rejected the Leninist model of centralized party and state. This movement was "council communism".