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Free Download History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics by György Lukács, translated by Rodney Livingstone
English | November 1, 2023 | ISBN: 1804295698 | True EPUB | 416 pages | 0.7 MB
This is the first time one of the most important of Lukacs’ early theoretical writings, published in Germany in 1923, has been made available in English. The book consists of a series of essays treating, among other topics, the definition of orthodox Marxism, the question of legality and illegality, Rosa Luxemburg as a Marxist, the changing function of Historic Marxism, class consciousness, and the substantiation and consciousness of the Proletariat. Writing in 1968, on the occasion of the appearance of his collected works, Lukacs evaluated the influence of this book as follows:

Free Download A Marxist history of the world : from Neanderthals to Neoliberals By Faulkner, Neil
2013 | 342 Pages | ISBN: 0745332153 | EPUB | 6 MB
This magisterial analysis of human history – from "Lucy," the first hominid, to the Great Recession of 2008 – combines the insights of earlier generations of Marxist historians with radical new ideas about the historical process.Reading history against the grain, Neil Faulkner reveals that what happened in the past was not predetermined. Choices were frequent and numerous. Different outcomes – liberation or barbarism – were often possible. Rejecting the top-down approach of conventional history, Faulkner contends that it is the mass action of ordinary people that drives great events.At the beginning of the 21st century – with economic disaster, war, climate catastrophe and deep class divisions – humans face perhaps the greatest crisis in the long history of our species. The lesson of A Marxist History of the World is that, since we created our past, we can also create a better future.

Free Download Marxist Archaeology Today: Historical Materialist Perspectives in Archaeology from America, Europe and the Near East in the 21st Century
by Ianir Milevski
English | 2023 | ISBN: 9004679030 | 352 Pages | True PDF | 9.65 MB

Free Download A People’s Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics by Hadas Thier, Jo Anna Perrin, Tantor Audio
English | 2022 | ISBN: B09WGMHPWC | 10 hours and 18 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 282 Mb
A lively, accessible, and timely guide to Marxist economics for those who want to understand and dismantle the world of the 1%.
Economists regularly promote Capitalism as the greatest system ever to grace the planet. With the same breath, they implore us to leave the job of understanding the magical powers of the market to the "experts."
Despite the efforts of these mainstream commentators to convince us otherwise, many of us have begun to question why this system has produced such vast inequality and wanton disregard for its own environmental destruction. This book offers answers to exactly these questions on their own terms: in the form of a radical economic theory.

Free Download Daniel Hartley, "The Politics of Style: Towards a Marxist Poetics "
English | ISBN: 1608468283 | 2017 | 296 pages | PDF | 1131 KB
Building on the work of Raymond Williams, Terry Eagleton and Fredric Jameson, Hartley delineates the historical and conceptual preconditions for the emergence of a ‘politics of style’, and uncovers an underground current of stylistics within the Marxist tradition from Marx to Barthes. Sets out an independent and ambitious theory of style as a foundational element of a new Marxist poetics.

Free Download Onur Acaroglu, "Rethinking Marxist Approaches to Transition A Theory of Temporal Dislocation "
English | ISBN: 9004436669 | 2020 | 238 pages | PDF | 2 MB
In Rethinking Marxist Theories of Transition, Onur Acaroglu traces the concept of transition across the tracts of Classical and Western Marxism. Rarely directly invoked, transition appears as an imminent social reality, and a useful conceptual tool for critical social theory.

Free Download Kristin Plys, "Marxist Thought in South Asia "
English | ISBN: 1837971838 | 2023 | 216 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Marxism is not just a Euro-American preoccupation. It has had vibrant articulations around the world, particularly in Latin America, Africa, the Caribbean, and amongst Black diasporas. But South Asia has been relatively neglected in efforts to register the revolutionary theoretical traditions of the Global South.

Free Download Francis Mulhern, "Contemporary Marxist Literary Criticism"
English | 2013 | pages: 278 | ISBN: 0582059763, 0582059771 | EPUB | 0,5 mb
Marxism has had an enormous impact on literary and cultural studies, and all those interested in the field need to be aware of its achievements. This collection presents the very best of recent Marxist literary criticism in one single volume.

Free Download Geoff Pilling, Doria Pilling, "Marxist Political Economy: Essays in Retrieval: Selected Works of Geoff Pilling"
English | 2016 | pages: 246 | ISBN: 1138241113, 0415678528 | EPUB | 0,4 mb
Geoff Pilling’s work shows that Marxist theory is relevant to those struggling to understand the problems of capitalist society today, and that the work not only of Marx and Engels but that of later Marxist theorists, including Lenin is worth studying. It also shows that to understand the problems of today’s society needs more than narrow specialist economic analysis, but a deep awareness of current developments in society.

Free Download Accounting for Crises : A Marxist History of American Accounting Theory, c.1929 to 2007 (480 Pages)
by Rob Bryer
English | 2023 | ISBN: 9811267065 | 481 pages | True PDF | 6.73 MB
Historians have not convincingly explained modern capitalism’s two major economic crises, the Great Depression of the 1930s, and the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) of 2008-2009. Accounting for Crises offers a new explanation, why both began and were more severe in the USA ("America"), based on an accounting interpretation of Marx’s theory of crises. It explains their origins in capitalists’ control of accumulation, which reveals important overlooked roles for Irving Fisher’s accounting theory. This theory, by allowing discretion in accounts, in the context of falling rates of profit, encouraged "swindling", overstating reported profits, and understating their risk, which facilitated and aggravated both crises. Framed by Fisher’s theory, during the 1920s American accounting theorists justified discretion, which Creating the "Big Mess" (the companion volume) concluded it management used to conservatively smooth earnings. Accounting for Crises shows that Fisher’s theory , also underlays the popular new theory of investment that justified valuing shares using reported earnings, which encouraged their manipulation and legitimized "speculation". This, it argues, underlays America’s exceptional late-1920s stock market boom, the 1929 Great Crash, and the depth and length of its Great Depression. Prominently associated with the boom, Fisher became unpopular after the crash, his name disappearing from public debate. Nevertheless, the book concludes, his theory hindered economic recovery, weakened 1930s reforms, undermined accounting regulation from the late-1930s, and following his rehabilitation from the late-1950s, underlies the Financial Accounting Standards Board’s conceptual framework, which by allowing off-balance-sheet accounting for securitization-SPEs, fostered the 2007 "credit crunch" that triggered the 2008-2009 Global Financial Crisis (GFC).