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The years in question are 335 to 323 BC. Aristotle, who had been a pupil of Plato at the Academy for two decades and had served as tutor to Alexander the Great in Macedonia, returned to Athens when his pupil embarked on his dazzling military career, and there, at the...
In the bitter winter of 1936, George Orwell descended into the industrial hell of northern England. He slept in cramped lodgings, walked coal-grimed streets, and sat in the kitchens of unemployed miners whose lives had been crushed by economic forces they could not name...
In a world where the gap between the haves and have-nots has become a chasm, where the homeless freeze in the shadows of luxury towers, and where policymakers speak of the poor in tidy statistics and abstract fiscal projections, Jonathan Swift's masterpiece of ironic...
Henry David Thoreau's revolutionary essay, written in protest against slavery and the Mexican-American War, gives us a message that transcends any single era: when government becomes the agent of injustice, what is the duty of the conscientious citizen? Thoreau's answer...
What is more crucial for a leader: to be loved, or to be feared? Is it better to keep one’s word, or to manipulate, deceive, and force others to comply? Written in exile after a life immersed in the volatile politics of Renaissance Italy, Niccolò Machiavelli’s The...
Written in 1902, at a critical juncture for Russian Marxists, What Is to Be Done? is not merely a political tract but the foundational text of the Bolshevik movement. In it, a young Vladimir Ilyich Lenin confronts the pressing question of how to build a party capable of...
On the eve of the October Revolution, with the state machinery of the old order in collapse, V.I. Lenin penned his most concentrated work of political theory. State and Revolution is a forceful return to the core Marxist teachings on the state, arguing that it is not a...
In the fiery crucible of World War I, the socialist dream faced its ultimate test. As national armies marched and imperialist powers clashed, the great workers' parties of Europe confronted a stark choice: uphold the internationalist pledge of working-class solidarity,...
In this trenchant polemic, written in 1916 during the First World War, V.I. Lenin argues that imperialism is not merely a policy of choice for capitalist states but an inevitable, historical stage in the development of capitalism itself. Building upon the economic...
Written in 1920, at a critical juncture for the world revolutionary movement, Lenin’s "Left-Wing" Communism: an Infantile Disorder is a brilliant polemic and a masterclass in revolutionary strategy. With the Bolshevik Revolution’s hard-won victory still fragile, Lenin...
Is free trade a path to universal prosperity, or merely freedom for capital to exploit? In this piercing and provocative speech, delivered in 1848 on the eve of revolutionary upheavals across Europe, Karl Marx turns his critical gaze on one of the most sacred doctrines...
"Hegel says somewhere that that great historic facts and personages recur twice. He forgot to add: "Once as tragedy, and again as farce." With this famous opening line, Karl Marx launches into one of the most brilliant and biting works of political analysis ever...
Your Boss Says You Can't Have a Raise. This Pamphlet IsYour Answer. What if your struggle for a higher wage wasn't just a simple request, but a fundamental challenge to the entire economic system? This is the powerful and practical argument at the heart of Karl Marx's...
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels wrote The Communist Manifesto in 1848: it is a few pages that met with little success initially, but would later be destined to change the world. A text that by the end of the 20th Century was reported to have been published in over two...
Here are collected all Orwell's longer, major essays and a fine selection of shorter pieces that includes 'Decline of the English Murder', 'Shooting an Elephant' and 'A Hanging'. The essays that make up this collection testify to the greatness and genius of Orwell also...
In queste pagine dense di passione e rigore, Proudhon demolisce il diritto di proprietà come pilastro di ogni privilegio, distinguendolo dal semplice "possesso" frutto del lavoro. La proprietà, per lui, è il meccanismo che permette di appropriarsi del lavoro altrui...
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon nel 1840 osò scrivere che "la proprietà è un furto", e per primo ebbe il coraggio di rivendicare per sé la parola anarchico, sottraendola al disprezzo dei secoli. Figlio di un bottaio e di una cuoca, cresciuto nel lavoro manuale di una tipografia...
Arrestato a Milano il 13 ottobre 1820 per la sua adesione alla Carboneria, Pellico trascorrerà quasi dieci anni nelle carceri austriache, prima a Venezia e poi nella sinistra fortezza dello Spielberg in Moravia. Le mie prigioni non è solo la cronaca di una detenzione,...
Pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1921, Trasformazione della democrazia è il libro cruciale nella formazione della teoria politica di Vilfredo Pareto, un'opera che a oltre un secolo di distanza conserva intatta la sua provocatoria attualità. In questo libro, il grande...
Pareto ci introduce a un mondo in cui l'economia è il risultato dell'opposizione tra due forze fondamentali: i gusti (le preferenze degli individui) e gli ostacoli (le condizioni di produzione e di scambio). È all'interno di questo quadro che lo studioso sviluppa...
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