Socialists aim to change the world and have always sought to organize themselves as effectively as possible in order to achieve this goal. 
But what sort of organization do we need? These essays show why we need something more than single-issue organizations, movement coalitions or reformist organizations if we are to achieve real change. 
They also dispel the myths about democratic centralism and demonstrate that the kind of socialist party that Lenin built had nothing in common with the Stalinist despotism that replaced it.

Party and Class: Essays by Tony Cliff, Duncan Hallas, Chris Harman and Leon Trotsky

Politics & Social Sciences

CHRIS HARMAN

Leon, Trotsky

TONY CLIFF

Duncan Hallas

Politics & Government

Pluto Press Ltd.

Russia: How the Revolution Was Lost

History

Europe

Bookmarks

The swastika first entered modern history in the uniforms of the German counterrevolutionary troops of 1918 to 1923—and because of the defeat in Germany, Russia fell into the isolation that gave Stalin his road to power. Here, Chris Harman unearths the history of the lost revolution in Germany, and reveals its lessons for the future struggles for a better world.

The Lost Revolution: Germany, 1918 to 1923

Explaining the Crisis: A Marxist Re-Appraisal

Business & Money

Economics

How Marxism Works

A People's History of the World From the Stone Age to the New Millennium

Verso Books

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Economics of the Madhouse: Capitalism and the market today

Chris Harman's 'The Lost Revolution' provides a readable account of one of the most decisive events in 20th century history. This book is unusual in that it is written from a point of view sympathetic to the revolution and to its tragic leading figures, Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht.

The Lost Revolution

Turnaround

These two essays, on base and superstructure and the transition from feudalism to capitalism, provide a new synthesis of Marx's theory of historical change. Chris Harman shows that a Marxist understanding of history rejects any kind of crude determinism. Instead it gives an unparalleled analysis of how change is forged out of struggle in a context determined first and foremost, but is not exclusively, but economic factors. This book is essential reading for anyone who not only wishes to understand the world but also to change it.

Marxism and History

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