Left Book Club Editions: Four Classic Spines
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good/Fair. Jacket: N/A. Page Condition: Yellowed with signs of aging. Markings: Name penned on feps. Binding: Red boards, spines faded; worn with minor wear; Heiden - fair; hinges cracked )
- Rosa Luxemburg by Paul Frölich (1940) This political biography chronicles the life of one of the twentieth century's most formidable revolutionary thinkers, written by a comrade who fought alongside her in the German workers' movement. Frölich traces Luxemburg's intellectual development from her early years in Russian Poland through her emergence as a leading theorist of revolutionary Marxism in Germany. The book details her fierce opposition to the First World War, her imprisonment for anti-militarist agitation, and her co-founding of the Spartacus League and the German Communist Party. - Marxism and Democracy by Lucien Laurat (1940) Laurat presents a rigorous work of political theory that confronts the charge, common in his era, that Marxism had failed as both science and practice. He traces the doctrine from the original writings of Marx and Engels through the major splits of the early socialist movement, including the Bernstein revisionist controversy and the Kautsky-Luxemburg dispute over party structure. Laurat argues that Bolshevism distorted authentic Marxist theory, transforming the Soviet Union into a bureaucratic oligarchy rather than the socialist society Marx envisioned. - The Psychology of Reaction by R. Osborn (1938) Osborn presents a penetrating psychological study of fascism, applying Freudian analysis to the political upheavals convulsing Europe in the 1930s. He examines the psychic mechanisms that allow fascist movements to exploit human nature, uncovering how economic anxiety and social dislocation feed authoritarian appeal. The book details Hitler's psychological profile alongside chapters on nationalism, anti-Semitism, and the seeds of fascist sympathy taking root within Britain itself. - Der Fuehrer, Book Two by Konrad Heiden (1944) Heiden continues his landmark biography of Adolf Hitler with this second volume, chronicling the Nazi Party's transformation from a fringe movement into the ruling power of Germany. Writing as an exiled journalist who covered the Nazi rise firsthand, he details the failed Beer Hall Putsch, Hitler's subsequent imprisonment, and the strategic recalibration that followed. The book traces the party's exploitation of economic crisis and political instability to expand its base and dismantle democratic institutions.
Author: -
Format: Hardback
Genre: European history
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good/Fair. Jacket: N/A. Page Condition: Yellowed with signs of aging. Markings: Name penned on feps. Binding: Red boards, spines faded; worn with minor wear; Heiden - fair; hinges cracked )
- Rosa Luxemburg by Paul Frölich (1940) This political biography chronicles the life of one of the twentieth century's most formidable revolutionary thinkers, written by a comrade who fought alongside her in the German workers' movement. Frölich traces Luxemburg's intellectual development from her early years in Russian Poland through her emergence as a leading theorist of revolutionary Marxism in Germany. The book details her fierce opposition to the First World War, her imprisonment for anti-militarist agitation, and her co-founding of the Spartacus League and the German Communist Party. - Marxism and Democracy by Lucien Laurat (1940) Laurat presents a rigorous work of political theory that confronts the charge, common in his era, that Marxism had failed as both science and practice. He traces the doctrine from the original writings of Marx and Engels through the major splits of the early socialist movement, including the Bernstein revisionist controversy and the Kautsky-Luxemburg dispute over party structure. Laurat argues that Bolshevism distorted authentic Marxist theory, transforming the Soviet Union into a bureaucratic oligarchy rather than the socialist society Marx envisioned. - The Psychology of Reaction by R. Osborn (1938) Osborn presents a penetrating psychological study of fascism, applying Freudian analysis to the political upheavals convulsing Europe in the 1930s. He examines the psychic mechanisms that allow fascist movements to exploit human nature, uncovering how economic anxiety and social dislocation feed authoritarian appeal. The book details Hitler's psychological profile alongside chapters on nationalism, anti-Semitism, and the seeds of fascist sympathy taking root within Britain itself. - Der Fuehrer, Book Two by Konrad Heiden (1944) Heiden continues his landmark biography of Adolf Hitler with this second volume, chronicling the Nazi Party's transformation from a fringe movement into the ruling power of Germany. Writing as an exiled journalist who covered the Nazi rise firsthand, he details the failed Beer Hall Putsch, Hitler's subsequent imprisonment, and the strategic recalibration that followed. The book traces the party's exploitation of economic crisis and political instability to expand its base and dismantle democratic institutions.