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Kollontai, the first woman in a modern government, theorized love as a political tool for building classless society, arguing that solidarity and cooperation require emotional capacity. She defended proletarian morality as part of class struggle, rejecting both reactionary nostalgia and individualism, and held that women's subordination stems from economic factors, not nature.

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This book reexamines the Cuban Revolution, arguing that the working class's urban actions-not just guerrilla warfare-were decisive. It contends that strikes, sabotage, and revolutionary consciousness weakened Batista and pushed the revolution leftward toward socialism, challenging the foco theory and mainstream narratives that overlook this 'hidden' history.

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The United States has a long history of causing mass death, which it terms 'endless holocausts,' asserting that this pattern is fundamental to American identity and policy. Published by Monthly Review Press in 2023, it examines how this recurring violence shapes the nation's domestic and international actions.

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Industrialized countries transfer value by exchanging one hour of their labor for 5-15 hours of labor in underdeveloped nations. The work details mechanisms like global production chains, labor arbitrage, and ecological costs, examines political consequences such as the 'imperial mode of living' that fractures working-class solidarity, and shows how unequal exchange drives polarized development.

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Marx's critique of other socialist thinkers was central to his important work, as he differed significantly in their conception of socialism. This critical engagement fueled his development of a distinct communist theory, distinguishing his views from those of fellow socialists.

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Neoliberal economists distort global data to conceal the persistence of poverty and exploitation, masking the realities of inequality through flawed statistics and narratives.

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This book reveals how the CIA secretly financed Western Marxist intellectuals to steer radical thought away from Soviet sympathy. It contends that Western Marxism's cultural turn was shaped by this covert funding, which flowed through front groups like the Congress for Cultural Freedom to thinkers such as Raya Dunayevskaya and the Frankfurt School.

Africa's underdevelopment was actively produced by European capitalism through the slave trade and colonialism, expropriating surplus and distorting economies.

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Vijay Prashad's history of the Third World as a political project traces its origins, development, and decline, arguing that it was a collective movement of formerly colonized nations seeking justice and unity against neocolonialism. This work serves as a critical examination of the historical and socio-political landscape of countries often categorized as backward.

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Liberalism, argues Domenico Losurdo, is not a tradition centered on individual liberty but a historical movement and society intertwined with slavery and colonial oppression. He shows that liberal thinkers and nations, from Holland to the American revolutionaries, justified racial subjugation, while even critics like Bodin condemned it, revealing liberalism's concrete reality.

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The Communist Manifesto declares that all history is the history of class struggles, and modern society splits into bourgeoisie and proletariat. It argues the bourgeoisie's rule, with the state as its committee, exploits wage-labor, and only communist society can make accumulated labor serve the laborer's existence.

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Bourgeois multi-national states cannot resolve national contradictions, which imperialism transformed into inter-state struggles; the Soviet system, by proclaiming the right of nations to secede, struck at the root of national enmity and won non-Russian workers' confidence. Victory of the Soviets and proletarian dictatorship are fundamental conditions for abolishing oppression.