Tag: Ideology

Free Download Organized Loyalty: A New State Ideology for China as a Global Power (Politics and Development of Contemporary China) by Johan Lagerkvist
English | August 22, 2023 | ISBN: 3031400364 | 123 pages | MOBI | 0.51 Mb
This book analyses the ideology that China’s leader Xi Jinping has crafted during his decade in power. China’s political system and domestic and foreign policies have, between 2012 and 2022, become more defined by the political thought of Xi Jinping, the most powerful leader of the Chinese Communist Party since the time of Mao Zedong. Today, Xi’s China is embroiled in superpower rivalry with the United States and its allies. Therefore, ongoing ideological transformation in the People’s Republic is destined to have global repercussions. Yet surprisingly, the ideological mission of Xi Jinping is poorly understood. Based on analysis of Xi Jinping’s collected speeches, the book argues that China’s new state ideology is constructed around the three key concepts of loyalty, discipline, and greatness. Xi’s mission is about ideological re-orientation and re-activation, as well as organizational innovation, seeking to frame China’s "national self" as a collective unit under one political banner and one leader. However, despite the monumental Party-state effort to boost the new ideology and state-scripted "moral careers", the book contends that Xi Jinping cannot take for granted that political and patriotic loyalty will forever trump the formation of "disloyal moral careers" in society.

Free Download On Settler Colonialism: Ideology, Violence, and Justice (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0DF8643H9 | 2024 | 3 hours and 55 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 218 MB
Author: Adam Kirsch
Narrator: Adam Barr
A prominent public intellectual tackles one of the most crucial political ideas of our moment. Since Hamas’s attack on Israel last October 7, the term "settler colonialism" has become central to public debate in the United States. A concept new to most Americans, but already established and influential in academic circles, settler colonialism is shaping the way many people think about the history of the United States, Israel and Palestine, and a host of political issues. This short book is the first to examine settler colonialism critically for a general audience.

Free Download Rabindra Ray, "The Naxalities and Their Ideology, third edition Ed 3"
English | ISBN: 0198077386 | 2012 | 272 pages | PDF | 17 MB
The Naxalites take their name from an uprising of workers in the tea gardens of the north Bengal countryside, near Naxalbari, in early 1967. Since then ‘Naxalite’ and ‘Naxalism’ have become synonymous in India with communist revolutionary ‘terrorism’.

Free Download Messay Kebede, "Ideology and Elite Conflicts: Autopsy of the Ethiopian Revolution"
English | ISBN: 0739137964 | 2011 | 396 pages | PDF | 19 MB
The book provides a theoretical explanation of the major outcomes of Ethiopia’s social revolution, namely, the overthrow of Emperor Haile Selassie in 1974 and the implementation of a far-reaching Marxist-Leninist revolution by a military committee (the Derg) and its collapse in 1991. The book extensively discusses the question of knowing whether existing theories of revolution throw light on the eruption of a radical revolution in Ethiopia and, most of all, whether they can accommodate the major anomaly of a socialist revolution being executed by a military committee that radicalized after the removal of the imperial regime. Hence the central thesis of the book: both the overthrow of the monarchical order and the radicalization of the Derg must be tied to social conditions that exasperated elite conflicts for scarce resources, with the consequence that the espousal of radical ideologies (socialism and ethnonationalism) became the sole avenue for the exclusive control of state power.

Free Download The Japanese Ideology: A Marxist Critique of Liberalism and Fascism by Tosaka Jun
English | September 17th, 2024 | ISBN: 023121653X | 392 pages | True EPUB | 1.08 MB
A major Marxist thinker and critic in 1930s Japan, Tosaka Jun was among the world’s most incisive-yet underrecognized-theorists of capitalism, fascism, and ideology during the years before World War II. The Japanese Ideology is his masterpiece, first published in 1935, as Japan and the world plummeted into an age of reaction. Tosaka offers a ruthless philosophical critique of contemporary ideology that exposes liberalism’s deep complicity with fascism.

Free Download What Was Soviet Ideology?: A Theoretical Inquiry by Petre Petrov
English | October 30, 2023 | ISBN: 1666937371 | 282 pages | MOBI | 0.66 Mb
Because the Soviet Union loudly proclaimed to be an ideological state, its scholars have rarely scrutinized ideology as a concept. Instead, they have treated it as a self-evident fact and proceeded to deliberate the importance of the Marxist-Leninist creed in social life or political decision-making. In the context of the Cold War, such theoretical neglect was exacerbated by political investments that often outweighed-and deformed-intellectual priorities. This has left us today with a notion that is both worn out and opaque, over-used but under-thought. In What Was Soviet Ideology? Petre Petrov stakes a new theoretical ground beyond prevalent misconceptions, ready-made definitions, and popular stereotypes. Drawing on continental philosophy and critical theory, this book presents ideology as a dynamic form with its own inner dialectic, in which the Soviet ideological regime figures as an original moment, a sui generis phenomenon. Petrov argues that Soviet ideology should be seen not as a member of an existing species but as a qualitative transformation of the species, ideology, and itself.

Free Download Michael Freeden, "Re-energizing Ideology Studies: The maturing of a discipline"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 0367892847, 0815377150 | EPUB | pages: 194 | 1.1 mb
Ideology studies have undergone significant growth over the past couple of decades. The scope of the discipline has been extensively broadened to include not only text and discourse but emotions, imagination, fantasy, rhetoric and visual forms. Its attention to detail and to the micro-manifestations of ideology in the everyday have borne considerable fruit, particularly at a time of ideological fragmentation and reassembly. Its research methods have been refined, embracing both conceptual innovation and empirical evidence drawn from many fields of social creativity.

Free Download On Settler Colonialism: Ideology, Violence, and Justice by Adam Kirsch
English | August 20, 2024 | ISBN: 1324105348 | True EPUB | 160 pages | 0.2 MB
A prominent public intellectual tackles one of the most crucial political ideas of our moment.

Free Download Lost in Ideology: Interpreting Modern Political Life by Jason Blakely
English | March 26, 2024 | ISBN: 1788216628 | 192 pages | EPUB | 0.44 Mb
Modern political life is a confusing and disorientating terrain of competing ideologies. Jason Blakely offers readers a lively, fresh and insightful guide through the labyrinth of conflicting and competing ideas in order to better understand why ideology in the modern era can be so divisive.

Free Download Ghazwan Yaghi, "Imperial Ideology and Architecture: Damascus Under the Mamluk Sultans, (1260-1516 CE) "
English | ISBN: 9004696989 | 2024 | 125 pages | PDF | 29 MB
Leiden prides itself on a longstanding tradition of scholarship and publishing in the study of Islam and Muslim cultures in Western academia. From the very beginning both philological and historical approaches have been prominent in this endeavor, later extending to anthropological studies of Muslim societies. This new peer-reviewed series, Leiden Studies in Islam and Society (LSIS), a co-operation between Leiden University Centre for the Study of Islam and Society (LUCIS) and Brill, publishes the results of contemporary research on Islam and Muslim cultures by specialists in their own field. In addition to building on this Leiden tradition of combining textual and practice oriented approaches, the series also offers a platform for authors looking for new directions in Islamic studies.