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Free Download The Japanese Ideology: A Marxist Critique of Liberalism and Fascism by Jun Tosaka, Robert Stolz
English | September 17, 2024 | ISBN: 023121653X | 392 pages | PDF | 4.04 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 John Frederick Martin, "Civil Rights And The Crisis Of Liberalism: The Democratic Party 1945-1976"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 0891584544, 036717099X | EPUB | pages: 301 | 0.6 mb
Civil Rights and the Crisis of Liberalism: The Democratic Party, 1945-1976 is about ideology and politics. It focuses on the civil rights issue in Democratic party politics from 1945 to 1976 but glances at a longer history to describe American liberalism.

Free Download Christopher Wolfe, "Natural Law Liberalism"
English | 2009 | pages: 281 | ISBN: 0521140609, 0521842786 | PDF | 0,9 mb
Liberal political philosophy and natural law theory are not contradictory, but – properly understood – mutually reinforcing. Contemporary liberalism (as represented by Rawls, Guttman and Thompson, Dworkin, Raz, and Macedo) rejects natural law and seeks to diminish its historical contribution to the liberal political tradition, but it is only one, defective variant of liberalism. A careful analysis of the history of liberalism, identifying its core principles, and a similar examination of classical natural law theory (as represented by Thomas Aquinas and his intellectual descendants), show that a natural law liberalism is possible and desirable. Natural law theory embraces the key principles of liberalism, and it also provides balance in resisting some of its problematic tendencies. Natural law liberalism is the soundest basis for American public philosophy, and it is a potentially more attractive and persuasive form of liberalism for nations that have tended to resist it.

Free Download Confucian Liberalism: Mou Zongsan and Hegelian Liberalism
by Roy Tseng
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1438491115 | 420 Pages | PDF | 3.7 MB

Free Download Beyond Liberalism (Columbia Themes in Philosophy) by Prabhat Patnaik
English | September 10, 2024 | ISBN: 0231216319 | 312 pages | PDF | 2.43 Mb
Liberalism holds that individual freedom can be realized under capitalism. "Classical liberalism" tends to focus on excessive state interference as the primary threat to freedom. More recent theorists, however, recognize that capitalism, left to itself, would be characterized by mass social ills and argue that state intervention is necessary to guarantee individual freedom.

Free Download Peter de Marneffe, "Liberalism and Prostitution"
English | 2009 | pages: 204 | ISBN: 0195383249, 0199925941 | PDF | 1,0 mb
Civil libertarians characterize prostitution as a "victimless crime," and argue that it ought to be legalized. Feminist critics counter that prostitution is not victimless, since it harms the people who do it. Civil libertarians respond that most women freely choose to do this work, and that it is paternalistic for the government to limit a person’s liberty for her own good. In this book Peter de Marneffe argues that although most prostitution is voluntary, paternalistic prostitution laws in some form are nonetheless morally justifiable. If prostitution is commonly harmful in the way that feminist critics maintain, then this argument for prostitution laws is not objectionably moralistic and some prostitution laws violate no one’s rights. Paternalistic prostitution laws in some form are therefore consistent with the fundamental principles of contemporary liberalism.

Free Download C. Hay, "Kantianism, Liberalism, and Feminism: Resisting Oppression"
English | ISBN: 1349434450 | 2013 | 215 pages | PDF | 766 KB
In this book Hay argues that the moral and political frameworks of Kantianism and liberalism are indispensable for addressing the concerns of contemporary feminism. After defending the use of these frameworks for feminist purposes, Hay uses them to argue that people who are oppressed have an obligation to themselves to resist their own oppression.

Free Download John P. Safranek, "The Myth of Liberalism"
English | ISBN: 0813227933 | 2015 | 304 pages | PDF | 1232 KB
Individual freedom looms large in political and ethical thought. Nevertheless, the theoretical foundations underlying modern liberalism continue to be contested by proponents and opponents alike. The Myth of Liberalism offers a unique contribution to this debate by following through on the often-underdeveloped suggestion that liberal principles are untenable because they are self-contradictory. By analyzing and ultimately refuting each of the proposed underpinnings of liberalism―liberty, equality, rights, privacy, autonomy, or dignity―Safranek concludes that contemporary liberalism is a myth: it is not a coherent political philosophy as much as a collection of causes masked by emotively potent political rhetoric.

Free Download F. A. Hayek, "The Fortunes of Liberalism: Essays on Austrian Economics and the Ideal of Freedom "
English | ISBN: 0226320642 | | 287 pages | EPUB | 514 KB
The Reagan and Thatcher "revolutions." The collapse of Eastern Europe dramatically captured in the tearing down of the Berlin Wall. F. A. Hayek, "grand old man of capitalism" and founder of the classical liberal, free-market revival which ignited and inspired these world events, forcefully predicted their occurrence in writings such as The Road to Serfdom, first published in 1944.

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.