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Ernest Mandel was born on April 5, 1923

Celebrate the late Marxist thinker's birthday with 30% off Ernest Mandel titles.

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Ernest Mandel was born on April 5, 1923

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Late Capitalism

Late Capitalism

by Ernest Mandel

Introduction by Cédric Durand

Late Capitalism is the first major synthesis to have been produced by the contemporary revival of Marxist economics. It represents, in fact, the only systematic attempt so far ever made to combine ...
The Meaning of the Second World War

The Meaning of the Second World War

by Ernest Mandel

The very scale of the 1939–45 war has often tempted historians to study particular campaigns at the expense of the wider panorama. In this readable and richly detailed history of the conflict, the ...
The Formation of the Economic Thought of Karl Marx

The Formation of the Economic Thought of Karl Marx

by Ernest Mandel

In this republication of the 1971 original, Ernest Mandel traces the development of Marx's economic ideas from the Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts to the completion of the Grundrisse. In a ser...
Long Waves of Capitalist Development

Long Waves of Capitalist Development

by Ernest Mandel

In this revised and expanded edition of Long Waves of Capitalist Development, Ernest Mandel seeks to explain the underlying determinants of the booms and slumps of the trade cycle. Mandel first est...
A Conversation with Ernest Mandel

A Conversation with Ernest Mandel

by Tariq Ali and Ernest Mandel

Ernest Mandel was one of the leading Marxist intellectuals of the 20th century. His impact on the generation of the Sixties extended way beyond his political affiliation to the Fourth International...
Trotsky as Alternative

Trotsky as Alternative

by Ernest Mandel

Translated by Gus Fagan

Leon Trotsky has become one of the twentieth century’s most enduring political legends. Joining the Bolsheviks on the eve of the 1917 revolution he played a vital role as Lenin’s right-hand man in ...
Power and Money

Power and Money

by Ernest Mandel

Analyses of bureaucratic power and privilege have an academic pedigree but have also long preoccupied socialists. The collapse of communist rule in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe puts to a new...
From Stalinism to Eurocommunism

From Stalinism to Eurocommunism

by Ernest Mandel

Ernest Mandel’s book is a study of Eurocommunism unlike any other. Written in the polemical tradition of Trotsky, its sweep extends well beyond the immediate prospects of the Communist Parties of W...
Ernest Mandel

Ernest Mandel

by Jan Willem Stutje

Foreword by Tariq Ali

Translated by Christopher Beck and Peter Drucker

Ernest Mandel (1923–1995), was one of the most prominent anti-Stalinist Marxist intellectuals of his time. A political theorist and economist, his worldview was shaped by experiences in the Second ...