{"title":"Ernest Mandel","description":"Ernest Mandel (1923-95), historian, economist and activist, was a leading figure in the Fourth International from 1945 and was the author of a number of books, including Late Capitalism,  Marxist Economic Theory, Long Waves of Capitalist Development, and The Meaning of the Second World War.","products":[{"product_id":"the-meaning-of-the-second-world-war-paperback","title":"The Meaning of the Second World War - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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 Belgian scholar Ernest Mandel (author of the acclaimed \u003ci\u003eLate Capitalism\u003c\/i\u003e) outlines his view that the war was in fact a combination of several distinct struggles and a battle between rival imperialisms for world hegemony. In concise chapters, Mandel examines the role played by technology, science, logistics, weapons and propaganda. Throughout, he weaves a consideration of the military strategy of the opposing states into his analytical narrative of the war and its results.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51367549206751,"sku":"9781844674794","price":28.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/TdsKEHf5by9781844674794.webp?v=1789109794"},{"product_id":"from-stalinism-to-eurocommunism-the-bitter-fruits-of-socialism-in-one-country-paperback","title":"From Stalinism to Eurocommunism: The Bitter Fruits of 'Socialism in One Country' - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eErnest 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 Western Europe. Mandel traces the long historical process which has transformed the once embattled detachments of the Third International into the constitutionalist formations of \"historic compromise\" and \"union of the people\" today. He then goes on to argue that the national roads to socialism of contemporary Eurocommunism are the \"bitter fruits of socialism in one country\" in the USSR. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMandel's book contains trenchant and documented criticisms of the ideas of Santiago Carrillo in Spain, the economic policies of the PCI in Italy, and the PCF's theories of the State in France. But it also sets these Western developments in the context of European politics as a whole--discussing the Russian response to Carrillo, the organizational attitudes of the CPSU to the Western parties, and the emergence of major dissident currents in Eastern Germany sympathetic to Eurocommunism. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom Stalinism to Eurocommunism\u003c\/i\u003e represents the first systematic and comprehensive critique from the Marxist Left of the new strategy of Western Communism. It can be read as a barometer of the storms ahead in the European labour movement.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51377766105311,"sku":"9780860910107","price":28.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/OpUp4eMeFQ9780860910107.webp?v=1789240134"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/ernest-mandel.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}