The State and Revolution (1917), by Vladimir Lenin, describes the role of the State in society, the necessity of proletarian revolution, and the theoretic inadequacies of social democracy in achieving revolution to establish the dictatorship of the proletariat.

Lenin's direct and simple definition of the State is that "the State is a special organisation of force: it is an organisation of violence for the suppression of some class." Lenin declared that the task of the Revolution was to smash the State.

This work is considered to be Lenin's most important contribution to political theory and has been called his greatest work on the state.

Liberal Fascism offers a startling new perspective on the theories and practices that define fascist politics.

Replacing conveniently manufactured myths with surprising and enlightening research, Jonah Goldberg reminds us that the original fascists were really on the left. Liberals from Woodrow Wilson to FDR to Hillary Clinton have advocated policies and principles remarkably similar to those of Hitler's National Socialism and Mussolini's Fascism.

Contrary to what most people think, the Nazis were ardent socialists. They believed in free health care and guaranteed jobs, confiscated inherited wealth, and spent vast sums on public education. They purged the church from public policy, promoted a new form of pagan spirituality, and inserted the authority of the state into every nook and cranny of daily life.

The Nazis declared war on smoking, supported abortion, euthanasia, and gun control. They loathed the free market, provided generous pensions for the elderly, and maintained a strict racial quota system in their universities—where campus speech codes were all the rage.

The Nazis led the world in organic farming and alternative medicine. Hitler was a strict vegetarian, and Himmler was an animal rights activist.

This angry, funny, smart, and contentious book looks behind the friendly face of the well-meaning liberal, turning our preconceptions inside out and showing us the true meaning of Liberal Fascism.

The Conquest of Bread is Peter Kropotkin’s most extensive study of human needs and his outline of the most rational and equitable means of satisfying them. This work is a fascinating combination of detailed historical analysis and a far-reaching Utopian vision. It serves as a step-by-step guide to social revolution, detailing the concrete means of achieving it and the world that humanity’s "constructive genius" is capable of creating.

This edition includes a new introduction that situates the work historically and discusses the contemporary relevance of Kropotkin’s ideas.

The Holocaust Industry is a controversial indictment of those who exploit the tragedy of the Holocaust for their own gain. Norman G. Finkelstein presents an iconoclastic and controversial study, moving from an interrogation of the place the Holocaust has come to occupy in American culture to a disturbing examination of recent Holocaust compensation agreements.

It was not until the Arab-Israeli War of 1967, when Israel's evident strength aligned with US foreign policy, that the memory of the Holocaust began to acquire the exceptional prominence it enjoys today. Leaders of America's Jewish community were delighted that Israel was now deemed a major strategic asset and, Finkelstein contends, exploited the Holocaust to enhance this newfound status. Their interpretations of the tragedy often vary from actual historical events and are employed to deflect criticism of Israel and its supporters.

Recalling Holocaust fraudsters such as Jerzy Kosinski and Binjamin Wilkomirski, as well as the demagogic constructions of writers like Daniel Goldhagen, Finkelstein argues that the main danger to the memory of Nazism's victims comes not from Holocaust deniers but from prominent, self-proclaimed guardians of Holocaust memory. Drawing on a wealth of untapped sources, he exposes the double shakedown of European countries as well as legitimate Jewish claimants, concluding that the Holocaust industry has become an outright extortion racket.

Thoroughly researched and closely argued, this book is all the more disturbing and powerful because the issues it addresses are so rarely discussed.

Two Hundred Years Together is an abridged version of a significant work by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the acclaimed author known for exposing the horrors of the Stalinist gulag. In this book, Solzhenitsyn, at the age of 84, boldly tackles one of the most sensitive topics of his writing career – the role of the Jews in the Bolshevik revolution and Soviet purges.

The book explores the complex and often taboo subject of Jewish involvement as both perpetrators and victims in the repression of the communist revolution. It delves into the historical context, referencing the 1772 partial annexation of Poland and Russia, which significantly increased the Russian Jewish population. Within its pages, Two Hundred Years Together discusses the Jewish role in the revolutionary genocide and secret police purges of Soviet Russia.

One month in 1865 witnessed the frenzied fall of Richmond, a daring last-ditch Southern plan for guerrilla warfare, Lee's harrowing retreat, and then, Appomattox. It saw Lincoln's assassination just five days later and a near-successful plot to decapitate the Union government, followed by chaos and coup fears in the North, collapsed negotiations and continued bloodshed in the South, and finally, the start of national reconciliation.

In the end, April 1865 emerged as not just the tale of the war's denouement, but the story of the making of our nation. Jay Winik offers a brilliant new look at the Civil War's final days that will forever change the way we see the war's end and the nation's new beginning.

Uniquely set within the larger sweep of history and filled with rich profiles of outsize figures, fresh iconoclastic scholarship, and a gripping narrative, this is a masterful account of the thirty most pivotal days in the life of the United States.

Capital, Vol. 2: The Process of Circulation of Capital is the "forgotten" second volume of Karl Marx's world-shaking analysis of economics, politics, and history. This essential part of Marx's work contains the vital discussion of commodity, which is the cornerstone of Marx's theories.

Marx delves into the nature of the marketplace in bourgeois society, arguing that prosperity in a capitalist society inevitably holds within itself the seeds of its own destruction. This immensely powerful work is a vital cornerstone to Marx’s overall theory of economics.

In this sequel to The History of Sexuality, Volume I: An Introduction, the brilliantly original French thinker who died in 1984 gives an analysis of how the ancient Greeks perceived sexuality.

Throughout The Use of Pleasure, Foucault analyzes an irresistible array of ancient Greek texts on eroticism as he tries to answer basic questions:

• How in the West did sexual experience become a moral issue?
• Why were other appetites of the body, such as hunger, and collective concerns, such as civic duty, not subjected to the numberless rules and regulations and judgments that have defined, if not confined, sexual behavior?