Welcome to our online store! Mehring Books is the foremost publisher of socialist books and pamphlets in the English language. Our titles encompass contemporary political analysis, history, culture and the arts, including works by Leon Trotsky and other leading representatives of classical Marxism. To get started select a category opposite, or if you know what you are looking for, try the search facility. To begin with, take a look at the titles below. If you don't see what you are looking for after going to a new page, try scrolling down. Marxism, History & Socialist Consciousness This polemical essay defends the foundations of scientific socialism against pseudo-Marxist conceptions prevalent among various philosophical tendencies influenced by the Frankfurt School and contemporary neo-utopianism. Among the topics covered are the significance of the philosophies of postmodernism and pragmatism, the implications of modern irrationalism's assault on the heritage of the Enlightenment, and the critical role of a historically-directed consciousness in the cognition and understanding of objective political reality. David North also offers perceptive evaluations of the works of such representative figures of neo-utopianism as Ernst Bloch, Hendrik de Man, and Wilhelm Reich. This work is vital reading for those who wish to gain a deeper insight into the chasm separating Marxism and the various academically fashionable ideological trends. ISBN 978-1-893638-03-7 (152 pages) Free shipping for a limited time on this book. BUY ONLINE Leon Trotsky & the Post-Soviet School of Historical Falsification Leon Trotsky (1879-1940) ranks among the greatest and most controversial figures in the political history of the 20th century. During his lifetime, he was the target of a vicious campaign of lies orchestrated by the Stalinist regime in the Soviet Union, which culminated in the assassination of the exiled revolutionary leader. Nearly 70 years after Trotsky's death, long-discredited Stalinist distortions and falsifications of his ideas and actions are finding their way into mainstream academic literature. In this penetrating analysis of two recently published biographies of Trotsky by Professors Geoffrey Swain and Ian Thatcher, two well-known British historians, David North raises troubling questions about the state of contemporary historical scholarship. ISBN 978-1-893638-02-0 (96 pages) Free shipping for a limited time on this book. BUY ONLINE   The crisis of American democracy: The presidential elections of 2000 and 2004 Mehring Books is proud to offer a special discount on a new printing of The Crisis of American Democracy, the Presidential elections of 2000 and 2004, by David North, chairman of the World Socialist Web Site International Editorial Board. This 156-page volume of four lectures comprises contemporaneous analyses of the 2000 and 2004 US Presidential elections. In The Crisis of American Democracy, North argues that the re-election of President George W. Bush marks an ominous turning point in American and international politics. Having been returned to power, the most reactionary administration in the history of the United States will escalate its program of international militarism and domestic repression. Through a detailed historical analysis, North establishes that behind the breakdown of democracy in the United States lies the deterioration of the global economic position of American capitalism, and the development of unprecedented levels of wealth concentration and social inequality. The turn to aggressive militarism abroad, and the vast expansion of police state measures during the past three years arise, he maintains, not from the so-called “terrorist threat”, but from the extreme sharpening of social and class tensions within American society itself. The volume also includes an incisive obituary to Ronald Reagan and an assessment of the Kennedy presidency written by North and Bill Van Auken on the 40th anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s assassination. ISBN: 1-875639-36-5 SPECIAL DISCOUNT PRICE: $15.00, USUAL PRICE: $19.95 BUY ONLINE More on US Politics Hurricane Katrina: Social Consequences & Political Lessons This pamphlet brings together 20 articles and statements published by the World Socialist Web Site in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, presenting a preliminary assessment of the social significance and political implications of the disaster. The articles are presented chronologically, enabling the reader to follow the WSWS analysis and commentary as the events were unfolding. PRICE: $5.00 BUY ONLINE Essential reading on Persian Gulf War Desert Slaughter: The Imperialist War Against Iraq Desert Slaughter: The Imperialist War Against Iraq provides a Marxist analysis of the 1991 Persian Gulf War and is essential reading for all those looking for an objective historical explanation of the driving forces behind the current US-led war against Iraq. Published 12 years ago, this critical 523-page book contains key statements, articles and comments written at each stage of the war and its aftermath by the Workers League, forerunner of the Socialist Equality Party in the United States. PRICE: $18.95 BUY ONLINE Suggested Reading Globalization and the International Working Class: A Marxist Assessment Statement of the International Committee of the Fourth International For those concerned with the consequences of globalization and the capitalist market, This book is a recommended purchase. This work explores the underlying reasons for the globalization of world economy over the past two decades and explains the inability of organizations based on a national program--such as the trade unions--to defend any of the social gains of the working class. PRICE: $14.95 BUY ONLINE Art as the Cognition of Life Selected Writings: 1911-1936 Aleksandr Konstantinovich Voronsky Translated and edited by Frederick S. Choate This anthology, the first to appear in English, contains Voronsky's major literary critical essays, including Art as the Cognition of Life and the Contemporary World. It also contains writings on Tolstoy, Gorky, Pilniak, Esenin, Esenin, Larisa Reisner and Freud, newspaper articles, a satire, two letters addressed to his Stalinist persecutors, and an appendix of six documents crucial to an understanding of the events of the 1920s. PRICE: $29.95 BUY ONLINE Human BSE Anatomy of a health disaster Record of the Workers Inquiry In May 1997, a workers inquiry was convened into the BSE/CJD crisis in Britain. This volume brings together the evidence presented to the inquiry by scientific experts, health and environmental professionals as well as relatives of the victims of new variant CJD. In the words of Professor Richard Lacey, microbiologist and expert in the field of BSE/CJD: Please read this book, then decide for yourself who has been lying. PRICE: $9.95 BUY ONLINE 1937: Stalin's Year of Terror by Vadim Z. Rogovin A major work of original historical research, 1937 provides a detailed and penetrating analysis of the causes and consequences of Stalin's purges. The author, an eminent Russian Marxist historian, argues that it is impossible to understand these tragic events apart from Stalin's determination to wipe out all vestiges of the socialist opposition to his regime, above all, that associated with Leon Trotsky. PRICE: $29.95 BUY ONLINE

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