1. After the Cataclysm
   Postwar Indochina & the Reconstruction of Imperial Ideology (The Political Economy of Human Right:s)
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1979
   
2. Against Post-Modernism
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1982
   Callinocos argues that the relativism preached by post-modernist leaves us with no objective criteria by which to reject those who would falsify the past.
3. Agrarian Socialism
   The Co-operative Commonwealth in Saskatchewan: A Study in Political Sociology
   Resource Type: Book
   
4. Alien Invasion
   How the Harris Tories Mismanaged Ontario
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2001
   An examination of the devasting results of seven years of social and economic destruction inflicted the by the right-wing fanatics who ruled Ontario under the premiership of Mike Harris.
5. All That Is Solid Melts Into Air 
   The Experience of Modernity
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1982   Published: 1988
   Berman examines the clash of classes, histories, and clutures in the modern world, and ponders our prospects for coming to terms with the relationship between a liberating social and philosophical idealism and a complex, bureaucratic materialism.
   
6. American Power and the New Mandarins
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1969
   
7. Anarchism: Ideology or Methodology?
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 1997
   A discussion of whether anarchism is an ideology or a methodology. The social vs. lifestylism debate.
8. Anarchism vs. Marxism: A few notes on an old theme 
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 1978
   Anarchist critiques of Marxism typically reveal a lack of knowledge of what Karl Marx actually wrote, resulting in sterile denunciations of a straw-man opponent.
9. The Betrayal of Marx 
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1975
   
10. Break Their Haughty Power 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Articles on capitalism, socialism, and revolution, from a left-Marxist perspective.
    
11. Build It Now
    Socialism for the Twenty-First Century
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
    Influenced by the dramatic proeesses unfolding in Venezuela, Lebowitz re-imagines a socialism for the twenty-first century that places workers and popular communities at the centre of the project.
12. Bureau of Public Secrets 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Articles from a Situationist perspective.
13. Chomsky.Info 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    The Noam Chomsky Web site.
14. Deconstruction and the Interests of Theory
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    
15. Deconstruction: Theory and Practice
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1982
    
16. Descent into Discourse
    The Reification of Language and the Writing of Social History
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    Critique of postmodernist and poststructuralist approaches in history.
17. The Destructive Urge
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1979
    Marxism's greatest discovery is that it cannot prescribe any science of revolution, any fail-safe program. On the contrary what it provides is a new question, a new responsibility to make a choice..
18. Easily Led
    A History of Propaganda
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1999
    From Ancient Sumer to modern Poland, Thomson traces the use of propaganda and its influence on human events.
19. Failure of a Dream?
    Essays in the History of American Socialism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1974
    Examines the reasons for the relative weakness of American socialism.
20. Film as a Subversive Art
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1974
    Analyzes how aesthetic, sexual and ideological subversives use film to change and demystify.
21. Food, Shelter and the American Dream
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1974
    Discusses the state of the American economy, the consequences for politics and culture that might arise from the new situation, and possible solutions.
22. The German Ideology
    Critique of Modern German Philosophy According to Its Representatives Feuerbach, B. Bauer and Stirner, and of German Socialism According to
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1846   Published: 1932
    Marx and Engels take on the "philosophic charlatanry" and pettiness and "parochial narrowness" of the pseudo-radicals of their time, "in particular the tragicomic contrast between the illusions of these heroes about their achievements and the actual achievements themselves."
23. Heretics and Renegades
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1955   Published: 1969
    Heretics and Renegades is a collection of essays which appeared in a number of British, American and French literary and scholarly periodicals.
24. Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and its Quarrels with Science
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    Describes attacks on science, and on concepts of truth and rationality, in areas of the humanities.
25. The Holy Family or Critique of Critical Criticism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1845
    
26. How to Deal with The Lobby: The De-Zionization of the American Mind
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2006
    Countering the influence of the Zionist lobby.
27. The Illusions of Postmodernism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1996
    Eagleton explores the origins and emergence of postmodernism, revealing its ambivalences and contradictions. His primary concern is less with the more intricate formulations of postmodern philosophy than with the culture or milieu of postmodernism as a whole. Above all, he speaks to a particular kind of student, or consumer, of popular "brands" of postmodern thought.
28. In the Tracks of Historical Materialism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1984
    
29. Inventing Reality 
    The Politics of News Media
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    Parenti sets out to demonstrate how the news media distort important aspects of social and political life and why they do.
30. Justifying What You Know Can't Be True
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Researchers looking at al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein explore why it is that people often steadfastly believe something even when they've been shown it ain't so.
31. Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution 
    Volume I: State and Bureaucracy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1977
    A wide-ranging and thorough exposition of Marx's views on democracy.
32. Letters from Lexington
    Reflections on Propaganda
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
    
33. Logics of Disintegration
    Post-Structuralist Thought and the Claims of Critical Theory
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
    
34. Manifestos, Programs, Visions 
    Selected Manifestos - Political Statements - Programs
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 1649   Published: 2009
    A selection of left manifestos, programs, poltical statements and visions from the 1600s to today.
35. Manufacturing Consent 
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 1992
    A film about Noam Chomsky's ideas about the media, ideology, propaganda, and elite control of society's institutions.
36. Manufacturing Consent 
    The Political Economy of the Mass Media
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    Contrary to the usual image of the press and cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitious in its search for truth, Herman and Chomsky depict how an underlying elite consensus largely structures all facets of the news. They analyze how issues are framed and topics chosen, and the way in which the marketplace and the economics of publishing significantly shape the news.
37. Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media
    Part 1: Thought Control in a Democratic Society. Part 2: Activating Dissent
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
    
38. Marxists Internet Archive 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
39. Media Think
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    Increasingly the news media are owned by a small group of very large corporations with extensive interests outside the industry, run by the corporate elite.Winter argues that instead of offering diverse perspectives on events and issues, the media portray an increasingly dogmatic and orthodox corporate picture of the world around us. The consistency with which they do this has its consequent, intended effect on public opinion and policy formation.
40. Modern Capitalism and Revolution 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1959   Published: 1975
    For revolutionaries one central point must be grasped to understand how the system works: the struggle of human beings against their alientation, and the ensuing conflict and split in all spheres, aspects and moments of socia life. As long as this struggle is there there ruling strata will continue to be unable to organise their system in a coherent way, and society will lurch from one accident to another. These are the conditions for revolutionary activity in the present epoch -- and they are amply sufficient.
    
41. Multiculturalism or World Culture? 
    On a "Left"-Wing Response to Contemporary Social Breakdown
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1991   Published: 2000
    Post-modernists are profoundly bored by any questions of economics and technology which cannot be connected to cultural differences. The implicit agenda of the multiculturalists is to present the values associated with intensive capitalist accumulation as "white male", so "non-white" peoples such as Japanese or Koreans who currently embody those values with a greater fervour than most "whites" are ignored.
42. The Nazis and Deconstruction: Jean-Pierre Faye’s Demolition of Derrida 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1993
    A review of Jean-Pierre Faye's book 'La raison narrative', which traces the Nazi origins of deconstructionist and post-modernist concepts and terminology. Faye shows, for example, that the concept of 'deconstruction' was introduced in a Nazi psychiatry journal edited by M.H. Goering, and he shows how theorists who based themselves on Heidegger's writings, such as Derrida, Lyotard, and Lacoue-Labarthe, whitewashed Heidegger's Nazism, treating it as a mere 'detail'.
43. News and Letters
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
44. News Media Stifle Ideas and Debate
    Review of Democracy's Oxygen: How Corporations Control the News
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1997
    Far from providing democracy's oxygen, as they claim, the news media today legitimize a fundamentally undemocratic system. Instead of keeping the public informed, they manufacture public consent for policies which favour their owners: the corporate elite.
45. Nothing Mat(t)ers: A Feminist Critique of Postmodernism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    An explanation of the foundation of recent post-modern theory which also criticises the misogynist and patriarchal work of Jacques Lacan, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Jean Baudrillard and Jean-Francois Lyotard.
46. Obsolete Communism
    The Left-Wing Alternative
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1968   Published: 1969
    An account of the May 1968 uprising in Paris, positing a left radical alternative to the encrusted beliefs of the old left and the right. A comment on power, on bureaucracy, and on the paths to liberation.
47. On Power and Ideology
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1987
    
48. Ontological "Difference" and the Neo-Liberal War on the Social 
    Deconstruction and Deindustrialization
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2001
    We have today legions of people with a smattering of knowledge turning out reams of books filled with buzz words that could be (and have been) produced by a computer program, and could be (and are) picked up in peer-group shop talk in a few months at the nearest humanities program or academic conference. Everyone these people don't like is trapped in a "gaze"; everyone "constitutes" their "identity" by "discourse"; to the fuddy-duddy "master narratives" that talk about such indelicate subjects as world accumulation these people counterpose "pastiche" and "bricolage", the very idea of being in any way systematic smacking of "totalitarianism"; it is blithely assumed that everyone except heterosexual white males now and for all time have been "subversives" (one wonders why we are still living under capitalism); a crippling relativism makes it somehow "imperial" to criticize public beheadings in Saudi Arabia or cliterodectomy practiced on five-year old girls in the Sudan.
    
49. Political Ideology
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    
50. Politics and the English Language
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1946
    In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. Thus political language has to consist largely of euphemism., question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness.
51. Post-Zionism Zionism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    What do we need to do to let go of all fear that separates Jew and Arab, and embrace a truly pluralistic, secular, democratic, multicultural and loving society?
52. Postmodernism and the Left
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1997
    Barabara Epstein provides an overview of the approach and subculture of postmodernism and how they relate to, or conflict with, leftwing ideas.
53. The Poverty of Philosophy
    Answer to the Philosophy of Poverty by M. Proudhon
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1847
    
54. Pragmatics Of Community Organization
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1986
    Information on how to plan action, how to organize meetings, how to train participants for action, how to negotiate, and how to end a particular exercise in community organization
55. Radical Digressions 3
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 2001   Published: 2006
    
56. Rationality/Science 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1995
    Chomsky writes: "It strikes me as remarkable that the left today should seek to deprive oppressed people not only of the joys of understanding and insight, but also of tools of emancipation, informing us that the "project of the Enlightenment" is dead, that we must abandon the "illusions" of science and rationality--a message that will gladden the hearts of the powerful, delighted to monopolize these instruments for their own use."
57. The Real Terror Network
    Terrorism in Fact and Propaganda
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1982
    Herman sets out to show that the U.S. ignores or sponsors terror by authoritarian states that are allied with U.S. interests.
58. Red Emma Speaks
    Selected Writings and Speeches by Emma Goldman
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
    A collection of essays which provide a comprehensive view of Emma Goldman's theories and beliefs.
59. The Red Menace 
    A libertarian socialist newsletter
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1975   Published: 1980
    Articles on topics such as socialism, Marxism, anarchism, work, popular education, organizing, wages for housework, Leninism, bureaucracy, hierarchy, jargon, prostitution, obscenity, science fiction, and terrorism.
    
60. Reinventing power: People take control
    New Internationalist September 2003
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2003
    A look at democracy and power in countries including Mexico, South Africa and Thailand. Briefly mentions key concepts, including feminism and Foucault.
61. The Responsibility of Intellectuals 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1967
    It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and to expose lies.
62. Revolution in the Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    
63. Right on the Marx
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1990
    The shared vision articulated by Ulli Diemer will never attain an organized and effective form unless it can be concretized into a series of political programmes, and eventually made real through one or many political organizations or parties.
64. SDS 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973   Published: 1974
    
65. Selections from the Prison Notebooks 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1951   Published: 1973
    Gramsci's Notebooks cover a wide range of subjects including history, culture, politics, and philosophy.
66. Socialism and Revolution 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1967   Published: 1973
    Representative democracy in every industrially advanced country is in a state of profound crisis. But we have been accustomed for so long to accept democracy in the form of its outward appearances and parliamentary institutions that its decay often does not become apparent to us until those institutions have been either brushed aside or reduced to a purely decorative role.
    
67. The Socialist Register 1974
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1974
    
68. The Socialist Register 1990
    The Retreat of the Intellectuals
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1990
    Essays on the retreat away from socialism and Marxism by Left or formerly Left intellectuals.
69. Society of the Spectacle 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1967   Published: 2005
    An analysis of modern society and how it can be changed written in the form of 221 theses. The first thesis reads: "In societies dominated by modern conditions of production, life is presented as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has receded into a representation." Translator Ken Knabb describes the book as "an effort to clarify the nature of the society in which we find ourselves and the advantages and drawbacks of various methods for changing it. Every single thesis has a direct or indirect bearing on issues that are matters of life and death."
70. Taking the Risk Out of Democracy 
    Corporate Propaganda versus Freedom and Liberty
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1995   Published: 1997
    The twentieth-century history of corporate propaganda practiced by U.S. businesses and the ways in which such corporate propaganda was exported to, and adopted by, other western democracies especially the United Kingdom and Australia.
71. Tearing Down the Seven Pillars of Neoliberalism
    Manifesto 2007
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    
72. Telling the Truth
    Socialist Register 2006
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
    A collection of essays that examines the difficulties of illuminating the degenerative and secretive nature of public life.
73. Transforming Ourselves Transforming the World
    An Open Conspiracy for Social Change
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1999
    Addresses society's pessimism about social change and provides a theoretical means and practice to overcome this fatalism.
74. Vanguard of Retrogression 
    "Postmodern" Fictions as Ideology in the Era of Fictitious Capital
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2001
    When one probes the terms of the debate, what is truly amazing is that the ostensibly anti-Eurocentric multiculturalists are, without knowing it, purveying a remarkably Eurocentric version of what the Western tradition really is. The ultimate theoretical sources of today's multiculturalism are two very white and very dead European males, Friedrich Nietzsche and Martin Heidegger.
75. Where Do Postmodernists Come From?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1995
    Eagleton argues that left intellectuals have adopted postmodernism out of a sense of having been badly defeated, a belief that the left as a political tendency has little future. Culturalism, he argues, involves an extreme subjectivism combined with a deep pessimism, a sense that it isn't worth the effort to learn about the world, to analyze social systems, for instance, because they can't be changed anyway.
76. Wobblies & Zapatistas 
    Conversations on Anarchism, Marxism and Radical Theory
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    Wobblies and Zapatistas offers readers an encounter between two generations and two traditions. Staughton Lynd and Andrej Grubacic meet in dialogue in an effort to bring together the anarchist and Marxist traditions, to discuss the writing of history by those who make it, and to remind us of the idea that 'my country is the world'.
77. Words have failed
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2004
    The written word is a failure at making tangible to Israeli readers the true horror of the Occupation.
78. Year 501 
    The Conquest Continues
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    An examination of the U.S. role in the world placed in the long historical perspective of the 500 years that followed the voyages of Columbus.

Experts on Ideology in the Sources Directory

1. Connexions Library/Archive
2. Marxists Internet Archive