Introduction to the Manifesto of the Communist Party The Manifesto of the Communist Party was authored by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels in late 1847 and published in February 1848. It was commissioned as the programme for the Communist League at their Second Congress held in London from November 29 to December 8, 1847. The […]
Jürgen Habermas (b. 1929) is a leading German critical theorist and social philosopher, often associated with the second generation of the Frankfurt School. His formative experiences in post–World War II Germany – notably the fall of Nazism and the revelations of the Holocaust – profoundly shaped his commitment to democracy. Habermas later remarked that the
C. Wright Mills’ The Sociological Imagination, published in 1959, stands as a seminal work in sociological theory and a passionate critique of the state of social science in post-World War II America. More than just a textbook, it is a manifesto, a call to arms for sociologists to engage with the vital connections between individual
Published posthumously in 1894 by Friedrich Engels, Volume III of Capital marks a crucial evolution in Karl Marx’s critique of political economy. Whereas Volume I analyzed the production of surplus value and Volume II focused on the circulation of capital, Volume III turns its attention to the capitalist system as a totality, dealing with the
Karl Marx’s Capital: A Critique of Political Economy stands as one of the most influential and incisive analyses of capitalism ever written. Composed over decades and published in three volumes (with two edited posthumously by Friedrich Engels), the work dismantles the economic, social, and philosophical foundations of capitalist society. Marx’s aim was not merely to critique classical
Karl Marx’s Capital Volume II: The Process of Circulation of Capital (1885), edited posthumously by Friedrich Engels, shifts focus from the production of surplus value to the realization of value through the circulation of capital. This volume examines how capital moves through its cyclical metamorphoses—money, productive, and commodity forms—while addressing the systemic contradictions that threaten capitalist reproduction. Though often
Karl Marx’s Capital Volume I: The Process of Production of Capital (1867) is a monumental work that systematically dismantles the capitalist mode of production by exposing its economic foundations, social contradictions, and historical specificity. Through a dialectical materialist framework, Marx analyzes how capitalism transforms labor into a commodity, extracts surplus value from workers, and perpetuates exploitation through
Following is the list of important and useful books in different courses of Sociology: Originals Basic Concepts Theory and Thinkers Rural Sociology Urban Sociology Sociology of Religion Society in India More will be added soon. Comment if we miss any important Book.
