50+ Classic collection. Political science : The Art of War, The Republic, The Athenian Constitution, The Prince, Utopia, Common Sense, Utilitarianism, Marxism, Anarchism, Socialism , livre ebook

Sun Tzu, Lao Tzu, Plato, Marcus Aurelius, Niccolo Machiavelli, Thomas More, Tommaso Campanella, Francis Bacon, Thomas Paine, John Stuart Mill, Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Rosa Luxemburg, Peter Kropotkin, Emma Goldman, Leon Trotsky
50+ Classic collection. Political science
The Art of War, The Republic, The Athenian Constitution, The Prince, Utopia, Common Sense, Utilitarianism, Marxism, Anarchism, Socialism
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Contents:
Sun Tzu. The Art of War
Lao Tzu. Tao Te Ching
Plato. The Republic
Aristotle. The Athenian Constitution
Marcus Aurelius. Meditations
Niccolo Machiavelli. The Prince
Thomas More. Utopia
Tommaso Campanella. The City of the Sun
Francis Bacon. The New Atlantis
Thomas Paine. Common Sense
Richard Henry Lee. Lee Resolution
Thomas Jefferson. Declaration of Independence
James Madison.
- Virginia Plan
- Constitution of the United States
- Bill of Rights
- Northwest Ordinance
George Washington. President George Washington's First Inaugural Speech
Great Historical Documents of the United States:
- Federal Judiciary Act
- Marbury v. Madison
- Articles of Confederation
- Treaty of Alliance with France
- Treaty of Paris
John Stuart Mil. Utilitarianism
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. The Communist Manifesto
Vladimir Lenin:
- The State and Revolution
- The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism
- Vladimir Lenin To the Citizens of Russia!
- Vladimir Lenin To Workers, Soldiers, and Peasants!
- Report on Peace
- Report on Land
- Decree on Abolishment of Capital Punishment
- Decree on Transfer of Power to the Soviets
- Decree on Establishment of the Workers' and Peasants' Government
- Decree on Elections for the Constituent Assembly
- Decree on Suppression of Hostile Newspapers
- Decree on Transfer of Food Control to Municipalities
- Decree on an Eight-Hour Working Day
- Decree on the Right to Issue Laws
- Resolution on the Right of Sovnarkom to Issue Decrees
- Decree on Social Insurance
- Declaration of the Rights of the People of Russia
- Decree on Organization of Volost Land Committees
- Decree on Transfer of Power and the Means of Production to the Toilers
- Decree Proclaiming Advertising a State Monopoly
- Decree Abolishing Classes and Civil Ranks
- Decree on Workers' Control
- Resolution on Relation of the Central Executive Committee to the Sovnarkom
- Decree on the Right to Call for Re-Elections
- Decree on Establishment of the Extraordinary Commission to Fight Counter-Revolution
- V. I. Lenin Note To F. E. Dzerzhinsky with a Draft of A Decree On Fighting Counter-Revolutionaries And Saboteurs
Rosa Luxemburg. Reform or Revolution
Peter Kropotkin. The Conquest of Bread
Emma Goldman. Anarchism: What It Really Stands For
Leon Trotsky. Fascism: What It Is and How to Fight It
Table of Contents
Sun Tzu The Art of War
I PRELIMINARY RECKONING
II OPERATIONS OF WAR
III THE ATTACK BY STRATAGEM
IV THE ORDER OF BATTLE
V THE SPIRIT OF THE TROOPS
VI EMPTINESS AND STRENGTH
VII BATTLE TACTICS
VIII THE NINE CHANGES
IX MOVEMENT OF TROOPS
X GROUND
XI THE NINE GROUNDS
XII ASSAULT BY FIRE
XIII THE EMPLOYMENT OF SPIES
Lao Tzu Tao Te Ching
PART 1
PART II
Plato The Republic
ARGUMENT
CHARACTERS
Book I
Book II
Book III
Book IV
Book V
Book VI
Book VII
Book VIII
Book IX
Book X
Aristotle The Athenian Constitution
Marcus Aurelius The Meditations
Book I
Book II
Book III
Book IV
Book V
Book VI
Book VII
Book VIII
Book IX
Book X
Book XI
Book XII
Niccolò Machiavelli The Prince
CHAPTER I - HOW MANY KINDS OF PRINCIPALITIES THERE ARE, AND BY WHAT MEANS THEY ARE ACQUIRED
CHAPTER II-CONCERNING HEREDITARY PRINCIPALITIES
CHAPTER III-CONCERNING MIXED PRINCIPALITIES
CHAPTER IV - WHY THE KINGDOM OF DARIUS, CONQUERED BY ALEXANDER, DID NOT REBEL AGAINST THE SUCCESSORS OF ALEXANDER AT HIS DEATH
CHAPTER V-CONCERNING THE WAY TO GOVERN CITIES OR PRINCIPALITIES WHICH LIVED UNDER THEIR OWN LAWS BEFORE THEY WERE ANNEXED
CHAPTER VI-CONCERNING NEW PRINCIPALITIES WHICH ARE ACQUIRED BY ONE'S OWN ARMS AND ABILITY
CHAPTER VII-CONCERNING NEW PRINCIPALITIES WHICH ARE ACQUIRED EITHER BY THE ARMS OF OTHERS OR BY GOOD FORTUNE
CHAPTER VIII-CONCERNING THOSE WHO HAVE OBTAINED A PRINCIPALITY BY WICKEDNESS
CHAPTER IX-CONCERNING A CIVIL PRINCIPALITY
CHAPTER X-CONCERNING THE WAY IN WHICH THE STRENGTH OF ALL PRINCIPALITIES OUGHT TO BE MEASURED
CHAPTER XI-CONCERNING ECCLESIASTICAL PRINCIPALITIES
CHAPTER XII - HOW MANY KINDS OF SOLDIERY THERE ARE, AND CONCERNING MERCENARIES
CHAPTER XIII-CONCERNING AUXILIARIES, MIXED SOLDIERY, AND ONE'S OWN
CHAPTER XIV - THAT WHICH CONCERNS A PRINCE ON THE SUBJECT OF THE ART OF WAR
CHAPTER XV-CONCERNING THINGS FOR WHICH MEN, AND ESPECIALLY PRINCES, ARE PRAISED OR BLAMED
CHAPTER XVI-CONCERNING LIBERALITY AND MEANNESS
CHAPTER XVII-CONCERNING CRUELTY AND CLEMENCY, AND WHETHER IT IS BETTER TO BE LOVED THAN FEARED
CHAPTER XVIII [56] - CONCERNING THE WAY IN WHICH PRINCES SHOULD KEEP FAITH
CHAPTER XIX - THAT ONE SHOULD AVOID BEING DESPISED AND HATED
CHAPTER XX - ARE FORTRESSES, AND MANY OTHER THINGS TO WHICH PRINCES OFTEN RESORT, ADVANTAGEOUS OR HURTFUL?
CHAPTER XXI - HOW A PRINCE SHOULD CONDUCT HIMSELF SO AS TO GAIN RENOWN
CHAPTER XXII-CONCERNING THE SECRETARIES OF PRINCES
CHAPTER XXIII - HOW FLATTERERS SHOULD BE AVOIDED
CHAPTER XXIV - WHY THE PRINCES OF ITALY HAVE LOST THEIR STATES
CHAPTER XXV - WHAT FORTUNE CAN EFFECT IN HUMAN AFFAIRS AND HOW TO WITHSTAND HER
CHAPTER XXVI - AN EXHORTATION TO LIBERATE ITALY FROM THE BARBARIANS
Thomas More Utopia
Introduction
Discourses of Raphael Hythloday, of the Best State of a Commonwealth
Of Their Towns, Particularly of Amaurot
Of Their Magistrates
Of Their Trades, and Manner of Life
Of Their Traffic
Of the Travelling of the Utopians
Of Their Slaves, and of Their Marriages
Of Their Military Discipline
Of the Religions of the Utopians
Tommaso Campanella The City of The Sun
Frances Bacon The New Atlantis
Introductory Note
The New Atlantis
Thomas Paine Common Sense
INTRODUCTION
ON THE ENGLISH CONSTITUTION
OF MONARCHY AND HEREDITARY SUCCESSION
THOUGHTS ON THE PRESENT STATE OF AMERICAN AFFAIRS
OF THE PRESENT ABILITY OF AMERICA, WITH SOME MISCELLANEOUS REFLEXIONS
APPENDIX
Richard Henry Lee Lee Resolution
Thomas Jefferson Declaration of Independence
James Madison
Virginia Plan
Constitution of the United States
Bill of Rights
Northwest Ordinance
George Washington President George Washington's First Inaugural Speech
Great Historical Documents of the United States
Federal Judiciary Act
Marbury v. Madison
Articles of Confederation
Treaty of Alliance with France
Treaty of Paris
John Stuart Mill Utilitarianism
CHAPTER I. GENERAL REMARKS.
CHAPTER II. WHAT UTILITARIANISM IS.
CHAPTER III. OF THE ULTIMATE SANCTION OF THE PRINCIPLE OF UTILITY.
CHAPTER IV. OF WHAT SORT OF PROOF THE PRINCIPLE OF UTILITY IS SUSCEPTIBLE.
CHAPTER V. ON THE CONNEXION BETWEEN JUSTICE AND UTILITY.
Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels The Communist Manifesto
Chapter I. Bourgeois and Proletarians [76]
Chapter II. Proletarians and Communists
Chapter III. Socialist and Communist Literature
1. Reactionary Socialism
2. Conservative or Bourgeois Socialism
3. Critical-Utopian Socialism and Communism
Vladimir Lenin
The State and Revolution
Preface to the First Edition
Preface to the Second Edition
Chapter I: Class Society and the State
1. The State: A Product of the Irreconcilability of Class Antagonisms
2. Special Bodies of Armed Men, Prisons, etc.
3. The State: an Instrument for the Exploitation of the Oppressed Class
4. The “Withering Away” of the State, and Violent Revolution
Chapter II: The Experience of 1848-51
1. The Eve of Revolution
2. The Revolution Summed Up
3. The Presentation of the Question by Marx in 1852
Chapter III: Experience of the Paris Commune of 1871. Marx's Analysis
1. What Made the Communards' Attempt Heroic?
2. What is to Replace the Smashed State Machine?
3. Abolition of Parliamentarism
4. Organisation of National Unity
5. Abolition of the Parasite State
Chapter IV: Supplementary Explanations by Engels
1. The Housing Question
Controversy with the Anarchists
Letter to Bebel
2. Criticism of the Draft of the Erfurt Programme
The 1891 Preface to Marx's "The Civil War in France"
Chapter V: The Economic Basis of the Withering Away of the State
1. Presentation of the Question by Marx
2. The Transition from Capitalism to Communism
3. The First Phase of Communist Society
4. The Higher Phase of Communist Society
Chapter VI: The Vulgarisation of Marxism by Opportunists
1. Plekhanov’ s Controversy with the Anarchists
2. Kautsky’ s Controversy with the Opportunists
3. Kautsky’ s Controversy with Pannekoek
Postscript to the First Edition
The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism
To the Citizens of Russia!
To Workers, Soldiers, and Peasants!
Report on Peace
Report on Land
Decree on Abolishment of Capital Punishment
Decree on Transfer of Power to the Soviets
Decree on Establishment of the Workers' and Peasants' Government
Decree on Elections for the Constituent Assembly
Decree on Suppression of Hostile Newspapers
Decree on Transfer of Food Control to Municipalities
Decree on an Eight-Hour Working Day [134]
Decree on the Right to Issue Laws
Resolution on the Right of Sovnarkom to Issue Decrees
Decree on Social Insurance
Declaration of the Rights of the People of Russia
Decree on Organization of Volost Land Committees
Decree on Transfer of Power and the Means of Production to the Toilers
Decree Proc