Anarchist Communism (Penguin Great Ideas)
By: Pyotr Kropotkin
3.85
Format: 113 pages, Paperback
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1. Great Ideas the Invisible Hand (Penguin Great Ideas)
By: Adam Smith
3.66
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Adam Smith’s landmark treatise on the free market paved the way for modern capitalism, arguing that… read more
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"It is not from the benevolence of the Butcher, the Brewer or the Baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest"-Adam Smith, Great Ideas the Invisible Hand (Penguin Great Ideas)
2. On Art and Life (Penguin Great Ideas)
By: John Ruskin
3.83
Format: 98 pages, Paperback
Two of Ruskin's famous essays: "The Nature of the Gothic" and "The Work of Iron" from his book The … read more
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"To banish imperfection is to destroy expression."-John Ruskin, On Art and Life (Penguin Great Ideas)
"The demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art."-John Ruskin, On Art and Life (Penguin Great Ideas)
"If the pleasure of change is too often repeated, it ceases to be delightful, for the change itself becomes monotonous, and we are driven to seek delight in extreme and fantastic degrees of it. This i…"-John Ruskin, On Art and Life (Penguin Great Ideas)
"Just because we are something better than birds or bees, our buildings must confess that we have not reached the perfection we can imagine, and can not rest in the condition we have attained. If we p…"-John Ruskin, On Art and Life (Penguin Great Ideas)
3. The State and Revolution
By: Vladimir Lenin
4.24
Format: 116 pages, Paperback
1917-ci ilin avqust-sentyabr aylarında yazılan yaradıcı marksizmin bu görkəmli əsəri – “Dövlət və i… read more
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"The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament!"-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution
"To decide once every few years which member of the ruling class is to repress and crush the people through parliament - such is the real essence of bourgeois parliamentarianism, not only in parliamen…"-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution
"We must also note that Engels is most definite in calling universal suffrage an instrument of bourgeois rule. Universal suffrage, he says, obviously summing up the long experience of German Social-De…"-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution
"Take any parliamentary country, from America to Switzerland, from France to England, Norway and so forth - in these countries the real business of the 'state' is preformed behind the scenes and is ca…"-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution
4. A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
By: Rebecca Solnit
3.95
Format: 353 pages, Hardcover
A startling investigation of what people do in disasters and why it matters Why is it that in the a… read more
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"Disaster shocks us out of slumber, but only skillful efforts keeps us awake."-Rebecca Solnit, A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
"Utopia itself is rarely more than an ideal or an ephemeral pattern on which to shape the real possibilities before us."-Rebecca Solnit, A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
"Tobin James Mueller: 'No one is turned away, my one rule. I never say no. That's one of the reasons it became a utopia."-Rebecca Solnit, A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
"It's tempting to ask why if you fed your neighbors during the time of the earthquake and fire, you didn't do so before or after."-Rebecca Solnit, A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
5. God and the State
By: Paul Avrich , Mikhail Bakunin
4.23
Format: None pages, Paperback
Among the 19th-century founders of modern philosophical anarchism, none is more important than Mich… read more
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7. How the World Works
By: Noam Chomsky , David Barsamian , Arthur Naiman
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
According to The New York Times, Noam Chomsky is arguably the most important intellectual alive." B… read more
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8. The Art of Happiness
By: Epicurus , George K. Strodach
4.19
Format: 294 pages, ebook
New to Penguin Classics and the perfect companion volume to bestselling author Daniel Klein's new b… read more
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9. On Anarchism
By: Noam Chomsky
3.86
Format: 302 pages,
We all know what Noam Chomsky is against. His scathing analysis of everything that's wrong with our… read more
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10. Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
By: Michel Foucault , Richard Howard , José Teixeira Coelho Netto
3.99
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . Michel Foucault examines the ar… read more
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11. Lunch Poems
By: Frank O'Hara
3.45
Format: None pages, Paperback
Important poems by the late New York poet published in The New American Poetry, Evergreen Review, F… read more
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12. Anarchism and Other Essays
By: Emma Goldman
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
In the eighteen-nineties and for years thereafter, America reverberated with the name of the "notor… read more
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13. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
By: Mark Fisher
4.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
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14. The Communist Manifesto
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Gareth Stedman Jones
3.66
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A rousing call to arms whose influence is still felt today Originally published on the eve of th… read more
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"The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"Study of the past often turns into love of the past and a desire to keep it."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps"-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
15. Books v. Cigarettes
By: George Orwell
4.36
Format: 209 pages, Paperback
Beginning with a dilemma about whether he spends more money on reading or smoking, George Orwell's … read more
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16. Anarchy
By: Vernon Richards , Errico Malatesta
3.79
Format: 477 pages, Paperback
Many think 'anarchy' means confusion, disorder, and chaos, but Maletesta sets the record staight. E… read more
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17. An Apology for Idlers
By: Robert Louis Stevenson
3.82
Format: None pages,
An irresistible invitation to reject the work ethic and enjoy life's simple pleasures (such as laug… read more
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18. Against Interpretation and Other Essays
By: Susan Sontag
3.28
Format: 5 pages, Paperback
First published in 1966, this celebrated book--Sontag's first collection of essays--quickly became … read more
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19. Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
By: Vladimir Lenin
4.23
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
'Globalisation' is the buzzword of the 1990s. VI Lenin's Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitali… read more
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"Crises of every kind — economic crises more frequently, but not only these — in their turn increase very considerably the tendency towards concentration and monopoly."-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
"At the basis of these swindles and manipulations lies socialised production; but the immense progress of humanity, which achieved this socialisation, goes to benefit the speculators."-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
"But suppose, for the sake of argument, free competition, without any sort of monopoly, would develop capitalism trade more rapidly. Is it not a fact that the more rapidly trade and capitalism develop…"-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
"As long as capitalism remains what it is, surplus capital will never be utilised for the purpose of raising the standard of living of the masses in a given country, for this would mean a decline in p…"-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
20. Reflections on the Guillotine
By: Albert Camus , Richard Howard
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An essay on capital punishment by the 1957 Nobel Prize winner. read more
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22. Notes on Nationalism
By: George Orwell
4.01
Format: 52 pages, Paperback
In this essay, Orwell discusses the notion of nationalism, and argues that it causes people to disr… read more
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"Nationalism is not to be confused with patriotism."-George Orwell, Notes on Nationalism
"For those who feel deeply about contemporary politics, certain topics have become so infected by considerations of prestige that a genuinely rational approach to them is almost impossible."-George Orwell, Notes on Nationalism
"Political or military commentators, like astrologers, can survive almost any mistake, because their more devoted followers do not look to them for an appraisal of the facts but for the stimulation of…"-George Orwell, Notes on Nationalism
"By ‘nationalism’ I mean first of all the habit of assuming that human beings can be classified like insects and that whole blocks of millions or tens of millions of people can be confidently labelled…"-George Orwell, Notes on Nationalism
23. Create Dangerously
By: Albert Camus
3.84
Format: 58 pages, Paperback
'To create today is to create dangerously' Camus argues passionately that the artist has a respo… read more
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"Artists, like everyone else, must take up their oars without dying, if possible."-Albert Camus, Create Dangerously
"To paint a still life, a painter and an apple must confront and adjust to each other."-Albert Camus, Create Dangerously
"Perhaps there is no peace for an artist other than the peace found in the heat of combat."-Albert Camus, Create Dangerously
"But now the artist is in the amphitheatre. Of necessity, his voice is not quite the same; it is not nearly so firm."-Albert Camus, Create Dangerously
24. The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House
By: Audre Lorde
4.55
Format: 51 pages, Paperback
From the self-described 'black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet', these soaring, urgent essays on th… read more
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"There are no new pains."-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House
"We can train ourselves to respect our feelings and to transpose them into a language so they can be shared."-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House
"For women, the need and desire to nurture each other is not pathological but redemptive, and it is within that knowledge that our real power I rediscovered"-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House
"As women, we have been taught either to ignore our differences, or to view them as causes for separation and suspicion rather than as forces for change. Without community there is no liberation, only…"-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House
25. The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.60
Format: 5 pages, ebook
In The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, visionary author Ursula K. Le Guin retells the story of human… read more
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26. Dark Days
By: James Baldwin
4.40
Format: 50 pages, Paperback
'So the club rose, the blood came down, and his bitterness and his anguish and his guilt were compo… read more
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"A mob is not autonomous: it executes the real will of the people who rule the State."-James Baldwin, Dark Days
"No curtain under heaven is heavier than that curtain of guilt and lies behind which white Americans hide."-James Baldwin, Dark Days
"The question of color was but another detail, somewhere between being six feet tall and being six feet under."-James Baldwin, Dark Days
"But the Irish became white when they got here and began rising in the world, whereas I became black and began sinking."-James Baldwin, Dark Days
27. Anarchist Communism (Penguin Great Ideas)
By: Pyotr Kropotkin
3.85
Format: 113 pages, Paperback
The humane yet devastating critique of how modern society is organized with the brutal few clinging… read more
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28. Die Freiheit, frei zu sein
By: Hannah Arendt
3.76
Format: 65 pages, Kindle Edition
»Mein Thema heute, so fürchte ich, ist fast schon beschämend aktuell.« Was ist Freiheit, und was b… read more
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29. What Is Existentialism?
By: Simone de Beauvoir
3.91
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
'It is possible for man to snatch the world from the darkness of absurdity'How should we think and … read more
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30. How To Be a Stoic (Penguin Great Ideas)
By: Marcus Aurelius
3.70
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Don't hope that events will turn out the way you want, welcome events in whichever way they happen'… read more
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31. Of the Abuse of Words
By: John Locke
3.63
Format: 132 pages, Mass Market Paperback
John Locke was one of the greatest figures of the Enlightenment, whose assertion that reason is the… read more
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