The Retreat from Class: A New 'True' Socialism
By: Ellen Meiksins Wood
4.34
Format: 218 pages, Paperback
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1. Beyond Good and Evil
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , R.J. Hollingdale
4.02
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil is translated from the German by R.J. Hollingdale with a… read more
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"The noble soul reveres itself"-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
"...all that is rare is for the rare."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
"One is punished most for one’s virtues."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
"In music the passions enjoy themselves."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
2. The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation
By: Jacques Rancière , Kristin Ross
4.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
This extraordinary book can be read on several levels. Primarily, it is the story of Joseph Jacotot… read more
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"A material thing is first of all “the only bridge of communication between two minds."-Jacques Rancière, The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation
"To explain something to someone is first of all to show him he cannot understand it by himself."-Jacques Rancière, The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation
"Keeping a monopoly on legitimate violence is still the proven best way to limit violence and allow reason some asylum where it can be freely practiced."-Jacques Rancière, The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation
"It is easier to compare oneself, to establish social exchange as that swapmeet of glory and contempt where each person receives a superiority in exchange for the inferiority he confesses to."-Jacques Rancière, The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation
3. Armadale
By: John Sutherland , Wilkie Collins
3.94
Format: 721 pages, Paperback
When the elderly Allan Armadale makes a terrible confession on his death-bed, he has little idea of… read more
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"A judge, replied the Empress, is easy to be had, but to get an impartial judge, is a thing so difficult."-John Sutherland, Armadale
"The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!"-John Sutherland, Armadale
"...that much gold, and great store of riches makes them mad, insomuch as they endeavour to destroy each other..."-John Sutherland, Armadale
"Allan found his place for the second time, and fell headlong into the bottomless abyss of the English Law. “Page 280,"-John Sutherland, Armadale
4. Human, All Too Human
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , R.J. Hollingdale
3.77
Format: 52 pages, Paperback
This volume presents Nietzsche's remarkable collection of almost 1400 aphorisms in R. J. Hollingdal… read more
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6. Das Kapital
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth centu… read more
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7. The Death of Ivan Ilych And Other Stories
By: Leo Tolstoy , Hugh McLean
3.91
Format: None pages, Paperback
Leo Tolstoy combined detailed physical description with perceptive psychological insight to sweep a… read more
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8. The Complete Essays
By: Michel de Montaigne , M.A. Screech
4.23
Format: 1344 pages, Paperback
Michel de Montaigne was one of the most influential figures of the Renaissance, singlehandedly resp… read more
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"The thing I fear most is fear."-Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
"We should tend our freedom wisely."-Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
"Why do people respect the package rather than the man?"-Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
"To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it."-Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
9. A People's History of the World
By: Chris Harman
4.80
Format: None pages,
Chris Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people form… read more
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10. Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century
By: Paul M. Sweezy , John Bellamy Foster , None
2.00
Format: None pages,
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11. The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
By: Friedrich Engels , None
3.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
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12. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
By: Mark Fisher
4.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
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13. Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality
By: Anne Fausto-Sterling
3.67
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Why do some people prefer heterosexual love while others fancy the same sex? Is sexual identity bio… read more
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14. Phenomenology of Spirit
By: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , A.V. Miller , John Niemeyer Findlay
3.96
Format: 640 pages, Paperback
Perhaps one of the most revolutionary works of philosophy ever presented, The Phenomenology of Spir… read more
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"The vanity of the contents"-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit
"The outcome is the same as the beginning only because the beginning is an end."-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit
"Everything turns on grasping and expressing the True, not only as Substance, but equally as Subject."-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit
"por lo poco que el espíritu necesita para contentarse, puede medirse la extensión de lo que ha perdido."-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit
15. Down and Out in Paris and London
By: George Orwell
4.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
This unusual fictional account - in good part autobiographical - narrates without self-pity and oft… read more
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16. The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
By: Michel Foucault , Robert Hurley
4.00
Format: 201 pages,
Michel Foucault offers an iconoclastic exploration of why we feel compelled to continually analyze … read more
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17. The System of Objects
By: Jean Baudrillard
3.25
Format: 40 pages, Paperback
The System of Objectsis a tour de force--a theoretical letter-in-a-bottle tossed into the ocean in … read more
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18. The Communist Hypothesis
By: Alain Badiou
3.71
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"We know that communism is the right hypothesis. All those who abandon this hypothesis immediately … read more
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19. If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
By: Vincent Bevins
4.28
Format: 337 pages, Hardcover
The story of the recent uprisings that sought to change the world - and what comes next From 20… read more
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"In the history of revolutions, a couple of truisms had already emerged. One is that they are only successful when security forces defect or are defeated in violent conflict. Even if Moa Zedong was be…"-Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
20. The Retreat from Class: A New 'True' Socialism
By: Ellen Meiksins Wood
4.34
Format: 218 pages, Paperback
Exploring the connections between class, ideology and politicsIn this classic study, which won the … read more
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21. An Introduction to the Three Volumes of Karl Marx’s Capital
By: Michael Heinrich
4.20
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
The global economic crisis and recession that began in 2008 had at least one unexpected outcome: a … read more
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22. Lenin: A Study in the Unity of His Thought (The Verso Classics Series)
By: György Lukács
3.93
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
In Lukács’ elegantly crafted, concise and accessible account, Lenin emerges as the consummate diale… read more
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23. In the Tracks of Historical Materialism
By: Perry Anderson
3.78
Format: 116 pages, Paperback
How Marxist thought evolved in the seventies and early eighties. What have been the major change… read more
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24. The Formation of the Economic Thought of Karl Marx: 1843 to Capital
By: Ernest Mandel
4.11
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
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25. Marxism and Philosophy
By: Karl Korsch
3.78
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
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"Isto [violenta contradição ideológica com o marxismo] já valia para a primeira fase histórica em que, segundo a pertinente análise feita por trotski em 1908, a doutrina marxista serviu - precisamente…"-Karl Korsch, Marxism and Philosophy
26. Automation and the Future of Work
By: Aaron Benanav
3.89
Format: 166 pages, Kindle Edition
Silicon Valley titans, politicians, techno-futurists and social critics have united in arguing that… read more
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27. Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale: Women in the International Division of Labour
By: Maria Mies
4.28
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
This now classic book traces the social origins of the sexual division of labor. It gives a history… read more
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"Peace in patriarchy is war against women."-Maria Mies, Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale: Women in the International Division of Labour
"Feminists are those who dare to break the conspiracy of silence about the oppressive, unequal man-woman relationship and who want to change it."-Maria Mies, Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale: Women in the International Division of Labour
"This covert or overt biological determinism, paraphrased in Freud's statement that anatomy is destiny, perhaps the most deep rooted obstacle to the analysis of the causes of women oppression and expl…"-Maria Mies, Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale: Women in the International Division of Labour
"Maleness and femaleness are not biological givens, but rather the results of a long historical process. In each historic epoch maleness and femaleness are differently defined. The definition depends …"-Maria Mies, Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale: Women in the International Division of Labour
28. El capital I
By: Karl Marx
4.30
Format: 841 pages, Kindle Edition
Este libro ha sido convertido a formato digital por una comunidad de voluntarios. Puedes encontrarl… read more
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29. Marx on Money
By: Suzanne de Brunhoff
3.56
Format: 139 pages, Paperback
The republication of Suzanne de Brunhoff’s classic investigation into Karl Marx’s conception of “th… read more
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30. The Spectre of Hegel: Early Writings
By: Louis Althusser
3.54
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
The first publication of seminal early writing by Louis Althusser. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, … read more
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"the word seeks a resolution in itself; it seeks the mediation between itself and the world in itself, yet never produces anything more than a demiurge of words"-Louis Althusser, The Spectre of Hegel: Early Writings
"the philosopher only rewrites his own alienation in terms of being: because he is alienated from himself in his thought, his thought is the essence of alienation..."-Louis Althusser, The Spectre of Hegel: Early Writings
"We were straightfacedly told that, to understand the Phenomenology and the Encyclopædia, we had to go back to Abraham, Isaac, and the desert. Today it is all too obvious this sort of exegesis was mer…"-Louis Althusser, The Spectre of Hegel: Early Writings
"The time has come in which the overriding preoccupation of bourgeois philosophers and littérateurs is the following question: ‘What does the truth have to be for the Communists to be wrong? What does…"-Louis Althusser, The Spectre of Hegel: Early Writings
31. Smart Machines and Service Work: Automation in an Age of Stagnation (Field Notes)
By: Jason E. Smith
4.05
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
In recent decades digital devices have reshaped daily life, while tech companies’ stock prices have… read more
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