How to Be an Anticapitalist in the Twenty-First Century
By: Erik Olin Wright
3.91
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
What is wrong with capitalism, and how can we change it? Capitalism has transformed the world and …
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1. Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology (Paradigm)
By: David Graeber
4.21
Format: 102 pages, Paperback
Everywhere anarchism is on the upswing as a political philosophy—everywhere, that is, except the ac… read more
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"...státní aparát [...] skupina lidí, kteří si jako jediní osobují právo - alespoň tehdy, když jsou ve své oficiální roli - používat násilí."-David Graeber, Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology (Paradigm)
"The theory of exodus proposes that the most effective way of opposing capitalism and the liberal state is not through direct confrontation but by means of what Paolo Virno has called “engaged withdra…"-David Graeber, Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology (Paradigm)
"A revolution on a world scale will take a very long time. But it is also possible to recognize that it is already starting to happen. The easiest way to get our minds around it is to stop thinking ab…"-David Graeber, Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology (Paradigm)
"... most Amazonians don't want to give others the power to threaten them with physical injury if they don't do as they are told. Maybe we should better be asking what it says about ourselves that we …"-David Graeber, Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology (Paradigm)
2. Why Not Socialism?
By: G.A. Cohen
4.04
Format: 202 pages, Hardcover
Is socialism desirable? Is it even possible? In this concise book, one of the world's leading polit… read more
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- political science
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3. Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates
By: Peter T. Leeson
3.91
Format: 20 pages, Hardcover
Pack your cutlass and blunderbuss--it's time to go a-pirating! "The Invisible Hook" takes readers i… read more
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4. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
By: Mark Fisher
4.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
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5. Why Not Capitalism?
By: Jason Brennan
3.61
Format: 231 pages, Paperback
Most economists believe capitalism is a compromise with selfish human nature. As Adam Smith put it,… read more
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6. Anarchy, State, and Utopia
By: Robert Nozick
4.37
Format: 383 pages, Paperback
In this brilliant and widely acclaimed book, Robert Nozick challenges the most commonly held politi… read more
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8. A People's Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics
By: Hadas Thier
4.29
Format: 300 pages, Hardcover
Economists regularly promote Capitalism as the greatest system ever to grace the planet. With the s… read more
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"Is this rotten system the best we can do?"-Hadas Thier, A People's Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics
"Marxism is not a simple blueprint, with obvious rights and wrongs. Instead, it is a living, breathing theory, applied to social relations, which themselves are always in motion."-Hadas Thier, A People's Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics
"We live in a society in which decades of budget cuts have made a run on overwhelmed hospitals inevitable and which has set countries and states bidding against one another for ventilators on the “fre…"-Hadas Thier, A People's Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics
"The first traces of modern humans date back to more than two hundred thousands years ago. But it was only in the last five thousand years (i.e. during less than three percent of human history) that t…"-Hadas Thier, A People's Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics
9. How to Blow Up a Pipeline
By: Andreas Malm
3.96
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The science on climate change has been clear for a very long time now. Yet despite decades of appea… read more
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"The context for hope is radical uncertainty; anything could happen, and whether we act or not has everything to do with it."-Andreas Malm, How to Blow Up a Pipeline
"I once asked Bill McKibben, after an energising speech to a capacity crowd, when – given that the situation is as urgent as he portrayed it and we all know it is – we escalate. He was visibly ill at …"-Andreas Malm, How to Blow Up a Pipeline
10. Un apartamento en Urano
By: Paul B. Preciado
4.24
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Urano, el gigante helado, es el planeta más frío del sistema solar, y también un dios de la mitolog… read more
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"Travel translates the process of change, as if external movement were trying to articulate internal nomadism."-Paul B. Preciado, Un apartamento en Urano
"Não tenho alma e não tenho corpo. Sou o cosmos. Tenho um apartamento em Urano, o que certamente me coloca longe da maioria dos terráqueos, mas não tão longe que eles não possam viajar para cá. Nem qu…"-Paul B. Preciado, Un apartamento en Urano
"Al mismo tiempo, el colegio es la más brutal y fantoche de las escuelas de heterosexualidad. Aunque aparentemente asexual, el colegio potencia y fomenta el deseo heterosexual y la teatralización corp…"-Paul B. Preciado, Un apartamento en Urano
"Não pensei em férias. Pensei em esvaziar o arquivo, descarregar a memória. Em apagar. E reiniciar. Mas nada se apaga nem se reinicia. Nem mesmo as máquinas podem ser reiniciadas. Quem diz apagar ment…"-Paul B. Preciado, Un apartamento en Urano
11. Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation
By: Sophie Lewis
3.70
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
What if everyone was family? We need to talk about the family. For those who are lucky, families… read more
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12. Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment
By: Francis Fukuyama
3.85
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of The Origins of Political Order offers a provocative examin… read more
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"Who am I, really?"-Francis Fukuyama, Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment
"The focus on lived experience by identity groups valorizes inner selves experienced emotionally rather than examined rationally. Notes one observer, “Our political culture is marked, at the micro lev…"-Francis Fukuyama, Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment
"Confusion over identity arises as a condition of living in the modern world. Modernization means constant change and disruption, and the opening up of choices that did not exist before. It is mobile,…"-Francis Fukuyama, Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment
"But as important as material self-interest is, human beings are motivated by other things as well, motives that better explain the disparate events of the present. This might be called the politics o…"-Francis Fukuyama, Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment
13. Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power
By: Lola Olufemi
4.43
Format: 148 pages, Paperback
More than just a slogan on a t-shirt, feminism is a radical tool for fighting back against structur… read more
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"Feminist work is justice work"-Lola Olufemi, Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power
"Legality does not equal access."-Lola Olufemi, Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power
"A feminism that seeks power instead of questioning it does not care about justice."-Lola Olufemi, Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power
"If feminism means freedom, it means the right to self-determination and the right to be multi-dimensional, disorganised and even incoherent."-Lola Olufemi, Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power
14. The End of Policing
By: Alex S. Vitale
4.19
Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition
The problem is not overpolicing, it is policing itself Recent years have seen an explosion of pr… read more
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"Our standard of living is not declining because of migrants but because of unregulated neoliberal capitalism, which has allowed corporations and the rich to avoid paying taxes or decent wages. It is …"-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing
"There is no question that American police use their weapons more than police in any other developed democracy. Unfortunately, we don’t have fully accurate information about the number or nature of ho…"-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing
"As Jeffrey Reiman points out in the Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison, the criminal justice system excuses and ignores crimes of the rich that produce profound social harms while intensely crim…"-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing
"Heavy-handed immigration policing will not build a worker’s movement, it will shatter it. One of the mistakes that Trump supporters make is imagining that their own economic conditions will be improv…"-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing
15. Kapitalismin suuri illuusio
By: Riina Tanskanen
4.30
Format: 261 pages, Hardcover
Kapitalismi on täynnä virheitä. Riina Tanskanen ja Samu Kuoppa esittelevät yhdeksän keskeistä valhe… read more
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16. A World Without Police: How Strong Communities Make Cops Obsolete
By: Geo Maher
3.98
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Tens of millions of people poured onto the streets for Black Lives Matter, bringing with them a who… read more
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"Ultimately, there's no path towards police abolition—or even police reform—that doesn't involve a reckoning with police unions as the central bastion of police power. Not only are the police the enem…"-Geo Maher, A World Without Police: How Strong Communities Make Cops Obsolete
"The police cannot be reformed—more than a century of experience proves this beyond a reasonable doubt. Even if we tried, and we do continue to try, police resist tooth and nail even the smallest refo…"-Geo Maher, A World Without Police: How Strong Communities Make Cops Obsolete
"A world without police is therefor a world in which the police are obsolete, useless—a world where they serve literally no purpose. Seen from this angle, we're already halfway there: the police are u…"-Geo Maher, A World Without Police: How Strong Communities Make Cops Obsolete
"A world without police would be a world without poverty and hunger, in which everyone would have enough, and no one would need to look over their shoulder. It would be a world without white supremacy…"-Geo Maher, A World Without Police: How Strong Communities Make Cops Obsolete
17. How to Be an Anticapitalist in the Twenty-First Century
By: Erik Olin Wright
3.91
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
What is wrong with capitalism, and how can we change it? Capitalism has transformed the world and … read more
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18. Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto
By: Aaron Bastani
3.70
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
A different kind of politics for a new kind of society--beyond work, scarcity and capitalism In … read more
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"We have a world to win"-Aaron Bastani, Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto
19. Work Without the Worker
By: Phil Jones
3.62
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
The brutal truth behind our automated futures and the new world of work We are told that the fut… read more
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20. Un féminisme décolonial
By: Françoise Vergès
4.35
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
Pourquoi le terme « féministe » est-il librement approprié à la fois par l’extrême droite, la gauch… read more
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21. Karl Marx's Theory of History
By: G.A. Cohen
3.92
Format: 430 pages, Paperback
First published in 1978, this book rapidly established itself as a classic of modern Marxism. Cohen… read more
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