9 Top theory books like Without Apology: The Abortion Struggle Now by Jenny Brown

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Without Apology: The Abortion Struggle Now

By: Jenny Brown

4.37

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

An indispensable guide to abortion access in America, and a necessary argument for building a fight…

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1. How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

By: Walter Rodney , Vincent Harding

4.42

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

The decisiveness of the short period of colonialism and its negative consequences for Africa spring… read more

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  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
"It was economics that Europe should invest in Africa and control the continent's raw materials and labour. It was racism which confirmed the decision that form of control should be direct colonial ru…"

-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

"On any basic figure of the Africans landed alive in the Americas, one would have to make several extensions- starting with a calculation to cover mortality in transshipment. The Atlantic crossing, or…"

-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

"There was a period when the capitalist system increased the well-being of significant numbers of people as a by-product of seeking out profits for a few, but today the quests for profits comes into s…"

-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

"Governor Cameroon of Tanganyika in the 1920s was known as a "progressive" governor. But when he was attacked for trying to preserve the African personality in the educational system, he denied the ch…"

-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

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2. Reform or Revolution

By: Rosa Luxemburg , Κώστας Βρετός

4.20

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Why capitalism cannot overcome its internal contradictions and the working class cannot "reform" aw… read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"If the proletariat came to power, it could draw from Bernstein's theory the following 'practical' conclusion: to go to sleep."

-Rosa Luxemburg, Reform or Revolution

"What distinguishes bourgeoisie society from other class societies…? Precisely the fact that class domination does not rest on “acquired rights"

-Rosa Luxemburg, Reform or Revolution

"Fourier's scheme of changing, by means of phalansteries, the water of all the seas into tasty lemonade was surely a phantastic idea. But Bernstein, proposing to change the sea of capitalist bitternes…"

-Rosa Luxemburg, Reform or Revolution

"Social Democracy, does not, however, expect to attain its aim either as a result of the victorious violence of a minority or through the numerical superiority of a majority. It sees socialism come as…"

-Rosa Luxemburg, Reform or Revolution

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3. The Principles of Communism

By: Friedrich Engels

4.06

Format: 25 pages, ebook

In 1847 Engels wrote two draft programmes for the Communist League in the form of a catechism, one … read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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4. 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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  • theory
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"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

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5. The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848

By: Eric J. Hobsbawm

3.77

Format: 67 pages, Paperback

This magisterial volume follows the death of ancient traditions, the triumph of new classes, and th… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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6. Notes of a Native Son

By: James Baldwin

4.08

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A new edition published on the twenty-fifth anniversary of Baldwin's death, including a new introdu… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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7. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution

By: C.L.R. James

4.55

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A classic and impassioned account of the first revolution in the Third World. This powerful, intens… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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8. The ABCs of Socialism

By: Bhaskar Sunkara , Phil Wrigglesworth

4.00

Format: None pages, ebook

Slim, accessible, inexpensive, irreverent introduction to socialism by the writers of "Jacobin" mag… read more

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  • politics
  • social justice
  • history
  • nonfiction

9. Women's Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle

By: Thomas Sankara , None

5.00

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

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10. How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood

By: P.E. Moskowitz

4.02

Format: 293 pages, Hardcover

The term gentrificationhas become a buzzword to describe the changes in urban neighborhoods across … read more

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11. How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America: Problems in Race, Political Economy, and Society

By: Manning Marable

3.65

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Contents Preface How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America A Critical Assessment Introduction to … read more

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12. 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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  • theory
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"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

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13. Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

By: Roxane Gay

4.43

Format: 368 pages, ebook

Cultural critic and bestselling author Roxane Gay has edited a collection of essays that explore wh… read more

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  • feminism
  • womens
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
"Angry women care. Angry women speak and yell and sob their truths."

-Roxane Gay, Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

"I am a real survivor because I survived, even if some days it feels like I didn't survive at all."

-Roxane Gay, Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

"Anger is the privilege of the truly broken, and yet, I've never met a woman who was broken enough that she allowed herself to be angry."

-Roxane Gay, Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

"It is more like carrying something really heavy, forever. You do not get to put it down: you have to carry it, and so you carry it the way you need to, however it fits best."

-Roxane Gay, Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

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14. Red Clocks

By: Leni Zumas

3.67

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

Five women. One question. What is a woman for?In this ferociously imaginative novel, abortion is on… read more

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  • feminism
"Mínevudottír may have felt free; but she was a cog in a land-snatching, resource-sucking, climate-fucking imperialist machine."

-Leni Zumas, Red Clocks

"She knew—it was her job as a teacher of history to know—how many horrors are legitimated in public daylight, against the will of most of the people."

-Leni Zumas, Red Clocks

"Shut up, she tells her monkey mind. Please shut up, you picker of nits, presser of bruises, counter of losses, fearer of failures, collector of grievances future and past."

-Leni Zumas, Red Clocks

"But why does she want them, really? Because Susan has them? Because the Salem bookstore manager has them? Because she always vaguely assumed she would have them herself? Or does the desire come from …"

-Leni Zumas, Red Clocks

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15. The Turnaway Study: Ten Years, a Thousand Women, and the Consequences of Having―or Being Denied―an Abortion

By: Diana Greene Foster

4.58

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

“If you read only one book about democracy, The Turnaway Study should be it. Why? Because without t… read more

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  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • womens
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16. Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent

By: Katherine Angel

4.08

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

A provocative, elegantly written analysis of female desire, consent, and sexuality in the age of Me… read more

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  • feminism
  • politics
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • womens
"The fantasy of total autonomy, and of total self-knowledge, is not only a fantasy; it’s a nightmare."

-Katherine Angel, Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent

"Any model of consent can prove itself worthless if a man is not open to his sexual partner's no, or her changing desires, and if he responds to either of these with a rage borne of humiliation."

-Katherine Angel, Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent

"Why not aim for sex itself as being deeply mutually pleasurable? Why not aim for a culture that embraces and enables women’s sexual pleasure, in all its complexity, and admits the complexity of male …"

-Katherine Angel, Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent

"Instead of resigning ourselves to the inevitability of bad sex, and even romanticizing it as merely youthful misadventure, we should subject it to sustained scrutiny. Bad sex emerges from gender norm…"

-Katherine Angel, Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent

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17. Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

By: Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

4.00

Format: 157 pages, Paperback

A powerful indictment of the ways elites have co-opted radical critiques of racial capitalism to se… read more

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  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
"A philosopher Briana Toole clarifies, by itself, one's social location only puts a person in a position to know; 'epistemic privilege' or advantage, on the other hand, is achieved only through delibe…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

"Elites do often make the environment worse and block solutions, but to blame the problem of elite capture entirely on their moral successes and failures is to confuse effect for cause. The true probl…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

"To opt for deference, rather than interdependence, may soothe short-term psychological wounds. But it does so at a steep cost: it may undermine the goals that motivated the project--and it entrenches…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

"As Carter G. Woodson realized, many of our decisions are shaped by decisions that someone with more power made before us. The whole social structure affects how institutional systems, like schools, f…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

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18. Abolition. Feminism. Now.

By: Angela Y. Davis

4.31

Format: 150 pages, Paperback

An urgent, vital manifesto of intersectional, internationalist, abolitionist feminism, from leading… read more

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  • history
  • feminism
  • politics
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
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19. Bad Faith: Race and the Rise of the Religious Right

By: Randall Balmer

4.25

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Balmer, a Dartmouth University religion professor, delivers a reassessment of "the alliance between… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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20. Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War

By: Howard W. French

4.31

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

Traditional accounts of the making of the modern world afford a place of primacy to European histor… read more

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  • politics
  • social justice
  • history
  • nonfiction
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21. Decolonial Marxism: Essays from the Pan-African Revolution

By: Walter Rodney

4.52

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A previously unpublished collection of Rodney's essays on Marxism, spanning his engagement with of … read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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22. Sickening: How Big Pharma Broke American Health Care and How We Can Repair It

By: John Abramson

4.24

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The inside story of how Big Pharma’s relentless pursuit of ever-higher profits corrupts medical kno… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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23. Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State

By: Samuel Stein

3.94

Format: 202 pages, Paperback

“This superbly succinct and incisive book” on urban planning and real estate argues gentrification … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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24. Say My Name

By: Joanna Ho

4.22

Format: None pages, None

"In moving, lyrical prose, the book celebrates the beauty and sounds of each name alongside their c… read more

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25. The Russian Revolution: A View from the Third World

By: Walter Rodney

4.42

Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition

A never-before published history of the Russian Bolshevik Revolution and its post-colonial legacy, … read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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26. Without Apology: The Abortion Struggle Now

By: Jenny Brown

4.37

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

An indispensable guide to abortion access in America, and a necessary argument for building a fight… read more

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  • history
  • theory
  • feminism
  • politics
  • gender
  • gender studies
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • womens
  • education
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27. Red State Revolt: The Teachers' Strike Wave and Working-Class Politics (Jacobin)

By: Eric Blanc

4.21

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

An indispensable window into the changing shape of the American working class and American politics… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • education
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28. Bodies on the Line: At the Front Lines of the Fight to Protect Abortion in America

By: Lauren Rankin

4.21

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A powerfully empathetic and impeccably researched look at abortion clinic escorting Abortion has… read more

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  • history
  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • womens
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29. Jane Against the World: Roe v. Wade and the Fight for Reproductive Rights

By: Karen Blumenthal

4.33

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning author Karen Blumenthal, comes a deep and passionate look at the riveting histor… read more

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  • history
  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • womens
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30. Overtime: Why We Need A Shorter Working Week

By: Will Stronge

3.75

Format: 145 pages, Kindle Edition

Work isn’t workingAs precarity and low pay become further embedded in the job market, at a time whe… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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31. The Lessons of October

By: Leon Trotsky

4.20

Format: None pages, Paperback

Written several years after the October Revolution, Leon Trotsky took a look back and tried to brin… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction

6 must-read womens books like Without Apology: The Abortion Struggle Now by Jenny Brown

Transform Your Habits

Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

Roxane Gay

4.43

Transform Your Habits

The Turnaway Study: Ten Years, a Thousand Women, and the Consequences of Having―or Being Denied―an Abortion

Diana Greene Foster

4.58

Transform Your Habits

Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent

Katherine Angel

4.08

Transform Your Habits

Without Apology: The Abortion Struggle Now

Jenny Brown

4.37

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18 must-read history books like The Russian Revolution: A View from the Third World by Walter Rodney

Transform Your Habits

Reform or Revolution

Rosa Luxemburg , Κώστας Βρετός

4.20

Transform Your Habits

The State and Revolution

Vladimir Lenin

4.24

Transform Your Habits

Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Paulo Freire , Donaldo Macedo , Myra Bergman Ramos , None

4.30

Transform Your Habits

The Wretched of the Earth

Jean-Paul Sartre , Richard Philcox , Frantz Fanon , Homi K. Bhabha

4.32

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