14 must-read history books like Bigger Than Bernie: How We Go from the Sanders Campaign to Democratic Socialism by Meagan Day

Cover of Bigger Than Bernie: How We Go from the Sanders Campaign to Democratic Socialism by Meagan Day

Bigger Than Bernie: How We Go from the Sanders Campaign to Democratic Socialism

By: Meagan Day

3.98

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Bernie Sanders's 2016 candidacy expanded the scope of political possibility in the United States, p…

If you liked the history plot in Bigger Than Bernie: How We Go from the Sanders Campaign to Democratic Socialism by Meagan Day , here is a list of 14 books like this:

Cover of Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber

1. Debt: The First 5,000 Years

By: David Graeber

3.61

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Before there was money, there was debt Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was inve… read more

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  • economics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism by Michael Parenti

2. Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

By: Michael Parenti

4.41

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

Blackshirts & Reds explores some of the big issues of our time: fascism, capitalism, communism, rev… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
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  • political science
  • economics
"Ecology's implications for capitalism are too horrendous for the capitalist to contemplate."

-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

"Decentralized parochial autonomy is the graveyard of insurgency-which may be one reason why there has never been a successful anarcho-syndicalist revolution."

-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

"A joke circulating in Russia in 1992 went like this: Q. What did capitalism accomplish in one year that communism could not do in seventy years? A. Make communism look good."

-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

"...the [pure socialist] critics [of communist countries] seem unable to apply their own leadership genius to producing a successful revolutionary movement in their own country."

-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

3. The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State

By: Friedrich Engels , None

3.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

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4. Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany

By: Shaun Whiteside , Norman Ohler

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In this highly original book, a bestseller in Germany, Norman Ohler investigates the murky, chaotic… read more

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5. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

By: Mark Fisher

4.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

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6. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

By: Naomi Klein

4.52

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In this groundbreaking alternative history of the most dominant ideology of our time, Milton Friedm… read more

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Cover of An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3) by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

7. An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)

By: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

4.37

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples Today in… read more

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  • politics
  • social justice
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Of a thousand Red Stick and allied insurgents, eight hundred were killed. [Andrew] Jackson lost forty-nine men."

-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)

"Once elected president, Jackson lost no time in initiating the removal of all Indigenous farmers and the destruction of all their towns in the South."

-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)

"[Theodore] Roosevelt referred to [Emilio] Aguinaldo as a "renegade Pawnee" and observed that Filipinos did not have the right to govern their country just because they happened to occupy it."

-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)

"The establishment of the missions and presidios from San Diego and Los Angeles and Santa Barbara to Carmel, San Francisco, and Sonoma, traces the colonization of California's Indigenous nations. The …"

-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)

8. The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View

By: Ellen Meiksins Wood

3.44

Format: 406 pages, Paperback

Capitalism is not a natural and inevitable consequence of human nature, nor is it simply an extensi… read more

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9. In Defence of the Terror: Liberty or Death in the French Revolution

By: Slavoj Žižek , David Fernbach , Sophie Wahnich

4.06

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

For two hundred years after the French Revolution, the Republican tradition celebrated the executio… read more

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10. How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them

By: Barbara F. Walter

4.25

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Civil wars are the biggest danger to world peace today - this book shows us why they happen, and ho… read more

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  • political science
  • history
  • nonfiction
"For a society to fracture along identity lines, you need mouthpieces - people who are willing to make discriminatory appeals and pursue discriminatory policies in the name of a particular group. They…"

-Barbara F. Walter, How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them

Cover of The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War by Craig Whitlock

11. The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War

By: Craig Whitlock

4.26

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A Washington Post Best Book of 2021 The #1 New York Times bestselling investigative story of how th… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"To reinforce the message, Obama administration officials touted statistics that distorted what was really happening on the ground. The Bush administration had done the same, but Obama staffers in the…"

-Craig Whitlock, The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War

"Ryan Crocker, who served as the top U.S. diplomat in Kabul under both Bush and Obama, said the gusher of contracts to support U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan virtually guaranteed that extortion, …"

-Craig Whitlock, The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War

Cover of A People's Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics by Hadas Thier

12. 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

Cover of The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017 by Rashid Khalidi

13. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017

By: Rashid Khalidi

4.50

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Fighting Soul: On the Road with Bernie Sanders by Ari Rabin-Havt

14. The Fighting Soul: On the Road with Bernie Sanders

By: Ari Rabin-Havt

4.19

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Bernie Sanders inspires fervent love and, even among his enemies, a measure of grudging respect—yet… read more

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Cover of The People’s Republic of Walmart: How the World’s Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism by Leigh Phillips

15. The People’s Republic of Walmart: How the World’s Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism

By: Leigh Phillips

3.90

Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition

Since the demise of the USSR, the mantle of the largest planned economies in the world has been tak… read more

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  • economics
Cover of We've Got People: From Jesse Jackson to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the End of Big Money and the Rise of a Movement by Ryan Grim

16. We've Got People: From Jesse Jackson to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the End of Big Money and the Rise of a Movement

By: Ryan Grim

4.27

Format: 433 pages, Paperback

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez may seem like she came from nowhere, but the movement that propelled her t… read more

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  • social justice
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Cover of The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale

17. 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

Cover of Red State Revolt: The Teachers' Strike Wave and Working-Class Politics (Jacobin) by Eric Blanc

18. 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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Cover of Bigger Than Bernie: How We Go from the Sanders Campaign to Democratic Socialism by Meagan Day

19. Bigger Than Bernie: How We Go from the Sanders Campaign to Democratic Socialism

By: Meagan Day

3.98

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Bernie Sanders's 2016 candidacy expanded the scope of political possibility in the United States, p… read more

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  • social justice
  • activism
  • political science
  • economics
Cover of Shadowlands: Fear and Freedom at the Oregon Standoff by Anthony McCann

20. Shadowlands: Fear and Freedom at the Oregon Standoff

By: Anthony McCann

3.73

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

In 2016, a group of armed, divinely inspired right-wing protestors led by Ammon Bundy occupied the … read more

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Cover of Bigger Than Bernie: How We Can Win Democratic Socialism in Our Time by Micah Uetricht

21. Bigger Than Bernie: How We Can Win Democratic Socialism in Our Time

By: Micah Uetricht

4.00

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Win or lose, Bernie has reshaped the landscape of American politics. Where does the political revol… read more

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