Building the Commune: Radical Democracy in Venezuela
By: George Ciccariello-Maher
4.01
Format: 144 pages, ebook
Latin America’s experiments in direct democracy Since 2011, a wave of popular uprisings has swep…
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1. Another Day of Life
By: Ryszard Kapuściński , Klara Glowczewska , William Brand , None
3.72
Format: 78 pages, Paperback
'This is a very personal book, about being alone and lost'. In 1975 Kapuscinski's employers sent hi… read more
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2. 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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3. Class War: The Privatization of Childhood
By: Megan Erickson
4.17
Format: 200 pages,
What is at stake when some American children go to school hungry and others go to school in $1,000 … read more
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4. Left-Wing Communism, an Infantile Disorder: A Popular Essay in Marxian Strategy and Tactics
By: Vladimir Lenin
3.26
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
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5. The Age of Capital: 1848-1875
By: Eric J. Hobsbawm
4.53
Format: 194 pages, Paperback
In the wake of the French Revolution & the Industrial Revolution, Europe underwent another revoluti… read more
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6. Half the World (Shattered Sea, #2)
By: Joe Abercrombie
0.00
Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
Thorn Bathu was born to fight. But when she kills a boy in the training square she finds herself na… read more
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7. Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
By: Eduardo Galeano , Cedric Belfrage
4.31
Format: 317 pages, Paperback
Since its U.S. debut almost fifty years ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for histori… read more
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"Bolivians die with rotted lungs so that the world may consume cheap tin."-Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
"Whatever Latin America sells—raw materials or manufactures—its chief export product is really cheap labor."-Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
"Cuando el Estado se hace dueño de la principal riqueza de un país, corresponde preguntarse quién es el dueño del Estado."-Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
"Cuanto más codiciado por el mercado mundial, mayor es la desgracia que un producto trae consigo al pueblo latinoamericano que, con su sacrificio, lo crea."-Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
8. Strike for America: Chicago Teachers Against Austerity
By: Micah Uetricht
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Chicago Teachers Union strike was the most important domestic labor struggle so far this centur… read more
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9. Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work
By: None
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Recent years have seen a panic over "online red-light districts," which supposedly seduce vulnerabl… read more
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10. Invitation to a Beheading
By: Vladimir Nabokov
4.89
Format: 78 pages, Paperback
An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found Like Kafka's The Castle, Invitation to a … read more
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11. Men in the Sun and Other Palestinian Stories
By: غسان كنفاني , None
4.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
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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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"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
13. Black Skin, White Masks
By: Frantz Fanon , None
2.56
Format: 201 pages, Paperback
A major influence on international civil rights, anticolonial, and black consciousness movement, Bl… read more
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14. Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union
By: Vladislav M. Zubok
4.26
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
A major study of the collapse of the Soviet Union—showing how Gorbachev’s misguided reforms led to … read more
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15. The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
By: Vincent Bevins
4.61
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The hidden story of the wanton slaughter -- in Indonesia, Latin America, and around the world -- ba… read more
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"locals came to him, time and time again, and asked, with genuine mystification: 'We just don't understand America. You were once a colony. You know what colonialism is. You fought and bled and died f…"-Vincent Bevins, The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
16. 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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17. 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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18. 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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19. The Trinity of Fundamentals
By: Wisam Rafeedie
4.62
Format: 331 pages, Paperback
On the occasion of Palestinian Prisoners’ Day, the Palestinian Youth Movement’s (PYM) Popular Unive… read more
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20. 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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21. Building the Commune: Radical Democracy in Venezuela
By: George Ciccariello-Maher
4.01
Format: 144 pages, ebook
Latin America’s experiments in direct democracy Since 2011, a wave of popular uprisings has swep… read more
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