17 Top history books like Red Africa: Reclaiming Revolutionary Black Politics (Salvage Editions) by Kevin Ochieng Okoth

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Red Africa: Reclaiming Revolutionary Black Politics (Salvage Editions)

By: Kevin Ochieng Okoth

4.15

Format: 177 pages, Kindle Edition

Salvaging a decolonised futureRed Africa makes the case for a revolutionary Black politics inspired…

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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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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"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. 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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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Wretched of the Earth by Jean-Paul Sartre, Richard Philcox, Frantz Fanon, Homi K. Bhabha

3. The Wretched of the Earth

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

4.32

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Fr… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"إن لجوءك إلى لُغة تكنيكيَّة معناه أنّك قرَّرتَ أن تَعُدَّ الجماهير جاهلة"

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

"Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

"The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much greater business of plunder."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

"إن المناضل ليدرك في كثير من الأحيان أن عمله لا أن يقاتل القوى العدوة فحسب، بل كذلك حبات اليأس المتبلورة في جسم المستعمَر."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

Cover of This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Toni Cade Bambara, Cherríe L. Moraga

4. This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color

By: Gloria E. Anzaldúa , Toni Cade Bambara , Cherríe L. Moraga

4.52

Format: 261 pages, Paperback

This groundbreaking collection reflects an uncompromised definition of feminism by women of color. … read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
"This Bridge Called My Back intends to reflect an uncompromised definition of feminism by women of color in the U.S."

-Gloria E. Anzaldúa, This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color

"I get angry with those in the women's movement and out of it who deal with class & color as if they defined politics and people."

-Gloria E. Anzaldúa, This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color

"I keep wanting to repeat over and over and over again, the pain and shock of difference, the joy of commonness, the exhilaration of meeting through incredible odds against it."

-Gloria E. Anzaldúa, This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color

"These women don't believe in the sanctity of the marriage bond, the inviolable privacy of the husband-wife unit. The cattiness is mixed with the information, tips. The misery is communal."

-Gloria E. Anzaldúa, This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color

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5. 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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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of By Night in Chile by Roberto Bolaño, Chris    Andrews

6. By Night in Chile

By: Roberto Bolaño , Chris Andrews

3.89

Format: 118 pages, Paperback

During the course of a single night, Father Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix, a Chilean priest, who is a m… read more

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"…and for goodness’ sake read widely and deeply…"

-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile

"I am dying now, but I still have many things to say."

-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile

"His falcon, called Othello, had struck terror into the heart of every pigeon in Turin..."

-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile

"As time goes by, as time goes by, the whip-crack of the years, the precipice of illusions, the ravine that swallows up all human endeavour except the struggle to survive."

-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile

7. Groundings with My Brothers

By: Walter Rodney

5.00

Format: 87 pages, Paperback

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8. The Conquest of Bread

By: Pyotr Kropotkin

4.67

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

The fourth in AK Press' Working Classics series, The Conquest of Breadis Peter Kropotkin's most ext… read more

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9. Ten Myths about Israel

By: Ilan Pappé

4.03

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

What are the myths--and reality--behind the state of Israel? Ilan Pappe is one of the most outspoke… read more

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10. 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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Cover of If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution by Vincent Bevins

11. 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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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"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

Cover of The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination by Stuart A. Reid

12. The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination

By: Stuart A. Reid

4.40

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

A spellbinding work of history that reads like a Cold War spy thriller—about the US-sanctioned plot… read more

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  • politics
  • africa
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet—and What We Can Do About It by Nancy Fraser

13. Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet—and What We Can Do About It

By: Nancy Fraser

4.04

Format: 209 pages, Kindle Edition

A trenchant look at contemporary capitalism’s insatiable appetite—and a rallying cry for everyone w… read more

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

14. 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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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World by Antony Loewenstein

15. The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World

By: Antony Loewenstein

4.44

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Bestselling journalist Antony Loewenstein uncovers the widespread commercialisation and brutal depl… read more

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  • history
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Cover of A World Without Police: How Strong Communities Make Cops Obsolete by Geo Maher

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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  • politics
  • nonfiction
"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

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17. A Short History of Trans Misogyny

By: Jules Gill-Peterson

4.47

Format: 182 pages, Hardcover

An accessible, bold new vision for the future of intersectional trans feminism, called "one of the … read more

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Cover of The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution by Julius S. Scott

18. The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution

By: Julius S. Scott

4.30

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A remarkable intellectual history of the slave revolts that made the modern revolutionary era Th… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Decolonial Marxism: Essays from the Pan-African Revolution by Walter Rodney

19. 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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  • africa
  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence by Matteo Pasquinelli

20. The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence

By: Matteo Pasquinelli

4.14

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

A social history of AI that finally reveals its roots in the spatial computation of industrial fact… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
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  • nonfiction
Cover of Technic and Magic: The Reconstruction of Reality by Federico Campagna

21. Technic and Magic: The Reconstruction of Reality

By: Federico Campagna

4.32

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

We take for granted that only a certain kind of things exist – electrons but not angels, passports … read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
Cover of Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072 by M.E. O'Brien

22. Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072

By: M.E. O'Brien

4.15

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

By the middle of the twenty-first century, war, famine, economic collapse, and climate catastrophe … read more

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  • politics
Cover of They Call It Love: The Politics of Emotional Life by Alva Gotby

23. They Call It Love: The Politics of Emotional Life

By: Alva Gotby

3.87

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

The work of love is a feminist problem, and it demands feminist solutions Comforting a family memb… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Good Die Young: The Verdict on Henry Kissinger by Bhaskar Sunkara

24. The Good Die Young: The Verdict on Henry Kissinger

By: Bhaskar Sunkara

4.02

Format: 177 pages, Kindle Edition

"The collection strikes a blackly comic but erudite tone."–Sophia Nguyen, The Washington PostKissin… read more

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  • politics
  • history
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Cover of Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary by Miss Major Griffin-Gracy

25. Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary

By: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy

4.65

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

The future of Black, queer, and trans liberation explored by a legendary transgender elder and acti… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"I would hope that someone would step away from this book recognising that "transgender" does not encompass just one type of person."

-Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary

"If self-hatred was hammered into you when you were young, Major wants you to know that you're important - that being an outsider helps you develop skin that's both tough and pliable in social situati…"

-Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary

"The Powers That Be: the corporate, government, and nonprofit actors who work to preserve the status quo, and the forces in the world who want us all to fit into our proper places in an established so…"

-Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary

Cover of Quick Fixes: Drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st Century Binge by Benjamin Y. Fong

26. Quick Fixes: Drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st Century Binge

By: Benjamin Y. Fong

4.24

Format: 331 pages, ebook

A look at drugs through the lens of societal change and a look at social change through the lens of… read more

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27. Red Africa: Reclaiming Revolutionary Black Politics (Salvage Editions)

By: Kevin Ochieng Okoth

4.15

Format: 177 pages, Kindle Edition

Salvaging a decolonised futureRed Africa makes the case for a revolutionary Black politics inspired… read more

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  • africa
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  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Double Shift: Spinoza and Marx on the Politics of Work by Jason Read

28. The Double Shift: Spinoza and Marx on the Politics of Work

By: Jason Read

4.09

Format: 225 pages, Kindle Edition

"Why do people fight for their exploitation as if it was liberation?" How Marx and Spinoza can expl… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
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29. Deep Black (Arcana Imperii #2)

By: Miles Cameron

4.40

Format: 510 pages, Kindle Edition

Marca Nbaro had always dreamed of serving aboard the Greatships, with their vast cargo holds and a … read more

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Cover of Towards the Abyss: Ukraine from Maidan to War by Volodymyr Ishchenko

30. Towards the Abyss: Ukraine from Maidan to War

By: Volodymyr Ishchenko

4.11

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Ukrainian politics, the Russian invasion and the escalating crisis of the post-Soviet world In T… read more

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  • politics
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Cover of Lean on Me: A Politics of Radical Care by Lynne Segal

31. Lean on Me: A Politics of Radical Care

By: Lynne Segal

3.44

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Have you ever relied on the kindness of strangers? What brings people together to find hope and sol… read more

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  • philosophy
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23 must-read politics books like Red Africa: Reclaiming Revolutionary Black Politics (Salvage Editions) by Kevin Ochieng Okoth

Transform Your Habits

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

Walter Rodney , Vincent Harding

4.42

Transform Your Habits

The Principles of Communism

Friedrich Engels

4.06

Transform Your Habits

The Wretched of the Earth

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

4.32

Transform Your Habits

This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color

Gloria E. Anzaldúa , Toni Cade Bambara , Cherríe L. Moraga

4.52

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Transform Your Habits

Das Kapital

Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky

4.22

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If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution

Vincent Bevins

4.28

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Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

Yanis Varoufakis

4.01

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The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation

Cory Doctorow

4.17

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