Understanding Marxism
By: Richard D. Wolff
4.14
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Why should we pay attention to the great social critics like Marx? American, especially now, confro…
Want to Read $ 9.99"To achieve a society that exhibits liberty, equality, fraternity and democracy, the object to change first and foremost is production."-Richard D. Wolff, Understanding Marxism
"To achieve a society that exhibits liberty, equality, fraternity and democracy, the object to change first and foremost is production."-Richard D. Wolff, Understanding Marxism
"Greed is not the cause of capitalists' behavior; it is a quality they acquire in accommodating to and internalizing the requirements of competitive survival within the capitalist system."-Richard D. Wolff, Understanding Marxism
"Greed is not the cause of capitalists' behavior; it is a quality they acquire in accommodating to and internalizing the requirements of competitive survival within the capitalist system."-Richard D. Wolff, Understanding Marxism
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1. 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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2. 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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"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
3. Dialectical and Historical Materialism
By: Joseph Stalin
3.91
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
A succinct presentation of the philosophical foundations of Marxism. read more
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"If there are no isolated phenomena in the world, if all phenomena are interconnected and interdependent, then it is clear that every social system and every social movement in history must be evaluat…"-Joseph Stalin, Dialectical and Historical Materialism
"But having developed productive forces to a tremendous extent, capitalism has become enmeshed in contradictions which it is unable to solve. By producing larger and larger quantities of commodities, …"-Joseph Stalin, Dialectical and Historical Materialism
4. Marx for Beginners
By: Rius
4.25
Format: 355 pages, Paperback
A cartoon book about Marx? Are you sure it's Karl, not Groucho? How can you summarize the work of K… read more
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5. 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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"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
6. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
By: Noam Chomsky , Edward S. Herman
4.42
Format: 718 pages, Paperback
Librarian's note: There are Alternate Cover Editions for this edition of this book . In this pathb… read more
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7. 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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8. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
By: Mark Fisher
4.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
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9. The Communist Manifesto
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Gareth Stedman Jones
3.66
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A rousing call to arms whose influence is still felt today Originally published on the eve of th… read more
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"The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"Study of the past often turns into love of the past and a desire to keep it."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps"-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
10. 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
11. Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
By: Friedrich Engels
4.24
Format: 86 pages, Paperback
Modern socialism is not a doctrine, Engels explains, but a working-class movement growing out of th… read more
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"State interference in social relations becomes, in one domain after another, superfluous, and then dies out of itself; the government of persons is replaced by the administration of things, and by th…"-Friedrich Engels, Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
"Las fuerzas activas de la sociedad obran, mientras no las conocemos y contamos con ellas, exactamente lo mismo que las fuerzas de la naturaleza: de un modo ciego, violento, destructor. Pero, una vez …"-Friedrich Engels, Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
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13. 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
14. 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
15. Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails
By: Yanis Varoufakis
4.13
Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition
In Talking to My Daughter About the Economy, activist Yanis Varoufakis, Greece’s former finance min… read more
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"The Matrix is a reflection of our times, or at least our anxieties. It reveals our fear of a mechanization so complete, of a commodification of our bodies and enslavement of our minds so successful, …"-Yanis Varoufakis, Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails
"...a cynical person is someone who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing. Our societies tend to make us all cynics. And no one is more cynical than the economist who sees exchange va…"-Yanis Varoufakis, Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails
"Bürokrasi, Ordu ve Ruhban Sınıfı Borç, para, inanç ve devlet el ele yürür. Borç olmadan tarımsal fazlalığı yönetmenin kolay yolu yoktur. Borcun ortaya çıkışıyla paranın yıldızı parlamaya başladı. Anc…"-Yanis Varoufakis, Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails
"Like any ecosystem, a modern economy cannot survive without recycling. Just as animals and plants are continually recycling the oxygen and carbon dioxide that the other provides, so too must workers …"-Yanis Varoufakis, Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails
16. Washington Bullets
By: Vijay Prashad
4.40
Format: 162 pages, Paperback
Washington Bullets is written in the best traditions of Marxist journalism and history-writing. It … read more
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17. A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto
By: China Miéville
3.95
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
China Miéville's riveting engagement with the Communist Manifesto offers a lyrical introduction and… read more
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"Like the authors of the Manifesto, I don’t believe that the generalised mass misery of the world, all the unbearable checklists of deprivation and depravity, is irrelevant, nor unrelated to the econo…"-China Miéville, A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto
18. Against the Web
By: Michael Brooks
4.10
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Michael Brooks takes on the new "Intellectual Dark Web." As the host of The Michael Brooks Show and… read more
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19. Red Star Over the Third World
By: Vijay Prashad
4.23
Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition
‘Like the brilliant sun, the October Revolution shone over all five continents, awakening millions … read more
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20. Understanding Marxism
By: Richard D. Wolff
4.14
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Why should we pay attention to the great social critics like Marx? American, especially now, confro… read more
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"To achieve a society that exhibits liberty, equality, fraternity and democracy, the object to change first and foremost is production."-Richard D. Wolff, Understanding Marxism
"Greed is not the cause of capitalists' behavior; it is a quality they acquire in accommodating to and internalizing the requirements of competitive survival within the capitalist system."-Richard D. Wolff, Understanding Marxism
"Any individual exhibiting a personal instability comparable to the economic and social instability of capitalism would long ago have been required to seek professional help and to make basic changes."-Richard D. Wolff, Understanding Marxism
"The system is a contradiction: the very logic imposed on the capitalist enterprise undermines the overall success of the capitalist. For Marxists, no law, rule, regulation, or behavior pattern provid…"-Richard D. Wolff, Understanding Marxism
21. The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality
By: Bhaskar Sunkara
3.63
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A "razor-sharp" introduction to this political and economic ideology makes a galvanizing argument f… read more
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