10 must-read philosophy books like Marx and Marxism by Gregory Claeys

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Marx and Marxism

By: Gregory Claeys

3.75

Format: 544 pages, Mass Market Paperback

An illuminating history of Marx's thought and intellectual influence from a leading historian of so…

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1. Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic

By: Tom Holland

4.22

Format: 408 pages, Paperback

In 49 B.C., the seven hundred fifth year since the founding of Rome, Julius Caesar crossed a small … read more

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  • politics
  • classics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Achievement was worthy of praise and honor, but excessive achievement was pernicious and a threat to the state. However great a citizen might become, however great he might wish to become, the truest…"

-Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic

"Enthusiasts for empire argued that Rome had a civilizing mission; that because her values and institutions were self-evidently superior to those of barbarians, she had a duty to propagate them; that …"

-Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic

"Honour, in the Republic, had never been a goal in itself, only a means to an infinite end. And what was true of her citizens, naturally, was also true of Rome herself. For the generation that had liv…"

-Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic

"It was an article of faith to the Romans that they were the most morally upright people in the world. How else was the size of their empire to be explained? Yet they also knew that the Republic's gre…"

-Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic

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2. On Palestine

By: Noam Chomsky , Ilan Pappé

4.25

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

Operation Protective Edge, Israel's most recent assault on Gaza, left thousands of Palestinians dea… read more

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  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"It's quite standard for those who hold the clubs to say: "Forget about everything that happened and let's just go on from here." In other words, "I've got what I want, and out forget about what your …"

-Noam Chomsky, On Palestine

"How, then, does one become an activist? The easy answer would be to say that we do not become activists; we simply forget that we are. We are all born with compassion, generosity, and love for others…"

-Noam Chomsky, On Palestine

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3. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

By: Adam Smith

3.88

Format: 1076 pages, Paperback

Adam Smith's masterpiece, first published in 1776, is the foundation of modern economic thought and… read more

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  • classics
  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • political science
  • economics
"Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production"

-Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

"of their passions in the same object at that particular time."

-Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

"Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition."

-Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

"There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people."

-Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

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4. SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

By: Mary Beard

3.59

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

New York TimesBestseller * National Book Critics Circle Finalist * Wall Street JournalBest Books of… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • classics
  • history
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5. 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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  • classics
  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
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6. Limonov

By: Emmanuel Carrère

4.27

Format: 67 pages, Paperback

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  • history
  • biography
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7. The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love

By: bell hooks

3.90

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Everyone needs to love and be loved -- even men. But to know love, men must be able to look at the … read more

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8. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

By: Ilan Pappé

3.98

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

Since the Holocaust, it has been almost impossible to hide large-scale crimes against humanity. In … read more

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9. The Old Regime and the French Revolution

By: Stuart Gilbert , Alexis de Tocqueville , None , None

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

The book analyzes French society before the French Revolution -- the so-called "Ancien Regime" -- a… read more

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10. The Origins of Totalitarianism

By: Hannah Arendt

3.37

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

Hannah Arendt's definitive work on totalitarianism and an essential component of any study of twent… read more

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11. World Order

By: Henry Kissinger

3.50

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Henry Kissinger offers in World Ordera deep meditation on the roots of international harmony and gl… read more

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12. The Word for World is Forest

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.36

Format: 189 pages, ebook

Centuries in the future, Terrans have established a logging colony & military base named "New Tahit… read more

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13. 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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  • classics
  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
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  • political science
  • economics
"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

14. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

By: Judith Butler

3.81

Format: None pages,

Since its publication in 1990, Gender Troublehas become one of the key works of contemporary femini… read more

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15. The Democracy Project: A History, a Crisis, a Movement

By: David Graeber

3.20

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

A bold rethinking of the most powerful political idea in the world--democracy--as seen through the … read more

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16. 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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17. Mao: The Unknown Story

By: Jung Chang , Jon Halliday

3.68

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

The most authoritative life of the Chinese leader every written, Mao: The Unknown Story is based on… read more

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18. Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life

By: Jonathan Sperber

3.44

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Between his birth in 1818 and his death sixty-five years later, Karl Marx became one of Western civ… read more

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19. King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa

By: Adam Hochschild

4.18

Format: 442 pages, Kindle Edition

In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for … read more

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  • politics
  • biography
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Most striking about the traditional societies of the Congo was their remarkable artwork: baskets, mats, pottery, copper and ironwork, and above all, woodcarving. It would be two decades before Europe…"

-Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa

"Today we are less likely to speak of humanitarianism, with its overtones of paternalistic generosity, and more likely to speak of human rights. The basic freedoms in life are not seen as gifts to be …"

-Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa

"Most striking about the traditional societies of the Congo was their remarkable artwork: baskets, mats, pottery, copper and ironwork, and, above all, woodcarving. It would be two decades before Europ…"

-Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa

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20. How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them

By: Jason F. Stanley

4.17

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Fascist politics are running rampant in America today—and spreading around the world. A Yale philos… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • political science
"Fascist politics does not necessarily lead to an explicitly fascist state, but it is dangerous nonetheless. Fascist politics includes many distinct strategies: the mythic past, propaganda, anti-intel…"

-Jason F. Stanley, How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them

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21. Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II

By: Svetlana Alexievich

4.49

Format: 298 pages, Kindle Edition

Stunning stories about what it was like to be a Soviet child during the upheaval and horror of the … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history
"For a child, the loss of a parent is the loss of memory itself."

-Svetlana Alexievich, Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II

"En la guerra hi penso per mirar de comprendre-la... Si no, de què serveix?"

-Svetlana Alexievich, Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II

"Ningú no volia conèixer ningú, perquè l’endemà aquella persona podia morir."

-Svetlana Alexievich, Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II

"А однажды на улице встретила мужчину, похожего на папу. Как мой папа. Долго шла за ним… Я же не видела папу мертвым…"

-Svetlana Alexievich, Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II

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22. The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy

By: Stephanie Kelton

4.04

Format: 327 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times Bestseller The leading thinker and most visible public advocate of modern monetary… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
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23. All That Remains: A Life in Death

By: Sue Black

4.16

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Sue Black confronts death every day. As Professor of Anatomy and Forensic Anthropology, she focuses… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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24. Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

By: Katja Hoyer

4.23

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

In 1990, a country disappeared. When the Iron Curtain fell, East Germany simply ceased to be. For o… read more

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  • politics
  • biography
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  • nonfiction
"Some of the “songs"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

"Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart,"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

"From 1971, the rates paid were means-tested, allowing working class families with children privileged access. A four-person household in West Germany spent around 21 percent of their net income on re…"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

"In other fields too, female ambition had become the norm. By 1988, over 90% of East German women fought their own battles in the workplace. The GDR had reached the highest rate of female employment i…"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

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25. The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice

By: Shon Faye

4.55

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

Trans people in Britain today have become a culture war 'issue'. Despite making up less than 1% of … read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
"The idea that conspicuous consumption is a route to sexual and gender freedom has been effective in allowing the LGBT movement’s muscles to atrophy. In a godless age, there are new ways to give the m…"

-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice

"The idea that conspicuous consumption is a route to sexual and gender freedom has been effective in allowing the LGBT movement's muscles to atrophy. In a godless age, there are new ways to give the m…"

-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice

"Together, an LGBTQ+ coalition with class consciousness and anti-racism at its core must recover its radicalism and reaffirm its opposition to capitalism and patriarchy. Infighting and division are in…"

-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice

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26. Mute Compulsion. A Theory of the Economic Power of Capital

By: Søren Mau

4.40

Format: None pages, ebook

[From Author's Summary] Despite a decade of crisis and social unrest, capitalism is in many ways … read more

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  • politics
  • philosophy
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  • economics
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27. El patriarcado del salario: Críticas feministas al marxismo

By: Silvia Federici

4.20

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

Marx entendió el capitalismo como una etapa necesaria para llegar a una sociedad sin clases en un m… read more

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  • theory
  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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28. Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

By: Jason Hickel

4.51

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

The world has finally awoken to the reality of climate breakdown and ecological collapse. Now we mu… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
"Individuality is an illusion. Life on this planet is an interwoven mesh of relational becoming."

-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

"We will find ourselves plunging into ecological collapse well before we run into the limits to growth."

-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

"It is politically easier to rev up GDP and hope some of it trickles down to the poor than it is to distribute existing income more fairly."

-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

"Atmospheric carbon concentration should not breach 350ppm if the climate is to remain stable (we crossed that boundary in 1990, and hit 415ppm in 2020)."

-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

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29. Stalin: Waiting for Hitler 1929-1941

By: Stephen Kotkin

4.45

Format: 1184 pages, Hardcover

Pulitzer Prize-finalist Stephen Kotkin continues his definitive biography of Stalin, from collectiv… read more

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  • politics
  • biography
  • history
  • nonfiction
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30. How Spies Think: Ten Lessons in Intelligence

By: David Omand

3.67

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

From the former director of GCHQ, learn the methodology used by the British intelligence agencies t… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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31. Marx and Marxism

By: Gregory Claeys

3.75

Format: 544 pages, Mass Market Paperback

An illuminating history of Marx's thought and intellectual influence from a leading historian of so… read more

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