13 must-read nonfiction books like The Sociology of Freedom: Manifesto of the Democratic Civilization, Volume III by Abdullah Öcalan

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The Sociology of Freedom: Manifesto of the Democratic Civilization, Volume III

By: Abdullah Öcalan

4.31

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

When scientific socialism, which for many years was implemented by Abdullah Öcalan and the Kurdista…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Sociology of Freedom: Manifesto of the Democratic Civilization, Volume III by Abdullah Öcalan , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

By: Hannah Arendt

4.20

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

Originally appearing as a series of articles in The New Yorker, Hannah Arendt’s authoritative and s… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it—the quality of temptation."

-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

"During the war, the lie most effective with the whole of the German people was the slogan of “the battle of destiny for the German people"

-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

"In the Third Reich evil lost its distinctive characteristic by which most people had until then recognized it. The Nazis redefined it as a civil norm."

-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

"It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent."

-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

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2. Pedagogy of the Oppressed

By: Paulo Freire , Donaldo Macedo , Myra Bergman Ramos , None

4.30

Format: 183 pages, Paperback

First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in En… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
"Critical consciousness, they say, is anarchic."

-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

"Without a sense of identity, there can be no real struggle."

-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

"People educate each other through the mediation of the world."

-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

"Word is not the privilege of some few persons but the right of everyone"

-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

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3. Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism: An Unbridgeable Chasm

By: Murray Bookchin

3.39

Format: 86 pages, Paperback

This book asks—and tries to answer—several basic questions that affect all Leftists today. Will ana… read more

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  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • anarchism
  • sociology
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4. My Name is Red

By: Orhan Pamuk , Erdağ M. Göknar

3.65

Format: 135 pages, Paperback

At once a fiendishly devious mystery, a beguiling love story, and a brilliant symposium on the powe… read more

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5. The Next Revolution: Popular Assemblies and the Promise of Direct Democracy

By: Murray Bookchin

4.40

Format: None pages, Paperback

From Athens to New York, recent mass movements around the world have challenged austerity and autho… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • sociology

6. The Revolution Betrayed

By: Leon Trotsky , Max Eastman

3.86

Format: 262 pages, Paperback

One of Marxism's most important texts, The Revolution Betrayedexplores the fate of the Russian Revo… read more

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7. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

By: Mark Fisher

4.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

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8. Mutual Aid

By: Pyotr Kropotkin

3.78

Format: 584 pages, Paperback

In 'Mutual Aid', Peter Kropotkin attacks the use of Darwinism as a social theory, arguing that coop… read more

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9. Journey to the End of the Night

By: Louis-Ferdinand Céline , Ralph Manheim , William T. Vollmann

4.19

Format: 453 pages, Paperback

Louis-Ferdinand Celine's revulsion and anger at what he considered the idiocy and hypocrisy of soci… read more

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  • philosophy
"If you aren't rich you should always look useful."

-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

"When you write, you should put your skin on the table."

-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

"Sonuçta savaş dediğiniz şey, anlamadığınız ne varsa odur"

-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

"Nearly all a poor bastard's desires are punishable by jail."

-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

10. Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation

By: Silvia Federici

4.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

Literary Nonfiction. CALIBAN AND THE WITCH is a history of the body in the transition to capitalism… read more

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11. Post-Scarcity Anarchism

By: Murray Bookchin

3.34

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this series of essays, Murray Bookchin balances his ecological and anarchist vision with the pro… read more

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12. Are Prisons Obsolete?

By: Angela Y. Davis

4.15

Format: None pages,

With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case fo… read more

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13. History of the Makhnovist Movement, 1918-1921

By: Peter Arshinov

4.23

Format: 284 pages, Paperback

The only first-hand account of this crucial episode of the Russian Revolution. From 1918-21, fighti… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Proletarians of the world, look into the depths of your own beings, seek out the truth and realise it yourselves: you will find it nowhere else."

-Peter Arshinov, History of the Makhnovist Movement, 1918-1921

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14. 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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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"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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15. The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories

By: Ilan Pappé

4.35

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Following his critically acclaimed investigation of the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in the 1940s,… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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16. The Sociology of Freedom: Manifesto of the Democratic Civilization, Volume III

By: Abdullah Öcalan

4.31

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

When scientific socialism, which for many years was implemented by Abdullah Öcalan and the Kurdista… read more

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  • history
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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • anarchism
  • sociology
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17. Anarchism and the Black Revolution: The Definitive Edition (Black Critique)

By: Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin

4.27

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

"A powerful – even startling – book...Its analysis of police violence and the threat of fascism are… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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18. Make Rojava Green Again: Building an Ecological Society

By: Internationalist Commune of Rojava

4.34

Format: 125 pages, Paperback

What is it about the social structures of Rojava that so inspires the fierce loyalty of its defende… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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19. The Philosophy of Social Ecology: Essays on Dialectical Naturalism

By: Murray Bookchin

3.79

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

What is nature? What is humanity's place in nature? And what is the relationship of society to the … read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
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20. The Kurdish Women's Movement: History, Theory, Practice

By: Dilar Dirik

4.74

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

'One the foremost writers and participants in the Kurdish women's movement' - Harsha Walia The Kurd… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
". . . this book consciously centres stories of resistance and victory. Not because things are perfect, but because things are possible – through faith and struggle."

-Dilar Dirik, The Kurdish Women's Movement: History, Theory, Practice

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21. The Modern Crisis

By: Murray Bookchin

3.90

Format: 196 pages, Paperback

Murray Bookchin’s frank assessment of the disaster we are heading toward at increasing speed is as … read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction

10 best-selling history books like The Sociology of Freedom: Manifesto of the Democratic Civilization, Volume III by Abdullah Öcalan

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4.20

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4.30

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4.40

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4.23

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4.02

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4.12

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