23 best-selling nonfiction books like Anarchism and the Black Revolution: The Definitive Edition (Black Critique) by Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin

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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…

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1. The ABC of Anarchism

By: Alexander Berkman , Emma Goldman , Paul Avrich

3.92

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A gifted writer for the anarchist movement, Alexander Berkman left Russia for the United States in … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"These days even mere attempts to improve capitalism are often called ‘Socialism,’ while in reality they are only reforms."

-Alexander Berkman, The ABC of Anarchism

"Violence is the method of ignorance, the weapon of the weak. The strong of heart and brain need no violence, for they are irresistible in their consciousness of being right."

-Alexander Berkman, The ABC of Anarchism

"In the name of patriotism you are ordered to stop being decent and honest, to cease being yourself, to suspend your own judgment, and give up your life; to become a will-less cog in a murderous machi…"

-Alexander Berkman, The ABC of Anarchism

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2. 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
  • nonfiction
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3. The Autobiography of Malcolm X

By: Alex Haley , Malcolm X

4.36

Format: 466 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Alternate cover for ISBN 9780345350688 Through a life of passion and struggle, Malcolm X became … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • race
  • history
"We all like chicken"

-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

"كانت حياتي سلسة من التحولات"

-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

"لا يدرك الناس أن كتابا واحدا قد يغير حياة انسان"

-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

"I Used the Word 'Negro' and I was Firmly Corrected"

-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

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4. 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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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"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

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5. Anarchists Against the Wall

By: Uri Gordon , Ohal Grietzer

3.16

Format: 315 pages, Paperback

Poso eukolo einai na onomazesai Gionatan, Giouri, Tali, Gkil, Sara, Routh kai na theleis na apallag… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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6. Revolutionary Suicide

By: Huey P. Newton , J. Herman Blake

4.00

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

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  • politics
  • race
  • history
  • nonfiction

7. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

By: Mark Fisher

4.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

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8. Discourse on Colonialism

By: Robin D.G. Kelley , Aimé Césaire , Joan Pinkham

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Cesaire's essay stands as an important document in the development of third world consciousness--a… read more

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9. War is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated Soldier

By: Adam Parfrey , Smedley D. Butler

3.93

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

Major General Smedley D. Butler was a military hero of the first rank, the winner of two Medals of … read more

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10. 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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11. 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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12. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism

By: Benedict Anderson

3.77

Format: None pages, Paperback

What makes people love and die for nations, as well as hate and kill in their name? While many stud… read more

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13. Woman on the Edge of Time

By: Marge Piercy

3.29

Format: None pages,

Connie Ramos, a woman in her mid-thirties, has been declared insane. But Connie is overwhelmingly s… read more

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14. Transgender Warriors : Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman

By: Leslie Feinberg

3.90

Format: 150 pages,

With a New Afterword by the AuthorIn this fascinating, personal journey through history, Leslie Fei… read more

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15. 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
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  • 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

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16. Consider This: Moments in My Writing Life After Which Everything Was Different

By: Chuck Palahniuk

4.39

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Renowned, bestselling novelist Chuck Palahniuk takes us behind the scenes of the writing life, with… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Three parts description . Two parts instruction . One part onomatopoeia . Mix to taste ."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Consider This: Moments in My Writing Life After Which Everything Was Different

"Once someone who draws superheroes draws your picture , you never want to go back to reality ."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Consider This: Moments in My Writing Life After Which Everything Was Different

"My guess is that people haven’t a clue how to get along . They need a structure , rules , and roles to play ."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Consider This: Moments in My Writing Life After Which Everything Was Different

"All through that lunch I feigned interest in her cats , yes , cats , while psychically begging her to love me and interview me ."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Consider This: Moments in My Writing Life After Which Everything Was Different

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17. I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World

By: Kai Cheng Thom

4.44

Format: 155 pages, Paperback

What can we hope for at the end of the world? What can we trust in when community has broken our he… read more

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"When you live in a community of queers, anarchists, & activists, crisis is the baseline and stability an outlier."

-Kai Cheng Thom, I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World

"Models of justice that centre punishment do not prevent abuse but only react to it, and they don't offer a pathway toward healing for either perpetrators or survivors. Nor do they acknowledge the dua…"

-Kai Cheng Thom, I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World

"That in a loving place, I am able to hear a friend disagree with me and know that they still care for me. That I can receive their advice and know that I don't have to follow it. That there is enough…"

-Kai Cheng Thom, I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World

"Transition is a fundamental right that all trans people, of all ages, should have access to. But I believe that transition, ideally, should be offered to us as one option of many for bodily autonomy …"

-Kai Cheng Thom, I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World

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18. Homie

By: Danez Smith

4.42

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Homie is Danez Smith’s magnificent anthem about the saving grace of friendship. Rooted in the loss … read more

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  • nonfiction
"the b in debt is a silent black trapped"

-Danez Smith, Homie

"what good is hiding the gun & locking the cabinet if the boy can still find his own hands? if anything that loops can be a rope?"

-Danez Smith, Homie

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

20. 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 Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care by Kelly Hayes

21. Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care

By: Kelly Hayes

4.64

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

What fuels and sustains activism and organizing when it feels like our worlds are collapsing? Let T… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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22. Carceral Capitalism

By: Jackie Wang

4.61

Format: 359 pages, Paperback

Essays on the contemporary continuum of incarceration: the biopolitics of juvenile delinquency, pre… read more

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  • race
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"In other words, their [police] survival and expansion becomes bound up with their capacity to use the police power and the court system to loot residents."

-Jackie Wang, Carceral Capitalism

"The conversion of poverty into a personal moral failure was intimately tied to the construction of black Americans as disposable and subject to mass incarceration."

-Jackie Wang, Carceral Capitalism

"As Iyko Day notes, Native dispossession occurs through the expropriation of land, while black dispossession is characterized by enslavement and bodily dispossession."

-Jackie Wang, Carceral Capitalism

"The financialization of municipalities, the loss of key tax revenue streams, deindustrialization, and capital flight are the causes of the fiscal crisis—not reckless public spending."

-Jackie Wang, Carceral Capitalism

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23. Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation

By: Ruth Wilson Gilmore

4.48

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

New collection of writings from one of the foremost contemporary critical thinkers on racism, geogr… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Where life is precious, life is precious."

-Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation

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24. Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration

By: Bryan Caplan

4.11

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Economist Bryan Caplan makes a bold case for unrestricted immigration in this fact-filled graphic n… read more

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

26. 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
  • race
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"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

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27. 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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28. 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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  • nonfiction
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29. The Ballot or the Bullet

By: Malcolm X

4.40

Format: 9 pages, None

El Voto o la Bala también muestra como Malcolm X deja el simple binarismo racial para ahondar en ca… read more

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"I'm not the kind of person who come here to say what you like. I'm going to tell you the truth whether you like it or not."

-Malcolm X, The Ballot or the Bullet

"This is why I say it's the ballot or the bullet. It's liberty or it's death. It's freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody."

-Malcolm X, The Ballot or the Bullet

"And when I speak, I don't speak as a Democrat or a Republican, nor an American. I speak as a victim of America's so-called democracy. You and I have never seen democracy – all we've seen is hypocrisy."

-Malcolm X, The Ballot or the Bullet

"You don't have a revolution in which you love your enemy. And you don't have a revolution in which you are begging the system of exploitation to integrate you into it. Revolutions overturn systems. R…"

-Malcolm X, The Ballot or the Bullet

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30. What about the rapists? Anarchist approaches to crime & justice

By: Various

3.89

Format: 82 pages, Unknown Binding

This pamphlet is aimed at anarchists thinking about how to deal with abuses of power and acts of do… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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31. Practical Anarchism: A Guide for Daily Life

By: Scott Branson

4.07

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

You may not realise it, but you are probably already practicing anarchism in your daily life. From … read more

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