12 must-read theory books like Comrade: An Essay on Political Belonging by Jodi Dean

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Comrade: An Essay on Political Belonging

By: Jodi Dean

3.89

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

When people say “comrade,” they change the world In the twentieth century, millions of people ac…

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1. Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party

By: Joshua Bloom , Waldo E. Martin Jr.

4.46

Format: 552 pages, Hardcover

In Oakland, California, in 1966, community college students Bobby Seale and Huey Newton armed thems… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • sociology
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2. Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

By: Anne Carson , Stesichorus

4.27

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

The award-winning poet Anne Carson reinvents a genre in Autobiography of Red, a stunning work that … read more

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"Under the seams runs the pain."

-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

"There is no person without a world."

-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

"Don't want to be free want to be with you."

-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

"Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary."

-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

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3. Palestine, Israel and the U.S. Empire

By: Richard Becker

4.72

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

A sharp analysis of the struggle for Palestine--from the division of the Middle East by Western pow… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • political science
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4. 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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  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • political science
"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

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5. 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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  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • sociology
"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

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6. 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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  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • political science
  • sociology
"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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7. Assata: An Autobiography

By: Angela Y. Davis , Assata Shakur , Lennox S. Hinds

4.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

On May 2, 1973, Black Panther Assata Shakur (aka JoAnne Chesimard) lay in a hospital, close to deat… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction

8. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

By: Mark Fisher

4.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

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9. 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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10. Middle Passage

By: Charles R. Johnson

3.67

Format: None pages, Paperback

It is 1830. Rutherford Calhoun, a newly freed slave and irrepressible rogue, is desperate to escape… read more

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11. What Is to Be Done?

By: Vladimir Lenin , Robert Service , Joe Fineberg , George H. Hanna

4.05

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

In What Is to Be Done?, Lenin in 1901 argues that the working class will not spontaneously become p… read more

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  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"Ancak kendine güveni olmayanlar, güvenilmez insanlarla bile olsa geçici ittifaklara girmekten korkar ve hiçbir politik parti bu tür ittifaklar olmadan var olamaz."

-Vladimir Lenin, What Is to Be Done?

"Ya burjuva ideolojisi ya da sosyalist ideoloji. Bunun ortası yok (çünkü insanlık "üçüncü" bir ideoloji yaratmış değildir; ayrıca genel olarak sınıfsal çelişkilerle parçalanmış bir toplumda, hiçbir za…"

-Vladimir Lenin, What Is to Be Done?

"We are marching in a compact group along a precipitous and difficult path, firmly holding each other by the hand. We are surrounded on all sides by enemies, and we have to advance almost constantly u…"

-Vladimir Lenin, What Is to Be Done?

"Rusya'da, hem 1870'li, hem de 1860'lı yıllarda (hatta 19. yüzyılın ilk yarısında) da grevler oldu ve bunlar makinelerin vb. "kendiliğinden" tahrip edilmesi vb. eşliğinde yaşanan grevlerdi. Bu "isyanl…"

-Vladimir Lenin, What Is to Be Done?

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12. Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

By: Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

4.00

Format: 157 pages, Paperback

A powerful indictment of the ways elites have co-opted radical critiques of racial capitalism to se… read more

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  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • activism
  • sociology
"A philosopher Briana Toole clarifies, by itself, one's social location only puts a person in a position to know; 'epistemic privilege' or advantage, on the other hand, is achieved only through delibe…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

"Elites do often make the environment worse and block solutions, but to blame the problem of elite capture entirely on their moral successes and failures is to confuse effect for cause. The true probl…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

"To opt for deference, rather than interdependence, may soothe short-term psychological wounds. But it does so at a steep cost: it may undermine the goals that motivated the project--and it entrenches…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

"As Carter G. Woodson realized, many of our decisions are shaped by decisions that someone with more power made before us. The whole social structure affects how institutional systems, like schools, f…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

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13. How to Blow Up a Pipeline

By: Andreas Malm

3.96

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

The science on climate change has been clear for a very long time now. Yet despite decades of appea… read more

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  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • activism
"The context for hope is radical uncertainty; anything could happen, and whether we act or not has everything to do with it."

-Andreas Malm, How to Blow Up a Pipeline

"I once asked Bill McKibben, after an energising speech to a capacity crowd, when – given that the situation is as urgent as he portrayed it and we all know it is – we escalate. He was visibly ill at …"

-Andreas Malm, How to Blow Up a Pipeline

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14. Health Communism

By: Beatrice Adler-Bolton

4.31

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A searing analysis of health and illness under capitalism from hosts of the hit podcast “Death Pane… read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
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15. Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation

By: Sophie Lewis

3.70

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

What if everyone was family? We need to talk about the family. For those who are lucky, families… read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • activism
  • sociology
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16. The End of Policing

By: Alex S. Vitale

4.19

Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition

The problem is not overpolicing, it is policing itself Recent years have seen an explosion of pr… read more

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  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • sociology
"Our standard of living is not declining because of migrants but because of unregulated neoliberal capitalism, which has allowed corporations and the rich to avoid paying taxes or decent wages. It is …"

-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing

"There is no question that American police use their weapons more than police in any other developed democracy. Unfortunately, we don’t have fully accurate information about the number or nature of ho…"

-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing

"As Jeffrey Reiman points out in the Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison, the criminal justice system excuses and ignores crimes of the rich that produce profound social harms while intensely crim…"

-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing

"Heavy-handed immigration policing will not build a worker’s movement, it will shatter it. One of the mistakes that Trump supporters make is imagining that their own economic conditions will be improv…"

-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing

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17. Socialist Reconstruction: A Better Future for the United States

By: Party for Socialism and Liberation

4.55

Format: 196 pages, Kindle Edition

A vision of the first decade of socialism in the United States. The diverse multinational working c… read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • activism
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18. 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
  • social justice
  • history
  • nonfiction
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19. China's Revolution and the Quest for a Socialist Future

By: Kenneth J. Hammond

4.41

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Between the end of the Opium War in the 1842 and the establishment of the People’s Republic in 1949… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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20. Comrade: An Essay on Political Belonging

By: Jodi Dean

3.89

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

When people say “comrade,” they change the world In the twentieth century, millions of people ac… read more

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  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • essays
  • activism
  • political science
  • sociology
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21. Law and Marxism

By: Evgeny Pashukanis

4.35

Format: 196 pages, Paperback

E. B. Pashukanis was the most significant contemporary to develop a fresh, new Marxist perspective … read more

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  • philosophy
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13 Best history books like Comrade: An Essay on Political Belonging by Jodi Dean

Transform Your Habits

Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party

Joshua Bloom , Waldo E. Martin Jr.

4.46

Transform Your Habits

Palestine, Israel and the U.S. Empire

Richard Becker

4.72

Transform Your Habits

The State and Revolution

Vladimir Lenin

4.24

Transform Your Habits

The Wretched of the Earth

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

4.32

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16 best-selling history books like Assata: An Autobiography by Angela Y. Davis, Assata Shakur, Lennox S. Hinds

Transform Your Habits

An Autobiography

Angela Y. Davis

4.44

Transform Your Habits

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

Walter Rodney , Vincent Harding

4.42

Transform Your Habits

Women, Race & Class

Angela Y. Davis

4.58

Transform Your Habits

The Wretched of the Earth

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

4.32

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