Why You Should Be a Socialist
By: Nathan J. Robinson
3.83
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A primer on Democratic Socialism for those who are extremely skeptical of it. America is witnes…
Want to Read $ 9.99"Community is not valued in a society like this. Money rules absolutely."-Nathan J. Robinson, Why You Should Be a Socialist
"Community is not valued in a society like this. Money rules absolutely."-Nathan J. Robinson, Why You Should Be a Socialist
"Community is not valued in a society like this. Money rules absolutely."-Nathan J. Robinson, Why You Should Be a Socialist
"The political establishment is vulnerable. And if we make our numbers count, we can change anything."-Nathan J. Robinson, Why You Should Be a Socialist
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1. Doctor Zhivago
By: Boris Pasternak , John Bayley , Manya Harari , Max Hayward
4.01
Format: 592 pages, Paperback
This epic tale about the effects of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath on a bourgeois family … read more
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"Only the superfluous is sordid"-Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
"Only the familiar transformed by genius is truly great."-Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
"The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable."-Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
"And the strong are dominated by the weak and the ignoble."-Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
2. The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics
By: Alastair Smith , Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
4.03
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
For eighteen years, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith have been part of a team revolutioni… read more
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3. 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
4. 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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- social justice
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5. 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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6. Prosperity Without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet
By: Tim Jackson
4.26
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Is more economic growth the solution? Will it deliver prosperity and well-being for a global popula… read more
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7. Bernie Sanders Guide to Political Revolution
By: Bernie Sanders , Kate Waters
3.81
Format: 234 pages, Hardcover
In theBernie Sanders Guide to Political Revolution, Independent congressman, presidential candidate… read more
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8. 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
9. A Brief History of Neoliberalism
By: David Harvey
3.76
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
Neoliberalism--the doctrine that market exchange is an ethic in itself, capable of acting as a guid… read more
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10. Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky
By: Noam Chomsky , None , None
3.29
Format: None pages, Paperback
The best of Chomsky's recent talks on the past, present, and future of the politics of power. In a … 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. Animal Liberation
By: Peter Singer
3.80
Format: 220 pages,
The Book That Started A Revolution Since its original publication in 1975, this groundbreaking work… read more
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13. How Nonviolence Protects the State
By: Peter Gelderloos
4.03
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Since the civil rights era, the doctrine of nonviolence has enjoyed near-universal acceptance by th… read more
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14. 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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- history
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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
15. Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam
By: Nick Turse
4.21
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Americans have long been taught that events such as the notorious My Lai massacre were isolated inc… read more
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16. Farmer
By: Jim Harrison
3.75
Format: 273 pages, Paperback
Joseph is 43, a farmer-teacher who suddenly finds himself at a crossroads. Forced to choose between… read more
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17. Splinters
By: Leslie Jamison
3.86
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes the riveti… read more
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18. Platonic: How the Science of Attachment Can Help You Make—and Keep—Friends
By: Marisa G. Franco
4.06
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A lively, data-driven guide to finding your people from psychologist Dr. Marisa G. Franco about the… read more
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19. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
By: David Graeber
4.20
Format: 692 pages, Hardcover
A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions abo… read more
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- economics
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- audiobook
"Humans - from this other perspective, which is just as extreme in its own way - are at best an arbitrary constellation of cultural elements, perhaps assembled according to some prevailing spirit, cod…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"One might ask, how could that most basic element of all human freedoms, the freedom to make promises and commitments and thus build relationships, be turned into its very opposite: into peonage, serf…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"There is an obvious objection to evolutionary models which assume that our strongest social ties are based on close biological kinship: many humans just don’t like their families very much. And this …"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"In the Middle Ages, most people in other parts of the world who actually knew anything about northern Europe at all considered it an obscure and uninviting backwater full of religious fanatics who, a…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
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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"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
21. 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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22. Fan Fiction
By: Brent Spiner
3.52
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A Mem-Noir: Inspired by True Events From Brent Spiner, who played the beloved Lieutenant Comman… read more
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"Mr.Spiner I have many patients with autism and Asperger’s syndrome. They often have extreme difficulties with basic social interaction. For many of them, you or rather Data is their icon. Their hero."-Brent Spiner, Fan Fiction
23. Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence
By: Kristen R. Ghodsee
4.01
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A spirited, deeply researched exploration of why capitalism is bad for women and how, when done rig… read more
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"If done properly, socialism leads to economic independence, better labor conditions, better work/family balance, and, yes, even better sex."-Kristen R. Ghodsee, Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence
"The state of being female is complicated by other categories such as class, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, religious belief, and so on."-Kristen R. Ghodsee, Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence
"You are not a commodity. Your depression and anxiety are not just chemical imbalances in your brain but reasonable responses to a system that thrives on your dehumanization."-Kristen R. Ghodsee, Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence
24. There Are Trans People Here
By: H. Melt
4.19
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
There are trans people here in the past, the present, and the future. H. Melt's writing centers the… read more
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25. Just Your Local Bisexual Disaster
By: Andrea Mosqueda
3.78
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In this voice-driven young adult debut by Andrea Mosqueda, Maggie Gonzalez needs a date to her sist… read more
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26. 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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- social justice
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27. Why You Should Be a Socialist
By: Nathan J. Robinson
3.83
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A primer on Democratic Socialism for those who are extremely skeptical of it. America is witnes… read more
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"Community is not valued in a society like this. Money rules absolutely."-Nathan J. Robinson, Why You Should Be a Socialist
"The political establishment is vulnerable. And if we make our numbers count, we can change anything."-Nathan J. Robinson, Why You Should Be a Socialist
"Part of the core socialist commitment involves insisting on pressing forward even when you're being told your goals are unachievable."-Nathan J. Robinson, Why You Should Be a Socialist
"Equality doesn't mean ensuring everybody is the same, it means making sure some people don't get godlike power to determine the fates of others."-Nathan J. Robinson, Why You Should Be a Socialist
28. It's Not You, It's Capitalism: Why It's Time to Break Up and How to Move On
By: Malaika Jabali
3.88
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A biting, brilliant, often hilarious guide to socialism for budding anti-capitalists who know it’s … read more
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29. Socialism 101: From the Bolsheviks and Karl Marx to Universal Healthcare and the Democratic Socialists, Everything You Need to Know about Socialism (Adams 101 Series)
By: Kathleen Sears
3.78
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Socialism 101 is a comprehensive and accessible guide to the historical and modern applications of … read more
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30. How Are You Going to Pay for That?: Smart Answers to the Dumbest Question in Politics
By: Ryan Cooper
3.89
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A compelling alternative view of the relationship between our politics and our economy. Throughout… read more
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31. The Women of the Far Right: Social Media Influencers and Online Radicalization
By: Eviane Leidig
3.75
Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition
On mainstream social media platforms, far-right women make extremism relatable. They share Instagra… read more
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