A Theory of Imperialism
By: Utsa Patnaik
4.00
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
In A Theory of Imperialism , economists Utsa Patnaik and Prabhat Patnaik present a new theory of th…
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1. 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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2. Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding
By: Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
3.40
Format: 320 pages,
Somewhere in Africa, more than a million years ago, a line of apes began to rear their young differ… read more
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3. The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions
By: Jason Hickel
3.40
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
For decades we have been told a story about the divide between rich countries and poor countries. … read more
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4. Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century: Globalization, Super-Exploitation, and Capitalism's Final Crisis
By: None
3.00
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the first Paul A. Baran-Paul M. Sweezy Memorial Award for an original monograph concerned… read more
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5. Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
By: Vladimir Lenin
4.23
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
'Globalisation' is the buzzword of the 1990s. VI Lenin's Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitali… read more
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"Crises of every kind — economic crises more frequently, but not only these — in their turn increase very considerably the tendency towards concentration and monopoly."-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
"At the basis of these swindles and manipulations lies socialised production; but the immense progress of humanity, which achieved this socialisation, goes to benefit the speculators."-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
"But suppose, for the sake of argument, free competition, without any sort of monopoly, would develop capitalism trade more rapidly. Is it not a fact that the more rapidly trade and capitalism develop…"-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
"As long as capitalism remains what it is, surplus capital will never be utilised for the purpose of raising the standard of living of the masses in a given country, for this would mean a decline in p…"-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
6. The Souls of Black Folk
By: W.E.B. Du Bois , None , None
3.62
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) is the greatest of African American intellectuals--a s… read more
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7. 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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"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
8. The Ministry for the Future
By: Kim Stanley Robinson
3.88
Format: 563 pages, Hardcover
Established in 2025, the purpose of the new organization was simple: To advocate for the world's fu… read more
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"What's the monetary value of human civilization? Trying to answer that question proves you are a moral and practical idiot."-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
"Of course there is always resistance, always a drag on movement toward better things. The dead hand of the past clutches us by way of living people who are too frightened to accept change."-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
"It was so hard to imagine that a mind could be gone. All those thoughts that you never tell anyone, all those dreams, all that entire pocket universe: gone. A character unlike any other character, a …"-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
"Ideology, n. An imaginary relationship to a real situation. In common usage, what the other person has, especially when systematically distorting the facts. But it seems to us that an ideology is a n…"-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
9. The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis
By: Amitav Ghosh
4.22
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In this ambitious successor to The Great Derangement, acclaimed writer Amitav Ghosh finds the origi… read more
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"This is the great burden that now rests upon writers, artists, filmmakers, and everyone else who is involved in the telling of stories: to us falls the task of imaginatively restoring agency and voic…"-Amitav Ghosh, The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis
10. Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
By: Yanis Varoufakis
4.01
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
The #1 bestselling economist shows how capitalism has been replaced by a more exploitative system, … read more
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"Il profitto è vulnerabile alla competizione di mercato, mentre la rendita non lo è."-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
"Se non è un mercato capitalista, in cosa entriamo, buon Dio, quando andiamo su amazon.com ?"-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
"Oltre ad avvertirci che ogni nuova epoca forgiata da qualche tecnologia rivoluzionaria produce una generazione che “mai passerà un giorno immune da fatica e dolore, struggendosi anche di notte"-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
"La rivoluzione digitale potrebbe consistere nel trasformare i lavoratori salariati in proletari del cloud, che vivono una vita sempre più precaria e stressante sotto il controllo invisibile di capi a…"-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
11. 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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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"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)
12. Washington Bullets
By: Vijay Prashad
4.40
Format: 162 pages, Paperback
Washington Bullets is written in the best traditions of Marxist journalism and history-writing. It … read more
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13. Against the Loveless World
By: Susan Abulhawa
4.50
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping and lyrical novel that follows a young Palestinian refugee as she slowly becomes radical… read more
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"From him I learned who those legislating morality and pretending to be more virtuous than the rest of us really are."-Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World
"But I know now that going from place to place is just something exiles have to do. Whatever the reason, the earth is never steady beneath our feet."-Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World
"The continuity of these traditions helped bridge the spaces between dislocation and the home I had forged in my birthright homeland, but I knew I could never again be complete in one place. This was …"-Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World
"Music is like spoken language, inextricable from its culture. If you don't learn a language early in life, its words will forever come out wrinkled and accented by another world, no matter how well y…"-Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World
14. The Modern World-System III: The Second Era of Great Expansion of the Capitalist World-Economy, 1730s–1840s
By: Immanuel Wallerstein
4.23
Format: 388 pages, Hardcover
Immanuel Wallerstein's highly influential, multi-volume opus, The Modern World-System, is one of th… read more
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15. Value Chains: The New Economic Imperialism
By: Intan Suwandi
4.21
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Award-winning book showcases case studies uncovering the exploitation of labor and class in the Glo… read more
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16. The Future is Degrowth: A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism
By: Matthias Schmelzer
3.88
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
We need to break free from the capitalist economy. Degrowth gives us the tools to bend its bars. Ec… read more
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17. Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State
By: Samuel Stein
3.94
Format: 202 pages, Paperback
“This superbly succinct and incisive book” on urban planning and real estate argues gentrification … read more
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18. Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in the Twenty-First Century
By: Andreas Malm
3.99
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
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"Perhaps humanity should thank Covid-19 for taking the early route through Europe."-Andreas Malm, Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in the Twenty-First Century
"More to the point, however, is that China could become the cradle of this disease only because global tendencies were present in the concentrated form."-Andreas Malm, Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in the Twenty-First Century
"Corona can be an effect of climate; not the other way around. More importantly, the two are interlaced aspects, on different scale of time and space, of what is now one chronic emergency."-Andreas Malm, Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in the Twenty-First Century
"It has taken the science some time to catch up and connect the dots, but, in 2012, one pathbreaking study derived one third of all existential threats to animal species straight from the sale of good…"-Andreas Malm, Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in the Twenty-First Century
19. A Theory of Imperialism
By: Utsa Patnaik
4.00
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
In A Theory of Imperialism , economists Utsa Patnaik and Prabhat Patnaik present a new theory of th… read more
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20. Divided World Divided Class: Global Political Economy and the Stratification of Labour Under Capitalism
By: Zak Cope
4.37
Format: 387 pages, Paperback
Divided World Divided Class charts the history of the ‘labour aristocracy’ in the capitalist world … read more
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21. Socialist Education in Korea
By: Kim Il-sung
4.22
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Publishing the selected works of Kim Il-Sung on education is a controversial move in the United Sta… read more
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