15 must-read history books like Philippine Society and Revolution by Amado Guerrero

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Philippine Society and Revolution

By: Amado Guerrero

4.38

Format: 175 pages, Paperback

"Integrating Marxist-Leninist theory with Philippine practice is a two-way process. We do not merel…

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1. The Society of the Spectacle

By: Donald Nicholson-Smith , Guy Debord

4.02

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative as Guy Debord's The … read more

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"Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures."

-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle

"The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist."

-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle

"La réalité du temps a été remplacée par la publicité du temps."

-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle

"Spectacle is the sun that never sets over the empire of modern passivity"

-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle

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2. 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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"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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3. 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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"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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4. 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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  • politics
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"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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5. The Philippines: A Past Revisited

By: Renato Constantino , Letizia R. Constantino

4.00

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

This book is Constantino's attempt at a major breakthrough in Philippine historiography: he looks a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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6. 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
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7. On Practice and Contradiction

By: Slavoj Žižek , Mao Zedong

2.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

These early philosophical writings underpinned the Chinese revolutions, and their clarion calls to … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction

8. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

By: Mark Fisher

4.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

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9. Monstress

By: Lysley Tenorio

4.01

Format: None pages, Paperback

A luminous collection of heartbreaking, vivid, startling, and gloriously unique stories set amongst… read more

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10. 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

11. Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat

By: J. Sakai

4.12

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

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12. Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village

By: William Hinton

4.30

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

More than thirty years after its initial publication, William Hinton's Fanshencontinues to be the e… read more

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13. 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

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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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"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

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15. Philosophical Trends in the Feminist Movement

By: Anuradha Ghandy

4.41

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Ghandy's vital text that outlines the history of the world's feminist movements and critiques them … read more

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  • nonfiction
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16. The Principal Contradiction

By: Torkil Lauesen

4.38

Format: 130 pages, Kindle Edition

In The Principal Contradiction, Torkil Lauesen introduces readers to the philosophy of dialectical … read more

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17. Philippine Society and Revolution

By: Amado Guerrero

4.38

Format: 175 pages, Paperback

"Integrating Marxist-Leninist theory with Philippine practice is a two-way process. We do not merel… read more

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18. Activist Study – Araling Aktibista (ARAK)

By: Communist Party of the Philippines Education Department

4.59

Format: 158 pages, Paperback

The Activist Study (Araling Aktibista), or ARAK as it's known, is part of the required study for ac… read more

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  • theory
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19. Counterrevolution: The Global Rise of the Far Right (Agrarian Change and Peasant Studies)

By: Walden Bello

4.11

Format: 196 pages, Paperback

The far right is on the rise. The rhetoric of anger and resentment is emanating from personalities … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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20. Basic Principles of Marxism-Leninism: A Primer

By: Jose Maria Sison

4.37

Format: 172 pages, Paperback

Basic Principles of Marxism-Leninism: A Primer was written by Jose Maria Sison from his prison cell… read more

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21. Five Golden Rays

By: Mao Zedong

4.18

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

FIVE ARTICLES BY CHAIRMAN MAO TSETUNG WORKERS OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE! Serve the People In M… read more

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16 best-selling politics books like Philippine Society and Revolution by Amado Guerrero

Transform Your Habits

The Society of the Spectacle

Donald Nicholson-Smith , Guy Debord

4.02

Transform Your Habits

The State and Revolution

Vladimir Lenin

4.24

Transform Your Habits

Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Paulo Freire , Donaldo Macedo , Myra Bergman Ramos , None

4.30

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 Top politics books like Activist Study – Araling Aktibista (ARAK) by Communist Party of the Philippines Education Department

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

Reform or Revolution

Rosa Luxemburg , Κώστας Βρετός

4.20

Transform Your Habits

The Principles of Communism

Friedrich Engels

4.06

Transform Your Habits

The State and Revolution

Vladimir Lenin

4.24

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