17 Best theory books like Five Essays on Philosophy by Tse-tung Mao

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Five Essays on Philosophy

By: Tse-tung Mao

4.46

Format: None pages, Paperback

This compilation contains the most crucial philosophical writings of Mao Zedong. It is a good colle…

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1. Reform or Revolution

By: Rosa Luxemburg , Κώστας Βρετός

4.20

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Why capitalism cannot overcome its internal contradictions and the working class cannot "reform" aw… read more

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"If the proletariat came to power, it could draw from Bernstein's theory the following 'practical' conclusion: to go to sleep."

-Rosa Luxemburg, Reform or Revolution

"What distinguishes bourgeoisie society from other class societies…? Precisely the fact that class domination does not rest on “acquired rights"

-Rosa Luxemburg, Reform or Revolution

"Fourier's scheme of changing, by means of phalansteries, the water of all the seas into tasty lemonade was surely a phantastic idea. But Bernstein, proposing to change the sea of capitalist bitternes…"

-Rosa Luxemburg, Reform or Revolution

"Social Democracy, does not, however, expect to attain its aim either as a result of the victorious violence of a minority or through the numerical superiority of a majority. It sees socialism come as…"

-Rosa Luxemburg, Reform or Revolution

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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. Dialectical and Historical Materialism

By: Joseph Stalin

3.91

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

A succinct presentation of the philosophical foundations of Marxism. read more

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"If there are no isolated phenomena in the world, if all phenomena are interconnected and interdependent, then it is clear that every social system and every social movement in history must be evaluat…"

-Joseph Stalin, Dialectical and Historical Materialism

"But having developed productive forces to a tremendous extent, capitalism has become enmeshed in contradictions which it is unable to solve. By producing larger and larger quantities of commodities, …"

-Joseph Stalin, Dialectical and Historical Materialism

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4. Critique of the Gotha Program

By: Karl Marx

4.36

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

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5. 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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6. Left-Wing Communism, an Infantile Disorder: A Popular Essay in Marxian Strategy and Tactics

By: Vladimir Lenin

3.26

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

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7. 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

8. On Contradiction

By: Mao Zedong

3.70

Format: 336 pages, paperback

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9. 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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10. Wage-Labour and Capital/Value, Price and Profit

By: Karl Marx

3.97

Format: None pages,

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11. The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State

By: Friedrich Engels , None

3.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

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12. Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844/The Communist Manifesto

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , None

3.71

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

(Great Books in Philosophy) Communism as a political movement attained global importance after the … read more

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13. 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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"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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14. 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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15. 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

16. The Foundations of Leninism

By: Joseph Stalin

4.65

Format: None pages, Paperback

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17. The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World

By: Vincent Bevins

4.61

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The hidden story of the wanton slaughter -- in Indonesia, Latin America, and around the world -- ba… read more

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"locals came to him, time and time again, and asked, with genuine mystification: 'We just don't understand America. You were once a colony. You know what colonialism is. You fought and bled and died f…"

-Vincent Bevins, The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World

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18. On Practice

By: Mao Zedong

4.42

Format: 18 pages, Hardcover

Mao's classic 1937 essay on philosophy. read more

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19. The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky

By: Vladimir Lenin

4.14

Format: None pages, Nook

Anarchy In Petrograd. The War: 4th Year 1908th. Aided by the garriso'l of Petrograd, the Maximalist… read more

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20. Five Essays on Philosophy

By: Tse-tung Mao

4.46

Format: None pages, Paperback

This compilation contains the most crucial philosophical writings of Mao Zedong. It is a good colle… read more

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21. On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People

By: Mao Zedong

3.93

Format: 49 pages, ebook

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"Now, there are two different attitudes towards learning from others. One is the dogmatic attitude of transplanting everything, whether or not it is suited to our conditions. This is no good. The othe…"

-Mao Zedong, On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People

15 Top history books like Five Essays on Philosophy by Tse-tung Mao

Transform Your Habits

Reform or Revolution

Rosa Luxemburg , Κώστας Βρετός

4.20

Transform Your Habits

The State and Revolution

Vladimir Lenin

4.24

Transform Your Habits

Dialectical and Historical Materialism

Joseph Stalin

3.91

Transform Your Habits

Critique of the Gotha Program

Karl Marx

4.36

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Rosa Luxemburg , Κώστας Βρετός

4.20

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The Principles of Communism

Friedrich Engels

4.06

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Vladimir Lenin

4.24

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Joseph Stalin

3.91

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