12 must-read theory books like The Rosa Luxemburg Reader by Peter Hudis

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The Rosa Luxemburg Reader

By: Peter Hudis

4.07

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Among the major Marxist thinkers of the Russian Revolution era, Rosa Luxemburg stands out as one wh…

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1. How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

By: Walter Rodney , Vincent Harding

4.42

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

The decisiveness of the short period of colonialism and its negative consequences for Africa spring… read more

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  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
"It was economics that Europe should invest in Africa and control the continent's raw materials and labour. It was racism which confirmed the decision that form of control should be direct colonial ru…"

-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

"On any basic figure of the Africans landed alive in the Americas, one would have to make several extensions- starting with a calculation to cover mortality in transshipment. The Atlantic crossing, or…"

-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

"There was a period when the capitalist system increased the well-being of significant numbers of people as a by-product of seeking out profits for a few, but today the quests for profits comes into s…"

-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

"Governor Cameroon of Tanganyika in the 1920s was known as a "progressive" governor. But when he was attacked for trying to preserve the African personality in the educational system, he denied the ch…"

-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

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2. 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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  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"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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3. Fascism: What It Is and How to Fight It

By: Leon Trotsky

4.00

Format: 4 pages, Paperback

Why fascism was able to conquer only in those countries where social democratic or Stalinist partie… read more

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  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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4. Oblomov

By: Ivan Goncharov , Stephen Pearl , Galya Diment

4.12

Format: 586 pages, Paperback

Even though Ivan Goncharov wrote several books that were widely read and discussed during his lifet… read more

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"Now or never. To be or not to be!"

-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov

"Love was life's hardest school of all."

-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov

"You have a lunatic before you who has been infected by passion."

-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov

"The common herd of "burghers", those cattle, complete with horns, who turn millstones with their bare hands."

-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov

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5. Selected Stories

By: Anton Chekhov , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky

3.18

Format: 183 pages, Paperback

Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the highly acclaimed translators of War and Peace, Doctor Z… read more

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6. 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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  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
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7. The Castle

By: Franz Kafka , Mark Harman , Regaip Minareci , None

3.90

Format: 49 pages, Paperback

Translated and with a preface by Mark Harman Left unfinished by Kafka in 1922 and not published unt… read more

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  • philosophy

8. The Second Sex

By: Simone de Beauvoir , Deirdre Bair , H.M. Parshley

3.60

Format: 253 pages, Paperback

Newly translated and unabridged in English for the first time, Simone de Beauvoir's masterwork is a… read more

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  • feminism
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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9. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution

By: C.L.R. James

4.55

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A classic and impassioned account of the first revolution in the Third World. This powerful, intens… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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10. Capital: The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Ernest Mandel , David Fernbach

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

Capital, Vol 3, subtitled The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole, was prepared by Friedric… read more

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  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics

11. Minima Moralia: Reflections from a Damaged Life

By: Theodor W. Adorno , None

3.66

Format: None pages, Paperback

Adorno's literary and philosophical masterpiece, built from aphorisms and reflections. A reflection… read more

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12. Mini-Manual of the Urban Guerrilla

By: Carlos Marighella

4.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

The classic pamphlet. A how-to guide, tried and tested by countless groups across the world. An imp… read more

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13. The Egyptians: A Radical Story

By: Jack Shenker

4.22

Format: 649 pages, Paperback

From award-winning journalist Jack Shenker, The Egyptians is the essential book about Egypt and rad… read more

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14. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

By: Max Weber , Michael D. Coe , Talcott Parsons , None

3.99

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

The Protestant ethic -- a moral code stressing hard work, rigorous self-discipline, and the organiz… read more

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15. 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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16. Capital: The Process of Circulation of Capital

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Ernest Mandel , David Fernbach

3.92

Format: 594 pages, Paperback

The "forgotten" second volume of Capital, Marx's world-shaking analysis of economics, politics, and… read more

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17. 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
  • economics
"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?

18. October: The Story of the Russian Revolution

By: China Miéville

3.82

Format: 736 pages, Hardcover

In February 1917, in the midst of bloody war, Russia was still an autocratic monarchy: nine months … read more

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19. Red Rosa: A Graphic Biography of Rosa Luxemburg

By: Paul M. Buhle , Kate Evans

3.46

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Rosa tells the life story of philosopher, economist, publisher, writer, organizer, political leader… read more

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20. 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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  • history
  • theory
  • feminism
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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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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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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22. 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
"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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23. A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto

By: China Miéville

3.95

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

China Miéville's riveting engagement with the Communist Manifesto offers a lyrical introduction and… read more

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  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
"Like the authors of the Manifesto, I don’t believe that the generalised mass misery of the world, all the unbearable checklists of deprivation and depravity, is irrelevant, nor unrelated to the econo…"

-China Miéville, A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto

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24. Abolition. Feminism. Now.

By: Angela Y. Davis

4.31

Format: 150 pages, Paperback

An urgent, vital manifesto of intersectional, internationalist, abolitionist feminism, from leading… read more

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  • feminism
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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25. Decolonial Marxism: Essays from the Pan-African Revolution

By: Walter Rodney

4.52

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A previously unpublished collection of Rodney's essays on Marxism, spanning his engagement with of … read more

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  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
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26. The Rosa Luxemburg Reader

By: Peter Hudis

4.07

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Among the major Marxist thinkers of the Russian Revolution era, Rosa Luxemburg stands out as one wh… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • theory
  • feminism
  • politics
  • luxemburg
  • poland
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
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27. Women, the State and Revolution: Soviet Family Policy and Social Life, 1917-1936

By: Wendy Z. Goldman

4.15

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

When the Bolsheviks came to power in 1917, they believed that under socialism the family would "wit… read more

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  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
"Unlike modern feminists, who argue for a redivision of household tasks within the family, increasing men's share of domestic responsibilities, Bolshevik theorists sought to transfer housework to the …"

-Wendy Z. Goldman, Women, the State and Revolution: Soviet Family Policy and Social Life, 1917-1936

"Ideas about the withering away of the family found strong parallels in the political commitment to the withering away of law. The great majority of jurists shared the view that under socialism, moral…"

-Wendy Z. Goldman, Women, the State and Revolution: Soviet Family Policy and Social Life, 1917-1936

"The Bolsheviks argued that only socialism could resolve the contradiction between work and family. Under socialism, household labor would be transferred to the public sphere: The tasks performed by m…"

-Wendy Z. Goldman, Women, the State and Revolution: Soviet Family Policy and Social Life, 1917-1936

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28. Class Struggle Unionism

By: Joe Burns

4.16

Format: 180 pages, Paperback

For those who want to build a fighting labor movement, there are many questions to answer. How to r… read more

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  • politics
  • economics
  • history
  • nonfiction

29. Socialism and war (the attitude of the R.S.D.L.P. towards the war).

By: Vladimir Lenin

4.05

Format: 72 pages, None

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction

17 must-read history books like The Rosa Luxemburg Reader by Peter Hudis

Transform Your Habits

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

Walter Rodney , Vincent Harding

4.42

Transform Your Habits

Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Paulo Freire , Donaldo Macedo , Myra Bergman Ramos , None

4.30

Transform Your Habits

Fascism: What It Is and How to Fight It

Leon Trotsky

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Das Kapital

Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky

4.22

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10 Top history books like Women, the State and Revolution: Soviet Family Policy and Social Life, 1917-1936 by Wendy Z. Goldman

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

Transform Your Habits

Das Kapital

Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Culture and Imperialism

None

4.44

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