26 must-read nonfiction books like The Democratic Principle by Amadeo Bordiga

The Democratic Principle

By: Amadeo Bordiga

4.03

Format: None pages, Paperback

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1. The April Theses

By: Vladimir Lenin

4.17

Format: 218 pages,

Είναι οι θέσεις που ανέπτυξε ο Λένιν στην εισήγησή του «Για τα καθήκοντα του προλεταριάτου στην τωρ… read more

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  • theory
  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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2. 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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  • theory
  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"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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3. The Principles of Communism

By: Friedrich Engels

4.06

Format: 25 pages, ebook

In 1847 Engels wrote two draft programmes for the Communist League in the form of a catechism, one … read more

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  • theory
  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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4. On the Jewish Question

By: Karl Marx

3.44

Format: 50 pages,

Karl Marx's views on the Jews Question and Zionism... read more

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  • theory
  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to a man himself."

-Karl Marx, On the Jewish Question

"In this moment, I am euphoric. Not because of any phony God's blessing. But because, I am enlightened by my own intelligence."

-Karl Marx, On the Jewish Question

"Money is the universal, self-constituted value of all things. Hence it has robbed the whole world... of its proper value. Money is the alienated essence of man's labour and life, and this alien essen…"

-Karl Marx, On the Jewish Question

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5. 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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  • theory
  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"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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6. On Guerrilla Warfare

By: Mao Zedong , None , Samuel B. Griffith II

3.91

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

One of the most influential documents of our time, Mao Tse-tung's pamphlet on guerrilla warfare has… read more

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  • theory
  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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7. Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece

By: William Walker Atkinson , Three Initiates , Tre Iniziati

4.25

Format: 223 pages, Hardcover

The precepts of Hermetic philosophy remained shrouded in secrecy for more than 2,000 years, clouded… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"The lips of Wisdom are closed, except to the ears of Understanding."

-William Walker Atkinson, Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece

"He who grasps the truth of the Mental Nature of the Universe is well advanced on The Path to Mastery."

-William Walker Atkinson, Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece

"Nothing stands still - everything is being born, growing, dying - the very instant a thing reaches its height, it begins to decline - the law of rhythm is in constant operations...."

-William Walker Atkinson, Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece

"Everything flows out and in; everything has its tides; all things rise and fall; the pendulum-swing manifests in everything; the measure of the swing to the right, is the measure of the swing to the …"

-William Walker Atkinson, Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece

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8. Tao Te Ching

By: Lao Tzu , Gia-Fu Feng , Jane English , Jacob Needleman , Toinette Lippe

4.30

Format: 107 pages, Paperback

A lucid translation of the well-known Taoist classic by a leading scholar-now in a Shambhala Pocket… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"The heart that gives, gathers."

-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

"Love is a decision - not an emotion!"

-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

"When nothing is done, nothing is left undone."

-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

"To understand the limitation of things, desire them."

-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

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9. Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right

By: Karl Marx , Annette Jolin , Joseph O'Malley

3.84

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

(Studies in the History & Theory of Politics) This book is a complete translation of Marx's critica… read more

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  • theory
  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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10. 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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  • theory
  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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11. The Prince

By: Niccolò Machiavelli , Adolph Caso , Rufus Goodwin , Benjamin Martinez

3.84

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Machiavelli needs to be looked at as he really was. Hence: Can Machiavelli, who makes the following… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"Is it better to be loved or feared?"

-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

"He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command"

-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

"Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception."

-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

"It is a common fault of men not to reckon on storms in fair weather."

-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

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12. 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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  • theory
  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"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

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13. The German Ideology

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels

3.50

Format: 270 pages, Paperback

Nearly two years before his powerful Communist Manifesto, Marx (1818-1883) co-wrote The German Ideo… read more

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  • theory
  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction

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

By: Friedrich Engels , None

3.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

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15. 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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  • theory
  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"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

16. 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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17. 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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18. 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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  • theory
  • philosophy
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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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19. 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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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"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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20. 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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  • theory
  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"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

21. The Foundations of Leninism

By: Joseph Stalin

4.65

Format: None pages, Paperback

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22. On Practice

By: Mao Zedong

4.42

Format: 18 pages, Hardcover

Mao's classic 1937 essay on philosophy. read more

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  • theory
  • philosophy
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  • nonfiction
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23. Oppose Book Worship

By: Mao Zedong

4.19

Format: None pages, None

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  • theory
  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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24. The Russian Revolution

By: Rosa Luxemburg

3.97

Format: 42 pages, Kindle Edition

Rosa Luxemburg was one of the most eminent of Marxist theorists, famous for supporting a democratic… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"Clearly, not uncritical apologetics but penetrating and thoughtful criticism is alone capable of bringing out the treasures of experiences and teachings."

-Rosa Luxemburg, The Russian Revolution

"W Finlandii proletariat socjalistyczny miał już dominującą pozycję, dopóki walczył jako część zwartej, rewolucyjnej falangi Rosji; posiadał większość w parlamencie, w armii, doprowadził do całkowitej…"

-Rosa Luxemburg, The Russian Revolution

"It [the proletariat] should and must at once undertake socialist measures in the most energetic, unyielding and unhesitant fashion, in other words, exercise a dictatorship, but a dictatorship of the …"

-Rosa Luxemburg, The Russian Revolution

".. the homemade wisdom of the parliamentary nursery: in order to carry anything, you must first have a majority. The same, they say, applies to revolution: first let's become a "majority." The true d…"

-Rosa Luxemburg, The Russian Revolution

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25. Eleven Theses on Feuerbach

By: Karl Marx

4.05

Format: 2 pages, Audiobook

The Eleven Theses on Feuerbach are brief metaphysical summaries penned by Karl Marx as a principal … read more

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  • theory
  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it"

-Karl Marx, Eleven Theses on Feuerbach

"Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it"

-Karl Marx, Eleven Theses on Feuerbach

"Philosophers have hitherto interpreted the world in various way; the point, however, is to change it"

-Karl Marx, Eleven Theses on Feuerbach

"Philosophers have hitherto interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it"

-Karl Marx, Eleven Theses on Feuerbach

26. The Democratic Principle

By: Amadeo Bordiga

4.03

Format: None pages, Paperback

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  • nonfiction
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27. The Materialist Conception of History

By: Georgi Plekhanov

3.59

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

Socialist essay. read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"We know today that there is no such thing as absolute truth, that everything is relative, that everything is dependent on the conditions of time and place; but precisely for that reason, we should be…"

-Georgi Plekhanov, The Materialist Conception of History

"Passing to historical nations, we must first point out that in relation to them the word race cannot and should not be used at all. We do not know of any historical nation that can be regarded as rac…"

-Georgi Plekhanov, The Materialist Conception of History

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28. The Feminist Manifesto

By: He-Yin Zhen

3.60

Format: 26 pages, Paperback

He-Yin Zhen was an early 20th century Chinese feminist and anarchist. Born He Ban in Yizheng, Jiang… read more

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  • theory
  • nonfiction

29. Nationalism and Socialism

By: Paul Mattick

4.47

Format: None pages, None

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30. Selected Writings

By: Alexandra Kollontai

4.14

Format: 335 pages, Paperback

Alexandra Kollontai―the only woman member of the Bolshevik central committee and the USSR’s first M… read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • nonfiction

31. World Revolution and Communist Tactics

By: Anton Pannekoek

4.14

Format: None pages, None

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22 Top politics books like The Democratic Principle by Amadeo Bordiga

Transform Your Habits

The April Theses

Vladimir Lenin

4.17

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

On the Jewish Question

Karl Marx

3.44

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Transform Your Habits

Reform or Revolution

Rosa Luxemburg , Κώστας Βρετός

4.20

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The Principles of Communism

Friedrich Engels

4.06

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The State and Revolution

Vladimir Lenin

4.24

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Joseph Stalin

3.91

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