16 Top nonfiction books like In Defence of Lenin: Volume 1 by Rob Sewell

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In Defence of Lenin: Volume 1

By: Rob Sewell

4.77

Format: 458 pages, Paperback

John Reed, the author of Ten Days that Shook the World, once said that Lenin was the most loved and…

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1. 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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2. 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
  • nonfiction
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3. 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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  • history
  • nonfiction

4. On Anarchism

By: Noam Chomsky , Barry Pateman

4.42

Format: 718 pages, Paperback

We all know what Noam Chomsky is against. His scathing analysis of everything that's wrong with our… read more

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  • nonfiction

5. The Revolution Betrayed

By: Leon Trotsky , Max Eastman

3.86

Format: 262 pages, Paperback

One of Marxism's most important texts, The Revolution Betrayedexplores the fate of the Russian Revo… read more

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

By: Friedrich Engels , None

3.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

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7. 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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8. 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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9. 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

10. Wage Labour and Capital

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels

4.06

Format: None pages,

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11. Anti-Dühring: Herr Eugen Dühring’s Revolution in Science

By: Friedrich Engels

4.29

Format: 365 pages, Paperback

Excerpt from the original book: "It was not my fault that I had to follow Herr Duhring into realms… read more

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  • nonfiction
"If Hegel had not died long ago, he would hang himself, with all his theologies he could not have thought up this value which has as many different values as it has prices. It requires once more someo…"

-Friedrich Engels, Anti-Dühring: Herr Eugen Dühring’s Revolution in Science

"If the world had ever been in a state in which no change whatever was taking place, how could it pass from this state to one of change? The absolutely unchanging, especially when it has been in this …"

-Friedrich Engels, Anti-Dühring: Herr Eugen Dühring’s Revolution in Science

"From the moment when the bourgeois demand for the abolition of class privileges was put forward, alongside it appeared the proletarian demand for the abolition of the classes themselves. [...] The pr…"

-Friedrich Engels, Anti-Dühring: Herr Eugen Dühring’s Revolution in Science

"...in pure mathematics the mind deal only with its own creations and imaginations. The concepts of number and form have not been derived from any source other than the world of reality. The ten finge…"

-Friedrich Engels, Anti-Dühring: Herr Eugen Dühring’s Revolution in Science

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12. Class Struggle in the Roman Republic

By: Alan Woods

4.51

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

In the first complete Marxist history of the Roman Republic, Alan Woods provides a gripping and acc… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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13. The History of Philosophy: A Marxist Perspective

By: Alan Woods

4.57

Format: 350 pages, Paperback

A Marxist approach to the History of Philosophy Alan Woods outlines the development of philosoph… read more

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14. In Defence of Lenin: Volume 1

By: Rob Sewell

4.77

Format: 458 pages, Paperback

John Reed, the author of Ten Days that Shook the World, once said that Lenin was the most loved and… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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15. Bolshevism: The Road to Revolution

By: Alan Woods

4.70

Format: 636 pages, Paperback

There have been many books and potted histories of the Russian Revolution, either written from an a… read more

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16. Lenin and Trotsky - What They Really Stood for

By: Alan Woods

4.47

Format: 223 pages, Paperback

Madrid. 21 cm. 251 p. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Ted Grant y Alan Woods.… read more

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17. Stalin: An Appraisal of the Man and His Influence

By: Leon Trotsky

4.03

Format: None pages, Paperback

Trotsky's Stalin biography is an important historical document. Unfortunately Trotsky was not able … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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18. The First World War: A Marxist Analysis of the Great Slaughter

By: Alan Woods

4.18

Format: 225 pages, Kindle Edition

“What passing bells for those who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns.” —Wilfred Ow… read more

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  • nonfiction
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19. Spain's Revolution Against Franco: The Great Betrayal

By: Alan Woods

4.67

Format: 534 pages, Paperback

The story of the Spanish revolution of the 1930s is quite well known to most people on the left, bu… read more

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20. Israel & Palestine – a Revolutionary Way Forward

By: Khaled Malachi

4.71

Format: 71 pages, Paperback

Introduction (Khaled Malachi) The Jewish Question and the impact of Zionist colonisation in Brit… read more

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21. The Role of the Individual in History

By: Georgi Plekhanov

3.92

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

The Role of the Individual in History was first published in 1898, and occupies a very prominent pl… read more

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"Until the individual has won this freedom by heroic effort in philosophical thinking he does not fully belong to himself, and his mental tortures are the shameful tribute he pays to external necessit…"

-Georgi Plekhanov, The Role of the Individual in History

"When the consciousness of my lack of free will presents itself to me only in the form of the complete subjective and objective impossibility of acting differently from the way I am acting, and when, …"

-Georgi Plekhanov, The Role of the Individual in History

17 Top history books like In Defence of Lenin: Volume 1 by Rob Sewell

Transform Your Habits

The State and Revolution

Vladimir Lenin

4.24

Transform Your Habits

Das Kapital

Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky

4.22

Transform Your Habits

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

Vladimir Lenin

3.26

On Anarchism

Noam Chomsky , Barry Pateman

4.42

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21 Top history books like Lenin and Trotsky - What They Really Stood for by Alan Woods

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

The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

Karl Marx , Daniel de Leon , D.D.L.

3.67

Transform Your Habits

Fascism: What It Is and How to Fight It

Leon Trotsky

4.00

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