Fundamental Problems of Marxism
By: Georgi Plekhanov
3.84
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
An exposition of Marxism as an integral world outlook, against those who would vulgarize and/or dis…
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1. Terrorism and Communism: A Reply to Karl Kautsky (Revolutions)
By: Slavoj Žižek , Leon Trotsky
3.77
Format: 183 pages, Paperback
Written in the white heat of revolutionary Russia’s Civil War, Trotsky’s Terrorism and Communism is… read more
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"With all due respect to all philistines, the dictatorship of the proletariat does just consist in "giving a hiding" to the classes that were previously supreme, before forcing them to recognize the n…"-Slavoj Žižek, Terrorism and Communism: A Reply to Karl Kautsky (Revolutions)
"Every historical form of society is in its foundation a form of organization of labor. While every previous form of society was an organization of labor in the interests of a minority, which organize…"-Slavoj Žižek, Terrorism and Communism: A Reply to Karl Kautsky (Revolutions)
"As a general rule, man strives to avoid labor. Love for work is not at all an inborn characteristic: it is created by economic pressure and social education. One may even say that man is a fairly laz…"-Slavoj Žižek, Terrorism and Communism: A Reply to Karl Kautsky (Revolutions)
2. 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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"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
3. 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
4. Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays
By: Fredric Jameson , Louis Althusser
3.92
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
No figure among the western Marxist theoreticians has loomed larger in the postwar period than Loui… 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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7. 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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8. The God Delusion
By: Richard Dawkins
3.90
Format: 374 pages, Hardcover
A preeminent scientist - and the world's most prominent atheist - asserts the irrationality of beli… read more
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"Pantheism is sexed-up atheism. Deism is watered-down theism."-Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
"نؤمن بنظريةالتطور لان الادلة تدعمها وسنرفضها بين ليلة وضحاها عندما تظهر ادلة تنفيها"-Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
"لا تلقن اطفالك بل علمهم طريقة التفكير المستقلة وكيفية التاكد من الادلة وكيف يمكنهم مخالفتك فى الرأي"-Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
"As J. B. S. Haldane said when asked what evidence might contradict evolution, 'Fossil rabbits in the Precambrian."-Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
9. Ten Days that Shook the World
By: John Reed
4.20
Format: 406 pages, Paperback
This first-person chronicle by John Reed, a legendary journalist who was present at the flash point… read more
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10. 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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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. In Defense of Marxism: The Social & Political Contradictions of the Soviet Union
By: Leon Trotsky
3.33
Format: None pages, cloth
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13. 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
14. Specters of Marx
By: Jacques Derrida , Peggy Kamuf , None
3.78
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Prodigiously influential, Jacques Derrida gave rise to a comprehensive rethinking of the basic conc… read more
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15. Battle Cry of Freedom
By: James M. McPherson
3.91
Format: None pages, Paperback
Filled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, B… read more
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16. Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
By: Immanuel Kant , Christine M. Korsgaard , Mary J. Gregor
4.27
Format: 197 pages, paper
Immanuel Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals ranks alongside Plato's Republic and Aristo… read more
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17. 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
18. 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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20. Homage to Catalonia
By: George Orwell , Lionel Trilling
4.00
Format: 592 pages, Paperback
In 1936 Orwell went to Spain to report on the Civil War and instead joined the fight against the Fa… read more
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21. The Republic
By: Plato , Desmond Lee
3.96
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, this classi… read more
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"Appearance tyrannizes over truth."-Plato, The Republic
"The comprehensive mind is always dialectical."-Plato, The Republic
"Those who don't know must learn from those who do."-Plato, The Republic
"Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance"-Plato, The Republic
22. 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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"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
23. Their Morals and Ours
By: Leon Trotsky
4.05
Format: 126 pages, Paperback
Participating in the revolutionary workers movement "with open eyes and an intense will--only this … read more
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"The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end."-Leon Trotsky, Their Morals and Ours
"A means can be justified only by its end. But the end in its turn needs to be justified."-Leon Trotsky, Their Morals and Ours
"A slave-owner who through cunning and violence shackles a slave in chains, and a slave who through cunning or violence breaks the chains – let not the contemptible eunuchs tell us that they are equal…"-Leon Trotsky, Their Morals and Ours
24. 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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25. Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Spain
By: Felix Morrow
4.44
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
A contemporary account of the revolution and civil war in Spain in the 1930s in which the proletari… read more
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"One by one those capitalist countries which arrive at a complete impasse, take the road of fascism"-Felix Morrow, Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Spain
26. 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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27. In Defence of Lenin: Volume 2
By: Rob Sewell
4.78
Format: 584 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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28. The History of American Trotskyism, 1928-38: Report of a Participant
By: James P. Cannon
4.43
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
Trotskyism is not a new movement, a new doctrine, Cannon says, but the restoration, the revival of … read more
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29. Fundamental Problems of Marxism
By: Georgi Plekhanov
3.84
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
An exposition of Marxism as an integral world outlook, against those who would vulgarize and/or dis… read more
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30. Lenin's Moscow
By: Alfred Rosmer
4.06
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
This memoir by a Comintern leader in the early Soviet Union is “a vital primary source . . . clear … read more
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31. The Spanish Revolution (1931-39)
By: Leon Trotsky
3.94
Format: 511 pages, Paperback
Analyzes the revolutionary upsurge on the land and in the factories leading to the Spanish civil wa… read more
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