11 must-read philosophy books like Notes on Dialectics by C.L.R. James

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Notes on Dialectics

By: C.L.R. James

3.79

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

C.L.R. James is one of the leading Marxist interpreters of colonialism and anti-colonial struggle i…

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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. Women, Race & Class

By: Angela Y. Davis

4.58

Format: 271 pages, Paperback

From one of our most important scholars and civil rights activist icon, a powerful study of the wom… read more

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"White women—feminists included—have revealed a historical reluctance to acknowledge the struggles of household workers. They have rarely been involved in the Sisyphean task of ameliorating the condit…"

-Angela Y. Davis, Women, Race & Class

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4. The Wretched of the Earth

By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Richard Philcox , Frantz Fanon , Homi K. Bhabha

4.32

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Fr… read more

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"إن لجوءك إلى لُغة تكنيكيَّة معناه أنّك قرَّرتَ أن تَعُدَّ الجماهير جاهلة"

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

"Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

"The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much greater business of plunder."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

"إن المناضل ليدرك في كثير من الأحيان أن عمله لا أن يقاتل القوى العدوة فحسب، بل كذلك حبات اليأس المتبلورة في جسم المستعمَر."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

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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. The Fire Next Time

By: James Baldwin

3.54

Format: None pages, Paperback

A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Timegalvanized the nation and g… read more

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Cover of Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics by John Wieners, Stephen Burt, Eileen Myles, Samuel Ace, Aimee Herman, J.J. Hastain, Lori Selke, Stacey Waite, Meg Day, Duriel E. Harris, David Wolach, Dawn Lundy Martin, Ching-In Chen, C.A.  Conrad, Eli Clare, Julian Talamantez Brolaski, Jenny Johnson, Joy Ladin, None, Ariel Goldberg, T.C. Tolbert, Trace Peterson, Cole Krawitz, None, None, Ely Shipley, None, Emerson Whitney, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, Micha Cárdenas, None, None, Oliver Baez Bendorf, Ari Banias, Trish Salah, None, Kit  Yan

7. Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics

By: John Wieners , Stephen Burt , Eileen Myles , Samuel Ace , Aimee Herman , J.J. Hastain , Lori Selke , Stacey Waite , Meg Day , Duriel E. Harris , David Wolach , Dawn Lundy Martin , Ching-In Chen , C.A. Conrad , Eli Clare , Julian Talamantez Brolaski , Jenny Johnson , Joy Ladin , None , Ariel Goldberg , T.C. Tolbert , Trace Peterson , Cole Krawitz , None , None , Ely Shipley , None , Emerson Whitney , None , None , None , None , None , None , None , None , None , None , None , None , None , None , Micha Cárdenas , None , None , Oliver Baez Bendorf , Ari Banias , Trish Salah , None , Kit Yan

4.07

Format: 213 pages, Paperback

The first of its kind, Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics gathers togethe… read more

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8. The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.25

Format: 387 pages, Paperback

Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestio… read more

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"... “Dangerous!"

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

"Freedom is never very safe."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

"Who do you think is lying to us?"

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

"Where does your soul go when you die in Hell?"

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

9. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

By: Mark Fisher

4.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

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10. Discourse on Colonialism

By: Robin D.G. Kelley , Aimé Césaire , Joan Pinkham

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Cesaire's essay stands as an important document in the development of third world consciousness--a… read more

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11. 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

12. Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation

By: Silvia Federici

4.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

Literary Nonfiction. CALIBAN AND THE WITCH is a history of the body in the transition to capitalism… read more

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13. 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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14. Heart of Darkness

By: Joseph Conrad

3.99

Format: 284 pages, Paperback

Marlow, a seaman and wanderer, recounts his physical and psychological journey in search of the inf… read more

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15. 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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16. White Noise

By: Don DeLillo

3.86

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The National Book Award-winning classic from the author of Underworld and Libra, now a Netflix film… read more

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"The vast and terrible depth." “Of course,"

-Don DeLillo, White Noise

"You are the happy one. I am the doomed fool."

-Don DeLillo, White Noise

"Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level."

-Don DeLillo, White Noise

"...the half-concealed disasters that constitute a life."

-Don DeLillo, White Noise

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17. The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love

By: Sonya Renee Taylor

4.23

Format: 137 pages, Paperback

A global movement guided by love. Humans are a varied and divergent bunch with all manner of bel… read more

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"There is gorgeous potential and heinous instinct in us all."

-Sonya Renee Taylor, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love

"Being different is difficult in a world that tells us there is a "normal."

-Sonya Renee Taylor, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love

"The most powerful antidote to a world of body terrorism is a world of compassion. Giving yourself the gift of grace is an act of revolution!"

-Sonya Renee Taylor, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love

"Systems do not maintain themselves; even our lack of intervention is an act of maintenance. Every structure in every society is upheld by the active and passive assistance of other human beings."

-Sonya Renee Taylor, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love

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18. Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet—and What We Can Do About It

By: Nancy Fraser

4.04

Format: 209 pages, Kindle Edition

A trenchant look at contemporary capitalism’s insatiable appetite—and a rallying cry for everyone w… read more

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Cover of The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017 by Rashid Khalidi

19. 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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20. Mute Compulsion. A Theory of the Economic Power of Capital

By: Søren Mau

4.40

Format: None pages, ebook

[From Author's Summary] Despite a decade of crisis and social unrest, capitalism is in many ways … read more

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21. The End of Policing

By: Alex S. Vitale

4.19

Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition

The problem is not overpolicing, it is policing itself Recent years have seen an explosion of pr… read more

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"Our standard of living is not declining because of migrants but because of unregulated neoliberal capitalism, which has allowed corporations and the rich to avoid paying taxes or decent wages. It is …"

-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing

"There is no question that American police use their weapons more than police in any other developed democracy. Unfortunately, we don’t have fully accurate information about the number or nature of ho…"

-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing

"As Jeffrey Reiman points out in the Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison, the criminal justice system excuses and ignores crimes of the rich that produce profound social harms while intensely crim…"

-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing

"Heavy-handed immigration policing will not build a worker’s movement, it will shatter it. One of the mistakes that Trump supporters make is imagining that their own economic conditions will be improv…"

-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing

Cover of Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072 by M.E. O'Brien

22. Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072

By: M.E. O'Brien

4.15

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

By the middle of the twenty-first century, war, famine, economic collapse, and climate catastrophe … read more

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23. Red Africa: Reclaiming Revolutionary Black Politics (Salvage Editions)

By: Kevin Ochieng Okoth

4.15

Format: 177 pages, Kindle Edition

Salvaging a decolonised futureRed Africa makes the case for a revolutionary Black politics inspired… read more

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24. Notes on Dialectics

By: C.L.R. James

3.79

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

C.L.R. James is one of the leading Marxist interpreters of colonialism and anti-colonial struggle i… read more

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16 Top politics books like Notes on Dialectics by C.L.R. James

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

Women, Race & Class

Angela Y. Davis

4.58

Transform Your Habits

The Wretched of the Earth

Jean-Paul Sartre , Richard Philcox , Frantz Fanon , Homi K. Bhabha

4.32

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8 must-read history books like The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

Transform Your Habits

Between the World and Me

Ta-Nehisi Coates

4.40

Transform Your Habits

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Alex Haley , Malcolm X

4.36

Transform Your Habits

Assata: An Autobiography

Angela Y. Davis , Assata Shakur , Lennox S. Hinds

4.80

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The Fire Next Time

James Baldwin

3.54

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