17 Best theory books like Understanding Marx's Capital: A Reader's Guide by Rob Sewell

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Understanding Marx's Capital: A Reader's Guide

By: Rob Sewell

4.70

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

Marx's Capital revolutionised the subject of political economy. Written over 150 years ago, it reve…

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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. 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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3. 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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4. 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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5. The Permanent Revolution, Results and Prospects

By: Leon Trotsky

4.33

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

El presente libro esta consagrado a un problema estrechamente relacionado con la historia de las tr… read more

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6. The Class Struggles in France, 1848-1850

By: Karl Marx

3.30

Format: 208 pages,

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7. 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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8. The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State

By: Friedrich Engels , None

3.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

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9. The Transitional Program for Socialist Revolution

By: Leon Trotsky , Joseph Hansen

4.09

Format: None pages, Paperback

Contains discussions between leaders of the U.S Socialist Workers Party and exiled revolutionary Le… read more

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10. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

By: Mark Fisher

4.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

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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. My Life

By: Leon Trotsky , None

3.99

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Autobiographical account by a leader of the October 1917 Russian revolution, the Soviet Red Army, a… read more

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13. Wages, Price and Profit

By: Karl Marx

3.27

Format: 64 pages,

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14. 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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15. 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

16. Literature and Revolution

By: Leon Trotsky , William Keach , None

3.98

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Roll over Derrida: Literature and Revolutionis back in print. Nothing in the postmodern canon come… read more

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17. The White Tiger

By: Aravind Adiga

3.88

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Balram tells us t… read more

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18. Wage Labour and Capital

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels

4.06

Format: None pages,

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19. 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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20. 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

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21. Ludwig Feuerbach And the Outcome of Classical German Philosophy

By: Friedrich Engels

4.12

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

On the philosophy of Hegel and Feuerbach, and the essence and tasks of philosophy. read more

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"If we are able to prove the correctness of our conception of a natural process by making it ourselves, bringing it into being out of its conditions and making it serve our own purposes into the barga…"

-Friedrich Engels, Ludwig Feuerbach And the Outcome of Classical German Philosophy

"By the word materialism, the philistine understands gluttony, drunkenness, lust of the eye, lust of the flesh, arrogance, cupidity, avarice, covetousness, profit-hunting, and stock-exchange swindling…"

-Friedrich Engels, Ludwig Feuerbach And the Outcome of Classical German Philosophy

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22. 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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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

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24. 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

25. 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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26. Dialectics of Nature

By: Friedrich Engels

3.95

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Dialectics of Nature (German: Dialektik der Natur) is an unfinished 1883 work by Friedrich Engels t… read more

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"Let us not, however, flatter ourselves overmuch on account of our human victories over nature. For each such victory nature takes its revenge on us. Each victory, it is true, in the first place bring…"

-Friedrich Engels, Dialectics of Nature

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27. Understanding Marx's Capital: A Reader's Guide

By: Rob Sewell

4.70

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

Marx's Capital revolutionised the subject of political economy. Written over 150 years ago, it reve… read more

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28. The Revolutionary Legacy of Rosa Luxemburg

By: Marie Frederiksen

4.69

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

There have been many biographies of Rosa Luxemburg, but none have done justice to her as a revoluti… read more

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29. 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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30. The ABC of Materialist Dialectics

By: Leon Trotsky

3.62

Format: 6 pages, Library Binding

Leon Trotsky explains in the article and the objectives and principles of what the idea of ​​Materi… read more

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31. Ireland: Republicanism and Revolution

By: Alan Woods

4.20

Format: 138 pages, Paperback

"The cause of labour is the cause of Ireland, the cause of Ireland is the cause of labour." - James… read more

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8 must-read economics books like Understanding Marx's Capital: A Reader's Guide 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

The Communist Manifesto

Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Gareth Stedman Jones

3.66

Transform Your Habits

What Is to Be Done?

Vladimir Lenin , Robert Service , Joe Fineberg , George H. Hanna

4.05

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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

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The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

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

3.67

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Fascism: What It Is and How to Fight It

Leon Trotsky

4.00

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