16 Best history books like China: From Permanent Revolution to Counter-Revolution by John Peter Roberts

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China: From Permanent Revolution to Counter-Revolution

By: John Peter Roberts

4.42

Format: 520 pages, Paperback

This book answers the questions: - What was the class composition and class nature of the Chinese C…

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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. Materialism and Empirio-Criticism: Critical Comments on a Reactionary Philosophy

By: Vladimir Lenin

3.84

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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3. 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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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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4. Marxism And The U.S.A

By: Alan Woods

4.53

Format: 302 pages,

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  • politics
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5. 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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6. 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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7. 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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8. 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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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. 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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11. 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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12. 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

13. Wage Labour and Capital

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels

4.06

Format: None pages,

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14. 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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15. 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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16. The Russian Revolution: A View from the Third World

By: Walter Rodney

4.42

Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition

A never-before published history of the Russian Bolshevik Revolution and its post-colonial legacy, … read more

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17. 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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18. 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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19. China: From Permanent Revolution to Counter-Revolution

By: John Peter Roberts

4.42

Format: 520 pages, Paperback

This book answers the questions: - What was the class composition and class nature of the Chinese C… read more

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20. Russia: from Revolution to Counter-revolution

By: Ted Grant

4.75

Format: 585 pages, Paperback

The October Russian Revolution, led by Lenin and Trotsky, swept away landlordism and capitalism and… read more

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21. 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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15 must-read politics books like China: From Permanent Revolution to Counter-Revolution by John Peter Roberts

Transform Your Habits

The State and Revolution

Vladimir Lenin

4.24

Transform Your Habits

Materialism and Empirio-Criticism: Critical Comments on a Reactionary Philosophy

Vladimir Lenin

3.84

Transform Your Habits

Fascism: What It Is and How to Fight It

Leon Trotsky

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Marxism And The U.S.A

Alan Woods

4.53

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18 must-read history books like The Russian Revolution: A View from the Third World by Walter Rodney

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

Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Paulo Freire , Donaldo Macedo , Myra Bergman Ramos , None

4.30

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The Wretched of the Earth

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

4.32

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