16 Top history books like Riding the Wave: Sweden’s Integration into the Imperialist World System by Torkil Lauesen

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Riding the Wave: Sweden’s Integration into the Imperialist World System

By: Torkil Lauesen

4.25

Format: 249 pages, Paperback

"In general, the Scandinavian countries did not have the necessary military power and administrativ…

If you liked the history plot in Riding the Wave: Sweden’s Integration into the Imperialist World System by Torkil Lauesen , here is a list of 16 books like this:

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1. The Communist Necessity

By: J. Moufawad-Paul

4.06

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

There was a time when we proclaimed that we were part of a beautiful and fragmented chaos of affini… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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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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  • politics
  • economics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"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. 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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  • politics
  • economics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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4. Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

By: Michael Parenti

4.41

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

Blackshirts & Reds explores some of the big issues of our time: fascism, capitalism, communism, rev… read more

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  • politics
  • economics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Ecology's implications for capitalism are too horrendous for the capitalist to contemplate."

-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

"Decentralized parochial autonomy is the graveyard of insurgency-which may be one reason why there has never been a successful anarcho-syndicalist revolution."

-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

"A joke circulating in Russia in 1992 went like this: Q. What did capitalism accomplish in one year that communism could not do in seventy years? A. Make communism look good."

-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

"...the [pure socialist] critics [of communist countries] seem unable to apply their own leadership genius to producing a successful revolutionary movement in their own country."

-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

5. The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering

By: Norman G. Finkelstein

3.93

Format: None pages, Paperback

Controversial indictment of those who exploit the tragedy of the Holocaust for their own gain. In a… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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6. Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

By: Eduardo Galeano , Cedric Belfrage

4.31

Format: 317 pages, Paperback

Since its U.S. debut almost fifty years ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for histori… read more

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  • politics
  • economics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Bolivians die with rotted lungs so that the world may consume cheap tin."

-Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

"Whatever Latin America sells—raw materials or manufactures—its chief export product is really cheap labor."

-Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

"Cuando el Estado se hace dueño de la principal riqueza de un país, corresponde preguntarse quién es el dueño del Estado."

-Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

"Cuanto más codiciado por el mercado mundial, mayor es la desgracia que un producto trae consigo al pueblo latinoamericano que, con su sacrificio, lo crea."

-Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

7. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

By: Ilan Pappé

3.98

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

Since the Holocaust, it has been almost impossible to hide large-scale crimes against humanity. In … read more

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8. Wage-Labour and Capital/Value, Price and Profit

By: Karl Marx

3.97

Format: None pages,

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9. Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist

By: None

4.12

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'I see [Raworth] as the John Maynard Keynes of the 21st Century: by ref… read more

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10. Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village

By: William Hinton

4.30

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

More than thirty years after its initial publication, William Hinton's Fanshencontinues to be the e… read more

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11. 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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  • politics
  • economics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"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?

12. The Invention of the Jewish People

By: Yael Lotan , Shlomo Sand

4.10

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A historical tour de force that demolishes the myths and taboos that have surrounded Jewish and Isr… read more

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13. 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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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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14. Washington Bullets

By: Vijay Prashad

4.40

Format: 162 pages, Paperback

Washington Bullets is written in the best traditions of Marxist journalism and history-writing. It … read more

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  • politics
  • economics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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15. Stalin: The History and Critique of a Black Legend

By: Domenico Losurdo

4.39

Format: 353 pages, ebook

La figura di Stalin occupa una posizione centrale nella storia del Novecento. Dittatore sanguinario… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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16. Anarchism or Socialism?

By: Joseph Stalin

3.72

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

This is the first English language edition of one of Stalin's earliest theoretical writings, first … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"As you see, the point is not which class today constitutes the majority, or which class is poorer, but which class is gaining strength and which is decaying."

-Joseph Stalin, Anarchism or Socialism?

"History teaches us that the class or social group which plays the principal role in social production and performs the main functions in production must, in the course of time, inevitably take contro…"

-Joseph Stalin, Anarchism or Socialism?

"Socialist society presupposes an adequate development of productive forces and socialist consciousness among men, their socialist enlightenment. At the present time the development of the productive …"

-Joseph Stalin, Anarchism or Socialism?

"Strikes, boycott, parliamentarism, meetings and demonstrations are all good forms of struggle as means for preparing and organising the proletariat. But not one of these means is capable of abolishin…"

-Joseph Stalin, Anarchism or Socialism?

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17. Strategy for the Liberation of Palestine

By: Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

4.58

Format: 75 pages, ebook

This classic small book provides the outline of the strategy and overall vision of the Popular Fron… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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18. Decolonial Marxism: Essays from the Pan-African Revolution

By: Walter Rodney

4.52

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A previously unpublished collection of Rodney's essays on Marxism, spanning his engagement with of … read more

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  • economics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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19. Stasi State or Socialist Paradise?: The German Democratic Republic and What Became of It

By: Bruni de la Motte

4.33

Format: 168 pages, Kindle Edition

Much has been written about how awful the German Democratic Republic supposedly was: a people impri… read more

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  • politics
  • economics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"What followed was the largest and most rapid privatisation ever seen in any country in the world (except perhaps in the Soviet Union under Yeltsin). Never in the history of civilisation has a state's…"

-Bruni de la Motte, Stasi State or Socialist Paradise?: The German Democratic Republic and What Became of It

"What in essence happened under the Treuhand was a complete transfer without compensation of property and assets accumulated over forty years through hard work and effort by GDR citizens, as well as t…"

-Bruni de la Motte, Stasi State or Socialist Paradise?: The German Democratic Republic and What Became of It

Cover of Riding the Wave: Sweden’s Integration into the Imperialist World System by Torkil Lauesen

20. Riding the Wave: Sweden’s Integration into the Imperialist World System

By: Torkil Lauesen

4.25

Format: 249 pages, Paperback

"In general, the Scandinavian countries did not have the necessary military power and administrativ… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • economics
  • nonfiction
  • sweden
Cover of Canada In The World: Settler Capitalism and the Colonial Imagination by Tyler A Shipley

21. Canada In The World: Settler Capitalism and the Colonial Imagination

By: Tyler A Shipley

4.59

Format: 452 pages, Paperback

An accessible and empirically rich introduction to Canada’s engagements in the world since confeder… read more

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