10 Top theory books like Marx for Cats: A Radical Bestiary by Leigh Claire La Berge

Marx for Cats: A Radical Bestiary

By: Leigh Claire La Berge

4.17

Format: None pages, None

At the outset of Marx for Cats, Leigh Claire La Berge declares that “all history is the history of …

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1. Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

By: Anne Carson , Stesichorus

4.27

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

The award-winning poet Anne Carson reinvents a genre in Autobiography of Red, a stunning work that … read more

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"Under the seams runs the pain."

-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

"There is no person without a world."

-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

"Don't want to be free want to be with you."

-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

"Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary."

-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

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2. King Kong théorie

By: Virginie Despentes

4.01

Format: 155 pages, Paperback

J’écris de chez les moches, pour les moches, les frigides, les mal baisées, les imbaisables, toutes… read more

Similar categories in Virginie Despentes's King Kong théorie book and Leigh Claire La Berge's Marx for Cats: A Radical Bestiary

  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"Le prostitute costituiscono l'unico proletariato la cui condizione commuove tanto la borghesia"

-Virginie Despentes, King Kong théorie

"Dans la morale judéo-chrétienne, mieux vaut être prise de force que prise pour une chienne, on nous l'a assez répété."

-Virginie Despentes, King Kong théorie

"Il faut être crétin, ou simplement malhonnête, pour trouver une oppression insupportable et juger l'autre pleine de poésie."

-Virginie Despentes, King Kong théorie

"Hace falta ser idiota, o asquerosamente deshonesto, para pensar que una forma de opresión es insoportable y juzgar que la otra está llena de poesía."

-Virginie Despentes, King Kong théorie

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3. Pedagogy of the Oppressed

By: Paulo Freire , Donaldo Macedo , Myra Bergman Ramos , None

4.30

Format: 183 pages, Paperback

First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in En… read more

Similar categories in Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed book and Leigh Claire La Berge's Marx for Cats: A Radical Bestiary

  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
"Critical consciousness, they say, is anarchic."

-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

"Without a sense of identity, there can be no real struggle."

-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

"People educate each other through the mediation of the world."

-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

"Word is not the privilege of some few persons but the right of everyone"

-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

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4. 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

Similar categories in C.L.R. James's The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution book and Leigh Claire La Berge's Marx for Cats: A Radical Bestiary

  • philosophy
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction

5. Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement

By: Cornel West , Angela Y. Davis , Frank Barat

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Ange… read more

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6. If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution

By: Vincent Bevins

4.28

Format: 337 pages, Hardcover

The story of the recent uprisings that sought to change the world - and what comes next   From 20… read more

Similar categories in Vincent Bevins's If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution book and Leigh Claire La Berge's Marx for Cats: A Radical Bestiary

  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
"In the history of revolutions, a couple of truisms had already emerged. One is that they are only successful when security forces defect or are defeated in violent conflict. Even if Moa Zedong was be…"

-Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution

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7. Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire

By: Jehad Abusalim

4.70

Format: 279 pages, Paperback

Imagining the future of Gaza beyond the cruelties of occupation and Apartheid, Light in Gaza is a p… read more

Similar categories in Jehad Abusalim's Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire book and Leigh Claire La Berge's Marx for Cats: A Radical Bestiary

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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8. Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

By: Mosab Abu Toha

4.74

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2022 Palestine Book Awards Creative Award Finalist for the National Book Critics Cir… read more

Similar categories in Mosab Abu Toha's Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza book and Leigh Claire La Berge's Marx for Cats: A Radical Bestiary

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Borders are those invented lines drawn with ash on maps and sewn into the ground by bullets."

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

"A country that exists only in my mind. Its flag has no room to fly freely, but there is space on the coffins of my countrymen."

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

"In Gaza, some of us cannot completely die. Every time a bomb falls, every time shrapnel hits our graves, every time the rubble piles up on our heads, we are awakened from our temporary death."

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

"PALESTINE A–Z A An apple that fell from the table on a dark evening when man-made lightning flashed through the kitchen, the streets, and the sky, rattling the cupboards and breaking the dishes. “Am"

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

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9. The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World

By: Vincent Bevins

4.61

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The hidden story of the wanton slaughter -- in Indonesia, Latin America, and around the world -- ba… read more

Similar categories in Vincent Bevins's The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World book and Leigh Claire La Berge's Marx for Cats: A Radical Bestiary

  • theory
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"locals came to him, time and time again, and asked, with genuine mystification: 'We just don't understand America. You were once a colony. You know what colonialism is. You fought and bled and died f…"

-Vincent Bevins, The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World

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10. Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

By: Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

4.00

Format: 157 pages, Paperback

A powerful indictment of the ways elites have co-opted radical critiques of racial capitalism to se… read more

Similar categories in Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò's Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else) book and Leigh Claire La Berge's Marx for Cats: A Radical Bestiary

  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
"A philosopher Briana Toole clarifies, by itself, one's social location only puts a person in a position to know; 'epistemic privilege' or advantage, on the other hand, is achieved only through delibe…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

"Elites do often make the environment worse and block solutions, but to blame the problem of elite capture entirely on their moral successes and failures is to confuse effect for cause. The true probl…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

"To opt for deference, rather than interdependence, may soothe short-term psychological wounds. But it does so at a steep cost: it may undermine the goals that motivated the project--and it entrenches…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

"As Carter G. Woodson realized, many of our decisions are shaped by decisions that someone with more power made before us. The whole social structure affects how institutional systems, like schools, f…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

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11. Health Communism

By: Beatrice Adler-Bolton

4.31

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A searing analysis of health and illness under capitalism from hosts of the hit podcast “Death Pane… read more

Similar categories in Beatrice Adler-Bolton's Health Communism book and Leigh Claire La Berge's Marx for Cats: A Radical Bestiary

  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
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12. Linghun

By: Ai Jiang

3.96

Format: 178 pages, Paperback

WELCOME HOME. Follow Wenqi, Liam, and Mrs. in this modern gothic ghost story by Chinese-Canadian… read more

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"In HOME, Liam was a dream. Here, he's a flawed but beautiful reality. Whispers of our future together lull us both into a dreamless sleep. It's the first time we find such emptiness comforting."

-Ai Jiang, Linghun

"Feelings, emotions, experiences, are all part of humanity's shared language, and in Linghun, that shared language is grief. Grief is a language that tears us apart, but it is also what brings us toge…"

-Ai Jiang, Linghun

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13. A Magical Girl Retires

By: Park Seolyeon

3.63

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

A millennial turned magical girl must combat climate change and credit card debt in this delightful… read more

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"The person I loved and respected the most in the world called me a genius; therefore, I was a genius."

-Park Seolyeon, A Magical Girl Retires

"If I could become a magical girl at twenty-nine, then surely it was never too late to become a watchmaker."

-Park Seolyeon, A Magical Girl Retires

"Grandfather, I just love watches. When I look at them, I just... It's like they're a whole universe. The universe itself. Even the smallest watch."

-Park Seolyeon, A Magical Girl Retires

"She had a point. I mean, when did my own girlhood begin and end, exactly? I couldn't quite circle a lasso around it, but I knew, at least, when it had ended. Three years ago, when Grandfather died."

-Park Seolyeon, A Magical Girl Retires

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14. Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health (Outspoken by Pluto)

By: Micha Frazer-Carroll

4.40

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

‘A radical antidote to the constraints of our current conceptualisation of mental health’  Dazed ‘E… read more

Similar categories in Micha Frazer-Carroll's Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health (Outspoken by Pluto) book and Leigh Claire La Berge's Marx for Cats: A Radical Bestiary

  • theory
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
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15. A Short History of Trans Misogyny

By: Jules Gill-Peterson

4.47

Format: 182 pages, Hardcover

An accessible, bold new vision for the future of intersectional trans feminism, called "one of the … read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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16. Penny: A Graphic Memoir

By: Karl Stevens

3.86

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

"Penny is a major literary figure--right up there with Madame Bovary." -- David Sedaris This col… read more

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  • philosophy
  • animals
  • cats
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17. After Work: The Politics of Free Time

By: Helen Hester

3.92

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A timely manifesto for a feminist post-work politics Does it ever feel like you have no free tim… read more

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  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • sociology

18. Marx for Cats: A Radical Bestiary

By: Leigh Claire La Berge

4.17

Format: None pages, None

At the outset of Marx for Cats, Leigh Claire La Berge declares that “all history is the history of … read more

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  • cultural
  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • animals
  • cats
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • sociology
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19. Against Creativity

By: Oli Mould

3.63

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

Everything you have been told about creativity is wrong.From line managers, corporate CEOs, urban d… read more

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  • cultural
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • sociology
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20. Workers of the Earth: Labour, Ecology and Reproduction in the Age of Climate Change

By: Stefania Barca

4.67

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Capitalism is destroying our planet, but like most social progress in the last two centuries, ecolo… read more

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  • nonfiction
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21. Immanent Externalities: The Reproduction of Life in Capital (Historical Materialism, 285)

By: Rebecca Carson

4.00

Format: 212 pages, Hardcover

This book philosophically reconstructs Marx’s Capital from the perspective of reproduction to produ… read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • nonfiction

10 must-read history books like Marx for Cats: A Radical Bestiary by Leigh Claire La Berge

Transform Your Habits

Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Paulo Freire , Donaldo Macedo , Myra Bergman Ramos , None

4.30

Transform Your Habits

The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution

C.L.R. James

4.55

Transform Your Habits

If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution

Vincent Bevins

4.28

Transform Your Habits

Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire

Jehad Abusalim

4.70

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Transform Your Habits

Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire

Jehad Abusalim

4.70

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Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics

Marc Lamont Hill

4.21

Transform Your Habits

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Adania Shibli

4.20

Transform Your Habits

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

Rashid Khalidi

4.50

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