17 must-read theory books like Essays on Marx's Theory Of Value (Trans from Russian) by Isaak Illich Rubin

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Essays on Marx's Theory Of Value (Trans from Russian)

By: Isaak Illich Rubin

4.45

Format: 275 pages, Paperback

Political economy, defined in the study of social relations and culture. Originally published in th…

"The physiological homogeneity of human labour was a necessary presupposition of the social division of labour, but only at a determined level of social development and in a determined social form of economy does the labour of the individual have the character of a form of manifestation of human labour in general. We would not be exaggerating if we said that perhaps the concept of man in general and of human labour in general emerged on the basis of the commodity economy."

-Isaak Illich Rubin, Essays on Marx's Theory Of Value (Trans from Russian)

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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. 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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3. The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

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

3.67

Format: 230 pages, Paperback

The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte" is one of Karl Marx' most profound and most brilliant m… read more

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4. The Sublime Object of Ideology

By: Slavoj Žižek , Ernesto Laclau

3.50

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

In this provocative and original work, Slavoj Zizek takes a look at the question of human agency in… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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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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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics

6. Workers' Councils

By: Noam Chomsky , Anton Pannekoek

4.09

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

Contemporaries across the spectrum of Left thought, from Antonio Negri to Noam Chomsky, are falling… read more

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7. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

By: Michel Foucault , Alan Sheridan , None , None , None

3.35

Format: 520 pages, Paperback

Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . In this brilliant work, the mos… read more

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  • nonfiction
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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. 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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10. Women's Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle

By: Thomas Sankara , None

5.00

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

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11. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

By: Mark Fisher

4.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

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12. The Gambler

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Constance Garnett , Gary Saul Morson

3.91

Format: 188 pages, Paperback

In this dark and compelling short novel, Dostoevsky tells the story of Alexey Ivanovitch, a young t… read more

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"Quien teme al lobo no se mete en el bosque."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler

"يجب ان يظل المال دون الأستقراطي، حتى لكأن الأستقراطي لا يكاد يحفل به أو يقلق له"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler

"En toda situación es posible comportarse con dignidad. Si hay lucha, que sea noble y no humillante."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler

"I believe he was feeling a bit nervous. Possibly it was my costume that took him aback. I was dressed quite well, even elegantly, and looked as if I belonged to the best society."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler

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13. 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

14. The Conquest of Bread

By: Pyotr Kropotkin

4.67

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

The fourth in AK Press' Working Classics series, The Conquest of Breadis Peter Kropotkin's most ext… read more

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15. On the Genealogy of Morals

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Douglas Smith

4.13

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) is a book about the history of ethics and about interpretation. N… read more

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"We are noble, good, beautiful, and happy!"

-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals

"There is so much in man that is horrifying!.. The world has been a madhouse for too long!..."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals

"Somebody said: "About two persons I have never reflected very thoroughly: that is the testimony of my love for them."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals

"All concepts in which an entire process is semiotically concentrated elude definition; only that which has no history is definable."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals

16. The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View

By: Ellen Meiksins Wood

3.44

Format: 406 pages, Paperback

Capitalism is not a natural and inevitable consequence of human nature, nor is it simply an extensi… read more

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17. The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction

By: Michel Foucault , Robert Hurley

4.00

Format: 201 pages,

Michel Foucault offers an iconoclastic exploration of why we feel compelled to continually analyze … read more

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18. 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

19. Night Sky with Exit Wounds

By: Ocean Vuong

4.00

Format: 258 pages, Paperback

Ocean Vuong's first full-length collection aims straight for the perennial "big"--and very human--s… read more

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20. The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution

By: None

4.71

Format: None pages,

"No one can understand how feminism has evolved without reading this radical, inflammatory second-w… read more

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21. The Republic

By: Plato , Desmond Lee

3.96

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, this classi… read more

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"Appearance tyrannizes over truth."

-Plato, The Republic

"The comprehensive mind is always dialectical."

-Plato, The Republic

"Those who don't know must learn from those who do."

-Plato, The Republic

"Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance"

-Plato, The Republic

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22. Panza de burro

By: Andrea Abreu López

3.80

Format: 172 pages, Paperback

«Reconozco que al principio, cuando Panza de burro solo había crecido unos capitulitos, pensé que s… read more

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"A la altura del cruce vi la forma del cuerpo de Isora al final del camino. Era verla allá, al final de la carretera, justo en el rasante, donde el camino se volvía casi vertical, y me golpeaba una al…"

-Andrea Abreu López, Panza de burro

"Y ya las ranitas del estanque en el que ya nadie nadaba empezaban a cantar y parecía como una canción antigua, una canción que venía de siglos atrás, de cuando Isora y yo todavía no éramos amigas per…"

-Andrea Abreu López, Panza de burro

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23. We Are the Heirs of the World's Revolutions: Speeches from the Burkina Faso Revolution 1983-87, 2nd Edition

By: Thomas Sankara

4.55

Format: 108 pages, Paperback

"Our revolution in Burkina Faso draws on the totality of man's experiences since the first breath o… read more

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  • nonfiction
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24. An Introduction to the Three Volumes of Karl Marx’s Capital

By: Michael Heinrich

4.20

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

The global economic crisis and recession that began in 2008 had at least one unexpected outcome: a … read more

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25. Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism

By: Quinn Slobodian

4.17

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Chosen by Pankaj Mishra as one of the Best Books of the Summer Neoliberals hate the state. Or do… read more

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"Scaling national government up to the planet, creating a global government, was no solution. The puzzle of the neoliberal ­century was to find the right institutions to sustain the often strained bal…"

-Quinn Slobodian, Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism

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26. Comrade: An Essay on Political Belonging

By: Jodi Dean

3.89

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

When people say “comrade,” they change the world In the twentieth century, millions of people ac… read more

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27. Karl Marx's Ecosocialism: Capital, Nature, and the Unfinished Critique of Political Economy

By: Kōhei Saitō

4.02

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Reveals the ideal of a sustainable ecosocialist world in Marx's writings Karl Marx, author of what … read more

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28. 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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29. The Communist Horizon (Pocket Communism)

By: Jodi Dean

3.72

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Jodi Dean unshackles the communist ideal from the failures of the Soviet Union. In the new capit… read more

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"What leftists call the loss of the political is the fog they wander through because they've lost sight of the communist horizon."

-Jodi Dean, The Communist Horizon (Pocket Communism)

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30. Essays on Marx's Theory Of Value (Trans from Russian)

By: Isaak Illich Rubin

4.45

Format: 275 pages, Paperback

Political economy, defined in the study of social relations and culture. Originally published in th… read more

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"The physiological homogeneity of human labour was a necessary presupposition of the social division of labour, but only at a determined level of social development and in a determined social form of …"

-Isaak Illich Rubin, Essays on Marx's Theory Of Value (Trans from Russian)

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31. Catalunya, la qüestió nacional i el dret d'autodeterminació (1912-1935)

By: Andreu Nin

4.14

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Andreu Nin (1892-1937) fou un dels polítics catalans amb més projecció internacional de la primera … read more

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Vladimir Lenin

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4.32

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3.67

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3.50

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Jean Baudrillard , Sheila Faria Glaser

4.00

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4.02

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Baruch Spinoza , Edwin M. Curley , Stuart Hampshire , None

4.10

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