13 best-selling nonfiction books like Cedric J. Robinson: On Racial Capitalism, Black Internationalism, and Cultures of Resistance by Cedric J. Robinson

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Cedric J. Robinson: On Racial Capitalism, Black Internationalism, and Cultures of Resistance

By: Cedric J. Robinson

4.42

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Cedric J. Robinson is considered one of the doyens of Black Studies and a pioneer in study of the B…

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1. Nausea

By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Lloyd Alexander , Hayden Carruth

3.94

Format: 178 pages, Hardcover

Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In… read more

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"It was true, I had always realized it—I hadn’t any “right"

-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

"Then time started flowing again and the emptiness grew larger."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

"I see the insipid flesh blossoming and palpitating with abandon."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

"My existence began to worry me seriously. Was I not a simple spectre?"

-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

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2. How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

By: Walter Rodney , Vincent Harding

4.42

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

The decisiveness of the short period of colonialism and its negative consequences for Africa spring… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • theory
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  • nonfiction
  • sociology
"It was economics that Europe should invest in Africa and control the continent's raw materials and labour. It was racism which confirmed the decision that form of control should be direct colonial ru…"

-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

"On any basic figure of the Africans landed alive in the Americas, one would have to make several extensions- starting with a calculation to cover mortality in transshipment. The Atlantic crossing, or…"

-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

"There was a period when the capitalist system increased the well-being of significant numbers of people as a by-product of seeking out profits for a few, but today the quests for profits comes into s…"

-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

"Governor Cameroon of Tanganyika in the 1920s was known as a "progressive" governor. But when he was attacked for trying to preserve the African personality in the educational system, he denied the ch…"

-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

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3. 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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  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • political science
"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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4. 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

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  • 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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5. 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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6. Reflections on the Revolution in France

By: Edmund Burke , L.G. Mitchell

3.55

Format: 199 pages, Paperback

This new and up-to-date edition of a book that has been central to political philosophy, history, a… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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7. 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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  • theory
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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8. The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848

By: Eric J. Hobsbawm

3.77

Format: 67 pages, Paperback

This magisterial volume follows the death of ancient traditions, the triumph of new classes, and th… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction

9. Discourse on Colonialism

By: Robin D.G. Kelley , Aimé Césaire , Joan Pinkham

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Cesaire's essay stands as an important document in the development of third world consciousness--a… read more

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10. 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

11. 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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12. 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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13. Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)

By: Chinua Achebe

3.73

Format: 215 pages, Paperback

A simple story of a "strong man" whose life is dominated by fear and anger, Things Fall Apart is wr… read more

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"Let us not reason like cowards,"

-Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)

"There is no story that is not true."

-Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)

"عندما يضئ القمر يشعر الكسيح برغبة قوية إلى المشي"

-Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)

"إذا نظر امرؤ إلى فم ملك, ظن أنه لم يرضع قط من ثدي أمه"

-Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)

14. The Souls of Black Folk

By: W.E.B. Du Bois , None , None

3.62

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) is the greatest of African American intellectuals--a s… read more

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15. Humanism and Democratic Criticism

By: None , Akeel Bilgrami

3.69

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In the radically changed and highly charged political atmosphere that has overtaken the United Stat… read more

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16. Time Is a Mother

By: Ocean Vuong

3.94

Format: 114 pages, Hardcover

In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershoc… read more

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17. The Ministry for the Future

By: Kim Stanley Robinson

3.88

Format: 563 pages, Hardcover

Established in 2025, the purpose of the new organization was simple: To advocate for the world's fu… read more

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"What's the monetary value of human civilization? Trying to answer that question proves you are a moral and practical idiot."

-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future

"Of course there is always resistance, always a drag on movement toward better things. The dead hand of the past clutches us by way of living people who are too frightened to accept change."

-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future

"It was so hard to imagine that a mind could be gone. All those thoughts that you never tell anyone, all those dreams, all that entire pocket universe: gone. A character unlike any other character, a …"

-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future

"Ideology, n. An imaginary relationship to a real situation. In common usage, what the other person has, especially when systematically distorting the facts. But it seems to us that an ideology is a n…"

-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future

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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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  • nonfiction
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  • sociology
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19. Islam and Anarchism

By: Mohamed Abdou

3.67

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Discourse around Muslims and Islam all too often lapses into a false dichotomy of Orientalist and f… read more

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20. Cedric J. Robinson: On Racial Capitalism, Black Internationalism, and Cultures of Resistance

By: Cedric J. Robinson

4.42

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Cedric J. Robinson is considered one of the doyens of Black Studies and a pioneer in study of the B… read more

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