8 must-read nonfiction books like Sins of the Fathers: Tracing The Decisions That Shaped The Irish Economy by Conor McCabe

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Sins of the Fathers: Tracing The Decisions That Shaped The Irish Economy

By: Conor McCabe

4.20

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

The questions surrounding how the Irish economy was brought to the brink - who was to blame, and wh…

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1. 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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  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • history
"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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Matthew    Ward
, Stuart Gilbert, None

2. The Stranger

By: Albert Camus , Matthew Ward , Stuart Gilbert , None

4.02

Format: 123 pages, Paperback

Published in 1942 by French author Albert Camus, The Stranger has long been considered a classic of… read more

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"It is better to burn than to disappear."

-Albert Camus, The Stranger

"Everything is true, and nothing is true!"

-Albert Camus, The Stranger

"After awhile you could get used to anything."

-Albert Camus, The Stranger

"To stay or to go, it amounted to the same thing."

-Albert Camus, The Stranger

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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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  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • history
"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. 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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  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • history
"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. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

By: Mark Fisher

4.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

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6. 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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  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • history
"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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7. 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

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"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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8. 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

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"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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9. The Starmer Project: A journey to the Right

By: Oliver Eagleton

3.98

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

The Labour Party has virtually disappeared from view under the leadership of Keir Starmer. Hailed a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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10. The Twilight of Unionism: Ulster and the Future of Northern Ireland

By: Geoffrey Bell

4.12

Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition

The crisis of Ulster Unionism and the future of Northern IrelandThe fissures that have split the Un… read more

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  • history
  • ireland
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11. Sins of the Fathers: Tracing The Decisions That Shaped The Irish Economy

By: Conor McCabe

4.20

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

The questions surrounding how the Irish economy was brought to the brink - who was to blame, and wh… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • irish literature
  • ireland

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