15 must-read theory books like Marx's Inferno: The Political Theory of Capital by William Clare Roberts

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Marx's Inferno: The Political Theory of Capital

By: William Clare Roberts

4.39

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Marx's Inferno reconstructs the major arguments of Karl Marx's Capital and inaugurates a completely…

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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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  • philosophy
"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. 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
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
"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. 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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  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
"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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4. Critique of the Gotha Program

By: Karl Marx

4.36

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

read more

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

7. The Hero With a Thousand Faces

By: Joseph Campbell

3.79

Format: 32 pages,

The first popular work to combine the spiritual and psychological insights of modern psychoanalysis… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • history
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8. Between Two Fires

By: Christopher Buehlman

4.27

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The year is 1348. Thomas, a disgraced knight, has found a young girl alone in a dead Norman village… read more

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"The only thing I say to God is my daughter's names; and it is not a prayer, it's a rebuke."

-Christopher Buehlman, Between Two Fires

"He was being kissed now by his own mouth, not as lovers kiss, with tongues, but as true lovers kiss, sharing breath."

-Christopher Buehlman, Between Two Fires

"A dark-haired little boy just in pants stood bewildered near the blaze, saying, as if there had been some mistake, "We live here. We live here."

-Christopher Buehlman, Between Two Fires

"But it will be harder for you if you remember. Love is always harder. Love means weathering blows for another’s sake and not counting them. Love is loss of self, loss of other, and faith in the death…"

-Christopher Buehlman, Between Two Fires

9. A Companion to Marx's Capital

By: David Harvey

4.05

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"My aim is to get you to read a book by Karl Marx called Capital, Volume 1, and to read it on Marx'… read more

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10. As I Lay Dying

By: William Faulkner

3.72

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

As I Lay Dying is Faulkner’s harrowing account of the Bundren family’s odyssey across the Mississip… read more

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"vomiting the crying"

-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

"But peace is my heart: I know it is."

-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

"it's better to build a tight chicken coop than a shoddy courthouse."

-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

"sometimes i lose faith in human nature for a time; i am assailed by doubt."

-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

11. Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth: Philosophical Papers (Philosophical Papers (Cambridge)) (Volume 1)

By: Richard Rorty

3.85

Format: 132 pages, Paperback

This book is about antirepresentationalism, ethnocentrism, and liberalism. This is the first volume… read more

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12. War of Annihilation: Combat and Genocide on the Eastern Front, 1941

By: None

3.03

Format: 234 pages, Paperback

On June 22, 1941, Hitler began what would be the most important campaign of the European theater. T… read more

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13. Ten Myths about Israel

By: Ilan Pappé

4.03

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

What are the myths--and reality--behind the state of Israel? Ilan Pappe is one of the most outspoke… read more

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14. Beyond the Pleasure Principle

By: Sigmund Freud , James Strachey

2.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

In reasoned progression he outlined core psychoanalytic concepts, such as repression, free associat… read more

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15. 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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16. Capital: The Process of Circulation of Capital

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Ernest Mandel , David Fernbach

3.92

Format: 594 pages, Paperback

The "forgotten" second volume of Capital, Marx's world-shaking analysis of economics, politics, and… read more

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17. 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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  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • sociology
"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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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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  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • sociology
"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. The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex/Oedipus at Colonus/Antigone (The Theban Plays, #1–3)

By: Sophocles , Robert Fitzgerald , Dudley Fitts , None

5.00

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

(1939 translation) read more

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20. 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

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  • 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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21. Immediacy: Or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism

By: Anna Kornbluh

4.08

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Why speed, flow, and direct expression now dominate cultural style Contemporary cultural style boo… read more

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  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • criticism
  • economics
  • sociology
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22. Aberration in the Heartland of the Real: The Secret Lives of Timothy McVeigh

By: Wendy S. Painting

4.58

Format: 720 pages, Paperback

Presenting startling new biographical details about Timothy McVeigh and exposing stark contradictio… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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23. 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
Cover of Mute Compulsion. A Theory of the Economic Power of Capital by Søren Mau

24. Mute Compulsion. A Theory of the Economic Power of Capital

By: Søren Mau

4.40

Format: None pages, ebook

[From Author's Summary] Despite a decade of crisis and social unrest, capitalism is in many ways … read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
Cover of Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy by Quinn Slobodian

25. Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy

By: Quinn Slobodian

4.10

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In a revelatory dispatch from the frontier of capitalist extremism, an acclaimed historian of ideas… read more

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  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • sociology
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26. The People Immortal

By: Vasily Grossman

4.09

Format: 348 pages, Paperback

Vasily Grossman wrote three novels about the Second World War, each offering a distinct take on wha… read more

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27. 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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  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • sociology
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28. Time, Labor, and Social Domination: A Reinterpretation of Marx's Critical Theory

By: Moishe Postone

4.32

Format: 440 pages, Paperback

In this ambitious book, Moishe Postone undertakes a fundamental reinterpretation of Marx's mature c… read more

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  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • sociology
Cover of Embracing Alienation: Why We Shouldn't Try to Find Ourselves by Todd McGowan

29. Embracing Alienation: Why We Shouldn't Try to Find Ourselves

By: Todd McGowan

4.30

Format: 206 pages, Paperback

The left views alienation as something to be resisted or overcome, but could it actually form the b… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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30. Marx's Inferno: The Political Theory of Capital

By: William Clare Roberts

4.39

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Marx's Inferno reconstructs the major arguments of Karl Marx's Capital and inaugurates a completely… read more

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  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • criticism
  • economics
  • sociology
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31. Karl Marx and the Birth of Modern Society: The Life of Marx and the Development of His Work

By: Michael Heinrich

4.47

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

For over a century, Karl Marx's critique of capitalism has been a crucial resource for social movem… read more

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17 best-selling history books like Marx's Inferno: The Political Theory of Capital by William Clare Roberts

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Vladimir Lenin

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