Towards a Critique of the Category of Totalitarianism
By: Domenico Losurdo
4.54
Format: 31 pages, None
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1. Inventing Reality: The Politics of News Media
By: Michael Parenti
4.53
Format: 274 pages, Paperback
Taking a critical perspective on the economics and politics of "presenting" the news, this topical … read more
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"Power is always more secure when cooptive, covert, and manipulative than when nakedly brutish. The support elicited through the control of minds is more durable than the support extracted at the poin…"-Michael Parenti, Inventing Reality: The Politics of News Media
"The basic distortions in the media are not innocent errors, for they are not random; rather they move in the same overall direction again and again, favoring management over labor, corporatism over a…"-Michael Parenti, Inventing Reality: The Politics of News Media
2. The Korean War: A History (Modern Library Chronicles)
By: Bruce Cumings
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"Those who suffer terrible wars have a finer sense of when they begin and when they end."-Bruce Cumings, The Korean War: A History (Modern Library Chronicles)
"Eventually the Korean War will be understood as one of the most destructive and one of the most important wars of the twentieth century."-Bruce Cumings, The Korean War: A History (Modern Library Chronicles)
"It was this war and not World War II which established a far-flung American base structure abroad and a national security state at home, as defence spending nearly quadrupled in the last six months o…"-Bruce Cumings, The Korean War: A History (Modern Library Chronicles)
"It was this war and not World War II which established a far-flung American base structure abroad and a national security state at home, as defence spending nearly quadrupled in the last six months o…"-Bruce Cumings, The Korean War: A History (Modern Library Chronicles)
3. 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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"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
4. The Principles of Communism
By: Friedrich Engels
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Format: 25 pages, ebook
In 1847 Engels wrote two draft programmes for the Communist League in the form of a catechism, one … read more
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5. 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
6. 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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"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
7. Orientalism
By: None , Edward W. Said
4.12
Format: 424 pages, Paperback
More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the W… read more
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"Toda época y toda sociedad recrea sus «otros»."-None, Orientalism
"الإستشرق في جوهره مذهب سياسي فُرِضَ فَرْضاً على الشرق لأن الشرق كان أضعف من الغرب، وإنه تجاهل اختلاف الشرق الراجع إلى ضعفه."-None, Orientalism
"It seems a common human failing to prefer the schematic authority of a text to the disorientations of direct encounters with the human."-None, Orientalism
"إن مناقشات الشرق كانت تتسم بالغياب الكامل للشرق، لكن المرء يحس بأن المستشرق ومايقوله حاضران، ومع ذلك فيجب ألا ننسى أن الذي يمكِّن المستشرق من الحضور هو الغياب الفعلي للشرق."-None, Orientalism
8. 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
9. Dialectical and Historical Materialism
By: Joseph Stalin
3.91
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
A succinct presentation of the philosophical foundations of Marxism. read more
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"If there are no isolated phenomena in the world, if all phenomena are interconnected and interdependent, then it is clear that every social system and every social movement in history must be evaluat…"-Joseph Stalin, Dialectical and Historical Materialism
"But having developed productive forces to a tremendous extent, capitalism has become enmeshed in contradictions which it is unable to solve. By producing larger and larger quantities of commodities, …"-Joseph Stalin, Dialectical and Historical Materialism
10. Das Kapital
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky
4.22
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Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth centu… read more
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11. Existentialism Is a Humanism
By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Arlette Elkaïm-Sartre , Annie Cohen-Solal , None
4.25
Format: 159 pages, Paperback
It was to correct common misconceptions about his thought that Sartre accepted an invitation to spe… read more
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12. 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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"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
13. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
By: Mark Fisher
4.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
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14. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
By: Naomi Klein
4.52
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this groundbreaking alternative history of the most dominant ideology of our time, Milton Friedm… read more
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15. 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
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17. October: The Story of the Russian Revolution
By: China Miéville
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In February 1917, in the midst of bloody war, Russia was still an autocratic monarchy: nine months … read more
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18. 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
19. Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
By: Friedrich Engels
4.24
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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
20. To Kill A Nation: The Attack on Yugoslavia
By: Michael Parenti
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Drawing on a wide range of unpublished material and observations gathered from his visit to Yugosla… read more
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21. The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
By: Vincent Bevins
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The hidden story of the wanton slaughter -- in Indonesia, Latin America, and around the world -- ba… read more
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"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
22. Surveillance Valley: The Rise of the Military-Digital Complex
By: Yasha Levine
4.24
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The internet is the most effective weapon the government has ever built.In this fascinating book, i… read more
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23. The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)
By: Nghi Vo
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A young royal from the far north is sent south for a political marriage in an empire reminiscent of… read more
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"Angry mothers raise daughters fierce enough to fight wolves."-Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)
"[,,,] if you want to understand people who have gone, that's what you look at, isn't it? Their offal. Their leavings."-Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)
"The abbey at Singing Hills would say that if a record cannot be perfect, it should at least be present. Better for it to exist than for it to be perfect and only in your mind."-Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)
"... He was unimportant, the least of In-yo's spies and couriers, but—" Almost Brilliant fluttered her wings in the dying light. "I understand. I will remember Sukai for you, and so will my children a…"-Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)
24. How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
By: Daniel Immerwahr
4.46
Format: 513 pages, Hardcover
A pathbreaking history of the United States' overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empir… read more
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"At various times, inhabitants of the U.S. Empire have been shot, shelled, starved, interned, dispossessed, tortured, and experimented on. What they haven't been, by and large, is seen."-Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
"Hoover’s greatest challenge was one of the least visible: the humble screw thread. Screws, nuts, and bolts are universal fasteners. They function in industrial societies, as one writer put it, like s…"-Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
25. Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails
By: Yanis Varoufakis
4.13
Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition
In Talking to My Daughter About the Economy, activist Yanis Varoufakis, Greece’s former finance min… read more
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"The Matrix is a reflection of our times, or at least our anxieties. It reveals our fear of a mechanization so complete, of a commodification of our bodies and enslavement of our minds so successful, …"-Yanis Varoufakis, Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails
"...a cynical person is someone who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing. Our societies tend to make us all cynics. And no one is more cynical than the economist who sees exchange va…"-Yanis Varoufakis, Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails
"Bürokrasi, Ordu ve Ruhban Sınıfı Borç, para, inanç ve devlet el ele yürür. Borç olmadan tarımsal fazlalığı yönetmenin kolay yolu yoktur. Borcun ortaya çıkışıyla paranın yıldızı parlamaya başladı. Anc…"-Yanis Varoufakis, Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails
"Like any ecosystem, a modern economy cannot survive without recycling. Just as animals and plants are continually recycling the oxygen and carbon dioxide that the other provides, so too must workers …"-Yanis Varoufakis, Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails
26. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017
By: Rashid Khalidi
4.50
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A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more
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27. How the West Brought War to Ukraine: Understanding How U.S. and NATO Policies Led to Crisis, War, and the Risk of Nuclear Catastrophe
By: Benjamin Abelow
4.12
Format: 76 pages, Kindle Edition
According to the mainstream Western narrative, Vladimir Putin is an insatiable, Hitler-like expansi… read more
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28. The East is Still Red - Chinese Socialism in the 21st Century
By: Carlos Martínez
4.57
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
Professor Radhika Desai (University of Manitoba; Convenor, International Manifesto Group): In a wor… read more
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29. Preface and Introduction to a Contribution to the Critque of Political Economy
By: Karl Marx
4.19
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Umberto La crítica marxiana de la economía política en la Einleitung / Karl Introducción general a … read more
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"In the social production which men carry on they enter into definite relations that are indispensable and independent of their will; these relations of production correspond to a definite stage of de…"-Karl Marx, Preface and Introduction to a Contribution to the Critque of Political Economy
30. Towards a Critique of the Category of Totalitarianism
By: Domenico Losurdo
4.54
Format: 31 pages, None
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31. Socialism with Chinese Characteristics: A Guide for Foreigners
By: Roland Boer
4.48
Format: 316 pages, ebook
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