14 best-selling philosophy books like Stalin: An Appraisal of the Man and His Influence by Leon Trotsky

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Stalin: An Appraisal of the Man and His Influence

By: Leon Trotsky

4.03

Format: None pages, Paperback

Trotsky's Stalin biography is an important historical document. Unfortunately Trotsky was not able …

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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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  • history
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  • world 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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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
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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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3. The Civil War in France

By: Karl Marx

3.67

Format: 230 pages, Paperback

A reprint of the 1934 'enlarged edition', a volume that added newly translated material to the titl… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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4. Materialism and Empirio-Criticism: Critical Comments on a Reactionary Philosophy

By: Vladimir Lenin

3.84

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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5. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

By: Frederick Douglass

4.11

Format: 158 pages, Paperback

Born a slave circa 1818 (slaves weren't told when they were born) on a plantation in Maryland, Doug… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"For my part, I should prefer death to hopeless bondage."

-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

"You will be free as soon as you are twenty-one, but I am a slave for life! Have not I as good a right to be free as you have?"

-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

"I say , this picture sometimes appalled us, and made us rather bear those ills we had. Than fly to others, that we knew not of."

-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

"They attend with Pharisaical strictness to the outward forms of religion, and at the same time neglect the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith."

-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

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6. 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
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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7. Left-Wing Communism, an Infantile Disorder: A Popular Essay in Marxian Strategy and Tactics

By: Vladimir Lenin

3.26

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

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  • philosophy
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8. The Autobiography of Malcolm X

By: Alex Haley , Malcolm X

4.36

Format: 466 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Alternate cover for ISBN 9780345350688 Through a life of passion and struggle, Malcolm X became … read more

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  • biography
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"We all like chicken"

-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

"كانت حياتي سلسة من التحولات"

-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

"لا يدرك الناس أن كتابا واحدا قد يغير حياة انسان"

-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

"I Used the Word 'Negro' and I was Firmly Corrected"

-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

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9. The Class Struggles in France, 1848-1850

By: Karl Marx

3.30

Format: 208 pages,

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10. The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State

By: Friedrich Engels , None

3.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

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11. 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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  • philosophy
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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

12. 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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13. What Is to Be Done?

By: Vladimir Lenin , Robert Service , Joe Fineberg , George H. Hanna

4.05

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

In What Is to Be Done?, Lenin in 1901 argues that the working class will not spontaneously become p… read more

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"Ancak kendine güveni olmayanlar, güvenilmez insanlarla bile olsa geçici ittifaklara girmekten korkar ve hiçbir politik parti bu tür ittifaklar olmadan var olamaz."

-Vladimir Lenin, What Is to Be Done?

"Ya burjuva ideolojisi ya da sosyalist ideoloji. Bunun ortası yok (çünkü insanlık "üçüncü" bir ideoloji yaratmış değildir; ayrıca genel olarak sınıfsal çelişkilerle parçalanmış bir toplumda, hiçbir za…"

-Vladimir Lenin, What Is to Be Done?

"We are marching in a compact group along a precipitous and difficult path, firmly holding each other by the hand. We are surrounded on all sides by enemies, and we have to advance almost constantly u…"

-Vladimir Lenin, What Is to Be Done?

"Rusya'da, hem 1870'li, hem de 1860'lı yıllarda (hatta 19. yüzyılın ilk yarısında) da grevler oldu ve bunlar makinelerin vb. "kendiliğinden" tahrip edilmesi vb. eşliğinde yaşanan grevlerdi. Bu "isyanl…"

-Vladimir Lenin, What Is to Be Done?

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14. 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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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"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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15. The Housing Question

By: Friedrich Engels

4.13

Format: 102 pages, Paperback

Die nachfolgende Schrift ist der Wiederabdruck dreier Artikel, die ich 1872 in den Leipziger "Volks… read more

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"For our workers in the big cities, freedom of movement is the prime condition of existence, and landownership can only be a fetter to them. Give them their own houses, chain them once again to the so…"

-Friedrich Engels, The Housing Question

"It is perfectly clear that the existing state is neither able nor willing to do anything to remedy the housing difficulty. The state is nothing but the organized collective power of the possessing cl…"

-Friedrich Engels, The Housing Question

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16. Reason in Revolt: Dialectical Philosophy and Modern Science

By: Alan Woods

4.35

Format: 268 pages, Paperback

Reason in Revolt further develops the theory of Dialectical Materialism, using the most important s… read more

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17. The History of Philosophy: A Marxist Perspective

By: Alan Woods

4.57

Format: 350 pages, Paperback

A Marxist approach to the History of Philosophy Alan Woods outlines the development of philosoph… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
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18. In Defence of Lenin: Volume 1

By: Rob Sewell

4.77

Format: 458 pages, Paperback

John Reed, the author of Ten Days that Shook the World, once said that Lenin was the most loved and… read more

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19. Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Spain

By: Felix Morrow

4.44

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A contemporary account of the revolution and civil war in Spain in the 1930s in which the proletari… read more

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"One by one those capitalist countries which arrive at a complete impasse, take the road of fascism"

-Felix Morrow, Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Spain

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20. In Defence of Lenin: Volume 2

By: Rob Sewell

4.78

Format: 584 pages, Paperback

John Reed, the author of Ten Days that Shook the World, once said that Lenin was the most loved and… read more

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  • nonfiction
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21. The History of American Trotskyism, 1928-38: Report of a Participant

By: James P. Cannon

4.43

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

Trotskyism is not a new movement, a new doctrine, Cannon says, but the restoration, the revival of … read more

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  • politics
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22. Lenin and Trotsky - What They Really Stood for

By: Alan Woods

4.47

Format: 223 pages, Paperback

Madrid. 21 cm. 251 p. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Ted Grant y Alan Woods.… read more

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23. Dialectics of Nature

By: Friedrich Engels

3.95

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Dialectics of Nature (German: Dialektik der Natur) is an unfinished 1883 work by Friedrich Engels t… read more

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"Let us not, however, flatter ourselves overmuch on account of our human victories over nature. For each such victory nature takes its revenge on us. Each victory, it is true, in the first place bring…"

-Friedrich Engels, Dialectics of Nature

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24. Lenin's Moscow

By: Alfred Rosmer

4.06

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

This memoir by a Comintern leader in the early Soviet Union is “a vital primary source . . . clear … read more

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  • history
  • russia
  • nonfiction
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25. Germany 1918-1933: Socialism or Barbarism

By: Rob Sewell

4.14

Format: 695 pages, Kindle Edition

Germany 1918-33 was one of the most tumultuous periods in history. Following the revolution in Russ… read more

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26. Stalin: An Appraisal of the Man and His Influence

By: Leon Trotsky

4.03

Format: None pages, Paperback

Trotsky's Stalin biography is an important historical document. Unfortunately Trotsky was not able … read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • russian history
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27. The Revolutionary Legacy of Rosa Luxemburg

By: Marie Frederiksen

4.69

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

There have been many biographies of Rosa Luxemburg, but none have done justice to her as a revoluti… read more

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Cover of Spain's Revolution Against Franco: The Great Betrayal by Alan Woods

28. Spain's Revolution Against Franco: The Great Betrayal

By: Alan Woods

4.67

Format: 534 pages, Paperback

The story of the Spanish revolution of the 1930s is quite well known to most people on the left, bu… read more

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  • history
Cover of In the Cause of Labour: A History of the British Trade Unions, 1792 - 2003 by Rob Sewell

29. In the Cause of Labour: A History of the British Trade Unions, 1792 - 2003

By: Rob Sewell

4.33

Format: 408 pages, Paperback

None read more

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Cover of My Life: An Attempt At An Autobiography by Trotsky Leon

30. My Life: An Attempt At An Autobiography

By: Trotsky Leon

4.64

Format: 600 pages, Paperback

Since Leon Trotsky's My Life was first published, it has been regarded as a unique political, liter… read more

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31. Democracy and Revolution

By: George Novack

4.00

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

The limitations and advances of various forms of democracy in class society, from its roots in anci… read more

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27 Best history books like Stalin: An Appraisal of the Man and His Influence by Leon Trotsky

Transform Your Habits

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

Walter Rodney , Vincent Harding

4.42

Transform Your Habits

The State and Revolution

Vladimir Lenin

4.24

Transform Your Habits

The Civil War in France

Karl Marx

3.67

Transform Your Habits

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass

4.11

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Transform Your Habits

Reform or Revolution

Rosa Luxemburg , Κώστας Βρετός

4.20

Transform Your Habits

The State and Revolution

Vladimir Lenin

4.24

Transform Your Habits

The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

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

3.67

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Fascism: What It Is and How to Fight It

Leon Trotsky

4.00

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