Russia: from Revolution to Counter-revolution
By: Ted Grant
4.75
Format: 585 pages, Paperback
The October Russian Revolution, led by Lenin and Trotsky, swept away landlordism and capitalism and…
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1. 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
2. The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
By: Karl Marx , Daniel de Leon , D.D.L.
3.67
Format: 230 pages, Paperback
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte" is one of Karl Marx' most profound and most brilliant m… read more
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3. Materialism and Empirio-Criticism: Critical Comments on a Reactionary Philosophy
By: Vladimir Lenin
3.84
Format: 528 pages, Paperback
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4. 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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6. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
By: C.L.R. James
4.55
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A classic and impassioned account of the first revolution in the Third World. This powerful, intens… read more
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7. Ten Days that Shook the World
By: John Reed
4.20
Format: 406 pages, Paperback
This first-person chronicle by John Reed, a legendary journalist who was present at the flash point… read more
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8. The Revolution Betrayed
By: Leon Trotsky , Max Eastman
3.86
Format: 262 pages, Paperback
One of Marxism's most important texts, The Revolution Betrayedexplores the fate of the Russian Revo… read more
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9. The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
By: Friedrich Engels , None
3.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
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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 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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12. Why Marx Was Right
By: Terry Eagleton
3.71
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In this combative, controversial book, Terry Eagleton takes issue with the prejudice that Marxism i… read more
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13. 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
14. 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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"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
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16. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
By: David Graeber
4.20
Format: 692 pages, Hardcover
A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions abo… read more
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"Humans - from this other perspective, which is just as extreme in its own way - are at best an arbitrary constellation of cultural elements, perhaps assembled according to some prevailing spirit, cod…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"One might ask, how could that most basic element of all human freedoms, the freedom to make promises and commitments and thus build relationships, be turned into its very opposite: into peonage, serf…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"There is an obvious objection to evolutionary models which assume that our strongest social ties are based on close biological kinship: many humans just don’t like their families very much. And this …"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"In the Middle Ages, most people in other parts of the world who actually knew anything about northern Europe at all considered it an obscure and uninviting backwater full of religious fanatics who, a…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
17. 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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"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
18. Anti-Dühring: Herr Eugen Dühring’s Revolution in Science
By: Friedrich Engels
4.29
Format: 365 pages, Paperback
Excerpt from the original book: "It was not my fault that I had to follow Herr Duhring into realms… read more
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"If Hegel had not died long ago, he would hang himself, with all his theologies he could not have thought up this value which has as many different values as it has prices. It requires once more someo…"-Friedrich Engels, Anti-Dühring: Herr Eugen Dühring’s Revolution in Science
"If the world had ever been in a state in which no change whatever was taking place, how could it pass from this state to one of change? The absolutely unchanging, especially when it has been in this …"-Friedrich Engels, Anti-Dühring: Herr Eugen Dühring’s Revolution in Science
"From the moment when the bourgeois demand for the abolition of class privileges was put forward, alongside it appeared the proletarian demand for the abolition of the classes themselves. [...] The pr…"-Friedrich Engels, Anti-Dühring: Herr Eugen Dühring’s Revolution in Science
"...in pure mathematics the mind deal only with its own creations and imaginations. The concepts of number and form have not been derived from any source other than the world of reality. The ten finge…"-Friedrich Engels, Anti-Dühring: Herr Eugen Dühring’s Revolution in Science
19. Class Struggle in the Roman Republic
By: Alan Woods
4.51
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
In the first complete Marxist history of the Roman Republic, Alan Woods provides a gripping and acc… read more
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20. 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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21. The Part Played By Labour in the Transition From Ape to Man
By: Friedrich Engels
3.94
Format: None pages, None
Obra de Friedrich Engels (1876) en la que se examinan las leyes sociales que determinan la aparici�… read more
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22. 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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23. Bolshevism: The Road to Revolution
By: Alan Woods
4.70
Format: 636 pages, Paperback
There have been many books and potted histories of the Russian Revolution, either written from an a… read more
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24. 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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25. China: From Permanent Revolution to Counter-Revolution
By: John Peter Roberts
4.42
Format: 520 pages, Paperback
This book answers the questions: - What was the class composition and class nature of the Chinese C… read more
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26. Russia: from Revolution to Counter-revolution
By: Ted Grant
4.75
Format: 585 pages, Paperback
The October Russian Revolution, led by Lenin and Trotsky, swept away landlordism and capitalism and… read more
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27. The First World War: A Marxist Analysis of the Great Slaughter
By: Alan Woods
4.18
Format: 225 pages, Kindle Edition
“What passing bells for those who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns.” —Wilfred Ow… read more
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28. Results and Prospects
By: Leon Trotsky
4.14
Format: 102 pages, Kindle Edition
Leon Trotsky, born Lev Davidovich Bronshtein, was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and theorist, Sov… read more
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29. Ted Grant: The Permanent Revolutionary
By: Alan Woods
4.52
Format: 290 pages, Paperback
Ted Grant was a well-known figure in the international Marxist movement. He had a significant impac… read more
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30. Ireland: Republicanism and Revolution
By: Alan Woods
4.20
Format: 138 pages, Paperback
"The cause of labour is the cause of Ireland, the cause of Ireland is the cause of labour." - James… read more
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31. Germany: From Revolution to Counter-Revolution
By: Rob Sewell
4.28
Format: 93 pages, Paperback
In 1918-33 revolution and counter-revolution followed hot on each others' heels. The barbarity of t… read more
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