Direct Struggle Against Capital: A Peter Kropotkin Anthology
By: Pyotr Kropotkin
4.28
Format: 680 pages, Paperback
"The enemy on whom we declare war is capital, and it is against capital that we will direct all our…
Want to Read $ 18.99"Are the workers of England now less intelligent than in the time of the guilds that they could not manage industries as their forefathers did? Try tell us you could not manage, you could not organise them. I must be very much mistaken if you could not manage them as well as your masters. capitalists are continually complaining that they cannot manage industries well enough to be productive; they are too poor to pay you a living wage. Well, if they cannot manage industry without exploiting us so, let them go. We don't want them; we can manage better than they have done yet."-Pyotr Kropotkin, Direct Struggle Against Capital: A Peter Kropotkin Anthology
"On the subject of social wealth, an attempt has been made to establish a distinction between two kinds, and has even managed to divide the socialist party over this distinction. The school which today is called collectivist, substituting for the collectivism of the old International (which was only anti-authoritarian communism) a sort of doctrinaire collectivism, has tried to establish a distinction between capital which is used for production and wealth which is used to supply the necessities of life. Machinery, factories, raw materials, means of communication, and land on one side, and homes, manufactured goods, clothing, foodstuffs on the other, the former becoming collective property, the latter intended, according to the learned representatives of this school, to remain individual property. There has been an attempt to set up this distinction, but popular good sense has got the better of it; it has found it illusory and impossible to establish. It is vicious in theory and fails in practical life. The workers understand that the house which shelters us, the coal and gas we burn, the fuel consumed by the human machine to sustain life, the clothing necessary for existence, the book we read for instruction, even the enjoyments we get, are all so many component parts of our existence, are all as necessary to successful production and the progressive development of humanity as machines, manufactories, raw materials, and other means of working. The workers are arriving at the conclusion that to maintain private property for this sort of wealth would be to maintain inequality, oppression, exploitation, to paralyze beforehand the results of the partial expropriation. Leaping over the fence set up in their path by theoretical collectivism, they are marching straight for the simplest and most practical form of anti-authoritarian communism."-Pyotr Kropotkin, Direct Struggle Against Capital: A Peter Kropotkin Anthology
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1. Terrorism and Communism: A Reply to Karl Kautsky (Revolutions)
By: Slavoj Žižek , Leon Trotsky
3.77
Format: 183 pages, Paperback
Written in the white heat of revolutionary Russia’s Civil War, Trotsky’s Terrorism and Communism is… read more
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"With all due respect to all philistines, the dictatorship of the proletariat does just consist in "giving a hiding" to the classes that were previously supreme, before forcing them to recognize the n…"-Slavoj Žižek, Terrorism and Communism: A Reply to Karl Kautsky (Revolutions)
"Every historical form of society is in its foundation a form of organization of labor. While every previous form of society was an organization of labor in the interests of a minority, which organize…"-Slavoj Žižek, Terrorism and Communism: A Reply to Karl Kautsky (Revolutions)
"As a general rule, man strives to avoid labor. Love for work is not at all an inborn characteristic: it is created by economic pressure and social education. One may even say that man is a fairly laz…"-Slavoj Žižek, Terrorism and Communism: A Reply to Karl Kautsky (Revolutions)
2. The Ego and Its Own
By: Max Stirner , David Leopold
4.06
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Stirner's The Ego and its Own (1845) is striking in both style and content, attacking Feuerbach, Mo… read more
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"Political liberty,"-Max Stirner, The Ego and Its Own
"A minha causa é a causa de nada."-Max Stirner, The Ego and Its Own
"No dia em que devorares o sagrado, ele torna-se tua propriedade!"-Max Stirner, The Ego and Its Own
"Proudhon, e.g., thinks that with the sentence “Property is theft"-Max Stirner, The Ego and Its Own
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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"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
4. 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
5. Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
3.88
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
If humans are benevolent by nature, how do societies become corrupt? And how do governments founded… read more
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6. Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and Its Influence on Modern Morals and Happiness
By: Isaac Kramnick , William Godwin
4.75
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
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7. The Iron Heel
By: Jack London , Matt Soar
3.66
Format: None pages, Audiobook
A dystopian novel about the terrible oppressions of an American oligarchy at the beginning of the T… read more
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8. On Practice and Contradiction
By: Slavoj Žižek , Mao Zedong
2.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
These early philosophical writings underpinned the Chinese revolutions, and their clarion calls to … read more
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9. Utopia
By: Paul Turner , Thomas More
3.55
Format: 113 pages, Paperback
In his most famous and controversial book, Utopia, Thomas More imagines a perfect island nation whe… read more
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"The change of the word does not alter the matter"-Paul Turner, Utopia
"Isn't this conception of absolute justice absolutely unjust?"-Paul Turner, Utopia
"Dünyada kaygısız, rahat yürekle, sevinçle yaşamaktan daha büyük zenginlik olabilir mi?"-Paul Turner, Utopia
"Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all."-Paul Turner, Utopia
10. Two Treatises of Government
By: John Locke , Peter Laslett , Raymond Geuss
2.96
Format: None pages, Paperback
This presentation discusses the life of John Locke, the evolution of his ideas, and the political c… read more
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11. The Day of the Triffids
By: John Wyndham
4.01
Format: None pages, Paperback
In 1951 John Wyndham published his novel The Day of the Triffidsto moderate acclaim. Fifty-two year… read more
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12. 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
13. القرآن الكريم
By: Anonymous
4.38
Format: 604 pages, Hardcover
The Quran (English pronunciation: /kɔrˈɑːn/; Arabic: القرآن al-qurʾān, IPA: [qurˈʔaːn], literally … read more
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"We are nearer to him than his jugular vein."-Anonymous, القرآن الكريم
"إن المؤمن ليدرك بحسن الخلق درجة الصائم والقائم"-Anonymous, القرآن الكريم
"The freshness of my eyes is given to me in prayer."-Anonymous, القرآن الكريم
"The ink of the scholar is more holy than the blood of the martyr."-Anonymous, القرآن الكريم
14. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
By: Judith Butler
3.81
Format: None pages,
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15. Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation
By: Silvia Federici
4.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
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16. 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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17. The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View
By: Ellen Meiksins Wood
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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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18. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
By: Jared Diamond
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19. The Right to Be Lazy
By: Paul Lafargue , None
4.28
Format: None pages,
Paul Lafargue's masterpiece, The Right To Be Lazy, at once funny and serious, witty and profound, e… read more
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20. The Republic
By: Plato , Desmond Lee
3.96
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, this classi… read more
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"Appearance tyrannizes over truth."-Plato, The Republic
"The comprehensive mind is always dialectical."-Plato, The Republic
"Those who don't know must learn from those who do."-Plato, The Republic
"Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance"-Plato, The Republic
21. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
By: Philip K. Dick
4.09
Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition
It was January 2021, and Rick Deckard had a license to kill. Somewhere among the hordes of humans o… read more
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"An android,"-Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
"Mors certa, vita incerta,"-Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
"Mankind needs more empathy."-Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
"Frankly, you look more like a goat man to me."-Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
22. From the River to the Sea: Essays for a Free Palestine
By: Sai Englert
4.54
Format: 366 pages, ebook
In the final months of 2023, as this ebook is published, Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza. I… read more
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23. Direct Struggle Against Capital: A Peter Kropotkin Anthology
By: Pyotr Kropotkin
4.28
Format: 680 pages, Paperback
"The enemy on whom we declare war is capital, and it is against capital that we will direct all our… read more
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"Are the workers of England now less intelligent than in the time of the guilds that they could not manage industries as their forefathers did? Try tell us you could not manage, you could not organise…"-Pyotr Kropotkin, Direct Struggle Against Capital: A Peter Kropotkin Anthology
"On the subject of social wealth, an attempt has been made to establish a distinction between two kinds, and has even managed to divide the socialist party over this distinction. The school which toda…"-Pyotr Kropotkin, Direct Struggle Against Capital: A Peter Kropotkin Anthology
