The Social and Political Thought of Karl Marx (Cambridge Studies in the History and Theory of Politics)
By: Shlomo Avineri
4.16
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
Ever since the discovery of Marx's Early Writings, most of the literature concerned with Marx's int…
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1. Marx at the Margins: On Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Non-Western Societies
By: Kevin B. Anderson
4.30
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
In Marx at the Margins, Kevin Anderson uncovers a variety of extensive but neglected texts by the w… read more
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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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"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
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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"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
4. Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century England
By: Keith Thomas
4.17
Format: 716 pages, Paperback
Astrology, witchcraft, magical healing, divination, ancient prophecies, ghosts, and fairies were ta… read more
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"The fourteenth-century preacher, John Bromyard, used to tell the story of the shepherd who, asked if he knew who the Father, Son and Holy Ghost were, replied, 'The father and the son I know well for …"-Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century England
5. The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
By: Steven Pinker
3.77
Format: 341 pages,
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Similar categories in Karl Marx's Critique of the Gotha Program book and Shlomo Avineri's The Social and Political Thought of Karl Marx (Cambridge Studies in the History and Theory of Politics)
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7. 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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8. The Prince
By: Niccolò Machiavelli , Adolph Caso , Rufus Goodwin , Benjamin Martinez
3.84
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Machiavelli needs to be looked at as he really was. Hence: Can Machiavelli, who makes the following… read more
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"Is it better to be loved or feared?"-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
"He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command"-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
"Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception."-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
"It is a common fault of men not to reckon on storms in fair weather."-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
9. 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
10. Julius Caesar
By: William Shakespeare , Roma Gill
3.70
Format: 175 pages, Paperback
The Oxford School Shakespeare has become the preferred introduction to the literary legacy of the g… read more
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"Et tu, Brute?"-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
"Beware the ides of March."-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
"Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!"-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
"Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come"-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
11. El Libro Negro de la Nueva Izquierda: Ideología de género o subversión cultural
By: Nicolás Márquez , Agustín Laje
4.06
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
Tras la caida de la Union Sovietica en 1992, muchos sectores del mundo libre descansaron en ese tri… read more
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12. Hobbes: A Very Short Introduction
By: Richard Tuck
3.33
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) was the first great English political philosopher, and his book Leviathan… read more
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13. The Age of Empire, 1875-1914
By: Eric J. Hobsbawm
3.66
Format: None pages, Paperback
Discusses the evolution of European economics, politics, arts, sciences & cultural life from the he… read more
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14. Contrary Notions: The Michael Parenti Reader
By: Michael Parenti
3.65
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
Internationally acclaimed, award-winning author Michael Parenti is one of America's most astute and… read more
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15. Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession
By: Janet Malcolm
3.65
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Through an intensive study of "Aaron Green, " a Freudian analyst in New York City, New Yorker write… read more
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16. 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
17. Considerations on France
By: Joseph de Maistre , None
4.00
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Although Maistre's influence within France was delayed until the Restoration, he is now acknowledge… read more
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18. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
By: Benedict Anderson
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
What makes people love and die for nations, as well as hate and kill in their name? While many stud… read more
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19. 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
20. Marx: A Very Short Introduction
By: Peter Singer
2.97
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
In Marx: A Very Short Introdution, Peter Singer identifies the central vision that unifies Marx's t… 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
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
22. 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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23. Stalin: The History and Critique of a Black Legend
By: Domenico Losurdo
4.39
Format: 353 pages, ebook
La figura di Stalin occupa una posizione centrale nella storia del Novecento. Dittatore sanguinario… read more
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24. The Romance of American Communism
By: Vivian Gornick
4.34
Format: 278 pages, Paperback
Writer and critic Vivian Gornick's classic exploring how Left politics gave depth and meaning to Am… read more
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"My father had a sister, Mady, who had married badly and ‘ruined her life.’ Her story was a classic. She had fallen in love before the war with an American adventurer, married him against her family’s…"-Vivian Gornick, The Romance of American Communism
25. 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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26. 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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27. Ecosocialism: A Radical Alternative to Capitalist Catastrophe
By: Michael Löwy
3.72
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Capitalism is killing the planet, and the preservation of a natural environment favorable to human … read more
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"Would-be green capitalism is nothing but a publicity stunt, a label for the purpose of selling a commodity, or - in the best of cases - a local initiative equivalent to a drop of water on the arid so…"-Michael Löwy, Ecosocialism: A Radical Alternative to Capitalist Catastrophe
28. Karl Marx's Theory of History
By: G.A. Cohen
3.92
Format: 430 pages, Paperback
First published in 1978, this book rapidly established itself as a classic of modern Marxism. Cohen… read more
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29. 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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30. The Social and Political Thought of Karl Marx (Cambridge Studies in the History and Theory of Politics)
By: Shlomo Avineri
4.16
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
Ever since the discovery of Marx's Early Writings, most of the literature concerned with Marx's int… read more
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31. Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution, Volume 1: State and Bureaucracy
By: Hal Draper
4.53
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Volume I of Hal Draper’s definitive and masterful study of Marx’s political thought, which focuses … read more
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