The Communist Road to Capitalism: How Social Unrest and Containment Have Pushed China’s (R)evolution since 1949
By: Ralf Ruckus
4.06
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
The Communist Road to Capitalism explores how a dynamic of social struggles from below followed by …
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1. Saga, Volume 1
By: Brian K. Vaughan , Fiona Staples
4.17
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The sweeping tale of one young family fighting to find their place in the worlds. When two soldiers… read more
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"Have you ever been shot by one? Because I have and it hurt like the day my dog died..."-Brian K. Vaughan, Saga, Volume 1
"Forgive me if I don't take relationship advice from a dead teenager missing her vagina."-Brian K. Vaughan, Saga, Volume 1
"If there's an opposite of a honeymoon, it's the week after a couple's first child is born."-Brian K. Vaughan, Saga, Volume 1
"I thought so. Those who can really do what they promise don't first pause to promise what they can do"-Brian K. Vaughan, Saga, Volume 1
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 Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
By: David Graeber
3.61
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Where does the desire for endless rules, regulations, and bureaucracy come from? How did we come to… read more
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4. The Fourth Political Theory
By: Alexander Dugin , Александр Гельевич Дугин
3.57
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Fourth Political Theory is the first book by the famed Russian political theorist to appear in … read more
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5. The Subversion of Politics: European Autonomous Social Movements and the Decolonization of Everyday Life
By: George Katsiaficas
3.64
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
"A scholarly gem which is indispensable reading for anyone interested in how social change occurs, … read more
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6. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
By: Mark Fisher
4.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
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7. Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization
By: Derrick Jensen
3.99
Format: None pages,
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8. The Cultural Revolution at the Margins: Chinese Socialism in Crisis
By: None
3.67
Format: 350 pages, Hardcover
Mao Zedong envisioned a great struggle to "wreak havoc under the heaven" when he launched the Cultu… read more
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9. Saga, Vol. 2 (Saga, #2)
By: Brian K. Vaughan , Fiona Staples
3.50
Format: 295 pages, Paperback
From award-winning writer Brian K. Vaughan (Pride of Baghdad, Ex Machina) and critically acclaimed … read more
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10. The Burnout Society
By: Byung-Chul Han
5.00
Format: 172 pages,
Our competitive, service-oriented societies are taking a toll on the late-modern individual. Rather… read more
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11. Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
By: James C. Scott
4.20
Format: 461 pages, Paperback
Compulsory ujamaa villages in Tanzania, collectivization in Russia, Le Corbusier’s urban planning t… read more
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"An urban space where the police are the sole agents of order is a very dangerous place."-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
"Just as the general design of the city militates against an autonomous public life, so the design of the residential city militates against individuality."-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
"The authorized histories of revolutions, as Milovan Djilas points out, “describe the revolution as if it were the fruit of the previously planned action of its leaders."-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
"After seizing state power, the victors have a powerful interest in moving the revolution out of the streets and into the museums and schoolbooks as quick as possible, lest the people decide to repeat…"-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
12. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
By: Charles C. Mann
4.23
Format: 11 pages, Paperback
A groundbreaking study that radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival o… read more
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13. Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
By: David Graeber
4.03
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling writer David Graeber, a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfi… read more
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"Economies around the world have, increasingly, become vast engines for producing nonsense."-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
"Bullshit jobs regularly induce feelings of hopelessness, depression, and self-loathing. They are forms of spiritual violence directed at the essence of what it means to be a human being."-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
"What we are witnessing is the rise of those forms of popular culture that office workers can produce and consume during the scattered, furtive shards of time they have at their disposal in workplaces…"-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
"A fact-finding commission is a way of telling the public that the government is doing something it is not. But a large corporations will behave exactly the same way, if, say, there are revealed to be…"-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
14. Saga, Volume 8
By: Brian K. Vaughan
4.46
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
After the traumatic events of the War for Phang, Hazel, her parents, and their surviving companions… read more
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"Welcome to Abortion Town!"-Brian K. Vaughan, Saga, Volume 8
"Is this some kind of kinky thrupple thing? Because I'm not necessarily opposed."-Brian K. Vaughan, Saga, Volume 8
"I´ve held you in my heart since the day you left me. But you´re too heavy to carry another step. And I need to keep moving."-Brian K. Vaughan, Saga, Volume 8
"Doubt can paralyze you, can make you not want to do anything. But if you learn to channel it, to turn those feelings away from yourself and out at the world you can doubt what's impossible."-Brian K. Vaughan, Saga, Volume 8
15. House of X/Powers of X
By: Jonathan Hickman
4.44
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
Mutants are the future, and the future begins now! Superstar writer Jonathan Hickman (INFINITY, SEC… read more
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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. Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics
By: Troy Vettese
3.88
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In this thrilling and capacious book, Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass challenge the inertia of ca… read more
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"The aim for socialism is not Soviet-style Stakhanovite toil, but rien faire comme une bête."-Troy Vettese, Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics
"Nothing scares neoliberals more than radical science allied with social movements, but until such a union arises, they have little to fear."-Troy Vettese, Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics
"Despite our knowledge of what needs to be done, carbon emissions increase and mass extinctions continue relentlessly. Capital is at the helm, blindly steering the ship of fools towards ecological dis…"-Troy Vettese, Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics
"Environmentalists think that their political moderation will be rewarded by the powerful, who will allow them to play a small role in shaping the future. Yet the elite and their neoliberal brain trus…"-Troy Vettese, Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics
18. Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)
By: Dean Spade
4.38
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
Mutual aid is the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world. Around… read more
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"In the context of professionalized nonprofit organizations, groups are urged to be single-issue oriented, framing their message around "deserving" people within the population they serve, and using t…"-Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)
"When we feel bad, we often automatically decide that either we are bad or another person is bad. Both of these moves cause damage and distort the truth, which is that we are all navigating difficult …"-Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)
"Burnout is the combination of resentment, exhaustion, shame, and frustration that make us lose connection to pleasure and passion in the work, and instead encounter difficult feelings like avoidance,…"-Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)
19. Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
By: David Graeber
3.33
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
The final posthumous work by the coauthor of the major New York Times bestseller The Dawn of Everyt… read more
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"God and Man were inseparable companions. One day God said to Man: why don’t you go walk around on earth for a while so we can find some new topics for conversation? —beginning of a Malagasy folktale"-David Graeber, Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
"The toothless or peg-legged buccaneer hoisting a flag of defiance against the world, drinking and feasting to a stupor on stolen loot, fleeing at the first sign of serious opposition, leaving only ta…"-David Graeber, Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
"We would seem to be in the presence of a genuine historical anomaly: a political entity that presented itself to the outside world as a kingdom, organized around the charismatic figure of a brilliant…"-David Graeber, Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
20. After The Revolution
By: Robert Evans
4.31
Format: 380 pages, Paperback
What will the fracturing of the United States look like? After the Revolution is an edge-of-your-se… read more
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21. Parable of the Sower: A Graphic Novel Adaptation
By: Damian Duffy
3.99
Format: 266 pages, Hardcover
The follow-up to #1 New York Times Bestseller Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation, comes Octavia E.… read more
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22. The Nation on No Map: Black Anarchism and Abolition
By: William C. Anderson
4.50
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
The Nation on No Map examines state power, abolition, and ideological tensions within the struggle … read more
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23. Joyful Militancy: Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times (Anarchist Interventions)
By: Carla Bergman
4.38
Format: 316 pages, Paperback
Why do radical movements and spaces sometimes feel laden with fear, anxiety, suspicion, self-righte… read more
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"When rigidity and suspicion take over, joy dies out."-Carla Bergman, Joyful Militancy: Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times (Anarchist Interventions)
"What happens when politics becomes something a person *has*, rather than something people *do together* as a shared practice?"-Carla Bergman, Joyful Militancy: Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times (Anarchist Interventions)
"Is it possible to be militant about creativity and care? Can militancy be based on something that is responsive and relationship-based? Can people be militant about joy?"-Carla Bergman, Joyful Militancy: Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times (Anarchist Interventions)
"Gaslighting can be subtle and unintentional, but as feminist writer Nora Samaran explains, it is particularly insidious because it undermines people's trust in their own capacities: "If you think of …"-Carla Bergman, Joyful Militancy: Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times (Anarchist Interventions)
24. Neither Vertical nor Horizontal: A Theory of Political Organization
By: Rodrigo Nunes
4.41
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
For something so often described as essential, political organisation remains a surprisingly under-… read more
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25. The Communist Road to Capitalism: How Social Unrest and Containment Have Pushed China’s (R)evolution since 1949
By: Ralf Ruckus
4.06
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
The Communist Road to Capitalism explores how a dynamic of social struggles from below followed by … read more
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26. Begin the World Over (Emergent Strategy)
By: Kung Li Sun
4.44
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
Begin the World Over is a fictional alternate history of how the Founders’ greatest fear—that Black… read more
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27. Karl Marx Private Eye
By: Jim Feast
3.20
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
A rattling good yarn and a suspenseful whodunit, against the backdrop of real historical events, th… read more
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28. CUBAN REVOLUTION (Black Rose Books ; No. G34)
By: Sam Dolgoff
3.71
Format: 199 pages, Paperback
Dolgoff's analysis of the Cuban Revolution, its development and significance, presents an historica… read more
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