Organized Labor and the Black Worker, 1619-1981
By: Philip S. Foner
4.45
Format: 492 pages, Hardcover
In this classic account, historian Philip Foner traces the radical history of Black workers’ contri…
Want to Read"The opposition of white workers to the continued competition of slave labor was an important factor in ending slavery in the North."-Philip S. Foner, Organized Labor and the Black Worker, 1619-1981
"The opposition of white workers to the continued competition of slave labor was an important factor in ending slavery in the North."-Philip S. Foner, Organized Labor and the Black Worker, 1619-1981
"Most labor historians today agree that craft unions created an aristocracy of skilled workers at the expense of the unskilled and semiskilled and, at the same time, retarded the further organization of American industry, thus, in the long run, adversely affecting all workers, skilled as well as unskilled."-Philip S. Foner, Organized Labor and the Black Worker, 1619-1981
"Most labor historians today agree that craft unions created an aristocracy of skilled workers at the expense of the unskilled and semiskilled and, at the same time, retarded the further organization of American industry, thus, in the long run, adversely affecting all workers, skilled as well as unskilled."-Philip S. Foner, Organized Labor and the Black Worker, 1619-1981
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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 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
3. Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power: Community Organizing in Radical Times
By: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz , James Tracy , Amy Sonnie
3.78
Format: 479 pages,
Foreword by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz The historians of the late 1960s have emphasized the work of a sma… read more
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4. 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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5. Abolition Democracy: Beyond Prisons, Torture, and Empire
By: Angela Y. Davis
4.07
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
Revelations about U.S policies and practices of torture and abuse have captured headlines ever sinc… read more
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6. No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age
By: Jane F. McAlevey
3.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The crisis of the progressive movement is so evident that nothing less than a fundamental rethinkin… read more
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7. Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression
By: Robin D.G. Kelley
5.00
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Between 1929 and 1941, the Communist Party organized and led a radical, militantly antiracist movem… read more
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8. 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
9. The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.25
Format: 387 pages, Paperback
Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestio… read more
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"... “Dangerous!"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
"Freedom is never very safe."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
"Who do you think is lying to us?"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
"Where does your soul go when you die in Hell?"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
10. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
By: Ilan Pappé
3.98
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
Since the Holocaust, it has been almost impossible to hide large-scale crimes against humanity. In … read more
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11. How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
By: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
3.40
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The Combahee River Collective, a group of radical black feminists, was one of the most important or… read more
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12. 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?
13. Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism
By: James W. Loewen
4.00
Format: 290 pages, Paperback
Bestselling author of Lies My Teacher Told Me, James W. Loewen, exposes the secret communities and … read more
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14. It's OK to Be Angry About Capitalism
By: Bernie Sanders
4.09
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A progressive takedown of the uber-capitalist status quo that has enriched millionaires and billion… read more
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"The goal of any democratic, moral, and rational nation must be to create a society where people are healthy, happy and able to live long and productive lives. Not just the rich and the powerful, but …"-Bernie Sanders, It's OK to Be Angry About Capitalism
15. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
By: Saidiya Hartman
4.46
Format: 441 pages, Paperback
A breathtaking exploration of the lives of young black women in the early twentieth century. In … read more
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"No, Kropotkin never described black women's mutual aid societies or the chorus in Mutual Aid, although he imagined animal society in its rich varieties & the forms of cooperation & mutuality found am…"-Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
16. The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
By: Nikole Hannah-Jones
4.62
Format: 590 pages, Hardcover
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a revealing vision of the American past and present. … read more
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17. How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
By: Michael Pollan
4.27
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Could psychedelic drugs change our worldview? One of America's most admired writers takes us on a m… read more
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"The opposite of spiritual is not material but egotistical."-Michael Pollan, How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
"Normal waking consciousness feels perfectly transparent, and yet it is less a window on reality than the product of our imaginations-a kind of controlled hallucination."-Michael Pollan, How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
"Nature does in fact teem with subjectivities — call them spirits if you like — other than our own; it is only the human ego, with its imagined monopoly on subjectivity, that keeps us from recognizing…"-Michael Pollan, How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
"The philosophical implications of "predictive coding" are deep and strange. The model suggests that our perceptions of the world offer us not a literal transcription of reality but rather a seamless …"-Michael Pollan, How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
18. The Nature of Witches
By: Rachel Griffin
3.82
Format: 367 pages, Hardcover
For centuries, witches have maintained the climate, their power from the sun peaking in the season … read more
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19. Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership (Justice, Power, and Politics)
By: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
4.27
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
By the late 1960s and early 1970s, reeling from a wave of urban uprisings, politicians finally work… read more
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20. A History of America in Ten Strikes
By: Erik Loomis
3.97
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Recommended by The Nation, the New Republic, Current Affairs, Bustle, In These Times "Entertaini… read more
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21. Organized Labor and the Black Worker, 1619-1981
By: Philip S. Foner
4.45
Format: 492 pages, Hardcover
In this classic account, historian Philip Foner traces the radical history of Black workers’ contri… read more
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"The opposition of white workers to the continued competition of slave labor was an important factor in ending slavery in the North."-Philip S. Foner, Organized Labor and the Black Worker, 1619-1981
"Most labor historians today agree that craft unions created an aristocracy of skilled workers at the expense of the unskilled and semiskilled and, at the same time, retarded the further organization …"-Philip S. Foner, Organized Labor and the Black Worker, 1619-1981
