The End of the Beginning: Lessons of the Soviet Collapse
By: Carlos Martínez
4.37
Format: 173 pages, Kindle Edition
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) – a workers' and peasants' state – lasted a mere sev…
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1. Against Empire
By: Michael Parenti
4.36
Format: 229 pages, Paperback
Richly informed and written in an engaging style, Against Empire exposes the ruthless agenda and hi… read more
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"In sum, the myth of a self-reliant, free-market, trickle-down economy is just that, a myth. In almost every enterprise, government provides business with supports, protections, and opportunities for …"-Michael Parenti, Against Empire
"Designed to leave the world's economic destiny at the mercy of bankers and multinational corporations, Globalization is a logical extension of imperialism, a victory of empire over republic, internat…"-Michael Parenti, Against Empire
"The diseconomies of capitalism are treated as the public's responsibility. Corporate America skims the cream and leaves the bill for us to pay, then boasts about how productive and efficient it is an…"-Michael Parenti, Against Empire
"Official Washington cannot tell the American people that the real purpose of its gargantuan military expenditures and belligerent interventions is to make the world safe for General Motors, General E…"-Michael Parenti, Against Empire
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. Dialectical and Historical Materialism
By: Joseph Stalin
3.91
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
A succinct presentation of the philosophical foundations of Marxism. read more
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"If there are no isolated phenomena in the world, if all phenomena are interconnected and interdependent, then it is clear that every social system and every social movement in history must be evaluat…"-Joseph Stalin, Dialectical and Historical Materialism
"But having developed productive forces to a tremendous extent, capitalism has become enmeshed in contradictions which it is unable to solve. By producing larger and larger quantities of commodities, …"-Joseph Stalin, Dialectical and Historical Materialism
4. A History of the Cuban Revolution
By: Aviva Chomsky
3.00
Format: 50 pages, Paperback
A History of the Cuban Revolutionpresents a concise socio-historical account of the Cuban Revolutio… read more
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5. 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
6. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
By: Mark Fisher
4.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
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7. Liberalism: A Counter-History
By: Domenico Losurdo , Gregory Elliott
4.00
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
In this definitive historical investigation, Italian author and philosopher Domenico Losurdo argues… read more
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8. Discourse on Colonialism
By: Robin D.G. Kelley , Aimé Césaire , Joan Pinkham
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Cesaire's essay stands as an important document in the development of third world consciousness--a… read more
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9. 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
10. Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844/The Communist Manifesto
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , None
3.71
Format: 76 pages, Paperback
(Great Books in Philosophy) Communism as a political movement attained global importance after the … read more
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11. October: The Story of the Russian Revolution
By: China Miéville
3.82
Format: 736 pages, Hardcover
In February 1917, in the midst of bloody war, Russia was still an autocratic monarchy: nine months … read more
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12. 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
13. 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
14. Washington Bullets
By: Vijay Prashad
4.40
Format: 162 pages, Paperback
Washington Bullets is written in the best traditions of Marxist journalism and history-writing. It … read more
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15. The Book of Bill (Gravity Falls)
By: Alex Hirsch
4.57
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Did you miss him? Admit it, you missed him. The demon that terrorized Gravity Falls is back from… read more
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16. 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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17. Red Star Over the Third World
By: Vijay Prashad
4.23
Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition
‘Like the brilliant sun, the October Revolution shone over all five continents, awakening millions … read more
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18. Patriots, Traitors and Empires: The Story of Korea's Struggle for Freedom
By: Stephen Gowans
4.58
Format: 290 pages, Paperback
Patriots, Traitors and Empires recounts modern Korean history from the point of view of those who f… read more
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19. Socialism with Chinese Characteristics: A Guide for Foreigners
By: Roland Boer
4.48
Format: 316 pages, ebook
This book covers the whole system of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics, dealing with Deng Xiao… read more
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20. The End of the Beginning: Lessons of the Soviet Collapse
By: Carlos Martínez
4.37
Format: 173 pages, Kindle Edition
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) – a workers' and peasants' state – lasted a mere sev… read more
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21. Washington's Long War on Syria
By: Stephen Gowans
4.01
Format: 282 pages, Paperback
When President Barack Obama demanded formally in the summer of 2011 that Syrian President Bashar al… read more
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