8 best-selling politics books like Caste, Class, and Race: A Study in Social Dynamics by Oliver Cromwell Cox

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Caste, Class, and Race: A Study in Social Dynamics

By: Oliver Cromwell Cox

4.38

Format: 1 pages, Paperback

A 1948 sociological analysis of the issues of caste, class, and race relations in the United States…

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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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  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
"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

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2. Orientalism

By: None , Edward W. Said

4.12

Format: 424 pages, Paperback

More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the W… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • anthropology
"Toda época y toda sociedad recrea sus «otros»."

-None, Orientalism

"الإستشرق في جوهره مذهب سياسي فُرِضَ فَرْضاً على الشرق لأن الشرق كان أضعف من الغرب، وإنه تجاهل اختلاف الشرق الراجع إلى ضعفه."

-None, Orientalism

"It seems a common human failing to prefer the schematic authority of a text to the disorientations of direct encounters with the human."

-None, Orientalism

"إن مناقشات الشرق كانت تتسم بالغياب الكامل للشرق، لكن المرء يحس بأن المستشرق ومايقوله حاضران، ومع ذلك فيجب ألا ننسى أن الذي يمكِّن المستشرق من الحضور هو الغياب الفعلي للشرق."

-None, Orientalism

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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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  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
"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

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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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  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
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5. Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

By: Eduardo Galeano , Cedric Belfrage

4.31

Format: 317 pages, Paperback

Since its U.S. debut almost fifty years ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for histori… read more

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  • politics
  • economics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Bolivians die with rotted lungs so that the world may consume cheap tin."

-Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

"Whatever Latin America sells—raw materials or manufactures—its chief export product is really cheap labor."

-Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

"Cuando el Estado se hace dueño de la principal riqueza de un país, corresponde preguntarse quién es el dueño del Estado."

-Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

"Cuanto más codiciado por el mercado mundial, mayor es la desgracia que un producto trae consigo al pueblo latinoamericano que, con su sacrificio, lo crea."

-Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

6. How the West Came to Rule: The Geopolitical Origins of Capitalism

By: Alexander Anievas , None

3.79

Format: 704 pages, Hardcover

Mainstream historical accounts of the development of capitalism describe a process which is fundame… read more

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7. Capital: The Process of Circulation of Capital

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Ernest Mandel , David Fernbach

3.92

Format: 594 pages, Paperback

The "forgotten" second volume of Capital, Marx's world-shaking analysis of economics, politics, and… read more

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8. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

By: Isabel Wilkerson

4.53

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

The Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken ca… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • race
  • history
  • sociology
"The price of privilege is the moral duty to act when one sees another person treated unfairly. And the least that a person in the dominant caste can do is not make the pain any worse."

-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

"A caste system is an artificial construction, a fixed and embedded ranking of human value that sets the presumed supremacy of one group against the presumed inferiority of other groups."

-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

"[Scapegoating] blames societal ills on the groups with the least power and the least say in how the country operates while allowing the larger framework and those who control and reap the dividends o…"

-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

"To dehumanize another human being is not merely to declare that someone is not human, and it does not happen by accident. It is a process, a programming. It takes energy and reinforcement to deny wha…"

-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

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9. Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism

By: Kōhei Saitō

3.98

Format: 300 pages, ebook

Facing global climate crisis, Karl Marx's ecological critique of capitalism more clearly demonstrat… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • economics
  • nonfiction
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10. Drug Cartels Do Not Exist: Narcotrafficking in US and Mexican Culture

By: Oswaldo Zavala

4.08

Format: 206 pages, Paperback

Through political and cultural analysis of representations of the so-called war on drugs, Oswaldo Z… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • sociology
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11. Caste, Class, and Race: A Study in Social Dynamics

By: Oliver Cromwell Cox

4.38

Format: 1 pages, Paperback

A 1948 sociological analysis of the issues of caste, class, and race relations in the United States… read more

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  • economics
  • sociology
  • anthropology

8 must-read history books like Caste, Class, and Race: A Study in Social Dynamics by Oliver Cromwell Cox

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The State and Revolution

Vladimir Lenin

4.24

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Orientalism

None , Edward W. Said

4.12

Transform Your Habits

The Wretched of the Earth

Jean-Paul Sartre , Richard Philcox , Frantz Fanon , Homi K. Bhabha

4.32

Transform Your Habits

Das Kapital

Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky

4.22

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Against Empire

Michael Parenti

4.36

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The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government

David Talbot

4.43

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Das Kapital

Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky

4.22

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The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade

Alfred W. McCoy

4.11

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