7 Best economics books like The Theory of Capitalist Development by Paul M. Sweezy

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The Theory of Capitalist Development

By: Paul M. Sweezy

4.10

Format: 398 pages, Paperback

Since its first publication in 1942, this book has become the classic analytical study of Marxist e…

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1. The Concept of the Political

By: George Schwab , Carl Schmitt

3.94

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

In this, his most influential work, legal theorist and political philosopher Carl Schmitt argues th… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Just because a people no longer has the strength or the will to remain in the sphere of the political, does not make the political disappear from the world. Only a weak people disappears."

-George Schwab, The Concept of the Political

"The political is the most intense and extreme antagonism, and every concrete antagonism becomes that much more political the closer it approaches the most extreme point, that of the friend-enemy grou…"

-George Schwab, The Concept of the Political

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2. 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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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • history
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3. 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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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • history
"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

4. Monopoly Capital: An Essay on the American Economic and Social Order

By: Paul M. Sweezy , Paul A. Baran

4.13

Format: None pages, Paperback

This landmark text by Paul Baran and Paul Sweezy is a classic of twentieth-century radical thought,… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • history

5. Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century

By: Paul M. Sweezy , John Bellamy Foster , None

2.00

Format: None pages,

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6. Capital in the Twenty-First Century

By: Thomas Piketty , Arthur Goldhammer

4.61

Format: 313 pages, Hardcover

What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions abou… read more

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7. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

By: Mark Fisher

4.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

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8. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

By: Naomi Klein

4.52

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In this groundbreaking alternative history of the most dominant ideology of our time, Milton Friedm… 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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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • history
"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. 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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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. Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

By: Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

4.00

Format: 157 pages, Paperback

A powerful indictment of the ways elites have co-opted radical critiques of racial capitalism to se… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"A philosopher Briana Toole clarifies, by itself, one's social location only puts a person in a position to know; 'epistemic privilege' or advantage, on the other hand, is achieved only through delibe…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

"Elites do often make the environment worse and block solutions, but to blame the problem of elite capture entirely on their moral successes and failures is to confuse effect for cause. The true probl…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

"To opt for deference, rather than interdependence, may soothe short-term psychological wounds. But it does so at a steep cost: it may undermine the goals that motivated the project--and it entrenches…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

"As Carter G. Woodson realized, many of our decisions are shaped by decisions that someone with more power made before us. The whole social structure affects how institutional systems, like schools, f…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

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13. 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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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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14. The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America

By: Gabriel Winant

4.26

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Men in hardhats were once the heart of America's working class; now it is women in scrubs. What doe… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • history
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15. How China Escaped Shock Therapy: The Market Reform Debate (Routledge Studies on the Chinese Economy)

By: Isabella M. Weber

4.33

Format: 358 pages, Kindle Edition

China has become deeply integrated into the world economy. Yet, gradual marketization has facilitat… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • history
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16. The Bolsheviks Come to Power: The Revolution of 1917 in Petrograd

By: Alexander Rabinowitch

4.47

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

'The best volume on the Russian Revolution in years . . . What is so valuable about the book is tha… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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17. The Theory of Capitalist Development

By: Paul M. Sweezy

4.10

Format: 398 pages, Paperback

Since its first publication in 1942, this book has become the classic analytical study of Marxist e… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • history

11 Top history books like The Theory of Capitalist Development by Paul M. Sweezy

Transform Your Habits

The Concept of the Political

George Schwab , Carl Schmitt

3.94

Transform Your Habits

Das Kapital

Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

Michael Parenti

4.41

Monopoly Capital: An Essay on the American Economic and Social Order

Paul M. Sweezy , Paul A. Baran

4.13

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11 Top history books like Monopoly Capital: An Essay on the American Economic and Social Order by Paul M. Sweezy, Paul A. Baran

Transform Your Habits

World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction

Immanuel Wallerstein

3.91

Transform Your Habits

Reform or Revolution

Rosa Luxemburg , Κώστας Βρετός

4.20

Transform Your Habits

The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

Karl Marx , Daniel de Leon , D.D.L.

3.67

Transform Your Habits

Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880

W.E.B. Du Bois , David Levering Lewis

3.90

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