17 must-read philosophy books like The Holy Family by Karl Marx

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The Holy Family

By: Karl Marx

3.97

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

The Holy Family: Critique of Critical Critique is the first joint work of Karl Marx and Friedrich E…

"Critical Criticism creates nothing, the worker creates everything"

-Karl Marx, The Holy Family

"Critical Criticism creates nothing, the worker creates everything"

-Karl Marx, The Holy Family

"Just as in reality all differences become merged more and more in the difference between poor and rich , so all aristocratic differences become dissolved in the idea in the opposition between good and evil ."

-Karl Marx, The Holy Family

"Just as in reality all differences become merged more and more in the difference between poor and rich , so all aristocratic differences become dissolved in the idea in the opposition between good and evil ."

-Karl Marx, The Holy Family

If you liked the philosophy plot in The Holy Family by Karl Marx , here is a list of 17 books like this:

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1. The Principles of Communism

By: Friedrich Engels

4.06

Format: 25 pages, ebook

In 1847 Engels wrote two draft programmes for the Communist League in the form of a catechism, one … read more

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  • german literature
  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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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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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"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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3. Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , R.J. Hollingdale

3.95

Format: 272 pages, paperback

Daybreak marks the arrival of Nietzsche's 'mature' philosophy and is indispensable for an understan… read more

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  • german literature
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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4. Marxism and the National and Colonial Question

By: Joseph Stalin

3.75

Format: 316 pages, Paperback

Originally published 1934, a collection of articles and speeches on the nationalities question in t… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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5. Left-Wing Communism, an Infantile Disorder: A Popular Essay in Marxian Strategy and Tactics

By: Vladimir Lenin

3.26

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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6. Existentialism Is a Humanism

By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Arlette Elkaïm-Sartre , Annie Cohen-Solal , None

4.25

Format: 159 pages, Paperback

It was to correct common misconceptions about his thought that Sartre accepted an invitation to spe… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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7. Parmenides

By: Plato , Keith Whitaker

4.53

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

This is an English translation of one of the more challenging and enigmatic of Plato's dialogues be… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction

8. On Anarchism

By: Noam Chomsky , Barry Pateman

4.42

Format: 718 pages, Paperback

We all know what Noam Chomsky is against. His scathing analysis of everything that's wrong with our… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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9. Poor Folk

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky

3.78

Format: 167 pages, Paperback

Poor Folk (Russian: Бедные люди, Bednye lyudi), sometimes translated as Poor People,[note] is the f… read more

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  • philosophy
"ويقال إنّ الفتى بوكروفسكي يشبه أمه كما تشبه قطرة من الماء قطرة من الماء."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Poor Folk

"أضرع إليك مرة أخرى: لا تنفق في سبيلي كل هذا الذي تنفقه. أنا أعرف أنك تحبني كثيرًا، ولكنك لست غنيًا."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Poor Folk

"أوهام إنه ليتفق للمرء أن يخطئ تقدير ما يشعر به هو نفسه، وأن يسترسل في ترهات سخيفة. والذنب في ذلك كله انما هو ذنب هذا الطيش في قلبنا المندفع"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Poor Folk

"لماذا تعيش النفوس الطيبة النبيلة في الشقاء والهجران، بينما لا يحتاج غيرها حتى إلى البحث عن السعادة لأن السعادة هي التي تلقي بنفسها بين ذراعيه؟"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Poor Folk

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10. The Eternal Husband

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky

4.12

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Eternal Husband (Russian: Vechnyi muzh, Vechny muzh) is a novel by Russian author Fyodor Dostoy… read more

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11. Introduction to the Reading of Hegel: Lectures on the Phenomenology of Spirit

By: Allan Bloom , Alexandre Kojève , James H. Nichols

4.38

Format: None pages, Paperback

"This collection of Kojeve's thoughts about Hegel constitutes one of the few important philosophica… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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12. Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

By: Aeschylus , Patricia E. Easterling , John Harrison , Judith Affleck , None

3.83

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Treating ancient plays as living drama. Classical Greek drama is brought vividly to life in this se… read more

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"Every medicine is vain."

-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

"A curse burns bright on crime."

-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

"There is no avoidance in delay."

-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

"In war, the first casualty is truth."

-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

13. The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State

By: Friedrich Engels , None

3.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

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14. The Word for World is Forest

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.36

Format: 189 pages, ebook

Centuries in the future, Terrans have established a logging colony & military base named "New Tahit… read more

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15. Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography

By: Roland Barthes , Richard Howard

4.07

Format: None pages, Paperback

A graceful, contemplative volume, Camera Lucidawas first published in 1979. Commenting on artists s… read more

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16. On the Genealogy of Morals

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Douglas Smith

4.13

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) is a book about the history of ethics and about interpretation. N… read more

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  • german literature
  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"We are noble, good, beautiful, and happy!"

-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals

"There is so much in man that is horrifying!.. The world has been a madhouse for too long!..."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals

"Somebody said: "About two persons I have never reflected very thoroughly: that is the testimony of my love for them."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals

"All concepts in which an entire process is semiotically concentrated elude definition; only that which has no history is definable."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals

17. The Farthest Shore (Earthsea Cycle, #3)

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

Book Three of Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea CycleDarkness threatens to overtake Earthsea: the world … read more

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18. Ten Myths about Israel

By: Ilan Pappé

4.03

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

What are the myths--and reality--behind the state of Israel? Ilan Pappe is one of the most outspoke… read more

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19. Commonwealth

By: Michael Hardt , Antonio Negri

3.82

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

When "Empire" appeared in 2000, it defined the political and economic challenges of the era of glob… read more

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20. The Whisperer in Darkness

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

The story is told by Albert N. Wilmarth, an instructor of literature at Miskatonic University in Ar… read more

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21. History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics

By: György Lukács , Rodney Livingstone

5.00

Format: 172 pages, Paperback

This is the first time one of the most important of Lukacs' early theoretical writings, published i… read more

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22. 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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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"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?

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23. 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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  • german literature
  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"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

24. The Accursed Share 1: Consumption

By: Georges Bataille , Robert Hurley

3.93

Format: None pages, Paperback

The three volumes of The Accursed Share address what Georges Bataille sees as the paradox of utilit… read more

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25. The Foundations of Leninism

By: Joseph Stalin

4.65

Format: None pages, Paperback

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26. The Condition of the Working Class in England

By: Friedrich Engels

4.17

Format: 267 pages, Paperback

The Condition of the Working Class is the best-known work of Engels, and in many ways still the bes… read more

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27. Revolution and Counter-Revolution or, Germany in 1848

By: Friedrich Engels

3.93

Format: 72 pages, Kindle Edition

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteer… read more

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  • german literature
  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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28. On the Concept of History

By: Walter Benjamin

4.33

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

On The Concept of History written by legendary author Walter Benjamin is widely considered to be on… read more

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  • german literature
  • philosophy
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  • nonfiction
"The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the “emergency situation"

-Walter Benjamin, On the Concept of History

"There is no document of civilization that is not also a document of barbarism."

-Walter Benjamin, On the Concept of History

"Every image of the past that is not recognized by the present as one of its own concerns threatens to disappear irretrievably."

-Walter Benjamin, On the Concept of History

"Articolare storicamente il passato non significa conoscerlo <>. Significa impadronirsi di un ricordo come esso balena nell'istante di un pericolo."

-Walter Benjamin, On the Concept of History

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29. The Mass Strike

By: Rosa Luxemburg

4.16

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

La revolución rusa, que tiene sus comienzos en enero de 1905, sorprende a Rosa Luxemburgo en Aleman… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"what is the actual role of Anarchism in the Russian revolution? It has become the sign of the common thief and plunderer; a large proportion of the innumerable thefts and acts of plunder of private p…"

-Rosa Luxemburg, The Mass Strike

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30. Labour in Irish History

By: James Connolly

4.53

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Irish worker was beaten down nationally, emotionally, and intellectually when England took over… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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31. The Holy Family

By: Karl Marx

3.97

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

The Holy Family: Critique of Critical Critique is the first joint work of Karl Marx and Friedrich E… read more

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  • german literature
  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"Critical Criticism creates nothing, the worker creates everything"

-Karl Marx, The Holy Family

"Just as in reality all differences become merged more and more in the difference between poor and rich , so all aristocratic differences become dissolved in the idea in the opposition between good an…"

-Karl Marx, The Holy Family

"The mystery of this courage of Bauer’s is Hegel’s Phenomenology. As Hegel here puts self-consciousness in the place of man, the most varied human reality appears only as a definite form, as a determi…"

-Karl Marx, The Holy Family

"History does nothing, it possesses no immense wealth, it wages no battles. It is man, real, living man who does all that, who possesses and fights; history is not, as it were, a person apart, using m…"

-Karl Marx, The Holy Family

14 Top politics books like The Holy Family by Karl Marx

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The Principles of Communism

Friedrich Engels

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Vladimir Lenin

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Joseph Stalin

3.75

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Left-Wing Communism, an Infantile Disorder: A Popular Essay in Marxian Strategy and Tactics

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16 Top classics books like On the Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche, Douglas Smith

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Nietzsche and Philosophy

Gilles Deleuze , Michael Hardt , Hugh Tomlinson

4.20

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