16 must-read theory books like The Soviet Woman: Selected Essays by Alexandra Kollontai

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The Soviet Woman: Selected Essays

By: Alexandra Kollontai

4.04

Format: 183 pages, Kindle Edition

The revolutionary legacy of Alexandra Kollontai (1872-1952) has slipped into relative obscurity. Th…

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1. Reform or Revolution

By: Rosa Luxemburg , Κώστας Βρετός

4.20

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Why capitalism cannot overcome its internal contradictions and the working class cannot "reform" aw… read more

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  • theory
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"If the proletariat came to power, it could draw from Bernstein's theory the following 'practical' conclusion: to go to sleep."

-Rosa Luxemburg, Reform or Revolution

"What distinguishes bourgeoisie society from other class societies…? Precisely the fact that class domination does not rest on “acquired rights"

-Rosa Luxemburg, Reform or Revolution

"Fourier's scheme of changing, by means of phalansteries, the water of all the seas into tasty lemonade was surely a phantastic idea. But Bernstein, proposing to change the sea of capitalist bitternes…"

-Rosa Luxemburg, Reform or Revolution

"Social Democracy, does not, however, expect to attain its aim either as a result of the victorious violence of a minority or through the numerical superiority of a majority. It sees socialism come as…"

-Rosa Luxemburg, Reform or Revolution

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2. 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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  • theory
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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3. The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World

By: Howard Zinn , Vijay Prashad

4.10

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A landmark study that offers an alternative history of the Cold War from the point of view of the w… read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"[W]ho would have thought that by the mid-twentieth century the darker nations would gather in Cuba, once the playground of the plutocracy, to celebrate their will to struggle and their will to win? W…"

-Howard Zinn, The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World

"Among the darker nations, Paris is famous for two betrayals. The first came in 1801, when Napoleon Bonaparte sent General Victor Leclerc to crush the Haitian Revolution, itself inspired by the French…"

-Howard Zinn, The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World

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4. 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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  • nonfiction
"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

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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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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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6. Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)

By: Octavia E. Butler

3.82

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

In 2025, with the world descending into madness and anarchy, one woman begins a fateful journey tow… read more

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7. The City & the City

By: China Miéville

3.90

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to … read more

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"shit, shit, shit."

-China Miéville, The City & the City

"Same weather over here as back home," I said."

-China Miéville, The City & the City

"Is it more childish and foolish to insist that there is a conspiracy or that there is not?"

-China Miéville, The City & the City

"What had touched me sent me not into mindless silence but into a dream arena, where I was quarry."

-China Miéville, The City & the City

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

By: Friedrich Engels , None

3.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

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9. Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation

By: Silvia Federici

4.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

Literary Nonfiction. CALIBAN AND THE WITCH is a history of the body in the transition to capitalism… read more

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10. Bandits

By: Eric J. Hobsbawm

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

Bandits is a study of the social bandit or bandit-rebel - robbers and outlaws who are not regarded … read more

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11. SNCC: The New Abolitionists

By: Howard Zinn

4.12

Format: None pages, Paperback

Howard Zinn tells the story of one of the most important political groups in American history. SNCC… 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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  • theory
  • politics
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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. The Terror

By: Dan Simmons

1.33

Format: 397 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling author of Iliumand Olympostransforms the true story of a legendary Arctic expeditio… read more

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14. On Authority

By: Friedrich Engels

3.85

Format: 4 pages, article

Este eBook foi convertido ao formato digital por uma comunidade de voluntários. Você pode encontra-… read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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15. A Nation of Shopkeepers: The Unstoppable Rise of the Petite Bourgeoisie

By: Dan Evans

4.22

Format: 325 pages, Paperback

A Nation of Shopkeepers explores the unstoppable rise of the petite-bourgeoisie, one of the most po… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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16. Time Is a Mother

By: Ocean Vuong

3.94

Format: 114 pages, Hardcover

In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershoc… read more

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17. Azadi

By: Arundhati Roy

4.10

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From the best-selling author of My Seditious Heart and the Ministry of Utmost Happiness, a new and … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • essays
"...as the Covid-19 pandemic burns through us, our world is passing through a portal. We have journeyed to a place from which it looks unlikely that we can return, at least not without some kind of se…"

-Arundhati Roy, Azadi

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18. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017

By: Rashid Khalidi

4.50

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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19. Palestine: A Socialist Introduction

By: Sumaya Awad

4.36

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

This edited volume makes an impassioned and informed case for the central place of Palestine in soc… read more

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  • politics
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"Interestingly, the "Zioness Movement" sprouted on the US activist scene with the explicit intention to counter feminists who were successfully denouncing Zionism. It chose the slogan, "Unabashedly pr…"

-Sumaya Awad, Palestine: A Socialist Introduction

"White/Western feminism's attempt at erasing the political context of Palestinian women's oppression was evident yet again around the 2017 Women's March on Washington, when liberal feminists objected …"

-Sumaya Awad, Palestine: A Socialist Introduction

"The Black radical tradition calls attention to the anti-Black racism essential to US society and casts doubt on the compatibility of Black freedom and the United States project. After all, the Black …"

-Sumaya Awad, Palestine: A Socialist Introduction

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20. How to Blow Up a Pipeline

By: Andreas Malm

3.96

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

The science on climate change has been clear for a very long time now. Yet despite decades of appea… read more

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"The context for hope is radical uncertainty; anything could happen, and whether we act or not has everything to do with it."

-Andreas Malm, How to Blow Up a Pipeline

"I once asked Bill McKibben, after an energising speech to a capacity crowd, when – given that the situation is as urgent as he portrayed it and we all know it is – we escalate. He was visibly ill at …"

-Andreas Malm, How to Blow Up a Pipeline

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21. The three sources and three component parts of Marxism. Karl Marx. Frederick Engels

By: Vladimir Lenin

4.17

Format: 84 pages, Paperback

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections… read more

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"Capitalism has triumphed all over the world, but this triumph is only the prelude to the triumph of labour over capital."

-Vladimir Lenin, The three sources and three component parts of Marxism. Karl Marx. Frederick Engels

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22. Combat Liberalism

By: Mao Zedong

4.14

Format: 8 pages, Paperback

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23. Strategy for the Liberation of Palestine

By: Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

4.58

Format: 75 pages, ebook

This classic small book provides the outline of the strategy and overall vision of the Popular Fron… read more

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  • politics
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24. Radical Intimacy

By: Sophie K. Rosa

4.23

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

An impassioned discussion about the alternative ways to form relationships and resist capitalism. … read more

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  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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25. A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy

By: Jane F. McAlevey

4.32

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From longtime labor organizer Jane McAlevey, a vital call-to-arms in favor of unions, a key force c… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Futility, the tactic union busters use to subtly convince people nothing will change and they should just stay home and not bother voting, is best combatted by having lots of examples at the ready to…"

-Jane F. McAlevey, A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy

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26. The Last Earth: A Palestinian Story

By: Ramzy Baroud

4.62

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

This is a history of modern Palestine like no built from the testimony of people who have lived th… read more

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27. The Soviet Woman: Selected Essays

By: Alexandra Kollontai

4.04

Format: 183 pages, Kindle Edition

The revolutionary legacy of Alexandra Kollontai (1872-1952) has slipped into relative obscurity. Th… read more

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  • theory
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28. Socialism and Nationalism

By: James Connolly

4.22

Format: None pages, ebook

Irish Socialistics, having learned from history that all noncommunistic crusades result in compromi… read more

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29. The Path Which Led Me To Leninism

By: Hồ Chí Minh

4.00

Format: None pages, None

None read more

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30. To Uphold Socialism We Must Eliminate Poverty

By: Deng Xiaoping

3.50

Format: None pages, None

None read more

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31. Marxism and reformism

By: Vladimir Lenin

4.29

Format: None pages, None

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22 best-selling politics books like The Soviet Woman: Selected Essays by Alexandra Kollontai

Transform Your Habits

Reform or Revolution

Rosa Luxemburg , Κώστας Βρετός

4.20

Transform Your Habits

The Principles of Communism

Friedrich Engels

4.06

Transform Your Habits

The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World

Howard Zinn , Vijay Prashad

4.10

Transform Your Habits

Dialectical and Historical Materialism

Joseph Stalin

3.91

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19 Top politics books like A Nation of Shopkeepers: The Unstoppable Rise of the Petite Bourgeoisie by Dan Evans

Transform Your Habits

Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea

Mark Blyth

4.09

Transform Your Habits

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

Walter Rodney , Vincent Harding

4.42

Transform Your Habits

The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World

Howard Zinn , Vijay Prashad

4.10

Transform Your Habits

Das Kapital

Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky

4.22

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