17 Best theory books like A Letter to American Workingmen by Vladimir Lenin

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A Letter to American Workingmen

By: Vladimir Lenin

3.84

Format: 28 pages, Kindle Edition

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1. How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

By: Walter Rodney , Vincent Harding

4.42

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

The decisiveness of the short period of colonialism and its negative consequences for Africa spring… read more

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  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
"It was economics that Europe should invest in Africa and control the continent's raw materials and labour. It was racism which confirmed the decision that form of control should be direct colonial ru…"

-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

"On any basic figure of the Africans landed alive in the Americas, one would have to make several extensions- starting with a calculation to cover mortality in transshipment. The Atlantic crossing, or…"

-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

"There was a period when the capitalist system increased the well-being of significant numbers of people as a by-product of seeking out profits for a few, but today the quests for profits comes into s…"

-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

"Governor Cameroon of Tanganyika in the 1920s was known as a "progressive" governor. But when he was attacked for trying to preserve the African personality in the educational system, he denied the ch…"

-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

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2. 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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  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
"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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3. 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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  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
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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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  • russia
  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
"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. The Iliad/The Odyssey

By: Homer , Robert Fagles , Bernard Knox

3.88

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Gripping listeners and readers for more than 2,700 years, 'The Iliad' is the story of the Trojan Wa… read more

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6. Critique of the Gotha Program

By: Karl Marx

4.36

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

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  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
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7. 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
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
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8. Why Socialism?

By: Albert Einstein

4.09

Format: 12 pages, None

“Is it advisable for one who is not an expert on economic and social issues to express views on the… read more

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  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
"Production is carried on for profit, not for use. There is no provision that all those able and willing to work will always be in a position to find employment; an “army of unemployed"

-Albert Einstein, Why Socialism?

"I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward socia…"

-Albert Einstein, Why Socialism?

"This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is …"

-Albert Einstein, Why Socialism?

"The owner of the means of production is in a position to purchase the labor power of the worker. By using the means of production, the worker produces new goods which become the property of the capit…"

-Albert Einstein, Why Socialism?

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9. 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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  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
"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

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10. The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey

By: Ernesto Che Guevara , Aleida Guevara March

4.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

The young Che Guevara's lively and highly entertaining travel diary, now a popular movie and a New … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction

11. The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love

By: bell hooks

3.90

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Everyone needs to love and be loved -- even men. But to know love, men must be able to look at the … read more

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12. Women's Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle

By: Thomas Sankara , None

5.00

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

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13. 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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  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
"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

14. To Build a Fire

By: Jack London

3.29

Format: None pages, Paperback

To Build a Fire is one of Jack London's most beloved short stories. A heartbreaking tale set in the… read more

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15. Are Prisons Obsolete?

By: Angela Y. Davis

4.15

Format: None pages,

With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case fo… read more

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16. 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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17. History Will Absolve Me

By: Fidel Castro

4.00

Format: 191 pages,

This is Fidel Castro's brilliant courtroom defense speech, offering a foretaste of the oratory for … read more

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18. Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center

By: bell hooks

4.06

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

A sweeping examination of the core issues of sexual politics, bell hooks' new book Feminist Theory:… read more

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19. 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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  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
"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

20. The Foundations of Leninism

By: Joseph Stalin

4.65

Format: None pages, Paperback

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21. Wage Labour and Capital

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels

4.06

Format: None pages,

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22. 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
  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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23. Oppose Book Worship

By: Mao Zedong

4.19

Format: None pages, None

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  • history
  • theory
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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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24. Combat Liberalism

By: Mao Zedong

4.14

Format: 8 pages, Paperback

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25. Anarchism or Socialism?

By: Joseph Stalin

3.72

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

This is the first English language edition of one of Stalin's earliest theoretical writings, first … read more

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  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"As you see, the point is not which class today constitutes the majority, or which class is poorer, but which class is gaining strength and which is decaying."

-Joseph Stalin, Anarchism or Socialism?

"History teaches us that the class or social group which plays the principal role in social production and performs the main functions in production must, in the course of time, inevitably take contro…"

-Joseph Stalin, Anarchism or Socialism?

"Socialist society presupposes an adequate development of productive forces and socialist consciousness among men, their socialist enlightenment. At the present time the development of the productive …"

-Joseph Stalin, Anarchism or Socialism?

"Strikes, boycott, parliamentarism, meetings and demonstrations are all good forms of struggle as means for preparing and organising the proletariat. But not one of these means is capable of abolishin…"

-Joseph Stalin, Anarchism or Socialism?

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26. Eleven Theses on Feuerbach

By: Karl Marx

4.05

Format: 2 pages, Audiobook

The Eleven Theses on Feuerbach are brief metaphysical summaries penned by Karl Marx as a principal … read more

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  • theory
  • philosophy
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"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it"

-Karl Marx, Eleven Theses on Feuerbach

"Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it"

-Karl Marx, Eleven Theses on Feuerbach

"Philosophers have hitherto interpreted the world in various way; the point, however, is to change it"

-Karl Marx, Eleven Theses on Feuerbach

"Philosophers have hitherto interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it"

-Karl Marx, Eleven Theses on Feuerbach

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27. Marxism vs. Liberalism: An Interview (with Joseph Stalin)

By: H.G. Wells

4.27

Format: 24 pages, Kindle Edition

An Interview with StalinH.G. Wells visited the Soviet Union in 1934 and on July 23 he interviewed J… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Owing to pressure from below, the pressure of the masses, the bourgeoisie may sometimes concede certain partial reforms while remaining on the basis of the existing social-economic system. Acting in …"

-H.G. Wells, Marxism vs. Liberalism: An Interview (with Joseph Stalin)

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28. The October Revolution and the Tactics of the Russian Communists

By: Joseph Stalin

4.12

Format: 66 pages, Paperback

WORKERS OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE! PREFACE TO THE BOOK On the Road to October Publisher's Note… read more

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  • politics

29. The Law of Life

By: Jack London

3.41

Format: None pages, None

The short story "The Law of Life" by Jack London is a study on the human psyche, as one faces the f… read more

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30. A Letter to American Workingmen

By: Vladimir Lenin

3.84

Format: 28 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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  • russia
  • history
  • russian literature
  • theory
  • politics
  • lenin
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • labor
  • economics
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31. Trotskyism or Leninism?

By: Joseph Stalin

3.47

Format: None pages, None

"I shall expose certain legends that are being spread by Trotsky and his supporters about the Octob… read more

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16 Top history books like A Letter to American Workingmen by Vladimir Lenin

Transform Your Habits

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

Walter Rodney , Vincent Harding

4.42

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

Dialectical and Historical Materialism

Joseph Stalin

3.91

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12 Top fiction books like The Iliad/The Odyssey by Homer, Robert Fagles, Bernard Knox

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Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)

Sophocles , J.E. Thomas , Elizabeth Osborne

4.00

Transform Your Habits

The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

Robert Fagles , Aeschylus , William Bedell Stanford

4.01

Transform Your Habits

Don Quixote

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra , Roberto González Echevarría , John Rutherford

3.66

Transform Your Habits

The Iliad/The Odyssey

Homer , Robert Fagles , Bernard Knox

3.88

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