Marxism and Anthropology: The History of a Relationship (Marxist Introductions)
By: Maurice Bloch
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Examining the writings of Marx and Engels on primitive societies and drawing attention to inconsist…
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1. Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology (Paradigm)
By: David Graeber
4.21
Format: 102 pages, Paperback
Everywhere anarchism is on the upswing as a political philosophy—everywhere, that is, except the ac… read more
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"...státní aparát [...] skupina lidí, kteří si jako jediní osobují právo - alespoň tehdy, když jsou ve své oficiální roli - používat násilí."-David Graeber, Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology (Paradigm)
"The theory of exodus proposes that the most effective way of opposing capitalism and the liberal state is not through direct confrontation but by means of what Paolo Virno has called “engaged withdra…"-David Graeber, Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology (Paradigm)
"A revolution on a world scale will take a very long time. But it is also possible to recognize that it is already starting to happen. The easiest way to get our minds around it is to stop thinking ab…"-David Graeber, Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology (Paradigm)
"... most Amazonians don't want to give others the power to threaten them with physical injury if they don't do as they are told. Maybe we should better be asking what it says about ourselves that we …"-David Graeber, Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology (Paradigm)
2. Against Empire
By: Michael Parenti
4.36
Format: 229 pages, Paperback
Richly informed and written in an engaging style, Against Empire exposes the ruthless agenda and hi… read more
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"In sum, the myth of a self-reliant, free-market, trickle-down economy is just that, a myth. In almost every enterprise, government provides business with supports, protections, and opportunities for …"-Michael Parenti, Against Empire
"Designed to leave the world's economic destiny at the mercy of bankers and multinational corporations, Globalization is a logical extension of imperialism, a victory of empire over republic, internat…"-Michael Parenti, Against Empire
"The diseconomies of capitalism are treated as the public's responsibility. Corporate America skims the cream and leaves the bill for us to pay, then boasts about how productive and efficient it is an…"-Michael Parenti, Against Empire
"Official Washington cannot tell the American people that the real purpose of its gargantuan military expenditures and belligerent interventions is to make the world safe for General Motors, General E…"-Michael Parenti, Against Empire
3. The Age of Extremes, 1914-1991
By: Eric J. Hobsbawm
4.28
Format: 627 pages, Paperback
Dividing the century into the Age of Catastrophe, 1914-1950, the Golden Age, 1950-1973, and the Lan… read more
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"Most young men and women (...) grow up in a sort of permanent present lacking any organic relation to the public past of the times they live in. This makes historians, whose business it is to remembe…"-Eric J. Hobsbawm, The Age of Extremes, 1914-1991
4. 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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"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
5. 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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6. The Age of Capital: 1848-1875
By: Eric J. Hobsbawm
4.53
Format: 194 pages, Paperback
In the wake of the French Revolution & the Industrial Revolution, Europe underwent another revoluti… read more
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7. Toward An Anthropological Theory of Value: The False Coin of Our Own Dreams
By: David Graeber
3.80
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
This innovative book is the first comprehensive synthesis of economic, political, and cultural theo… read more
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8. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
By: Benedict Anderson
3.77
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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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9. The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View
By: Ellen Meiksins Wood
3.44
Format: 406 pages, Paperback
Capitalism is not a natural and inevitable consequence of human nature, nor is it simply an extensi… read more
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10. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
By: David Graeber
4.20
Format: 692 pages, Hardcover
A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions abo… read more
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"Humans - from this other perspective, which is just as extreme in its own way - are at best an arbitrary constellation of cultural elements, perhaps assembled according to some prevailing spirit, cod…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"One might ask, how could that most basic element of all human freedoms, the freedom to make promises and commitments and thus build relationships, be turned into its very opposite: into peonage, serf…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"There is an obvious objection to evolutionary models which assume that our strongest social ties are based on close biological kinship: many humans just don’t like their families very much. And this …"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"In the Middle Ages, most people in other parts of the world who actually knew anything about northern Europe at all considered it an obscure and uninviting backwater full of religious fanatics who, a…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
11. 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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12. Karl Marx's Ecosocialism: Capital, Nature, and the Unfinished Critique of Political Economy
By: Kōhei Saitō
4.02
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Reveals the ideal of a sustainable ecosocialist world in Marx's writings Karl Marx, author of what … read more
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13. Marxism and Anthropology: The History of a Relationship (Marxist Introductions)
By: Maurice Bloch
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Examining the writings of Marx and Engels on primitive societies and drawing attention to inconsist… read more
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