14 must-read theory books like Are You An Anarchist? The Answer May Surprise You! by David Graeber

Are You An Anarchist? The Answer May Surprise You!

By: David Graeber

4.03

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1. On Palestine

By: Noam Chomsky , Ilan Pappé

4.25

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

Operation Protective Edge, Israel's most recent assault on Gaza, left thousands of Palestinians dea… read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
"It's quite standard for those who hold the clubs to say: "Forget about everything that happened and let's just go on from here." In other words, "I've got what I want, and out forget about what your …"

-Noam Chomsky, On Palestine

"How, then, does one become an activist? The easy answer would be to say that we do not become activists; we simply forget that we are. We are all born with compassion, generosity, and love for others…"

-Noam Chomsky, On Palestine

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2. Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction

By: Colin Ward

3.51

Format: 125 pages, Paperback

What do anarchists want? It seems easier to classify them by what they don't want, namely, the orga… read more

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  • anarchism
"Every state protects the privileges of the powerful."

-Colin Ward, Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction

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3. The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.37

Format: 32 pages, Library Binding

Some inhabitants of a peaceful kingdom cannot tolerate the act of cruelty that underlies its happin… read more

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  • philosophy
"Would you walk away from Omelas?"

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

"Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

"But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

"Of course I didn’t read James and sit down and say, Now I’ll write a story about that “lost soul."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

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4. God and the State

By: Paul Avrich , Mikhail Bakunin

4.23

Format: None pages, Paperback

Among the 19th-century founders of modern philosophical anarchism, none is more important than Mich… read more

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  • theory
  • philosophy
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  • nonfiction
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5. Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice

By: Noam Chomsky , Mike Davis , Rudolf Rocker , Nicolas Walter

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

In 1937, at the behest of Emma Goldman, Rocker penned this political and philosophical masterpiece … read more

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  • politics
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  • anarchism

6. 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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  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • anarchism

7. Anarchism and Other Essays

By: Emma Goldman

4.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

In the eighteen-nineties and for years thereafter, America reverberated with the name of the "notor… read more

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8. How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines

By: Thomas C. Foster

3.17

Format: 319 pages,

What does it mean when a fictional hero takes a journey? Shares a meal? Gets drenched in a sudden r… 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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  • theory
  • philosophy
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"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. Anarchy

By: Vernon Richards , Errico Malatesta

3.79

Format: 477 pages, Paperback

Many think 'anarchy' means confusion, disorder, and chaos, but Maletesta sets the record staight. E… read more

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11. Post-Scarcity Anarchism

By: Murray Bookchin

3.34

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this series of essays, Murray Bookchin balances his ecological and anarchist vision with the pro… read more

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12. 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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13. No Exit

By: Jean-Paul Sartre

3.92

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Jean-Paul Sartre, the great French existentialist, displays his mastery of drama in NO EXIT, an unf… read more

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14. Homage to Catalonia

By: George Orwell , Lionel Trilling

4.00

Format: 592 pages, Paperback

In 1936 Orwell went to Spain to report on the Civil War and instead joined the fight against the Fa… read more

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15. Anarchism - What it Really Stands For

By: Emma Goldman

4.62

Format: 290 pages, Pamphlet

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16. Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory

By: Peter Barry

1.33

Format: 397 pages,

An introduction to literary and cultural theory for beginners. The emphasis is on theory in practic… read more

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17. 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
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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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18. They Called Us Enemy

By: George Takei

4.42

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

A graphic memoir recounting actor/author/activist George Takei's childhood imprisoned within Americ… read more

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  • nonfiction
"The wheel of democracy turns slowly."

-George Takei, They Called Us Enemy

"Shame is a cruel thing. It should rest on the perpetrators but they don't carry it the way the victims do."

-George Takei, They Called Us Enemy

"Our Democracy is a Participatory Democracy. Existentially it's dependent on people who cherish the shinning, highest ideals of our Democracy and actively engage in the political process."

-George Takei, They Called Us Enemy

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19. Il fascismo eterno

By: Umberto Eco

4.33

Format: 51 pages, Kindle Edition

“Ritengo sia possibile indicare una lista di caratteristiche tipiche di quello che vorrei chiamare … read more

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"L’Ur-Fascismo si basa su un “populismo qualitativo"

-Umberto Eco, Il fascismo eterno

"Libertà e liberazione sono un compito che non finisce mai."

-Umberto Eco, Il fascismo eterno

"It would be so much easier for us, if there appeared on the world scene somebody saying "I want to reopen Auschwitz, I want the Black Shirts to parade again in the Italian squares". Life is not that …"

-Umberto Eco, Il fascismo eterno

"Fu il fascismo italiano a convincere molti leader liberali europei che il nuovo regime stesse attuando interessanti riforme sociali in grado di fornire un’alternativa moderatamente rivoluzionaria all…"

-Umberto Eco, Il fascismo eterno

Cover of Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation by Sophie   Lewis

20. Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation

By: Sophie Lewis

3.70

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

What if everyone was family? We need to talk about the family. For those who are lucky, families… read more

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  • politics
  • philosophy
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  • essays
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21. Heaven in Disorder

By: Slavoj Žižek

3.79

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

As we emerge (though perhaps only temporarily) from the pandemic, other crises move center stage: o… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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22. Three Deaths

By: Leo Tolstoy

3.41

Format: 21 pages, Kindle Edition

Three Deaths: A Tale" (Russian: Три смерти, Tri smerti) is a short story by Leo Tolstoy first publi… read more

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  • philosophy
Cover of Life Without Law: An Introduction to Anarchist Politics by Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness

23. Life Without Law: An Introduction to Anarchist Politics

By: Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness

4.28

Format: 20 pages, None

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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24. The Gender Accelerationist Manifesto

By: Vikky Storm

3.90

Format: 39 pages, Paperback

A manifesto about the slow death of gender and trans and queer liberation through accelerating this… read more

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  • philosophy
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  • nonfiction
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25. The Philosophy of Social Ecology: Essays on Dialectical Naturalism

By: Murray Bookchin

3.79

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

What is nature? What is humanity's place in nature? And what is the relationship of society to the … read more

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  • essays

26. Are You An Anarchist? The Answer May Surprise You!

By: David Graeber

4.03

Format: None pages, None

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27. Are We Good Enough?

By: Pyotr Kropotkin

4.22

Format: None pages, None

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  • essays
"The Utopists won the battle. They proved that they were the really practical people, and that those who pretended to be practical were imbeciles"

-Pyotr Kropotkin, Are We Good Enough?

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28. An Anarchist Programme & Anarchist Propaganda

By: Errico Malatesta

4.27

Format: 16 pages, Pamphlet

Taken from Malatesta: His Life & Ideas ed. Vernon Richards. London: Freedom Press, 1993. Il Program… read more

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29. The Capitalist System

By: Mikhail Bakunin

4.12

Format: None pages, None

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30. Entre Camponeses

By: Errico Malatesta

4.03

Format: 107 pages, Paperback

Entre camponeses reúne dois importantes textos do autor, publicados originalmente em um período em … read more

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4.25

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3.51

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4.23

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4.00

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4.65

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4.00

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4.42

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4.22

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