13 must-read history books like War and Peace in Kurdistan by Abdullah Öcalan

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War and Peace in Kurdistan

By: Abdullah Öcalan

3.94

Format: 46 pages, Paperback

Die kurdische Frage, also das Problem, dass die kurdische Nation keinen eigenen Staat besitzt und s…

If you liked the history plot in War and Peace in Kurdistan by Abdullah Öcalan , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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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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  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
"...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)

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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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  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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3. All About Love: New Visions

By: bell hooks

4.05

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

All About Love offers radical new ways to think about love by showing its interconnectedness in our… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
"All awakening to love is spiritual awakening"

-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

"Couples who rarely or never have sex can know lifelong love. "

-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

"Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue."

-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

"Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair."

-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

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Matthew    Ward
, Stuart Gilbert, None

4. The Stranger

By: Albert Camus , Matthew Ward , Stuart Gilbert , None

4.02

Format: 123 pages, Paperback

Published in 1942 by French author Albert Camus, The Stranger has long been considered a classic of… read more

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  • philosophy
"It is better to burn than to disappear."

-Albert Camus, The Stranger

"Everything is true, and nothing is true!"

-Albert Camus, The Stranger

"After awhile you could get used to anything."

-Albert Camus, The Stranger

"To stay or to go, it amounted to the same thing."

-Albert Camus, The Stranger

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5. 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
  • history
  • 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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6. Women, Race & Class

By: Angela Y. Davis

4.58

Format: 271 pages, Paperback

From one of our most important scholars and civil rights activist icon, a powerful study of the wom… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"White women—feminists included—have revealed a historical reluctance to acknowledge the struggles of household workers. They have rarely been involved in the Sisyphean task of ameliorating the condit…"

-Angela Y. Davis, Women, Race & Class

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7. 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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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"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

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8. The Prince

By: Niccolò Machiavelli , Adolph Caso , Rufus Goodwin , Benjamin Martinez

3.84

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Machiavelli needs to be looked at as he really was. Hence: Can Machiavelli, who makes the following… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Is it better to be loved or feared?"

-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

"He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command"

-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

"Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception."

-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

"It is a common fault of men not to reckon on storms in fair weather."

-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

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9. 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
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
"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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10. 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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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"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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11. The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.25

Format: 387 pages, Paperback

Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestio… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
"... “Dangerous!"

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

"Freedom is never very safe."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

"Who do you think is lying to us?"

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

"Where does your soul go when you die in Hell?"

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

12. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

By: Mark Fisher

4.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

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13. Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving

By: Pete Walker

3.99

Format: 512 pages,

I have Complex PTSD [Cptsd] and wrote this book from the perspective of someone who has experienced… read more

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14. 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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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"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

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15. A Doll's House

By: Henrik Ibsen , Michael Meyer

3.76

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

A Doll's House (1879), is a masterpiece of theatrical craft which, for the first time portrayed the… read more

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"Laughter's all the damned thing's fit for."

-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

"I must make up my mind which is right – society or I."

-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

"لن تفقدوني طويلاً، فالراحلون سرعان ما ينطوون في زوايا النسيان."

-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

"أنا ارى الناس صنفين .. صنف تعشقه المرأة، وصنف تحب أن تتجاذب معه أطراف الحديث."

-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

16. 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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17. Lady Susan

By: Jane Austen , Robert William Chapman

3.65

Format: 180 pages, Paperback

Beautiful, flirtatious, and recently widowed, Lady Susan Vernon seeks an advantageous second marria… read more

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"I have not yet tranquillised myself enough to see Frederica."

-Jane Austen, Lady Susan

"I shall ever despise the man who can be gratified by the passion which he never wished to inspire, nor solicited the avowal of."

-Jane Austen, Lady Susan

"How little the general report of any one ought to be credited, since no character, however upright, can escape the malevolence of slander."

-Jane Austen, Lady Susan

"...though I always imagined from her increasing friendship for us since her husband's death that we should, at some future period, be obliged to receive her."

-Jane Austen, Lady Susan

18. 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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19. How Nonviolence Protects the State

By: Peter Gelderloos

4.03

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Since the civil rights era, the doctrine of nonviolence has enjoyed near-universal acceptance by th… read more

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20. 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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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • history
  • 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

21. 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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22. There Was and There Was Not: A Journey through Hate and Possibility in Turkey, Armenia, and Beyond

By: Meline Toumani

3.69

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A young Armenian-American goes to Turkey in a "love thine enemy" experiment that becomes a transfor… read more

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23. Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

By: David Graeber

4.03

Format: 335 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling writer David Graeber, a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfi… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"Economies around the world have, increasingly, become vast engines for producing nonsense."

-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

"Bullshit jobs regularly induce feelings of hopelessness, depression, and self-loathing. They are forms of spiritual violence directed at the essence of what it means to be a human being."

-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

"What we are witnessing is the rise of those forms of popular culture that office workers can produce and consume during the scattered, furtive shards of time they have at their disposal in workplaces…"

-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

"A fact-finding commission is a way of telling the public that the government is doing something it is not. But a large corporations will behave exactly the same way, if, say, there are revealed to be…"

-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

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24. Lovesickness

By: Junji Ito

4.03

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

AN INTOXICATING BEAUTY TURNS A SMALL TOWN INTO A BLOODY HELL. Ryusuke returns to the town where … read more

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25. 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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26. Blindness

By: José Saramago

4.17

Format: 349 pages, Kindle Edition

From Nobel Prize–winning author José Saramago, a magnificent, mesmerizing parable of loss A city… read more

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"الناس يتعودون إي شيء ."

-José Saramago, Blindness

"هناك أوقات لايفيد معها الكلام ."

-José Saramago, Blindness

"* البطون الفارغة تستيقظ باكراً ."

-José Saramago, Blindness

"* الأحقاد القديمة لاتزول بسهولة ."

-José Saramago, Blindness

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27. Notes on Grief

By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

4.22

Format: 86 pages, Hardcover

Notes on Grief is an exquisite work of meditation, remembrance, and hope, written in the wake of Ch… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • essays
"I liked to call him 'a gentle man and a gentleman'."

-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief

"I am afraid of tomorrow, and all the tomorrows after..."

-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief

"It was not supposed to happen like this, not like a malicious surprise.."

-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief

"Je vais parfaitement bien. Et c'était vrai. Jusqu'à ce que cela cesse de l'être."

-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief

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28. The Daughters of Kobani: A Story of Rebellion, Courage, and Justice

By: Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

4.06

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The extraordinary story of the women who took on the Islamic State and… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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29. Make Rojava Green Again: Building an Ecological Society

By: Internationalist Commune of Rojava

4.34

Format: 125 pages, Paperback

What is it about the social structures of Rojava that so inspires the fierce loyalty of its defende… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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30. The Individual, Society and the State

By: Emma Goldman

3.97

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

The Individual, Society and the State is as essay by Emma Goldman. Emma Goldman (June 27 1869 – May… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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31. War and Peace in Kurdistan

By: Abdullah Öcalan

3.94

Format: 46 pages, Paperback

Die kurdische Frage, also das Problem, dass die kurdische Nation keinen eigenen Staat besitzt und s… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays

16 must-read politics books like War and Peace in Kurdistan by Abdullah Öcalan

Transform Your Habits

Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology (Paradigm)

David Graeber

4.21

Transform Your Habits

The Principles of Communism

Friedrich Engels

4.06

Transform Your Habits

The State and Revolution

Vladimir Lenin

4.24

Transform Your Habits

Women, Race & Class

Angela Y. Davis

4.58

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17 must-read fiction books like Blindness by José Saramago

Transform Your Habits

El coronel no tiene quien le escriba

Gabriel García Márquez

3.79

Transform Your Habits

Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Gabriel García Márquez , Gregory Rabassa

3.97

Transform Your Habits

La tregua

Mario Benedetti

4.18

Transform Your Habits

Love in the Time of Cholera

Gabriel García Márquez , Edith Grossman

3.94

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