In the Cause of Labour: A History of the British Trade Unions, 1792 - 2003
By: Rob Sewell
4.33
Format: 408 pages, Paperback
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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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"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
2. 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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"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
3. 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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"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
4. The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
By: Karl Marx , Daniel de Leon , D.D.L.
3.67
Format: 230 pages, Paperback
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte" is one of Karl Marx' most profound and most brilliant m… read more
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5. The Civil War in France
By: Karl Marx
3.67
Format: 230 pages, Paperback
A reprint of the 1934 'enlarged edition', a volume that added newly translated material to the titl… read more
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7. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
By: C.L.R. James
4.55
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A classic and impassioned account of the first revolution in the Third World. This powerful, intens… read more
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8. The Revolution Betrayed
By: Leon Trotsky , Max Eastman
3.86
Format: 262 pages, Paperback
One of Marxism's most important texts, The Revolution Betrayedexplores the fate of the Russian Revo… read more
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9. The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
By: Friedrich Engels , None
3.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
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10. 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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"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
11. 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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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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"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. Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
By: Vladimir Lenin
4.23
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
'Globalisation' is the buzzword of the 1990s. VI Lenin's Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitali… read more
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"Crises of every kind — economic crises more frequently, but not only these — in their turn increase very considerably the tendency towards concentration and monopoly."-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
"At the basis of these swindles and manipulations lies socialised production; but the immense progress of humanity, which achieved this socialisation, goes to benefit the speculators."-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
"But suppose, for the sake of argument, free competition, without any sort of monopoly, would develop capitalism trade more rapidly. Is it not a fact that the more rapidly trade and capitalism develop…"-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
"As long as capitalism remains what it is, surplus capital will never be utilised for the purpose of raising the standard of living of the masses in a given country, for this would mean a decline in p…"-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
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15. Children of Dune (Dune, #3)
By: Frank Herbert
3.96
Format: 609 pages, Paperback
Book three in Frank Herbert's magnificent Dune Chronicles--one of the most significant sagas in the… read more
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"Every judgment teeters on the brink of error,"-Frank Herbert, Children of Dune (Dune, #3)
"Most deadly errors arise from obsolete assumptions."-Frank Herbert, Children of Dune (Dune, #3)
"The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion."-Frank Herbert, Children of Dune (Dune, #3)
"The joy of living, its beauty is all bound up in the fact that life can surprise you."-Frank Herbert, Children of Dune (Dune, #3)
16. The People’s Republic of Walmart: How the World’s Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism
By: Leigh Phillips
3.90
Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition
Since the demise of the USSR, the mantle of the largest planned economies in the world has been tak… read more
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17. Anti-Dühring: Herr Eugen Dühring’s Revolution in Science
By: Friedrich Engels
4.29
Format: 365 pages, Paperback
Excerpt from the original book: "It was not my fault that I had to follow Herr Duhring into realms… read more
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"If Hegel had not died long ago, he would hang himself, with all his theologies he could not have thought up this value which has as many different values as it has prices. It requires once more someo…"-Friedrich Engels, Anti-Dühring: Herr Eugen Dühring’s Revolution in Science
"If the world had ever been in a state in which no change whatever was taking place, how could it pass from this state to one of change? The absolutely unchanging, especially when it has been in this …"-Friedrich Engels, Anti-Dühring: Herr Eugen Dühring’s Revolution in Science
"From the moment when the bourgeois demand for the abolition of class privileges was put forward, alongside it appeared the proletarian demand for the abolition of the classes themselves. [...] The pr…"-Friedrich Engels, Anti-Dühring: Herr Eugen Dühring’s Revolution in Science
"...in pure mathematics the mind deal only with its own creations and imaginations. The concepts of number and form have not been derived from any source other than the world of reality. The ten finge…"-Friedrich Engels, Anti-Dühring: Herr Eugen Dühring’s Revolution in Science
18. Class Struggle in the Roman Republic
By: Alan Woods
4.51
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
In the first complete Marxist history of the Roman Republic, Alan Woods provides a gripping and acc… read more
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19. Reason in Revolt: Dialectical Philosophy and Modern Science
By: Alan Woods
4.35
Format: 268 pages, Paperback
Reason in Revolt further develops the theory of Dialectical Materialism, using the most important s… read more
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20. The History of Philosophy: A Marxist Perspective
By: Alan Woods
4.57
Format: 350 pages, Paperback
A Marxist approach to the History of Philosophy Alan Woods outlines the development of philosoph… read more
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21. Their Morals and Ours
By: Leon Trotsky
4.05
Format: 126 pages, Paperback
Participating in the revolutionary workers movement "with open eyes and an intense will--only this … read more
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"The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end."-Leon Trotsky, Their Morals and Ours
"A means can be justified only by its end. But the end in its turn needs to be justified."-Leon Trotsky, Their Morals and Ours
"A slave-owner who through cunning and violence shackles a slave in chains, and a slave who through cunning or violence breaks the chains – let not the contemptible eunuchs tell us that they are equal…"-Leon Trotsky, Their Morals and Ours
22. Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Spain
By: Felix Morrow
4.44
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
A contemporary account of the revolution and civil war in Spain in the 1930s in which the proletari… read more
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"One by one those capitalist countries which arrive at a complete impasse, take the road of fascism"-Felix Morrow, Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Spain
23. Bolshevism: The Road to Revolution
By: Alan Woods
4.70
Format: 636 pages, Paperback
There have been many books and potted histories of the Russian Revolution, either written from an a… read more
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24. Lenin and Trotsky - What They Really Stood for
By: Alan Woods
4.47
Format: 223 pages, Paperback
Madrid. 21 cm. 251 p. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Ted Grant y Alan Woods.… read more
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25. Dialectics of Nature
By: Friedrich Engels
3.95
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
Dialectics of Nature (German: Dialektik der Natur) is an unfinished 1883 work by Friedrich Engels t… read more
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"Let us not, however, flatter ourselves overmuch on account of our human victories over nature. For each such victory nature takes its revenge on us. Each victory, it is true, in the first place bring…"-Friedrich Engels, Dialectics of Nature
26. Stalin: An Appraisal of the Man and His Influence
By: Leon Trotsky
4.03
Format: None pages, Paperback
Trotsky's Stalin biography is an important historical document. Unfortunately Trotsky was not able … read more
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27. Russia: from Revolution to Counter-revolution
By: Ted Grant
4.75
Format: 585 pages, Paperback
The October Russian Revolution, led by Lenin and Trotsky, swept away landlordism and capitalism and… read more
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28. The Revolutionary Legacy of Rosa Luxemburg
By: Marie Frederiksen
4.69
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
There have been many biographies of Rosa Luxemburg, but none have done justice to her as a revoluti… read more
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29. The First World War: A Marxist Analysis of the Great Slaughter
By: Alan Woods
4.18
Format: 225 pages, Kindle Edition
“What passing bells for those who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns.” —Wilfred Ow… read more
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30. Spain's Revolution Against Franco: The Great Betrayal
By: Alan Woods
4.67
Format: 534 pages, Paperback
The story of the Spanish revolution of the 1930s is quite well known to most people on the left, bu… read more
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31. In the Cause of Labour: A History of the British Trade Unions, 1792 - 2003
By: Rob Sewell
4.33
Format: 408 pages, Paperback
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