14 Best nonfiction books like Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution, Volume 1: State and Bureaucracy by Hal Draper

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Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution, Volume 1: State and Bureaucracy

By: Hal Draper

4.53

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Volume I of Hal Draper’s definitive and masterful study of Marx’s political thought, which focuses …

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution, Volume 1: State and Bureaucracy by Hal Draper , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. 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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  • politics
  • nonfiction
"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

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2. 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
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
"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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3. Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War

By: Robin Yassin-Kassab , Leila Al-Shami

4.29

Format: None pages, Paperback

In 2011, many Syrians took to the streets of Damascus to demand the overthrow of the government of … read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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4. 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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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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5. 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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  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • political science
  • sociology
"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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6. A People's History of the World

By: Chris Harman

4.80

Format: None pages,

Chris Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people form… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
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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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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction

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 Philosophy of Marx

By: Étienne Balibar

4.20

Format: None pages, Paperback

The only guide to Marx that the student and scholar will need: this special edition includes pedago… read more

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10. The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories

By: Ernest Hemingway

3.22

Format: 402 pages, Hardcover

The ideal introduction to the genius of Ernest Hemingway, "The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stori… read more

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11. Black Skin, White Masks

By: Frantz Fanon , None

2.56

Format: 201 pages, Paperback

A major influence on international civil rights, anticolonial, and black consciousness movement, Bl… read more

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12. Teamster Rebellion

By: Farrell Dobbs

4.21

Format: None pages,

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13. Men Who Hate Women

By: Laura Bates

4.34

Format: 366 pages, Kindle Edition

The first comprehensive undercover look at the terrorist movement no one is talking about. Men W… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
"Incels use the metaphor of the red pill to describe the moment a man's blinkers fall away and he suddenly realizes that he has been lied to his whole life. The world that he has been forced to believ…"

-Laura Bates, Men Who Hate Women

"When incels do occasionally crop up in news reports or conversations, they're so easily dismissed as a tiny fringe group of online weirdos. What you hear about them sounds so strange, so extreme, so …"

-Laura Bates, Men Who Hate Women

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14. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

By: Naomi Klein

4.22

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

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15. Minor Detail

By: Adania Shibli

4.20

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn a… read more

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"Man, not the tank, shall prevail."

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Não há como descartar a probabilidade de uma conexão entre os dois fatos, ou alguma ligação oculta entre eles, por analogia às relações que os seres humanos encontram entre as plantas, por exemplo, q…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Desde que tive ciência da minha incapacidade consumada de me mover de acordo com os limites, resolvi, finalmente, permanecer dentro dos limites da minha casa, tanto quanto possível. Agora, uma vez qu…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Toch zijn er mensen die in die logica − dus dat je je concentreert op de meest futiele details zoals stof op een bureau of vliegenpoepjes op een schilderij − de enige manier zien om de waarheid te do…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

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16. 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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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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17. The Book of Elsewhere

By: Keanu Reeves

3.42

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The legendary Keanu Reeves and inimitable writer China Miéville team up on this genre-bending epic … read more

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18. Marx's Inferno: The Political Theory of Capital

By: William Clare Roberts

4.39

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Marx's Inferno reconstructs the major arguments of Karl Marx's Capital and inaugurates a completely… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
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19. The Social and Political Thought of Karl Marx (Cambridge Studies in the History and Theory of Politics)

By: Shlomo Avineri

4.16

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

Ever since the discovery of Marx's Early Writings, most of the literature concerned with Marx's int… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
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20. The Theory of Revolution in the Young Marx (Historical Materialism)

By: Michael Löwy

4.16

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

“This book is brilliant, incisive, honest and deserves to be read with attention. It is an importan… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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21. Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution, Volume 1: State and Bureaucracy

By: Hal Draper

4.53

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Volume I of Hal Draper’s definitive and masterful study of Marx’s political thought, which focuses … read more

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Eric J. Hobsbawm

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Angela Y. Davis

4.58

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Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War

Robin Yassin-Kassab , Leila Al-Shami

4.29

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The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World

Howard Zinn , Vijay Prashad

4.10

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4.32

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Frantz Fanon , Haakon Chevalier

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