Overcoming Capitalism: Strategy for the Working Class in the 21st Century
By: Tom Wetzel
3.55
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
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1. An Autobiography
By: Angela Y. Davis
4.44
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Her own powerful story up to 1972, told with warmth, brilliance, humor and conviction. With an intr… read more
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"I sank deep into the moment, husbanding this delight, hoarding it. For I knew it would be short-lived. Work. Struggle. Confrontation lay before us like a rock-strewn road. We would walk it ... But fi…"-Angela Y. Davis, An Autobiography
"This Booker T. Washington syndrome permeated every aspect of the education I received in Birmingham. Work hard and you will be rewarded. A corollary of this principle was that the road would be harde…"-Angela Y. Davis, An Autobiography
2. 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
3. On Antisemitism: Solidarity and the Struggle for Justice in Palestine
By: Judith Butler , Jewish Voice for Peace
4.15
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
When the State of Israel claims to represent all Jewish people, defenders of Israeli policy redefin… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
4. Remaking Society
By: Murray Bookchin
3.80
Format: 25 pages, Paperback
To anyone new to his work, here is a clear synthesis of Bookchin's ideas. " an intellectual tour de… read more
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5. Mutual Aid
By: Pyotr Kropotkin
3.78
Format: 584 pages, Paperback
In 'Mutual Aid', Peter Kropotkin attacks the use of Darwinism as a social theory, arguing that coop… read more
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6. The Red Flag: A History of Communism
By: David Priestland
4.25
Format: None pages,
David Priestland's The Red Flag: Communism and the Making of the Modern Worldis an original, compel… read more
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7. Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
By: Amanda Montell
4.29
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The word "bitch" conjures many images for many people but is most often meant to describe an unplea… read more
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- nonfiction
"Language pedantry is snobbery and snobbery is prejudice,"-Amanda Montell, Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
"One of the burdens of being a woman is the imperative to be nice."-Amanda Montell, Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
"Hitler wasn’t any less fascist because he could write a coherent sentence."-Amanda Montell, Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
"Anytime language reform happens, it has to happen in the context of social change,"-Amanda Montell, Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
8. How Long 'til Black Future Month?
By: N.K. Jemisin
4.28
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In these stories, Jemisin sharply examines modern society, infusing magic into the mundane, and dra… read more
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"Still. Marching."-N.K. Jemisin, How Long 'til Black Future Month?
"I’ll take the dreams,"-N.K. Jemisin, How Long 'til Black Future Month?
"I need to talk to you,"-N.K. Jemisin, How Long 'til Black Future Month?
"The monster is amused to be found monstrous"-N.K. Jemisin, How Long 'til Black Future Month?
9. Devil House
By: John Darnielle
3.22
Format: 403 pages, Hardcover
Gage Chandler is descended from kings. That's what his mother always told him. Now, he is a true… read more
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"The past is charming and safe when you're skittering around on its surface. It's a nice place to linger a moment before seeking the lower depths."-John Darnielle, Devil House
"I remember before I finally fell asleep feeling like there wasn't all that much to say about my life. I'd had several satisfying relationships, they hadn't amounted to much. I'd gotten better at my w…"-John Darnielle, Devil House
"What would my work be like if I had to keep returning to the same story every time, I wondered. If, instead of hunting down sad places where people's lives had been ruined, there was only the one pla…"-John Darnielle, Devil House
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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- politics
- economics
- nonfiction
"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. Ordinary Human Failings
By: Megan Nolan
3.78
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
When a 10-year-old child is suspected of a violent crime, her family must face the truth about thei… read more
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"She loved the feeling of doing something on her own, and doing it in a routine. It felt thrillingly adult and affirmed her most cherished hope, the hope that she might have an actual inner life of su…"-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings
"He had the sort of bland, agreeable, rosy face which could disappear into whatever context he wished it to. He was blond but not provocatively so. The naturally dull Kent accent could be clipped and …"-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings
12. Rehearsals for Living
By: Robyn Maynard
4.48
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A revolutionary collaboration about the world we're living in now, between two of our most importan… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
13. Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
By: Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
4.00
Format: 157 pages, Paperback
A powerful indictment of the ways elites have co-opted radical critiques of racial capitalism to se… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
"A philosopher Briana Toole clarifies, by itself, one's social location only puts a person in a position to know; 'epistemic privilege' or advantage, on the other hand, is achieved only through delibe…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
"Elites do often make the environment worse and block solutions, but to blame the problem of elite capture entirely on their moral successes and failures is to confuse effect for cause. The true probl…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
"To opt for deference, rather than interdependence, may soothe short-term psychological wounds. But it does so at a steep cost: it may undermine the goals that motivated the project--and it entrenches…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
"As Carter G. Woodson realized, many of our decisions are shaped by decisions that someone with more power made before us. The whole social structure affects how institutional systems, like schools, f…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
14. The Centre
By: Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi
3.41
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A darkly comic, boundary-pushing debut following an adrift Pakistani translator in London who atten… read more
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15. Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
By: David Graeber
3.33
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
The final posthumous work by the coauthor of the major New York Times bestseller The Dawn of Everyt… read more
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- nonfiction
"God and Man were inseparable companions. One day God said to Man: why don’t you go walk around on earth for a while so we can find some new topics for conversation? —beginning of a Malagasy folktale"-David Graeber, Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
"The toothless or peg-legged buccaneer hoisting a flag of defiance against the world, drinking and feasting to a stupor on stolen loot, fleeing at the first sign of serious opposition, leaving only ta…"-David Graeber, Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
"We would seem to be in the presence of a genuine historical anomaly: a political entity that presented itself to the outside world as a kingdom, organized around the charismatic figure of a brilliant…"-David Graeber, Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
16. The Greatest Evil is War
By: Chris Hedges
4.39
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
An unflinching indictment of the horror and obscenity of war by one of our finest war correspondent… read more
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- nonfiction
"The heroes of war and the heroes of sport are indistinguishable in militarized societies. War is sold to a gullible public as a noble game... War is not a sport. It is about killing. It is dirty, mes…"-Chris Hedges, The Greatest Evil is War
17. We Won't Be Here Tomorrow and Other Stories
By: Margaret Killjoy
4.39
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
Death cults, queer love, and the end of everything. Spaceships, man-eating lesbian mermaids, sw… read more
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"Let the apocalypse not be the lifting of the veil, let it be the lowering."-Margaret Killjoy, We Won't Be Here Tomorrow and Other Stories
18. The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era
By: Gary Gerstle
4.19
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The most sweeping account of how neoliberalism came to dominate American politics for nearly a half… read more
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- economics
- nonfiction
19. A Profession Without Reason: The Crisis of Contemporary Psychiatry Untangled and Solved by Spinoza, Freethinking, and Radical Enlightenment
By: Bruce E. Levine
4.14
Format: 270 pages, Paperback
There is today a crisis in psychiatry. Even the former director of the National Institute of Mental… read more
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- nonfiction
20. Means and Ends: The Revolutionary Practice of Anarchism in Europe and the United States
By: Zoe Baker
4.54
Format: 488 pages, Paperback
Means and Ends is a new overview of the revolutionary strategy of anarchism in Europe and the Unite… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
21. Can't Pay, Won't Pay: The Case for Economic Disobedience and Debt Abolition
By: Debt Collective
4.25
Format: None pages, ebook
With debt cancellation emerging as both a key area of debate in the Democratic primary and a cataly… read more
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- politics
- economics
- nonfiction
22. Street Rebellion: Resistance Beyond Violence and Nonviolence
By: Benjamin S. Case
4.68
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
The complex relationship between violence and nonviolence in social movements. We are living in … read more
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- nonfiction
23. A Participatory Economy
By: Robin Hahnel
3.82
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
As of June 2021, 54% of Gen Z adults view capitalism negatively and over 41% have a positive view o… read more
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- politics
- economics
- nonfiction
24. Environmentalism from Below: How Global People's Movements Are Leading the Fight for Our Planet
By: Ashley Dawson
4.40
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
A global account of the grassroots environmental movements on the frontlines of the climate crisis.… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
25. The Operating System: An Anarchist Theory of the Modern State
By: Eric Laursen
3.98
Format: 258 pages, Paperback
One of the most unique aspects of anarchism as a political philosophy is that it seeks to abolish t… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
26. Private Rites
By: Julia Armfield
3.92
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a speculative reimagining of King Lear, c… read more
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"To be misunderstood is one thing, but the curious hostility of a sibling's approach lies less in what they miss than in the strange backdated nature of the things they choose to know. A person can be…"-Julia Armfield, Private Rites
27. Gang Politics: Revolution, Repression, and Crime
By: Kristian Williams
4.32
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
In three taut essays, Kristian Williams examines our society’s understanding of social and politica… read more
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- nonfiction
28. Overcoming Capitalism: Strategy for the Working Class in the 21st Century
By: Tom Wetzel
3.55
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Overcoming Capitalism is a book about strategy, particularly how the powerless can get the upper ha… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- anarchism
- labor
- economics
29. Inversion (Black Dawn, 5)
By: Aric McBay
4.14
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
On a mysterious green planet regenerated by fire, vibrant communities live in harmony with both its… read more
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30. No Pasarán: Antifascist Dispatches from a World in Crisis
By: Shane Burley
4.03
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
A collection written by a who's who of antifascist researchers and theorists in the US, including T… read more
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- nonfiction
31. Defying Displacement: Urban Recomposition and Social War
By: Andrew Lee
4.27
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
A revolutionary new study of gentrification ... and how to stop it. Cities around the world are in… read more
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