A Failure of Vision: Michael Harrington and the Limits of Democratic Socialism
By: Doug Greene
4.26
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
Doug Greene takes an in-depth and critical look at the life and ideas of Michael Harrington, one of…
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1. My Life: A Spoken Autobiography
By: Ignacio Ramonet , Fidel Castro
4.20
Format: 724 pages, Hardcover
Based on over 100 hours of interviews with Fidel Castro conducted over three years, Fidel Castro: M… read more
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"The historical lesson is that a revolutionary party can carry out tactical movements, but it mustn't commit strategic errors."-Ignacio Ramonet, My Life: A Spoken Autobiography
"...quality of life lies in knowledge, in culture. Values are what constitute true quality of life, the supreme quality of life, even above food, shelter and clothing."-Ignacio Ramonet, My Life: A Spoken Autobiography
"Ignorance is the root of many ills. Knowledge must be the fundamental ally of nations that aspire, despite all their tragedies and problems, to become truly emancipated, to build a better world."-Ignacio Ramonet, My Life: A Spoken Autobiography
2. Reform or Revolution
By: Rosa Luxemburg , Κώστας Βρετός
4.20
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Why capitalism cannot overcome its internal contradictions and the working class cannot "reform" aw… read more
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"If the proletariat came to power, it could draw from Bernstein's theory the following 'practical' conclusion: to go to sleep."-Rosa Luxemburg, Reform or Revolution
"What distinguishes bourgeoisie society from other class societies…? Precisely the fact that class domination does not rest on “acquired rights"-Rosa Luxemburg, Reform or Revolution
"Fourier's scheme of changing, by means of phalansteries, the water of all the seas into tasty lemonade was surely a phantastic idea. But Bernstein, proposing to change the sea of capitalist bitternes…"-Rosa Luxemburg, Reform or Revolution
"Social Democracy, does not, however, expect to attain its aim either as a result of the victorious violence of a minority or through the numerical superiority of a majority. It sees socialism come as…"-Rosa Luxemburg, Reform or Revolution
3. 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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4. Mating
By: Norman Rush
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
The narrator of this splendidly expansive novel of high intellect and grand passion is an American … read more
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5. 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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6. Left-Wing Communism, an Infantile Disorder: A Popular Essay in Marxian Strategy and Tactics
By: Vladimir Lenin
3.26
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
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7. On Ideology
By: Louis Althusser
3.79
Format: None pages, Paperback
The classic analysis of how particular political and cultural ideas come to dominate society. The p… read more
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8. The Autobiography of Malcolm X
By: Alex Haley , Malcolm X
4.36
Format: 466 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Alternate cover for ISBN 9780345350688 Through a life of passion and struggle, Malcolm X became … read more
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"We all like chicken"-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
"كانت حياتي سلسة من التحولات"-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
"لا يدرك الناس أن كتابا واحدا قد يغير حياة انسان"-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
"I Used the Word 'Negro' and I was Firmly Corrected"-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
9. Time Out of Joint
By: Philip K. Dick
2.00
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
Time Out of Jointis Philip K. Dick's classic depiction of the disorienting disparity between the wo… read more
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10. The Power and the Glory
By: John Updike , Graham Greene
3.13
Format: 192 pages,
How does goodspoil, and how can badbe redeemed? In his penetrating novel The Power and the Glory, G… read more
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11. The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic
By: Peter Linebaugh , Marcus Rediker
3.75
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Using a decade of original research into the 17th and 18th century, this text unearths ideas and st… read more
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12. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
By: Mark Fisher
4.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
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13. Skid Road
By: Murray Morgan
3.50
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
Informal and picturesque, Skid Roadis the story of Seattle during its first hundred years, seen thr… read more
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14. Children of Time
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
3.82
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A race for survival among the stars... Humanity's last survivors escaped earth's ruins to find a ne… read more
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15. Two Tactics of Social-Democracy in the Democratic Revolution
By: Vladimir Lenin , None , None
3.57
Format: 307 pages,
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16. October: The Story of the Russian Revolution
By: China Miéville
3.82
Format: 736 pages, Hardcover
In February 1917, in the midst of bloody war, Russia was still an autocratic monarchy: nine months … read more
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17. Capitalism and the Jews
By: Jerry Z. Muller
4.34
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The unique historical relationship between capitalism and the Jews is crucial to understanding mode… read more
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18. The Encyclopaedia Logic: The Encyclopaedia of Philosophical Sciences 1 with the Zusatze
By: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , H.S. Harris , None , None
4.46
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
A translation of Hegel's German text. It includes a bilingual annotated glossary, bibliographic and… read more
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19. 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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"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
20. A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto
By: China Miéville
3.95
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
China Miéville's riveting engagement with the Communist Manifesto offers a lyrical introduction and… read more
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"Like the authors of the Manifesto, I don’t believe that the generalised mass misery of the world, all the unbearable checklists of deprivation and depravity, is irrelevant, nor unrelated to the econo…"-China Miéville, A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto
21. A Billion Years: My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology
By: Mike Rinder
4.31
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
One of the highest-ranking defectors from Scientology exposes the secret inner workings of the powe… read more
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"The fear of psychiatry is one of the hardest ideas to shake when you escape from the mind-prison."-Mike Rinder, A Billion Years: My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology
22. 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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"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
23. In the Tracks of Historical Materialism
By: Perry Anderson
3.78
Format: 116 pages, Paperback
How Marxist thought evolved in the seventies and early eighties. What have been the major change… read more
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24. Lenin's Last Struggle (Ann Arbor Paperbacks For The Study Of Russian And Soviet History And Politics)
By: Moshe Lewin
4.07
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
One of the great political strategists of his era, V. I. Lenin continues to attract historical inte… read more
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25. The Paris Commune: A Brief History (Reinventions of the Paris Commune)
By: Carolyn J. Eichner
4.19
Format: 156 pages, Paperback
At dawn on March 18, 1871, Parisian women stepped between cannons and French soldiers, using their … read more
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26. A Failure of Vision: Michael Harrington and the Limits of Democratic Socialism
By: Doug Greene
4.26
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
Doug Greene takes an in-depth and critical look at the life and ideas of Michael Harrington, one of… read more
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27. Stalinism and the Dialectics of Saturn: Anticommunism, Marxism, and the Fate of the Soviet Union
By: Douglas Greene
4.50
Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition
This study examines the complicated legacy of Stalinism in the twentieth century. The descent of th… read more
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28. Anticolonial Eruptions: Racial Hubris and the Cunning of Resistance (Volume 15) (American Studies Now: Critical Histories of the Present)
By: Geo Maher
4.46
Format: 156 pages, Hardcover
This incisive study reveals the fundamental, paradoxical weakness of colonialism and the enduring p… read more
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29. Communist Insurgent: Blanqui's Politics of Revolution
By: Doug Enaa Greene
4.31
Format: 238 pages, Kindle Edition
In the revolutionary tradition, the name of Louis Blanqui is either remembered with derision or as … read more
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30. The New Reformism and the Revival of Karl Kautsky (Marx and Marxisms)
By: Douglas Greene
4.33
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
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