Bolsheviks And Workers Control
By: Maurice Brinton
4.18
Format: 86 pages, Paperback
Brinton undertakes an innovative analysis of the Russian revolution and its implications for worker…
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1. World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction
By: Immanuel Wallerstein
3.91
Format: 110 pages, Paperback
In World-Systems Analysis , Immanuel Wallerstein provides a concise and accessible introduction to … read more
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"The capitalist world-economy needs the states, needs the interstate system, and needs the periodic appearance of hegemonic powers. But the priority of capitalists is never the maintenance, much less …"-Immanuel Wallerstein, World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction
2. 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
3. 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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4. 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
5. The Spanish Civil War: A Very Short Introduction
By: Helen Graham
3.87
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Amid the many catastrophes of the twentieth century, the Spanish Civil War continues to exert a par… read more
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"The Spanish Civil War began with a military coup."-Helen Graham, The Spanish Civil War: A Very Short Introduction
"The Spanish Civil War was the first fought in Europe in which civilians became targets en masse, through bombing raids on big cities."-Helen Graham, The Spanish Civil War: A Very Short Introduction
"Notwithstanding the currency of ideas about ‘two Spains’ ready to confront each other on 18 July 1936, ‘us’ and ‘them’ were categories actively made by the violent experience of the war and did not f…"-Helen Graham, The Spanish Civil War: A Very Short Introduction
"The absence of a functioning police force or judiciary in Republican territory in the first weeks after the coup, plus the de facto amnesties that saw gaols empty, made it possible for all manner of …"-Helen Graham, The Spanish Civil War: A Very Short Introduction
6. God and the State
By: Paul Avrich , Mikhail Bakunin
4.23
Format: None pages, Paperback
Among the 19th-century founders of modern philosophical anarchism, none is more important than Mich… read more
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- politics
- russia
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7. Progress and Poverty
By: Henry George
3.66
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
This classic work is an enquiry into the cause of industrial depressions and the persistence of pov… read more
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9. 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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10. The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848
By: Eric J. Hobsbawm
3.77
Format: 67 pages, Paperback
This magisterial volume follows the death of ancient traditions, the triumph of new classes, and th… read more
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11. The Consolation of Philosophy
By: Boethius , None
4.27
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
Boethius was an eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, and an exceptional Greek … read more
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- history
12. The Age of Capital: 1848-1875
By: Eric J. Hobsbawm
4.53
Format: 194 pages, Paperback
In the wake of the French Revolution & the Industrial Revolution, Europe underwent another revoluti… read more
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13. Confessions
By: Augustine of Hippo , Henry Chadwick , Albert Cook Outler
3.41
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Augustine's Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literatur… read more
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14. Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice
By: Noam Chomsky , Mike Davis , Rudolf Rocker , Nicolas Walter
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
In 1937, at the behest of Emma Goldman, Rocker penned this political and philosophical masterpiece … read more
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15. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
By: Ilan Pappé
3.98
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
Since the Holocaust, it has been almost impossible to hide large-scale crimes against humanity. In … read more
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16. The Nicomachean Ethics
By: Aristotle , Jonathan Barnes , None , Hugh Tredennick
3.99
Format: 329 pages, Paperback
‘One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brie… read more
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"Philosophy can make people sick."-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
"A man without regrets cannot be cured."-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
"Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules."-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
"The beginning seems to be more than half of the whole."-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
17. Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844/The Communist Manifesto
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , None
3.71
Format: 76 pages, Paperback
(Great Books in Philosophy) Communism as a political movement attained global importance after the … read more
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19. History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics
By: György Lukács , Rodney Livingstone
5.00
Format: 172 pages, Paperback
This is the first time one of the most important of Lukacs' early theoretical writings, published i… read more
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21. Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union
By: Vladislav M. Zubok
4.26
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
A major study of the collapse of the Soviet Union—showing how Gorbachev’s misguided reforms led to … read more
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22. The Shortest History of the Soviet Union
By: Sheila Fitzpatrick
3.85
Format: None pages, ebook
In 1917, Bolshevik revolutionaries came to power in the war-torn Russian Empire in a way that defie… read more
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"Huge amounts of blood were shed to make and maintain the Soviet Union. Some of it was the blood of idealists, some of thugs and careerists, but most of it was the blood of ordinary people whose main …"-Sheila Fitzpatrick, The Shortest History of the Soviet Union
"The Marxist prediction that capitalism would ultimately collapse and be replaced by socialism (Khrushchev’s tactless ‘We will bury you!’) had been a comfort to Soviet Communists as they struggled aga…"-Sheila Fitzpatrick, The Shortest History of the Soviet Union
23. Anarchism or Socialism?
By: Joseph Stalin
3.72
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
This is the first English language edition of one of Stalin's earliest theoretical writings, first … read more
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"As you see, the point is not which class today constitutes the majority, or which class is poorer, but which class is gaining strength and which is decaying."-Joseph Stalin, Anarchism or Socialism?
"History teaches us that the class or social group which plays the principal role in social production and performs the main functions in production must, in the course of time, inevitably take contro…"-Joseph Stalin, Anarchism or Socialism?
"Socialist society presupposes an adequate development of productive forces and socialist consciousness among men, their socialist enlightenment. At the present time the development of the productive …"-Joseph Stalin, Anarchism or Socialism?
"Strikes, boycott, parliamentarism, meetings and demonstrations are all good forms of struggle as means for preparing and organising the proletariat. But not one of these means is capable of abolishin…"-Joseph Stalin, Anarchism or Socialism?
24. The Russian Revolution: A View from the Third World
By: Walter Rodney
4.42
Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition
A never-before published history of the Russian Bolshevik Revolution and its post-colonial legacy, … read more
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25. Karl Kautsky on Democracy and Republicanism
By: Karl Kautsky
4.21
Format: 368 pages, ebook
Karl Kautsky on Democracy and Republicanism contains the first English-language translations of imp… read more
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26. Lenin as Philosopher
By: Anton Pannekoek
3.93
Format: 177 pages, Paperback
First published in 1938 by a leader of the Council Communism movement, Anton Pannekoek's Lenin as P… read more
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27. Errico Malatesta: His Life and Ideas
By: Errico Malatesta
4.14
Format: 325 pages, Mass Market Paperback
This collection gathers quotes from Malatesta's periodical writings over a lifetime of revolutionar… read more
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"We do not carry on our struggle in order to put ourselves in the place of the exploiters and oppressors of today, nor do we even struggle for the triumph of an empty abstraction."-Errico Malatesta, Errico Malatesta: His Life and Ideas
"But communism must be voluntary, freely desired, and accepted; for were it instead to be imposed, it would produce the most monstrous tyranny which would result in a return to bourgeois individualism."-Errico Malatesta, Errico Malatesta: His Life and Ideas
"Anarchists are justifiably opposed to authoritarian communism, which presupposes a government wanting to direct every aspect of social life, and placing the organization of production and the distrib…"-Errico Malatesta, Errico Malatesta: His Life and Ideas
"I only believe those things which can be proved; but I know full well that proofs are relative and can, and are in fact, continually superseded and cancelled out by other proved facts; and therefore …"-Errico Malatesta, Errico Malatesta: His Life and Ideas
28. Anti-bolshevik communism
By: Paul Mattick
4.09
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
This title was first published in 1978: Communism aims at putting working people in charge of thei… read more
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29. Bolsheviks And Workers Control
By: Maurice Brinton
4.18
Format: 86 pages, Paperback
Brinton undertakes an innovative analysis of the Russian revolution and its implications for worker… read more
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30. State Capitalism and World Revolution (Revolutionary Classics)
By: C.L.R. James
3.78
Format: 135 pages, Paperback
Written in collaboration with Raya Dunayevskaya & Grace Lee, this is another pioneering critique of… read more
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