10 best-selling theory books like On Anarchism by Noam Chomsky

On Anarchism

By: Noam Chomsky

3.86

Format: 302 pages,

We all know what Noam Chomsky is against. His scathing analysis of everything that's wrong with our…

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Cover of Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology (Paradigm) by David Graeber

1. Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology (Paradigm)

By: David Graeber

4.21

Format: 102 pages, Paperback

Everywhere anarchism is on the upswing as a political philosophy—everywhere, that is, except the ac… read more

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  • theory
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"...státní aparát [...] skupina lidí, kteří si jako jediní osobují právo - alespoň tehdy, když jsou ve své oficiální roli - používat násilí."

-David Graeber, Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology (Paradigm)

"The theory of exodus proposes that the most effective way of opposing capitalism and the liberal state is not through direct confrontation but by means of what Paolo Virno has called “engaged withdra…"

-David Graeber, Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology (Paradigm)

"A revolution on a world scale will take a very long time. But it is also possible to recognize that it is already starting to happen. The easiest way to get our minds around it is to stop thinking ab…"

-David Graeber, Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology (Paradigm)

"... most Amazonians don't want to give others the power to threaten them with physical injury if they don't do as they are told. Maybe we should better be asking what it says about ourselves that we …"

-David Graeber, Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology (Paradigm)

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2. 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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  • history
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3. 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

Cover of God and the State by Paul Avrich, Mikhail Bakunin

4. 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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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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Cover of Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber

6. Debt: The First 5,000 Years

By: David Graeber

3.61

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Before there was money, there was debt Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was inve… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Existentialism Is a Humanism by Jean-Paul Sartre, Arlette Elkaïm-Sartre, Annie Cohen-Solal, None

7. Existentialism Is a Humanism

By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Arlette Elkaïm-Sartre , Annie Cohen-Solal , None

4.25

Format: 159 pages, Paperback

It was to correct common misconceptions about his thought that Sartre accepted an invitation to spe… read more

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Cover of Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice by Noam Chomsky, Mike  Davis, Rudolf Rocker, Nicolas Walter

8. 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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9. On Anarchism

By: Noam Chomsky , Barry Pateman

4.42

Format: 718 pages, Paperback

We all know what Noam Chomsky is against. His scathing analysis of everything that's wrong with our… read more

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10. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media

By: Noam Chomsky , Edward S. Herman

4.42

Format: 718 pages, Paperback

Librarian's note: There are Alternate Cover Editions for this edition of this book . In this pathb… read more

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11. Anarchism and Other Essays

By: Emma Goldman

4.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

In the eighteen-nineties and for years thereafter, America reverberated with the name of the "notor… 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. 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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14. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

By: Naomi Klein

4.52

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In this groundbreaking alternative history of the most dominant ideology of our time, Milton Friedm… read more

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15. 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

16. Two Cheers for Anarchism: Six Easy Pieces on Autonomy, Dignity and Meaningful Work and Play

By: James C. Scott

3.56

Format: 259 pages, Hardcover

James Scott taught us what's wrong with seeing like a state. Now, in his most accessible and person… read more

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17. The Conquest of Bread

By: Pyotr Kropotkin

4.67

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

The fourth in AK Press' Working Classics series, The Conquest of Breadis Peter Kropotkin's most ext… read more

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18. Homage to Catalonia

By: George Orwell , Lionel Trilling

4.00

Format: 592 pages, Paperback

In 1936 Orwell went to Spain to report on the Civil War and instead joined the fight against the Fa… read more

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19. The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt

By: Albert Camus

4.01

Format: 0 pages, Paperback

By one of the most profoundly influential thinkers of our century, The Rebel is a classic essay on … read more

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20. The Good Die Young: The Verdict on Henry Kissinger

By: Bhaskar Sunkara

4.02

Format: 177 pages, Kindle Edition

"The collection strikes a blackly comic but erudite tone."–Sophia Nguyen, The Washington PostKissin… read more

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21. Understanding Marxism

By: Richard D. Wolff

4.14

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Why should we pay attention to the great social critics like Marx? American, especially now, confro… read more

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"To achieve a society that exhibits liberty, equality, fraternity and democracy, the object to change first and foremost is production."

-Richard D. Wolff, Understanding Marxism

"Greed is not the cause of capitalists' behavior; it is a quality they acquire in accommodating to and internalizing the requirements of competitive survival within the capitalist system."

-Richard D. Wolff, Understanding Marxism

"Any individual exhibiting a personal instability comparable to the economic and social instability of capitalism would long ago have been required to seek professional help and to make basic changes."

-Richard D. Wolff, Understanding Marxism

"The system is a contradiction: the very logic imposed on the capitalist enterprise undermines the overall success of the capitalist. For Marxists, no law, rule, regulation, or behavior pattern provid…"

-Richard D. Wolff, Understanding Marxism

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4.21

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4.06

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Vladimir Lenin

4.24

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4.23

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3.91

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