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1. 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
2. Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
By: Michel-Rolph Trouillot
4.36
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Placing the West's failure to acknowledge the most successful slave revolt in history alongside den… read more
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"I find it hard to harness respect for those who genuinely believe that postmodernity, whatever it may be, allows us to claim no roots."-Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
"We are never as steeped in history as when we pretend not to be, but if we stop pretending we may gain in understanding what we lose in false innocence. Naiveté is often an excuse for those who exerc…"-Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
". . . But the past does not exist independently from the present. Indeed, the past is only past because there is a present, just as I can point to something over there only because I am here. But not…"-Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
3. The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
By: Karl Marx , Daniel de Leon , D.D.L.
3.67
Format: 230 pages, Paperback
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte" is one of Karl Marx' most profound and most brilliant m… read more
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- theory
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- nonfiction
- sociology
4. Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right
By: Karl Marx , Annette Jolin , Joseph O'Malley
3.84
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
(Studies in the History & Theory of Politics) This book is a complete translation of Marx's critica… read more
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5. The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media
By: Walter Benjamin , Rodney Livingstone , Michael W. Jennings , Brigid Doherty , None , Howard Eiland , Thomas Y. Levin
4.02
Format: 426 pages, Paperback
Benjamin's famous 'Work of Art' essay sets out his boldest thoughts--on media and on culture in gen… read more
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6. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
By: Michel Foucault , Alan Sheridan , None , None , None
3.35
Format: 520 pages, Paperback
Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . In this brilliant work, the mos… read more
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7. Bartleby the Scrivener
By: Herman Melville
3.93
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Academics hail it as the beginning of modernism, but to readers around the world—even those daunted… read more
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"I would prefer not to."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
"To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
"Bartleby in a singularly mild, firm voice, replied, “I would prefer not to."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
"At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable,' was his mildly cadaverous reply."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
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9. The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
By: Friedrich Engels , None
3.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
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10. The Return of Martin Guerre
By: Natalie Zemon Davis
4.11
Format: 500 pages, Paperback
The clever peasant Arnaud du Tilh had almost won his case, when a man with a wooden leg swaggered i… read more
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11. 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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- economics
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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
12. Empire
By: Michael Hardt , Antonio Negri
3.84
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
Imperialism as we knew it may be no more, but Empire is alive and well. It is, as Michael Hardtand … read more
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13. Your Money or Your Life: Economy and Religion in the Middle Ages
By: Jacques Le Goff , None
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this book one of the most esteemed contemporary historians of the Middle Ages presents a concise… read more
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14. Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud
By: Herbert Marcuse
3.78
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
In this classic work, Herbert Marcuse takes as his starting point Freud's statement that civilizati… read more
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15. The Poverty of Philosophy
By: Karl Marx
3.88
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
The Poverty of Philosophy criticizes the economic and philosophical arguments of Pierre-Joseph Prou… read more
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16. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
By: Benedict Anderson
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
What makes people love and die for nations, as well as hate and kill in their name? While many stud… read more
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17. The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View
By: Ellen Meiksins Wood
3.44
Format: 406 pages, Paperback
Capitalism is not a natural and inevitable consequence of human nature, nor is it simply an extensi… read more
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18. Learning to Labor
By: None
4.65
Format: None pages, Paperback
Hailed by the New Society as the best book on male working class youth, this classic work, first pu… read more
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19. Totem and Taboo
By: Sigmund Freud , James Strachey
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
Widely acknowledged to be one of Freud's greatest cultural works, when Totem and Taboowas first pub… read more
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20. The War of the Poor
By: Éric Vuillard
3.38
Format: 112 pages, Kindle Edition
From the award-winning author of The Order of the Day, a powerful account of the German Peasants’ W… read more
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"For man is poor. Irremediably. We *are* poverty, buffeted between desire and disgust."-Éric Vuillard, The War of the Poor
"El martirio es una trampa para los oprimidos, sólo es deseable la victoria. Yo la contaré."-Éric Vuillard, The War of the Poor
"And even if you don't give a shit whether or not the Chinese painter of rocks and birds had some mysterious kinship of the soul with the Landgrave of Hesse, fantasies are nonetheless one path to the …"-Éric Vuillard, The War of the Poor
"No me creo nada. En esas leyendas infames, la cerviz de los renegados sólo se doblega en el momento en que se les retira la palabra. Esas leyendas sólo pretenden que resuene en nosotros la voz que no…"-Éric Vuillard, The War of the Poor
21. Arguments Within English Marxism
By: Perry Anderson
4.08
Format: 226 pages, Paperback
The characteristic form taken by English Marxism since the war has been the study of history. No wr… read more
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