11 must-read politics books like Capital: The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Ernest Mandel, David Fernbach

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Capital: The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Ernest Mandel , David Fernbach

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

Capital, Vol 3, subtitled The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole, was prepared by Friedric…

If you liked the politics plot in Capital: The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Ernest Mandel, David Fernbach , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. 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

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2. 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

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3. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

By: Adam Smith

3.88

Format: 1076 pages, Paperback

Adam Smith's masterpiece, first published in 1776, is the foundation of modern economic thought and… read more

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"Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production"

-Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

"of their passions in the same object at that particular time."

-Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

"Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition."

-Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

"There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people."

-Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

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4. The Sublime Object of Ideology

By: Slavoj Žižek , Ernesto Laclau

3.50

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

In this provocative and original work, Slavoj Zizek takes a look at the question of human agency in… read more

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  • theory
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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
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5. 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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  • sociology
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6. Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

By: Michael Parenti

4.41

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

Blackshirts & Reds explores some of the big issues of our time: fascism, capitalism, communism, rev… read more

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"Ecology's implications for capitalism are too horrendous for the capitalist to contemplate."

-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

"Decentralized parochial autonomy is the graveyard of insurgency-which may be one reason why there has never been a successful anarcho-syndicalist revolution."

-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

"A joke circulating in Russia in 1992 went like this: Q. What did capitalism accomplish in one year that communism could not do in seventy years? A. Make communism look good."

-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

"...the [pure socialist] critics [of communist countries] seem unable to apply their own leadership genius to producing a successful revolutionary movement in their own country."

-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

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7. Capital: The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Ernest Mandel , David Fernbach

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

Capital, Vol 3, subtitled The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole, was prepared by Friedric… read more

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8. As serious as your life: John Coltrane and beyond

By: None , Val Wilmer

3.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

Reissue of a jazz classic with photos by the author who is a well known photographer. read more

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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. Metaphysics

By: Aristotle , Joe Sachs

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Metaphysics (Greek: ta meta ta phusika) is one of the principal works of Aristotle & the first majo… read more

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11. Critique of Pure Reason

By: Immanuel Kant , Allen W. Wood , Paul Guyer

3.96

Format: 785 pages, Paperback

'The purpose of this critique of pure speculative reason consists in the attempt to change the old … read more

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"The great mass of people are worthy of our respect."

-Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

"I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith."

-Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

"Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.."

-Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

"Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind."

-Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

12. 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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13. Paradiso (The Divine Comedy, #3)

By: Dante Alighieri , Dorothy L. Sayers , Barbara Reynolds

3.66

Format: None pages, Paperback

Dorothy L. Sayers's landmark translation follows Dante's terza rimastanza's and brings his poetry v… read more

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14. The Politics of Friendship

By: Jacques Derrida , None

4.32

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Until relatively recently, Derrida was seen by many as nothing more than the high priest of Deconst… read more

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15. Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

By: Vladimir Lenin

4.23

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

'Globalisation' is the buzzword of the 1990s. VI Lenin's Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitali… read more

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"Crises of every kind — economic crises more frequently, but not only these — in their turn increase very considerably the tendency towards concentration and monopoly."

-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

"At the basis of these swindles and manipulations lies socialised production; but the immense progress of humanity, which achieved this socialisation, goes to benefit the speculators."

-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

"But suppose, for the sake of argument, free competition, without any sort of monopoly, would develop capitalism trade more rapidly. Is it not a fact that the more rapidly trade and capitalism develop…"

-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

"As long as capitalism remains what it is, surplus capital will never be utilised for the purpose of raising the standard of living of the masses in a given country, for this would mean a decline in p…"

-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

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16. Socialism: Utopian and Scientific

By: Friedrich Engels

4.24

Format: 86 pages, Paperback

Modern socialism is not a doctrine, Engels explains, but a working-class movement growing out of th… read more

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"State interference in social relations becomes, in one domain after another, superfluous, and then dies out of itself; the government of persons is replaced by the administration of things, and by th…"

-Friedrich Engels, Socialism: Utopian and Scientific

"Las fuerzas activas de la sociedad obran, mientras no las conocemos y contamos con ellas, exactamente lo mismo que las fuerzas de la naturaleza: de un modo ciego, violento, destructor. Pero, una vez …"

-Friedrich Engels, Socialism: Utopian and Scientific

17. A Harlot High and Low

By: Honoré de Balzac , Rayner Heppenstall

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Finance, fashionable society, and the intrigues of the underworld and the police system form the he… read more

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18. The Foundations of Leninism

By: Joseph Stalin

4.65

Format: None pages, Paperback

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19. Relativity: The Special and the General Theory

By: Albert Einstein , Robert W. Lawson , Nigel Calder

4.08

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

An accesible version of Einstein's masterpiece of theory, written by the genius himself According t… read more

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20. On Practice

By: Mao Zedong

4.42

Format: 18 pages, Hardcover

Mao's classic 1937 essay on philosophy. read more

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21. Mute Compulsion. A Theory of the Economic Power of Capital

By: Søren Mau

4.40

Format: None pages, ebook

[From Author's Summary] Despite a decade of crisis and social unrest, capitalism is in many ways … read more

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9 best-selling history books like Capital: The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Ernest Mandel, David Fernbach

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4.20

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Vladimir Lenin

4.24

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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

Adam Smith

3.88

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4.24

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