Ten Days that Shook the World
By: John Reed
4.20
Format: 406 pages, Paperback
This first-person chronicle by John Reed, a legendary journalist who was present at the flash point…
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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 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
4. Red Star Over China: The Classic Account of the Birth of Chinese Communism
By: John King Fairbank , Edgar Snow , John K. Fairbank
4.07
Format: 544 pages, Paperback
The first Westerner to meet Mao Tse-tung and the Chinese Communist leaders in 1936, Edgar Snow came… read more
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5. Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880
By: W.E.B. Du Bois , David Levering Lewis
3.90
Format: 309 pages, Paperback
The pioneering work in the study of the role of Black Americans during Reconstruction by the most i… 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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- russia
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7. 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
8. Ten Days that Shook the World
By: John Reed
4.20
Format: 406 pages, Paperback
This first-person chronicle by John Reed, a legendary journalist who was present at the flash point… read more
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- russia
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- russian history
- journalism
9. Wage-Labour and Capital/Value, Price and Profit
By: Karl Marx
3.97
Format: None pages,
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10. The Revolution Betrayed
By: Leon Trotsky , Max Eastman
3.86
Format: 262 pages, Paperback
One of Marxism's most important texts, The Revolution Betrayedexplores the fate of the Russian Revo… read more
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11. The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
By: Friedrich Engels , None
3.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
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12. Capital, Vol 1: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production
By: Karl Marx , Ben Fowkes , Ernest Mandel
4.03
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Capital, one of Marx's major and most influential works, was the product of thirty years close stud… read more
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13. History of the Russian Revolution
By: Leon Trotsky , Max Eastman , Ahmed Shawki
3.99
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
"During the first two months of 1917 Russia was still a Romanov monarchy. Eight months later the Bo… read more
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15. What Is to Be Done?
By: Vladimir Lenin , Robert Service , Joe Fineberg , George H. Hanna
4.05
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
In What Is to Be Done?, Lenin in 1901 argues that the working class will not spontaneously become p… read more
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- history
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"Ancak kendine güveni olmayanlar, güvenilmez insanlarla bile olsa geçici ittifaklara girmekten korkar ve hiçbir politik parti bu tür ittifaklar olmadan var olamaz."-Vladimir Lenin, What Is to Be Done?
"Ya burjuva ideolojisi ya da sosyalist ideoloji. Bunun ortası yok (çünkü insanlık "üçüncü" bir ideoloji yaratmış değildir; ayrıca genel olarak sınıfsal çelişkilerle parçalanmış bir toplumda, hiçbir za…"-Vladimir Lenin, What Is to Be Done?
"We are marching in a compact group along a precipitous and difficult path, firmly holding each other by the hand. We are surrounded on all sides by enemies, and we have to advance almost constantly u…"-Vladimir Lenin, What Is to Be Done?
"Rusya'da, hem 1870'li, hem de 1860'lı yıllarda (hatta 19. yüzyılın ilk yarısında) da grevler oldu ve bunlar makinelerin vb. "kendiliğinden" tahrip edilmesi vb. eşliğinde yaşanan grevlerdi. Bu "isyanl…"-Vladimir Lenin, What Is to Be Done?
16. 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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- history
- classics
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- nonfiction
"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
17. 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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- politics
- classics
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- nonfiction
"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
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19. If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
By: Vincent Bevins
4.28
Format: 337 pages, Hardcover
The story of the recent uprisings that sought to change the world - and what comes next From 20… read more
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"In the history of revolutions, a couple of truisms had already emerged. One is that they are only successful when security forces defect or are defeated in violent conflict. Even if Moa Zedong was be…"-Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
20. Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung: Mao’s Little Red Book Original Version
By: Mao Zedong
3.45
Format: 26 pages, Paperback
Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung is a book of statements from speeches and writings by Mao Zed… read more
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"An army of the people is invincible!"-Mao Zedong, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung: Mao’s Little Red Book Original Version
"Todo o conhecimento genuíno tem origem na experiência direta."-Mao Zedong, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung: Mao’s Little Red Book Original Version
"A política é uma guerra sem derramamento de sangue, e a guerra uma política com derramamento de sangue."-Mao Zedong, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung: Mao’s Little Red Book Original Version
"A crítica deve fazer-se a tempo; não há que se deixar levar pelo mau costume de criticar só depois de consumados os fatos."-Mao Zedong, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung: Mao’s Little Red Book Original Version
21. Red Star Over the Third World
By: Vijay Prashad
4.23
Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition
‘Like the brilliant sun, the October Revolution shone over all five continents, awakening millions … read more
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