15 must-read nonfiction books like Monopoly Capital: An Essay on the American Economic and Social Order by Paul M. Sweezy, Paul A. Baran

Monopoly Capital: An Essay on the American Economic and Social Order

By: Paul M. Sweezy , Paul A. Baran

4.13

Format: None pages, Paperback

This landmark text by Paul Baran and Paul Sweezy is a classic of twentieth-century radical thought,…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Monopoly Capital: An Essay on the American Economic and Social Order by Paul M. Sweezy, Paul A. Baran , here is a list of 15 books like this:

Cover of World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction by Immanuel Wallerstein

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

Similar categories in Immanuel Wallerstein's World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction book and Paul M. Sweezy's Monopoly Capital: An Essay on the American Economic and Social Order

  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
"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

Cover of Reform or Revolution by Rosa Luxemburg, Κώστας Βρετός

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

Similar categories in Rosa Luxemburg's Reform or Revolution book and Paul M. Sweezy's Monopoly Capital: An Essay on the American Economic and Social Order

  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
"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

Cover of The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte by Karl Marx, Daniel de Leon, D.D.L.

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

Similar categories in Karl Marx's The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte book and Paul M. Sweezy's Monopoly Capital: An Essay on the American Economic and Social Order

  • philosophy
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol, Robert A. Maguire

4. Dead Souls

By: Nikolai Gogol , Robert A. Maguire

3.98

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in a provincial town and visits a succession of landowner… read more

Similar categories in Nikolai Gogol's Dead Souls book and Paul M. Sweezy's Monopoly Capital: An Essay on the American Economic and Social Order

"Keep not money, but keep good people's company."

-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

"Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young."

-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

"A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe."

-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

"A Russian peasant scratching the back of his head means many different things."

-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

Cover of The Theory of the Novel by György Lukács, Anna Bostock

5. The Theory of the Novel

By: György Lukács , Anna Bostock

3.23

Format: 403 pages, Paperback

Georg Lukacs wrote The Theory of the Novelin 1914-1915, a period that also saw the conception of Ro… read more

Similar categories in György Lukács's The Theory of the Novel book and Paul M. Sweezy's Monopoly Capital: An Essay on the American Economic and Social Order

  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
Cover of Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880 by W.E.B. Du Bois, David Levering Lewis

6. 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

Similar categories in W.E.B. Du Bois's Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880 book and Paul M. Sweezy's Monopoly Capital: An Essay on the American Economic and Social Order

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Modern World-System II: Mercantilism and the Consolidation of the European World-Economy, 1600-1750 by Immanuel Wallerstein

7. The Modern World-System II: Mercantilism and the Consolidation of the European World-Economy, 1600-1750

By: Immanuel Wallerstein

3.52

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Modern World-System II: The Mercantilism and the Consolidation of the European World-Economy, 1600-… read more

Similar categories in Immanuel Wallerstein's The Modern World-System II: Mercantilism and the Consolidation of the European World-Economy, 1600-1750 book and Paul M. Sweezy's Monopoly Capital: An Essay on the American Economic and Social Order

  • politics
  • economics
  • history
  • nonfiction

8. Monopoly Capital: An Essay on the American Economic and Social Order

By: Paul M. Sweezy , Paul A. Baran

4.13

Format: None pages, Paperback

This landmark text by Paul Baran and Paul Sweezy is a classic of twentieth-century radical thought,… read more

Similar categories in Paul M. Sweezy's Monopoly Capital: An Essay on the American Economic and Social Order book and Paul M. Sweezy's Monopoly Capital: An Essay on the American Economic and Social Order

  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • economics
  • business
Cover of The German Ideology by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels

9. The German Ideology

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels

3.50

Format: 270 pages, Paperback

Nearly two years before his powerful Communist Manifesto, Marx (1818-1883) co-wrote The German Ideo… read more

Similar categories in Karl Marx's The German Ideology book and Paul M. Sweezy's Monopoly Capital: An Essay on the American Economic and Social Order

  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics

10. Wage-Labour and Capital/Value, Price and Profit

By: Karl Marx

3.97

Format: None pages,

read more

Similar categories in Karl Marx's Wage-Labour and Capital/Value, Price and Profit book and Paul M. Sweezy's Monopoly Capital: An Essay on the American Economic and Social Order

11. Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century

By: Paul M. Sweezy , John Bellamy Foster , None

2.00

Format: None pages,

read more

Similar categories in Paul M. Sweezy's Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century book and Paul M. Sweezy's Monopoly Capital: An Essay on the American Economic and Social Order

12. One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

By: Herbert Marcuse

4.70

Format: 84 pages, Paperback

Originally published in 1964, One-Dimensional Man quickly became one of the most important texts in… read more

Similar categories in Herbert Marcuse's One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society book and Paul M. Sweezy's Monopoly Capital: An Essay on the American Economic and Social Order

Cover of The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector, None

13. The Passion According to G.H.

By: Clarice Lispector , None

4.13

Format: 173 pages, Paperback

G.H., a well-to-do Rio sculptress, enters the room of her maid, which is as clear and white 'as in … read more

Similar categories in Clarice Lispector's The Passion According to G.H. book and Paul M. Sweezy's Monopoly Capital: An Essay on the American Economic and Social Order

  • philosophy
"I don't want beauty, I want identity."

-Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.

"I' is merely one of the world's instantaneous spasms."

-Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.

"The world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence."

-Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.

"In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness."

-Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.

Cover of Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism by Vladimir Lenin

14. 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

Similar categories in Vladimir Lenin's Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism book and Paul M. Sweezy's Monopoly Capital: An Essay on the American Economic and Social Order

  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
"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

15. 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

Similar categories in Sigmund Freud's Totem and Taboo book and Paul M. Sweezy's Monopoly Capital: An Essay on the American Economic and Social Order

Cover of The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World by Vincent Bevins

16. The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World

By: Vincent Bevins

4.61

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The hidden story of the wanton slaughter -- in Indonesia, Latin America, and around the world -- ba… read more

Similar categories in Vincent Bevins's The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World book and Paul M. Sweezy's Monopoly Capital: An Essay on the American Economic and Social Order

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"locals came to him, time and time again, and asked, with genuine mystification: 'We just don't understand America. You were once a colony. You know what colonialism is. You fought and bled and died f…"

-Vincent Bevins, The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World

Cover of The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy by Stephanie Kelton

17. The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy

By: Stephanie Kelton

4.04

Format: 327 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times Bestseller The leading thinker and most visible public advocate of modern monetary… read more

Similar categories in Stephanie Kelton's The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy book and Paul M. Sweezy's Monopoly Capital: An Essay on the American Economic and Social Order

  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
Cover of The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe by Matthew Gabriele

18. The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe

By: Matthew Gabriele

3.65

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

A lively and magisterial popular history that refutes common misperceptions of the European Middle … read more

Similar categories in Matthew Gabriele's The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe book and Paul M. Sweezy's Monopoly Capital: An Essay on the American Economic and Social Order

  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power by Byung-Chul Han

19. Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power

By: Byung-Chul Han

4.09

Format: 96 pages, Kindle Edition

Exploring how neoliberalism has discovered the productive force of the psycheByung-Chul Han, a star… read more

Similar categories in Byung-Chul Han's Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power book and Paul M. Sweezy's Monopoly Capital: An Essay on the American Economic and Social Order

  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • economics
"İkinci Aydınlanma salt verilerle işleyen bilginin devrimidir."

-Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power

"Geleceğimiz, üretimin ötesinde, 'kullanılmazı kullanmayı' becerebilecek durumda olup olmamamıza bağlıdır."

-Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power

"People who fail in the neoliberal archievement-society see themselves as responsible for their lot and feel shame instead of questioning society or the system."

-Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power

"Günümüzün üretim tarzını niteleyen birilikte çalışan 'çokluk' (Multitude) değil, yalıtılmış, kendiyle kavga eden, kendini gönüllü olarak sömüren girişimcinin yalnızlığıdır (Solitude)."

-Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power

Cover of Mute Compulsion. A Theory of the Economic Power of Capital by Søren Mau

20. 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

Similar categories in Søren Mau's Mute Compulsion. A Theory of the Economic Power of Capital book and Paul M. Sweezy's Monopoly Capital: An Essay on the American Economic and Social Order

  • philosophy
  • politics
  • economics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Marxism and Philosophy by Karl Korsch

21. Marxism and Philosophy

By: Karl Korsch

3.78

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

English, German (translation) read more

Similar categories in Karl Korsch's Marxism and Philosophy book and Paul M. Sweezy's Monopoly Capital: An Essay on the American Economic and Social Order

  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • essays
"Isto [violenta contradição ideológica com o marxismo] já valia para a primeira fase histórica em que, segundo a pertinente análise feita por trotski em 1908, a doutrina marxista serviu - precisamente…"

-Karl Korsch, Marxism and Philosophy

11 Top history books like Monopoly Capital: An Essay on the American Economic and Social Order by Paul M. Sweezy, Paul A. Baran

Transform Your Habits

World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction

Immanuel Wallerstein

3.91

Transform Your Habits

Reform or Revolution

Rosa Luxemburg , Κώστας Βρετός

4.20

Transform Your Habits

The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

Karl Marx , Daniel de Leon , D.D.L.

3.67

Transform Your Habits

Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880

W.E.B. Du Bois , David Levering Lewis

3.90

View all the books

14 must-read audiobook books like The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe by Matthew Gabriele

Transform Your Habits

Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages

Dan Jones

4.41

Transform Your Habits

Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings

Neil Price

4.18

Transform Your Habits

River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Road

Cat Jarman

4.06

Transform Your Habits

The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry That Forged the Medieval World

Shelley Puhak

4.09

View all the books

Never miss a story from us, get weekly updates in your inbox.