Class Struggle: A Political and Philosophical History
By: Domenico Losurdo
4.46
Format: 363 pages, Kindle Edition
Available for the first time in English, this book examines and reinterprets class struggle within …
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1. Inventing Reality: The Politics of News Media
By: Michael Parenti
4.53
Format: 274 pages, Paperback
Taking a critical perspective on the economics and politics of "presenting" the news, this topical … read more
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"Power is always more secure when cooptive, covert, and manipulative than when nakedly brutish. The support elicited through the control of minds is more durable than the support extracted at the poin…"-Michael Parenti, Inventing Reality: The Politics of News Media
"The basic distortions in the media are not innocent errors, for they are not random; rather they move in the same overall direction again and again, favoring management over labor, corporatism over a…"-Michael Parenti, Inventing Reality: The Politics of News Media
2. How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
By: Walter Rodney , Vincent Harding
4.42
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
The decisiveness of the short period of colonialism and its negative consequences for Africa spring… read more
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"It was economics that Europe should invest in Africa and control the continent's raw materials and labour. It was racism which confirmed the decision that form of control should be direct colonial ru…"-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
"On any basic figure of the Africans landed alive in the Americas, one would have to make several extensions- starting with a calculation to cover mortality in transshipment. The Atlantic crossing, or…"-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
"There was a period when the capitalist system increased the well-being of significant numbers of people as a by-product of seeking out profits for a few, but today the quests for profits comes into s…"-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
"Governor Cameroon of Tanganyika in the 1920s was known as a "progressive" governor. But when he was attacked for trying to preserve the African personality in the educational system, he denied the ch…"-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
3. Women, Race & Class
By: Angela Y. Davis
4.58
Format: 271 pages, Paperback
From one of our most important scholars and civil rights activist icon, a powerful study of the wom… read more
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"White women—feminists included—have revealed a historical reluctance to acknowledge the struggles of household workers. They have rarely been involved in the Sisyphean task of ameliorating the condit…"-Angela Y. Davis, Women, Race & Class
4. 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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5. 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
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6. What Is to Be Done?
By: Nikolai Chernyshevsky , Michael R. Katz
3.57
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
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7. The Last Samurai
By: Helen DeWitt
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
Helen DeWitt's extraordinary debut, The Last Samurai, centers on the relationship between Sibylla, … read more
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8. 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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9. 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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"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?
10. 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
11. Black Skin, White Masks
By: Frantz Fanon , None
2.56
Format: 201 pages, Paperback
A major influence on international civil rights, anticolonial, and black consciousness movement, Bl… read more
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12. 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
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"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
13. Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World
By: Malcolm Harris
3.90
Format: 720 pages, Hardcover
The first comprehensive, global history of Silicon Valley, from railroad capitalists to microchip a… read more
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14. The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century
By: Gerald Horne
4.18
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
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15. Anti-Dühring: Herr Eugen Dühring’s Revolution in Science
By: Friedrich Engels
4.29
Format: 365 pages, Paperback
Excerpt from the original book: "It was not my fault that I had to follow Herr Duhring into realms… read more
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"If Hegel had not died long ago, he would hang himself, with all his theologies he could not have thought up this value which has as many different values as it has prices. It requires once more someo…"-Friedrich Engels, Anti-Dühring: Herr Eugen Dühring’s Revolution in Science
"If the world had ever been in a state in which no change whatever was taking place, how could it pass from this state to one of change? The absolutely unchanging, especially when it has been in this …"-Friedrich Engels, Anti-Dühring: Herr Eugen Dühring’s Revolution in Science
"From the moment when the bourgeois demand for the abolition of class privileges was put forward, alongside it appeared the proletarian demand for the abolition of the classes themselves. [...] The pr…"-Friedrich Engels, Anti-Dühring: Herr Eugen Dühring’s Revolution in Science
"...in pure mathematics the mind deal only with its own creations and imaginations. The concepts of number and form have not been derived from any source other than the world of reality. The ten finge…"-Friedrich Engels, Anti-Dühring: Herr Eugen Dühring’s Revolution in Science
16. 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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17. The Russian Revolution: A View from the Third World
By: Walter Rodney
4.42
Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition
A never-before published history of the Russian Bolshevik Revolution and its post-colonial legacy, … read more
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18. The East is Still Red - Chinese Socialism in the 21st Century
By: Carlos Martínez
4.57
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
Professor Radhika Desai (University of Manitoba; Convenor, International Manifesto Group): In a wor… read more
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19. The Worldview and Philosophical Methodology of Marxism-Leninism: Curriculum of the Basic Principles of Marxism-Leninism Part 1
By: Luna Nguyen
4.61
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"In order to build socialism, first and foremost, we need to have socialist people who understand s… read more
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20. Class Struggle: A Political and Philosophical History
By: Domenico Losurdo
4.46
Format: 363 pages, Kindle Edition
Available for the first time in English, this book examines and reinterprets class struggle within … read more
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