9 must-read classics books like On Practice by Mao Zedong

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On Practice

By: Mao Zedong

4.42

Format: 18 pages, Hardcover

Mao's classic 1937 essay on philosophy.

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Cover of Reform or Revolution by Rosa Luxemburg, Κώστας Βρετός

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 Principles of Communism

By: Friedrich Engels

4.06

Format: 25 pages, ebook

In 1847 Engels wrote two draft programmes for the Communist League in the form of a catechism, one … read more

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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

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4. Dialectical and Historical Materialism

By: Joseph Stalin

3.91

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

A succinct presentation of the philosophical foundations of Marxism. read more

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"If there are no isolated phenomena in the world, if all phenomena are interconnected and interdependent, then it is clear that every social system and every social movement in history must be evaluat…"

-Joseph Stalin, Dialectical and Historical Materialism

"But having developed productive forces to a tremendous extent, capitalism has become enmeshed in contradictions which it is unable to solve. By producing larger and larger quantities of commodities, …"

-Joseph Stalin, Dialectical and Historical Materialism

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5. Critique of the Gotha Program

By: Karl Marx

4.36

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

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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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7. Why Socialism?

By: Albert Einstein

4.09

Format: 12 pages, None

“Is it advisable for one who is not an expert on economic and social issues to express views on the… read more

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"Production is carried on for profit, not for use. There is no provision that all those able and willing to work will always be in a position to find employment; an “army of unemployed"

-Albert Einstein, Why Socialism?

"I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward socia…"

-Albert Einstein, Why Socialism?

"This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is …"

-Albert Einstein, Why Socialism?

"The owner of the means of production is in a position to purchase the labor power of the worker. By using the means of production, the worker produces new goods which become the property of the capit…"

-Albert Einstein, Why Socialism?

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8. 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

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

By: Karl Marx

3.97

Format: None pages,

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10. The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State

By: Friedrich Engels , None

3.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

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11. Wages, Price and Profit

By: Karl Marx

3.27

Format: 64 pages,

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12. 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?

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13. 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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14. 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

15. The Foundations of Leninism

By: Joseph Stalin

4.65

Format: None pages, Paperback

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16. Wage Labour and Capital

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels

4.06

Format: None pages,

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17. On Authority

By: Friedrich Engels

3.85

Format: 4 pages, article

Este eBook foi convertido ao formato digital por uma comunidade de voluntários. Você pode encontra-… read more

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18. On Practice

By: Mao Zedong

4.42

Format: 18 pages, Hardcover

Mao's classic 1937 essay on philosophy. read more

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19. The three sources and three component parts of Marxism. Karl Marx. Frederick Engels

By: Vladimir Lenin

4.17

Format: 84 pages, Paperback

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections… read more

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"Capitalism has triumphed all over the world, but this triumph is only the prelude to the triumph of labour over capital."

-Vladimir Lenin, The three sources and three component parts of Marxism. Karl Marx. Frederick Engels

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20. Anarchism or Socialism?

By: Joseph Stalin

3.72

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

This is the first English language edition of one of Stalin's earliest theoretical writings, first … read more

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"As you see, the point is not which class today constitutes the majority, or which class is poorer, but which class is gaining strength and which is decaying."

-Joseph Stalin, Anarchism or Socialism?

"History teaches us that the class or social group which plays the principal role in social production and performs the main functions in production must, in the course of time, inevitably take contro…"

-Joseph Stalin, Anarchism or Socialism?

"Socialist society presupposes an adequate development of productive forces and socialist consciousness among men, their socialist enlightenment. At the present time the development of the productive …"

-Joseph Stalin, Anarchism or Socialism?

"Strikes, boycott, parliamentarism, meetings and demonstrations are all good forms of struggle as means for preparing and organising the proletariat. But not one of these means is capable of abolishin…"

-Joseph Stalin, Anarchism or Socialism?

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21. Eleven Theses on Feuerbach

By: Karl Marx

4.05

Format: 2 pages, Audiobook

The Eleven Theses on Feuerbach are brief metaphysical summaries penned by Karl Marx as a principal … read more

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"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it"

-Karl Marx, Eleven Theses on Feuerbach

"Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it"

-Karl Marx, Eleven Theses on Feuerbach

"Philosophers have hitherto interpreted the world in various way; the point, however, is to change it"

-Karl Marx, Eleven Theses on Feuerbach

"Philosophers have hitherto interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it"

-Karl Marx, Eleven Theses on Feuerbach

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