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Similar categories in Walter Rodney's How Europe Underdeveloped Africa book and Hadas Thier's A People's Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics

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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

Similar categories in Vladimir Lenin's The State and Revolution book and Hadas Thier's A People's Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics

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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

Similar categories in Vladimir Lenin's Left-Wing Communism, an Infantile Disorder: A Popular Essay in Marxian Strategy and Tactics book and Hadas Thier's A People's Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics

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Similar categories in Michael Parenti's Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism book and Hadas Thier's A People's Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics

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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

Similar categories in Noam Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media book and Hadas Thier's A People's Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics

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Similar categories in Vladimir Lenin's What Is to Be Done? book and Hadas Thier's A People's Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics

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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?

Similar categories in Vladimir Lenin's Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism book and Hadas Thier's A People's Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics

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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

Similar categories in Cornel West's Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement book and Hadas Thier's A People's Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics

Similar categories in Vincent Bevins's The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World book and Hadas Thier's A People's Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics

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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

Similar categories in Hadas Thier's A People's Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics book and Hadas Thier's A People's Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics

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"Is this rotten system the best we can do?"

-Hadas Thier, A People's Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics

"Marxism is not a simple blueprint, with obvious rights and wrongs. Instead, it is a living, breathing theory, applied to social relations, which themselves are always in motion."

-Hadas Thier, A People's Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics

"We live in a society in which decades of budget cuts have made a run on overwhelmed hospitals inevitable and which has set countries and states bidding against one another for ventilators on the “fre…"

-Hadas Thier, A People's Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics

"The first traces of modern humans date back to more than two hundred thousands years ago. But it was only in the last five thousand years (i.e. during less than three percent of human history) that t…"

-Hadas Thier, A People's Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics

Similar categories in Rashid Khalidi's The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017 book and Hadas Thier's A People's Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics

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Similar categories in Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò's Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else) book and Hadas Thier's A People's Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics

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"A philosopher Briana Toole clarifies, by itself, one's social location only puts a person in a position to know; 'epistemic privilege' or advantage, on the other hand, is achieved only through delibe…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

"Elites do often make the environment worse and block solutions, but to blame the problem of elite capture entirely on their moral successes and failures is to confuse effect for cause. The true probl…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

"To opt for deference, rather than interdependence, may soothe short-term psychological wounds. But it does so at a steep cost: it may undermine the goals that motivated the project--and it entrenches…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

"As Carter G. Woodson realized, many of our decisions are shaped by decisions that someone with more power made before us. The whole social structure affects how institutional systems, like schools, f…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

Similar categories in Sumaya Awad's Palestine: A Socialist Introduction book and Hadas Thier's A People's Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics

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"Interestingly, the "Zioness Movement" sprouted on the US activist scene with the explicit intention to counter feminists who were successfully denouncing Zionism. It chose the slogan, "Unabashedly pr…"

-Sumaya Awad, Palestine: A Socialist Introduction

"White/Western feminism's attempt at erasing the political context of Palestinian women's oppression was evident yet again around the 2017 Women's March on Washington, when liberal feminists objected …"

-Sumaya Awad, Palestine: A Socialist Introduction

"The Black radical tradition calls attention to the anti-Black racism essential to US society and casts doubt on the compatibility of Black freedom and the United States project. After all, the Black …"

-Sumaya Awad, Palestine: A Socialist Introduction

Similar categories in Leigh Phillips's The People’s Republic of Walmart: How the World’s Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism book and Hadas Thier's A People's Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics

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Similar categories in Mariame Kaba's We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice book and Hadas Thier's A People's Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics

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"That does not mean, however, there should be no consequences. It means real consequences. Consequences that really matter. It means transforming the conditions that exist in the first place for this …"

-Mariame Kaba, We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice

Similar categories in Alex S. Vitale's The End of Policing book and Hadas Thier's A People's Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics

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"Our standard of living is not declining because of migrants but because of unregulated neoliberal capitalism, which has allowed corporations and the rich to avoid paying taxes or decent wages. It is …"

-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing

"There is no question that American police use their weapons more than police in any other developed democracy. Unfortunately, we don’t have fully accurate information about the number or nature of ho…"

-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing

"As Jeffrey Reiman points out in the Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison, the criminal justice system excuses and ignores crimes of the rich that produce profound social harms while intensely crim…"

-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing

"Heavy-handed immigration policing will not build a worker’s movement, it will shatter it. One of the mistakes that Trump supporters make is imagining that their own economic conditions will be improv…"

-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing

Similar categories in Kelly Hayes's Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care book and Hadas Thier's A People's Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics

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Similar categories in Geo Maher's A World Without Police: How Strong Communities Make Cops Obsolete book and Hadas Thier's A People's Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics

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"Ultimately, there's no path towards police abolition—or even police reform—that doesn't involve a reckoning with police unions as the central bastion of police power. Not only are the police the enem…"

-Geo Maher, A World Without Police: How Strong Communities Make Cops Obsolete

"The police cannot be reformed—more than a century of experience proves this beyond a reasonable doubt. Even if we tried, and we do continue to try, police resist tooth and nail even the smallest refo…"

-Geo Maher, A World Without Police: How Strong Communities Make Cops Obsolete

"A world without police is therefor a world in which the police are obsolete, useless—a world where they serve literally no purpose. Seen from this angle, we're already halfway there: the police are u…"

-Geo Maher, A World Without Police: How Strong Communities Make Cops Obsolete

"A world without police would be a world without poverty and hunger, in which everyone would have enough, and no one would need to look over their shoulder. It would be a world without white supremacy…"

-Geo Maher, A World Without Police: How Strong Communities Make Cops Obsolete

Similar categories in Matthew T. Huber's Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet book and Hadas Thier's A People's Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics

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"Why do we not focus on the activities associated with production and investment when considering the individual's carbon footprint? I argue that it is because what Marx called the "hidden abode of pr…"

-Matthew T. Huber, Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet

Similar categories in Bhaskar Sunkara's The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality book and Hadas Thier's A People's Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics

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