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1.
The Communist Manifesto
by:
Karl Marx
3.67 avg rating β 189,238 ratings
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The State and Revolution
by:
Vladimir Lenin
4.25 avg rating β 17,444 ratings
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Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
by:
Vladimir Lenin
4.26 avg rating β 9,468 ratings
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Das Kapital
by:
Karl Marx
4.09 avg rating β 23,211 ratings
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The Revolution Betrayed
by:
Leon Trotsky
4.08 avg rating β 1,992 ratings
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The Condition of the Working Class in England
by:
Friedrich Engels
4.03 avg rating β 3,605 ratings
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The Age of Revolution, 1789β1848
by:
Eric J. Hobsbawm
4.22 avg rating β 8,101 ratings
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The Accumulation of Capital
by:
Rosa Luxemburg
4.04 avg rating β 666 ratings
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The Society of the Spectacle
by:
Guy Debord
4.03 avg rating β 22,635 ratings
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What Is Property?
by:
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
3.78 avg rating β 1,643 ratings
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Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
by:
Friedrich Engels
4.24 avg rating β 8,239 ratings
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Reform or Revolution
by:
Rosa Luxemburg
4.21 avg rating β 4,608 ratings
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The Age of Capital, 1848β1875
by:
Eric J. Hobsbawm
4.26 avg rating β 4,467 ratings
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The Age of Empire, 1875β1914
by:
Eric J. Hobsbawm
4.26 avg rating β 4,301 ratings
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Selections from the Prison Notebooks
by:
Antonio Gramsci
4.20 avg rating β 5,187 ratings
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Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
by:
Benedict Anderson
4.11 avg rating β 15,874 ratings
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The Most Radical Gesture: The Situationist International in a Postmodern Age
by:
Sadie Plant
4.10 avg rating β 187 ratings
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A Companion to Marx's Capital, Volume 1
by:
David Harvey
4.26 avg rating β 1,913 ratings
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The History of American Trotskyism, 1928β1938: Report of a Participant
by:
James P. Cannon
4.44 avg rating β 102 ratings
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The Soul of Man Under Socialism
by:
Oscar Wilde
3.92 avg rating β 6,138 ratings
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The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
by:
Friedrich Engels
4.13 avg rating β 7,491 ratings
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Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
by:
Audre Lorde
4.53 avg rating β 39,723 ratings
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First as Tragedy, Then as Farce
by:
Slavoj Ε½iΕΎek
3.78 avg rating β 4,723 ratings
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Eugene V. Debs Speaks
by:
Eugene V. Debs
4.32 avg rating β 47 ratings
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The Autobiographies of the Haymarket Martyrs
by:
Philip S. Foner
4.33 avg rating β 24 ratings
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W.E.B. Du Bois Speaks: Speeches and Addresses 1920-1963
by:
W.E.B. Du Bois
4.68 avg rating β 19 ratings
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America's Revolutionary Heritage
by:
George Novack
4.44 avg rating β 16 ratings
28.
A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
by:
Karl Marx
4.05 avg rating β 421 ratings
29.
The Conquest of Bread
by:
Pyotr Kropotkin
4.06 avg rating β 9,421 ratings
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In defense of Marxism
by:
Leon Trotsky
4.31 avg rating β 254 ratings
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The Permanent Revolution & Results and Prospects
by:
Leon Trotsky
3.87 avg rating β 772 ratings
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For Marx
by:
Louis Althusser
3.92 avg rating β 1,629 ratings
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The Making of the English Working Class
by:
E.P. Thompson
4.21 avg rating β 3,644 ratings
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The Myth of Persecution: How Early Christians Invented a Story of Martyrdom
by:
Candida R. Moss
3.96 avg rating β 640 ratings
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Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook
by:
Mark Bray
3.97 avg rating β 2,774 ratings
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One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
by:
Herbert Marcuse
3.98 avg rating β 7,345 ratings
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The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
by:
Catherine Nixey
4.07 avg rating β 6,286 ratings
38.
The New Imperialism
by:
David Harvey
3.94 avg rating β 684 ratings
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Simulacra and Simulation
by:
Jean Baudrillard
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 15,969 ratings
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Homage to Catalonia
by:
George Orwell
4.09 avg rating β 68,318 ratings
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Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
by:
bell hooks
4.50 avg rating β 18,479 ratings
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The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change
by:
David Harvey
4.17 avg rating β 2,316 ratings
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The Sublime Object of Ideology
by:
Slavoj Ε½iΕΎek
4.07 avg rating β 5,956 ratings
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Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
by:
Fredric Jameson
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 7,446 ratings
45.
A Brief History of Neoliberalism
by:
David Harvey
4.13 avg rating β 7,146 ratings
46.
Autobiography of Mother Jones
by:
Mary Harris Jones
4.15 avg rating β 391 ratings
47.
Malcolm X on Afro-American History
by:
Malcolm X
4.39 avg rating β 326 ratings
48.
History of the Russian Revolution
by:
Leon Trotsky
4.18 avg rating β 1,858 ratings
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The Case of Joe Hill
by:
Philip S. Foner
3.85 avg rating β 33 ratings
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History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics
by:
GyΓΆrgy LukΓ‘cs
4.06 avg rating β 3,628 ratings
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Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century
by:
Harry Braverman
4.30 avg rating β 854 ratings
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The Age of Extremes, 1914-1991
by:
Eric J. Hobsbawm
4.29 avg rating β 7,609 ratings
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The Poverty of Theory
by:
E.P. Thompson
4.01 avg rating β 176 ratings
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The Theory of Capitalist Development
by:
Paul M. Sweezy
4.10 avg rating β 157 ratings
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The Yellow Wall-Paper
by:
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
4.07 avg rating β 338,221 ratings
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Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and Socialist
by:
Nick Salvatore
3.90 avg rating β 244 ratings
57.
The Holy Family
by:
Karl Marx
3.98 avg rating β 270 ratings
58.
Wages, Price and Profit
by:
Karl Marx
4.30 avg rating β 1,790 ratings
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On Anarchism
by:
Mikhail Bakunin
4.10 avg rating β 579 ratings
60.
Marx's Ecology: Materialism and Nature
by:
John Bellamy Foster
4.20 avg rating β 416 ratings
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My Life: A Spoken Autobiography
by:
Fidel Castro
4.20 avg rating β 3,473 ratings
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The Doctrine of Fascism
by:
Benito Mussolini
3.12 avg rating β 1,281 ratings
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Mein Kampf
by:
Adolf Hitler
3.17 avg rating β 43,176 ratings
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Friedrich Engels and the Foundations of Socialist Governance
by:
Roland Boer
4.25 avg rating β 8 ratings
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In Defense of Socialism: Four speeches on the 30th anniversary of the Cuban revolution
by:
Fidel Castro
4.11 avg rating β 45 ratings
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Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat from Mayflower to Modern
by:
J. Sakai
4.18 avg rating β 1,027 ratings
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What Women Want: An Agenda for the Women's Movement
by:
Deborah L. Rhode
3.82 avg rating β 39 ratings
67.
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
by:
Stephen Greenblatt
3.87 avg rating β 34,485 ratings
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No Logo
by:
Naomi Klein
3.89 avg rating β 32,432 ratings
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War and Revolution: Rethinking the Twentieth Century
by:
Domenico Losurdo
4.46 avg rating β 236 ratings
71.
The First and Second Declarations of Havana (The Cuban Revolution in World Politics)
by:
Fidel Castro
4.46 avg rating β 24 ratings
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Against the Modern World: Traditionalism and the Secret Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century
by:
Mark Sedgwick
3.71 avg rating β 237 ratings
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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
by:
Naomi Klein
4.29 avg rating β 51,931 ratings
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Liberalism: A Counter-History
by:
Domenico Losurdo
4.39 avg rating β 1,088 ratings
75.
The Communist Postscript
by:
Boris Groys
4.04 avg rating β 248 ratings
75.
The Historical Failure of Anarchism: Implications for the Future of the Revolutionary Project
by:
Christopher Day
3.32 avg rating β 19 ratings
77.
Stalin and the Struggle for Democratic Reform
by:
Grover Furr
4.13 avg rating β 23 ratings
78.
The Bolivian Diary: Authorized Edition
by:
Ernesto Che Guevara
3.73 avg rating β 3,023 ratings
79.
Live From Death Row
by:
Mumia Abu-Jamal
4.24 avg rating β 2,555 ratings
80.
Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism
by:
Slavoj Ε½iΕΎek
4.17 avg rating β 619 ratings
81.
On Ideology
by:
Louis Althusser
4.02 avg rating β 827 ratings
82.
The Political Unconscious
by:
Fredric Jameson
4.05 avg rating β 1,126 ratings
83.
Escape from Freedom
by:
Erich Fromm
4.27 avg rating β 15,569 ratings
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Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution
by:
Pyotr Kropotkin
4.23 avg rating β 3,797 ratings
84.
The Last Year of Malcolm X: The Evolution of a Revolutionary
by:
George Breitman
4.13 avg rating β 126 ratings
86.
Aesthetic Theory
by:
Theodor W. Adorno
4.14 avg rating β 2,573 ratings
86.
Malcolm X: The Last Speeches
by:
Malcolm X
4.49 avg rating β 908 ratings
88.
The Culture Industry
by:
Theodor W. Adorno
4.05 avg rating β 5,726 ratings
88.
Black Flame: The Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism
by:
Michael Schmidt
3.89 avg rating β 243 ratings
88.
By Any Means Necessary
by:
Malcolm X
4.40 avg rating β 1,483 ratings
91.
Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments
by:
Max Horkheimer
4.11 avg rating β 8,007 ratings
92.
The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia (Yale Agrarian Studies Series)
by:
James C. Scott
4.14 avg rating β 1,348 ratings
93.
The Theory of the Leisure Class
by:
Thorstein Veblen
3.87 avg rating β 3,938 ratings
94.
Debt: The First 5,000 Years
by:
David Graeber
4.21 avg rating β 25,619 ratings
94.
An Organizer's Tale: Speeches
by:
CΓ©sar ChΓ‘vez
4.19 avg rating β 73 ratings
96.
Heideggerian Marxism
by:
Herbert Marcuse
3.38 avg rating β 29 ratings
97.
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
by:
Paulo Freire
4.30 avg rating β 37,856 ratings
97.
The Real Split in the International
by:
Internationale Situationniste
4.10 avg rating β 20 ratings
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Late Capitalism
by:
Ernest Mandel
4.15 avg rating β 156 ratings
100.
The ABC of Communism
by:
Nikolai Bukharin
3.67 avg rating β 355 ratings
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