An Idiosyncratic Introduction to Democratic Socialism (i.e. economic democracy)
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A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present
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Howard Zinn
4.08 avg rating — 259,723 ratings 2. 
What Then Must We Do?: Straight Talk about the Next American Revolution
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Gar Alperovitz
3.91 avg rating — 304 ratings 3. 
How to Be an Anticapitalist in the Twenty-First Century
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Erik Olin Wright
3.90 avg rating — 2,112 ratings 
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The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality
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Bhaskar Sunkara
3.62 avg rating — 1,893 ratings 
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Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment 4.41 avg rating — 5,475 ratings
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Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present
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Yanis Varoufakis
3.82 avg rating — 2,447 ratings 11. 
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist
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Kate Raworth
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This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate
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Naomi Klein
4.16 avg rating — 27,263 ratings 
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The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries
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Kathi Weeks
4.16 avg rating — 604 ratings 
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Democracy and Capitalism: Property, Community, and the Contradictions of Modern Social Thought
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Samuel Bowles
4.06 avg rating — 35 ratings 
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Social Reproduction Theory: Remapping Class, Recentring Oppression 4.35 avg rating — 315 ratings
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America Beyond Capitalism: Reclaiming Our Wealth, Our Liberty, and Our Democracy
by:
Gar Alperovitz
3.77 avg rating — 237 ratings 
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The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time
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Karl Polanyi
4.20 avg rating — 5,134 ratings 24. 
When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America
by:
Ira Katznelson
4.13 avg rating — 2,019 ratings 
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Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism (Democracy at Work, 5)
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Richard D. Wolff
3.95 avg rating — 1,677 ratings 28. 
Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation
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Silvia Federici
4.56 avg rating — 12,680 ratings 
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The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism 4.45 avg rating — 5,509 ratings
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How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective 4.47 avg rating — 4,610 ratings
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The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World
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Vijay Prashad
4.12 avg rating — 1,433 ratings 37. 
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Justice Is Coming: How Progressives Are Going to Take Over the Country and America Is Going to Love It
by:
Cenk Uygur
4.25 avg rating — 417 ratings 
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Socialism with Chinese Characteristics. A Guide for Foreigners
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Roland Boer
4.43 avg rating — 90 ratings 
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Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat from Mayflower to Modern
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J. Sakai
4.18 avg rating — 1,027 ratings 48. 
From Slavery to the Cooperative Commonwealth: Labor and Republican Liberty in the Nineteenth Century
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Alex Gourevitch
4.41 avg rating — 46 ratings 48. 
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Socialism with Chinese Characteristics: Marketization of the Chinese Economy
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Harpal Brar
4.27 avg rating — 15 ratings 
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On the Line: A Story of Class, Solidarity, and Two Women's Epic Fight to Build a Union
by:
Daisy Pitkin
4.25 avg rating — 429 ratings 59. 
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Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life
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Karen E. Fields
4.16 avg rating — 1,693 ratings 
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A Preface to Economic Democracy (Volume 28) (Quantum Books)
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Robert A. Dahl
3.68 avg rating — 194 ratings 
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The Enigma of Capital: And the Crises of Capitalism
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David Harvey
4.02 avg rating — 1,483 ratings 65. 
The Gender Knot: Unraveling Our Patriarchal Legacy
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Allan G. Johnson
4.25 avg rating — 635 ratings 
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We Decide!: Theories and Cases in Participatory Democracy
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Michael Menser
4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings 69. 
The Urbanization of Capital: Studies in the History and Theory of Capitalist Urbanization
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David Harvey
3.88 avg rating — 32 ratings 71. 
This Is an Uprising: How Nonviolent Revolt Is Shaping the Twenty-First Century
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Mark Engler
4.20 avg rating — 1,255 ratings 72. 
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America 4.44 avg rating — 44,189 ratings
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Democratizing Finance: Restructuring Credit to Transform Society
by:
Fred Block
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10 ratings 76. 
Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution (Near Future Series)
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Wendy Brown
4.24 avg rating — 883 ratings 76. 
Jackson Rising: The Struggle for Economic Democracy and Black Self-Determination in Jackson, Mississippi
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Kali Akuno
4.31 avg rating — 109 ratings 
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The Market System: What It Is, How It Works, and What To Make of It 3.52 avg rating — 121 ratings
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Reclaiming Public Ownership: Making Space for Economic Democracy
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Andrew Cumbers
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings 82. 
Our common wealth: The return of public ownership in the United States
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Thomas M. Hanna
4.36 avg rating — 14 ratings 
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Rethinking Democracy:Freedom and Social Co-operation in Politics, Economy, and Society
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Carol C. Gould
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings 86. 
Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle (Common Notions)
by:
Silvia Federici
4.37 avg rating — 1,339 ratings 
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Secret History: The CIA’s Classified Account of Its Operations in Guatemala, 1952-1954
by:
Nick Cullather
3.86 avg rating — 219 ratings 89. 
Market, State, and Community: Theoretical Foundations of Market Socialism
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David Miller
3.15 avg rating — 13 ratings 90. 
Policing the Crisis: Mugging, the State, and Law and Order
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Stuart Hall
4.39 avg rating — 185 ratings 91. 
No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age
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Jane F. McAlevey
4.42 avg rating — 1,318 ratings 
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The Myth of Property: Toward an Egalitarian Theory of Ownership
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John Christman
3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings 
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The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
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C.L.R. James
4.39 avg rating — 7,202 ratings 
