Best Left-Texts

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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism 4.29 avg rating — 51,932 ratings
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A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present 4.08 avg rating — 259,692 ratings
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1984
1984 4.20 avg rating — 5,226,201 ratings
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The Communist Manifesto
The Communist Manifesto
by: Karl Marx
3.67 avg rating — 189,247 ratings
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Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media 4.24 avg rating — 23,236 ratings
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Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky
Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky 4.41 avg rating — 9,420 ratings
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The Wretched of the Earth
The Wretched of the Earth 4.34 avg rating — 30,601 ratings
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Animal Farm
Animal Farm 4.01 avg rating — 4,356,293 ratings
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Capital: A Critique of Political Economy Volume 1
Capital: A Critique of Political Economy Volume 1
by: Karl Marx
4.09 avg rating — 23,211 ratings
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The State and Revolution
The State and Revolution 4.25 avg rating — 17,444 ratings
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Debt: The First 5,000 Years
Debt: The First 5,000 Years 4.21 avg rating — 25,619 ratings
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by: Malcolm X
4.37 avg rating — 285,182 ratings
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Homage to Catalonia
Homage to Catalonia 4.09 avg rating — 68,323 ratings
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Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent 4.31 avg rating — 26,227 ratings
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A Brief History of Neoliberalism
A Brief History of Neoliberalism 4.13 avg rating — 7,146 ratings
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 3.65 avg rating — 194,441 ratings
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Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Pedagogy of the Oppressed 4.30 avg rating — 37,856 ratings
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Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance
Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance 3.97 avg rating — 13,937 ratings
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The Conquest of Bread
The Conquest of Bread 4.06 avg rating — 9,422 ratings
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Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism 4.26 avg rating — 9,468 ratings
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No Logo
No Logo 3.89 avg rating — 32,434 ratings
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Selections From The Prison Notebooks
Selections From The Prison Notebooks 4.20 avg rating — 5,187 ratings
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This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate 4.16 avg rating — 27,262 ratings
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Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451 3.97 avg rating — 2,718,881 ratings
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The German Ideology / Theses on Feuerbach / Introduction to the Critique of Political Economy
The German Ideology / Theses on Feuerbach / Introduction to the Critique of Political Economy
by: Karl Marx
4.13 avg rating — 5,205 ratings
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What Is to Be Done?
What Is to Be Done? 4.08 avg rating — 4,597 ratings
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Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific 4.24 avg rating — 8,239 ratings
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The Society of the Spectacle
The Society of the Spectacle 4.03 avg rating — 22,635 ratings
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The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better
The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better 4.13 avg rating — 7,059 ratings
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Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties
Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties 4.37 avg rating — 491 ratings
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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong 3.97 avg rating — 72,722 ratings
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Killing Hope: U.S. Military and C.I.A. Interventions Since World War II
Killing Hope: U.S. Military and C.I.A. Interventions Since World War II 4.26 avg rating — 2,008 ratings
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Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy
Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy 3.98 avg rating — 5,775 ratings
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Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution
Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution 4.23 avg rating — 3,797 ratings
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Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? 4.21 avg rating — 37,055 ratings
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The Marx-Engels Reader
The Marx-Engels Reader
by: Karl Marx
3.98 avg rating — 6,941 ratings
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Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle 3.95 avg rating — 5,937 ratings
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The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions
The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions 4.61 avg rating — 3,648 ratings
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The Grapes of Wrath
The Grapes of Wrath 4.02 avg rating — 971,582 ratings
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Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America
Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America 3.73 avg rating — 10,295 ratings
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The Making of the English Working Class
The Making of the English Working Class 4.21 avg rating — 3,644 ratings
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The Second Sex
The Second Sex 4.18 avg rating — 45,864 ratings
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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3) 4.37 avg rating — 19,433 ratings
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Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism
Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism 4.20 avg rating — 5,607 ratings
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The Revolution of Everyday Life
The Revolution of Everyday Life 4.14 avg rating — 1,547 ratings
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A People's History of the World
A People's History of the World 4.03 avg rating — 2,556 ratings
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October: The Story of the Russian Revolution
October: The Story of the Russian Revolution 3.91 avg rating — 6,621 ratings
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The Lorax
The Lorax
by: Dr. Seuss
4.35 avg rating — 363,674 ratings
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Culture and Imperialism
Culture and Imperialism 4.18 avg rating — 5,661 ratings
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Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free
Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free 3.71 avg rating — 4,193 ratings
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The Age of Revolution, 1789–1848
The Age of Revolution, 1789–1848 4.22 avg rating — 8,102 ratings
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American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America
American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America 4.03 avg rating — 4,666 ratings
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The Assault on Reason
The Assault on Reason
by: Al Gore
3.78 avg rating — 7,356 ratings
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Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
by: Karl Marx
4.15 avg rating — 4,393 ratings
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Picture of Dorian Gray 4.13 avg rating — 1,782,774 ratings
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Capitalism: A Ghost Story
Capitalism: A Ghost Story 3.94 avg rating — 2,964 ratings
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The Spanish Anarchists: The Heroic Years 1868-1936
The Spanish Anarchists: The Heroic Years 1868-1936 4.06 avg rating — 430 ratings
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Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream 3.51 avg rating — 4,862 ratings
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The Age of Extremes, 1914-1991
The Age of Extremes, 1914-1991 4.29 avg rating — 7,609 ratings
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Year 501: The Conquest Continues
Year 501: The Conquest Continues 4.15 avg rating — 736 ratings
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The Jungle
The Jungle 3.78 avg rating — 152,235 ratings
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Down and Out in Paris and London
Down and Out in Paris and London 4.09 avg rating — 97,508 ratings
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Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution
Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution 3.92 avg rating — 2,039 ratings
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An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It
An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It
by: Al Gore
3.78 avg rating — 6,948 ratings
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The Foundations of Leninism
The Foundations of Leninism 4.05 avg rating — 1,613 ratings
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Here Comes Trouble
Here Comes Trouble 4.02 avg rating — 3,534 ratings
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The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
by: Karl Marx
4.19 avg rating — 5,591 ratings
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Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People?
Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People? 4.18 avg rating — 5,231 ratings
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Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto
Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto 4.13 avg rating — 4,029 ratings
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Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation
Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation 4.56 avg rating — 12,675 ratings
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Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies
Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies 4.13 avg rating — 1,542 ratings
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The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State 4.13 avg rating — 7,491 ratings
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9-11
9-11 3.74 avg rating — 4,114 ratings
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Abolition For The People
Abolition For The People 4.08 avg rating — 299 ratings
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The Best Democracy Money Can Buy
The Best Democracy Money Can Buy 3.98 avg rating — 3,453 ratings
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Abolition for the People: The Movement For a Future without Policing and Prisons
Abolition for the People: The Movement For a Future without Policing and Prisons 4.08 avg rating — 299 ratings
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The Revolution Betrayed
The Revolution Betrayed 4.08 avg rating — 1,992 ratings
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The Condition of the Working Class in England
The Condition of the Working Class in England 4.03 avg rating — 3,605 ratings
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The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World 4.07 avg rating — 6,286 ratings
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Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower
Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower 3.98 avg rating — 912 ratings
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Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America 4.53 avg rating — 37,882 ratings
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness 4.52 avg rating — 115,044 ratings
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Don Quixote
Don Quixote 3.91 avg rating — 297,025 ratings
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"Left-Wing" Communism, An Infantile Disorder: A Popular Essay in Marxist Strategy and Tactics
"Left-Wing" Communism, An Infantile Disorder: A Popular Essay in Marxist Strategy and Tactics 4.18 avg rating — 2,956 ratings
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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern 3.87 avg rating — 34,485 ratings
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"They Take Our Jobs!": And 20 Other Myths about Immigration
"They Take Our Jobs!": And 20 Other Myths about Immigration 4.06 avg rating — 605 ratings
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The Politics of Dispossession: The Struggle for Palestinian Self-Determination, 1969-1994
The Politics of Dispossession: The Struggle for Palestinian Self-Determination, 1969-1994 4.21 avg rating — 207 ratings
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Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life
Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life 4.14 avg rating — 24,224 ratings
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The Theory of Capitalist Development
The Theory of Capitalist Development 4.10 avg rating — 157 ratings
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The Essential Rosa Luxemburg: Reform or Revolution / The Mass Strike
The Essential Rosa Luxemburg: Reform or Revolution / The Mass Strike 4.26 avg rating — 469 ratings
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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants 4.52 avg rating — 158,444 ratings
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Globalization and its Discontents
Globalization and its Discontents 3.87 avg rating — 8,112 ratings
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Profit Over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order
Profit Over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order 4.03 avg rating — 7,199 ratings
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History of the Russian Revolution
History of the Russian Revolution 4.18 avg rating — 1,858 ratings
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The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism
The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism 3.98 avg rating — 376 ratings
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How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa 4.42 avg rating — 7,736 ratings
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Common Sense
Common Sense really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 38,566 ratings
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Fault Lines: Views across Haiti's Divide
Fault Lines: Views across Haiti's Divide 4.27 avg rating — 48 ratings
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V for Vendetta
V for Vendetta 4.26 avg rating — 320,840 ratings
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Reform or Revolution
Reform or Revolution 4.21 avg rating — 4,608 ratings
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