Best Left-Texts

101.
9/11 Contradictions: An Open Letter to Congress and the Press
9/11 Contradictions: An Open Letter to Congress and the Press 3.83 avg rating — 63 ratings
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Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class
Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class 4.09 avg rating — 10,489 ratings
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American Dreamers: How the Left Changed a Nation
American Dreamers: How the Left Changed a Nation 3.59 avg rating — 242 ratings
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Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism
Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism 4.17 avg rating — 962 ratings
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Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism 4.40 avg rating — 8,491 ratings
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Of Grammatology
Of Grammatology 3.97 avg rating — 5,289 ratings
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Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World
Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World 3.99 avg rating — 2,271 ratings
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The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 4.23 avg rating — 13,398 ratings
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By Any Means Necessary
By Any Means Necessary
by: Malcolm X
4.40 avg rating — 1,483 ratings
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Living My Life, Vol. 1
Living My Life, Vol. 1 4.35 avg rating — 837 ratings
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Animal Farm / 1984
Animal Farm / 1984 4.30 avg rating — 211,263 ratings
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War Is a Lie
War Is a Lie 4.20 avg rating — 201 ratings
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Great American Hypocrites: Toppling the Big Myths of Republican Politics
Great American Hypocrites: Toppling the Big Myths of Republican Politics 3.70 avg rating — 447 ratings
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Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future
Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future 3.94 avg rating — 3,890 ratings
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War Talk
War Talk 4.10 avg rating — 928 ratings
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Literature and Evil
Literature and Evil 3.96 avg rating — 1,493 ratings
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The Underground History of American Education: An Intimate Investigation Into the Prison of Modern Schooling
The Underground History of American Education: An Intimate Investigation Into the Prison of Modern Schooling 4.31 avg rating — 1,296 ratings
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Revolutionary Suicide
Revolutionary Suicide 4.48 avg rating — 6,761 ratings
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The Political Thought of Abdullah Öcalan: Kurdistan, Women's Revolution and Democratic Confederalism
The Political Thought of Abdullah Öcalan: Kurdistan, Women's Revolution and Democratic Confederalism 4.20 avg rating — 307 ratings
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Bill Moyers Journal: The Conversation Continues
Bill Moyers Journal: The Conversation Continues 4.24 avg rating — 234 ratings
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Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement that Shattered the Party
Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement that Shattered the Party 3.88 avg rating — 1,354 ratings
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The Unknown Revolution, 1917-1921
The Unknown Revolution, 1917-1921
by: Voline
4.25 avg rating — 116 ratings
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Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason 4.09 avg rating — 14,198 ratings
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The Conscience of a Liberal: Reclaiming the Compassionate Agenda
The Conscience of a Liberal: Reclaiming the Compassionate Agenda 4.22 avg rating — 723 ratings
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Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man 3.87 avg rating — 38,982 ratings
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Of Mice and Men
Of Mice and Men 3.89 avg rating — 2,752,025 ratings
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Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism
Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism 4.06 avg rating — 4,572 ratings
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The Mass Psychology of Fascism
The Mass Psychology of Fascism 4.04 avg rating — 1,348 ratings
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The Rich Get Richer and The Poor Get Prison: Ideology, Class, and Criminal Justice
The Rich Get Richer and The Poor Get Prison: Ideology, Class, and Criminal Justice 3.93 avg rating — 574 ratings
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Hopes and Prospects
Hopes and Prospects 4.04 avg rating — 1,734 ratings
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One-Dimensional Man
One-Dimensional Man 3.98 avg rating — 7,345 ratings
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The Essence of Christianity (Great Books in Philosophy)
The Essence of Christianity (Great Books in Philosophy) 3.82 avg rating — 971 ratings
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The Prophet Armed: Trotsky, 1879-1921
The Prophet Armed: Trotsky, 1879-1921 4.34 avg rating — 1,085 ratings
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The Tyranny of Oil: The World's Most Powerful Industry--and What We Must Do to Stop It
The Tyranny of Oil: The World's Most Powerful Industry--and What We Must Do to Stop It 3.89 avg rating — 132 ratings
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 4.12 avg rating — 131,995 ratings
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Assata: An Autobiography
Assata: An Autobiography 4.59 avg rating — 29,691 ratings
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Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement 4.44 avg rating — 33,946 ratings
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Proposed Roads to Freedom: Socialism, Anarchism and Syndicalism
Proposed Roads to Freedom: Socialism, Anarchism and Syndicalism 3.87 avg rating — 1,026 ratings
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Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism
Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism 4.08 avg rating — 1,169 ratings
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Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution
Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution 4.08 avg rating — 1,294 ratings
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The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution 4.39 avg rating — 7,202 ratings
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King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa 4.19 avg rating — 66,218 ratings
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Specters of Marx
Specters of Marx 3.97 avg rating — 3,759 ratings
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The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia 4.25 avg rating — 143,169 ratings
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Customs in Common: Studies in Traditional Popular Culture
Customs in Common: Studies in Traditional Popular Culture 4.22 avg rating — 217 ratings
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Armed Madhouse: From Baghdad to New Orleans--Sordid Secrets and Strange Tales of a White House Gone Wild
Armed Madhouse: From Baghdad to New Orleans--Sordid Secrets and Strange Tales of a White House Gone Wild 4.05 avg rating — 1,063 ratings
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Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World
Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World 4.20 avg rating — 2,037 ratings
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The People's War: Britain, 1939 - 1945
The People's War: Britain, 1939 - 1945 4.18 avg rating — 104 ratings
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God and the State
God and the State 3.81 avg rating — 5,136 ratings
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The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution
The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution 4.13 avg rating — 1,381 ratings
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Planet of Slums
Planet of Slums really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3,286 ratings
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The End of Policing
The End of Policing 4.18 avg rating — 12,043 ratings
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American Wop - Beaver Buffalo Buttons Brass Boxing and Beer: That's why you're here!
American Wop - Beaver Buffalo Buttons Brass Boxing and Beer: That's why you're here!
by: Jack Tar
4.35 avg rating — 20 ratings
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The United States of Air
The United States of Air 3.27 avg rating — 131 ratings
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Tell Me No Lies: Investigative Journalism and Its Triumphs
Tell Me No Lies: Investigative Journalism and Its Triumphs 4.35 avg rating — 727 ratings
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
For Whom the Bell Tolls 3.99 avg rating — 311,415 ratings
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N*gga Theory: Race, Language, Unequal Justice, and the Law
N*gga Theory: Race, Language, Unequal Justice, and the Law 4.33 avg rating — 63 ratings
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Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World 4.51 avg rating — 8,321 ratings
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The Dark Philosophers
The Dark Philosophers 3.96 avg rating — 142 ratings
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Debunking 9/11 Debunking: An Answer to Popular Mechanics & Other Defenders of the Official Conspiracy Theory
Debunking 9/11 Debunking: An Answer to Popular Mechanics & Other Defenders of the Official Conspiracy Theory 3.92 avg rating — 190 ratings
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The New Rulers of the World
The New Rulers of the World 4.13 avg rating — 1,306 ratings
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The Ecology of Freedom: The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy
The Ecology of Freedom: The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy 4.17 avg rating — 826 ratings
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We Should All Be Feminists
We Should All Be Feminists 4.40 avg rating — 320,743 ratings
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The Selected Writings of Eqbal Ahmad
The Selected Writings of Eqbal Ahmad 4.51 avg rating — 75 ratings
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Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil
Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil 4.13 avg rating — 927 ratings
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The Invention of Tradition
The Invention of Tradition 3.96 avg rating — 1,524 ratings
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Tools for Conviviality
Tools for Conviviality really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 923 ratings
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The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
The Conspiracy Against the Human Race 4.03 avg rating — 8,880 ratings
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The Enemy Within: The Secret War Against the Miners
The Enemy Within: The Secret War Against the Miners 4.15 avg rating — 320 ratings
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Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology
Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology 4.22 avg rating — 3,294 ratings
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Farewell to the Working Class: An Essay on Post-Industrial Socialism (Pluto Classics Series)
Farewell to the Working Class: An Essay on Post-Industrial Socialism (Pluto Classics Series) 3.60 avg rating — 88 ratings
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On Power and Ideology: The Managua Lectures
On Power and Ideology: The Managua Lectures 4.12 avg rating — 320 ratings
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How Rich Countries Got Rich and Why Poor Countries Stay Poor
How Rich Countries Got Rich and Why Poor Countries Stay Poor 4.20 avg rating — 619 ratings
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An Autobiography
An Autobiography 4.44 avg rating — 10,449 ratings
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Walden or, Life in the Woods
Walden or, Life in the Woods 3.78 avg rating — 200,848 ratings
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Writing and Difference
Writing and Difference really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7,884 ratings
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Lies & the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair & Balanced Look at the Right
Lies & the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair & Balanced Look at the Right 3.82 avg rating — 29,649 ratings
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1) 4.30 avg rating — 568,957 ratings
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Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism (Democracy at Work, 5)
Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism (Democracy at Work, 5) 3.95 avg rating — 1,677 ratings
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Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves
Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves 4.31 avg rating — 2,344 ratings
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Cancer Ward
Cancer Ward 4.26 avg rating — 17,572 ratings
182.
I, Rigoberta Menchú: An Indian Woman in Guatemala
I, Rigoberta Menchú: An Indian Woman in Guatemala 3.85 avg rating — 6,324 ratings
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EcoMind: Changing the Way We Think, to Create the World We Want
EcoMind: Changing the Way We Think, to Create the World We Want 3.80 avg rating — 250 ratings
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Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System from Crisis — and Themselves
Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System from Crisis — and Themselves 4.15 avg rating — 41,835 ratings
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Women, Race & Class
Women, Race & Class 4.59 avg rating — 33,018 ratings
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Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State
Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State 3.92 avg rating — 1,611 ratings
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Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
Anti-Intellectualism in American Life 4.11 avg rating — 3,514 ratings
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Living My Life, Vol. 2
Living My Life, Vol. 2 4.33 avg rating — 442 ratings
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In the Name of Democracy: American War Crimes in Iraq and Beyond
In the Name of Democracy: American War Crimes in Iraq and Beyond 3.86 avg rating — 21 ratings
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On MisEducation
On MisEducation 3.61 avg rating — 550 ratings
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Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto
Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto 3.69 avg rating — 2,541 ratings
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It Takes a Pillage: Behind the Bailouts, Bonuses, and Backroom Deals from Washington to Wall Street
It Takes a Pillage: Behind the Bailouts, Bonuses, and Backroom Deals from Washington to Wall Street 3.97 avg rating — 190 ratings
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Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars from 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right
Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars from 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right 3.45 avg rating — 6,560 ratings
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The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations
The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations 3.97 avg rating — 4,172 ratings
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Dialectical and Historical Materialism
Dialectical and Historical Materialism 3.91 avg rating — 2,031 ratings
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So You Want to Talk About Race
So You Want to Talk About Race 4.49 avg rating — 107,277 ratings
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Deschooling Society
Deschooling Society 3.99 avg rating — 3,414 ratings
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Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business 4.16 avg rating — 36,103 ratings
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The Vote: How It Was Won and How It Was Undermined
The Vote: How It Was Won and How It Was Undermined
by: Paul Foot
4.39 avg rating — 75 ratings
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Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency
Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency 3.80 avg rating — 5,934 ratings
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