The Best Anarchist, Communist, & Socialist Books
The Best Anarchist, Communist, and Socialist Books reading list covers nearly all the essential writers of left-wing philosophy and their essential texts. Being limited to 100 books the list is not complete and doesn't represent all the books worth your time. For example, Eric Hobsbawm's text on Marxism is included, and even though his 'Age of' series is essential reading it's not included here. The other lists on this site help to fill these gaps and all good socialists should be studying history, sociology, economics, etc. There are also many history books below on revolutions and on the countries considered socialist or communist, China, Cuba, and the Soviet Union.
1. The Marx-Engels Reader
By Robert C. Tucker; Karl Marx; Friedrich Engels
This revised and enlarged edition of the leading anthology provides the essential writings of Marx and Engels--those works necessary for an introduction to Marxist thought and ideology. More »
2. The Conquest of Bread
By Peter Kropotkin | Used Price: 80% Off
The Conquest of Bread is Peter Kropotkin's most detailed description of the ideal society, embodying anarchist communism, and of the social revolution that was to achieve it. Marshall Shatz's introduction to this edition traces Kropotkin's evolution as an anarchist, from his origins in the Russian aristocracy to his ... More »
3. Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution
By Peter Kropotkin | Used Price: 50% Off
In this cornerstone of modern liberal social theory, Peter Kropotkin states that the most effective human and animal communities are essentially cooperative, rather than competitive. Kropotkin based this classic on his observations of natural phenomena and history, forming a work of stunning and well-reasoned scholarship. Essential to the ... More »
4. How to Change the World: Reflections on Marx and Marxism
By Eric Hobsbawm | Used Price: 50% Off
In the 144 years since Karl Marx's Das Kapital was published, the doctrine that bears his name has been embraced by millions in the name of equality, and just as dramatically has fallen from grace with the retreat of communism from the western world. But as the free ... More »
5. Roads to Freedom
"Roads to Freedom" is a fascinating glimpse of progressive intellectual politics at the turn of the twentieth century. Written at the end of the first world war in the midst of great and rapid world change, the book is an historical analysis and criticism of Socialism, Anarchism and ... More »
6. Two Cheers for Anarchism: Six Easy Pieces on Autonomy, Dignity, and Meaningful Work and Play
By James Scott
James Scott taught us what's wrong with seeing like a state. Now, in his most accessible and personal book to date, the acclaimed social scientist makes the case for seeing like an anarchist. Inspired by the core anarchist faith in the possibilities of voluntary ... More »
7. Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism
By Richard D. Wolff | Used Price: 50% Off
"Richard Wolff is the leading socialist economist in the country. This book is required reading for anyone concerned about a fundamental transformation of the ailing capitalist economy."ÂCornel WestÂRichard Wolffâs constructive and innovative ideas suggest new and promising foundations for a much more authentic democracy and sustainable and equitable ... More »
8. Government in the Future
By Noam Chomsky
In this classic talk delivered at the Poetry Center, New York, on February 16, 1970, Noam Chomsky articulates a clear, uncompromising vision of social change. Chomsky contrasts the classical liberal, libertarian socialist, state socialist, and state capitalist world views and then defends a libertarian socialist vision as "the ... More »
9. Capital
By Karl Marx | Used Price: 70% Off
A landmark work in the understanding of capitalism, bourgeois society and the economics of class conflict, Karl Marx's Capital is translated by Ben Fowkes with an introduction by Ernest Mandel in Penguin Classics. One of the most notorious works of modern times, as well as one ... More »
10. Statism and Anarchy
Statism and Anarchy is a complete English translation of the last work by the great Russian anarchist Michael Bakunin. It was written in 1873, in the aftermath of the rise of the German Empire and the clash between Bakunin and Karl Marx in the first International. ... More »
11. The Primacy of Politics: Social Democracy and the Making of Europe's Twentieth Century
By Sheri Berman | Used Price: 60% Off
Political history in the industrial world has indeed ended, argues this pioneering study, but the winner has been social democracy - an ideology and political movement that has been as influential as it has been misunderstood. Berman looks at the history of social democracy from its origins in ... More »
12. The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger
By Richard G. Wilkinson; Kate Pickett | 60% Off
It is a well-established fact that in rich societies the poor have shorter lives and suffer more from almost every social problem. The Spirit Level, based on thirty years of research, takes this truth a step further. One common factor links the healthiest and happiest societies: the degree ... More »
13. The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time
By Karl Polanyi | Used Price: 50% Off
In Polanyi's classic work of economic history and sociology, he examines societal changes since the Industrial Revolution and expertly explains the inadequacies of the free market. Published in 1944, it is as relevant as today as ever, with Harvard Professor Stephen Walt recommending it in his Top 10 ... More »
14. One-Dimensional Man
By Herbert Marcuse | Used Price: 70% Off
Originally published in 1964, One-Dimensional Man quickly became one of the most important texts in the ensuing decade of radical political change. This second edition, newly introduced by Marcuse scholar Douglas Kellner, presents Marcuse's best-selling work to another generation of readers in the context of contemporary events. More »
15. The Motorcycle Diaries
By Ernesto Che Guevara | Used Price: 70% Off
 The book of the popular movie STARRING GAEL GARCIA BERNAL NOW A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER  The young Che Guevaraâs lively and highly entertaining travel diary, ... More »
16. Why Not Socialism?
By G. A. Cohen | Used Price: 60% Off
Is socialism desirable? Is it even possible? In this concise book, one of the world's leading political philosophers presents with clarity and wit a compelling moral case for socialism and argues that the obstacles in its way are exaggerated. There ... More »
17. Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society
By Paul Goodman | Used Price: 70% Off
Paul Goodmanâs Growing Up Absurd was a runaway best seller when it was first published in 1960, and it became one of the defining texts of the New Left. Goodman was a writer and thinker who broke every mold and did it brilliantlyâhe was a novelist, poet, and ... More »
18. The Society of the Spectacle
By Guy Debord | Used Price: 50% Off
The Das Kapital of the 20th century. An essential text, and the main theoretical work of the situationists. Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative. From its publication amid the social upheavals of the 1960's up to the present, the volatile theses of ... More »
19. Homage to Catalonia
By George Orwell | Used Price: 70% Off
'Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I understand it'. Thus wrote Orwell following his experiences as a militiaman in the Spanish Civil War, chronicled in Homage to Catalonia. Here he ... More »
20. Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism
By David Harvey
"What I am seeking here is a better understanding of the contradictions of capital, not of capitalism. I want to know how the economic engine of capitalism works the way it does, and why it might stutter and stall and sometimes appear to be on the verge of ... More »
21. What Then Must We Do?
By Gar Alperovitz | Used Price: 50% Off
Never before have so many Americans been more frustrated with our economic system, more fearful that it is failing, or more open to fresh ideas about a new one. The seeds of a new movement demanding change are forming. But just what is this thing called a new ... More »
22. Selections from the Prison Notebooks
By Antonio Gramsci | Used Price: 60% Off
The Prison Notebooks (Quaderni del carcere) were a series of notebooks written by the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci. Gramsci was imprisoned by the Italian Fascist regime in 1926. The notebooks were written between 1929 and 1935, when Gramsci ... More »
23. The Revolution of Everyday Life
One of the most important exponents of Situationist ideas, this treatise presents an impassioned critique of modern capitalism and serves as a cornerstone of modern radical thought. Originally published in early 1968, the book both kindled and colored the May 1968 upheavals in ... More »
24. The Wretched of the Earth
By Frantz Fanon; Jean-Paul Sartre | 50% Off
A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Frantz Fanon was one of the most important theorists of revolutionary struggle, colonialism, and racial difference in history. Fanonâs masterwork is a classic alongside Edward Saidâs Orientalism or The Autobiography of Malcolm X, and it ... More »
25. The Making of the English Working Class
By E. P. Thompson | Used Price: 60% Off
This book transformed our understanding of English social history. Thompson revealed how working class people were not merely victims of history, moved by powerful forces outside of themselves, but were also active in creating their own culture and future, during the degradation of the industrial revolution. More »
26. The Economics of Feasible Socialism
By Alec Nove | Used Price: 90% Off
This is a path-breaking book. Characteristically readable, controversial and full of insights, Nove identifies a workable socialist programme, achievable in the lifetime of a child born today, that avoids far-fetched or utopian assumptions. This text has been immensely influential in the West, and is available in translation ... More »
27. Anarcho-Syndicalism
By Rudolf Rocker | Used Price: 50% Off
In 1937, at the behest of Emma Goldman, Rocker penned this political and philosophical masterpiece as an introduction to the ideals fueling the Spanish social revolution and resistance to capitalism the world over. Within, Rocker offers an introduction to anarchist ideas, a history of the international workersâ movement, ... More »
28. The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic
By Peter Linebaugh; Marcus Rediker
A history from below, The Many Headed Hydra tells the stories of sailors, slaves, pirates, laborers, market women, and indentured servant, explains their ideas of freedom and equality, and demonstrates their role in making the modern world. More »
29. Post-Scarcity Anarchism
In this series of essays, Murray Bookchin balances his ecological and anarchist vision with the promising opportunities of a âpost-scarcityâ era. Technological advances during the 20th century have expanded production in the pursuit of corporate profit at the expense of human need and ecological sustainability. New possibilities for ... More »
30. Main Currents of Marxism: The Founders - The Golden Age - The Breakdown
By Leszek Kolakowski | Used Price: 60% Off
Leszek Kolakowskiâs masterpiece, one of the twentieth centuryâs most important booksâfor the first time in a one-volume paperback. Renowned philosopher Leszek Kolakowski was one of the first scholars to reveal both the shortcomings and the dangers posed by communist regimes. He now presents, for the first time in ... More »
31. The Nordic Model of Social Democracy
By Nik Brandal; Oivind Bratberg; Dag Einar Thorsen
Since the late 1920s, social democracy has been preeminent in the politics of Sweden, Denmark and Norway, through dominant parties and ideological hegemony of the center-left. The Nordic Model of Social Democracy relates the concept of the Nordic model to the guiding role of social democratic ideology in ... More »
32. The Soul at Work: From Alienation to Autonomy
We can reach every point in the world but, more importantly, we can be reached from any point in the world. Privacy and its possibilities are abolished. ... More »
33. The Anarchists
By James Joll
James Joll's comprehensive book introduces the reader to the personalities, theories and practical politics of the anarchist movement throughout its history. In the first part the author discusses the early precursors of anarchism and in Part Two he presents the full spectrum of anarchist activity in many countries ... More »
34. The State and Revolution
By Vladimir Lenin | Used Price: 70% Off
In July 1917, when the Provisional Government issued a warrant for his arrest, Lenin fled from Petrograd; later that year, The October Revolution swept him to supreme power. In the short intervening period he spent in Finland, he wrote his impassioned, never-completed master work on The State and ... More »
35. Individualism Old and New
By John Dewey | Used Price: 70% Off
America's most renowned social philosopher John Dewey shines his powerful intellect on the serious public and cultural issues surrounding the place of the individual in a technologically advanced society. In this penetrating study, he addresses the fear that personal creative potential will be trampled by assembly-line monotony, political ... More »
36. Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation
Literary Nonfiction. CALIBAN AND THE WITCH is a history of the body in the transition to capitalism. Moving from the peasant revolts of the late Middle Ages to the witch-hunts and the rise of mechanical philosophy, Federici investigates the capitalist rationalization of social reproduction. She shows how the ... More »
37. Considerations on Western Marxism
By Perry Anderson | Used Price: 70% Off
"A splendid essay on intellectual history ... an elegant and accute, brilliantly laconic and deeply felt survey." -- Eric Hobsbawm More »
38. Anarchy in Action
By Colin Ward | Used Price: 50% Off
With chapters on the family, topless federations, schools, housing, crime, employment, welfare, deviancy, planning, and more, this is probably the best practical example of anarchist ideas in action. As he writes in his introduction "This book is not intended for people who had spent a lifetime pondering the ... More »
39. Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology
By David Graeber | Used Price: 60% Off
Everywhere anarchism is on the upswing as a political philosophyâeverywhere, that is, except the academy. Anarchists repeatedly appeal to anthropologists for ideas about how society might be reorganized on a more egalitarian, less alienating basis. Anthropologists, terrified of being accused of romanticism, respond with silence . . . ... More »
40. The Power Elite
By C. Wright Mills | Used Price: 70% Off
First published in 1956, The Power Elite stands as a contemporary classic of social science and social criticism. C. Wright Mills examines and critiques the organization of power in the United States, calling attention to three firmly interlocked prongs of power: the military, corporate, and political elite. The ... More »
41. What is Property?
By Pierre-Joseph Proudhon | 70% Off
This is a new translation of one of the classics of the traditions of anarchism and socialism. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon was a contemporary of Marx and one of the most acute, influential, and subversive critics of modern French and European society. What is Property? (1840) has become a classic ... More »
42. Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century
This widely acclaimed book, first published in 1974, was a classic from its first day in print. Written in a direct, inviting way by Harry Braverman, whose years as an industrial worker gave him rich personal insight into work, Labor and Monopoly Capital overturned the reigning ideologies of ... More »
43. To the Finland Station
By Edmund Wilson | Used Price: 80% Off
One of the great works of modern historical writing, the classic account of the ideas, people, and politics that led to the Bolshevik RevolutionEdmund Wilsonâs To the Finland Station is intellectual history on a grand scale, full of romance, idealism, intrigue, and conspiracy, that traces the revolutionary ideas ... More »
44. Guild Socialism Restated
First published in 1920, Guild Socialism Restated is G. D. H. Cole's fullest and most systematic acÂcount of his vision of industrial and political reorganization. An Oxford University political theorist and an influential figure on the British Left between the two world wars, Cole was the best-known advocate ... More »
45. Workers' Councils
By Anton Pannekoek | Used Price: 50% Off
Contemporaries across the spectrum of Left thought, from Antonio Negri to Noam Chomsky, are falling over each other to claim the mantle of Left Communism. Left Communism is the theory and practice of worker control and self-organization whose adherents provided the main opposition to the Bolsheviks. Rarely printed, ... More »
46. The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution
By Christopher Hill | Used Price: 70% Off
Within the English revolution of the mid-seventeenth century which resulted in the triumph of the protestant ethic - the ideology of the propertied class - there threatened another, quite different, revolution. Its success 'might have established communal property, a far wider democracy in political and legal institutions, might ... More »
47. Anarchism: From Theory to Practice
By Daniel Guerin; Noam Chomsky | 80% Off
Anarchism: From Theory to Practice is a book by Daniel Guérin, termed a "definitional tract in the 'ABCs' of anarchism". First published in 1970, it is Guérin's most well-known work, and was ... More »
48. Parecon: Life After Capitalism
By Michael Albert | Under $1.00
âWhat do you want?â is a constant query put to economic and globalization activists decrying current poverty, alienation and degradation. In this highly praised new work, destined to attract worldwide attention and support, Michael Albert provides an answer: Participatory Economics, âPareconâ for short, a new economy, an alternative ... More »
49. The Origins of Totalitarianism
By Hannah Arendt | Used Price: 60% Off
Hannah Arendt's definitive work on totalitarianism and an essential component of any study of twentieth-century political history  The Origins of Totalitarianism begins with the rise of anti-Semitism in central and western Europe in the 1800s and continues with an examination of European colonial imperialism from 1884 to ... More »
50. Reading Capital
By Louis Althusser; Etienne Balibar; Roger Establet
Establishing a rigorous program of âsymptomatic readingâ that cuts through the silences and lacunae of Capital to reveal its philosophical core, Louis Althusser interprets Marxâs structural analysis of production as a revolutionary breakâthe basis of a completely new science. Building on a series of Althussersâs conceptual innovations that ... More »
51. Reform or Revolution and Other Writings
A polemic writing by the famous "Red Rosa" Luxemburg, Reform or Revolution (1899) explains why capitalism can never overcome its internal contradictions. An effective refutation of revisionist interpretations of Marxist doctrine, it defines the position of scientific socialism on the issues of social reforms, the state, democracy, and ... More »
52. Li Ta-Chao and the Origins of Chinese Marxism
By Maurice Meisner | Used Price: 60% Off
Maurice Jerome Meisner was an historian of 20th century China and professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His study of the Chinese revolution and the People's Republic was in conjunction with his strong interest in socialist ideology, Marxism, and Maoism in particular. He authored a number of books ... More »
53. Discourse on Inequality
One of the most respected translations of this key work of 18th-century philosophy, this text includes a brief introduction to the two works as well as abundant notes that range from simple explanations to speculative interpretations. More »
54. Confronting the Third World
By Gabriel Kolko | Used Price: 80% Off
Kolko, author of eight books on modern American history, here examines the United States's involvement with Third World countries. His major thrust is that the United States was maintaining in Central America, and creating in the Middle East, an empire based on economic advantage and ideologically supported by ... More »
55. Monopoly Capital
By Paul A. Baran; Paul Sweezy | 70% Off
This landmark text by Paul Baran and Paul Sweezy is a classic of twentieth-century radical thought, a hugely influential book that continues to shape our understanding of modern capitalism. âThis book⦠deals with a vital area of economics, has a unique approach, is stimulating and well written. It ... More »
56. The Tradition Of Workers' Control
Workers' control of industry, a phrase coined by the Guild Socialists, recalls the libertarian aspirations of the first rebels against the slavery inherent in the capitalist mode of production. A history and analysis of the workers in Britain who own and control their workplaces.... More »
57. Colonialism and Neocolonialism
Nearly forty years after its first publication in French, this collection of Sartreâs writings on colonialism remains a supremely powerful, and relevant, polemical work. Over a series of thirteen essays Sartre brings the full force of his remarkable intellect relentlessly to bear on his own countryâs conduct in ... More »
58. A People's History of the United States
By Howard Zinn | Used Price: 70% Off
A People's History of the United States is an attempt by Howard Zinn to present an alternative history of America from below. It's a view of US history from the perspective of ordinary and oppressed people. It's extremely popular and - in addition to being on many high ... More »
59. Marxism and Literature
By Raymond Williams | Used Price: 60% Off
This book extends the theme of Raymond Williams's earlier work in literary and cultural analysis. He analyzes previous contributions to a Marxist theory of literature from Marx himself to Lukacs, Althusser, and Goldmann, and develops his own approach by outlining a theory of `cultural materialism' which integrates Marxist ... More »
60. Escape from Freedom
By Erich Fromm | Used Price: 70% Off
If humanity cannot live with the dangers and responsibilities inherent in freedom, it will probably turn to authoritarianism. This is the central idea of Escape from Freedom, a landmark work by one of the most distinguished thinkers of our time, and a book that is as timely now ... More »
61. Anarchism and Workers' Self-Management in Revolutionary Spain
By Frank Mintz | Used Price: 60% Off
This is the first English translation of Frank Mintz's seminal study of the economic experiments put into place during the Spanish Revolution to both sustain civil society during the war and, more importantly, act as the material basis for a new society. These plans weren't developed by professional ... More »
62. The French Revolution: From its Origins to 1793
George Lefebvre is widely considered to be the greatest authority on the French Revolution and this is his magnum opus on the subject. This text is a classic and is still relevent to the field over 40 years after it was first published. More »
63. Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village
More than forty years after its initial publication, William Hintonâs Fanshen continues to be the essential volume for those fascinated with Chinaâs revolutionary process of rural reform and social change. A pioneering work, Fanshan is a marvelous and revealing look into life in the Chinese countryside, where tradition ... More »
64. Late Capitalism
Late Capitalism is the first major synthesis to have been produced by the contemporary revival of Marxist economics. It represents, in fact, the only systematic attempt so far ever made to combine the general theory of the âlaws of motionâ of the capitalist mode of production developed by Marx, ... More »
65. Natural Causes: Essays in Ecological Marxism
Economic growth since the Industrial Revolution has been achieved at great cost both to the natural environment and to the autonomy of communities. What can a Marxist perspective contribute to understanding this disturbing legacy, and mitigating its impact on future generations? Renowned social theorist James O'Connor shows how ... More »
66. The Industrial Worker, 1840-1860
By Norman Ware | Used Price: 60% Off
Besides the slavery issue, one of the major notes of American life in the years preceding the Civil War was created by the Industrial Revolution. It produced remarkable social and industrial upheavals which were repugnant to an astonishingly large numbers of Americans. Despite national prosperity, industrial workers suffered ... More »
67. Anarchism
By George Woodcock | Used Price: 70% Off
To what degree can anarchism be an effective organized movement? Is it realistic to think of anarchist ideas ever forming the basis for social life itself? These questions are widely being asked again today in response to the forces of economic globalization. The framework for such discussions was ... More »
68. Revolutionary Russia, 1891-1991: A History
By Orlando Figes | Used Price: 70% Off
Revolutionary Russia, by renowned historian Orlando Figes, gives a complete history of the Soviet Union, from the roots of the revolution until its collapse. More »
69. History and Class Consciousness
By Georg Lukacs | Used Price: 60% Off
This is the first time one of the most important of Lukács' early theoretical writings, published in Germany in 1923, has been made available in ... More »
70. The Second Sex
By Simone de Beauvoir | Used Price: 50% Off
Newly translated and unabridged in English for the first time, Simone de Beauvoirâs masterwork is a powerful analysis of the Western notion of âwoman,â and a groundbreaking exploration of inequality and otherness. Â This long-awaited new edition reinstates significant portions of the original French text that were cut in ... More »
71. From Marxism to Post-Marxism?
By Goran Therborn | Used Price: 60% Off
In this pithy and panoramic workâboth stimulating for the specialist and accessible to the general readerâone of the worldâs leading social theorists, Göran Therborn, traces the trajectory of Marxism in the twentieth century and anticipates its legacy for radical thought in the twenty-first. More »
72. State, Power, Socialism
In State, Power, Socialism, the leading theorist of the state and European communism advances a vigorous critique of contemporary Marxist theories of the state. Arguing against a general theory of the state, Poulantzas identifies forms of class power crucial to socialist strategy that go beyond the state apparatus. More »
73. Pedagogy of the Oppressed
By Paulo Freire | Used Price: 60% Off
This text argues that the ignorance and lethargy of the poor are the direct result of the whole economic, social and political domination. The book suggests that in some countries the oppressors use the system to maintain a 'culture of silence'. Through the right kind of education, the ... More »
74. Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century
By Eric R. Wolf | Used Price: 80% Off
"Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century provides a good short course in the major popular revolutions of our century--in Russia, Mexico, China, Algeria, Cuba, and Viet Nam--not from the perspective of governments or parties or leaders, but from the perspective of the peasant peoples whose lives and ways ... More »
75. The Russian Anarchists
By Paul Avrich | Used Price: 70% Off
In the turmoil of the Russian insurrection of 1905 and civil war of 1917, the anarchists attempted to carry out their program of âdirect actionââworkersâ control of production, the creation of free rural and urban communes, and partisan warfare against the enemies of a free society.Avrich consulted published ... More »
76. Taking the Risk Out of Democracy: Corporate Propaganda versus Freedom and Liberty
By Alex Carey
In this lucid and compelling account, Alex Carey documents the 20th century history of corporate propaganda as practiced by U.S. businesses, and its export to and adoption by other western democracies, chiefly the United Kingdom and Australia. The collection examines how and why the business elite has successfully ... More »
77. Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy
By Barrington Moore | Used Price: 70% Off
A landmark in comparative history and a challenge to scholars of all lands who are trying to learn how we arrived at where we are now. -New York Times Book Review More »
78. World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction
By Immanuel Wallerstein | 60% Off
In World-Systems Analysis, Immanuel Wallerstein provides a concise and accessible introduction to the comprehensive approach that he pioneered thirty years ago to understanding the history and development of the modern world. Since Wallerstein first developed world-systems analysis, it has become a widely utilized methodology within the historical social ... More »
79. The Revolution and the Civil War in Spain
The tragic defeat of the Spanish Civil War has long fascinated those who continue to struggle for social justice. Pierre Broué and Ãmile Témineâs long-out-of-print history details the internal political dynamics that led the popular front to hold back radical measures that would have galvanized the working class ... More »
80. Hidden From History: 300 Years of Women's Oppression and the Fight Against It
By Sheila Rowbotham | Under $1.00
Hidden From History is a study of women in Britain from the 1600s to the 1930s. It demonstrates how class, gender, work, family life, personal life and social pressures have interacted in women's endeavours for equality. More »
81. The Battle For Homestead, 1880-1892: Politics, Culture, and Steel
By Paul Krause | Used Price: 90% Off
The Homestead Strike, or Homestead Massacre, was one of the most serious strikes in US labour history, finishing in a battle between workers and private security agents. Paul Krause has written a brilliant and insightful history of the strike. More »
82. Reclaiming Work: Beyond the Wage-based Society
By Andre Gorz
Over the last twenty-five years, Western societies have beenreversing into the future. They are able neither to reproduce themselves in accordance with past norms, nor to exploit theunprecedented freedom offered by the savings in working time whichnew technology has generated. In this major new book, Andre Gorz argues ... More »
83. Socialism: Past and Future
By Michael Harrington | Used Price: 90% Off
On learning his cancer was inoperable, renowned intellectual Michael Harrington simply asked the doctors to keep him alive long enough Âto complete a summary statement of the themes I had thought of throughout an activist life.â And they did. Socialism: Past and Future is prominent thinker Michael Harringtonâs ... More »
84. Land and Freedom: The MST, the Zapatistas and Peasant Alternatives to Neoliberalism
The Zapatistas of Chiapas and the Landless Workers Movement (MST) of Brazil are often celebrated as shining examples in the global struggle against Neoliberalism. But what have these movements achieved in more than two decades of resistance and can any of these achievements realistically contribute to an alternative ... More »
85. Radical Thought in Italy: A Potential Politics
Over the past several decades, Italian revolutionary politics has offered a model for new forms of political thinking. Radical Thought in Italy continues that tradition by providing an original view of the potential for a radical democratic politics today that speaks not only to the Italian situation but ... More »
86. Contesting Castro: The United States and the Triumph of the Cuban Revolution
By Thomas G. Paterson | Rock-bottom Price: $0.01
Today they stand as enemies, but in the 1950s, few countries were as closely intertwined as Cuba and the United States. Thousands of Americans (including Ernest Hemingway and Errol Flynn) lived on the island, and, in the United States, dancehalls swayed to the mambo beat. The strong-arm ... More »
87. Queering Anarchism
By Deric Shannon; J. Rogue; C.B. Daring
"Definitely a book worth reading, regardless of the labels of normalcy you've pasted up to yourself or grown accustomed to letting others do the nasty gluing for you."?Bookslut"The divide is growing between the pro-military, pro-police, marriage-seeking gay and lesbian rights politics we see in the headlines every day ... More »
88. Poor People's Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail
By Frances Fox Piven; Richard A. Cloward
Have the poor fared best by participating in conventional electoral politics or by engaging in mass defiance and disruption? The authors of the classic Regulating The Poor assess the successes and failures of these two strategies as they examine, in this provocative study, four protest movements of lower-class ... More »
89. Forging Democracy: The History of the Left in Europe, 1850-2000
By Geoff Eley | Used Price: 60% Off
Democracy in Europe has been a recent phenomenon. Only in the wake of World War II were democratic frameworks secured, and, even then, it was decades before democracy truly blanketed the continent. Neither given nor granted, democracy requires conflict, often violent confrontations, and challenges to the established political ... More »
90. The State in Capitalist Society
Presenting a sustained and concrete challenge to the current political consensus, this reference identifies the radical alternative of adopting socialism as the key issue facing civilization and the crucial condition of making substantial progress. Demonstrating that capitalist control of the state was so comprehensive that partial reforms were ... More »
91. History of the Russian Revolution
By Leon Trotsky | Used Price: 60% Off
This is the classic account of the first socialist revolution in 1917 as told by one of its leaders. All three volumes are included, unabridged: The Overthrow of Tzarism, The Attempted Counter-Revolution and The Triumph of the Soviets. More »
92. The Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism
By Christopher Hill; Maurice Dobb; Paul Sweezy
The debate of the transition from feudalism to capitalism is one of the most famous episodes in the development of Marxist historiography since the war. This book deals with this topic. More »
93. The People's Spring: The Future of the Arab Revolution
By Samir Amin
The 2011 outburst of uprisings by the Arab peoples caught the worldâs attention, and this incisive analysis shows that the current Arab uprisings are primarily anti-imperialistârather than anticapitalistâmovements. Arguing that, to take control of their future, Arab peoples need to unify in a ... More »
94. The Method of Freedom: An Errico Malatesta Reader
By Errico Malatesta | Used Price: 50% Off
For sixty years, Errico Malatesta's involvement with international anarchism helped fuel the movement's radical approach to class and labor, and directly impacted the workers' movement in Italy. A talented newspaper journalist, Malatesta's biting critiques were frequently short and to the pointâand written directly to and for the workers. ... More »
95. Zapata and the Mexican Revolution
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This narrative history follows the exploits of Emiliano Zapata, a leader in the Mexican Revolution and inspiration to the Zapatistas. The book explores events preceding the Revolution and examines the political and agrarian reforms that took place. More »
96. Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959-1976
This is a compelling and dramatic account of Cuban policy in Africa from 1959 to 1976 and of its escalating clash with U.S. policy toward the continent. Piero Gleijeses's fast-paced narrative takes the reader from Cuba's first steps to assist Algerian rebels fighting France in 1961, to the ... More »
97. Marxism and Philosophy
By Karl Korsch | Used Price: 50% Off
In Marxism and Philosophy Korsch argues for a reexamination of the relationship between Marxist theory and bourgeois philosophy, and insists on the centrality of the Hegelian dialectic and a commitment to revolutionary praxis. Although widely attacked in its time, Marxism and Philosophy has attained a place among the ... More »
98. Development of Socialist Economic Thought
By Maurice Dobb
Maurice Dobb (1900-1976) was a highly influential Marxist political economist and economic historian. He was famous for his writings on economic development - including the development of capitalism in the west, and the dilemmas of the Soviet Union in their efforts to industrialise what had been primarily an ... More »
99. The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World
The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World from the Archaic Age to the Arab Conquests, published in 1982, is a work of the British classical historian G. E. M. de Ste. Croix, a fellow of New College, Oxford. More »
100. Colonial Empires and Armies 1815-1960
By Victor Kiernan | Used Price: 70% Off
In this work, V.G. Kiernan explores the European imperial period looking at how wars impacted conquered societies and also the societies that instigated them. More »
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