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The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as leftist)
avg rating 3.68 — 199,292 ratings — published 1848
The State and Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as leftist)
avg rating 4.26 — 18,787 ratings — published 1917
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as leftist)
avg rating 4.21 — 40,470 ratings — published 2009
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as leftist)
avg rating 4.44 — 35,904 ratings — published 2015
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as leftist)
avg rating 4.26 — 8,981 ratings — published 1880
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as leftist)
avg rating 4.09 — 266,904 ratings — published 1980
Are Prisons Obsolete? (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as leftist)
avg rating 4.51 — 30,313 ratings — published 2003
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as leftist)
avg rating 4.35 — 32,627 ratings — published 1961
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as leftist)
avg rating 4.30 — 54,043 ratings — published 2007
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as leftist)
avg rating 4.24 — 24,642 ratings — published 1988
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as leftist)
avg rating 4.59 — 34,702 ratings — published 1981
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as leftist)
avg rating 4.30 — 39,348 ratings — published 1968
The Conquest of Bread (Working Classics)
by (shelved 25 times as leftist)
avg rating 4.06 — 9,898 ratings — published 1892
Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as leftist)
avg rating 4.27 — 10,734 ratings — published 1917
Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as leftist)
avg rating 4.40 — 9,609 ratings — published 1997
Das Kapital (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as leftist)
avg rating 3.91 — 12,279 ratings — published 1867
The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as leftist)
avg rating 4.61 — 17,546 ratings — published 2020
Capital: A Critique of Political Economy Volume 1 (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as leftist)
avg rating 4.30 — 14,269 ratings — published 1887
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as leftist)
avg rating 4.42 — 8,472 ratings — published 1971
Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as leftist)
avg rating 3.99 — 7,854 ratings — published 2018
A Brief History of Neoliberalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as leftist)
avg rating 4.13 — 7,357 ratings — published 2005
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as leftist)
avg rating 4.37 — 292,170 ratings — published 1965
The Principles of Communism (ebook)
by (shelved 16 times as leftist)
avg rating 4.11 — 5,657 ratings — published 1847
Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)
by (shelved 16 times as leftist)
avg rating 4.27 — 5,935 ratings — published 2020
Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as leftist)
avg rating 4.56 — 13,989 ratings — published 2004
Debt: The First 5,000 Years (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as leftist)
avg rating 4.21 — 27,028 ratings — published 2011
The End of Policing (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 15 times as leftist)
avg rating 4.18 — 12,358 ratings — published 2017
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as leftist)
avg rating 4.02 — 34,501 ratings — published 2018
Anarchism and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as leftist)
avg rating 4.06 — 7,236 ratings — published 1910
What Is to Be Done? (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as leftist)
avg rating 4.11 — 5,406 ratings — published 1902
Assata: An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as leftist)
avg rating 4.60 — 31,521 ratings — published 1987
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as leftist)
avg rating 4.16 — 27,756 ratings — published 2014
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as leftist)
avg rating 4.26 — 19,294 ratings — published 1952
Reform or Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as leftist)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,951 ratings — published 1900
Homage to Catalonia (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as leftist)
avg rating 4.09 — 71,809 ratings — published 1938
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as leftist)
avg rating 4.14 — 8,022 ratings — published 1884
Revolutionary Suicide (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as leftist)
avg rating 4.49 — 7,188 ratings — published 1973
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as leftist)
avg rating 4.52 — 117,590 ratings — published 2010
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as leftist)
avg rating 4.53 — 41,042 ratings — published 1984
Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as leftist)
avg rating 4.23 — 3,996 ratings — published 1891
We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as leftist)
avg rating 4.63 — 5,994 ratings — published 2021
Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11 times as leftist)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,005 ratings — published 2017
Chomsky On Anarchism (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as leftist)
avg rating 3.83 — 11,618 ratings — published 2005
Why Marx Was Right (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as leftist)
avg rating 3.88 — 5,524 ratings — published 2011
Blood in My Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as leftist)
avg rating 4.56 — 2,681 ratings — published 1972
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as leftist)
avg rating 4.47 — 4,709 ratings — published 2017
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as leftist)
avg rating 4.13 — 29,801 ratings — published 1978
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as leftist)
avg rating 4.24 — 37,094 ratings — published 1975
The Society of the Spectacle (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as leftist)
avg rating 4.03 — 23,538 ratings — published 1967
“Not surprisingly, historically speaking, dictators have always despised the use of humor, precisely because they recognize that their hold over people is ultimately fragile, based on force and lies, and humor undermines their rule.”
― The Saad Truth about Happiness: 8 Secrets for Leading the Good Life
― The Saad Truth about Happiness: 8 Secrets for Leading the Good Life
“The most heartening response came not from the book pages in the press
but from real incidents in the streets. The girl who was quietly reading Open
Veins to her companion in a bus in Bogotá, and finally stood up and read it
aloud to all the passengers. The woman who fled from Santiago in the days of
the Chilean bloodbath with this book wrapped inside her baby's diapers. The
student who went from one bookstore to another for a week in Buenos Aires's
Calle Corrientes, reading bits of it in each store because he hadn't the money to
buy it.
And the most favorable reviews came not from any prestigious critic but
from the military dictatorships that praised the book by banning it. For example,
Open Veins is unobtainable either in my country, Uruguay, or in Chile; in
Argentina the authorities denounced it on TV and in the press as a corrupter of
youth, As Blas de Otero remarked, "They don't let people see what I write
because I write what I see.”
― Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
but from real incidents in the streets. The girl who was quietly reading Open
Veins to her companion in a bus in Bogotá, and finally stood up and read it
aloud to all the passengers. The woman who fled from Santiago in the days of
the Chilean bloodbath with this book wrapped inside her baby's diapers. The
student who went from one bookstore to another for a week in Buenos Aires's
Calle Corrientes, reading bits of it in each store because he hadn't the money to
buy it.
And the most favorable reviews came not from any prestigious critic but
from the military dictatorships that praised the book by banning it. For example,
Open Veins is unobtainable either in my country, Uruguay, or in Chile; in
Argentina the authorities denounced it on TV and in the press as a corrupter of
youth, As Blas de Otero remarked, "They don't let people see what I write
because I write what I see.”
― Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
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