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The Secret Gospel of Jesus, AD 0-78 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 22 times as radical)
avg rating 4.67 — 69 ratings — published 2020
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as radical)
avg rating 3.70 — 209,210 ratings — published 1848
Are Prisons Obsolete? (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as radical)
avg rating 4.50 — 31,907 ratings — published 2003
Assata: An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as radical)
avg rating 4.60 — 33,398 ratings — published 1987
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as radical)
avg rating 4.35 — 34,865 ratings — published 1961
All About Love: New Visions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as radical)
avg rating 3.99 — 152,633 ratings — published 1999
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as radical)
avg rating 4.44 — 37,580 ratings — published 2015
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as radical)
avg rating 4.59 — 36,664 ratings — published 1981
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as radical)
avg rating 4.37 — 299,426 ratings — published 1965
The Other Side of the Judeo-Christian History (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as radical)
avg rating 4.85 — 61 ratings — published 2011
Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)
by (shelved 8 times as radical)
avg rating 4.25 — 6,607 ratings — published 2020
The State and Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as radical)
avg rating 4.27 — 20,318 ratings — published 1917
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as radical)
avg rating 4.51 — 20,270 ratings — published 1981
The Conquest of Bread (Working Classics)
by (shelved 8 times as radical)
avg rating 4.06 — 10,424 ratings — published 1892
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as radical)
avg rating 4.30 — 40,950 ratings — published 1968
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as radical)
avg rating 4.09 — 273,686 ratings — published 1980
We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as radical)
avg rating 4.62 — 6,178 ratings — published 2021
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as radical)
avg rating 4.35 — 66,098 ratings — published 2020
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as radical)
avg rating 4.53 — 42,623 ratings — published 1984
Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as radical)
avg rating 4.17 — 71,182 ratings — published 2010
The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as radical)
avg rating 4.21 — 31,917 ratings — published 2018
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as radical)
avg rating 4.26 — 20,541 ratings — published 1952
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as radical)
avg rating 4.30 — 56,231 ratings — published 2007
The Dispossessed (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as radical)
avg rating 4.26 — 162,400 ratings — published 1974
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as radical)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,749,313 ratings — published 1949
The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as radical)
avg rating 4.49 — 39,273 ratings — published 2020
The Coming Insurrection (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as radical)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,859 ratings — published 2007
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as radical)
avg rating 4.14 — 31,339 ratings — published 1978
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as radical)
avg rating 4.21 — 44,072 ratings — published 2009
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as radical)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,796,476 ratings — published 1945
Discourse on Colonialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as radical)
avg rating 4.44 — 8,694 ratings — published 1950
Reform or Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as radical)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,361 ratings — published 1900
The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as radical)
avg rating 4.08 — 30,441 ratings — published 1975
V for Vendetta (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as radical)
avg rating 4.26 — 330,912 ratings — published 1990
The Philosophy of Cosmic Spirituality (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as radical)
avg rating 4.83 — 41 ratings — published 2014
The Nation on No Map: Black Anarchism and Abolition (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as radical)
avg rating 4.48 — 282 ratings — published 2021
The End of Policing (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as radical)
avg rating 4.18 — 12,696 ratings — published 2017
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as radical)
avg rating 4.40 — 9,232 ratings — published 1971
Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as radical)
avg rating 4.41 — 11,299 ratings — published 1997
The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as radical)
avg rating 4.34 — 34,606 ratings — published 2003
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as radical)
avg rating 4.32 — 29,689 ratings — published 1971
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
by (shelved 4 times as radical)
avg rating 4.55 — 129,843 ratings — published 1963
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as radical)
avg rating 4.26 — 9,692 ratings — published 1880
Detroit: I Do Mind Dying: A Study in Urban Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as radical)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,108 ratings — published 1975
The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia (Yale Agrarian Studies Series)
by (shelved 4 times as radical)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,487 ratings — published 2009
Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as radical)
avg rating 3.74 — 8,822 ratings — published 1971
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as radical)
avg rating 4.52 — 120,360 ratings — published 2010
Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as radical)
avg rating 4.44 — 13,608 ratings — published 1994
Anarchism and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as radical)
avg rating 4.06 — 7,419 ratings — published 1910
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as radical)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,554,428 ratings — published 1985
“Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.”
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“Both political parties have moved to the right during the neoliberal period. Today’s New Democrats are pretty much what used to be called “moderate Republicans.” The “political revolution” that Bernie Sanders called for, rightly, would not have greatly surprised Dwight Eisenhower.
The fate of the minimum wage illustrates what has been happening. Through the periods of high and egalitarian growth in the ‘50s and ‘60s, the minimum wage—which sets a floor for other wages—tracked productivity. That ended with the onset of neoliberal doctrine. Since then, the minimum wage has stagnated (in real value). Had it continued as before, it would probably be close to $20 per hour. Today, it is considered a political revolution to raise it to $15.”
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The fate of the minimum wage illustrates what has been happening. Through the periods of high and egalitarian growth in the ‘50s and ‘60s, the minimum wage—which sets a floor for other wages—tracked productivity. That ended with the onset of neoliberal doctrine. Since then, the minimum wage has stagnated (in real value). Had it continued as before, it would probably be close to $20 per hour. Today, it is considered a political revolution to raise it to $15.”
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