The Communist Manifesto is a It also analyzes how feelings of marginalization become internalized. Ready to dive into the world of Marxist economics but feeling overwhelmed by the sheer size and This list of books is only a sampling of the best books available to help high school and college students balance their education with conservative ideas. I would actually start with the youngest of these works, Capitalist Realism than to go to the oldest ones by Marx. Grab a copy of 'Marx's Kapital for Beginners' and join the 3,034 ratings My favourite quote from Prager is, Truth is not a leftwing value. This is depressing stuffand, tragically, Fisher took his own life in 2017, while still in his 40s. list: "This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate" by Naomi Klein. published 1867, avg rating 4.15 My fellow aspiring lefties! ._3Z6MIaeww5ZxzFqWHAEUxa{margin-top:8px}._3Z6MIaeww5ZxzFqWHAEUxa ._3EpRuHW1VpLFcj-lugsvP_{color:inherit}._3Z6MIaeww5ZxzFqWHAEUxa svg._31U86fGhtxsxdGmOUf3KOM{color:inherit;fill:inherit;padding-right:8px}._3Z6MIaeww5ZxzFqWHAEUxa ._2mk9m3mkUAeEGtGQLNCVsJ{font-family:Noto Sans,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-weight:400;line-height:18px;color:inherit} He adopts Foucaults knee jerk equation of knowledge=power, which leaves us exactly nowhere. 8,125 ratings Said claims that the concept of the west is extremely ambiguous. Thing 5: Assume the worst about people, and you get the worst. a better understanding of the world we live in. published 2018, avg rating 3.89 Here is a list of books you can start with in your journey of leftism. However, his influence on the left has been enormous, despite fierce debates on how to interpret him. Then look no further (or maybe do!). Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Chris Bambery,The Second World War: A Marxist History, Paul Baran and Paul Sweezy, Monopoly Capital: An Essay on the American Economic and Social Order, Charles Beard, An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States, Douglas Blackmon,Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II, William Blum, Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II, Terry Bouton, Taming Democracy: "The People," The Founders, and the Troubled Ending of the American Revolution, Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America: Educational Reform and the Contradictions of Economic Life, Harry Braverman,Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century, Aaron Brenner et al., eds., Rebel Rank and File: Labor Militancy and Revolt from Below during the Long 1970s, Robert Brenner,The Economics of Global Turbulence, Anthony Brewer, Marxist Theories of Imperialism: A Critical Survey, Nikolai Bukharin, Imperialism and World Economy, Alex Carey,Taking the Risk out of Democracy: Corporate Propaganda versus Freedom and Liberty, Ha-Joon Chang, 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism, Noam Chomsky,Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance, Michael Chossudovsky,The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order, Mike Davis,Prisoners of the American Dream: Politics and Economy in the History of the U.S. Pursuit of Global Dominance, John Bellamy Foster and Fred Magdoff,The Great Financial Crisis: Causes and Consequences, Steve Fraser and Gary Gerstle, Ruling America: A History of Wealth and Power in a Democracy, Eduardo Galeano,Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent, Amy Goodman and David Goodman, The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing America's War Profiteers, the Media that Love Them and the Crackdown on Our Rights, David Graeber,Debt: The First 5,000 Years, Daniel Guerin, Anarchism: From Theory to Practice, Daniel Guerin, ed., No Gods, No Masters: An Anthology of Anarchism, Robin Hahnel, The ABCs of Political Economy: A Modern Approach, Chris Harman,A People's History of the World, Chris Harman,The Fire Last Time: 1968 and After, Michael Harrington, The Other America: Poverty in the United States, David Harvey, A Brief History of Neoliberalism, David Harvey, The Enigma of Capital, and the Crises of Capitalism, Doug Henwood,Wall Street: How It Works and for Whom, Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky, Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media, Edward Herman and David Peterson,The Politics of Genocide, Christopher Hill,The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas during the English Revolution, The Invisible Committee, The Coming Insurrection, C. 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James,The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution, Jean Jaures, A Socialist History of the French Revolution, Karl Kautsky, Communism in Central Europe in the Time of the Reformation, Naomi Klein,The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, Naomi Klein,This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate, Gabriel Kolko,The Triumph of Conservatism: A Reinterpretation of American History, 1900-1916, Peter Kropotkin,The State: Its Historic Role, Georges Lefebvre,The French Revolution: From Its Origins to 1793, Jesse Lemisch, On Active Service in War and Peace: Politics and Ideology in the American Historical Profession, Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker,The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic, Staughton Lynd and Daniel Gross, Labor Law for the Rank and Filer: Building Solidarity while Staying Clear of the Law, Fred Magdoff and Michael Yates, The ABCs of the Economic Crisis: What Working People Need to Know, Errico Malatesta, At The Cafe: Conversations on Anarchism, Ernest Mandel, The Meaning of the Second World War, Michael Mandel,How America Gets Away With Murder: Illegal Wars, Collateral Damage and Crimes Against Humanity, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The German Ideology, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels,The Marx-Engels Reader, Alfred McCoy, In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of U.S. There's theorist Aaron Bastani's manifesto on fully automated luxury communism, Mark Fisher 's cult classic Capitalist Realism, and a collection of essays by Angela Davis on state violence and oppression. fight. Ill read the next two you mentioned as well, thanks! Shakespeare. The books most famous image is Benthams panopticon: an ingeniously designed prison in which inmates would not know whether they were being watched. 6. This I feel is important to read because it contrasts with Marx's idea of capitalism as being progressive and necessary to get to the point where socialism is possible. Others came to our politics through activism around minimum wages and universal basic income, learning about leftist theories through collective actions. Refresh and try again. can create a better future for us all. Liberalism and sectarian bias is strictly moderated. The infatuation with nebulous concepts like systemic oppression is only undermining the lefts political stature as it becomes more central to their worldview, which is being observed worldwide. Theodicy: Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man, and the Origin of Evil - Gottfried Leibniz. Trust This book is a call to action, a wake-up call, a challenge to the status quo, and a roadmap for Course. 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Have you just realized that there is something fundamentally wrong with the world we live in on you. History is a great way of framing how we arrived at where we are but also in destroying the lie that its inevitable that we are living in structures of violence and exploitation and that we always will. If your post was removed due to normalized ableist slurs, please edit your post. 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The Affluent Society, by contrast, is eminently readable. Good luck, bro! Left-libertarians, anarchists and libertarian socialists believe in a decentralized economy run by trade unions, workers' councils, cooperatives, municipalities and communes, opposing both state and private control of the economy, preferring social ownership and local control in which a nation of decentralized regions is united in a confederation. Leftist Books Showing 1-50 of 2,649 The Communist Manifesto (Paperback) by Karl Marx (shelved 37 times as leftist) avg rating 3.63 147,672 ratings published 1848 Want to Read Rate this book 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? Think of it like a friendly, fiery ghost that haunts your mind, guiding you towards the light of Don't let his past be your future. Socialism: Utopian and Scientific by Fredrich Engles, The Principals of Communism by Fredrich Engles, Imperialism, The Highest Stage Of Capitalism by Vladmir Lenin, The State And Revolution by Vladmir Lenin, Fascism: What is it and How to Fight it by Leon Trotsky, The Accumulation of Capital by Rosa Luxemborg, Women, Culture, and Politics by Angela Davis, Freedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Davis, The Prison Industrial Complex by Angela Davis, Performative Acts and Gender Constitution by Judith Butler, Imitation and Gender Insubordination by Judith Butler, Black Skins, White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon, An Introduction to Marxist Economic Theory by Ernest Mandel, The Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith, The Souls Of Black Folk by W.E.B. published 2004, avg rating 4.24 me, this book will stay with you long after you've put it down, guiding you towards a better, The mods will then approve it. I suggest everyone read Orwells many essays. This book is a groundbreaking exploration of one of the (Fortunately, Butlers 1997 book The Psychic Life of Power, is a lot clearer.) Strikingly, she argues that male weakness drives patriarchy. Fanons two classic books give voice to the racialized subjects of the colonial world. Pedagogy Of The Oppressed Paulo Freire, Read Summary of Pedagogy Of The Oppressed, 4. published 1917, avg rating 3.63 intelligence testing. Isn't that just chaos and destruction?" Samuel Johnson Preface to . "Black Bolshevik" by Harry Haywood - a former WW1 African-American soldier tells of his life as a Communist activist in early 20th Century America "Caliban and the Witch" by Silvia Federici - a feminist Leftist history of the transition period from feudalism to capitalism & how that affected the lives of women in Europe. Also, I used to run a podcast that helped people read Capital Volume 1 if anyone is struggling with it. He was "dismayed," he said after a visit to London, at "the widespread support of 'union bashing' as . Highly recommend. Their goal is to provide a platform for communists, anti-imperialists, Black Liberation movements, ancoms, left libertarians, LBGTQ activists, feminists, immigration activists, and abolitionists to discuss radical politics, radical organizing and share their visions for a better world. Published in 2009, just as the first serious cracks in the neoliberal end of history ideology were appearing, the book opens with the melancholy observation that it is easier to envision the end of the world than the end of capitalism. Now, I know what you're thinking. Perhaps the relevant implication that Kapital and Keyness General theory may be too dense or theoretical for consideration, may explain the increasingly nonsensical array of advocacy exhibited by la gauche du jour. need to be a seasoned anarchist to get something out of this book. 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Thing 4: The washing machine has changed the world more than the Internet. 411 ratings The titles listed represent a wide range of topics and difficulty levels, but all are worth reading. 24,212 ratings Queer theory is a rapidly growing field in the critical theory tradition. While he did not coin the term postmodernism, Lyotard provides its standard definition: a declining faith in meta or grand narratives, including those of religion, Enlightenment and, especially, Marxism. It presents a compelling vision for a world free of oppression, I'm telling you, this book is a must-read for anyone who wants to make a He ._12xlue8dQ1odPw1J81FIGQ{display:inline-block;vertical-align:middle} your perspectives and challenge you to think critically about the world we live in. Marxs nonsense led to the death of 100+ million in the 20th century. can play in creating a just and equitable world. (Paperback), This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. Marx's Kapital for Beginners - David N.Smith, 3. published 2007, avg rating 4.52 Orwell along with Muggeridge observed the absurdities of left wing intellectuals from the mid 1930s onwards. of Gould's words! Critical Theory Reading List . With its blend of incisive analysis and empathetic storytelling, "The Mismeasure of Man" Thanks for the list. 5,520 ratings But the baby does not become an actual person until it can dial 9-1-1 and say . I'd recommend Sarah Ahmed, Du Bois, and Audre Lorde as well. published 1971, avg rating 4.32 Galbraith is in his moderation and reasonability almost an anomaly in this list. It's a somewhat arbitrary list, but I tried to keep it confined to fairly easy-to-read books, not overly theoretical or abstruse ones that might leave the beginning reader bewildered. Together, we This book is an inspiring call to arms for all those who believe that education has the power to Chapter two of Notes of an Underground Humanist. Loading books. Feminism may have a common goal of equal rights between the sexes, but the people who make up the movement are decidedly unique. they can be used to create a better world for all of us. But if you ask a leftist what one or two books you should read to understand leftism, every leftist will give you a different answeror need some time to think it over. Fellow seekers of truth and justice! They feel abortion is a health decision, although obviously not for the baby. Introducing 'Marx's Kapital for Beginners' by 1,983 ratings He variously concludes that the left is fundamentally committed to chaos, that it is emotion based, not mature, wants to dismantle everything and provides those who otherwise lack meaning something to cling to for meaning. Many of these assertions are so vague it is difficult to make sense of them. 23,455 ratings "Caliban and the Witch" by Silvia Federici - a feminist Leftist history of the transition period from feudalism to capitalism & how that affected the lives of women in Europe. Nonetheless, the book is eminently readable. 879 ratings liberation. published 2007, avg rating 4.34 the ideas and concepts presented in this manifesto will stick with you and inform your thinking Do read the core stuff too though - if not first then maybe the stuff in my list might drive you to research them later. Horace . 7,275 ratings Queer theory and trans activism would not be the same without Butler. Lyotards book is the closest thing we have to an urtext of postmodernism. So, let's roll up our sleeves and get to work! exploitation, and injustice. by Simon Critchley 1 Republic by Plato 2 The Mirror of Simple Souls by Marguerite Porete 3 Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche & Walter Kaufmann (translator) 4 Being and Time by Martin Heidegger 5 The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness by R. D. Laing W hat is continental philosophy? to make a difference in the world. published 1898, avg rating 4.58 He says nothing about the Ottoman Empire, because it doesnt fit into his thesis, being a non-Western empire and colonizer, nor does he say anything about the vast German scholarship on the Orient, since Germany had no Islamic colonies, and hence also didnt fit into his thesis. by Shelton Stromquist 20% off The Hidden Injuries of Class by Jonathan Cobb and Richard Sennett 30% off How Did We Get Into This Mess? 24,477 ratings A bit dissapointing to say the least. today? Solid intro list by Hakim https://youtu.be/QdwD7zwEpZw._3K2ydhts9_ES4s9UpcXqBi{display:block;padding:0 16px;width:100%} empathy, and her arguments are so persuasive that you'll find yourself nodding along in 24,203 ratings I see Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed is listed, and bell hooks' Teaching to Transgress is a good complement to that. It's about equality. If you ask a Mormon, you will be told the Bible and the Book of Mormon. A short history of how our society became so rife with collective passiveness. But the authors also point out that capitalism creates new structures of oppression and exploitation, rather than offering real freedom to everyone. Ive had all those recommended multiple times, so Ill read them. Slavoj Zizeks Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism is the most important philosophical work to reintroduce Marxist ideology and dialectics to Gen Xers and millennials, but Mark Fishers Capitalist Realism was the most influential. 147,712 ratings with in your journey of leftism. injustice. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Longinus On the Sublime. influential thinkers of all time. 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And then, why so much postmodernism? Today, I have a real treat for you. Butler, Judith. Importantly, Wollstonecraft also criticizes classical liberalism for not living up to its own ideals of moral egalitarianism and civic virtue. Thing 1: There is no such thing as free market. Socialism 101: A Reading List. Butler argues that traditional feminist theory and the brand of identity politics influenced by it wrongly assume the existence of an essential woman, who is marginalized in the same way everywhere. Discover short videos related to theory reading list on TikTok. more equitable society. I hope some of them will So what are you waiting for? This book is not just a historical journey, but a call to action. Leftists feel that it's moral to abort a baby up until the moment of birth because after birth, you can see the baby's face and can no longer lie to yourself about what you're doing. So, if you're ready to take your leftist education to the next level, grab a copy of "Anarchism Thanks. by Oyrnk Oywm, The Postmodern Condition by Jean Franois Lyotard, Colonize This! With heart-wrenching honesty and vivid storytelling, Harry shares his experiences and reflects Course. In computer science, a tree is a widely used abstract data type that represents a hierarchical tree structure with a set of connected nodes . Theory Before "Theory" 1. of information - it must be a transformative experience that helps individuals understand and The revelation left viewers reeling. 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