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Viento del pueblo. II tomos by Miguel Hernández
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratings"Los poetas somos viento del nacemos para pasar soplando a través de sus poros y conducir sus ojos y sus sentimientos hacia las cumbres más hermosas", confiesa Miguel Hernández en la dedicatoria de "Viento del pueblo" (1936-1937). Y así surgen los poemas de este libro con su nota dinámica, su tono épico y su febril entusiasmo... -
![Inventing Reality: The Politics of the Mass Media by Michael Parenti]()
Inventing Reality: The Politics of the Mass Media by Michael Parenti
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis study looks at the role of the print and electronic media in defining "respectable" political discourse in the United States. From a critical perpective, Parenti looks at the economics and politics of "presenting" the news and argues that the media systematically distort the news. This manufactured reality deprives the public of necessary information for effective participation in government... -
![Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage by Paulo Freire]()
Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage by Paulo Freire
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis book displays the striking creativity and profound insight that characterized Freire's work to the very end of his life-an uplifting and provocative exploration not only for educators, but also for all that learn and live... -
![Readicide: How Schools Are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It by Kelly Gallagher]()
Readicide: How Schools Are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It by Kelly Gallagher
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsRead-i-cide n: The systematic killing of the love of reading, often exacerbated by the inane, mind-numbing practices found in schools. Reading is dying in our schools. Educators are familiar with many of the factors that have contributed to the decline—poverty, second-language issues, and the ever-expanding choices of electronic entertainment... -
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![The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study by Fred Moten, Stefano Harney]()
The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study by Fred Moten, Stefano Harney
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn this series of essays Fred Moten and Stefano Harney draw on the theory and practice of the black radical tradition as it supports, inspires, and extends contemporary social and political thought and aesthetic critique...Categorized as:
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![Capital and Ideology by Thomas Piketty]()
Capital and Ideology by Thomas Piketty
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe epic successor to one of the most important books of the century: at once a retelling of global history, a scathing critique of contemporary politics, and a bold proposal for a new and fairer economic system.Thomas Piketty's bestselling Capital in the Twenty-First Century galvanized global debate about inequality... -
![The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care by T.R. Reid]()
The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care by T.R. Reid
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn The Healing of America, New York Times bestselling author T. R. Reid shows how all the other industrialized democracies have achieved something the United States can’t seem to do: provide health care for everybody at a reasonable cost... -
![Socialist Reconstruction: A Better Future for the United States by Party for Socialism and Liberation]()
Socialist Reconstruction: A Better Future for the United States by Party for Socialism and Liberation
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA vision of the first decade of socialism in the United States. The diverse multinational working class has achieved political supremacy and is actively eliminating bigotry, racism, and national oppression as it expands economic, social, and political democracy... -
![The Communist Manifesto/The April Theses: A Revolutionary Edition by Karl Marx]()
The Communist Manifesto/The April Theses: A Revolutionary Edition by Karl Marx
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Communist Manifesto,is the most influential political call-to-arms ever written. In the century and a half since its publication the world has been shaken repeatedly by those who sought to make its declamations a reality.But the focus of this modern edition is not primarily the vivid history of Marx and Engels’ most important work... -
![النبى الأعزل - تروتسكى 1921 - 1929 by Isaac Deutscher, إسحق دويتشر]()
النبى الأعزل - تروتسكى 1921 - 1929 by Isaac Deutscher, إسحق دويتشر
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Prophet Unarmed, first published in 1959, is the second volume of Isaac Deutscher's extraordinary Trotsky trilogy, which the Guardian has said 'will rank among the great political biographies of our time... -
![Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell): My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement by Jane F. McAlevey]()
Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell): My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement by Jane F. McAlevey
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis “breath-taking trip through the union-organizing scene of America in the 21st century” reveals the victories and unconventional strategies of a renowned—and notorious—militant union organizer (Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed ) In 1995, in the first contested election in the history of the AFL-CIO, John Sweeney won the presidency of the nation’s largest labor federation,... -
![A People's Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics by Hadas Thier]()
A People's Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics by Hadas Thier
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEconomists regularly promote Capitalism as the greatest system ever to grace the planet. With the same breath, they implore us to leave the job of understanding the magical powers of the market to the “experts... -
![American Rule: How a Nation Conquered the World but Failed Its People by Jared Yates Sexton]()
American Rule: How a Nation Conquered the World but Failed Its People by Jared Yates Sexton
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom writer and political analyst Jared Yates Sexton comes an eye-opening journey through American history that unearths and debunks the myths we've always told ourselves. Recent years have brought a reckoning in America... -
![Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change by Victor Papanek]()
Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change by Victor Papanek
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsDesign for the Real World has, since its first appearance twenty-five years ago, become a classic. Translated into twenty-three languages, it is one of the world's most widely read books on design... -
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![The Global Minotaur: America, the True Origins of the Financial Crisis and the Future of the World Economy by Yanis Varoufakis, Leda Paulani]()
The Global Minotaur: America, the True Origins of the Financial Crisis and the Future of the World Economy by Yanis Varoufakis, Leda Paulani
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn this remarkable and provocative book, Yanis Varoufakis explores the myth that financialisation, ineffectual regulation of banks, greed and globalisation were the root causes of the global economic crisis. Rather, they are symptoms of a much deeper malaise which can be traced all the way back to the Great Crash of 1929, then on through to the 1970s: the time when a ‘Global Minotaur’ was born... -
![Companion To Marx's Capital (Vol 1 and 2), A: The Complete Edition: 1-2 by David Harvey]()
Companion To Marx's Capital (Vol 1 and 2), A: The Complete Edition: 1-2 by David Harvey
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe radical geographer guides us through the classic text of political economy."My aim is to get you to read a book by Karl Marx called Capital, Volume 1, and to read it on Marx's own terms..." The biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression has generated a surge of interest in Marx's work in the effort to understand the origins of our current predicament... -
![Marx's Grundrisse by Karl Marx, David McLellan]()
Marx's Grundrisse by Karl Marx, David McLellan
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWritten during the winter of 1857-8, the "Grundrisse" was considered by Marx to be the first scientific elaboration of communist theory. A collection of seven notebooks on capital and money, it both develops the arguments outlined in the Communist Manifesto (1848) and explores the themes and theses that were to dominate his great later work "Capital"... -
![Wage Labour and Capital by Karl Marx]()
Wage Labour and Capital by Karl Marx
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWage Labour and Capital is an essay on economics by Karl Marx, written in 1847 and first published in articles in the Neue Rheinische Zeitung in April 1849. It has been widely acclaimed as the precursor to Marx's important treatise The Capital... -
![The Transformation by Juliana Spahr]()
The Transformation by Juliana Spahr
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPoetry. Juliana Spahr has lived in many places, including Chillicothe (Ohio), Buffalo (New York), Honolulu (Hawaii), and Brooklyn (New York). She has absorbed, participated in, and been transformed by the politics and ecologies of each. This book is about that process... -
![Main Currents of Marxism: The Founders, the Golden Age, the Breakdown by Leszek Kołakowski]()
Main Currents of Marxism: The Founders, the Golden Age, the Breakdown by Leszek Kołakowski
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom philosopher Leszek Kolakowski, one of the giants of twentieth-century intellectual history, comes this highly infuential study of Marxism... -
![Democracy Against Capitalism: Renewing Historical Materialism by Ellen Meiksins Wood]()
Democracy Against Capitalism: Renewing Historical Materialism by Ellen Meiksins Wood
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEllen Meiksins Wood argues that with the collapse of Communism the theoretical project of Marxism and its critique of capitalism is more timely and important than ever... -
![The Face of Imperialism by Michael Parenti]()
The Face of Imperialism by Michael Parenti
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe relationship between US economic and military power is not often considered within mainstream commentary. Similarly the connection between US military interventions overseas and US domestic problems is rarely considered in any detail. In this brilliant new book, Michael Parenti reveals the true face of US imperialism... -
![The Class Ceiling: Why it Pays to be Privileged by Sam Friedman, Daniel Laurison]()
The Class Ceiling: Why it Pays to be Privileged by Sam Friedman, Daniel Laurison
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPoliticians continually tell us that anyone can get ahead. But is that really true? This important, best-selling book takes readers behind the closed doors of elite employers to reveal how class affects who gets to the top. Friedman and Laurison show that a powerful 'class pay gap’ exists in Britain’s elite occupations... -
![The Long Twentieth Century by Giovanni Arrighi]()
The Long Twentieth Century by Giovanni Arrighi
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Long Twentieth Century traces the relationship between capital accumulation and state formation over a 700-year period. Arrighi argues that capitalism has unfolded as a succession of “long centuries,” each of which produced a new world power that secured control over an expanding world-economic space... -
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![The Prophet Outcast: Trotsky, 1929-1940 by Isaac Deutscher]()
The Prophet Outcast: Trotsky, 1929-1940 by Isaac Deutscher
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFew political figures of the twentieth century have aroused as much controversy as the Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky. Trotsky’s extraordinary life and extensive writings have left an indelible mark on revolutionary conscience, yet there was a danger that his name would disappear from history... -
![A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism: Economics, Politics, and Ethics by Hans-Hermann Hoppe]()
A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism: Economics, Politics, and Ethics by Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHere is Hans Hoppe's first treatise in English — actually his first book in English — and the one that put him on the map as a social thinker and economist to watch. He argued that there are only two possible archetypes in economic affairs: socialism and capitalism. All systems are combinations of those two types... -
![The Refusal of Work: The Theory and Practice of Resistance to Work by David Frayne]()
The Refusal of Work: The Theory and Practice of Resistance to Work by David Frayne
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsPaid work is absolutely central to the culture and politics of capitalist societies, yet today's work-centred world is becoming increasingly hostile to the human need for autonomy, spontaneity and community. The grim reality of a society in which some are overworked, whilst others are condemned to intermittent work and unemployment, is progressively more difficult to tolerate... -
![No Contest: The Case Against Competition by Alfie Kohn]()
No Contest: The Case Against Competition by Alfie Kohn
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsNo Contest stands as the definitive critique of competition. Contrary to accepted wisdom, competition is not basic to human nature; it poisons our relationships and holds us back from doing our best. In this new edition, Alfie Kohn argues that the race to win turns all of us into losers... -
![Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century by Harry Braverman, Paul M. Sweezy]()
Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century by Harry Braverman, Paul M. Sweezy
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis 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 academic sociology... -
![Bureaucracy by Ludwig von Mises]()
Bureaucracy by Ludwig von Mises
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsProfessor von Mises addressed himself to a particular issue: what is the essential difference between bureaucratic management by government and market management in a system based on private ownership of the means of production? Mises does not discuss bureaus or bureaucrats, but inexorable principles of human action...
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