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Radical Leftist Texts

Hey comrades, I'm starting this thread for people to recommend leftist/anti-imperialist/anti-capitalist texts they've enjoyed! A lot of the books I buy and read come from indie publishers such as OR Books, AK Press, Pluto Press, semiotext(e), etc.

Here are some of the leftist books I've acquired recently or have read/started reading:

  • Blue Collar Empire by Jeff Schuhrke
  • Collectives in the Spanish Revolution by Gaston Leval
  • Doughnut Economics by Kate Raworth
  • Western Marxism by Domenico Losurdo
  • The Hammer: Power, Inequality, and the Struggle for the Soul of Labor by Hamilton Nolan
  • Carceral Capitalism by Jackie Wang (also Jackie Wang's other books are really good too!)
  • Rich People Things by Chris Lehmann
  • Representing Radicals by Tilted Scales Collective
  • Moneyless Society by Matthew Holten
  • A Participatory Economy by Robin Hahnel
  • Black Scare / Red Scare by Charisse Burden-Stelly
  • If You're So Ethical, Why Are You So Highly Paid? by Alexander Pepper
  • What Do We Do About Inequality? by Wicked Problems Collaborative
  • Beneath the Mountain edited by Mumia Abu-Jamal & Jennifer Black
  • Techno Feudalism: What Killed Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis
  • Against Landlords by Nick Bano
  • Basic Income by Philippe Van Parijs & Yannick Vanderborght
  • Settler Colonialism by Sai Englert
  • Overcoming Capitalism by Tom Wetzel
  • Understanding Hamas and Why That Matter by Helena Cobban & Rami G. Khouri
  • Cooperatives at Work by George Cheney, Matt Noyes, Emi Do, Marcelo Vieta, Joseba Azkarraga, & Charlie Michel
  • Beautiful Solutions: A Toolbox For Liberation edited by Elandria Williams, Rachel Plattus, Eli Feghali, & Nathan Schneider
  • Mastering The Universe: The Obscene Wealth of the Ruling Class, What They Do With Their Money, and Why You Should Hate Them Even More by Rob Larson
  • The Invention of the Jewish People by Shlomo Sand (side note: Shlomo Sand is one of a handful of anti-Zionist Israeli writers/researchers)
  • Abolish Rent by Tracy Rosenthal & Leonardo Vilchis
  • Practicing New Worlds: Abolition and Emergent Strategies by Andrea J. Ritchie
  • A Small Farm Future by Chris Smaje
  • The Future is Degrowth: A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism by Matthias Schmelzer, Andrea Vetter, & Aaron Vansintjan
  • Systems Thinking for Social Change by David Peter Stroth
  • Beyond Courts - a project of Community Justice Exchange, Interrupting Criminalization, & Critial Resistance
  • If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution by Vincent Bevins


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