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