Political Development


Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
History of West Africa to the Nineteenth Century
The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917–2017
Palestine, Israel and the U.S. Empire
All About Love: New Visions
Between Shades of Gray
Grace: President Obama and Ten Days in the Battle for America
A Promised Land
Prefigurative Politics: Building Tomorrow Today
Black Anarchism: A Reader
A Country of Ghosts
Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky
From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
Waking Up White: And Finding Myself in the Story of Race

Leon Trotsky
...you must remember that the political development of the masses proceeds not in a direct line, but in a complicated curve. And is not this, after all, the essential movement of every material process? Objective conditions were powerfully impelling the workers, soldiers and peasants toward the banners of the Bolsheviks, but the masses were entering upon this path in a state of struggle with their own past, with their yesterday’s beliefs, and partly also with their beliefs of today. At a difficu ...more
Leon Trotsky, History of the Russian Revolution