Socialist


The Communist Manifesto
Animal Farm
The State and Revolution
The Conquest of Bread (Working Classics)
Homage to Catalonia
Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
The Dispossessed
Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
The Jungle
Reform or Revolution
1984
Black Liberation and Socialism
Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Volume 1
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
Washington Bullets
A Spy Among Friends by Ben MacintyreIron Curtain by Anne ApplebaumThe Triumph of Improvisation by James Graham WilsonThe Billion Dollar Spy by David E. HoffmanThe Spy and the Traitor by Ben Macintyre
The Cold War (nonfiction)
373 books — 116 voters
A Fighting Chance by Elizabeth WarrenAn Unlikely Journey by Julian CastroShortest Way Home by Pete ButtigiegThe Truths We Hold by Kamala HarrisWhere We Go from Here by Bernie Sanders
2020 Democratic Primary
37 books — 11 voters

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck1984 by George OrwellThe Jungle by Upton SinclairLes Misérables by Victor HugoThe Iron Heel by Jack London
Novels with Socialist undertones
63 books — 30 voters
This is Moscow Speaking and Other Stories by Yuli DanielThe Ugly Swans by Arkady StrugatskyFraud, Famine and Fascism by Douglas TottleThe Purges of the CPSU in the 1930s by Mario SousaThe Body Politic by Catherine Aird
Samizdat
25 books — 3 voters

The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le GuinAnarchism and Other Essays by Emma GoldmanV for Vendetta by Alan MooreChomsky On Anarchism by Noam ChomskyThe Conquest of Bread by Pyotr Kropotkin
Anarchist books
479 books — 382 voters
Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis CarrollThe Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. WellsJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories by Charlotte Perkins GilmanUse of Weapons by Iain M. Banks
China Miéville's recommendations
55 books — 3 voters

A.E. Samaan
The sadist desires to command and control. The masochist desires to be freed from the burdens of liberty. That is Socialism.
A.E. Samaan, From a "Race of Masters" to a "Master Race": 1948 to 1848

Nor does the Anarchistic scheme furnish any code of morals to be imposed upon the individual. "Mind your own business" is its only moral law. Interference with another's business is a crime and the only crime, and as such may properly be resisted. In accordance with this view the Anarchists look upon attempts to arbitrarily suppress vice as in themselves crimes. They believe liberty and the resultant social well-being to be a sure cure for all the vices. But they recognize the right of the drunk ...more
Frank H Brooks, The Individualist Anarchists: Anthology of Liberty, 1881-1908

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