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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 252 times as capitalism)
avg rating 4.30 — 55,661 ratings — published 2007
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Paperback)
by (shelved 225 times as capitalism)
avg rating 4.21 — 43,124 ratings — published 2009
Atlas Shrugged (Paperback)
by (shelved 129 times as capitalism)
avg rating 3.69 — 410,719 ratings — published 1957
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 114 times as capitalism)
avg rating 4.16 — 28,050 ratings — published 2014
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as capitalism)
avg rating 4.05 — 14,038 ratings — published 2018
Capital in the Twenty First Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 100 times as capitalism)
avg rating 4.06 — 35,202 ratings — published 2013
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as capitalism)
avg rating 4.02 — 36,350 ratings — published 2018
The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as capitalism)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,907 ratings — published 1999
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as capitalism)
avg rating 3.91 — 15,514 ratings — published 1904
Capitalism and Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as capitalism)
avg rating 3.90 — 15,523 ratings — published 1962
23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as capitalism)
avg rating 3.96 — 12,868 ratings — published 2010
Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as capitalism)
avg rating 4.28 — 11,579 ratings — published 1917
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as capitalism)
avg rating 3.69 — 206,422 ratings — published 1848
Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 74 times as capitalism)
avg rating 4.14 — 22,001 ratings — published 2013
Debt: The First 5,000 Years (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as capitalism)
avg rating 4.21 — 28,010 ratings — published 2011
Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code—Socialism with a Human Face: A New World Order (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 69 times as capitalism)
avg rating 4.28 — 16,714 ratings — published 2017
Capitalism: A Ghost Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as capitalism)
avg rating 3.94 — 3,217 ratings — published 2014
Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as capitalism)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,856 ratings — published 2007
A Brief History of Neoliberalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as capitalism)
avg rating 4.13 — 7,487 ratings — published 2005
Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as capitalism)
avg rating 4.02 — 11,198 ratings — published 2023
No Logo (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as capitalism)
avg rating 3.89 — 33,169 ratings — published 2000
Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as capitalism)
avg rating 4.56 — 15,146 ratings — published 2004
Capitalism & Slavery (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as capitalism)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,772 ratings — published 1944
Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Volume 1 (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as capitalism)
avg rating 4.30 — 14,847 ratings — published 1867
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as capitalism)
avg rating 4.45 — 5,696 ratings — published 2013
The Fountainhead (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as capitalism)
avg rating 3.89 — 340,481 ratings — published 1943
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as capitalism)
avg rating 3.89 — 35,917 ratings — published 1776
Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as capitalism)
avg rating 4.50 — 9,772 ratings — published 2020
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as capitalism)
avg rating 3.95 — 8,601 ratings — published 2015
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as capitalism)
avg rating 4.47 — 117,259 ratings — published 2016
Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as capitalism)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,224 ratings — published 2014
Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as capitalism)
avg rating 4.41 — 10,915 ratings — published 1997
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as capitalism)
avg rating 3.88 — 40,272 ratings — published 2005
A People's Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as capitalism)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,316 ratings — published 2018
The Road to Serfdom (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as capitalism)
avg rating 4.14 — 26,605 ratings — published 1944
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as capitalism)
avg rating 4.23 — 25,377 ratings — published 1988
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as capitalism)
avg rating 4.40 — 9,031 ratings — published 1971
Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet—and What We Can Do About It (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 35 times as capitalism)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,365 ratings — published 2022
Profit Over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as capitalism)
avg rating 4.02 — 7,388 ratings — published 1998
Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as capitalism)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,324 ratings — published 2023
The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as capitalism)
avg rating 4.61 — 19,769 ratings — published 2020
Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as capitalism)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,455 ratings — published 2024
Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as capitalism)
avg rating 4.13 — 17,576 ratings — published 2018
Empire of Cotton: A Global History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as capitalism)
avg rating 3.90 — 3,867 ratings — published 2014
The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of American Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as capitalism)
avg rating 4.22 — 397 ratings — published 2012
24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as capitalism)
avg rating 3.72 — 3,243 ratings — published 2013
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as capitalism)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,990 ratings — published 1942
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as capitalism)
avg rating 3.65 — 57,328 ratings — published 2019
The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as capitalism)
avg rating 4.62 — 4,134 ratings — published 2017
Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as capitalism)
avg rating 4.00 — 7,590 ratings — published 1991
“The current ruling ontology denies any possibility of a social causation of mental illness. The chemico-biologization of mental illness is of course strictly commensurate with its depoliticization. Considering mental illness an individual chemico-biological problem has enormous benefits for capitalism. First, it reinforces Capital’s drive towards atomistic individualization (you are sick because of your brain chemistry). Second, it provides an enormously lucrative market in which multinational pharmaceutical companies can peddle their pharmaceuticals (we can cure you with our SSRIs). It goes without saying that all mental illnesses are neurologically instantiated, but this says nothing about their causation. If it is true, for instance, that depression is constituted by low serotonin levels, what still needs to be explained is why particular individuals have low levels of serotonin. This requires a social and political explanation; and the task of repoliticizing mental illness is an urgent one if the left wants to challenge capitalist realism.”
― Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
― Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
“The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It has pitilessly torn asunder the motley feudal ties that bound man to his 'natural superiors,' and has left remaining no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest, callous 'cash payment.' It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervor, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation. It has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of the numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, has set up that single, unconscionable freedom—Free Trade. In one word, for exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions, it has substituted naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation.
The bourgeoisie has stripped of its halo every occupation hitherto honored and looked up to with reverent awe. It has converted the physician, the lawyer, the priest, the poet, the man of science, into its paid wage laborers.
The bourgeoisie has torn away from the family its sentimental veil, and has reduced the family relation to a mere money relation.”
― The Communist Manifesto
The bourgeoisie has stripped of its halo every occupation hitherto honored and looked up to with reverent awe. It has converted the physician, the lawyer, the priest, the poet, the man of science, into its paid wage laborers.
The bourgeoisie has torn away from the family its sentimental veil, and has reduced the family relation to a mere money relation.”
― The Communist Manifesto
