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The Secret Gospel of Jesus, AD 0-78 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 22 times as radical)
avg rating 4.66 — 68 ratings — published 2020
Are Prisons Obsolete? (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as radical)
avg rating 4.51 — 30,368 ratings — published 2003
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as radical)
avg rating 3.68 — 199,591 ratings — published 1848
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as radical)
avg rating 4.44 — 35,974 ratings — published 2015
Assata: An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as radical)
avg rating 4.60 — 31,592 ratings — published 1987
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as radical)
avg rating 4.35 — 32,702 ratings — published 1961
All About Love: New Visions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as radical)
avg rating 4.01 — 138,137 ratings — published 1999
Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)
by (shelved 9 times as radical)
avg rating 4.27 — 5,971 ratings — published 2020
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as radical)
avg rating 4.53 — 41,089 ratings — published 1984
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as radical)
avg rating 4.59 — 34,749 ratings — published 1981
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as radical)
avg rating 4.30 — 39,397 ratings — published 1968
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as radical)
avg rating 4.37 — 292,356 ratings — published 1965
The Other Side of the Judeo-Christian History (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as radical)
avg rating 4.85 — 61 ratings — published 2011
We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as radical)
avg rating 4.63 — 5,999 ratings — published 2021
The State and Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as radical)
avg rating 4.26 — 18,821 ratings — published 1917
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as radical)
avg rating 4.50 — 19,323 ratings — published 1981
The Conquest of Bread (Working Classics)
by (shelved 8 times as radical)
avg rating 4.06 — 9,912 ratings — published 1892
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as radical)
avg rating 4.09 — 267,088 ratings — published 1980
Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as radical)
avg rating 4.17 — 70,040 ratings — published 2010
The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917–2017 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as radical)
avg rating 4.49 — 35,641 ratings — published 2020
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as radical)
avg rating 4.36 — 63,619 ratings — published 2020
The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as radical)
avg rating 4.21 — 30,991 ratings — published 2018
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as radical)
avg rating 4.30 — 54,106 ratings — published 2007
The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as radical)
avg rating 4.26 — 152,243 ratings — published 1974
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as radical)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,501,375 ratings — published 1948
The Coming Insurrection (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as radical)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,797 ratings — published 2007
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as radical)
avg rating 4.13 — 29,833 ratings — published 1978
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as radical)
avg rating 4.21 — 40,556 ratings — published 2009
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
by (shelved 5 times as radical)
avg rating 4.55 — 122,427 ratings — published 1963
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as radical)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,584,520 ratings — published 1945
Discourse on Colonialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as radical)
avg rating 4.45 — 8,080 ratings — published 1950
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as radical)
avg rating 4.26 — 19,333 ratings — published 1952
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as radical)
avg rating 4.52 — 117,678 ratings — published 2010
Reform or Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as radical)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,958 ratings — published 1900
The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as radical)
avg rating 4.08 — 29,469 ratings — published 1975
V for Vendetta (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as radical)
avg rating 4.26 — 325,682 ratings — published 1990
The Philosophy of Cosmic Spirituality (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as radical)
avg rating 4.83 — 41 ratings — published 2014
The Nation on No Map: Black Anarchism and Abolition (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as radical)
avg rating 4.49 — 263 ratings — published 2021
The End of Policing (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as radical)
avg rating 4.18 — 12,368 ratings — published 2017
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as radical)
avg rating 4.42 — 8,490 ratings — published 1971
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as radical)
avg rating 4.36 — 119,636 ratings — published 2019
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as radical)
avg rating 4.40 — 367,984 ratings — published 2015
Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as radical)
avg rating 4.40 — 9,674 ratings — published 1997
The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as radical)
avg rating 4.35 — 30,627 ratings — published 2003
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as radical)
avg rating 4.31 — 27,921 ratings — published 1971
Citizen: An American Lyric (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as radical)
avg rating 4.25 — 52,062 ratings — published 2014
Detroit: I Do Mind Dying: A Study in Urban Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as radical)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,092 ratings — published 1975
The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia (Yale Agrarian Studies Series)
by (shelved 4 times as radical)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,414 ratings — published 2009
Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as radical)
avg rating 3.74 — 8,643 ratings — published 1971
Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as radical)
avg rating 4.44 — 12,982 ratings — published 1994
“Both political parties have moved to the right during the neoliberal period. Today’s New Democrats are pretty much what used to be called “moderate Republicans.” The “political revolution” that Bernie Sanders called for, rightly, would not have greatly surprised Dwight Eisenhower.
The fate of the minimum wage illustrates what has been happening. Through the periods of high and egalitarian growth in the ‘50s and ‘60s, the minimum wage—which sets a floor for other wages—tracked productivity. That ended with the onset of neoliberal doctrine. Since then, the minimum wage has stagnated (in real value). Had it continued as before, it would probably be close to $20 per hour. Today, it is considered a political revolution to raise it to $15.”
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The fate of the minimum wage illustrates what has been happening. Through the periods of high and egalitarian growth in the ‘50s and ‘60s, the minimum wage—which sets a floor for other wages—tracked productivity. That ended with the onset of neoliberal doctrine. Since then, the minimum wage has stagnated (in real value). Had it continued as before, it would probably be close to $20 per hour. Today, it is considered a political revolution to raise it to $15.”
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“In one of his puckish moods Saul talked the president of a university into letting him anonymously take an examination being administered to candidates for a doctorate in community organization. "Three of the questions were on the philosophy of and motivations of Saul Alinsky," writes Saul. "I answered two of them incorrectly.”
― Radical: A Portrait of Saul Alinsky
― Radical: A Portrait of Saul Alinsky
