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Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code—Socialism with a Human Face: A New World Order (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 86 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.28 — 16,692 ratings — published 2017
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as social-theory)
avg rating 3.69 — 204,589 ratings — published 1848
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.23 — 37,767 ratings — published 1975
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as social-theory)
avg rating 3.91 — 15,441 ratings — published 1904
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.14 — 30,669 ratings — published 1978
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.23 — 25,206 ratings — published 1988
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.35 — 33,865 ratings — published 1961
Distinction (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.16 — 3,705 ratings — published 1979
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.02 — 26,264 ratings — published 1976
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.21 — 42,438 ratings — published 2009
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 16,749 ratings — published 1983
The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as social-theory)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,820 ratings — published 1912
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,786 ratings — published 1959
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.30 — 40,194 ratings — published 1968
The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 4,409 ratings — published 1966
The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,452 ratings — published 1944
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.04 — 20,140 ratings — published 1989
The Sociological Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,400 ratings — published 1959
The Society of the Spectacle (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.03 — 24,017 ratings — published 1967
Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Volume 1 (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.30 — 14,694 ratings — published 1867
Debt: The First 5,000 Years (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.21 — 27,772 ratings — published 2011
The Second Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.18 — 48,477 ratings — published 1949
The Division of Labor in Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as social-theory)
avg rating 3.84 — 2,349 ratings — published 1893
Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 8,372 ratings — published 1947
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.04 — 466,008 ratings — published 1997
The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,515 ratings — published 1956
The Burnout Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as social-theory)
avg rating 3.84 — 32,878 ratings — published 2010
Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.27 — 11,381 ratings — published 1917
Liquid Modernity (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,099 ratings — published 1999
Suicide: A Study in Sociology (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as social-theory)
avg rating 3.85 — 4,672 ratings — published 1897
Utopia (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as social-theory)
avg rating 3.55 — 84,762 ratings — published 1516
Economy and Society: An Outline of Interpretive Sociology (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,616 ratings — published 1921
Outline of a Theory of Practice (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,712 ratings — published 1972
The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,701 ratings — published 1966
Selections from the Prison Notebooks (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,325 ratings — published 1947
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.52 — 119,210 ratings — published 2010
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.59 — 35,759 ratings — published 1981
Gulag: A History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.29 — 14,142 ratings — published 2003
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.30 — 55,290 ratings — published 2007
The Marx-Engels Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as social-theory)
avg rating 3.98 — 7,078 ratings — published 1971
Why Socialism Works (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 16 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.21 — 674 ratings — published
The Gulag Archipelago (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.35 — 14,448 ratings — published 1973
The Social Contract (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as social-theory)
avg rating 3.78 — 59,183 ratings — published 1762
One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as social-theory)
avg rating 3.98 — 7,729 ratings — published 1964
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.26 — 20,011 ratings — published 1952
The Longest Con: How Grifters, Swindlers, and Frauds Hijacked American Conservatism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,401 ratings — published 2024
To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.17 — 838 ratings — published 2024
The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.02 — 6,609 ratings — published 2013
Are Prisons Obsolete? (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.51 — 31,193 ratings — published 2003
Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as social-theory)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,178 ratings — published 2005
“Crises are, in a way, democracy-free zones-gaps in politics as usual when the need for consent and consensus do not seem to apply.”
― The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
― The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
“Marxism is the science of the laws governing the development of nature and society, the science of the revolution of the oppressed and exploited masses, the science of the victory of socialism in all countries, the science of building communist society.”
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