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A
Michael Albert and Robin Hahnel, “Participatory Planning” in Socialist Visions edited by Stephen Shalom (1983).
Anthony Arnove, Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal (spring 2006)
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B
Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1949).
Ernst Bloch, Atheism in Christianity (1968 in German, translated to English in 1972).
Ernst Bloch, The Principle of Hope, Volumes One - Three (1938-1947 in German, translated to English in 1986).
Augusto Boal, Theatre of the Oppressed (1979).
Carl Boggs, Gramsci’s Marxism (1976).
Pierre Broué, The German Revolution, 1917 - 1923, Haymarket Books (published by Haymarket in 2006).
Pierre Broué, The Revolution and the Civil War in Spain, 1934 -1939, Haymarket Books (published by Haymarket in 2008).
Eleanor Burke Leacock, Myths of Male Dominance: Collected Articles on Women Cross-Culturally, Haymarket Books (1981).
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C
Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: a Marxist Critique (1991).
Alex Callinicos, Making History: Agency, Structure, and Change in Social Theory (1988)
Alex Callinicos, The Revolutionary Ideas of Karl Marx (1983).
Noam Chomsky, Government in the Future, Audio File (1970).
Noam Chomsky, Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, Video File (1992).
James Connolly, “Socialism and Nationalism” (1897).
David Cortwright, Soldiers in Revolt: GI Resistance During the Vietnam War, Haymarket Books (1975, republished by Haymarket 2005).
David Cross, Dessert and Commodity Fetishism (circa 2008).
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D
Charles Darwin, On the Origin of the Species by Means of Natural Selection (1859).
“I think
[sketch]
Case must be that one generation then should be as many living as now. To do this & to have many species in same genus (as is) requires extinction.
Thus between A & B immense gap of relation. C & B the finest gradation, B & D rather greater distinction. Thus genera would be formed. — bearing relation”
Dave Dellinger, “Declaration of War” (1945).
Joseph Dietzgen, The Nature of Human Brain Work: An Introduction to Dialectics, PM Press (1869).
Hal Draper, Anatomy of the Micro-Sect (1973).
Hal Draper, The Two Souls of Socialism (1966).
W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk (1903).
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E
Terry Eagleton, The Illusions of Postmodernism (31 December 1996).
Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English, Witches, Midwives, and Nurses: A History of Women Healers (Feminist Press 1973, 2010).
Albert Einstein, “Why Socialism?” (May 1949).
Friedrich Engels, The Anti-Dühring (written September 1876 - June 1878).
Friedrich Engels, The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State: in the light of the researches of Lewis H. Morgan (1884).
Friedrich Engels, Synopsis of Capital (1868).
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F
Silvia Federici, Caliban and the Witch: Women, The Body, and Primitive Accumulation (Autonomedia 2004).
Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed (published in english in 1970).
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G
Eduardo Galeano, Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone (2009).
Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent (1997).
Antonio Gramsci, “The Ideological Preparation of the Masses”.
Antonio Gramsci, “The Individual Person and the Collective Person”.
Antonio Gramsci, The Modern Prince.
Antonio Gramsci, The State and Civil Society.
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H
Duncan Hallas, “Towards a Revolutionary Socialist Party” (1971).
Chris Harman, “For Democratic Centralism” (July 1978).
Chris Harman, The Lost Revolution: Germany 1918 to 1923, Haymarket Books (1982).
Marta Harnecker, Latin America and Twenty-First Century Socialism: Inventing to Avoid Mistakes.
David Harvey, A Companion to Marx’s Capital (2010).
Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848 (DATE).
Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Capital: 1848-1875 (DATE).
Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Empire: 1875-1914 (DATE).
Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914-1991 (DATE).
Adam Hochschild, King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa.
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I
Iraq Veterans Against the War, Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan, Watch a Preview Here, (Film, 13-16 March 2008).
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J
C. L. R. James, The Black Jacobins; Toussaint Louverture and the San Domingo Revolution (1938).
C. L. R. James, Every Cook Can Govern (DATE).
C. L. R. James, The Invading Socialist Society (DATE).
Selma James, “Sex, Race, and Class” (1975).
Selma James, “A Women’s Place” (1972).
Allan G. Johnson, “People, Systems, and the Game of Monopoly” (31 October 2009).
Brian Jones, “The Return of Karl Marx” (13 April 2009).
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K
Alexandra Kollantai, Love of Worker Bees (1923).
Alexandra Kollantai, Red Love (1927).
Alexandra Kollantai, “Why the Bolsheviks Must Win” (December 1917).
Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962).
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L
Paul Lafargue, “The Right To Be Lazy” (1883).
Paul LeBlanc, “Lenin and the Challenge of Revolutionary Democracy” (1 November 2006).
Paul LeBlanc, Lenin and the Revolutionary Party (August 1993).
Paul LeBlanc, “What Do Socialists Say About Democracy?” (November 2010).
Henri Lefebvre, Dialectical Materialism (1940).
V. I. Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism (Jan-June 1916).
V. I. Lenin, Leftwing Communism: An Infantile Disorder (April/May 1920).
V. I. Lenin, The Right of Nations to Self-Determination (February - May 1914).
V. I. Lenin, The State and Revolution (1917).
V. I. Lenin, What Is To Be Done? Burning Questions of our Movement (late 1901-early 1902, published 1902).
Michael Löwy, “Ecosocialism and Democratic Planning” (DATE).
György Lukács, “Imperialism: World War and Civil War” in Lenin: A Study on the Unity of His Thought.
Rosa Luxemburg, The Mass Strike, the Political Party, and the Trade Unions (1906).
Rosa Luxemburg, Reform or Revolution (1900).
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M
Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince (~1513, print run 1532).
Karl Marx, Capital, Volume I: A Critique of Political Economy (published 1867).
Karl Marx, “Estranged Labour” (1844).
Karl Marx, The German Ideology (fall 1845 to mid-1846).
Karl Marx, “Letter to Arnold Ruge” (September 1843)
Karl Marx, “Theses on Feuerbach” (spring 1845, slightly edited by Engels).
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848).
Lewis H. Morgan, Ancient Society, or, Researches in the Lines of Human Progress from Savagery through Barbarism to Civilization (1877).
N
Immanuel Ness and Dario Azzellini, Ours to Master and to Own Workers’ Control from the Commune to the Present (May 2011, Haymarket Books, Vol. One of a multi-volume series).
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O
Liam O’Ceallaigh, “We Weren’t “Born This Way”: A Critique of Lady GaGa” (20 February 2011).
George Orwell, 1984 (1949).
George Orwell, “Politics and the English Language” (1946).
George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia (1938).
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P
Patch Adams, Focus On The Solution
Charles Payne, I’ve Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle (15 January 1997).
Christopher Phelps, “The Prophet Reconsidered” (January 2008).
James W. Prescott, “Body Pleasure and the Origins of Violence” (The Bulletin of The Atomic Scientists”, November 1975, pp. 10-20)
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Q
Queimada (“Burn!“), Marlon Brando’s speech.
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R
Alexander Rabinowitch, The Bolsheviks Come To Power: The Revolution of 1917 in Petrograd (October 1978; Haymarket Books & Pluto Press, 20 July 2004).
Barbara Ransby, Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision (April 2003).
Jack Reed, Ten Days That Shook the World (1919).
Wilhelm Reich, Listen, Little Man! (1948).
Wilhelm Reich, The Mass Psychology of Fascism (1933).
Wilhelm Reich, The Murder of Christ (1953).
Wilhelm Reich, Sex-Pol, 1929-1934 (1929-1934).
Wilhelm Reich, “What Is Class Consciousness?”.
Kirstin Roberts, “Before Classes: Our Egalitarian Past” (17 June 2010, Socialism 2010).
Maximilien Robespierre, Virtue and Terror, with an introduction by Slavoj Žižek (DATE).
Arundhati Roy, “Come September” (September 2002).
Arundhati Roy, “Confronting Empire” (27 January 2010).
Arundhati Roy, “Walking with the Comrades” (19 March 2010).
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S
Carl Sagan on Trotsky’s History of the Russian Revolution.
Carl Sagan, “The Pale Blue Dot” (DATE).
Anita Sarkeesian, “The Bechdel Test for Women in Movies“, Video (7 December 2010).
Victor Serge, Revolution in Danger: Writings from Russia, 1919-1921.
Sir! No Sir! (Film 2005).
Socially Constructing Beauty (Film DATE).
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T
Leon Trotsky, Terrorism and Communism (online or Verso Books paperback) (29 May 1920).
Leon Trotsky, Fascism: What It Is and How To Fight It (1930-40, published 1944).
Leon Trotksy, “On Optimism and Pessimism; On the 20th Century and On Many Other Issues” (1901).
“It seems as if the new century, this gigantic newcomer, were bent at the very moment of its appearance to drive the optimist into absolute pessimism and civic nirvana. – Death to Utopia! Death to faith! Death to love! Death to hope! thunders the twentieth century in salvos of fire and in the rumbling of guns. – Surrender, you pathetic dreamer. Here I am, your long awaited twentieth century, your ‘future.’ – No, replies the unhumbled optimist: You, you are only the present.” - Leon Trotsky, “On Optimism and Pessimism” (1901)
Leon Trotsky, “Why Marxists Oppose Individual Terrorism” (November 1911).
Mark Twain, King Leopold’s Soliloquy (1905)..
Sun Tzu, The Art of War (circa 6th century B.C.)
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U
U. S. Army & Marines, Counterinsurgency Field Manual (June 2006).
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W
Oscar Wilde, “The Soul of Man Under Socialism” (1891).
Chris Williams, Ecology and Socialism Solutions to Capitalist Ecological Crisis (Haymarket Books, June 2010)
Gregory Wilpert, Changing Venezuela by Taking Power: The History and Policies of the Chavez Government (2006).
The Wind That Shakes the Barley (Film 2006).
Sherry Wolf, Sexuality and Socialism: History, Politics, and Theory of LGBT Liberation (Haymarket Books, 2009), especially Chapter 7 “Biology, Environment, Gender, and Sexual Orientation”, and Chapter 6 “In Defense of Materialism: Postmodernism, Identity Politics, and Queer Theory in Perspective”
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Z
Clara Zetkin, “Through Dictatorship to Democracy” (1919)n Optimism and Pessimism; On the 20th Century and on Many Other Issues” (1901).
Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States: 1492 to Present (1980).
Howard Zinn, “Three Holy Wars” (17 March 2009).
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