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Women, Race & Class
Angela Y. Davis
4.59 average rating, · 36.1k ratings
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Are Prisons Obsolete?
Angela Y. Davis
4.51 average rating, · 31.5k ratings
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The Wretched of the Earth
Frantz Fanon
4.35 average rating, · 34.2k ratings
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
Michel Foucault
4.23 average rating, · 38k ratings
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Orientalism
Edward W. Said
4.14 average rating, · 30.9k ratings
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Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation
Silvia Federici
4.56 average rating, · 15.1k ratings
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The State and Revolution
Vladimir Lenin
4.27 average rating, · 19.9k ratings
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Black Skin, White Masks
Frantz Fanon
4.26 average rating, · 20.2k ratings
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Regarding the Pain of Others
Susan Sontag
4.10 average rating, · 24k ratings
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The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
Michel Foucault
4.02 average rating, · 26.4k ratings
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El capital I
Karl Marx
4.30 average rating, · 14.8k ratings
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Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
Benedict Anderson
4.11 average rating, · 16.9k ratings
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On the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce Homo
Friedrich Nietzsche
4.17 average rating, · 16.1k ratings
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Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
Michael Parenti
4.41 average rating, · 10.9k ratings
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Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
Vladimir Lenin
4.28 average rating, · 11.6k ratings
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Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
Michel Foucault
4.08 average rating, · 14.9k ratings
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How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
Walter Rodney
4.40 average rating, · 9k ratings
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Discourse on Colonialism
Aimé Césaire
4.44 average rating, · 8.5k ratings
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Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
Friedrich Engels
4.26 average rating, · 9.5k ratings
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The Human Condition
Hannah Arendt
4.19 average rating, · 10k ratings
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Revolutionary Suicide
Huey P. Newton
4.49 average rating, · 7.5k ratings
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The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
C.L.R. James
4.39 average rating, · 7.8k ratings
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The Conquest of Bread
Pyotr Kropotkin
4.06 average rating, · 10.2k ratings
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The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences
Michel Foucault
4.12 average rating, · 9.7k ratings
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