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The Souls of Black Folk
W.E.B. Du Bois
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Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
Mark Fisher
4.21 average rating, · 43k ratings
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Thick: And Other Essays
Tressie McMillan Cottom
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Thomas S. Kuhn
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Escape from Freedom
Erich Fromm
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The Origins of Totalitarianism
Hannah Arendt
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Mythologies
Roland Barthes
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The Local School
Colin Phelan
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The Revolt of the Masses
José Ortega y Gasset
4.03 average rating, · 6.8k ratings
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Réinventer l'amour: Comment le patriarcat sabote les relations hétérosexuelles
Mona Chollet
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The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History
Ibn Khaldun
4.31 average rating, · 5k ratings
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Selections from the Prison Notebooks
Antonio Gramsci
4.21 average rating, · 5.3k ratings
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The People of the Abyss
Jack London
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In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays
Bertrand Russell
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Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
Theodor W. Adorno
4.24 average rating, · 4.9k ratings
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The Logic of Scientific Discovery
Karl Popper
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Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World
Eduardo Galeano
4.39 average rating, · 4.2k ratings
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Surviving Autocracy
Masha Gessen
4.14 average rating, · 4.8k ratings
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The Power of the Powerless
Václav Havel
4.22 average rating, · 4.5k ratings
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This Is What Inequality Looks Like
Teo You Yenn
4.45 average rating, · 3.8k ratings
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The View From Flyover Country: Essays by Sarah Kendzior
Sarah Kendzior
4.10 average rating, · 4.5k ratings
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The Outsider
Colin Wilson
4.03 average rating, · 4.6k ratings
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Ill Fares the Land
Tony Judt
4.00 average rating, · 4.4k ratings
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Les ingénieurs du chaos
Giuliano da Empoli
4.22 average rating, · 3.6k ratings
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