Socialism

Few ideas have shaped the modern world as profoundly as socialism, and this collection brings together the essential voices — from Marx and Lenin to contemporary thinkers — who have debated, defended, and dissected it. Here you'll find sweeping economic analyses, revolutionary manifestos, and critical examinations of socialist experiments in power, offering a complete picture of an ideology that continues to spark fierce debate today.

Socialism Саммари книг

Wealth, Poverty and Politics

— Thomas Sowell • 2015

Four forces create wealth. None of them is redistribution.

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🏛️ Political Economy 🗺️ Economic Geography 🎭 Cultural Economics 📊 Income Inequality 🏥 Welfare State Critique

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Wealth, Poverty and Politics

Four forces create wealth. None of them is redistribution.

— Thomas Sowell 2015 509 стр.

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🏛️ Political Economy 🗺️ Economic Geography 🎭 Cultural Economics 📊 Income Inequality 🏥 Welfare State Critique

Капитал

— Карл Маркс • 1887

Profit is unpaid labor. That single idea dismantles all the economics that came before it.

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💰 Political Economy 🔨 Labor Theory Of Value ➕ Surplus Value 🎭 Commodity Fetishism ⚔️ Class Struggle

Капитал

Profit is unpaid labor. That single idea dismantles all the economics that came before it.

— Карл Маркс 1887 1152 стр.

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💰 Political Economy 🔨 Labor Theory Of Value ➕ Surplus Value 🎭 Commodity Fetishism ⚔️ Class Struggle

Slow Down

— Kōhei Saitō • 2020

Capitalism cannot go green. Marx's late notebooks show he understood why, and what must replace it.

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🔻 Degrowth 🌍 Ecological Economics 📕 Marxist Ecology 🔄 Post-Capitalism ✊ Anti-Capitalism

Slow Down

Capitalism cannot go green. Marx's late notebooks show he understood why, and what must replace it.

— Kōhei Saitō 2020 273 стр.

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🔻 Degrowth 🌍 Ecological Economics 📕 Marxist Ecology 🔄 Post-Capitalism ✊ Anti-Capitalism

The Relevance of the Communist Manifesto

— Slavoj Žižek • 2018

The Communist Manifesto foresaw virtual money, debt bondage, false choices. But offered no way out.

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🔻 Marxist Theory 🧠 Critical Theory 🏛️ Political Economy 🏢 Late Capitalism 💰 Financialization

The Relevance of the Communist Manifesto

The Communist Manifesto foresaw virtual money, debt bondage, false choices. But offered no way out.

— Slavoj Žižek 2018 70 стр.

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🔻 Marxist Theory 🧠 Critical Theory 🏛️ Political Economy 🏢 Late Capitalism 💰 Financialization

Marx and Satan

— Richard Wurmbrand • 1986

Marxism isn't politics. It's devil worship wearing an atheist mask, and Marx's own play betrays him.

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🗡️ Spiritual Warfare 📜 Christian Apologetics ⛓️ Communist Persecution 😈 Satanic Panic 🌐 Cold War Christianity

Marx and Satan

Marxism isn't politics. It's devil worship wearing an atheist mask, and Marx's own play betrays him.

— Richard Wurmbrand 1986 143 стр.

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🗡️ Spiritual Warfare 📜 Christian Apologetics ⛓️ Communist Persecution 😈 Satanic Panic 🌐 Cold War Christianity

Applied Economics

— Thomas Sowellm • 2003

Popular policies trade visible benefits for invisible costs. Applied economics reads the price tag.

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🗳️ Political Economy 🔮 Unintended Consequences 🧠 Economic Reasoning 🏠 Property Rights 🌍 Immigration Economics

Applied Economics

Popular policies trade visible benefits for invisible costs. Applied economics reads the price tag.

— Thomas Sowellm 2003 348 стр.

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🗳️ Political Economy 🔮 Unintended Consequences 🧠 Economic Reasoning 🏠 Property Rights 🌍 Immigration Economics

The Revolution Betrayed

— Leon Trotsky • 1937

Not socialism, not capitalism. Trotsky charts the third system the Russian Revolution produced.

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🏛️ Soviet History 📖 Marxist Theory 💰 Political Economy 🏭 State Capitalism 📋 Bureaucratic Critique

The Revolution Betrayed

Not socialism, not capitalism. Trotsky charts the third system the Russian Revolution produced.

— Leon Trotsky 1937 240 стр.

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🏛️ Soviet History 📖 Marxist Theory 💰 Political Economy 🏭 State Capitalism 📋 Bureaucratic Critique

What Is to Be Done?

— Vladimir Lenin • 1902

Workers alone only win wage fights. A secret vanguard must bring revolutionary thought from outside.

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🧠 Marxist Theory ⚔️ Revolutionary Strategy 🏭 Class Consciousness 📋 Political Organizing 🔥 Reform Vs Revolution

What Is to Be Done?

Workers alone only win wage fights. A secret vanguard must bring revolutionary thought from outside.

— Vladimir Lenin 1902 272 стр.

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🧠 Marxist Theory ⚔️ Revolutionary Strategy 🏭 Class Consciousness 📋 Political Organizing 🔥 Reform Vs Revolution

China After Mao

— Frank Dikötter • 2022

Deng's reforms weren't a path to democracy; they were the same dictatorship with a market face.

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📜 Modern Chinese History 💰 State Capitalism ⛓️ Authoritarian Rule 📹 Surveillance State 🌫️ Environmental Damage

China After Mao

Deng's reforms weren't a path to democracy; they were the same dictatorship with a market face.

— Frank Dikötter 2022 416 стр.

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📜 Modern Chinese History 💰 State Capitalism ⛓️ Authoritarian Rule 📹 Surveillance State 🌫️ Environmental Damage

The German Ideology / Theses on Feuerbach / Introduction to the Critique of Political Economy

— Karl Marx • 1846

History's engine is not ideas but the struggle over who controls the tools of survival.

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🏭 Materialist History ⚒️ Class Struggle 🎭 Ideology Critique 🛠️ Division Of Labor 😔 Alienation

The German Ideology / Theses on Feuerbach / Introduction to the Critique of Political Economy

History's engine is not ideas but the struggle over who controls the tools of survival.

— Karl Marx 1846 584 стр.

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🏭 Materialist History ⚒️ Class Struggle 🎭 Ideology Critique 🛠️ Division Of Labor 😔 Alienation

Main Currents Of Marxism

— Leszek Kołakowski • 2005

Marxism's own contradictions made authoritarianism inevitable, not an aberration.

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📖 Intellectual History ⚒️ Marxist Theory 🔍 Critique Of Ideology 🚩 Party Vanguardism 🏭 Historical Materialism

Main Currents Of Marxism

Marxism's own contradictions made authoritarianism inevitable, not an aberration.

— Leszek Kołakowski 2005 1284 стр.

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📖 Intellectual History ⚒️ Marxist Theory 🔍 Critique Of Ideology 🚩 Party Vanguardism 🏭 Historical Materialism

The People’s Republic of Walmart

— Leigh Phillips • 2019

Big corporations already plan like socialist states. The final step is not computing but democracy.

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🧮 Economic Planning 🔴 Socialist Economics 🗳️ Democratic Planning ⚖️ Calculation Debate 🏗️ Post-Capitalism

The People’s Republic of Walmart

Big corporations already plan like socialist states. The final step is not computing but democracy.

— Leigh Phillips 2019 256 стр.

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🧮 Economic Planning 🔴 Socialist Economics 🗳️ Democratic Planning ⚖️ Calculation Debate 🏗️ Post-Capitalism

The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism

— Bertrand Russell • 1920

Russell expected a workers' paradise. He found a religion enforced by secret police.

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🚩 Bolshevik Critique 🔨 Soviet History 🪓 Revolutionary Politics 🔎 Ideology Critique 🧠 Power And Psychology

The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism

Russell expected a workers' paradise. He found a religion enforced by secret police.

— Bertrand Russell 1920 122 стр.

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🚩 Bolshevik Critique 🔨 Soviet History 🪓 Revolutionary Politics 🔎 Ideology Critique 🧠 Power And Psychology

Essential Works of Lenin

— Vladimir Lenin • 1964

Monopoly, finance capital, and empire: Lenin's thesis on capitalism's inevitable last chapter.

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⚒️ Marxist Theory 📈 Political Economy ⚔️ Class Struggle 🌍 Imperialism 🏢 Monopoly Capitalism

Essential Works of Lenin

Monopoly, finance capital, and empire: Lenin's thesis on capitalism's inevitable last chapter.

— Vladimir Lenin 1964 400 стр.

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⚒️ Marxist Theory 📈 Political Economy ⚔️ Class Struggle 🌍 Imperialism 🏢 Monopoly Capitalism

Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism

— Kristen R. Ghodsee • 2018

Women have better sex when economically independent. A Cold War experiment proves it.

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✊ Socialist Feminism 🧹 Care Work 👩‍💼 Women And Work 🏥 Welfare State 🏢 State Feminism

Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism

Women have better sex when economically independent. A Cold War experiment proves it.

— Kristen R. Ghodsee 2018 240 стр.

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✊ Socialist Feminism 🧹 Care Work 👩‍💼 Women And Work 🏥 Welfare State 🏢 State Feminism

The Communist Manifesto and Other Writings

— Karl Marx • 2005

History is class struggle, and the bourgeoisie forged the weapons now aimed at its own throat.

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🚩 Marxism 🏛️ Political Philosophy 📜 Historical Materialism ⚒️ Class Struggle 🏢 State Theory

The Communist Manifesto and Other Writings

History is class struggle, and the bourgeoisie forged the weapons now aimed at its own throat.

— Karl Marx 2005 224 стр.

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🚩 Marxism 🏛️ Political Philosophy 📜 Historical Materialism ⚒️ Class Struggle 🏢 State Theory

Socialism Betrayed

— Roger Keeran • 2004

The Soviet collapse wasn't inevitable: a pro-market faction inside the Party dismantled it.

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🏛️ Soviet History 📖 Marxist Historiography 🔨 Class Analysis 🕶️ Shadow Economies 🏢 One-Party State

Socialism Betrayed

The Soviet collapse wasn't inevitable: a pro-market faction inside the Party dismantled it.

— Roger Keeran 2004 230 стр.

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🏛️ Soviet History 📖 Marxist Historiography 🔨 Class Analysis 🕶️ Shadow Economies 🏢 One-Party State

A Planet to Win

— Kate Aronoff • 2019

What if fighting climate change meant universal housing, public power, and a four-day week?

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📗 Green New Deal 🌍 Climate Justice 🌱 Ecosocialism 🌹 Democratic Socialism ⚡ Energy Transition

A Planet to Win

What if fighting climate change meant universal housing, public power, and a four-day week?

— Kate Aronoff 2019 208 стр.

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📗 Green New Deal 🌍 Climate Justice 🌱 Ecosocialism 🌹 Democratic Socialism ⚡ Energy Transition

A People's Guide to Capitalism

— Hadas Thier • 2018

The dirty secret of every price tag: profit comes from work that was never paid for.

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🏛️ Political Economy ☭ Marxist Theory ⛓️ Labor Exploitation ✊ Class Struggle 📉 Crisis Theory

A People's Guide to Capitalism

The dirty secret of every price tag: profit comes from work that was never paid for.

— Hadas Thier 2018 300 стр.

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🏛️ Political Economy ☭ Marxist Theory ⛓️ Labor Exploitation ✊ Class Struggle 📉 Crisis Theory

Contesting Democracy

— Jan-Werner Müller • 2006

It wasn't democracy versus its enemies. It was a fight over what 'democracy' actually meant.

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🧠 Intellectual History 🏛️ Political Thought 🛑 Totalitarianism 🚩 State Socialism 👊 Fascist Ideology

Contesting Democracy

It wasn't democracy versus its enemies. It was a fight over what 'democracy' actually meant.

— Jan-Werner Müller 2006 304 стр.

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🧠 Intellectual History 🏛️ Political Thought 🛑 Totalitarianism 🚩 State Socialism 👊 Fascist Ideology

Broke

— Glenn Beck • 2010

America's real debt tops $64 trillion. Rome and Spain collapsed the same way.

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💸 National Debt 🪙 Fiscal Conservatism 🏛️ Limited Government 📈 Austrian Economics 🗽 Federalism

Broke

America's real debt tops $64 trillion. Rome and Spain collapsed the same way.

— Glenn Beck 2010 406 стр.

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💸 National Debt 🪙 Fiscal Conservatism 🏛️ Limited Government 📈 Austrian Economics 🗽 Federalism

Economics in Three Lessons and One Hundred Economics Laws

— Hunter Lewis • 2017

Prosperity requires free prices, not central plans, and the hundred laws that explain why.

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🧐 Austrian Economics 🗽 Classical Liberalism 📚 Economic Literacy 🏷️ Price Theory 💵 Monetary Inflation

Economics in Three Lessons and One Hundred Economics Laws

Prosperity requires free prices, not central plans, and the hundred laws that explain why.

— Hunter Lewis 2017 425 стр.

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🧐 Austrian Economics 🗽 Classical Liberalism 📚 Economic Literacy 🏷️ Price Theory 💵 Monetary Inflation

Che Guevara Reader

— Ernesto Che Guevara • 1997

Winning the war is step one. Che Guevara's collected writings on what revolutions do after victory.

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🇨🇺 Cuban Revolution 🪖 Guerrilla Warfare 🌍 Anti-Imperialism 📕 Marxism Leninism 🌾 Agrarian Reform

Che Guevara Reader

Winning the war is step one. Che Guevara's collected writings on what revolutions do after victory.

— Ernesto Che Guevara 1997 420 стр.

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🇨🇺 Cuban Revolution 🪖 Guerrilla Warfare 🌍 Anti-Imperialism 📕 Marxism Leninism 🌾 Agrarian Reform

Capitalism Unbound

— Andrew Bernstein • 2009

Before capitalism, life expectancy was under 35. The moral case for freedom starts with that number.

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🗿 Objectivism 💼 Laissez-Faire ⚖️ Moral Philosophy ✊ Individual Rights 🏛️ Classical Liberalism

Capitalism Unbound

Before capitalism, life expectancy was under 35. The moral case for freedom starts with that number.

— Andrew Bernstein 2009 146 стр.

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🗿 Objectivism 💼 Laissez-Faire ⚖️ Moral Philosophy ✊ Individual Rights 🏛️ Classical Liberalism

What Is Property?

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon • 1840

Every defense of private property, from first occupation to labor, logically requires its abolition.

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🏛️ Political Economy 📜 Property Rights Ⓐ Anarchist Theory 💸 Economic Rent 🔨 Labor Theory Of Value

What Is Property?

Every defense of private property, from first occupation to labor, logically requires its abolition.

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon 1840 310 стр.

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🏛️ Political Economy 📜 Property Rights Ⓐ Anarchist Theory 💸 Economic Rent 🔨 Labor Theory Of Value

Chaotic Neutral

— Ed Burmila • 2022

Democrats swapped the working class for Wall Street. The collapse started with Bill Clinton.

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🏛️ Democratic Party 💼 Neoliberal Centrism 🗳️ Electoral Strategy ⚒️ Economic Populism 🏙️ State And Local Politics

Chaotic Neutral

Democrats swapped the working class for Wall Street. The collapse started with Bill Clinton.

— Ed Burmila 2022 352 стр.

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🏛️ Democratic Party 💼 Neoliberal Centrism 🗳️ Electoral Strategy ⚒️ Economic Populism 🏙️ State And Local Politics

The Age of Acquiescence

— Steve Fraser • 2015

Mass movements once made America ungovernable for the rich. Now extreme inequality meets silence.

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✊ Class Conflict 💰 Wealth Inequality 👷 Labor Movements 🏢 Corporate Power 🏦 American Capitalism

The Age of Acquiescence

Mass movements once made America ungovernable for the rich. Now extreme inequality meets silence.

— Steve Fraser 2015 480 стр.

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✊ Class Conflict 💰 Wealth Inequality 👷 Labor Movements 🏢 Corporate Power 🏦 American Capitalism

The Moral Economists

— Tim Rogan • 2017

Capitalism's best critics fought for its moral toll, not its material one. We lost that fight.

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🏛️ Political Economy 🧠 Intellectual History 🤝 Ethical Economics ✝️ Christian Socialism 🔨 Marxist Humanism

The Moral Economists

Capitalism's best critics fought for its moral toll, not its material one. We lost that fight.

— Tim Rogan 2017 270 стр.

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🏛️ Political Economy 🧠 Intellectual History 🤝 Ethical Economics ✝️ Christian Socialism 🔨 Marxist Humanism

The Acquisitive Society

— R.H. Tawney • 1920

When property rights outrank social purpose, owners collect without contributing. The diagnosis.

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🏛️ Political Economy 💰 Critique Of Capitalism ✝️ Christian Socialism 📜 Moral Economy ⚖️ Economic Justice

The Acquisitive Society

When property rights outrank social purpose, owners collect without contributing. The diagnosis.

— R.H. Tawney 1920 192 стр.

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🏛️ Political Economy 💰 Critique Of Capitalism ✝️ Christian Socialism 📜 Moral Economy ⚖️ Economic Justice

Un espectro recorre el mundo. Sobre el Manifiesto comunista

— China Miéville • 2022

A novelist on the Communist Manifesto as a live spell and the moral case for class hatred.

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🧠 Marxist Theory 📜 Communist History ⚒️ Class Struggle 🏢 Capitalist Critique 🔥 Revolutionary Thought

Un espectro recorre el mundo. Sobre el Manifiesto comunista

A novelist on the Communist Manifesto as a live spell and the moral case for class hatred.

— China Miéville 2022 338 стр.

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🧠 Marxist Theory 📜 Communist History ⚒️ Class Struggle 🏢 Capitalist Critique 🔥 Revolutionary Thought

October

— China Miéville • 2017

Ten months, one empire, and a revolution that no one had written the ending for.

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🇷🇺 Russian Revolution ☭ Soviet History ✊ Revolutionary Movements 🏴 Political Insurrection 👥 Mass Movements

October

Ten months, one empire, and a revolution that no one had written the ending for.

— China Miéville 2017 369 стр.

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🇷🇺 Russian Revolution ☭ Soviet History ✊ Revolutionary Movements 🏴 Political Insurrection 👥 Mass Movements

The Implosion of Contemporary Capitalism

— Samir Amin • 2013

Monopoly capitalism's financialized phase is terminal, not a crisis. The only way out: socialism.

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🏛️ Political Economy 🔨 Marxist Economics 🌐 Dependency Theory 📉 Financialization Critique ⚖️ Class Polarization

The Implosion of Contemporary Capitalism

Monopoly capitalism's financialized phase is terminal, not a crisis. The only way out: socialism.

— Samir Amin 2013 144 стр.

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🏛️ Political Economy 🔨 Marxist Economics 🌐 Dependency Theory 📉 Financialization Critique ⚖️ Class Polarization

Global Civil War

— William I. Robinson • 2022

Tech giants, banks, and the military used Covid to fuse into a global surveillance order.

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📊 Political Economy 🌐 Global Capitalism 📈 Marxist Economics 👁️ Surveillance Capitalism 💻 Digital Capitalism

Global Civil War

Tech giants, banks, and the military used Covid to fuse into a global surveillance order.

— William I. Robinson 2022 224 стр.

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📊 Political Economy 🌐 Global Capitalism 📈 Marxist Economics 👁️ Surveillance Capitalism 💻 Digital Capitalism

Reconstructing Karl Polanyi

— Gareth Dale • 2016

Polanyi didn't want a friendlier market. He wanted democracy to rule the economy outright.

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📖 Intellectual History 📊 Political Economy 🏛️ Economic History ⚖️ Market Critique 🏷️ Commodification

Reconstructing Karl Polanyi

Polanyi didn't want a friendlier market. He wanted democracy to rule the economy outright.

— Gareth Dale 2016 258 стр.

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📖 Intellectual History 📊 Political Economy 🏛️ Economic History ⚖️ Market Critique 🏷️ Commodification

The People, No

— Thomas Frank • 2020

Why 'populist' became a slur: the century-long elite campaign to discredit economic democracy.

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🇺🇸 American Populism 🎩 Elite Critique 👷 Working Class Politics 🗳️ Economic Democracy 💵 Class In America

The People, No

Why 'populist' became a slur: the century-long elite campaign to discredit economic democracy.

— Thomas Frank 2020 307 стр.

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🇺🇸 American Populism 🎩 Elite Critique 👷 Working Class Politics 🗳️ Economic Democracy 💵 Class In America

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