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Slavoj Žižek

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The Bolivarian Revolution

by Simon Bolivar

A collection of documents from iconic revolutionary, Símon Bolívar, introduced by Hugo Chávez, President of Venezuela.

8 posts
The Rights of Man and Common Sense

by Thomas Paine
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again."—Thomas Paine
1 post
On the Town

by Marshall Berman
A pulsating history of Times Square and its iconic role in America's society of the spectacle.
4 posts
The Myth of 1648

by Benno Teschke

Award-winning reinterpretation of the origins of modern international relations.

6 posts

The Struggle for Tibet

by Wang Lixiong and Tsering Shakya

Two leading thinkers argue against the Chinese occupation and the theocracy of Tibet.

8 posts
Filming Pancho

by Margarita de Orellana
An absorbing look at how early twentieth-century Hollywood shaped the US’s conception of Mexico.
I, Rigoberta Menchú

by Rigoberta Menchú
The best-selling account of the life of Latin American peasant woman and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
14 posts
The Long Twentieth Century

by Giovanni Arrighi

A comprehensive analysis of the development of world capitalism over seven hundred years.

15 posts

Suffering as Identity

by Esther Benbassa
An analysis of the discourse of victimhood in Judaism.
4 posts
Sermon to the Princes

by Thomas Muntzer

“Omnia sunt communia—all things are common.”—Thomas Müntzer.

2 posts
The Meaning of Sarkozy

by Alain Badiou

The reactionary tradition behind Sarkozy, and the communist hypothesis for the twenty-first century.

55 posts
The Coming of the Book

by Lucien Febvre and Henri-Jean Martin

Two distinguished historians examine the impact of the world's most influential information technology.

1 post

The Making of New World Slavery

by Robin Blackburn

Tracing European doctrines of race and slavery from medieval times to the early modern epoch.

16 posts
The Persistence of the Old Regime

by Arno Mayer

“A seminal book—extremely challenging.”—Carlo Ginzburg

2 posts
In Hiding

by Ronald Fraser
“So brief and yet so complete, so movingly human.”—Arthur Miller, New York Times
5 posts
Surveys from Exile

by Karl Marx
Volume 2 of Marx’s political writings, including The Eighteenth Brumaire.
14 posts

Israel and Palestine

by Avi Shlaim
Acclaimed reflections on the causes and consequences of the Israel-Palestine conflict.
27 posts
On the Nation and the Jewish People

by Ernest Renan and Shlomo Sand
Two classic texts on nationalism introduced by the author of The Invention of the Jewish People.
15 posts
Rebel Rank and File

Edited by Aaron Brenner, Robert Brenner, et al.
The hidden story of the 1970s insurgency from below, against employers and bureaucrats.
28 posts
Damming the Flood

by Peter Hallward
“A marvelous book ... riveting and deeply informed.”—Noam Chomsky
14 posts

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