Class Notes: Posing As Politics and Other Thoughts on the American Scene

Similar books (20)

• 

  What Is to Be Done?

  In What Is to Be Done?, Lenin in 1901 argues that the working class will not spontaneously become political simply by fighting economic battles with employers over wages, working hours and the like. T…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Lenin Rediscovered: What Is to Be Done? In Context

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  The Message

  Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set off to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell’s classic Politics and the English Language, but found himself grappling with deeper questions about how o…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

  After 1989, capitalism has presented itself as the only realistic political-economic system. What effects has this “capitalist realism” had on work, culture, education and mental health? Is it possibl…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  The Bright Sword

  A gifted young knight named Collum arrives at Camelot to compete for a spot on the Round Table, only to find he’s too late. The king died two weeks ago at the Battle of Camlann, leaving no heir, and o…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Red Africa: Reclaiming Revolutionary Black Politics

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  To Kill a Nation: The Attack on Yugoslavia

  Drawing on a wide range of unpublished material and observations gathered from his visit to Yugoslavia in 1999, Michael Parenti challenges mainstream media coverage of the war and uncovers hidden agen…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Toward Freedom: The Case Against Race Reductionism

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

  A powerful indictment of the ways elites have co-opted radical critiques of racial capitalism to serve their own ends.
  
  “Identity politics” is everywhere, polarizing discourse from the campaign trail to…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  The Society of the Spectacle

  Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative as Guy Debord's The Society of the Spectacle. From its publication amid the social upheavals of the 1960s up to the prese…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

  "The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte" is one of Karl Marx' most profound and most brilliant monographs. It may be considered the best work extant on the philosophy of history. On the 18th Bruma…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Das Kapital

  Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth century. From Kapital sprung the economic and political systems that at one time dominated half the earth …

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto

  "[A] well-reasoned and eye-opening treatise . . . [Kohei Saito makes] a provocative and visionary proposal."
  —Publishers Weekly, (starred review)
  
  "Saito’s clarity of thought, plethora of evidence, and …

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Superpatriotism

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  The Panthers Can’t Save Us Now: Debating Left Politics and Black Lives Matter

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  The Communist Manifesto

  A rousing call to arms whose influence is still felt today
  
  Originally published on the eve of the 1848 European revolutions, The Communist Manifesto is a condensed and incisive account of the worldview…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

  Blackshirts & Reds explores some of the big issues of our time: fascism, capitalism, communism, revolution, democracy, and ecology—terms often bandied about but seldom explored in the original and…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

  The Modern Library’s fifth volume of In Search of Lost Time contains both The Captive (1923) and The Fugitive (1925). In The Captive, Proust’s narrator describes living in his mother’s Paris apartment…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump

  The phenomenon of "identity politics" represents one of the primary impasses of the contemporary left. The recent experience of the Democratic primaries and the re-emergence of social movements from O…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Collateral Damage: America's War Against Iraqi Civilians

  Buy this book on Amazon