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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorProposed Roads to Freedom: Socialism, Anarchism and Syndicalism
Bertrand Russell · 183 pages
THE attempt to conceive imaginatively a better ordering of human society than the destructive and cruel chaos in which mankind has hitherto existed is by no means modern: it is at least as old as Plato, whose ``Republic'' set the model for the Utopias of subsequent philosophers. Whoever contemplates the world in the light of an ideal - whether what he seeks be intellect, or art, or love, or simple
The Politics of Obedience and Etienne de La Boetie: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude
Etienne de La Boetie, Paul Bonnefon · 150 pages
Industrial Society and Its Future: The Unabomber Manifesto
Theodore J. Kaczynski
Democracy--The God That Failed: The Economics and Politics of Monarchy, Democracy, and Natural Order
Hans-Hermann Hoppe · 220 pages
The core of this book is a systematic treatment of the historic transformation of the West from monarchy to democracy. Revisionist in nature, it reaches the conclusion that monarchy is a lesser evil than democracy, but outlines deficiencies in both. Its methodology is axiomatic-deductive, allowing the writer to derive economic and sociological theorems, and then apply them to interpret historical
The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism
David D. Friedman · 253 pages
Anarchism and Other Essays
Emma Goldman · 201 pages
"Anarchism asserts the possibility of an organization without discipline, fear, or punishment, and without the pressure of poverty: a new social organism which will make an end to the terrible struggle for the means of existence,--the savage struggle which undermines the finest qualities in man, and ever widens the social abyss. In short, Anarchism strives towards a social organization which will
Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction
Colin Ward · 122 pages
Colin Ward explains what anarchism means and who anarchists are in this illuminating and accessible introduction to the subject. He considers anarchism from a variety of perspectives theoretical, historical and international, and by exploring key anarchist thinkers from Kropotkin to Chomsky.
The Revolution of Everyday Life
Raoul Vaneigem · 279 pages
There is a grain of truth in the simplified notion that Guy Debord and Raoul Vaneigem represented two poles of the Situationist International: the 'objective' Debord versus the 'subjective' Vaneigem; Marxism versus anarchism; icy cerebrality versus sensualism. In short, The Society of the Spectacle versus The Revolution of Everyday Life - the two programmatic books of the Situationists, written in
Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism
Peter Marshall · 778 pages
Navigating the broad "river of anarchy," from Taoism to Situationism, from Ranters to Punk rockers, from individualists to communists, from anarcho-syndicalists to anarcha-feminists, Demanding the Impossible is an authoritative and lively study of a widely misunderstood subject. It explores the key anarchist concepts of society and the state, freedom and equality, authority and power, and investig
TAZ: The Temporary Autonomous Zone (New Autonomy)
Hakim Bey, Peter Lamborn Wilson · 153 pages
Against Intellectual Property
N. Stephan Kinsella · 71 pages
The Dispossessed
Ursula K. Le Guin · 336 pages
E-book extra: In-depth study guide.Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestionable, and attempt to tear down the walls of hatred that have isolated his planet of anarchists from the rest of the civilized universe. To do this dangerous task will mean giving up his family and possibly his life. Shevek must make the unprecedented journey to t
Homage to Catalonia
George Orwell · 232 pages
[Homage to Catalonia][1] is [George Orwell][2]'s account of his experiences fighting in the 'Spanish Civil War'. Alongside many British workers, trades unionists, and socialists keen to help the Spanish defend their Republic from General Franco's Fascist forces. Orwell joined the [POUM][3] Militia in the Catalan region of Spain, was injured in the fighting and invalided back to England. After leav
Mutual Aid
Pyotr Kropotkin · 278 pages
Peter Kropotkin initially published the chapters of Mutual Aid as individual essays in the intellectual periodical The Nineteenth Century over the course of six years. In 1902 the essays were published as a book. In it, Kropotkin explores the role of mutually-beneficial cooperation across both animal and human societies. He begins by outlining how animals, both within and across species, thrive
Jesus for President: Politics for Ordinary Radicals
Shane Claiborne, Chris Haw · 176 pages
Jesus for President is a radical manifesto to awaken the Christian political imagination, reminding us that our ultimate hope lies not in partisan political options but in Jesus and the incarnation of the peculiar politic of the church as a people "set apart" from this world. In what can be termed lyrical theology, Jesus for President poetically weaves together words and images to sing (rather tha