Bhargav's bookshelf: read en-US Wed, 07 Aug 2024 20:23:23 -0700 60 Bhargav's bookshelf: read 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[Capital: A Critique of Political Economy Volume 1]]> 325785 Capital, one of Marx's major and most influential works, was the product of thirty years close study of the capitalist mode of production in England, the most advanced industrial society of his day. This new translation of Volume One, the only volume to be completed and edited by Marx himself, avoids some of the mistakes that have marred earlier versions and seeks to do justice to the literary qualities of the work. The introduction is by Ernest Mandel, author of Late Capitalism, one of the only comprehensive attempts to develop the theoretical legacy of Capital.]]> 1152 Karl Marx 0140445684 Bhargav 0 to-read 4.28 1867 Capital: A Critique of Political Economy Volume 1
author: Karl Marx
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]]> <![CDATA[Enron Blowout: Corporate Capitalism And Theft Of The Global Commons]]> 17614 120 8187496274 Bhargav 0 to-read 3.00 2002 Enron Blowout: Corporate Capitalism And Theft Of The Global Commons
author: Vijay Prashad Prabir Purkayastha
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]]> Uncle Sam's Nuclear Cabin 6514353 136 8187496746 Bhargav 0 to-read 4.00 2008 Uncle Sam's Nuclear Cabin
author: Prabir Purkayastha Ninan Koshy M.K. Bhadrakumar
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]]> <![CDATA[जागत� रह� सोने वालो� (Jaagte Raho Sone Waloon)]]> 49106708 132 Gorakh Pandey Bhargav 0 to-read 4.33 जागते रहो सोने वालों (Jaagte Raho Sone Waloon)
author: Gorakh Pandey
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]]> <![CDATA[Hello, Bastar - The Untold Story of India's Maoist Movement]]> 11830958 216 Rahul Pandita 9380658346 Bhargav 0 to-read 3.77 2011 Hello, Bastar - The Untold Story of India's Maoist Movement
author: Rahul Pandita
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]]> <![CDATA[Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village]]> 92801 670 William Hinton 0520210409 Bhargav 0 to-read 4.32 1966 Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village
author: William Hinton
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]]> <![CDATA[Fractured Freedom: A Prison Memoir]]> 57433406
Fractured Freedom takes you through the journey of an honest man and his partner, Anuradha, to a difficult destiny. Here is a story of people who dedicated their lives listening to their hearts pouring with empathy and service for the marginalized, and who believed that true revolution required direct action for a more human and just society. Part memoir, part prison diary, Ghandy bares it all looking back at their lives, love, loss and politics, so intrinsically tied together. Having languished in Indian prisons for over a decade, he tells of his long incarceration, of his fellow prisoners, and of the Kafkaesque experiences with the Indian legal system sending shivers down one’s spine. This is the candid and unfiltered account of how an unjust system breaks the brave and bold hearted. A story of a life in extremes � the height of privilege and the depth of despair, a story of our times, of a path many would shy away from.

'Many ask me that while people from my background, in their youth, often turn communist, but, as they grow up, they settle down with family and jobs, leaving their idealism behind � why did you and Anu not follow this norm and trend? Well, I don’t really know; with the comforts we had been used to, it was no doubt, difficult living a frugal existence, traveling in crowded buses and trains and eating simple food. It would have been far easier to settle down with all the inherited wealth. But then, when I think again, would that have given us happiness? Anu was such a natural, honest person she could never have compromised with her convictions. And I would never have been comfortable in the corporate world of greed. So, communism seemed the answer for both of us.’]]> 287 Kobad Ghandy 8195124852 Bhargav 0 to-read 3.72 Fractured Freedom: A Prison Memoir
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]]> অগ্নিগর্ভ� 18163850 174 Mahasweta Devi Bhargav 0 to-read 4.43 1990 অগ্নিগর্ভċ
author: Mahasweta Devi
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]]> Class Theory and History 1032016 368 Stephen A. Resnick 0415933188 Bhargav 0 to-read 3.61 2002 Class Theory and History
author: Stephen A. Resnick
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]]> <![CDATA[Capitalism Hits the Fan: The Global Economic Meltdown and What to Do About It]]> 6519810 --Stanley Aronowitz, Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Urban Education, City University of New York Capitalism Hits the Fan chronicles one economist's growing alarm and insights as he watched, from 2005 onwards, the economic crisis build, burst, and then dominate world events. The argument here differs sharply from most other explanations offered by politicians, media commentators, and other academics. Step by step, Professor Wolff shows that deep economic structures--the relationship of wages to profits, of workers to boards of directors, and of debts to income--account for the crisis. The great change in the US economy since the 1970s, as employers stopped the historic rise in US workers' real wages, set in motion the events that eventually broke the world economy. The crisis resulted from the post-1970s profit explosion, the debt-driven finance-industry expansion, and the sequential stock market and real estate booms and busts. Bailout interventions by the Federal Reserve and the US Treasury have thrown too little money too late at a problem that requires more than money to solve. As this book shows, we must now ask basic questions about capitalism as a system that has now convulsed the world economy into two great depressions in 75 years (and countless lesser crises, recession, and cycles in between). The book's essays engage the long-overdue public discussion about basic structural changes and systemic alternatives needed not only to fix today's broken economy but to prevent future crises.]]> 262 Richard D. Wolff 156656784X Bhargav 0 to-read 3.89 2009 Capitalism Hits the Fan: The Global Economic Meltdown and What to Do About It
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]]> <![CDATA[Occupy the Economy: Challenging Capitalism]]> 13436393 Occupying the Economy not only clarifies and analyzes the crisis in US capitalism today, it also points toward solutions that can shape a far better future for all.
Richard Wolff is professor of economics at U. Mass, and visiting professor at the New School in New York City. He hosts a program on WBAI and is author of the hit book Capitalism Hits the Fan.
David Barsamian is director of Alternative Radio and author of many interview books, including What We Say Goes with Noam Chomsky.]]> 190 Richard D. Wolff 0872865673 Bhargav 0 to-read 3.91 2012 Occupy the Economy: Challenging Capitalism
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]]> Understanding Socialism 49114605
"Richard Wolff's book is the best accessible and reliable treatment we have of what socialism is, was, and should be.� - Cornel West

“In the same accessible style that has made his programs and lectures such a hit, he explains his subject in a way that's not only smart, but makes the rest of us feel smart. It's actionable intelligence for the every person.� - Laura Flanders

“Lucid, brilliant and uncompromising in his dissection of the capitalist system he also provides a sane and just socialist alternative to capitalist exploitation, one we must all fight to achieve.� - Chris Hedges]]> 150 Richard D. Wolff 0578227347 Bhargav 0 to-read 4.01 2019 Understanding Socialism
author: Richard D. Wolff
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]]> <![CDATA[Inequality and Power: The Economics of Class (Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy)]]> 11359213 240 Eric A. Schutz 0415554802 Bhargav 0 to-read 3.50 2011 Inequality and Power: The Economics of Class (Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy)
author: Eric A. Schutz
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]]> Markets and Power 2454250 221 Eric A. Schutz 0765605015 Bhargav 0 to-read 3.00 2001 Markets and Power
author: Eric A. Schutz
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]]> <![CDATA[Inequality, Class, and Economics]]> 58291946
The COVID-19 pandemic exposed the economic inequalities pervading every aspect of society� and then multiplied them to a staggering degree. A mere nine months into the lockdown, the net worth of the infamous Forbes 400 increased by one trillion dollars; In a single year the US poverty rate rose by the largest amount ever since record-keeping began sixty years ago. At the same time, mass unemployment imperiled or erased the fragile right to quality health care for a substantial number of people living in states without Medicaid. In Inequality, Class, and Economics, Eric Schutz illumines the pillars undergirding the monstrous polarities which define our times� and reveals them as the very same structures of power at the foundations of the class system under today's capitalism.

Employing both traditional and novel approaches to public policy, Inequality, Class, and Economics offers prescriptions that can genuinely address the steepening and hardening of class boundaries. This book pushes past economists' studied avoidance of the problem of class as a system of inequality based in unequal opportunity, and exhorts us to tackle the heart of the problem at long last.]]> 320 Eric Schutz 1583679421 Bhargav 0 to-read 4.67 Inequality, Class, and Economics
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]]> <![CDATA[Red Star Over China: The Classic Account of the Birth of Chinese Communism]]> 400393 544 Edgar Snow 0802150934 Bhargav 0 to-read 4.10 1937 Red Star Over China: The Classic Account of the Birth of Chinese Communism
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]]> <![CDATA[Counterrevolution: The Global Rise of the Far Right (Agrarian Change and Peasant Studies)]]> 45873220 While this swift turn of events has shocked or surprised many in the North, the extreme right’s seizure of power is not an uncommon event in the South. In Counterrevolution, Walden Bello deconstructs the challenge from the far right by deploying what he calls the dialectic of revolution and counterrevolution and harnesses the methods of comparative history and comparative sociology. Using case studies from Italy in the 1920s, Indonesia in the 1960s, Chile in the 1970s and contemporary Thailand, India and the Philippines, Bello lays bare the origins, dynamics and consequences of counterrevolutionary movements. Reflections on the rise of the right in the United States, Europe and Brazil round out this remarkable and timely study by one of the premier intellectuals of the South.]]> 196 Walden Bello 1773632213 Bhargav 0 to-read 4.18 Counterrevolution: The Global Rise of the Far Right (Agrarian Change and Peasant Studies)
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]]> <![CDATA[Words of Freedom, Ideas of a Nation]]> 16143696
The series consists of 14 separate books, each dedicated to one visionary / freedom fighter: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Sarojini Naidu, Vallabhbhai Patel, C. Rajagopalachari, Rabindranath Tagore, Aruna Asif Ali, B.R. Ambedkar, Bhagat Singh, E.V. Ramasami Periyar, Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, Rajendra Prasad, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad and Subhas Chandra Bose.]]> 102 B.R. Ambedkar 0143068970 Bhargav 0 to-read 4.42 Words of Freedom, Ideas of a Nation
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]]> <![CDATA[Words of Freedom: Ideas of a Nation: Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan]]> 20412357 107 Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan 0143068911 Bhargav 0 to-read 4.40 2010 Words of Freedom: Ideas of a Nation: Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
author: Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
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]]> <![CDATA[Words of Freedom Ideas of a Nation Maulana Abul Kalam]]> 19910378 Abul Kalam Azad Bhargav 0 to-read 4.67 2010 Words of Freedom Ideas of a Nation Maulana Abul Kalam
author: Abul Kalam Azad
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]]> <![CDATA[India Wins Freedom: The Complete Version]]> 1174573 297 Abul Kalam Azad 0861319133 Bhargav 0 to-read 4.20 1978 India Wins Freedom: The Complete Version
author: Abul Kalam Azad
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average rating: 4.20
book published: 1978
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]]> <![CDATA[Mrinal Sen-60 Years In Search Of Cinema]]> 29352608 316 Dipankar Mukhopadhyay 9351360482 Bhargav 0 to-read 5.00 Mrinal Sen-60 Years In Search Of Cinema
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]]> <![CDATA[Lalgarh and the Legend of Kishanji: Tales from India's Maoist Movement]]> 34387608 352 Snigdhendu Bhattacharya 9352640942 Bhargav 0 to-read 4.21 Lalgarh and the Legend of Kishanji: Tales from India's Maoist Movement
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]]> HER STORIES 60565334 Some were celebrated, Others vilified
While some were casually neglected Yet, the story of these women lived on...

Her-Stories is a discussion of women from Indian history whose contributions have been all but forgotten. These were poets, performers, warriors, saints, philosophers, activists and more, yet we hardly remember their courage and contributions. The time has come to bring their history to the fore.

Their stories describe desperate situations, ingenious strategies and brilliant sparks of feminist consciousness. Rather than accounts of isolated ‘great women�, these stories place at the centre the ordinary woman, in all her splendid diversity, multifaceted struggle and achievement. The women profiled were encouraged and supported by others—their achievements represent the aspirations of many in the past, and provide inspiration for us in the present.

Cutting across several regions of India and presented in chronological order from second millennium BCE, to the mid-nineteenth century India, these are the stories of women who have been thinkers, doers, movers and shakers who have subverted hierarchies, brought peace out of chaos and survived despite routine devaluation.

Philosopher Sulabha, philanthropist Vishakha, fearless Uppalavanna, wandering bard Auvaiyar, justice maker Leima Laisna, astronomer Khona, mountain queen Didda, radical poet Akkamahadevi, intrepid Sultan Razia, martial artiste Unniyarcha, poet-saint Janabai, Gond Rani Durgavati, historian Gulbadan, cultural ambassador Harkha, pepper queen Abbakka, fakira Jahanara, brave Onake Obavva, Dalit rebel Nangeli, dancer-diplomat Mahlaqa Bai Chanda, lion queen Jindan, Nawab Begum Qudsia, sharpshooter Uda, guerrillera Hazrat Begum and feminist writer Tarabai Shinde]]> 296 Deepti Priya Mehrotra 9355202032 Bhargav 0 to-read 4.37 HER STORIES
author: Deepti Priya Mehrotra
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]]> Contact 61666 semblent à présent impatients d'établir le contact : ils nous surveillent depuis longtemps, et le moment est peut-être venu pour eux de nous juger...]]> 580 Carl Sagan 2266079999 Bhargav 0 to-read 4.14 1985 Contact
author: Carl Sagan
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]]> Cosmos 55030
The book also explores spacecraft missions of discovery of the nearby planets, the research in the Library of ancient Alexandria, the human brain, Egyptian hieroglyphics, the origin of life, the death of the Sun, the evolution of galaxies and the origins of matter, suns and worlds.

Sagan retraces the fifteen billion years of cos-mic evolution that have transformed matter into life and consciousness, enabling the Cosmos to wonder about itself. He considers the latest findings on life elsewhere and how we might communicate with the beings of other worlds.

Cosmos is the story of our long journey of discovery and the forces and individuals who helped to shape modern science, including Democritus, Hypatia, Kepler, Newton, Huy-gens, Champollion, Lowell and Humason. Sagan looks at our planet from an extra-terrestrial vantage point and sees a blue jewel-like world, inhabited by a lifeform that is just beginning to discover its own unity and to ven-ture into the vast ocean of space.]]> 384 Carl Sagan 0375508325 Bhargav 0 to-read 4.39 1980 Cosmos
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]]> <![CDATA[The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence]]> 32276 271 Carl Sagan 0345346297 Bhargav 0 4.20 1977 The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
author: Carl Sagan
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average rating: 4.20
book published: 1977
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]]> <![CDATA[Otogizōshi: The Fairy Tale Book of Dazai Osamu]]> 12218696 The Fairy Tale Book (Otogizōshi) in the last months of the Pacific War. The traditional tales upon which Dazai's retellings are based are well known to every Japanese schoolchild, but this is no children's book. In Dazai's hands such stock characters as the kindhearted Oji-san to Oba-san ("Grandmother and Grandfather"), the mischievous tanuki badger, the fearsome Oni ogres, the greedy old man, the "tongue-cut" sparrow, and of course Urashima Taro (the Japanese Rip van Winkle) become complex individuals facing difficult and nuanced moral dilemmas. The resulting stories are thought-provoking, slyly subversive, and often hilarious.

In spite of the "gloom and doom" atmosphere always cited in reviews of The Setting Sun and the later No Longer Human, though, Dazai's cutting wit and rich humor are evident in the entire body of his work. His literature depicts the human condition in painfully blunt and realistic terms, but, like life itself, is often accompanied by a smile.]]> 125 Osamu Dazai 4902075407 Bhargav 0 to-read 4.00 1945 Otogizōshi: The Fairy Tale Book of Dazai Osamu
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]]> <![CDATA[Amar Bari Tomar Bari Naxalbari]]> 27424992
In the newly independent India - food production is at an all time low, Zamindars control the farms, Nehru is dead, the coalation bengal government is headed for the wall and a tiny village in West Bengal plays host to an uprising.

From the tiny village of Naxalbari the story travels back and forth in time, as it takes you to pre-independence Hyderabad, post independence Andhra Pradesh and finally to the jungles of Dandkaranya (Bastar and surrounding regions) where the sparks of Naxalbari finally grew into the fire that today impacts India and its people.]]> 160 Sumit Kumar 9352128397 Bhargav 4 4.04 Amar Bari Tomar Bari Naxalbari
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]]> <![CDATA[Changing the Subject: Feminist and Queer Politics in Neoliberal India (Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies)]]> 59659381 280 Srila Roy 1478016248 Bhargav 0 to-read 3.71 Changing the Subject: Feminist and Queer Politics in Neoliberal India (Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies)
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]]> <![CDATA[Remembering Revolution: Gender, Violence, and Subjectivity in India's Naxalbari Movement]]> 17070358 264 Srila Roy 0198081723 Bhargav 0 to-read 2.33 2012 Remembering Revolution: Gender, Violence, and Subjectivity in India's Naxalbari Movement
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]]> The Itch You Can't Scratch 12288023 Sumit Kumar Bhargav 0 to-read 3.80 2017 The Itch You Can't Scratch
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]]> <![CDATA[Despite the State: Why India Lets Its People Down and How They Cope]]> 56709894
This is a tale of India’s states, of why they build schools but do not staff them with teachers; favour a handful of companies so much that others slip into losses; wage water wars with their neighbours while allowing rampant sand mining and groundwater extraction; harness citizens� right to vote but brutally crack down on their right to dissent.

Reporting from six states over thirty-three months, award-winning investigative journalist M. Rajshekhar delivers a necessary account of a deep crisis that has gone largely unexamined.]]> 296 M. Rajshekhar Bhargav 0 to-read 4.35 Despite the State: Why India Lets Its People Down and How They Cope
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]]> <![CDATA[The Silent Coup: A History of India's Deep State]]> 58856290
India is justly proud of a parliamentary democracy that has never been threatened by a military coup. No mean feat in a neighbourhood where coups are common and notions of constitutionality shaky. However, for decades now, India’s democratic standing has been steadily declining. An international analysis recently rated the country as only ‘partly free�, while another deemed it an ‘electoral autocracy�.

Josy Joseph investigates this decline and comes away with a key insight: that the process of confronting militancy has warped the system. As insurgencies erupted across India, and grew increasingly more sophisticated in the 1980s and �90s, the security establishment struggled to keep up. Increasingly overwhelmed, the police forces, intelligence agencies, federal investigation agencies, tax departments and the like came up with ingenious—at times sinister—solutions: from faking and framing evidence to staging massive terror attacks and even creating terrorist organisations. Over time, militancy became a flourishing, multi-faceted business enterprise.

From the Kashmiri militancy to the Sri Lankan civil war, from the attack on Mumbai to the long-term unrest in the Northeast, India’s ‘war on terror� has made its security institutions more nationalistic and chauvinistic and, inevitably, more corrupt. Most dangerously, there is a near-complete capture of the security apparatus, whether investigative agencies, police or intelligence, by the political executive—serving as stormtroopers with no accountability, rather than as defenders of the Constitution.

The result of more than two decades of reporting on insurgencies, terrorism and the security establishment, The Silent Coup is a wake-up call to the nation. You do not need a military coup to subvert democracy, Joseph says—in India, it has already been subverted.]]> 0 Josy Joseph Bhargav 0 to-read 4.39 2021 The Silent Coup: A History of India's Deep State
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]]> Price of the Modi Years 59554236
Modi’s predecessor as prime minister, Manmohan Singh, had once said that Modi would be a disaster as prime minister. This book shows how. It concedes Modi’s popularity; this is an accounting of the damage he has wrought. It is the history of India since 2014 assessing the damage across the polity from the economy, national security, federalism, foreign relations, legislations and the judiciary to media and civil society.

Our memories are not long, news cycles are transient and incidents are forgotten or misclassified as being only episodic, unless documented, unified and placed together as a record. And therefore this book—a history of these present times.]]> 496 Aakar Patel 9391234224 Bhargav 0 to-read 4.42 Price of the Modi Years
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]]> <![CDATA[How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future]]> 35356384
Drawing on decades of research and a wide range of historical and global examples, from 1930s Europe to contemporary Hungary, Turkey, and Venezuela, to the American South during Jim Crow, Levitsky and Ziblatt show how democracies die--and how ours can be saved.]]> 320 Steven Levitsky 1524762938 Bhargav 0 to-read 4.16 2018 How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
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]]> Stalin 53881215 Biography of Stalin 645 Issac Deutscher Bhargav 0 to-read 5.00 Stalin
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]]> Critique of Pure Reason 18288 'The purpose of this critique of pure speculative reason consists in the attempt to change the old procedure of metaphysics and to bring about a complete revolution'

Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (1781) is the central text of modern philosophy. It presents a profound and challenging investigation into the nature of human reason, its knowledge and its illusions. Reason, Kant argues, is the seat of certain concepts that precede experience and make it possible, but we are not therefore entitled to draw conclusions about the natural world from these concepts. The Critique brings together the two opposing schools of philosophy: rationalism, which grounds all our knowledge in reason, and empiricism, which traces all our knowledge to experience. Kant's transcendental idealism indicates a third way that goes far beyond these alternatives.]]> 785 Immanuel Kant 0521657296 Bhargav 0 3.95 1781 Critique of Pure Reason
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]]> <![CDATA[The Dirty War in Kashmir: The Frontline Reports of Shujaat Bukhari]]> 41824635
A voice has been silenced. But before he was killed, Shujaat Bukhari documented for Frontline magazine the damage done to Kashmir. This book collects Shujaat Bukhari's reports from May 2017 to his assassination. He reflects here on the policies of the Indian state (including the impunity given to the army), the hate-filled politics of the Hindu Right (exemplified in the rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl in Kathua), the alienation of the Kashmiri people, the protests of young people (and their use of social media) and the rise of a new kind of militant (such as Burhan Wani). These are detailed assessments, essential reading for anyone who wants to know about the old and new forces inside Kashmir.

The pieces offer insights into the ways and means to bring about lasting peace in the valley � a cause for which Shujaat lived and died.]]> 95 Syed Shujaat Bukhari 9380118724 Bhargav 5 3.83 The Dirty War in Kashmir: The Frontline Reports of Shujaat Bukhari
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]]> Lady Lazarus 17729625
From Random House's Boldtype.

Excerpted from The Voice of the Poet: Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath.]]> 5 Sylvia Plath Bhargav 0 4.40 1980 Lady Lazarus
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]]> <![CDATA[Letters from a Father to his Daughter]]> 644478
When Indira Gandhi was a little girl of ten, she spent the summer in Mussoorie, while her father, Jawaharlal Nehru, was in Allahabad. Over the summer, Nehru wrote her a series of letters in which he told her the story of how and when the earth was made, how human and animal life began, and how civilizations and societies
evolved all over the world.

Written in 1928, these letters remain fresh and vibrant, and capture Nehru's love for people and for nature, whose story was for him 'more interesting than any other story or novel that you may have read'.]]> 154 Jawaharlal Nehru Bhargav 0 currently-reading, memoir 3.95 1929 Letters from a Father to his Daughter
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]]> Kokoro 762476 The New Yorker as "rich in understanding and insight,"

Kokoro�"the heart of things"—is the work of one of Japan's most popular authors. This thought-provoking trilogy of stories explores the very essence of loneliness and stands as a stirring introduction to modern Japanese literature.

What is love, and what is friendship? What is the extent of our responsibility to ourselves and to others? A trilogy of stories that explores the very essence of loneliness, Kokoro opens with "Sensei and I," in which the narrator recounts his relationship with an intellectual who dwells in isolation but maintains a sophisticated worldview. "My Parents and I" brings the reader into the narrator's family circle, and "Sensei and His Testament" features the eponymous character's explanation of how he came to live a life of solitude.

Natsume Soseki (1867�1916), perhaps the greatest novelist of the Meiji period, remains one of Japan's most widely read authors. He wrote this novel in 1914, at the peak of his career, and it remains an excellent introduction to modern Japanese literature.]]> 256 Natsume Sōseki 0809260956 Bhargav 0 to-read 4.05 1914 Kokoro
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]]> The Setting Sun 194740
The story is told through the eyes of Kazuko, the unmarried daughter of a widowed aristocrat. Her search for self meaning in a society devoid of use for her forms the crux of Dazai’s novel. It is a sad story, and structurally is a novel very much within the confines of the Japanese take on the novel in a way reminiscent of authors such as Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata � the social interactions are peripheral and understated, nuances must be drawn, and for readers more used to Western novelistic forms this comes across as being rather wishy-washy.

Kazuko’s mother falls ill, and due to their financial circumstances they are forced to take a cottage in the countryside. Her brother, who became addicted to opium during the war is missing. When he returns, Kazuko attempts to form a liaison with the novelist Uehara. This romantic displacement only furthers to deepen her alienation from society.]]> 175 Osamu Dazai 0811200329 Bhargav 0 to-read 4.00 1947 The Setting Sun
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]]> <![CDATA[Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung: Mao’s Little Red Book Original Version]]> 35744272 26 Mao Zedong 1547154357 Bhargav 0 to-read 3.71 1964 Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung: Mao’s Little Red Book Original Version
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name: Bhargav
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]]> <![CDATA[The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath]]> 11623
A major literary event--the complete, uncensored journals of Sylvia Plath, published in their entirety for the first time.

Sylvia Plath's journals were originally published in 1982 in a heavily abridged version authorized by Plath's husband, Ted Hughes. This new edition is an exact and complete transcription of the diaries Plath kept during the last twelve years of her life. Sixty percent of the book is material that has never before been made public, more fully revealing the intensity of the poet's personal and literary struggles, and providing fresh insight into both her frequent desperation and the bravery with which she faced down her demons. The complete Journals of Sylvia Plath is essential reading for all who have been moved and fascinated by Plath's life and work.]]> 732 Sylvia Plath 0385720254 Bhargav 0 to-read 4.27 2000 The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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]]> Ariel 395090 Sylvia Plath's celebrated collection.

When Sylvia Plath died, she not only left behind a prolific life but also her unpublished literary masterpiece, Ariel. Her husband, Ted Hughes, brought the collection to life in 1966, and its publication garnered worldwide acclaim. This collection showcases the beloved poet’s brilliant, provoking, and always moving poems, including "Ariel" and once again shows why readers have fallen in love with her work throughout the generations.]]> 128 Sylvia Plath 0060931728 Bhargav 0 to-read 4.22 1965 Ariel
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]]> <![CDATA[Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism]]> 18579571
In Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism, the eminent scholar David Harvey, author of A Brief History of Neoliberalism, examines the internal contradictions within the flow of capital that have precipitated recent crises. He contends that while the contradictions have made capitalism flexible and resilient, they also contain the seeds of systemic catastrophe. Many of the contradictions are manageable, but some are fatal: the stress on endless compound growth, the necessity to exploit nature to its limits, and tendency toward universal alienation. Capitalism has always managed to extend the outer limits through "spatial fixes," expanding the geography of the system to cover nations and people formerly outside of its range. Whether it can continue to expand is an open question, but Harvey thinks it unlikely in the medium term future: the limits cannot extend much further, and the recent financial crisis is a harbinger of this.]]> 352 David Harvey 019936026X Bhargav 0 to-read 4.06 2014 Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism
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]]> <![CDATA[A Companion to Marx's Capital, Volume 1]]> 7316687 Capital, Volume 1, and to read it on Marx’s own terms…�

The biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression has generated a surge of interest in Marx’s work in the effort to understand the origins of our current predicament. For nearly forty years, David Harvey has written and lectured on Capital, becoming one of the world’s most foremost Marx scholars.

Based on his recent lectures, this current volume aims to bring this depth of learning to a broader audience, guiding first-time readers through a fascinating and deeply rewarding text. A Companion to Marx’s Capital offers fresh, original and sometimes critical interpretations of a book that changed the course of history and, as Harvey intimates, may do so again.

David Harvey’s video lecture course can be found here: ]]> 368 David Harvey 1844673588 Bhargav 0 to-read 4.24 2008 A Companion to Marx's Capital, Volume 1
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]]> <![CDATA[Contending Economic Theories: Neoclassical, Keynesian, and Marxian]]> 14851079 A systematic comparison of the three major economic theories, showing how they differ and why these differences matter in shaping economic theory and practice.

Contending Economic Theories offers a unique comparative treatment of the three main theories in economics as it is taught today: neoclassical, Keynesian, and Marxian. Each is developed and discussed in its own chapter, yet also differentiated from and compared to the other two theories. The authors identify each theory's starting point, its goals and foci, and its internal logic. They connect their comparative theory analysis to the larger policy issues that divide the rival camps of theorists around such central issues as the role government should play in the economy and the class structure of production, stressing the different analytical, policy, and social decisions that flow from each theory's conceptualization of economics.

The authors, building on their earlier book Economics: Marxian versus Neoclassical, offer an expanded treatment of Keynesian economics and a comprehensive introduction to Marxian economics, including its class analysis of society. Beyond providing a systematic explanation of the logic and structure of standard neoclassical theory, they analyze recent extensions and developments of that theory around such topics as market imperfections, information economics, new theories of equilibrium, and behavioral economics, considering whether these advances represent new paradigms or merely adjustments to the standard theory. They also explain why economic reasoning has varied among these three approaches throughout the twentieth century, and why this variation continues today--as neoclassical views give way to new Keynesian approaches in the wake of the economic collapse of 2008.]]> 424 Richard D. Wolff 0262517833 Bhargav 0 to-read 3.93 2012 Contending Economic Theories: Neoclassical, Keynesian, and Marxian
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]]> Understanding Marxism 44403028
Marx was a social critic for whom capitalism was not the end of human history. It was just the latest phase and badly needed the transition to something better. We offer this essay now because of the power and usefulness today of Marx’s criticism of the capitalist economic system.]]> 100 Richard D. Wolff 0359467024 Bhargav 0 to-read 4.06 2019 Understanding Marxism
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]]> <![CDATA[Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism (Democracy at Work, 5)]]> 13591849
“Richard Wolff’s constructive and innovative ideas suggest new and promising foundations for a much more authentic democracy and sustainable and equitable development, ideas that can be implemented directly and carried forward. A very valuable contribution in troubled times.”—Noam Chomsky


"Probably America's most prominent Marxist economist."�The New York Times


Capitalism as a system has spawned deepening economic crisis alongside its bought-and-paid-for political establishment. Neither serves the needs of our society. Whether it is secure, well-paid, and meaningful jobs or a sustainable relationship with the natural environment that we depend on, our society is not delivering the results people need and deserve.


One key cause for this intolerable state of affairs is the lack of genuine democracy in our economy as well as in our politics. The solution requires the institution of genuine economic democracy, starting with workers directing their own workplaces, as the basis for a genuine political democracy.


Here Richard D. Wolff lays out a hopeful and concrete vision of how to make that possible, addressing the many people who have concluded economic inequality and politics as usual can no longer be tolerated and are looking for a concrete program of action.


Richard D. Wolff is professor of economics emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is currently a visiting professor at the New School for Social Research in New York. Wolff is the author of many books, including Capitalism Hits the Fan: The Global Economic Meltdown and What to Do About It. He hosts the weekly hour-long radio program Economic Update on WBAI (Pacifica Radio) and writes regularly for The Guardian, Truthout.org, and MRZine.


]]> 220 Richard D. Wolff 1608462471 Bhargav 0 to-read 3.92 2012 Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism (Democracy at Work, 5)
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]]> <![CDATA[Night Train at Deoli and Other Stories (India)]]> 35103840
Ruskin Bond’s simple characters, living amidst the lush forests of the Himalayan foothills, are remarkable for their quiet heroism, courage and grace, and age-old values of honesty and fidelity. Residents of nondescript villages and towns, they lead lives that are touched by natural beauty as well as suffering—the loss of a loved parent, unfulfilled dreams, natural calamities, ghostly visitations, a respected teacher turned crooked, strangers who make a nuisance of themselves—which only reinforces their abiding faith in God, family and neighbour. Told in Bond’s distinctive style, these stories are a magnificent evocation of an India that may be fast disappearing.]]> 247 Ruskin Bond Bhargav 0 currently-reading 4.26 1988 Night Train at Deoli and Other Stories (India)
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]]> <![CDATA[Reconsidering Reparations (Philosophy of Race)]]> 58733928 restitution for historical wrongs. Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò argues that neither approach is optimal, and advances a different case for reparations - one rooted in a hopeful future that tackles the issue of climate change head on, with distributive justice at its core. This view, which he calls the
constructive view of reparations, argues that reparations should be seen as a future-oriented project engaged in building a better social order; and that the costs of building a more equitable world should be distributed more to those who have inherited the moral liabilities of past injustices.

This approach to reparations, as Táíwò shows, has deep and surprising roots in the thought of Black political thinkers such as James Baldwin, Martin Luther King Jr, and Nkechi Taifa, as well as mainstream political philosophers like John Rawls, Charles Mills, and Elizabeth Anderson. Táíwò's project has wide implications for our views of justice, racism, the legacy of colonialism, and climate change policy.]]> 280 Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò 0197508898 Bhargav 0 to-read 4.48 2022 Reconsidering Reparations (Philosophy of Race)
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]]> <![CDATA[Being-in-the-Room Privilege: Elite Capture and Epistemic Deference]]> 57151285 Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò Bhargav 0 to-read 4.29 Being-in-the-Room Privilege: Elite Capture and Epistemic Deference
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]]> <![CDATA[How the West Brought War to Ukraine: Understanding How U.S. and NATO Policies Led to Crisis, War, and the Risk of Nuclear Catastrophe]]> 62693035
That story is incorrect.

In reality, the United States and NATO bear much of the responsibility for the Ukraine crisis. Through a series of misguided policies, Washington and its European allies placed Russia in an untenable situation for which war seemed, to Mr. Putin and his military staff, the only workable solution.

In How the West Brought War to Ukraine, author Benjamin Abelow lays out the relevant history and explains how the West needlessly produced conflict, subjecting its own citizens—and the rest of the world—to the risk of nuclear war.

Endorsed by leading defense experts and policy analysts, this brief and highly readable book shows how the West provoked the crisis and now labors under an existential threat of its own making.

How the West Brought War to Ukraine looks beneath the surface of recent events. It lets readers understand the deeper sources of the Ukraine war and provides new insights into how the conflict might be resolved.

If you'd like to hear the author respond to the claims that the Ukraine war is a "humanitarian" venture and that Ukraine has the "right" to join NATO, go to the Author's page. There you will find two short video clips (two minutes each).To get to that page, click on the author's photo beneath the cover image of the book (this may not be an option from mobile devices).]]> 76 Benjamin Abelow 0991076710 Bhargav 0 to-read 4.15 2022 How the West Brought War to Ukraine: Understanding How U.S. and NATO Policies Led to Crisis, War, and the Risk of Nuclear Catastrophe
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]]> <![CDATA[Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)]]> 59463840
“Identity politics� is everywhere, polarizing discourse from the campaign trail to the classroom and amplifying antagonisms in the media, both online and off. But the compulsively referenced phrase bears little resemblance to the concept as first introduced by the radical Black feminist Combahee River Collective. While the Collective articulated a political viewpoint grounded in their own position as Black lesbians with the explicit aim of building solidarity across lines of difference, identity politics is now frequently weaponized as a means of closing ranks around ever-narrower conceptions of group interests.

But the trouble, Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò deftly argues, is not with identity politics itself. Through a substantive engagement with the global Black radical tradition and a critical understanding of racial capitalism, Táíwò identifies the process by which a radical concept can be stripped of its political substance and liberatory potential by becoming the victim of elite capture—deployed by political, social, and economic elites in the service of their own interests.

Táíwò’s crucial intervention both elucidates this complex process and helps us move beyond a binary of “class� vs. “race.� By rejecting elitist identity politics in favor of a constructive politics of radical solidarity, he advances the possibility of organizing across our differences in the urgent struggle for a better world.]]> 157 Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò 1642596884 Bhargav 0 to-read 4.00 2022 Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Withdrawal: Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of U.S. Power]]> 60199854 208 Noam Chomsky 1620977605 Bhargav 0 to-read 4.14 The Withdrawal: Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of U.S. Power
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]]> <![CDATA[Hacking: The Art of Exploitation w/CD]]> 61619 264 Jon Erickson 1593270070 Bhargav 0 to-read 4.15 2003 Hacking: The Art of Exploitation w/CD
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]]> Linux From Scratch 78387 112 Gerard Beekmans 0595137652 Bhargav 0 to-read 4.00 2000 Linux From Scratch
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]]> <![CDATA[Time Stops at Shamli and Other Stories]]> 475218 184 Ruskin Bond 0140128425 Bhargav 0 4.15 1989 Time Stops at Shamli and Other Stories
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]]> <![CDATA[Dialectical and Historical Materialism]]> 694454 48 Joseph Stalin 0717800474 Bhargav 0 to-read 3.91 1938 Dialectical and Historical Materialism
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]]> Tales of Terror and Mystery 17924421
Contents:
Tales of terror:
The horror of the heights
The leather funnel
The new catacomb
The case of Lady Sannox
The terror of Blue John Gap
The Brazilian cat

Tales of mystery:
The lost special
The beetle-hunter
The man with the watches
The japanned box
The black doctor
The Jew's breastplate
The nightmare room.
]]> 278 Arthur Conan Doyle Bhargav 0 3.99 1922 Tales of Terror and Mystery
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]]> <![CDATA[Operating Systems Foundations with Linux on the Raspberry Pi: Textbook]]> 53646917 344 Wim Vanderbauwhede 1911531204 Bhargav 0 0.0 Operating Systems Foundations with Linux on the Raspberry Pi: Textbook
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]]> <![CDATA[Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology]]> 60321447
You may be surprised to learn that microchips are the new oil—the scarce resource on which the modern world depends. Today, military, economic, and geopolitical power are built on a foundation of computer chips. Virtually everything� from missiles to microwaves, smartphones to the stock market � runs on chips. Until recently, America designed and built the fastest chips and maintained its lead as the #1 superpower. Now, America's edge isslipping, undermined by competitors in Taiwan, Korea,Europe, and, above all, China. Today, as Chip War reveals, China, which spends more money each year importing chips than it spends importing oil,is pouring billions into a chip-building initiative to catch up to the US. At stake is America's military superiority and economic prosperity.

Economic historian Chris Miller explains how the semiconductor came to play a critical role in modern life and how the U.S. become dominant in chip design and manufacturing and applied this technology to military systems. America's victory in the Cold War and its global military dominance stems from its ability to harness computing power more effectively than any other power. But here, too, China is catching up, with its chip-building ambitions and military modernization going hand in hand.America has let key components of the chip-building process slip out of its grasp, contributing not only to a worldwide chip shortage but also a new Cold War with a superpower adversary that is desperate to bridge the gap.

Illuminating, timely, and fascinating, Chip War shows that, to make sense of the current state of politics, economics, and technology, we must first understand the vital role played by chips.]]> 464 Chris Miller 1982172002 Bhargav 0 to-read 4.38 2022 Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
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]]> <![CDATA[Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency]]> 60462182
But what if the centerpiece of this dark economy held a secret, fatal flaw? What if their currency wasn’t so cryptic after all? An investigator using the right mixture of technical wizardry, financial forensics, and old-fashioned persistence could uncover an entire world of wrongdoing.

Tracers in the Dark is a story of crime and pursuit unlike any other. With unprecedented access to the major players in federal law enforcement and private industry, veteran cybersecurity reporter Andy Greenberg tells an astonishing saga of criminal empires built and destroyed. He introduces an IRS agent with a defiant streak, a bitcoin-tracing Danish entrepreneur, and a colorful ensemble of hard-boiled agents and prosecutors as they delve deep into the crypto-underworld. The result is a thrilling, globe-spanning story of dirty cops, drug bazaars, trafficking rings, and the biggest take-down of an online narcotics market in the history of the internet.

Utterly of our time, Tracers in the Dark is a cat-and-mouse story and a tale of a technological one-upmanship. Filled with canny maneuvering and shocking twists, it answers a provocative question: How would some of the world’s most brazen criminals behave if they were sure they could never get caught?]]> 367 Andy Greenberg 0385548109 Bhargav 0 to-read 4.46 Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency
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]]> <![CDATA[RSS's Tryst With Politics: From Hedgewar to Sudarshan]]> 5115199 314 Pralay Kanungo 8173043981 Bhargav 5 4.25 2002 RSS's Tryst With Politics: From Hedgewar to Sudarshan
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]]> <![CDATA[Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code]]> 42527493
Benjamin argues that automation, far from being a sinister story of racist programmers scheming on the dark web, has the potential to hide, speed up, and deepen discrimination while appearing neutral and even benevolent when compared to the racism of a previous era. Presenting the concept of the "New Jim Code," she shows how a range of discriminatory designs encode inequity by explicitly amplifying racial hierarchies; by ignoring but thereby replicating social divisions; or by aiming to fix racial bias but ultimately doing quite the opposite. Moreover, she makes a compelling case for race itself as a kind of technology, designed to stratify and sanctify social injustice in the architecture of everyday life.

This illuminating guide provides conceptual tools for decoding tech promises with sociologically informed skepticism. In doing so, it challenges us to question not only the technologies we are sold but also the ones we ourselves manufacture.



If you adopt this book for classroom use in the 2019-2020 academic year, the author would be pleased to arrange to Skype to a session of your class. If interested, enter your details in this sign-up sheet https: //]]> 258 Ruha Benjamin 1509526439 Bhargav 0 to-read 4.26 2019 Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
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]]> <![CDATA[Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism]]> 34762552
In Algorithms of Oppression, Safiya Umoja Noble challenges the idea that search engines like Google offer an equal playing field for all forms of ideas, identities, and activities. Data discrimination is a real social problem; Noble argues that the combination of private interests in promoting certain sites, along with the monopoly status of a relatively small number of Internet search engines, leads to a biased set of search algorithms that privilege whiteness and discriminate against people of color, specifically women of color.

Through an analysis of textual and media searches as well as extensive research on paid online advertising, Noble exposes a culture of racism and sexism in the way discoverability is created online. As search engines and their related companies grow in importance - operating as a source for email, a major vehicle for primary and secondary school learning, and beyond - understanding and reversing these disquieting trends and discriminatory practices is of utmost importance.

An original, surprising and, at times, disturbing account of bias on the internet, Algorithms of Oppression contributes to our understanding of how racism is created, maintained, and disseminated in the 21st century.]]> 248 Safiya Umoja Noble 1479837245 Bhargav 0 to-read 3.89 2018 Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
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]]> Communist Histories: Volume 1 31559089
Contents

VIJAY PRASHAD Communist Histories

SUCHETANA CHATTOPADHYAY Being ‘Naren Bhattacharji�

FREDRIK PETERSSON The ‘Colonial Conference� and Dilemma of the Comintern’s Colonial Work, 1928-29

MARGARET STEVENS Cuba and the Red International, 1934

ELISABETH ARMSTRONG Indian Peasant Women’s Activism in a Hot Cold War

LIN CHUN The Lost International in the Transformation of Chinese Socialism

ARCHANA PRASAD The Warli Movement and its Living Histories

Contributors]]> 259 Suchetana Chattopadhyay 9380118376 Bhargav 0 to-read 4.00 Communist Histories: Volume 1
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]]> <![CDATA[Voices of Komagata Maru: Imperial Surveillance and Workers from Punjab in Bengal]]> 45552076
Calcutta during the early twentieth century was not just a point of passage within the British empire, but a key centre of colonial power and a crucial laboratory of imperial repressive practices cultivated and applied elsewhere. The urban space and the hinterland served as zones of employment for migrant labour related to the powerful institutional edifices of colonial capital in eastern India with international reach across global markets.

The histories of the Ghadar Movement or the Komagata Maru’s trail, while describing the circumstances in detail and offering rewarding perspectives on Punjabi Sikh migrants, have overlooked this aspect of concentrated colonial power in the city and the region, and failed to adequately investigate why the ship was brought to Bengal and why overwhelming imperial vigilance, locally organized, was imposed on the ships that arrived soon afterwards.

Drawing on colonial archival records as well as the fragmentary references found in autobiographical accounts, the monograph steers the history of Komagata Maru’s journey in new directions. Radical responses to ‘racialized subjecthood�, imposed by the colonial state on Punjabi, especially Sikh, migrant workers in Calcutta and its suburbs during the First World War and the following decades are examined. Racist regulations of class, labour and social relationships underlined the politicization, self-awareness and formation of radical collectives among the migrants. Tracing the routes of self-assertion by workers from Punjab in Bengal at a micro-historical level, unknown and neglected aspects of the last stretch of Komagata Maru’s journey and its immediate and longterm local effects are unravelled.

The monograph touches on the links between inter-imperial geographies of surveillance and monopolistic working of colonial capital, the responses of the local Hindu and Muslim intelligentsia to the ship’s controversial voyage, the voices of the detained passengers of Komagata Maru, and the entry of the Sikh working-class diaspora into local revolutionary, left and labour movements. The monograph engages with war-time Ghadar and post-war Punjab Kirti Dal and Naujawan Bharat Sabha’s influence on the actions of Sikh workers in south Bengal. Also recorded is the interplay between acts of recollection and regional constitution of radical circles and associations in the wake of the ship’s voyage.]]> 192 Suchetana Chattopadhyay 8193401581 Bhargav 0 to-read 0.0 Voices of Komagata Maru: Imperial Surveillance and Workers from Punjab in Bengal
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]]> <![CDATA[An Early Communist: Muzaffar Ahmad in Calcutta, 1913-1929]]> 30686862
Taking Muzaffar Ahmad's early career (1913-1929) as its chronological frame, this book examines the dialectical interplay between his social being and the wider social consciousness which made him arrive at communism, in vital conjunction with the sources of self transformation in the city. 1929 marked the end of the first phase in his political life as a pioneer of the communist movement as it had emerged in Bengal and India of the 1920s. This was the year when leading communists were arrested and the Meerut trials began. The biographical details of Muzaffar Ahmad between 1913 and 1929 converged with a significant phase in the social and political history of India and the world. These years can also be read as two crisis-points in the history of imperialism and 1913, the eve of the First World War, and 1929, the year of the Wall Street Crash which set off the Great Depression; a period within which socialist ideas and communist activity became politically familiar in different parts of the globe. Many socially alienated, economically distressed and politically dissatisfied urban intellectuals stood at the crossroads of established and radical identity-formations. A 'fraction' emerged, informed by working class protest from below, and the leftward turn in literary and cultural fields. They were moving away from the more established political routes open to those from their social background to combat colonialism, and identifying with a more radical vision of decolonization. The little investigated history of the left in Bengal before the Meerut trials, and the convergences between individual radicalization and a new political space in the city are unraveled by tracing this process, in the context of colonial Calcutta and through Muzaffar Ahmad's transitions. This monograph will interest those engaged with the histories of communism, port-cities, Bengal Muslims, workers, intellectuals, migration, colonial intelligence, and internationalist currents.]]> 320 Suchetana Chattopadhyay 8189487930 Bhargav 0 to-read 4.75 An Early Communist: Muzaffar Ahmad in Calcutta, 1913-1929
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]]> Combat Liberalism 25431690 8 Mao Zedong Bhargav 0 to-read 4.14 1937 Combat Liberalism
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]]> Why Socialism? 12007777 12 Albert Einstein Bhargav 0 4.15 1949 Why Socialism?
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]]> রূপসী বাংল� 17828716 Jibanananda Das Bhargav 0 to-read 4.60 1957 রূপসী বাংলা
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]]> Ghosts 374188 Ghosts is a three-act tragedy that explores uncomfortable, even forbidden themes. It is also a highly critical commentary on the morality of the day. The play centers around the widow of a prominent Norwegian sea captain whose son returns home and, with tragic consequences, revives the ghosts of the past that she has long labored to put to rest.

Ghosts immediately became a source of controversy for its inclusion of topics like venereal disease, incest, and euthanasia, and it was banned from being performed in England for many years. Its arrival signals a shift in the nature of theatre and, despite negative criticism, it was translated into other languages and performed in Sweden, Germany, and New York within a few years of its debut. It stands now as one of the works considered to have ushered in the era of modern drama.]]> 48 Henrik Ibsen 1420927957 Bhargav 0 to-read 3.83 1881 Ghosts
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]]> Eleven Theses on Feuerbach 11946538
Karl Marx was a Prussian-born philosopher, economist, political theorist, sociologist, journalist, and subversive democratic. Fostered in Trier to a bourgeois family, he then took up political economy and Hegelian philosophy. As he matures, Karl became expatriated and lived entirely in London, England, where he remained to progress his thinking in partnership with German philosopher Friedrich Engels and produced many books, the very famous being the 1848 booklet The Communist Manifesto. His writing has ever before inveigled consequent rational, pecuniary, and past events in politics.

Karl’s philosophies of the general public, social science, and government, as a whole implied as Marxism. It maintains that civilization of man grow by means of class prejudice; in capitalism, this demonstrates itself in the discord of the gentle birth referred as the bourgeoisie that manipulate the methods of formulation and common laborers referred as the proletariat, that capacitate these methods by marketing their work for profits. Taking up a vital proposition referred as classical utilitarianism, Karl surmised that, same as past socioeconomic entities, capitalism created intrinsic pressures which would bring to its mélange and reinstatement by a new socialism.]]> 2 Karl Marx Bhargav 5
An end and a beginning.
More power to the propellers of the state apparatus. More power to the workers.]]> 4.05 1888 Eleven Theses on Feuerbach
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"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it."

An end and a beginning.
More power to the propellers of the state apparatus. More power to the workers.
]]> <![CDATA[Left-Wing Communism, an Infantile Disorder: A Popular Essay in Marxian Strategy and Tactics]]> 483137 108 Vladimir Lenin 0898754488 Bhargav 0 to-read 4.19 1920 Left-Wing Communism, an Infantile Disorder: A Popular Essay in Marxian Strategy and Tactics
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]]> <![CDATA[Anti-Dühring: Herr Eugen Dühring’s Revolution in Science]]> 187062 "It was not my fault that I had to follow Herr Duhring into realms where at best I can only claim to be a dilettante. In such cases I have for the most part limited myself to putting forward the correct, uncontested facts in Opposition to my adversary's false or distorted assertions. This applies to jurisprudence and in many instances also to natural science. In other cases it has been a question of general views connected with the theory of natural science - that is to say, a field where even the profession al scientific investigator is compelled to pass beyond his own specialty and encroach on neighboring territory - territory on which his knowledge is, therefore, as Herr Virchow has admit ted, just as superficial as any of ours. I hope that in respect of minor inexactitudes and clumsinesses of expression, I shall be granted the same indulgence as is shown to each other by writers in this domain."]]> 365 Friedrich Engels Bhargav 0 to-read 4.33 1878 Anti-Dühring: Herr Eugen Dühring’s Revolution in Science
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]]> <![CDATA[Joothan: An Untouchable's Life]]> 497544
Although untouchability was abolished in 1949, Dalits continued to face discrimination, economic deprivation, violence, and ridicule. Valmiki shares his heroic struggle to survive a preordained life of perpetual physical and mental persecution and his transformation into a speaking subject under the influence of the great Dalit political leader, B. R. Ambedkar. A document of the long-silenced and long-denied sufferings of the Dalits, Joothan is a major contribution to the archives of Dalit history and a manifesto for the revolutionary transformation of society and human consciousness.]]> 160 Omprakash Valmiki 0231129726 Bhargav 0 to-read 4.16 1997 Joothan: An Untouchable's Life
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]]> Death of a Salesman 12898 'For a salesman, there is no rock bottom to life. He don't put a bolt to a nut, he don't tell you the law or give you medicine. He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine.'

Willy Loman has been a salesman for 34 years. At 60, he is cast aside, his usefulness now exhausted. With no future to dream about he must face the crushing disappointments of his past. He takes one final brave action, but is he heroic at last?, or a self-deluding fool?]]> 144 Arthur Miller 0435233076 Bhargav 0 to-read 3.57 1949 Death of a Salesman
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]]> <![CDATA[Jose Marti Reader: Writings on the Americas]]> 463579
“Oh Cuba! . . . the blood of Ѳí was not yours alone; it belonged to an entire race, to an entire continent; it belonged to the powerful youth who have lost probably the best of teachers; he belonged to the future!”—Rubén Darío

This new edition of an elegant anthology features bilingual poetry, a revised translation, and several new pieces. It presents the full breadth of Dzé Ѳí’s his political essays and writings on culture, his letters, and his poetry. Readers will discover a literary genius and an insightful political commentator on troubled US-Latin America relations.
]]> 300 Dzé Ѳí 1920888748 Bhargav 0 to-read 4.01 1998 Jose Marti Reader: Writings on the Americas
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]]> <![CDATA[Selected Writings (Penguin Classics)]]> 223742 Dzé Ѳí (1853-1895) is the most renowned political and literary figure in the history of Cuba. A poet, essayist, orator, statesman, abolitionist, and the martyred revolutionary leader of Cuba's fight for independence from Spain, Ѳí lived in exile in New York for most of his adult life, earning his living working as a foreign correspondent. Throughout the 1880s and early 1890s, Ѳí's were the eyes through which much of Latin America saw the United States. His impassioned, kaleidoscopic evocations of that period in U.S. history, the assassination of James Garfield, the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge, the execution of the Chicago anarchists, the lynching of the Italians in New Orleans, and much more, bring it rushing back to life.

Organized chronologically, this collection begins with his early writings, including a thundering account of his political imprisonment in Cuba at age sixteen. The middle section focuses on his journalism, which offers an image of the United States in the nineteenth century, its way of life and system of government, that rivals anything written by de Tocqueville, Dickens, Trollope, or any other European commentator. Including generous selections of his poetry and private notebooks, the book concludes with his astonishing, hallucinatory final masterpiece, "War Diaries", never before translated into English.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.]]> 462 Dzé Ѳí 0142437042 Bhargav 0 to-read 4.14 2002 Selected Writings (Penguin Classics)
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]]> <![CDATA[Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media]]> 12617
Based on a series of case studies—including the media’s dichotomous treatment of “worthy� versus “unworthy� victims, “legitimizing� and “meaningless� Third World elections, and devastating critiques of media coverage of the U.S. wars against Indochina—Herman and Chomsky draw on decades of criticism and research to propose a Propaganda Model to explain the media’s behavior and performance. Their new introduction updates the Propaganda Model and the earlier case studies, and it discusses several other applications. These include the manner in which the media covered the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement and subsequent Mexican financial meltdown of 1994-1995, the media’s handling of the protests against the World Trade Organization, World Bank, and International Monetary Fund in 1999 and 2000, and the media’s treatment of the chemical industry and its regulation. What emerges from this work is a powerful assessment of how propagandistic the U.S. mass media are, how they systematically fail to live up to their self-image as providers of the kind of information that people need to make sense of the world, and how we can understand their function in a radically new way.]]> 412 Edward S. Herman 0375714499 Bhargav 0 to-read 4.25 1988 Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
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]]> The Chomsky Reader 12620
Drawing from his published and unpublished work, The Chomsky Reader reveals the awesome range of this ever-critical mind - from global questions of war and peace to the most intricate questions of human intelligence, IQ and creativity. It reveals the underlying radical coherency of his view of the world - from his enormously influential attacks on America's role in Vietnam to his perspective on Nicaragua and Central America Today. Chomsky's challenge to accepted wisdom about Israel and the Palestinians has caused a furore in America, as have his trenchant essays on the real nature of terrorism in our age. No one has dissected more graphically the character of the cold war consensus and the way it benefits the two superpowers, and argued more thoughtfully for a shared elitist ethos in liberalism and communism. No one has exposed more logically America's acclaimed freedoms as masking irresponsible power and unjustified privilege, or argued quite so insistently that the "free press" is part of a stultifying conformity that pervades all aspects of American intellectual life.]]> 492 Noam Chomsky 1852421177 Bhargav 0 to-read 4.01 1987 The Chomsky Reader
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]]> <![CDATA[Working Class History: Everyday Acts of Resistance & Rebellion]]> 55847015
Working Class History presents a distinct selection of people’s history through hundreds of “on this day in history� anniversaries that are as diverse and international as the working class itself. Women, young people, people of color, workers, migrants, Indigenous peoples, LGBT+ people, disabled people, older people, the unemployed, home workers, and every other part of the working class have organized and taken action that has shaped our world, and improvements in living and working conditions have been won only by years of violent conflict and sacrifice. These everyday acts of resistance and rebellion highlight just some of those who have struggled for a better world and provide lessons and inspiration for those of us fighting in the present. Going day by day, this book paints a picture of how and why the world came to be as it is, how some have tried to change it, and the lengths to which the rich and powerful have gone to maintain and increase their wealth and influence.

This handbook of grassroots movements, curated by the popular Working Class History project, features many hidden histories and untold stories, reinforced with inspiring images, further reading, and a foreword from legendary author and dissident Noam Chomsky.]]> 352 Working Class History Bhargav 0 to-read 4.56 Working Class History: Everyday Acts of Resistance & Rebellion
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]]> Life is Elsewhere 44559 The Lyrical Age. The lyrical age, according to Kundera, is youth, and this novel, above all, is an epic of adolescence; an ironic epic that tenderly erodes sacrosanct values: childhood, motherhood, revolution, and even poetry. Jaromil is in fact a poet. His mother made him a poet and accompanies him (figuratively) to his love bed, and (literally) to his deathbed. A ridiculous and touching character, horrifying and totally innocent ("innocence with its bloody smile"!), Jaromil is at the same time a true poet. He's no creep, he's Rimbaud. Rimbaud entrapped by the communist revolution, entrapped in a sombre farce.]]> 432 Milan Kundera 0060997028 Bhargav 0 to-read 4.00 1973 Life is Elsewhere
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]]> দু ছক্ক� পাঁচ 25186579 271 চন্দ্রিল ভট্টাচার্য 8129523272 Bhargav 0 to-read 4.25 2015 দু ছক্কা পাঁচ
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]]> <![CDATA[Manik Da: Memoirs Of Satyajit Ray]]> 12665310 128 Nemai Ghosh 9350290405 Bhargav 0 to-read 3.90 Manik Da: Memoirs Of Satyajit Ray
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]]> <![CDATA[Montage: Life, Politics, Cinema]]> 26593244
Montage encapsulates half a century of filmmaking. A first-of-its-kind anthology, it includes original writings--memoirs, letters, musings on politics, literature, theater, and cinema; critiques of contemporaries such as Satyajit Ray and Ritwik Ghatak, as well as inspirations such as Charlie Chaplin and a host of international filmmakers, especially those from Latin America--and intensive interviews with scholars and critics. The result is a unique montage, revealing both the filmmaker and the man, mapping a unique creative landscape, and offering valuable insights into his acclaimed films.]]> 372 Mrinal Sen 8170461642 Bhargav 0 to-read 4.38 2002 Montage: Life, Politics, Cinema
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]]> Andrei Tarkovsky: Interviews 28493
Andrei Interviews is the first English-language collection of interviews with and profiles of the filmmaker. It includes conversations originally published in French, Italian, Russian, and British periodicals. With pieces from 1962 through 1986, the collection spans the breadth of Tarkovsky's career.

In the volume, Tarkovsky candidly and articulately discusses the difficulties of making films under the censors of the Soviet Union. He explores his aesthetic ideology, filmmakers he admires, and his eventual self-exile from Russia. He talks about recurring images in his movies―water, horses, fire, snow―but adamantly refuses to divulge what they mean, as he feels that would impose his own meaning onto the audience. At times cagey and resistant to interviewers, Tarkovsky nevertheless reveals his vision and his rigorous devotion to his art.]]> 190 Andrei Tarkovsky 1578062209 Bhargav 0 to-read 4.34 2006 Andrei Tarkovsky: Interviews
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]]> Fear and Trembling 24965
In Fear and Trembling, Kierkegaard wanted to understand the anxiety that must have been present in Abraham when God commanded him to offer his son as a human sacrifice. Abraham had a choice to complete the task or to forget it. He resigned himself to the loss of his son, acting according to his faith. In other words, one must be willing to give up all his or her earthly possessions in infinite resignation and must also be willing to give up whatever it is that he or she loves more than God. Abraham had passed the test -- his love for God proved greater than anything else in him. And because a good and just Creator would not want a father to kill his son, God intervened at the last moment to prevent the sacrifice.]]> 152 Søren Kierkegaard 0143037579 Bhargav 0 to-read 4.02 1843 Fear and Trembling
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]]> <![CDATA[Time Within Time: The Diaries 1970-1986]]> 314787 407 Andrei Tarkovsky 8170462606 Bhargav 0 to-read 4.44 1989 Time Within Time: The Diaries 1970-1986
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]]> Being and Nothingness 10033 Being & Nothingness is without doubt one of the most significant philosophical books of the 20th century. The central work by one of the century's most influential thinkers, it altered the course of western philosophy. Its revolutionary approach challenged all previous assumptions about the individual's relationship with the world. Known as 'the Bible of existentialism', its impact on culture & literature was immediate & was felt worldwide, from the absurdist drama of Samuel Beckett to the soul-searching cries of the Beat poets.
Being & Nothingness is one of those rare books whose influence has affected the mindset of subsequent generations. Seventy years after its 1st publication, its message remains as potent as ever--challenging readers to confront the fundamental dilemmas of human freedom, choice, responsibility & action.]]> 688 Jean-Paul Sartre 0415278481 Bhargav 0 to-read 4.00 1943 Being and Nothingness
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]]> The Principles of Communism 11347493
At the June 1847 Congress of the League of the Just, which was also the founding conference of the Communist League, it was decided to issue a draft “confession of faith� to be submitted for discussion to the sections of the League. The document which has now come to light is almost certainly this draft. Comparison of the two documents shows that Principles of Communism is a revised edition of this earlier draft. In Principles of Communism, Engels left three questions unanswered, in two cases with the notation “unchanged� (bleibt); this clearly refers to the answers provided in the earlier draft.

The new draft for the programme was worked out by Engels on the instructions of the leading body of the Paris circle of the Communist League. The instructions were decided on after Engles� sharp criticism at the committee meeting, on October 22, 1847, of the draft programme drawn up by the “true socialist� Moses Hess, which was then rejected.

Still considering Principles of Communism as a preliminary draft, Engels expressed the view, in a letter to Marx dated November 23-24 1847, that it would be best to drop the old catechistic form and draw up a programme in the form of a manifesto.

“Think over the Confession of Faith a bit. I believe we had better drop the catechism form and call the thing: Communist Manifesto. As more or less history has got to be related in it, the form it has been in hitherto is quite unsuitable. I am bringing what I have done here with me; it is in simple narrative form, but miserably worded, in fearful haste. ...�

At the second congress of the Communist League (November 29-December 8, 1847) Marx and Engels defended the fundamental scientific principles of communism and were trusted with drafting a programme in the form of a manifesto of the Communist Party. In writing the manifesto the founders of Marxism made use of the propositions enunciated in Principles of Communism.

Engels uses the term Manufaktur, and its derivatives, which have been translated “manufacture�, “manufacturing�, etc., Engels used this word literally, to indicate production by hand, not factory production for which Engels uses “big industry�. Manufaktur differs from handicraft (guild production in mediaeval towns), in that the latter was carried out by independent artisans. Manufacktur is carried out by homeworkers working for merchant capitalists, or by groups of craftspeople working together in large workshops owned by capitalists. It is therefore a transitional mode of production, between guild (handicraft) and modern (capitalist) forms of production.]]> 25 Friedrich Engels Bhargav 0 to-read 4.17 1847 The Principles of Communism
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]]> Critique of the Gotha Program 3979190 63 Karl Marx 1434463095 Bhargav 0 to-read 4.28 1875 Critique of the Gotha Program
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]]> Reform or Revolution 213519 112 Rosa Luxemburg 0873483030 Bhargav 0 to-read 4.21 1900 Reform or Revolution
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]]> <![CDATA[Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844]]> 85954 243 Karl Marx 087975446X Bhargav 0 to-read 4.17 1844 Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
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]]> On Contradiction 6329592
Alguns dos escritos de Mao - como "Sobre a prática" e "Sobre a contradição" - são de leitura obrigatória para todos os que desejam compreender a filosofia política de um dos mais importantes revolucionários do século XX.]]> 58 Mao Zedong Bhargav 0 to-read 4.23 1952 On Contradiction
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]]> Critique of Judgment 375410 686 Immanuel Kant 0872200256 Bhargav 0 to-read 4.10 1790 Critique of Judgment
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]]> <![CDATA[The Trial and Death of Socrates (Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo)]]> 22632
Socrates is one of the great figures of Western history and the founding father of its philosophical tradition. In the Dialogues, by his pupil and fellow philosopher Plato, a fascinating portrait emerges of a man who spurned material wealth and believed above all in learning and inquiry. Apology, Crito, and Phaedo recount Socrates� trial on charges of corrupting the youth of Athens, his defiance of the court, and his last days in jail passed in discussion with friends. They form an excellent introduction to a courageous and captivating figure who paid with his life for the right to free thought.]]> 58 Plato 0872205541 Bhargav 0 to-read 4.15 -400 The Trial and Death of Socrates (Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo)
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