Leftist literature that I& #39;d recommend over Lenin and the bread book

In order of reading Difficulty

A thread

Links from Z-library and The Anarchist Library for easy access

(I have an anarchist bias because I& #39;m an anarchist of course)

Someday I& #39;ll do an anti-Lenin thread
Are You An Anarchist? The Answer May Surprise You! by David Graeber
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-are-you-an-anarchist-the-answer-may-surprise-you

You">https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/d... might not even know that you actually agree with Anarchists who would have thought?
(The Anarchists actually)

It& #39;s a really short article it& #39;s not even a 5 min read
Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher
https://b-ok.cc/book/3362634/dea0dd

Easy">https://b-ok.cc/book/3362... read, short, and accessible, good for an introduction to leftist politics BUT

It& #39;s insufficient in being a foundational text for building a useful praxis
Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Davis
https://b-ok.cc/book/2749693/00f462

It& #39;s">https://b-ok.cc/book/2749... short not as short as the previous book but it isn& #39;t long

And in those few pages, Angela Davis will get you to Question why Prisons exists in the first place
How Nonviolence Protects the State by Peter Gelderloos
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/peter-gelderloos-how-nonviolence-protects-the-state

Nonviolence">https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/p... is something liberals fetishize as the "right" way of asking for change

This books shows you that all it actually is about

Its about protecting the State
Antifa: The Antifascist Handbook by Mark Bray
https://b-ok.cc/book/3338968/28673d

It& #39;s">https://b-ok.cc/book/3338... actually doesn& #39;t read like a handbook it feels like a history book nonetheless, it can be a handbook for antifascists praxis and it& #39;s really timely and written after Charlottesville Unite the Right rally
The Anarchist Collectives: Workers’ Self-Management in the Spanish Revolution, 1936–1939 edited by Sam Dolgoff
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/sam-dolgoff-editor-the-anarchist-collectives

The">https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/s... Spanish Revolution was short lived but a lot can be learned from it

The perspectives shared in this book is very valuable to the left
The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions by Jason Hickel
https://b-ok.cc/book/3364753/d747c4

I">https://b-ok.cc/book/3364... call this one the anti-pinker

If you know who Stephen Pinker is and hate his guts read this as a pallet cleanser

It& #39;s about the divide between rich nations and poor ones
Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century: Globalization, Super-Exploitation, and Capitalism’s Final Crisis by John Smith
https://b-ok.cc/book/2731208/13b06d

This">https://b-ok.cc/book/2731... book goes hand in hand with the previous one (The Divide)

Imperialism is the Divide between the global south and global north
Manufacturing Consent by Noam Noam Chomsky
https://b-ok.cc/book/2930893/657fc4
And
Inventing">https://b-ok.cc/book/2930... reality by Michael Parenti
https://b-ok.cc/book/3525906/3999bb

These">https://b-ok.cc/book/3525... are together because its both about mass media propaganda
Inventing reality is more accessible but Manufacturing Consent is more academic
Debt: The First 5000 Years by David Graeber
https://b-ok.cc/book/1190577/6d1360

So">https://b-ok.cc/book/1190... everything they thought you about barter, money and economics in general was all bullshit

The neoclassical economists are full of shit and don& #39;t know what their talking about when it comes to money
Capital as Power: A Study of Order and Creorder by Jonathan Nitzan and Shimshon Bichler
https://b-ok.cc/book/884514/cb3e0f

This">https://b-ok.cc/book/8845... is one of the hardest books Ive read and I& #39;m still reading it, this feels like 21st century Das Kapital with how ambitious it is (1/2)
Capital as power not only puts forth a new political economy

It also tackles and critiques liberal and marxists economics talking about it& #39;s history, and its flaws

I& #39;m still trying to wrap my head around it, it feels revolutionary and it flew under the radar (2/2)
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