Leftist Nonfiction - Lets Read Our TBR!! - hosted by freckled_frog_boi

A Book Seen as a Historical Building Block for Theory
This is where the old-school, difficult reads come in lol. I always put these off bc they intimidate me, but I want to try and read at least one or two this year.

Karl Marx, Mao, Lenin, Kropotkin, Engels, Bakunin, Che Guevara, and Emma Goldman are a few examples off the top of my head but feel free to add anyone and everyone that you feel fits this prompt!
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On Contradiction by Mao Zedong

On Contradiction

Mao Zedong

58 pages • first pub 1952 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy politics challenging informative slow-paced
On Practice by Mao Zedong

On Practice

Mao Zedong

24 pages • first pub 1937 (editions) user-added

nonfiction philosophy politics
Undelivered Speech: Annihilation of Caste With A Reply To Mahatma Gandhi and Castes In India: Their Mechanism, Genesis and Development by B.R. Ambedkar

Undelivered Speech: Annihilation of Caste With A Reply To Mahatma Gandhi and Castes In India: Their Mechanism, Genesis and Development

B.R. Ambedkar

4 hours, 50 minutes • first pub 1936 (editions) user-added

nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Powers and Prospects: Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order by Noam Chomsky

Powers and Prospects: Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order

Noam Chomsky

336 pages • first pub 1996 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy politics informative reflective medium-paced
The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon

The Wretched of the Earth

Frantz Fanon

320 pages • first pub 1961 (editions)

nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Capital: A new abridgement by David McLellan, Karl Marx

Capital: A new abridgement

David McLellan, Karl Marx

490 pages • first pub 1867 (editions)

nonfiction economics philosophy politics challenging informative slow-paced
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

Audre Lorde

190 pages • first pub 1984 (editions)

nonfiction essays feminism lgbtqia+ sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Women, Race, & Class by Angela Y. Davis

Women, Race, & Class

Angela Y. Davis

271 pages • first pub 1981 (editions)

nonfiction feminism history politics race sociology challenging informative medium-paced
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir

The Second Sex

Le deuxième sexe #1-2

Simone de Beauvoir

746 pages • first pub 1949 (editions)

nonfiction classics feminism philosophy challenging informative reflective slow-paced
If They Come in the Morning... : Voices of Resistance by Angela Y. Davis

If They Come in the Morning... : Voices of Resistance

Angela Y. Davis

271 pages • first pub 1971 (editions)

nonfiction feminism history politics race challenging reflective slow-paced