Marx's General: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels

6 best books like Marx's General: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels (Tristram Hunt): The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream, Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy, Estado y revolución, Lenin: A Study in the Unity of His Thought, The Assassination of Julius Caesar: A People's History of Ancient Rome

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

Author	Ursula K. Le Guin
ISBN	0886825016

Some inhabitants of a peaceful kingdom cannot tolerate the act of cruelty that underlies its happiness.
The story "Omelas" was first published in New Dimensions 3, a hard-cover science fiction anthology edited by Robert Silverberg, in October 1973, and the following year it won Le Guin the...

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream

Author	Harlan Ellison
ISBN	0441363954

First published in 1967 and re-issued in 1983, I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream contains seven stories with copyrights ranging from 1958 through 1967. This edition contains the original introduction by Theodore Sturgeon and the original foreword by Harlan Ellison, along with a brief update comment...

Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy

Author	William Barrett
ISBN	0385031386

Widely recognized as the finest definition of existentialist philosophy ever written, this book introduced existentialism to America in 1958. Barrett speaks eloquently and directly to concerns of the 1990s: a period when the irrational and the absurd are no better integrated than before and when...

Estado y revolución

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Vladimir Lenin

If you happen to get the version which has a forward by Richard Pipes, I strongly suggest reading the text of Vladimir Lenin first, maybe Google or Wikipedia some of the historical references, and draw your own conclusion. Richard Pipes is your classical establishment propaganda clerk who's job is...

Lenin: A Study in the Unity of His Thought

Author	György Lukács
ISBN	1859841740

Written in part as an elegy upon Lenin's decease, and in part as insurance against author's own impending liquidation--for his magnum opus, History and Class Consciousness, had been "condemned by Soviet authorities in 1924 at the fifth World Congress of the Comintern" (Jay, Marxism & Totality,...

The Assassination of Julius Caesar: A People's History of Ancient Rome

Author	Michael Parenti
ISBN	1565849426

Most historians, both ancient and modern, have viewed the Late Republic of Rome through the eyes of its rich nobility. In The Assassination of Julius Caesar, Michael Parenti presents us with a story of popular resistance against entrenched power and wealth. As he carefully weighs the evidence concerning...