Reading Capital

8 best books like Reading Capital (Louis Althusser): The Medium is the Massage, Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud, The Limits to Capital, History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics, Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politics, Estado y revolución, German Ideology, Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments

The Medium is the Massage

Author	Marshall McLuhan
ISBN	1584230703

The Medium is the Massage is Marshall McLuhan's most condensed, and perhaps most effective, presentation of his ideas. Using a layout style that was later copied by Wired, McLuhan and coauthor/designer Quentin Fiore combine word and image to illustrate and enact the ideas that were first put forward...

Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud

Author	Herbert Marcuse
ISBN	0807015555

"When philosophy conceives the essence of being as Logos, it is already the Logos of domination--commanding, mastering, directing reason, to which man and nature are to be subjected" (125)

"In its refusal to accept as final the limitations imposed upon freedom and happiness by the reality...

The Limits to Capital

Author	David Harvey
ISBN	1844670953

The Limits to Capital provides one of the best theoretical guides to the history and geography of capitalist development. In this new edition, Harvey updates his classic text with a substantial discussion of the turmoil in world markets today.

In his analyses of ‘fictitious capital’...

History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics

Author	György Lukács
ISBN	0262620200

This is the first time one of the most important of Lukacs' early theoretical writings, published in Germany in 1923, has been made available in English. The book consists of a series of essays treating, among other topics, the definition of orthodox Marxism, the question of legality and illegality,...

Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politics

Author	Ernesto Laclau
ISBN	1859843301

Since its original publication in 1985, this hugely influential book has been at the centre of much debate. The arguments and controversies it has aroused are, furthermore, far from abating: the disintegration of the Soviet bloc, the emergence of new social and political identities linked to the...

Estado y revolución

Author

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...

German Ideology

Author	Karl Marx
ISBN	0717803015

2011 Reprint of 1939 Edition. Parts I & III of "The German Ideology". Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Originally published by the Marx-Engels Institute in Moscow in 1939. "The German Ideology" was written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels...

Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments

Author	Theodor W. Adorno
ISBN	0804736332

Dialectic of Enlightenment is undoubtedly the most influential publication of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. Written during the Second World War and circulated privately, it appeared in a printed edition in Amsterdam in 1947. "What we had set out to do," the authors write in the Preface,...