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

8 best books like The Assassination of Julius Caesar: A People's History of Ancient Rome (Michael Parenti): Debt: The First 5,000 Years, Ten Days that Shook the World, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent, The Chapo Guide to Revolution: A Manifesto Against Logic, Facts, and Reason, Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?, Estado y revolución, How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower

Debt: The First 5,000 Years
AuthorDavid Graeber
ISBN1933633867
Before there was money, there was debt

Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was invented to replace onerous and complicated barter systems—to relieve ancient people from having to haul their goods to market. The problem with this version of history? There’s not a shred...
Ten Days that Shook the World
AuthorJohn Reed
ISBN0486452409
I just finished this one, after meaning to check it out since college.

Sometimes you know a book is great even if you yourself have a hard time reading it. That was the case for me in the very well written and detailed personal account of the October Revolution in Russia, as experienced by American...
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
AuthorEduardo Galeano
ISBN0853459916
Since its U.S. debut a quarter-century ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America. It is also an outstanding political economy, a social and cultural narrative of the highest quality, and perhaps the finest description of primitive capital accumulation...
The Chapo Guide to Revolution: A Manifesto Against Logic, Facts, and Reason
AuthorChapo Trap House
“Howard Zinn on acid or some bullsh*t like that.” —Tim Heidecker

The creators of the cult-hit podcast Chapo Trap House deliver a manifesto for everyone who feels orphaned and alienated—politically, culturally, and economically—by the bloodless Wall Street centrism of the...
Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation
AuthorSilvia Federici
ISBN1570270597
Caliban and the Witch is a history of the body in the transition to capitalism. Moving from the peasant revolts of the late Middle Ages to the witch-hunts and the rise of mechanical philosophy, Federici investigates the capitalist rationalization of social reproduction. She shows how the battle against...
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
AuthorMark Fisher
ISBN1846943175
After 1989, capitalism has successfully presented itself as the only realistic political-economic system - a situation that the bank crisis of 2008, far from ending, actually compounded. The book analyses the development and principal features of this capitalist realism as a lived ideological...
Estado y revolución
AuthorVladimir 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...
How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower
AuthorAdrian Goldsworthy
ISBN0300137192
A major new history of the fall of the Roman Empire, by the prizewinning author of Caesar

In AD 200, the Roman Empire seemed unassailable, its vast territory accounting for most of the known world. By the end of the fifth century, Roman rule had vanished in western Europe and much of northern Africa,...
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