The Communist Hypothesis

7 best books like The Communist Hypothesis (Alain Badiou): Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud, Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politics, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?, Estado y revolución, German Ideology, Lenin: A Study in the Unity of His Thought, For Marx

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...

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...

Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

Author	Mark Fisher
ISBN	1846943175

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

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by Richard Pipes, I strongly suggest reading the text of Vladimir Lenin first, maybe Google or Wikipedia some of the historical references, and draw your own conclusion.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...

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,...

For Marx

Author

Louis Althusser

A milestone in the development of post-war Marxist thought.

This is the work in which Louis Althusser formulated some of his most influential ideas. For Marx, first published in France in 1968, has come to be regarded as the founding text of the school of “structuralist Marxism” which...