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anti-capitalist books

by violet.booklover

Intersectional books about anti-capitalism, economic injustice, and imagining better futures of interdependence and reciprocity

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

I Survived Capitalism and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt: Everything I Wish I Never Had to Learn About Money

Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones

Femmephilia: Love Letters to Trans Mermaids, Queer Mothers, and Marilyn Monroe

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

I Survived Capitalism and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt: Everything I Wish I Never Had to Learn About Money

Books I learned about on Democracy Now

by juliaboechat

https://www.democracynow.org I get such good recommendations from their show!

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Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom

Oneness vs The 1%: Shattering Illusions, Seeding Freedom

Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

formative readings

An archive of books that have fundamentally shaped my political consciousness and critical understanding of the world.

Know My Name

The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World

Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World

Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Know My Name

The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World

Tech bro target practice

by deadendreads

Books that point the gun at tech bros and pull the trigger

Autocracy, Inc.

Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism

Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter

More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity

Autocracy, Inc.

Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism

Niche Histories

by FictionandFlora

Books that look at the history of specific items, concepts, industries, etc.

Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World

Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts

The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper

A History of Reading

Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World

Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts

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