Anarchism, Marxism, Social Ecology & Radical Left
This list shows nonfiction anarchist works on marxism, social ecology and radical left. You can post your suggestions in the comments section below.
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created by Communalist
last updated June, 2026
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I would recommend reading in following sequence. Skip the sections you are already familiar with.
For Critical Thinking Skills
- Critical Thinking: Consider the Verdict by Bruce N. Waller
- Dance of Dialectics by Bertell Ollman
- Critical Thinking Unchained by Mason Carter
- Critical Theory Today by Lois Tyson
To study Capitalism, Neoliberal Economy and Marxism as Theories of Economy
- Contending Economic Theories by Richard Wolfe
- Karl Marx: Selected Writings Edited by David McLellan
- Introduction to Marxism by Richard Wolffe
For Critique on Capitalism
- Conquest of Bread by Kropotkin
- The Capitalist System by Mikhail Bakunin
- Wars & Capitalism by Kropotkin
- Expropriation by Kropotkin
- The Wage System by Kropotkin
- Capital in Twenty-First Century by Thomas Pickety
- Marx's Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
To Study Marxist Praxis and its Critique
- Guillotine at Work by Maximoff
- What was the USSR by Aufheben
- Means & Ends Anarchist Critique by Zoe Baker
- 1919: When Bolsheviks Turned Against Workers by CrimethInc
- The Soviet Union: A Regime of Capitalist Development by Matthew Crossin
- Hungary 56â by Andy Anderson
- There is no Communism in Russia by Emma Goldman
- Russian Revolution & Communist Party by Alexander Berkman
- Lenin as Philosopher by Anton Pannekoek
For Building a Worldview
- Mutual Aid a Factor in Evolution by Kropotkin
- Ethics: Origin and Development by Kropotkin
- Ecology of Freedom by Bookchin
For Restorative and Transformative Justice
- Prisons: Universities of Crime by Kropotkin
- Prisons: A Social Crime and Failure by Emma Goldman
- Re-imagining Justice: From Punitive to Transformative by Pranav Jeevan P
For Understanding the Hegemony & Control
- Distinction by Piere Bourdieu
- Rhetoric and Ideology in the Writing Class by James Berlin
- Manufacturing Consent by Noam Chomsky
- Prison Notebooks by Gramsci
For Making Real Change
- On Anarchism by Noam Chomsky
- Jackson Rising Redux by Kali Akuno
- Sociology of Freedom by Ocalan
- How to Build Municipalist Communes by Mason Carter
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