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26 Best Socialism Books

Goal: Find the best Socialism books according to the internet (not just one person's opinion).

Method:

  1. Search for "best socialism books" and study the top 5+ pages.
  2. Add only the books mentioned 2+ times.
  3. Rank the results neatly here.

26 Best Socialism Books

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1

Das Kapital

A Critique of Political Economy

by Karl Marx

Also recommended by:

Elon Musk, Noam Chomsky

2

Socialism

Past and Future

by Michael Harrington

4

A People's History of the United States

by Howard Zinn

5

Homage to Catalonia

by George Orwell

6

The Road to Serfdom

by F. A. Hayek

7

The Great Transformation

The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time

by Karl Polanyi

Also recommended by:

Satya Nadella, Noam Chomsky, Brad Delong

8

The Case Against Socialism

by Rand Paul

Also recommended by:

Donald Trump, Lou Dobbs

9

Anarcho-Syndicalism

by Rudolf Rocker

Also recommended by:

Noam Chomsky

10

Main Currents of Marxism

The Founders - The Golden Age - The Breakdown

by Leszek Kolakowski

Also recommended by:

Christopher Hitchens

11

Caliban and the Witch

Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation

by Silvia Federici

12

Democracy at Work

A Cure for Capitalism

by Richard Wolff

13

Mutual Aid

A Factor in Evolution

by Peter Kropotkin

14

One-Dimensional Man

Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

by Herbert Marcuse

15

Pedagogy of the Oppressed

by Paulo Freire

16

Selections from the Prison Notebooks

by Antonio Gramsci

17

Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism

by David Harvey

18

Socialism

An Economic and Sociological Analysis

by Ludwig Von Mises

19

Socialism... Seriously

A Brief Guide to Human Liberation

by Danny Katch

20

Society of the Spectacle

by Guy Debord

21

The Conquest of Bread

by Peter Kropotkin

22

The Motorcycle Diaries

Notes on a Latin American Journey

by Ernesto Che Guevara

23

The Wretched of the Earth

by Frantz Fanon

24

Vol. 1

The Gulag Archipelago, Book 1

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

25

Why Not Socialism?

by G. A. Cohen

26

Women, Race, & Class

by Angela Y. Davis

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Richard Reis

Software engineer whose passion for tracking book recommendations from podcasts inspired the creation of MRB.

Anurag Ramdasan

Lead investor at 3one4 Capital whose startup expertise and love for books helped shaped MRB and its growth.

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