Political Science
Progress and Poverty
Read by Tim Makarios
Henry George
What I have done in this book, if I have correctly solved the great problem I have sought to investigate, is, to unite the truth perceived b…
Proposed Roads to Freedom
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell, 3rd Earl Russell (1872 – 1970) was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, political activist and Nobel laureate. …
On War (Volume 1)
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Carl Von Clausewitz
A classic work on military strategy by a veteran of the Napoleonic Wars. The author's style is dialectical: he makes two strong but opposing…
Emily
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Teel McClanahan III
Before she met Nicholas, all Emily cared about was shopping, and she believed her teachers when they told her the vampires had made the worl…
Leviathan (Books III and IV)
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Thomas Hobbes
In Books 3 and 4 of Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes elaborates on the political philosophy set forth in the first two books, by considering the nat…
Anarchism and Other Essays
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Emma Goldman
Emma Goldman (1869-1940) was an anarchist known for her political activism, writing and speeches. She played a pivotal role in the developme…
Tact
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 recordings of Tact by Ralph Waldo Emerson. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for April 22, 2012.Ralph…
The Prince (Version 4)
Read by Clive Catterall
Niccolò Machiavelli
This book is a five hundred year old manual for how to run a kingdom or principality. Written in 1513 but not published until 1532, "Th…
The Age of Reason (version 2)
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Thomas Paine
The Age of Reason; Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology is a pamphlet, written by a British and American revolutionary Thoma…
The Spirit of Laws (Volume 1)
Read by Benjamin Gittins
Montesquieu
This audiobook covers Volume 1 (Books I to XIX) of "The Spirit of the Laws" (French: De "l'esprit des lois", also someti…
Democracy in America Vol. II
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Alexis De Tocqueville
Democracy in America was published in two volumes, the first in 1835 and the second in 1840. It is a classic work on the United States in th…
The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 1a
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Jefferson Davis
The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (1881) is written by Jefferson Davis, former President of the Confederate States of America …
Bethink Yourselves!
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Leo Tolstoy
As Russia goes to war against Japan, Tolstoy urges those at all levels of society, from the Tsar down to the common soldier, to consider the…
Two Tactics of Social-Democracy in the Democratic Revolution
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Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
In the heat of the failed 1905 revolution in Russia, Lenin here contrasts the precision of the Bolshevik political program and tactics with …
Utopia (Robinson translation)
Read by Ruth Golding
Thomas More
Originally entitled A frutefull pleasaunt, and wittie worke of the beste state of publique weale, & of the newe yle, called Utopia: writ…
Il Principe
Read by Renzo Clerico
Niccolò Machiavelli
Il Principe (titolo originale in lingua latina: De Principatibus, "Riguardo i Principati") è un trattato di dottrina politi…
Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844
Read by Cate Barratt
Friedrich Engels
This is Engels' first book (since considered a classic account of England's working class in the industrial age), which argues that workers …
Reflections on the Revolution in France
Read by Michael Reuss
Edmund Burke
Reflections on the Revolution in France is a 1790 book by Edmund Burke, one of the best-known intellectual attacks against the (then-infant)…
Eleven Theses on Feuerbach
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Karl Marx
The “Theses on Feuerbach” are eleven short philosophical notes written by Karl Marx in 1845. They outline a critique of the ideas of Marx’s …
The Profits of Religion
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Upton Sinclair
"The Profits of Religion: An Essay in Economic Interpretation" is a non-fiction book, first published in 1917, by the American nov…