Political Science
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)
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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
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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
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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
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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…
United States Constitution and Amendments
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United States Government and Unit
The Constitution is the charter of government and the supreme law of the United States of America. It was signed by delegates to the Constit…
Anarchy
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Errico Malatesta
Anarchy explained by the anarchist Errico Malatesta. (Summary by Vineshen Pillay)
Unidentified Flying Objects
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United States Federal Bureau Of Investigation
Through the U.S. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) this series of communications has been de-classified and made public. Most names have bee…
The Economic Consequences of the Peace
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John Maynard Keynes
The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919) was a best seller throughout the world, published by John Maynard Keynes. Keynes attended the …
Anarchism and Other Essays (Version 2)
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Emma Goldman
Emma Goldman, the most famous anarchist in American history, shows the whole range of her iconoclastic thought in this collection of essays.…
The Conquest of Bread
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Peter Kropotkin
In this work, Kropotkin points out what he considers to be the fallacies of the economic systems of feudalism and capitalism, and how he bel…
Essays on Political Economy
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Frédéric Bastiat
Bastiat asserted that the only purpose of government is to defend the right of an individual to life, liberty, and property. From this defin…
What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government
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Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
What Is Property?: or, An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government (French: Qu'est-ce que la propriété ? ou Reche…
A Problem in Modern Ethics
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John Addington Symonds
“Society lies under the spell of ancient terrorism and coagulated errors. Science is either wilfully hypocritical or radically misinformed.”…
A Theologico-Political Treatise
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Benedict De Spinoza
Written by the Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza, the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus or Theologico-Political Treatise was one of the most con…
A Jewish State
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Theodor Herzl
Read in English, this is a pivotal document in the history of Zionism and the State of Israel. Herzl designed this work to elevate the discu…