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Marxist Archive. (www.marxists.org)

submitted 2 months ago by squid_slime@lemm.ee to c/left_books@lemm.ee

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Ebooks, audo, and snipping all in one place.

State of Terror: has anyone read this? (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 months ago by squid_slime@lemm.ee to c/left_books@lemm.ee

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at a divest rally with Palestine Solidarity one of the protestors gave me this book recommendation.

Worth a read?

The Anarchist Library (theanarchistlibrary.org)

submitted 2 months ago by Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/left_books@lemm.ee

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The Anarchist Library is a great archive of free books and essays on the topic of Anarchism. Some newer books won't be available there due to copyright (thanks Capitalism! /s).

Here's some recommendations to get you started:

Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism, Peter H. Marshall
The Conquest of Bread, Pëtr Kropotkin
No Gods, No Masters: An Anthology of Anarchism, Daniel Guérin
Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction, Colin Ward
Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution, Pëtr Kropotkin
God and the State, Michail Bakunin

*Dear mod: I don't think there's any copyright concerns with the linked texts, but if there is I'll remove the direct links. I only added them because the search function on the archiveis a bit borked, so it can be hard to find what you're looking for.

Eric Arthur Blair Aka George Orwell. (feddit.uk)

submitted 2 months ago by squid@feddit.uk to c/left_books@lemm.ee

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Personally I very much enjoy Orwells books, Down and Out in Paris and London has to be one of my favorite book of his just for the issues the book tackles and tackles well. Orwell goes headlong in to class structures depicting his day to day of his life as a tramp, the simple yet devastating way he got into that situation and the all in-composing despair of financial ruin.

Also the communist that drinks all the milk to spite his boss had me hard.

Then Orwell later writes Animal Farm...