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Nonfiction · Political philosophy

Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung

The Little Red Book

Mao Zedong

1964 · 146 pages

Printed by the billion and waved by Red Guards, Mao's pocket handbook compresses his politics into 427 quotations on struggle, self-criticism, and war. During the Cultural Revolution, not carrying one was dangerous.

★ 4.2

Fiction · Political fiction

The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists

Robert Tressell

1914 · 624 pages

The philanthropists of the title are house painters who give their labor away and defend the system that ruins them. Owen, the socialist, cuts up bread to demonstrate the money trick.

★ 5.7

Nonfiction · Economic history

Capital

Volume 1

Karl Marx

1867 · 1152 pages

Workers create more value than their wages return, Marx argues, and that gap is profit. No economic book has reshaped politics more, and the chapter on the working day still burns.

★ 7.5

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Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung

The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists

Capital