Common Sense (Collected Writings)
1776 · 906 pages
Paine tells the colonists that an island cannot rule a continent and that hereditary kingship is an absurdity. Read aloud in taverns, it turned grievance into independence within months.
★ 7.2
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The Communist Manifesto
1848 · 287 pages
A spectre is haunting Europe, Marx and Engels announce, then read all recorded history as class struggle and hand the workers of the world a program. No pamphlet has moved more people.
★ 7.0