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The Communist Manifesto
Marx-EngelsA short pamphlet that frames history as class struggle and calls for workers to take control of production.
Capital Volume I
Karl MarxA long analysis of wage labor, value, and capital accumulation that became the foundation of later Marxist economics.
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.
Max WeberArgues that religious ideas about work and thrift helped shape the modern capitalist mindset.
Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism
Vladimir Il’ich LeninLinks monopoly capital and the export of capital to colonial rivalry and war.
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
Joseph Alois SchumpeterDefends capitalism's dynamism through creative destruction while predicting its gradual transformation.
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Capital in the Twenty-First CenturyThomas Piketty - Utopia for Realists
Utopia for RealistsRutger Bregman - The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
The Age of Surveillance CapitalismShoshana Zuboff - The people's Marx
The people's MarxKarl Marx1867 - Learn to Earn
Learn to EarnPeter Lynch1995 - Anti-Oedipus
Anti-OedipusGilles Deleuze1972