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Loved Assembly by M. Hardt? Here are 8 books with the same pull, and why each one fits.

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  1. 1Empire

    Empire

    Antonio Negri

    The first volume of the trilogy that Assembly extends, treating global power and the multitude as its central concepts.

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  2. 2Commonwealth

    Commonwealth

    Antonio Negri

    The final volume of the trilogy, which develops the idea of the common as a basis for collective political life.

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  3. 3Rebel Cities

    Rebel Cities

    David Harvey

    A study of how urban movements claim the right to the city, with attention to collective organizing from the bottom up.

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  4. 4Dissensus

    Dissensus

    Jacques Rancière

    Essays on politics as disagreement and the sudden appearance of those who have no recognized place in public life.

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  5. 5Hatred of Democracy

    Hatred of Democracy

    Jacques Rancière

    A short argument that democracy is an active practice of equality rather than a system of government, which bears on the assembly idea.

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  6. 6The Communist Hypothesis

    The Communist Hypothesis

    Alain Badiou

    A reconsideration of collective emancipatory politics after the failure of state socialism, asking what organized equality can look like now.

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  7. 7For a Left Populism

    For a Left Populism

    Chantal Mouffe

    An argument for building collective political identities and hegemony through democratic mobilization, a question close to Hardt's concern with organizing.

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  8. 8Hope in the Dark

    Hope in the Dark

    Rebecca Solnit

    Essays on social movements and the ways people act together for change when outcomes are uncertain.

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