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Capital: Volume 1
- A Critique of Political Economy
- Written by: Karl Marx, Samuel Moore - translation, Edward Aveling - translation
- Narrated by: Derek Le Page
- Length: 43 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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It can be said of very few books that the world was changed as a result of its publication - but this is certainly the case of Capital: A Critique of Political Economy by Karl Marx....
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One of the best books in history...
- By Twahir Alam on 06-11-21
Written by: Karl Marx,
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Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism
- And Other Arguments for Economic Independence
- Written by: Kristen Ghodsee
- Narrated by: Esther Wane
- Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Unregulated capitalism is bad for women. Socialism, if done properly, leads to economic independence, better labour conditions, better work/family balance and, yes, even better sex....
Written by: Kristen Ghodsee
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My Seditious Heart
- Written by: Arundhati Roy
- Narrated by: Tania Rodrigues
- Length: 36 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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My Seditious Heart collects the work of a two-decade period when Arundhati Roy devoted herself to the political essay as a way of opening up space for justice, rights and freedoms in an increasingly hostile environment....
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One of the best Non-fiction work.
- By Maneeb Masood on 20-04-20
Written by: Arundhati Roy
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Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China
- Written by: Ezra F. Vogel
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 33 hrs and 48 mins
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Once described by Mao Zedong as a "needle inside a ball of cotton", Deng was the pragmatic yet disciplined driving force behind China's radical transformation in the late 20th century....
Written by: Ezra F. Vogel
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The Communist Manifesto
- Penguin Classics
- Written by: Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx
- Narrated by: Arinze Kene
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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The Communist Manifesto (1848), Marx and Engels' revolutionary summons to the working classes, is one of the most important and influential political theories ever formulated....
Written by: Friedrich Engels,
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Azadi
- Freedom. Fascism. Fiction.
- Written by: Arundhati Roy
- Narrated by: Shaheen Khan
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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From the best-selling author of My Seditious Heart and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, a new and pressing dispatch from the heart of the crowd and the solitude of a writer's desk....
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Incompatible narrator
- By Amazon Customer on 03-10-20
Written by: Arundhati Roy
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Capital: Volume 1
- A Critique of Political Economy
- Written by: Karl Marx, Samuel Moore - translation, Edward Aveling - translation
- Narrated by: Derek Le Page
- Length: 43 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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It can be said of very few books that the world was changed as a result of its publication - but this is certainly the case of Capital: A Critique of Political Economy by Karl Marx....
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One of the best books in history...
- By Twahir Alam on 06-11-21
Written by: Karl Marx,
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Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism
- And Other Arguments for Economic Independence
- Written by: Kristen Ghodsee
- Narrated by: Esther Wane
- Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Unregulated capitalism is bad for women. Socialism, if done properly, leads to economic independence, better labour conditions, better work/family balance and, yes, even better sex....
Written by: Kristen Ghodsee
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My Seditious Heart
- Written by: Arundhati Roy
- Narrated by: Tania Rodrigues
- Length: 36 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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My Seditious Heart collects the work of a two-decade period when Arundhati Roy devoted herself to the political essay as a way of opening up space for justice, rights and freedoms in an increasingly hostile environment....
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One of the best Non-fiction work.
- By Maneeb Masood on 20-04-20
Written by: Arundhati Roy
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Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China
- Written by: Ezra F. Vogel
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 33 hrs and 48 mins
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Once described by Mao Zedong as a "needle inside a ball of cotton", Deng was the pragmatic yet disciplined driving force behind China's radical transformation in the late 20th century....
Written by: Ezra F. Vogel
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The Communist Manifesto
- Penguin Classics
- Written by: Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx
- Narrated by: Arinze Kene
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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The Communist Manifesto (1848), Marx and Engels' revolutionary summons to the working classes, is one of the most important and influential political theories ever formulated....
Written by: Friedrich Engels,
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Azadi
- Freedom. Fascism. Fiction.
- Written by: Arundhati Roy
- Narrated by: Shaheen Khan
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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From the best-selling author of My Seditious Heart and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, a new and pressing dispatch from the heart of the crowd and the solitude of a writer's desk....
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Incompatible narrator
- By Amazon Customer on 03-10-20
Written by: Arundhati Roy
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Capital: Volume 2
- A Critique of Political Economy
- Written by: Karl Marx
- Narrated by: Derek Le Page
- Length: 29 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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It was the close friendship and professional association between Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels that enabled Marx’s full vision presented in Capital: A Critique of Political Economy to come to fruition....
Written by: Karl Marx
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The State & Revolution
- Written by: Vladimir Lenin
- Narrated by: Geoffrey Giuliano
- Length: 5 hrs
- Unabridged
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The State and Revolution is a well-known book by Vladimir Lenin. Lenin describes the role of the state in society, the necessity of proletarian revolution, and the theoretic inadequacies of social democracy in achieving revolution to establish the dictatorship of the proletariat....
Written by: Vladimir Lenin
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China After Mao
- The Rise of a Superpower
- Written by: Frank Dikötter
- Narrated by: Robbie Stevens
- Length: 13 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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In China After Mao, award-winning historian Frank Dikötter explores how the People’s Republic of China was transformed from a backwater economy in the 1970s into the world superpower of today....
Written by: Frank Dikötter
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The Russian Revolution
- Written by: Sheila Fitzpatrick
- Narrated by: Steve Fortune
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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The Russian Revolution had a decisive impact on the history of the 20th century. In the years following the collapse of the Soviet regime and the opening of its archives, it has become possible to step back and see the full picture....
Written by: Sheila Fitzpatrick
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Today We Die a Little
- Written by: Richard Askwith
- Narrated by: Richard Askwith
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Emil Zátopek won five Olympic medals, set 18 world records and went undefeated over 10,000 metres for six years. He redefined the boundaries of endurance, but his toughness was matched by a spirit of friendship that transcended the darkest days of the Cold War....
Written by: Richard Askwith
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The Communist Manifesto
- With an Introduction by Yanis Varoufakis
- Written by: Karl Marx, Yanis Varoufakis - introduction
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh, Yanis Varoufakis
- Length: 2 hrs and 27 mins
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The Communist Manifesto is a timeless classic providing intelligent insight into socialism, communism and today's group identity politics. This edition includes a new introduction by the economist and best-selling author of Adults in the Room, Yanis Varoufakis....
Written by: Karl Marx,
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The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality
- Written by: Ludwig Von Mises
- Narrated by: John Riddle
- Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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THE ANTI-CAPITALISTIC MENTALITY by Austrian School economist and libertarian thinker Ludwig von Mises is an investigation into the psychological roots of the anti-capitalistic stance that is widespread in segments of the general population of the capitalist world....
Written by: Ludwig Von Mises
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Why Marx Was Right
- 2nd Edition
- Written by: Terry Eagleton
- Narrated by: Roger Clark
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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In this combative, controversial book, Terry Eagleton takes issue with the prejudice that Marxism is dead and done with. Taking 10 of the most common objections to Marxism....
Written by: Terry Eagleton
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Marx's Das Kapital
- A Biography: Books That Changed the World
- Written by: Francis Wheen
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 3 hrs and 16 mins
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Francis Wheen, the author of the most successful biography of Karl Marx, tells the story of Das Kapital and Marx's 20-year struggle to complete his unfinished masterpiece....
Written by: Francis Wheen
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Democracy at Work
- A Cure for Capitalism
- Written by: Richard D. Wolff
- Narrated by: Shawn Compton
- Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Capitalism as a system has spawned deepening economic crisis alongside its bought-and-paid-for political establishment. Neither serves the needs of our society....
Written by: Richard D. Wolff
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Blackshirts and Reds
- Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
- Written by: Michael Parenti
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
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Blackshirts and Reds explores some of the big issues of our time: fascism, capitalism, communism, revolution, democracy, and ecology. These terms are often bandied about but seldom explored in the original and exciting way that has become Michael Parenti's trademark....
Written by: Michael Parenti
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A People’s Tragedy
- Written by: Orlando Figes
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 47 hrs and 1 min
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A People’s Tragedy follows workers, soldiers, intellectuals and villagers as their world is consumed by revolution and then degenerates into violence and dictatorship....
Written by: Orlando Figes
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Lenin's Tomb
- The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
- Written by: David Remnick
- Narrated by: Michael Prichard
- Length: 29 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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This best-selling account of the collapse of the Soviet Union combines the global vision of the best historical scholarship with the immediacy of eyewitness journalism....
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unputdownable!
- By Devika Jayakumari on 12-04-20
Written by: David Remnick
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Gulag
- A History
- Written by: Anne Applebaum
- Narrated by: Laural Merlington
- Length: 27 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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In this magisterial and acclaimed history, Anne Applebaum offers the first fully documented portrait of the Gulag....
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Gripping narrative of Gulag
- By RAJA MUKHERJEA on 05-12-20
Written by: Anne Applebaum
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War with Russia?
- From Putin & Ukraine to Trump & Russiagate
- Written by: Stephen F. Cohen
- Narrated by: Holden Still
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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America is in a new Cold War with Russia even more dangerous than the one the world barely survived in the 20th century. All of this is exacerbated by Washington’s war-like demonizing of the Kremlin leadership....
Written by: Stephen F. Cohen
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Red Famine
- Stalin's War on Ukraine
- Written by: Anne Applebaum
- Narrated by: Patricia Rodriguez
- Length: 17 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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The momentous new book from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag and Iron Curtain. In 1932-33, nearly four million Ukrainians died of starvation, having been deliberately deprived of food. It is one of the most devastating episodes in the history of the 20th century....
Written by: Anne Applebaum
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The Unwomanly Face of War
- Penguin Modern Classics
- Written by: Svetlana Alexievich, Larissa Volokhonsky - translator, Richard Pevear - translator
- Narrated by: Yelena Shmulenson, Julia Emelin
- Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
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Bringing together dozens of voices in her distinctive style, The Unwomanly Face of War is Svetlana Alexievich's collection of stories from Soviet women who lived through the Second World War....
Written by: Svetlana Alexievich,
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The Vladimir Lenin Collection: State and Revolution, What Is to Be Done?, & Imperialism: The Final Stage of Capitalism
- Written by: Vladimir Lenin
- Narrated by: Michael Richards
- Length: 14 hrs and 3 mins
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Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (1870-1924) is better known by his alias Lenin. A Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist, he served as the head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1924 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924....
Written by: Vladimir Lenin
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On Anarchism
- Written by: Noam Chomsky, Nathan Schneider - introduction
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins
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In these essays, Chomsky redeems one of the most maligned ideologies, anarchism, and places it at the foundation of his political thinking....
Written by: Noam Chomsky,
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The Rise of Communism: From Marx to Lenin
- Written by: Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius
- Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins
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How did communism become such a pervasive economic and political philosophy? Why did it first take root in early 20th-century Russia? These and other questions are part of a fascinating story whose drama has few equals in terms of sheer scale, scope, or human suffering and belief....
Written by: Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius,
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Mao's Great Famine
- Written by: Frank Dikötter
- Narrated by: David Bauckham
- Length: 15 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Between 1958 and 1962, 45 million Chinese people were worked, starved or beaten to death. Mao Zedong threw his country into a frenzy with the Great Leap Forward....
Written by: Frank Dikötter
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Maoism
- A Global History
- Written by: Julia Lovell
- Narrated by: Nancy Wu
- Length: 21 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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For decades, the West has dismissed Maoism as an outdated historical and political phenomenon. Since the 1980s, China seems to have abandoned the utopian turmoil of Mao’s revolution in favour of authoritarian capitalism....
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Scholarly work!
- By leandisciple on 16-12-20
Written by: Julia Lovell
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From Rebel to Ruler
- One Hundred Years of the Chinese Communist Party
- Written by: Tony Saich
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 22 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Mao Zedong and the twelve other young men who founded the Chinese Communist Party in 1921 could hardly have imagined that less than thirty years later they would be rulers. On its hundredth anniversary, the party remains in command, leading a nation primed for global dominance....
Written by: Tony Saich
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Free
- Coming of Age at the End of History
- Written by: Lea Ypi
- Narrated by: Lea Ypi, Rachel Bavidge
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
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Lea Ypi grew up in one of the most isolated countries on earth, a place where communist ideals had officially replaced religion....
Written by: Lea Ypi