14 books like Economic Calculation In the Socialist Commonwealth

What to read after Economic Calculation In the Socialist Commonwealth — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

An Unsocial Socialist George Bernard Shaw · 1887 · ★ 3.4 · 255p · ≈ 8h · Challenging From the book:In the dusk of an October evening, a sensible looking woman of forty came out through an oaken door to a broad landing on the first floor of an old English country-house. A braid of her hair had fallen forward as if she had been stooping over book or pen; and she stood for a moment to smooth it, and to gaze contemplatively - not in the least sentimentally - through the tall, narrow… Shares Socialism

News from nowhere, or, An epoch of rest, being some chapters from a utopian romance William Morris · 1890 · 258p · ≈ 8h · Challenging "Written in 1890, at the close of William Morris's most intense period of political activism, News from Nowhere is a compelling articulation of his mature views on art, work, community, family, and the nature and structure of the ideal society. A utopian narrative of a future society, it is also an immensely entertaining novel.". "This Broadview edition includes a wide variety of… Shares Socialism

Towards democracy Edward Carpenter · 1883 · ★ 4.1 · 526p · ≈ 17h · Challenging Il Carpenter non è nome nuovo in Italia. Alcuni suoi libri di psicologia furon già tradotti, ma nessuno aveva finora pensato a tradurre l'opera sua più famosa, che fa di lui, con spiriti un pò diversi, un degno continuatore del grande Walt Whitman. (G. Papini) Shares Socialism

State and Revolution Vladimir Il’ich Lenin · 1900 · ★ 4.3 · 143p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Lenin wrote ‘State and Revolution’ in 1917, while he was hiding from the Russian secret police. The book describes the inherent nature of the State as a tool for class oppression, a creation born of one social class’s desire to control all other social classes. Drawing on detailed quotes from Karl Marx and Friedrick Engels, Lenin lays down a Marxist view of the state, describes how a… Shares Socialism

Die Frau und der Sozialismus August Bebel · 1879 · 756p · ≈ 25h · Demanding Das Buch **Die Frau und der Sozialismus** ist die am meisten verbreitete und übersetzte Schrift von August Bebel. Seit mehr als hundert Jahren stehen Bebels Thesen im Mittelpunkt der Diskussionen um die Gleichberechtigung der Frau in der Gesellschaft. Shares Socialism

Principles of Political Economy John Stuart Mill · 1848 · ★ 3.8 · 626p · ≈ 20h · Demanding The appearance of a treatise like the present, on a subject on which so many works of merit already exist, may be thought to require some explanation. It might perhaps be sufficient to say, that no existing treatise on Political Ecomony contains the latest improvements which have been made in the theory of the subject. Many new ideas, and new applications of ideas, have been elicited by the… Shares Socialism

Herrn Eugen Dührings Umwälzung der Wissenschaft Friedrich Engels · 1878 · 507p · ≈ 16h · Challenging Akito Takagi, who wants to be a writer, discovers that his classmate, Moritaka Mashiro, has drawing talent and tries to persuade him that together they can create a manga book, but Moritaka isn't sure if he is up to the task. In this episode`Moritaka and Akito face the prospect of their series being canceled in Shonen Jump due to dropping popularity. Shares Socialism

The Iron Heel Jack London · 1907 · ★ 3.8 · 373p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Generally considered to be "the earliest of the modern Dystopian," it chronicles the rise of an oligarchic tyranny in the United States. It is arguably the novel in which Jack London's socialist views are most explicitly on display. A forerunner of soft science fiction novels and stories of the 1960s and 1970s, the book stresses future changes in society and politics while paying much less… Shares Socialism

Roads to Freedom Bertrand Russell · 1918 · ★ 3.9 · 158p · ≈ 5h · Moderate THE attempt to conceive imaginatively a better ordering of human society than the destructive and cruel chaos in which mankind has hitherto existed is by no means modern: it is at least as old as Plato, whose ``Republic'' set the model for the Utopias of subsequent philosophers. Whoever contemplates the world in the light of an ideal - whether what he seeks be intellect, or art, or love, or… Shares Socialism

Looking Backward; 2000-1887 Edward Bellamy · 1887 · 337p · ≈ 11h · Challenging Shares Socialism with this book.

Unto This Last John Ruskin · 1860 · ★ 3.8 · 162p · ≈ 5h · Challenging Unto This Last is an essay on economy by John Ruskin, critical of the 18th and 19th century capitalist economists. When first published as four magazine articles in 1860 they were, in the words of Ruskin himself, "very violently criticized" and the publisher was force to halt publication. But Ruskin persevered and released the four articles in this book form in 1862. Gandhi read Unto This Last in… Shares Socialism

Le droit à la paresse Paul Lafargue · 1893 · ★ 3.9 · 63p · ≈ 2h · Challenging The Right to be Lazy is an essay by Cuban-born French revolutionary Marxist Paul Lafargue, written from his London exile in 1880. The essay polemicizes heavily against then-contemporary liberal, conservative, Christian and even socialist ideas of work. Lafargue criticizes these ideas from a Marxist perspective as dogmatic and ultimately false by portraying the degeneration and enslavement of… Shares Socialism

To hell with culture, and other essays on art and society Herbert Edward Read · 1941 · ★ 3.6 · 193p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Shares Socialism with this book.

Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei Karl Marx · 1848 · ★ 3.7 · 80p · ≈ 2h · Challenging Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License: http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/ One of the most influential political tracts ever published this short book succinctly explains the aims and purpose of the Communist League of the 19th century, giving the author’s theories of the class struggle which they assumed would inevitably lead to… Shares Socialism

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