18 books like Le droit à la paresse

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Smoky crusade Richard Michael Fox · 1937 · 368p · ≈ 12h · Challenging Shares: Labor, Working class, History

A Dream of John Ball / A king's Lesson William Morris · 1888 · 157p · ≈ 5h · Challenging The novel describes a dream and time travel encounter between the medieval and modern worlds, thus contrasting the ethics of medieval and contemporary culture. A time-traveller tells Ball of the decline of feudalism and the rise of the Industrial Revolution. A Dream of John Ball (1888) is a novel about the English peasants' revolt of 1381. It features the rebel priest John Ball, who appeared to… Shares: Labor, Working class, History

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 world… Shares: Marxism, Socialism, History

Culture and anarchy; an essay in political and social criticism Matthew Arnold · 1869 · ★ 3.4 · 164p · ≈ 5h · Challenging "Matthew Arnold's famous series of essays, which were first published in book form under the title Culture and Anarchy in 1869, debate important questions about the nature of culture and society. Arnold seeks to find out what culture really is, what good it can do, and if it is really necessary. He contrasts culture, which he calls the study of perfection, with anarchy, the mood of unrest and… Shares: Conditions sociales, Philosophy

State and Revolution Vladimir Il’ich Lenin · 1900 · ★ 4.3 · 143p · ≈ 4h · Challenging 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, Philosophy

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 episodeMoritaka and Akito face the prospect of their series being canceled in Shonen Jump due to dropping popularity. Shares: Socialism, Philosophy, History

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, Philosophy

Roads to Freedom Bertrand Russell · 1918 · ★ 3.9 · 158p · ≈ 5h · Challenging 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 simple… Shares: Socialism, Philosophy

The Jungle Upton Sinclair · 1791 · ★ 3.8 · 222p · ≈ 7h · Demanding Upton Sinclair's dramatic and deeply moving story exposed the brutal conditions in the Chicago stockyards at the turn of the nineteenth century and brought into sharp moral focus the appalling odds against which immigrants and other working people struggled for their share of the American dream. Denounced by the conservative press as an un-American libel on the meatpacking industry, the book was… Shares: Working class, History

Philosophy and living Olaf Stapledon · 1935 · ★ 3.4 This Excellent Collection brings together Stapledon's longer, major books and a fine selection of shorter pieces and Science-Fiction Books. This Books created and collected in Olaf Stapledon's Most important Works illuminate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of the XX century - a man who elevated political writing to an art. William Olaf Stapledon (1886-1950) is one of the… Shares: Philosophy

Our Androcentric Culture, or the Man-Made World Charlotte Perkins Gilman · 1911 · 127p · ≈ 4h · Challenging In this probing critique of "androcentric culture," pioneering feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman analyzes with wit and insight the many negative effects of male domination, not only on women in particular but on the welfare of the human race as a whole. Society's long history of male hegemony and female subservience has not enhanced the natural qualities of the human race but rather distorted… Shares: Conditions sociales, History

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, History

American Indian Stories Zitkála-Šá · 1921 · ★ 4.0 · 98p · ≈ 3h · Challenging Collection of American Indian stories by Zitkala-Sa, an Sioux Indian. Many of the stories are of an autobiographical nature. Shares: Conditions sociales, History

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, Philosophy

Our Man in Havana Graham Greene · 1958 · ★ 3.9 · 286p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Wormold's daughter had reached an expensive age - so he accepted a mysterious Englishman's offer of extra income. All he has to do is run agents, file reports, and spy. But his fake reports have an alarming tendency to come true. Shares: Working class, History

The common sense of science Jacob Bronowski · 1951 · 154p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Discusses science as a characteristic part of human activity and as an effort to render the world predictable. Shares: Philosophy, History

Pensées Blaise Pascal · 1670 · ★ 4.0 · 297p · ≈ 9h · Demanding "Blaise Pascal, the precociously brilliant contemporary of Descartes, was a gifted mathematician and physicist, but it is his unfinished apologia for the Christian religion upon which his reputation now rests. The Pensees is a collection of philosophical fragments, notes and essays in which he explores the contradictions of human nature in psychological, social, metaphysical and, above all,… Shares: Controversial literature, Philosophy, History

To hell with culture, and other essays on art and society Herbert Edward Read · 1941 · ★ 3.6 · 193p · ≈ 6h · Challenging Shares: Socialism, Philosophy

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