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Political Theory

45 books

Must-Read 1974

Anarchy State and Utopia

Robert Nozick

Must-Read 1900

Art of War

Sun Tzu

Must-Read 1983

Black Marxism

Cedric J. Robinson

Must-Read 1967

Capital, Volume I

Karl Marx

Must-Read 1961

Capital, Volume II

Karl Marx

Must-Read 2022

Capital, Volume III

Karl Marx

Must-Read 1848

Communist Manifesto

Marx & Engels

Must-Read 1861

Considerations on Representative Government

John Stuart Mill

Must-Read 1945

Democracy in America

Alexis de Tocqueville

Must-Read 1958

Human Condition

Hannah Arendt

Must-Read 2009

Idea of Justice

Amartya Sen

Must-Read 1651

Leviathan

Thomas Hobbes

Must-Read 1859

On Liberty

John Stuart Mill

Must-Read 1991

On War

Carl von Clausewitz

Must-Read 1945

Open Society and Its Enemies

Karl Popper

Must-Read 1951

Origins of Totalitarianism

Hannah Arendt

Must-Read 1901

Persian Letters

Montesquieu

Must-Read 1986

Political Theology

Carl Schmitt

Must-Read 1790

Reflections on the Revolution in France

Edmund Burke

Must-Read 1998

Seeing Like a State

James C Scott

Must-Read 1971

Selections from the Prison Notebooks

Antonio Gramsci

Must-Read 1913

Social Contract

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Must-Read 1951

State and Revolution

Vladimir Lenin

Must-Read 1848

The Communist Manifesto

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

Must-Read 2005

The Concept of the Political

Carl Schmitt

Must-Read 1926

The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

Karl Marx

Must-Read 1945

The Federalist Papers

Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay

Must-Read 1960

The German Ideology

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

Must-Read 1901

The Hedgehog and the Fox

Isaiah Berlin

Must-Read 2013

The Old Regime and the Revolution

Alexis de Tocqueville

Must-Read 2022

The Spirit of the Laws

Montesquieu

Must-Read 1869

The Subjection of Women

John Stuart Mill

Must-Read 1958

Two Concepts of Liberty

Isaiah Berlin

Must-Read 1965

Two Treatises of Government

John Locke

Must-Read 1929

What Is to Be Done?

Vladimir Lenin

Recommended 2009

Art of Not Being Governed

James C Scott

Recommended 1999

Capital Vol 1

Karl Marx

Recommended 1531

Discourses on Livy

Niccolò Machiavelli

Recommended 2005

On the Political

Chantal Mouffe

Recommended 1993

Political Liberalism

John Rawls

Recommended 1960

Politics and Vision

Sheldon Wolin

Recommended 1967

The Concept of Representation

Hannah Pitkin

Recommended 2000

The Democratic Paradox

Chantal Mouffe

Recommended 2020

The Liberty of Ancients Compared with That of Moderns

Benjamin Constant

Recommended 1941

The Managerial Revolution

James Burnham