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The End of History and the Last Man
A book expanding Fukuyama's 1989 essay 'The End of History?', written as communist regimes were collapsing. Fukuyama argues that liberal democracy may be the end point of humanity's…
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Why Not Socialism?
A short book by the analytical Marxist G. A. Cohen, published in 2009 and developed from an earlier essay. It opens with a camping trip: friends on holiday…
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Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution
A book by the Russian anarchist and naturalist Peter Kropotkin, written in English and collected in 1902 from essays first published in the London periodical The Nineteenth Century…
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Anarchism and Other Essays
A collection of essays and lectures by the anarchist Emma Goldman, published in New York in 1910 by her own Mother Earth Publishing Association. The title essay, 'Anarchism:…
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Why We Can’t Wait
A book in which Martin Luther King Jr. explains the events of 1963, the year of the Birmingham campaign and the March on Washington, and argues that Black…
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Discourse on Colonialism
A short polemical essay by the Martinican poet and politician, one of the founders of Négritude, first published in 1950 and revised in 1955. It opens by declaring…
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Consciencism
A philosophical treatise by Ghana's first president, written while he governed and revised after his overthrow in 1966; the revised edition is subtitled Philosophy and Ideology for De-Colonization.…
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Ujamaa: Essays on Socialism
A selection of essays and policy statements by Tanzania's first president, gathered from his longer volumes of speeches and published in 1968. Ujamaa is the Swahili word for…
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Decolonising the Mind
A short book of four essays, partly developed from lectures, by the Kenyan novelist, subtitled The Politics of Language in African Literature. It opens with a statement announcing…
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On the Postcolony
A book of linked essays by a Cameroonian political philosopher, first published in French with the subtitle Essai sur l'imagination politique dans l'Afrique contemporaine. Mbembe rejects two habits…
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