I plan on asking for communist literature for Christmas this year 🤣

Looking to get State and Revolution, Das Kapital, (more suggestions would be good).

Where’s a good place to order these books from online? I’d rather not go through Amazon if possible.

I found https://mayday.leftword.com/ and https://www.haymarketbooks.org/ so far.

Help appreciated!

Love you all and hope you have a happy non-denominational holiday season! 💜

    • Empress_of_Penguins [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      I would much rather have physical books. I’d like to start building a collection of them.

      • Chomsky [comrade/them]
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        4 years ago

        maybe you could get one of those book binding things they use to make course packs in university.

        • Empress_of_Penguins [she/her]
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          4 years ago

          I’d have to buy a printer, ink, paper, and binding materials. This all seems much more complicated and expensive than just buying books from a website.

          • Chomsky [comrade/them]
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            4 years ago

            Just spitballing. Depends on the size of the library. There's a silly amount of stuff between there and the anarchist library

  • star_wraith [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    So this is by no means a leftist-leaning company, but Powell's at least has a huge selection that is maybe only second to Amazon or B&N. I've bought books from them because while I don't want to support Amazon, I also don't want to buy some "book" that was poorly printed off PDFs and purchased through a shady website. Maybe start with leftist sites and if you can't find what you're looking for you could fall back on Powell's.

  • rozako [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    Thriftbooks.com is nice and usually cheap. Easy to get free shipping too

  • Gay_Wrath [fae/faer]
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    4 years ago

    if you can find it from a local bookstore, that's great. I like powell's since it's local and big. My backup is thriftbooks because it's big, has good deals and free or near-free shipping.

  • callovthevoid [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    I recently got an e-reader so I can add a bunch of pdfs on it.

    I still prefer physical books and if you can deal with used books, Abebooks and Thriftbooks can be really cheap. They have a huge selection and I saved a decent amount of money buying used.

  • SaberTail [any]
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    4 years ago

    I can't strongly vouch for it, but https://www.james-munroe.com/ . The owner hangs out on the TrueAnon discord sometimes, and they maintain an (unofficial) reading list .

  • Tychoxii [he/him, they/them]
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    4 years ago

    not what you want but will give a shoutout to:

    https://www.pmpress.org/ (more on the anarchist side)

    https://www.chelseagreen.com/ . not the best but employee owned, mostly about organic farming, ecology with only a side of politics/economics.