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In this memoir-in-essays, a disabled, chronically ill feminist recounts her search for belonging online and offline through digital activism, founding Guerrilla Feminism in 2011 and defining digital activism as a tool of 'respair'—the return of hope after despair.

Kwame Nkrumah analyzes African class structures, arguing that class struggle is central to the continent's anti-colonial and socialist revolution against neocolonialism.

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Mao examines why guerrilla warfare against Japan requires its own strategic framework, arguing that China's size, weakness, and the protracted war necessitate independent operations, base areas, and the gradual development of guerrilla forces into mobile warfare.

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For Social-Democracy, reforms serve only as means to the final goal of social revolution, so Bernstein's theory wrongly replaces that goal with reforms, a question of 'to be or not to be.' Rosa Luxemburg further refutes Bernstein's economics, showing trade unions cannot suppress wages, and that capitalist contradictions intensify, making revolution necessary.

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Walter Rodney's revolutionary Pan-Africanist thought and activism, grounded in his concept of 'groundings' linking intellectuals to grassroots struggles, argued that Africa's underdevelopment stemmed from European colonialism and slavery, demanding socialist transformation beyond political independence; his 1968 expulsion from Jamaica sparked riots, and his 1980 assassination in Guyana.

Iris Chang's definitive history recounts the 1937 Japanese massacre of over 300,000 Chinese civilians and soldiers in Nanking, examining the militaristic culture that enabled such brutality and the postwar efforts to suppress its memory, while also highlighting the Westerners who saved nearly 300.

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A post-capitalist transition requires a theory surpassing Marx's critique, integrating class struggle and the state. Mészáros sees capital as a comprehensive social metabolic order spanning culture and politics, necessitating a socialist structural revolution over reform, critiquing state-based humanization, highlighting ecological destruction, and stressing working-class agency.

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Marx and Engels' views on war, revolution, and the relation between the two evolved over time in response to the turbulent political and military history of their era, as their theoretical positions shifted with concrete events. Understanding this evolution reveals how revolutionary strategy was shaped by the changing dynamics of conflict and historical circumstances.

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Mariátegui's writings apply Marxist analysis to Peruvian reality, arguing that the Indigenous problem is fundamentally socioeconomic, rooted in land ownership and gamonal feudalism, which invalidates protective laws. He rejects racist theories and racial determinism, instead advocating revolutionary socialism that empowers Indigenous peoples.

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The 2019 Socialist Register addresses the theme of 'The World Turned Upside Down?', examining global political shifts after the 2008 financial crisis. It analyzes the rise of right-wing populism and authoritarianism while exploring strategies for the left to build alternatives.

In this book Turé claims revolutionary consciousness stems from ideological education and practice and must prevent action from devolving into adventurism or paralysis. He defines development as a dialectical shift from quantitative accumulation to qualitative leaps and frames imperialism as exploitative expansion rather than humanitarian aid.

Frantz Fanon's landmark work analyzes decolonization, the violence of colonial rule, and the psychosocial effects of oppression on the colonized, calling for the creation of a new humanism through national liberation and international solidarity.