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Essential Reading
![Understanding Marxism Preview](https://assets.nationbuilder.com/democracyatwork/pages/6063/attachments/original/1709479893/UM_Preview.jpg?1709479893)
If you want to understand capitalism in order to make society better, then understanding Marx’s analysis is fundamental in drawing your attention to capitalist production’s core conflict: class struggle. It is everywhere, and it influences everything and everyone in our society. Marx is the theoretician who first explained it systematically. He was a social critic for whom capitalism signified not the end of human history, but the latest phase that badly needed a transition to something better.
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![The Sickness is the System Preview](https://assets.nationbuilder.com/democracyatwork/pages/6063/attachments/original/1709479892/SIS_Preview.jpg?1709479892)
The coronavirus pandemic, economic crash, political divisions, and social tensions have plunged the declining American capitalist system into chaos. In this collection of over 50 unique essays, Prof. Wolff argues that a mere return to normalcy is inadequate to tackle the accumulated problems of US capitalism.
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![Understanding Socialism Preview](https://assets.nationbuilder.com/democracyatwork/pages/6063/attachments/original/1709479891/US_Preview.jpg?1709479891)
Understanding Socialism tackles the taboos and unveils the often hidden histories of socialism, but most importantly it offers a way forward: a socialism built on democracy in the workplace. A blend of history, analysis and opinion, Understanding Socialism is an honest and approachable text that knocks down false narratives, confronts failures, and offers a path to a new socialism based on workplace democracy.
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