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Thomas Paine · English
A revolutionary series of political essays on liberty, independence, public courage, and civic resolve.
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Thomas Paine · English
A revolutionary series of political essays on liberty, independence, public courage, and civic resolve.

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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. · English
A landmark legal classic on precedent, liability, rights, duties, and the historical life of law.

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Emma Goldman · English
A major collection of political essays on freedom, labor, education, prisons, and women’s rights.

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Romain Rolland · French
Un appel humaniste contre la haine nationale, écrit au cœur de la Première Guerre mondiale.

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José Ortega y Gasset · Spanish
Un ensayo influyente sobre la crisis nacional, el particularismo y la estructura política de España.

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Jules Michelet · French
Un essai vibrant sur la nation, le travail, la pauvreté et la dignité populaire.

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J. A. Hobson · English
Hobson’s influential analysis of empire, finance, markets, militarism, and modern political economy.

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H. G. Wells · English
A speculative political classic imagining a world state, social reform, travel, and modern utopian government.

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Maurice Barrès · French
Un roman politique français sur l’éducation, le nationalisme, l’ambition provinciale et la société républicaine.

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John Milton · English
Milton’s republican argument about tyranny, public authority, conscience, and political accountability.

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Frédéric Bastiat · French
Un classique libéral sur la loi, la liberté, la propriété et les limites du pouvoir politique.

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Max Weber · German
Webers berühmter Vortrag über Macht, Verantwortung, Staat, Berufspolitik und politische Ethik.

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Henry Adams · English
Washington politics becomes a sharp comedy of ambition, influence, and moral compromise.

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Ángel Ganivet · Spanish
Ganivet reflexiona sobre identidad española, crisis nacional, cultura, historia y regeneración moral.

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Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès · French
Un pamphlet décisif de 1789 sur nation, représentation politique et pouvoir du tiers état.

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Pierre-Joseph Proudhon · French
Proudhon’s provocative political classic examines property, labor, justice, equality, and social order.

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Johann Gottlieb Fichte · German
Fichte’s addresses link national renewal, education, language, civic formation, and political identity in Napoleonic Europe.

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Jack London · English
Jack London’s dystopian political novel imagines oligarchy, class war, labor movements, repression, and revolutionary memory.

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Immanuel Kant · German
Kant’s concise political essay proposes conditions for peace, republican government, international law, and cosmopolitan right.

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Montesquieu · French
Traité majeur de Montesquieu sur les lois, les climats, les régimes politiques, la liberté et la séparation des pouvoirs.

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Jonathan Swift · English
Swift’s savage political satire on poverty, exploitation, policy language, and moral blindness.

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Peter Kropotkin · English
A classic anarchist argument about cooperation, labor, mutual aid, and social organization.

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Walter Bagehot · English
A lucid analysis of cabinet government, monarchy, parliament, and Victorian political institutions.

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Gaetano Mosca · Italian
Un classico della teoria delle élite, del potere politico e dell’organizzazione dello Stato.