This week’s stock market crash is just the latest reminder that the capitalist system inevitably produces economic crises. But as Karl Marx and Frederick Engels wrote in The Communist Manifesto, that's not the only thing that capitalism produces. It also concentrates power in the hands of workers, who they called capitalism’s “grave-diggers.”
Here’s a reading list on capitalism’s crises, the resistance it engenders, and the socialist alternative.
In 2026, we’re celebrating 25 years of publishing “Books for Changing the World.” In those 25 years, we’ve helped build critical space and infrastructure for radical ideas and movements on the left to grow. That work of institution-building and popular political education has never been more necessary or more urgent. We need your help to continue to do this work.