Books like From Luther to Popper by Herbert Marcuse

Herbert Marcuse’s 1964 classic critiques advanced industrial society, contrasting Western capitalism with Soviet communism and showing how both suppress revolutionary potential through mass media, advertising, and industrial management.

**Reason and Revolution: Hegel and the Rise of Social Theory** (1941; second edition 1954) is a book by the philosopher Herbert Marcuse, in which the author discusses the social theories of the philosophers Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Karl Marx. Marcuse reinterprets Hegel, with the aim of demonstrating that Hegel's basic concepts are hostile to the tendencies that led to fascism. The book has received praise as an important discussion of Hegel and Marx. (Source: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reason_and_Revolution))

Herbert Marcuse blends psychoanalytic theory, especially Freud’s ideas, with social psychology to examine culture and civilization, arguing that re‑imagining capitalism can transform society.

Polanyi's Great Transformation assesses the causes of capitalist instability in the mid twentieth century. The stability of the nineteenth century, he says, comes from four institutions: the gold standard, the liberal state, the balance of power, and the self-regulating market. Capitalism itself depends on treating as commodities three things which are in their essence not commodities: labor, land, and money. He deems these "fictitious commodities." Each of these three commodities is bought and sold in markets, but in fact are fundamentally different from ordinary commodities. Polanyi argues that capitalism's core institutions lead to an inherently unstable society that is increasingly forced to intervene in the disorder caused by markets in order to allow markets to continue to function. The transition from organic social values wherein human relations are privileged over exchange to modern capitalism is what Polanyi deems the "Great Transformation" that is the core feature of world capitalism.

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn.