Books like The Anarchist Handbook by Michael Malice

Thomas Hobbes' influential work on social contract and political governance from 1651, addressing the structure of government and society as the way to prevent civil war and chaos.

Guy Debord’s classic critique of contemporary capitalism explains how everyday life has become dominated by images, advertising, and media, reshaping modern society.

Emma Goldman's classic essays examine anarchism as a vision for a disciplined, fear‑free society that eliminates poverty and social conflict.

The Revolution of Everyday Life by Raoul Vaneigem critiques consumer society’s alienation, arguing for creativity, spontaneity, and collective participation as antidotes to the spectacle’s dominance.

**Anarchism** is book-length study of anarchism written by Paul Eltzbacher. It was originally published in 1900 and quickly translated into five languages, including English in 1908 by Steven T. Byington. (Source: Wikipedia)

The political writings of the French poststructuralists have eluded articulation in the broader framework of general political philosophy primarily because of the pervasive tendency to define politics along a single parameter: the balance between state power and individual rights in liberalism and the focus on economic justice as a goal in Marxism. What poststructuralists like Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, and Jean-François Lyotard offer instead is a political philosophy that can be called tactical: it emphasizes that power emerges from many different sources and operates along many different registers. This approach has roots in traditional anarchist thought, which sees the social and political field as a network of intertwined practices with overlapping political effects. The poststructuralist approach, however, eschews two questionable assumptions of anarchism, that human beings have an (essentially benign) essence and that power is always repressive, never productive. After positioning poststructuralist political thought against the background of Marxism and the traditional anarchism of Bakunin, Kropotkin, and Proudhon, Todd May shows what a tactical political philosophy like anarchism looks like shorn of its humanist commitments—namely, a poststructuralist anarchism. The book concludes with a defense, contra Habermas and Critical Theory, of poststructuralist political thought as having a metaethical structure allowing for positive ethical commitments. (Source: [Pennsylvania State University Press](https://www.psupress.org/books/titles/0-271-01045-2.html))