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Rank	Topic	Wikipedia views
1	The Communist Manifesto	3,358
2	Walden	1,876
3	Two Treatises of Government	1,594
4	Das Kapital	1,370
5	Confessions of an Economic Hit Man	1,104
6	Arthashastra	966
7	Ayodhya 6 December 1992	776
8	Orientalism (book)	654
9	On Liberty	587
10	100 People Who Are Screwing Up America	576
11	And the Band Played On	490
12	The Black Book of Communism	461
13	Rules for Radicals	453
14	Talking Right	443
15	Areopagitica	416
16	The Wretched of the Earth	344
17	The Lexus and the Olive Tree	340
18	Ayodhya: The Case Against the Temple	328
19	Eichmann in Jerusalem	306
20	The American Crisis	301
21	Capitalism and Freedom	225
22	The Green Book	196
23	Arguing with Idiots	191
24	The Overton Window	174
25	The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844	170
26	Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman	160
27	Negationism in India: Concealing the Record of Islam	157
28	Guerrilla Warfare (book)	153
29	101 People Who Are Really Screwing America	152
30	Recipes for Disaster	139
31	The Revolution: A Manifesto	126
32	The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America	125
33	The Holocaust Industry	121
34	The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State	120
35	The Politically Incorrect Guide	120
36	Germany Must Perish!	117
37	The Aquariums of Pyongyang	115
38	Der Judenstaat	109
39	The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence	109
40	The Hollow Men (book)	108
41	The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women	107
42	Earth in the Balance	106
43	The One Percent Doctrine	105
44	There Is No Alternative: Why Margaret Thatcher Matters	104
45	By Way of Deception	103
46	De Administrando Imperio	99
47	Ayodhya and After: Issues Before Hindu Society	97
48	Moral Politics (book)	93
49	Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan	92
50	The Standard Code of Parliamentary Procedure	91
51	The Captive Mind	84
52	Common Nonsense: Glenn Beck and the Triumph of Ignorance	84
53	The Armies of the Night	82
54	Welcome to the Desert of the Real	82
55	The Imperial Presidency	80
56	The Trial of Henry Kissinger	78
57	Guilty Men	76
58	Jinnah: India-Partition-Independence	76
59	The English Constitution	74
60	Social Reform or Revolution	72
61	Heroes of the Fiery Cross	71
62	An Inconvenient Book	70
63	Plan of Attack	69
64	Eyes of the Tailless Animals: Prison Memoirs of a North Korean Woman	69
65	Secretum Secretorum	67
66	Hegemony or Survival	66
67	Millî Görüş	66
68	Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy	65
69	Growth Fetish	64
70	Rural Rides	63
71	Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire	63
72	Crimes of War	60
73	The Public and its Problems	59
74	In Defense of Internment	56
75	Thirteen Days (book)	56
76	Merchants of Doubt	56
77	Agrarian Justice	55
78	Le Livre Noir du Capitalisme	53
79	Klansmen: Guardians of Liberty	52
80	Beyond a Boundary	50
81	Never at War	48
82	The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates	47
83	Nakaz	47
84	American Power and the New Mandarins	42
85	The Open Conspiracy	41
86	Them: Adventures with Extremists	41
87	Just How Stupid Are We?	39
88	Foundations of Geopolitics	39
89	The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty	37
90	Pirates and Emperors	37
91	Politics of Nature	36
92	Individualism and Economic Order	36
93	The Case for Democracy	35
94	I Write What I Like	35
95	The Student as Nigger	35
96	Culture and Imperialism	35
97	The End of Ideology	34
98	The Enemy of My Enemy	34
99	Fascism and Big Business	34
100	The Rising Sun	34
101	The Downfall of Capitalism and Communism	34
102	Eightfold Path (policy analysis)	33
103	The Spitting Image	33
104	Alan Clark Diaries	33
105	Class Warfare	32
106	Blinded by the Right	32
107	Michael Moore Is a Big Fat Stupid White Man	31
108	Jawbreaker: The attack on bin Laden and al-Qaeda	31
109	Endgame (Derrick Jensen books)	30
110	The FairTax Book	30
111	Imperial Ambitions	30
112	After Hegemony	30
113	The Globalization of World Politics: An Introduction to International Relations	29
114	On the Edge (book)	28
115	Country of My Skull	27
116	God and the State	27
117	Minimanual of the Urban Guerrilla	27
118	Just and Unjust Wars	27
119	A Game as Old as Empire	26
120	Answer to History	26
121	One World (book)	25
122	Men Among the Ruins	25
123	The Saffron Swastika	25
124	For a New Liberty	25
125	Karl Marx's Theory of History: A Defence	25
126	Storms of My Grandchildren	25
127	If the War Goes On ...	24
128	Contingency, Hegemony, Universality	24
129	Leadership (book)	24
130	Power Kills	23
131	The Force of Reason	23
132	Die Sexualität im Kulturkampf	23
133	Morocco in Diplomacy (book)	23
134	The New Totalitarians	23
135	Ron Paul bibliography	23
136	On the Trail of the Assassins	23
137	How to Conduct an Election by the Single Transferable Vote	22
138	Menace in Europe: Why the Continent's Crisis Is America's, Too	22
139	Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists	22
140	Eagle: The Making of an Asian-American President	22
141	The Vital Center	22
142	Political Man	22
143	The New Turkey	22
144	The Sovereign State	21
145	Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy	21
146	The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality	21
147	Marx/Engels Collected Works	21
148	Marxism and the U.S.A.	20
149	Power to the People (book)	20
150	Bureaucracy (book)	20
151	Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA	20
152	Ecodefense	19
153	Socialism: Utopian and Scientific	19
154	The Madness of King George (book)	19
155	A Dying Colonialism	19
156	Obama: From Promise to Power	19
157	The Legitimation of Power	19
158	House of Bush, House of Saud	18
159	A Darwinian Left	18
160	The Resurrection of Hungary	18
161	Counter-Revolutionary Violence – Bloodbaths in Fact & Propaganda	18
162	Activism, Inc.	18
163	A History of Political Theory	18
164	The New Nobility: The Restoration of Russia's Security State and the Enduring Legacy of the KGB	18
165	The Mirror of Production	17
166	Iran: A People Interrupted	17
167	The Betrayal of the American Right	17
168	Trail Fever	17
169	The Change we Choose	17
170	A World Transformed	16
171	De Situ Albanie	16
172	A Pretext for War	16
173	The Black Book: Imbalance of Power and Wealth in the Sudan	16
174	Affluenza: When Too Much is Never Enough	16
175	Traumascapes	16
176	The Politician (book)	16
177	Change the World Without Taking Power	15
178	Rants and Incendiary Tracts	15
179	It Takes a Family	15
180	Systems of Survival	15
181	The J Curve: A New Way to Understand Why Nations Rise and Fall	15
182	With Every Mistake	15
183	The Dream of Rome	15
184	Britain's Everyday Heroes	15
185	Blood and Soil (book)	15
186	Covering Islam	15
187	Guardians of Liberty	15
188	Libertarianism Today	15
189	The Savage Nation (book)	14
190	Is the Holocaust Unique?	14
191	Straight Up (book)	14
192	The New Rulers of the World (book)	14
193	Official Handbook of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy	13
194	Latter-Day Pamphlets	13
195	Defensio pro Populo Anglicano	13
196	Lawless World (book)	13
197	The Political Zoo	13
198	Woman's Evolution	13
199	Mirror Mirror: a history of the human love affair with reflection	13
200	Free Speech, "The People's Darling Privilege"	13
201	False Dawn: The Delusions of Global Capitalism	12
202	My First Days in the White House	12
203	Extremist Groups: Opposing Viewpoints (2001)	12
204	Reflections on the Social Future of Mankind	12
205	Silenced: China's Great Wall of Censorship	12
206	The Enemy Within (Michael Savage)	12
207	The Real McCain	12
208	Four Trials	11
209	The Complaynt of Scotland	11
210	Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Germany	11
211	Hell and High Water (book)	11
212	The American Axis: Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh and the Rise of the Third Reich	11
213	The FBI Pyramid	11
214	Metaphysics of War	11
215	Voluntary Socialism	11
216	Rozz Tox Manifesto	10
217	Applied Economics: Thinking Beyond Stage One	10
218	Their Trotsky and Ours	10
219	Michnikowszczyzna. Zapis choroby	10
220	Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic	10
221	Defending Identity	10
222	From Babel to Dragomans	9
223	Extremism in America	9
224	Imperialismo Pagano	9
225	Help! Mom! There Are Liberals Under My Bed	9
226	The Eyes of the Heart: Seeking a Path for the Poor in the Age of Globalization	9
227	The Politics of Truth	9
228	Citizen Power: A Mandate for Change	9
229	Postcolonial Theory and the Arab-Israeli Conflict	9
230	Socialism or Barbarism	9
231	Counterrevolution and Revolt	9
232	Suiting Themselves	9
233	Global Crises, Global Solutions	8
234	Civilization and its Enemies	8
235	Nazis, Communists, Klansmen, and Others on the Fringe	8
236	The Marxism of Che Guevara	8
237	The Left was Never Right	8
238	Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature and Other Essays	8
239	The New Chinese Empire	8
240	New Worlds for Old (H. G. Wells)	8
241	A Foreign Policy of Freedom: Peace, Commerce, and Honest Friendship	8
242	The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many	8
243	The Way the World is Going	8
244	Common Sense (series)	8
245	The New Jerusalem (Chesterton book)	7
246	While America Sleeps	7
247	Calculating Visions: Kennedy, Johnson, and Civil Rights	7
248	The Economics and Ethics of Private Property	7
249	Tempting Faith: An Inside Story of Political Seduction	7
250	Half Gone: Oil, Gas, Hot Air and the Global Energy Crisis	7
251	Every Vote Equal	7
252	Power, Profit and Protest	7
253	Louis Althusser and the Traditions of French Marxism	7
254	Reagan's War	6
255	Socialism: Theory and Practice	6
256	Chine-USA, la guerre programmée	6
257	Soulless: Ann Coulter and the Right-Wing Church of Hate	6
258	Kingdoms in Conflict	6
259	No Retreat, No Surrender: One American's Fight	6
260	Boris Yeltsin: From Dawn to Dusk	6
261	High and Dry (book)	6
262	Activist Wisdom	6
263	Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy	6
264	Hating America: The New World Sport	less than 5 views
265	Writings of Leon Trotsky	less than 5 views
266	What's Left? The Death of Social Democracy	less than 5 views
267	Unequal Protection: The Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Theft of Human Rights	less than 5 views
268	Detainee 002: The Case of David Hicks	less than 5 views
269	Union Now	less than 5 views
270	The Resurrection of Aristocracy	less than 5 views
271	The Emergence of Modern Turkey	less than 5 views
272	The Roots of National Socialism	less than 5 views
273	Books and films about George W. Bush	less than 5 views
274	The New Patriotism Series	less than 5 views
275	Breaking the Real Axis of Evil: How to Oust the World's Last Dictators by 2025	less than 5 views
276	Inger!	less than 5 views
277	American political memoirs	less than 5 views
278	Political career biographies	less than 5 views
279	Mon Nationalism and Civil War in Burma	less than 5 views
280	Winds of Change: The Future of Democracy in Iran	less than 5 views
281	White Resistance Manual	less than 5 views
282	De optimo senatore	less than 5 views
283	Black Power and the American Myth	less than 5 views
284	Politicizing Science (book)	less than 5 views
285	Action for a Change	less than 5 views
286	New Parliamentary Manual	less than 5 views
287	War on Iraq: What Team Bush Doesn't Want You to Know	less than 5 views
288	Surviving the Century: Facing Climate Chaos and Other Global Challenges	less than 5 views
289	The Howard Paradox	less than 5 views
290	Last Drinks: The Impact of the Northern Territory Intervention	less than 5 views
291	The Atom Besieged	less than 5 views
292	Tampering with Asylum	less than 5 views
293	Making Peace with the Planet	less than 5 views
294	The Twenty-First Century City: Resurrecting Urban America	less than 5 views
295	Patterns of Democracy: Government Forms and Performance in Thirty-Six Countries	less than 5 views
296	Democracies: Patterns of Majoritarian & Consensus Government in Twenty-one Countries	less than 5 views
297	Serbia and Albania (book)	less than 5 views