political books i find essential

- Aristoteles, Politics

- Plato, Republic

- Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

- David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature

- Fernando Atria, The Form of Law

- Karl Marx, Das Kapital

- Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

- Milton Friedmann, Capitalism and Freedom

- Charles Louis de Secondat Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Law

- Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Social Contract

- Johannes Althusius, Politica

- Carl Schmitt, Political Theology

- Slavoj Žižek, On Violence

- Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition

- Julius Caesar, De bello galico

- Carl von Clausewitz, On War
- State and Revolution (V.I. Lenin)
- Critique of the Gotha Programme (K. Marx)
- The Revolution Betrayed (L. Trotsky)
- Imperialism, the Highest State of Capitalism (V.I. Lenin)
- The Mass Strike, The Political Parties And The Trade Unions (R. Luxemburg)