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== Unit 1: The Basics == | == Unit 1: The Basics == | ||
=== General Socialist Introduction === | === General Socialist Introduction === <!-- PLEASE LINK TO PDF FILES WHEN POSSIBLE FOR PROVIDE EASILY OBTAINABLE OFFLINE VERSIONS --> | ||
* Principles of Communism | * [https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/principles-communism.pdf Principles of Communism] — Friedrich Engels<sup>[[Principles of Communism|(more information)]]</sup> | ||
* Why Socialism? | * [https://www.exponentialimprovement.com/cms/uploads/Einstein%20on%20Why%20Socialism.pdf Why Socialism?] — Albert Einstein <!-- (PARTIAL) --> | ||
* On Authority | * [https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1872/10/authority.htm On Authority] — Friedrich Engels | ||
* Anarchism or Socialism? | * [https://foreignlanguages.press/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/C07-Anarchism-or-Socialism-Trotskyism-or-Leninism.pdf Anarchism or Socialism?] — Josef Stalin | ||
* The Party Before and After Taking Power | * [https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1921/08/28.htm The Party Before and After Taking Power] — Josef Stalin | ||
* Critical Remarks on the National Question | * [https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1913/crnq/index.htm Critical Remarks on the National Question] — Vladimir Lenin | ||
=== Marxist Foundations === | === Marxist Foundations === |
Revision as of 17:15, 31 July 2024
A general reading-list of books and other texts for new revolutionary activists. This was developed initially for students of The Red Spectre Academy.
Unit 1: The Basics
General Socialist Introduction
- Principles of Communism — Friedrich Engels(more information)
- Why Socialism? — Albert Einstein
- On Authority — Friedrich Engels
- Anarchism or Socialism? — Josef Stalin
- The Party Before and After Taking Power — Josef Stalin
- Critical Remarks on the National Question — Vladimir Lenin
Marxist Foundations
- Socialism: Utopian and Scientific - Friedrich Engels
- The German Ideology - Karl Marx
- Dialectical and Historical Materialism - Josef Stalin (Reading guide)
- Critique of the Gotha Program - Karl Marx
- Three Components of Marxism - Vladimir Lenin
- Foundations of Leninism - Josef Stalin
- Collapse of the Second International - Vladimir Lenin
- Manifesto of the Communist Party - Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
- Materialism and Empirio Criticism - Vladimir Lenin
Imperialism and the State
- The State and Revolution - Vladimir Lenin
- The Civil War in France - Karl Marx
- Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism - Vladimir Lenin
Economics
- Wage Labor and Capital - Karl Marx
- Price, Profit, and Value - Karl Marx
- Capital, Vol I, Ch. 1 - Karl Marx
- The Tax in Kind - Vladimir Lenin
- Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR - Josef Stalin
Political Economy
- Political Economy - Economics Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R
- The Poverty of Philosophy - Karl Marx
- Anti-Duhring - Part II: Political Economy - Friedrich Engels
- A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy - Karl Marx
Organizing/Party Building
- What is to be Done? - Vladimir Lenin
- How a Communist Club Functions - Daniel Rubin
- Draft and Explanation of a Program for the Social-Democratic Party - Vladimir Lenin
- The Tasks of the Russian Social-Democrats - Vladimir Lenin