Reading list

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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
  • Why Socialism? - Albert Einstein (PARTIAL)
  • 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
  • Critique of the Gotha Program - Karl Marx
  • Three Components of Marxism - Vladimir Lenin
  • Foundations of Leninism - Josef Stalin
  • 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
  • Grundrisse - Friedrich Engels

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