Communist Reading List
☭ By reading just 10 texts you’ll genuinely understand Communism and Socialism better than most western/internet leftists ☭
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⚠️ This list aims to be the best and easiest to follow reguarding Marxism, Communism and Socialism that is freely avaliable online.
Main List
| Order | Text | Writer | Link |
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| 1 | The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism | Lenin | link |
| 2 | The Principles of Communism | Engels | link |
| 3 | Manifesto of the Communist Party | Marx/Engels | link |
| 4 | Socialism: Utopian and Scientific | Engels | link |
| 5 | Value, Price and Profit | Marx | link |
| 6 | Feuerbach: Opposition of the Materialist and Idealist Outlooks | Marx | link |
| 7 | Critique of the Gotha Programme | Marx/Engels | link |
| 8 | What Is To Be Done? BURNING QUESTIONS of our MOVEMENT | Lenin | link |
| 9 | The State and Revolution | Lenin | link |
| 10 | Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism | Lenin | link |
why?
This is a reading list that was collectively made by Communists and Historians which is aimed to be the best possible regarding the following aspects:
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The common bases of Communism: what does this mean? There are many lines of communist though (Example: Maoism is considered to be a line of communist thought that builds on Marxism-Leninism), but this reading list should have most of the common bases between all of them (except some weird and maybe revisionist sects)
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Difficulty Level: All the texts are ordered by difficulty level in a manner where concepts are more easily digestible as you move through it
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Being a starting point: This is a list that serves as a base in Marxist though, it’s meant to be re-read and more importantly, added to: feel free to, when reading, complement it with other Marxist texts!
⚠️ Underneath is Aditional Bibliography that is incredibly dense and CONSULTATIONAL, DO NOT attempt to read these cover to cover!
⚠️ If someone told you to start with Capital they do not know what they are talking about, it’s not meant to be read in this manner and attempting this will only de-motivate you.
⚠️ Use these to consult specific information when necessary, and preferably only AFTER Reading the 5th item on the list: Value, Price and Profit ; This is because it’s the basis of understanding these more complex texts.
Capital - A Critique of Political Economy
| Text | Writer | Link |
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| Volume I: The Process of Production of Capital | Marx | link |
| Volume II: The Process of Circulation of Capital | Marx | link |
| Volume III: The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole | Marx/Engels | link |
POLITICAL ECONOMY
| Text | Writer | Link |
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| POLITICAL ECONOMY A Textbook issued by the Economics Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R | U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences | link |
Credits
This reading list is translated and adapted from the list in this video it’s an amazing source for understanding the basis of communism, the video has well-translated English Captions despite the audio and on-screen text being entirely in Brazilian Portuguese
I will probably update this with more resources and pages later as I learn to use github pages better, peace.
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