What books form the core of these ideologies?

[Sand Castle]

What books, pamphlets, or essays form the core of the following ideologies?

Trotskyism
Hoxhaism
Luxembourgism
Council Communism (I heard it was a little different than #3)
Anarcho-communism
Anarcho-syndicalism
Juche (Kimilsungism?)
Titoism
Guevarism

By "form the core" I mean the most significant works. Something a party might require you to read. Kind of like the works that form the corner stone of the ideology.

I've already got Marx and Engels, Lenin, Stalin, and Mao down (I would have just said MLM, but that sounds as if I'm saying I've only studied Maoism).

[Dimentio]

I am not sure if "guevarism" exists...

[Agrippa]

I've heard the term "Gueverism" before. I'd imagine the "core texts" of Gueverism would bascally just be the writings of Che....

[#FF0000]

What books, pamphlets, or essays form the core of the following ideologies?

Trotskyism

I'd look over marxists.org for the more important works of Trotsky. The Revolution Betrayed is probably the most important one, but I'm not a trotskyist.


LuxembourgismThe bolded works here (http://marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/index.htm) are some of Luxembourg's "major" works.


Council Communism (I heard it was a little different than #3)Probably the work of Pannekoek and other German and Dutch left-communists.


Anarcho-communismThe Conquest of Bread, the ABC of Anarchism, the writings of Errico Malatesta and Mikhail Bakunin. Also, take a look at the Anarchist FAQ, which you can find through google.


Anarcho-syndicalismAnarcho-syndicalism by Rudolf Rocker


Juche (Kimilsungism?)I remember I read a "Juche Manifesto" but I don't remember where... Google it, I suppose.


GuevarismGuevarism, if I'm not totally wrong, is a military doctrine, and not a political philosophy. Still, Guerilla Warfare by Che Guevara would be the book to read.[/QUOTE]

[JimmyJazz]

Anarcho-syndicalism by Rudolf Rocker

How about a book on it in practice?

The Wobblies: The Story of the IWW and Syndicalism in the United States by Patrick Renshaw
The Industrial Workers of the World: Its First One Hundred Years: 1905 Through 2005 by Fred W. Thompson
History of the Labor Movement in the United States: Industrial Workers of the World by Philip S. Foner
We Shall Be All: A History of the Industrial Workers of the World by Melvyn Dubofsky

I recommend the first two based on having read them, and the Foner one based on him having a massive reputation as a historian of American labor (he was also a radical of some sort--in 1941 he got purged from his teaching position at the City College of New York for "communist influences").

The Renshaw book does mention the IWW as an international movement (they were pretty strong in Australia), and its first few chapters give an extremely good overview of the early years of American socialism from which the IWW emerged.

The Thompson book has the benefit of having been written by two Wobblies, and is the only book that even acknowledges that the IWW have continuously existed down to today, and are now making a resurgence (ask Starbucks). It also talks about the international existence of the IWW, and it has lots of great b&w photos, including of many vigilante-, cop- and federal agent-wrecked IWW halls (basically all of them ever built were burned down or sacked at some point).

Dubofsky was a liberal labor historian who wrote another book arguing that the capitalist state has overall been a friend to organized labor (lol). I only include his book on the IWW because it has a reputation--probably among liberal academics--as the most detailed, but when I looked at it, it did not seem to include any episodes that weren't in the Thompson book. I've also heard that it completely ignores the existence of the IWW outside of America.

Reflections on Violence by Georges Sorel is also considered an important anarcho-syndicalist book, I'm planning on reading it soon. Towards the Understanding of Karl Marx: A Revolutionary Interpretation by Sidney Hook includes a brief, but good, critique of anarcho-syndicalism, mostly based on the French manifestation of it and on Sorel's writings. Oh, and before he became Gen Sec of the CPUSA, William Z. Foster was a Wobbly and wrote a short book called Syndicalism, which I have yet to read.

[Agrippa]

take a look at the Anarchist FAQ

I have many a problem with that text.

[Red October]

I am not sure if "guevarism" exists...

It does for 14 year old kids in Che shirts.

[mel]

I have many a problem with that text.

Care to elaborate on some of those problems, either here or in another thread, or point to places where you've done that before? I'm interested in hearing what specifically your criticisms of it are.

[Agrippa]

Care to elaborate on some of those problems, either here or in another thread, or point to places where you've done that before? I'm interested in hearing what specifically your criticisms of it are.

Hmm...it might be worth creating a new thread. Hold on a sec.

Edit: Link (http://www.revleft.com/vb/why-anarchist-faq-t110775/index.html)

[Sand Castle]

I am not sure if "guevarism" exists...

Yeah, I wasn't sure either. I wasn't sure if it was an actual ideology or just an adjective, if I may use that term. Now that I think about it, as someone else said here, it's more of a military doctrine. I just figured I'd throw it out there anyway.

[Ismail]

Hoxhaism would Hoxha's 1978 book Imperialism and the Revolution.

http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hoxha/works/imp_rev/toc.htm

[Prairie Fire]

Ismail beat me to it.

Also, basically the collected works of K.Marx,F.Engels, V.I. Lenin, J.V. stalin and Enver Hoxha.

Also, related texts from parties and persyns associated with this line.

Imperialism and the Revolution lays most of it down, though. In order to read that, you don't necesarily have to have read some Marx and Lenin, but it wouldn't hurt.