reading list

[redstarshining]

I was just thinking that it might be a good idea to compile a reading list for leftist literature.

Especially when reading marxist literature you often have the problem that it contains many references to other more or less important works. Some of these references are almost completely irrelevant ( many of the 18th century historians, whose books aren't even available anymore ), others can turn out to be quite important.

A few days ago I had a debate with my history teacher, and he said that Marx's Dialectical Materialism was a perversion of Hegels dialectic. I didn't get him, to be honest. In fact, Marx REJECTS Hegels idea of dialectic.
However, I had to admit that I haven't even read Hegel, all I know is the definition of Hegel's dialectic. Well, and that was the end of the debate :(

Therefore I thought it might be a good idea to compile a reading list for leftist literature. I do NOT think that _reading_ is what makes e.g. a marxist a marxist, however I do think that we need to be prepared for debate. Even if you're not into debate, and like to just "philosophize" all on your own, it might still be inspiring to read once in a while.

In order to not make it too dull, feel free to add anything which qualifies as "left" literature, even fiction or poetry. Just do some brainstorming we will sort it later. Any true leftwing ideologie qualifies. Note: if you list a compilation of works, please also give a list of the works in the compilation. Language doesn't matter, as long as it's available in more than one language.

I don't mean this list to be just a list with "must-read books" but more of a general overview, or map of leftist literature. If you've read a book that you consider worth reading, add it here and maybe write a short comment.

Before we start, let me know what you think. Maybe such a thread already exists, there is no need to reinvent the wheel :)

[MJM]

All recommendations will be added to this post to avoid confusion while searching through pages of posts.

Great thread idea.

Recommendations list:

MJM
Scientific Communism: Marx, Engels & Lenin (a compilation)
History will Absolve me: Fidel Castro
Bolivian Diary: Che Guevara
Marxism and Freedom: Raya Dunayevskaya

mentalbunny
1984:George Orwell
Animal Farm: George Orwell
Brave new world:Aldous Huxley
Good Omens:Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
Behind the Scenes at the Museum:Kate Atkinson
The Tillerman Saga (about 7 books in total):Cynthia Voigt
Thumbelina(not the fairy tale):I'll try to find it but I can't remember right now, sorry!
Candide:Voltaire
The Lathe of Heaven-Ursula LeGuin
The Gormenghast Trilogy-Mervyn Peake
Catcher in the Rye-J D Salinger
Hard Work by Polly Toynbee
Motorcycle Diaries by Che Guevara
A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth

Corvus Corax
Communist Manifesto

Ian Rocks
'What Socialists Stand For' (available online at http://www.dsp.org.au/dsp/wssf.htm )
'Marxism- A Living Science' by Kenneth Neill Cameron

Neutral Nation
Darkness At Noon - by Arthur Koestler
To Kill A Mockingbird - by Harper Lee
Cry, The Beloved Country - by Alan Paton
White Man, We Want to Talk to You - By Denis Herbstein
Marx on Economics - Edited By robert Freedman
Falling by Anne Provoost

redstarshining
J. Stalin - Leninism
V.I. Lenin - what to do
Karl Marx - Das Kapital
Bertold Brecht - Flüchtlingsgespräche
The Anarchists by James Joll

truthaddict11
Live from deathrow- Mumia Abu Jamal
Prison Writings: My life is my sundance- Leonard Peltier
Autobiog of Malcom X- as told to Alex Haley
The Chomsky Triology- Noam Chomsky also check out many other books
Fahrenhiet 451- Ray Bradbury
A Peoples History of The United States- Howard Zinn
Stupid White Men-Michael Moore
DOWSIZE THIS!-Michael Moore
Why We Cant Wait- Dr. Martin Luther King JR
The WTO: Five Years of Reasons to Resist Corporate Globalization- Lori Wallach Michelle Sforza w/ intro by Ralph Nader
The Jungle-Upton Sinclair
Allen Ginsberg
The Media Monopoly-Ben Bagdikian (down to 6 corporations!)
The Best Democracy Money Can Buy-Greg Palast
Malcom X Speaks- Malcom X

abstractmentality
Louis Althusser - Ideology and the State Ideological Apparatus (essay within his book Lenin and Philosophy and other essays)
Robert Paul Wolff - In Defense of Anarchism
Noam Chomsky - Understanding Power

Victorcommie
Why Socialism by Albert Einstein
State & Revolution by V.I. Lenin
Manifesto of the Communist party by Karl Marx

RedLibertad
Profit over People by Noam Chomsky
Urban Injustice by hilfiker
Reading capital politically by harry cleaver
Eric Hobsbawm's "Age of...." set
Conquest for bread by kropotkin
society of the spectacle by guy debord
killing hope by william blum
the spansih civil war by anthony beevor
the struggle against the state and other essays by enstor mahkno
beasts of burden by antagonism press
the wretched of the earth by frantz fanon

PlasticJesus
PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES: 1492 to the Present Howard Zinn
ATHEISM: The Case Against God George H. Smith
TOWARDS AN AMERICAN REVOLUTION: Exposing the Constitution and other Illusions Jerry Fresia
AGENTS OF REPRESSION: The FBI’s Secret War Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement Ward Churchill & Jim Vander Wall
HIDDEN AGENDAS John Pilger
Anarchism, Marxism & Hope for the Future Noam Chomsky
Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements Of Propaganda Noam Chomsky
Notes On Anarchism Noam Chomsky
Zapatistas In Their Own Words
The Zapatistas: A Rough Guide
Guerrilla Warfare Pamphlet
Che Guevara Reader: Writings On Guerrilla Strategy, Politics & Revolution
ABC Of Anarchism
Anarchism: Arguments for and Against
The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How To Quit School And Get A Real Life And Education

happyguy
The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas E. Adams
Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
Macbeth - William Shakesquere
Mort - Terry Pratchett

Larissa
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent - by Eduardo H. Galeano
War, Racism and Economic Injustice
The Global Ravages of Capitalism
By Fidel Castro

anti machine
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man-James Joyce
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest-Ken Kesey
The Grapes of Wrath-John Steinbeck
Jean-Paul Sartre
Nietszche
Mao's Little Red Book
Dave Barry Slept Here-A sort of history of the United States-Dave Barry
2001 A Space Odyssey-Arthur C. Clarke
Reminiscenses of the CUban Revolutionary War-Che Guevara

left for dead
Che Guevara, Paulo Freire, And the Pedagogy of Revolution - Peter McLaren
Naked Lunch - William S. Burroughs

CubaVictoria1983
Civil Disobedience-Henry David Thoreau
The Fall of Che Guevara- Henry Butterfield Ryan
Guevara, Also Known as Che- Paco Ignacio Taibo II
Utopia- Sir Thomas More

xe11
The Grapes of Wrath...by...john Stienback

HolographicUniverse
Stupid White Men-Michael Moore

lostsoul
Art of war - Sun Tzu
My life - leon troksky
A BRAVE MAN by Adys Cupull & Froilan Gonzalez


Rastafari
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

praxis1966
Basta! Land and the Zapatista Rebellion--George Allen Collier and Elizabeth Lowery Quaratiello
Pedagogy of the Oppressed--Paolo Friere
Education for Critical Consciousness--Paolo Friere
Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy and Civic Courage--Paolo Friere
Hegemony and Revolution: A Study of Antonio Gramsci's Political and Cultural Theory--Walter L. Adamson
The Black Panthers Speak--Philip S. Foner (Editor)
The Anarchist Cookbook--William Powell
Tales of Power--Carlos Castaneda
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong--James W. Loewen
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West--Dee Brown
Corporations Are Gonna Get Your Mama--(Compilation of Essays) Kevin Danaher (Editor), Introduction by Noam Chomsky
The Medium is the Massage--Marshall McLuhan
Shadow of a Panther--Elaine Brown
Soul on Ice--Eldridge Cleaver
Steal This Book--Abbie Hoffman
Resistance, Rebellion, and Death--Albert Camus
Coup D'Etat: A Practical Handbook--Edward Luttwak

maria11r
Reform or Revolution - Rosa Luxemburg
ThE Zapatista Reader - compilation of:
Jose SAramago
Paco TAibo II
Octavio Paz
Naomi Klein
Elena Poniatowska
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Carlos Monsivais
Manuel VAzquez Montalban
John Berger
Andrew Kopkind
Eduardo Galeano
edited & intro by: Tom Hayden.
Gandhi y la no-violencia (Gandhi & the non-violence) - by thomas merton
Lenin - Obras Escogidas (selected works)
Rosa Luxemburg, Women's Liberation, and Marx's Philosophy of Revolution - Raya Dunayevskaya
Fidel and Religion - Conversations with Frei Betto
Nicaragua, Dynamics of an Unfinished Revolution-- by Alan Benjamin
FARC-EP Historical Outline - international commission, Revolutionary armed forces of colombia- people's army
Hegel's Philosophy, and critiques of Marx & Engles--- @ marxists. org http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/...hegel/index.htm (http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/index.htm)
alturas de macchu picchu - pablo neruda
Peuchet: On Suicide. Published: in 1846 in Gesellschaftsspiegel Rd. II, Heft VII
Marx's Concept of man - Erich Fromm

noon
all that is solid melts into air- marshall berman

sociallmalfunction
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

Simon Moon
Chuck Palahniuk: Fight Club
Abbie Hoffman: Steal this Book
Manuel Vasquez Montalban: Marcos - El senor de los espejos
Larry Beinhart: American Hero
R. A. Wilson: Illuminatus
Gabrial Garcia Marquez: Cien anos de soledad
E. Hemingway: For whom the bell tolls
James Joyce: Ulysses


(Edited by MJM at 6:33 pm on Mar. 24, 2003)

[mentalbunny]

1984:George Orwell
Animal Farm: George Orwell
Brave new world:Aldous Huxley

(these just had to be added to the list!)

[Corvus Corax]

Communist Manifesto,

for anyone who hasn't already!

[Ian]

'What Socialists Stand For' (available online at http://www.dsp.org.au/dsp/wssf.htm)

'Marxism- A Living Science' by Kenneth Neill Cameron

[Blackberry]

Darkness At Noon - by Arthur Koestler
To Kill A Mockingbird - by Harper Lee
Cry, The Beloved Country - by Alan Paton
White Man, We Want to Talk to You - By Denis Herbstein
Marx on Economics - Edited By robert Freedman

[mentalbunny]

Good Omens:Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
Behind the Scenes at the Museum:Kate Atkinson
The Tillerman Saga (about 7 books in total):Cynthia Voigt
Thumbelina(not the fairy tale):I'll try to find it but I can't remember right now, sorry!
Candide:Voltaire

[redstarshining]

J. Stalin - Leninism

( I'm not a big Stalinist, but it's interesting to read if you want to learn something about his interpretation of Leninism )

V.I. Lenin - what to do

( (1902-1903), contains an interesting article from the Iskra. More of historical interest. Rare.)

And of course: Karl Marx - Das Kapital. Haven't read all three books yet, since Capital is really really dull. Some chapters are very interesting though ( available as seperate books ), for example "the previous accumulation", where Marx tears apart the legend of the hard-working upper class.


Fiction:
Bertold Brecht - Flüchtlingsgespräche
( This is the only one that came to my mind, but there are many more great books by Brecht that deal with socialism. Haven't been able to find out the english title :( )

More to follow

[truthaddict11]

Live from deathrow- Mumia Abu Jamal
Prison Writings: My life is my sundance- Leonard Peltier
Autobiog of Malcom X- as told to Alex Haley
The Chomsky Triology- Noam Chomsky also check out many other books
Fahrenhiet 451- Ray Bradbury

[redstarshining]

Thanks for posting everyone, and thanks MJM for maintaining the list :)

Another good book just came to my mind:

The Anarchists by James Joll

If you think anarchism is about drinking beer, filling the empty bottles with gasoline and throwing them at riot cops ( which can be fun though ), read this book!

It gives you a broad overview of the history of anarchism, and introduces some of the most important anarchists ( Babeuf, Bakunin, Durruti, Godwin, Kropotkin, Proudhon etc. ). Of course, a little bit biased ( e.g. Durruti is portrayed as a ruthless slayer ) , but which book isn't. I'm not an anarchist myself by the way ;)

I hope some more people will post to this thread.

[abstractmentality]

Louis Althusser - Ideology and the State Ideological Apparatus (essay within his book Lenin and Philosophy and other essays)

Robert Paul Wolff - In Defense of Anarchism

Noam Chomsky - Understanding Power

[Dr. Rosenpenis]

Why Socialism by Albert Einstein (great for debate, thought provoking)
State & Revolution by V.I. Lenin (one of the greatest)
Manifesto of the Communist party by Karl Marx (very convincing, great for debates)

[Blackberry]

Add 'Falling' by Anne Provoost to my list. :)

[truthaddict11]

A Peoples History of The United States- Howard Zinn
Stupid White Men-Michael Moore (funny as hell and informative)

[Ian]

AbstractMentality, Althusser is a nut!!!

[abstractmentality]

Quote: from Ian Rocks on 12:39 am on Dec. 18, 2002
AbstractMentality, Althusser is a nut!!!
i had a feeling someboy would say that. now, he may have strangled his wife (i think, but not sure), but that doesnt mean that he couldnt write some very important essays. however, the one i listed above is the only thing of his that i have read (i had to turn the book back to the library). He may be considered a little "old school" now (even though it was written in the 70's, i think) but i still see the above essay to be an important read for anyone that wants to learn some Althusserian terms for they way we learn within a structure of capitalism. if you havent read the essay, check it out. i used it to help the defining of Pauls learning process in the story linked in my sig for my college english class, and got an A- on the paper (although the instructor is a leftists and suggested the essay to help me out).

(Edited by abstractmentality at 8:56 am on Dec. 18, 2002)

[mentalbunny]

The Lathe of Heaven-Ursula LeGuin
The Gormenghast Trilogy-Mervyn Peake
Catcher in the Rye-J D Salinger

[RedLibertad]

Break through rapid reading
Really now, dun waste your time. I do a book a day when I'm lazy. Lazy meaning I refuse to get out of bed all day, even to eat. On a productive day I can knock out 5-6 books.

Profit over People by Noam Chomsky
Thee definition of the world economy, in a nutshell. Includes important information on resistance, such as the EZLN and the CNT-FAI. I personally found No Logo a waste of time when put next to this.

Urban Injustice by hilfiker
I can't say I found anything new, but this is the concise version of what I know from reading several different books on poverty.

Reading capital politically by harry cleaver
An autonomist communist reply to the idea of vanguardism.

Eric Hobsbawm's "Age of...." set
4 books in all. If you read Howard Zinn's a people's history, Hobsbawm is the world history counterpart.

Conquest for bread by kropotkin
They say Trotsky predicted the fall of the soviet union. Kropotkin did too. Key difference: kropotkin predicted it before the revolution.

society of the spectacle by guy debord
Possibly the best contemporary interpretation of marxist theory. Also talks about globalization in extents that superceed lenin's theory of imperialism. For more of the like, check anything done by the situationist international.

killing hope by william blum
I can't say I liked this. For me it was nothing new. I read books on each incident, so this was pointless to me. But rather than wasting your time on a mountain of boring books, hit the necessary first and expand on that.

the spansih civil war by anthony beevor
the real revolution betrayed.

the struggle against the state and other essays by enstor mahkno
A revolution of peasants and for peasants.

beasts of burden by antagonism press
Available online. A marxist approach to going vegetarian.

the wretched of the earth by frantz fanon
Just too great not to list.

[truthaddict11]

DOWSIZE THIS!-Michael Moore
Why We Cant Wait- Dr. Martin Luther King JR

[BOZG]

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbi...subjectstart?HX (http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/subjectstart?HX)

A list of online books which people might be interested in reading.

[BOZG]

http://www.ipl.org/div/books/

I found another one, in case people want to glance around and see if they can find some of the already mentioned books.


(Edited by BornOfZapatasGuns at 8:30 pm on Dec. 29, 2002)

[PlasticJesus]

PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES: 1492 to the Present Howard Zinn

ATHEISM: The Case Against God George H. Smith

TOWARDS AN AMERICAN REVOLUTION: Exposing the Constitution and other Illusions Jerry Fresia

AGENTS OF REPRESSION: The FBI’s Secret War Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement Ward Churchill & Jim Vander Wall

HIDDEN AGENDAS John Pilger

Anarchism, Marxism & Hope for the Future Noam Chomsky

Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements Of Propaganda Noam Chomsky

Notes On Anarchism Noam Chomsky

Zapatistas In Their Own Words

The Zapatistas: A Rough Guide

Guerrilla Warfare Pamphlet

Che Guevara Reader: Writings On Guerrilla Strategy, Politics & Revolution

ABC Of Anarchism

Anarchism: Arguments for and Against

The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How To Quit School And Get A Real Life And Education

[chamo]

The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas E. Adams
Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
Macbeth - William Shakesquere
Mort - Terry Pratchett

[truthaddict11]

The WTO: Five Years of Reasons to Resist Corporate Globalization- Lori Wallach Michelle Sforza w/ intro by Ralph Nader (gives excellent insight into the WTO)

[Larissa]

"Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent" by Eduardo H. Galeano

[anti machine]

I agree with most of the recomendations, so I'll try not to be redundant with mine, even though I would list most of the books already mentioned

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man-James Joyce
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest-Ken Kesey
The Grapes of Wrath-John Steinbeck
Jean-Paul Sartre
Nietszche

[anti machine]

Mao's Little Red Book
Dave Barry Slept Here-A sort of history of the United States-Dave Barry
2001 A Space Odyssey-Arthur C. Clarke
Reminiscenses of the CUban Revolutionary War-Che Guevara

[left for dead]

most of the books I would list have already been listed I'll just add these

Che Guevara, Paulo Freire, And the Pedagogy of Revolution - Peter McLaren

Naked Lunch - William S. Burroughs

[truthaddict11]

The Jungle-Upton Sinclair
Allen Ginsberg
The Media Monopoly-Ben Bagdikian (down to 6 corporations!)
The Best Democracy Money Can Buy-Greg Palast
Malcom X Speaks- Malcom X


(Edited by truthaddict11 at 8:22 pm on Jan. 9, 2003)

[truthaddict11]

On the Road- Jack Kerouac
One Flew over The Cuckoo's Nest- Ken Kesey

[redstarshining]

http://www.sozialistische-klassiker.org

Actually deserves it's own thread. This site is a goldmine of leftist literature :) It has almost ALL of the socialist classics online. Most of the stuff is in german, but many books are available in english, spanish and portoguese too. You just have to search a little bit.

Che Guevaras books for example, can be found here ( english and german ):

http://www.sozialistische-klassiker.org/dir/che.html

But I suggest you print out the books before you read them, otherwise you will feel very, very sick after having spent 15 hours without a break staring at your monitor...

[CubaVictoria1983]

Civil Disobedience-Henry David Thoreau
The Fall of Che Guevara- Henry Butterfield Ryan
Guevara, Also Known as Che- Paco Ignacio Taibo II
:)

[CubaVictoria1983]

I also forgot.....
Utopia- Sir Thomas More
It's good reading:)

[elisabeth]

The book Ricardo Rojo wrote about Che (I unfortunately forgot its name in english cos I did read it in German) and the one Che wrote about 1956-1959.

[xe11]

i suggest the grapes of wrath...

[mentalbunny]

Hard Work by Polly Toynbee (out 30th Jan)

[MJM]

If you want the titles added to the list I need the name of the book and author.

[xe11]

The Grapes of Wrath...by...john Stienback

[HolographicUniverse]

Stupid White Men-Michael Moore

[Blibblob]

hey, The entire Dune series, it hits all views, great for the one minded lefties who see NO good in any other political area other than their own

[lostsoul]

Art of war - Sun Tzu
My life - leon troksky

[mentalbunny]

Motorcycle Diaries by Che Guevara

[Rastafari]

Anti-Imperialism:
"Things Fall Apart" by Chinua Achebe, one of the best books ever written in the English Language.
Anything written by Albert Camus, a frenchman, is pretty good for atheisim, etc.
Good Idea, this booklist is

[praxis1966]

Basta! Land and the Zapatista Rebellion--George Allen Collier and Elizabeth Lowery Quaratiello
Pedagogy of the Oppressed--Paolo Friere
Education for Critical Consciousness--Paolo Friere
Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy and Civic Courage--Paolo Friere
Hegemony and Revolution: A Study of Antonio Gramsci's Political and Cultural Theory--Walter L. Adamson
The Black Panthers Speak--Philip S. Foner (Editor)
The Anarchist Cookbook--William Powell
Tales of Power--Carlos Castaneda
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong--James W. Loewen
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West--Dee Brown
Corporations Are Gonna Get Your Mama--(Compilation of Essays) Kevin Danaher (Editor), Introduction by Noam Chomsky
The Medium is the Massage--Marshall McLuhan
Shadow of a Panther--Elaine Brown
Soul on Ice--Eldridge Cleaver
Steal This Book--Abbie Hoffman
Resistance, Rebellion, and Death--Albert Camus
Coup D'Etat: A Practical Handbook--Edward Luttwak

That last one is out of print, so you'll either have to go to your public library or a bookshop specializing in used and out of print books. The latter is where I found mine. Also, many public libraries will either give away or sell very cheaply the books they are planning to pull from the shelves. Happy hunting!

(Edited by praxis1966 at 10:51 pm on Feb. 3, 2003)


(Edited by praxis1966 at 10:52 pm on Feb. 3, 2003)


(Edited by praxis1966 at 10:53 pm on Feb. 3, 2003)

[lostsoul]

opps i forgot a really amazing book, that i'm sure will make people love che even more. Its a summary of what Che did day to day from the day he was born to his death, and also parts of some of his key speechs.

A BRAVE MAN by Adys Cupull & Froilan Gonzalez


I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to know more about che or if you want to introduce someone to the man Che. It shows how hardworking and caring he was.

[maria11r]

some of the forgotten:

Reform or Revolution----Rosa Luxemburg

ThE Zapatista Reader - compilation of:
Jose SAramago
Paco TAibo II
Octavio Paz
Naomi Klein
Elena Poniatowska
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Carlos Monsivais
Manuel VAzquez Montalban
John Berger
Andrew Kopkind
Eduardo Galeano
edited & intro by: Tom Hayden.

Gandhi y la no-violencia (Gandhi & the non-violence) -
by thomas merton

Lenin - Obras Escogidas (selected works)

Rosa Luxemburg, Women's Liberation, and Marx's Philosophy of Revolution ------Raya Dunayevskaya

Fidel and Religion-----Conversations with Frei Betto

Nicaragua, Dynamics of an Unfinished Revolution-- by Alan Benjamin

FARC-EP Historical Outline --- international commission, Revolutionary armed forces of colombia- people's army

Hegel's Philosophy, and critiques of Marx & Engles--- @ marxists. org http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/...hegel/index.htm (http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/index.htm)

alturas de macchu picchu - pablo neruda [XII is the best one!!!]

everything by PABLO NERUDA!!!

i don't know where i got this one.. i have it saved on my computer it probably was @ marxists.org. but i'll give all the info.. it has the best quote!!

Peuchet: On Suicide. Published: in 1846 in Gesellschaftsspiegel Rd. II, Heft VII;
Signed: K. Marx.

great book!....

Marx's Concept of man - Erich Fromm [i found it at a thrift store for 50 cents!! its a must]

and there are more.. but i have no more time.

[noon]

all that is solid melts into air- marshall berman

reinterpretation of marx, interesting analysis of faust, lots of material on urbanism. highly recommended.

[Socialmalfunction]

i dont know if anyone has put his or if it really even applies, but i think it does and i think its a GREAT book, A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess. it was awesome... well once you figure out the lingo.

[mentalbunny]

A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth, just cos it's a really good book.

[Simon Moon]

Chuck Palahniuk: Fight Club
Abbie Hoffman: Steal this Book
Manuel Vasquez Montalban: Marcos - El senor de los espejos
Larry Beinhart: American Hero
R. A. Wilson: Illuminatus
Gabrial Garcia Marquez: Cien anos de soledad
E. Hemingway: For whom the bell tolls
James Joyce: Ulysses

[Larissa]

Welcome Simon Moon.

I recommend:

War, Racism and Economic Injustice
The Global Ravages of Capitalism
By Fidel Castro

http://www.leftbooks.com/cgi-local/SoftCar....html?E+scstore (http://www.leftbooks.com/cgi-local/SoftCart.100.exe/online-store/scstore/p-bop2002wrei.html?E+scstore)

[Rohan]

Even though Freud criticizes the communists in "Civlization and its Discontents" its a good book that helped me formulate a lot of my thoughts on history and politics.

Also if you are a Soviet history buff, anything on the American intervention is good (during like 1918)...

[Pete]

Zmag (http://www.zmag.org/readinglists.htm) gives a bunch of topics with separate reading lists. Pick and choose everyone :-)

[Pete]

A good book on democracy that explains the difference between Marxism and Leninism quiet clearly.

The Real World of Democracy by C.B. Macpherson