Reading List

[Pete]

And the Comrade of Books spoke:
"Here on this dawn dawn I do rise
From the ashes of destruction
A new reading list for all.

"Keep this close to your mind
And read what is suggested
When you have comments,
Please by your faith in yourself,
Post them in a different thread!"

I will add my list at a later date, after I have compiled my many books that I am reading/have read.

This should be confined to Leftist/Global/Activist literature only and all discussions should either be accompanied by a list of books, or done in a different thread for sake of being consiese (sp).

Pete

[mentalbunny]

Thanks so much!

Stupid White Men by Michael Moore
Motorcycle Diaries by Ernesto Guevara
Bolivian Diary by Ernesto Guevara
Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson
Junk by Melvin Burgess
Hard Work by Polly Toynbee

To be continued...

[praxis1966]

Didn't we do this once before? Anyway, here goes:

Guerilla Warfare--by Che Guevara
Pedagogy of the Oppressed--by Paolo Friere
Pedagogy of Freedom--by Paolo Friere
Education for Critical Consciousness--by Paolo Friere
Hegemony and Revolution: A Study of Antonio Gramsi's Political and Cultural Theory--by Walter L. Adamson
Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Inerventions Since WWII--by William Blum
Basta! Land and the Zapatista Rebellion in Chiapas--by George Collier w/ Maria Lowery Quaratiello
The Anarchist Cookbook--by William Powell
The Autobiography of Malcom X--by Malcom X, transcribed and edited by Alex Haley
Soul on Ice--by Eldridge Cleaver
The Black Panthers Speak--edited by Philip S. Foner
Coup d'Etat: A Practical Handbook--by Edward Luttwak
How to Overthrow the Government--by Arianna Huffington
Downsize This!--by Michael Moore
The Communist Manifesto--Karl Marx and Frederik Engels
Das Kapital--Karl Marx
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee--by Dee Brown
Better than Sex: Confessions of a Political Junkie--by Hunter S. Thompson
Corporations Are Gonna Get Your Mama--edited by Kevin Danaher, forward by Noam Chomsky
Resistance, Rebellion, and Death--by Albert Camus
The Wretched of the Earth--by Frantz Fanon
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong--James W. Lowen
Blinded By the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative--David Brock

And, just for fun... Breakfast of Champions--by Kurt Vonnecut

[praxis1966]

And if you really wanna overthrow the government, you'll need this too: The SAS Survival Handbook--by John Wiseman

P.S. I used to consider the Holy Trinity of Revolution Guerilla Warfare, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, and The SAS Survival Handbook (acompanied, of course, by The Anarchist Cookbook)

[synthesis]

I was told to add these.

-Anything by Noam Chomsky, but especially What Uncle Sam Really Wants
-A People's History of the United States of America by Howard Zinn
-Anything by William Blum, but especially Killing Hope

[Cobber]

The Blue Book of the John Birch Society
- this is a transcript of a conference/seminars held in 1959 by American businessmen and gives you an understanding of the fear they had of communism.

Ho Chi Minh [William J Duiker]
- a very good biography.

[dsmtuner]

I highly reccomend "our word is our weapon."

[Dirty Commie]

I don't know what to put in a suggested reading list, But I think that almost every thing already posted would be worth the time. I don't think I saw Animal Farm any where.
I read, thats all I do, type and read, type and read. It works out great when I have to write an essay, I sound so much more intelligent in my writings than any one. I have been accused of plagiarism by my teachers, and get this, making up fake words by some idiot who has less of an IQ than a sperm cell.

[Hampton]

Kinda long, sorry:

Wretched of the Earth- Frantz Fanon
Terrorism and War- Howard Zinn
Rogue State- William Blum
A Little Matter of Genocide- Ward Churchill
Secret Trials and Executions- Barbara Olshansky
People's History of United States- Howard Zinn
Killing Hope- William Blum
Against Empire- Michael Parenti
A Testament of Hope- Writings and Speechs of Marin Luther King
Autobiography of Malcolm X
Malcolm X Speaks
The Black Panthers Speak- edited by Philip Foner
Souls of Black Folk- WEB Du Bois
Live from Death Row- Mumia Abu-Jamal
Soul on Ice- Eldridge Cleaver
Die Nigger Die- H. Rap Brown
Seize the Time- Bobby Seale
Revolutionary Suicide- Huey P. Newton
Soledad Brother- George Jackson
Assta- Assata Shakur
Liberation, Imagination, and the Black Panther Party- edited by Kathleen Cleaver and George Katsiaficas
The Huey P. Netwon Reader
25 Years on the MOVE- MOVE
Prison Writings- Leonard Peltier
Bullwhip Days- Edited by James Mellon
Cointelpro Papers- Ward Churchill and James Vander Wall
Iron Heel- Jack London
Johnny Got his Gun- Dalton Trumbo
No Gods No masters Vol 1 and 2
Declerations of Independence- Howard Zinn
Fortunate Son- J.H. Hatfield
You are Being Lied To/Everything You Know Is Wrong-Disinfo




(Edited by Hampton at 3:42 pm on May 9, 2003)

[Nickademus]

No Logo
Fast Food Nation
Against Empire
All Chomsky books
All Parenti books
Leonard Peltier --> Prison Writings: My Life is my Sun Dance
....
i'll list more later

[Rastafari]

Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe. One of the best works ever written.

[Fever]

A clockwork orange-Anthony Burgess
The death of ivan iliach- Leo Tolstoy
A day in the Life of Ivan desonovich?-Soljietsen?
Crime And Punishment-Destoyovski
Catch-22

[Dirty Commie]

A master list needs put together and downloaded into the archives of this site.

[commieboy]

dont exactly know the authors,

Guevara also known as che
Fidel Castro (i found this in my grandpa's library from 66' a british journalist who was with the guerrillias during the war.)
Episodes of the Cuban revolution- Che
Reminesances of the cuba revolution-Che
Motorcycle daiaries- Che
Guerrillia warefare- Che
Guerilllia warefare - mao
Afghan guerrillia warfare- unknown
Compesino (Incorrect spelling i know) a bio of che- unknown
and of course, The Communist Manifesto- Marx & Engels

[chamo]

Short, sweet and simple:

A Revolutionary Life - Jon Lee Anderson
The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx and Fredreich Engels
Long Walk to Freedom - Nelson Mandela (autobiography)
1984 - George Orwell
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Stupid White Men - Michael Moore

[Danton]

I wont include any of Ernesto's as I'm sure you've all read them by now - at least I hope so...

Villa & Zapata - Franck Mclynn
Chasing Che - Patrick Symmes (motocycle diaries revisited)
Homage to Catalonia - George Orwell
Journey to Ixtlan - Carlos Casteneda
100 years of solitude - Gabriel Garcia Bernal
Don Quixote - Cervantes - (hard work but worth it)
Po: beyond yes & no - Edward de Bono
Killing Pablo - Mark Bowden
Dharma bums - Jack Kerouac
Songs of the doomed - Hunter S Thompson
Cuba diaries - Isadora Tattlin



"Victoria o muerte"






(Edited by Danton at 5:45 pm on June 23, 2003)

[abstractmentality]

Jay MacLeod - Aint No Makin' It
Immanuel Wallerstein - Historical Capitalism
Robert Paul Wolff - In Defense of Anarchism
Louis Althusser - Ideology and the Ideological State Apparatus (an essay within his work Lenin and Philosophy and other essays)
George Jackson - Blood in My Eye
Chuck Collins and Felice Yeskel - Economic Apartheid in America

[Shabaz]

I'll go pick some up tomorrow

[kingbee]

hope they dont all have to be political...

frantz fanon- anything and everything
jose luis borges- a true master of imagination.
albert camus- anything really- the outsider a fave
orwell-down and out in paris and london
just bought soul on ice by eldridge cleaver after a suggestion on this site. cheers to whoever, only cost me £1. still waiting for it to arrive (it arrived)

at the moment reading ulysseus- james joyce
diaries- tony benn (91-2001)

[kylie]

I would recommend The Transitional Program by Leon Trotsky, and edited by the IBT. It also includes a selection of related materials by various organisations. The book itself is in my opinion one of the most important works of Trotsky, having a lot of practical advice on what can be done when capitalism reaches its lowest point in the cycle(the point when revolution will have the best chance of success).
Its available for £6.50 from the following address:
BCM Box 4771
London WC1N 3XX
Britain

A further description can be found here:
http://www.bolshevik.org/transprog.html


(Edited by feoric at 3:45 pm on June 10, 2003)

[Emmanual Goldstein]

Everything listed so far was definately worth reading. Along with them I'd probably have to include:

When Corporations Rule the World - David Korten (completely misunderstands Marxism, but manages to write a good book anyway)
Anarchism - Peter Kropotkin
That really big collection of Orwell's essays my friend loaned me
Steppenwolf - Herman Hesse
I May Not Get There With You: The Real Martin Luther King - Micheal Eric Dyson
Requiem for a Dream - whats-his-name
Workers Councils - Anton Pannekoek
The Second Sex - Simone De Bouviour
Stolen Harvest - Vandana Shiva
The Trial of Henry Kissenger - Christopher Hitchens (Christopher Hitchens is an ass. do ANYTHING to avoid paying for this book)
Bread and Wine - Ignaczio Silone (no one has heard of this book, but it's great. it's about a radical who goes underground in facist Italy)
The Illuminated Poems of Allen Ginsberg
The Marx-Engels Reader - Those two german commies

[Pete]

Regardless of what has already posted, fear what I will now say because it is without completely remembering what has already been said...

The Marxists -> Mills
Lenin, Stalin, Kruschev-> McNeal
Selected Poems -> T.S. Eliot, esp. "The Hollow Men"
The catcher in the Rye -> Salinger
The Zapitista Reader -> Hayden
Blood and Iron -> Turtledove
The Russian Revolution -> Good Ole Trots
Homage to Catalonia -> Orwell
That Hideous Strength -> Lewis
Cuba: Communism or Castroism -> Some "Exile"
Farinhiet 451 -> Somebody
Spaceships and Gumshoes -> Lunn, esp "Kalediescope"
The Wisdom of Mao -> Chinese Foriegn Langauge Press Ed.
This Magazine
Heart of Darkness -> Conrad
In Enemy Hands -> Danncocks
Down the Road Never Taken -> Stornwall Press.

ect ect. These are just from my book case. I have read more that should be added but I do not have here.


If this seems familiar I copy and pasted from teh ISF

[mentalbunny]

I'm in the process of compiling all the suggestions. I'll stick it up when I've done, is it ok if I delete all the old posts? It'll be a lot tidier if I do, and I'll know which posts I haven't included in my list.

[Pete]

of your own posts? Or are you counting up EVERYONE's suggestions?

[mentalbunny]

Everyone's of course. So far I've got all the suggestions, I'm just sorting them out. There are a few titles without authors and authors without titles, amd I'm trying to categortise them vaguely but I don't know all the books so I'd love some help with it. You'll see when I put them up, it's be the "unknown" category. I'm also including a list of who has recommended books but I haven't bothered saying who said which ones.

[Pete]

Don't delete the thread or the posts, but make a new thread and sticky/close it so that suggestions get funnelled to me or you...and unsticky this one ^_^

[mentalbunny]

Ok, when I get round to putting the list up, which reminds me, I've been neglecting my duties in Practice recently, oh well.

[Iron Star]

i've been meaning to read anna keranina. it looks like a good book. has anyone read it?

[Wenty]

nope but i know it's long!

for one side of the argument on globalization :-

naomi klein - fences and windows or no logo

from hearsay:-

rules for radicals - saul ailensky
the selfish gene - richard dawkins

for general reading :-
of mice and men - john steinbeck
albert camus - the fall or the outsider
ernest hemingway - a farewell to arms
jack kerouac - on the road
hunter s thompson - hells angels


(Edited by Comrade Wenty at 3:36 pm on June 27, 2003)

[scott thesocialist]

i've just finished
'TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD'
it was fantastic u all should read it.

[mentalbunny]

Sorry guys, I've been really stupid and left the reading list i was working on on the school system. I'm now at home for the holidays so I won't be able to put it up until september! Sorry! Keep adding to this list though! And I'd really appreciate it if you could add them in a certain way

eg

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

rather than the other way around, since I've done the list that way round so far.

thanks.

[apathy maybe]

How about some more fiction

A Clockwork Orange - whats his name
1984 - G Orwell (E Blair)
Brave New World - A Huxley (sp?)
The Time Machine - Wells
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - PK Dick
The Hitchickers Guide to the Galaxy (A trilogy in 5 parts) - D Adams
The Foundation Trilogy - I Asimov
The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
Discworld - T Pratchet

Books by all of the above (except whats his name and Huxley, I hav'n't read anything by them except those books). Also AC Clarke (inventer of communications satts). And most near any 'real' science fiction.

[Marxist in Nebraska]

Manufacturing Consent by Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky
The Power Elite by C. Wright Mills
Listen Yankee by C. Wright Mills
The Hidden Injuries of Class by Richard Sennett and Jonathon Cobb
The Best Democracy Money Can Buy by Greg Palast
Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
Lies My Teacher Told Me by James Loewen
Lies Across America by James Loewen
Secrets, Lies, and Democracy by Noam Chomsky
Addicted to War by Joel Andreas

[Anonymous]

You can preview these books by clicking the following links

Inevitable Revolutions: The United States in Central America

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/039...7964851-6192144 (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0393309649/qid=1058554203/sr=2-3/ref=sr_2_3/102-7964851-6192144)

The American Age

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/039...7964851-6192144 (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0393964744/qid=1058554203/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/102-7964851-6192144)

The Panama Canal: The Crisis in Historical Perspective

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detai...=glance&s=books (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0195061926/qid=1058554203/sr=1-8/ref=sr_1_8/102-7964851-6192144?v=glance&s=books)

(Quackaroody!!!!!)

How to Read Donald Duck: Imperialist ideology in the Disney comic

http://www.adorfman.duke.edu/vaults/donald...eFrameset-5.htm (http://www.adorfman.duke.edu/vaults/donald_duck/templteFrameset-5.htm)

Michael Jordan and the New Global Capitalism, New and Expanded Edition

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detai...=glance&s=books (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0393323692/qid=1058554203/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/102-7964851-6192144?v=glance&s=books)

[kalakbay]

Try reading the Book of Jose maria Sison you might Like them

[Fever]

Okay, I just re-read doctor jekyll and mr. hyde. Great!
Also, Stranger in a strange land is always good. And if your keen on the revolution try Anatomy of Revolution (examines all the major revolutions in history)

[Comrade Ceausescu]

maaaaan you guys are some mao haters!!!!
that aside,all of you idiots would do well to read "mao a life" By Philip Short
Another good book is on one of my personal favorite communists "Khruschev:The Man And His Era"
"Fidel:a Critical Portait"
the seential on the man "Lenin:A Biography"

go to your local bookstore yall.another one is"Seize the time" by bobby seale.

[Non-Sectarian Bastard!]

However Noam Chomsky has been metioned before. I would like to point out Deterring Democracy .

I just read a Dutch translation of it (Verdorven Democratie) and it gives a really good insight in the mechanics of Modern Imperialism.

It didn't bring much suprising info about modern Imperialism, but more important, it confirmed my toughts.

[Mogwai]

i have read the autobiography of malcolm X, a lot of aldous huxleys, and george orwell, but this was before i got interested in you lefties :)

recently read, and about to read:

stupid white men - michael moore - good for the novice like me :D

rogue states: the rule of force in world affairs - hehe, its a chomsky, cant go far wrong im told ? :D

the age of consent - george monbiot - havnt seen it mentioned, but havnt read it yet either, i'll gte back to you :D

[mentalbunny]

Thanks everyone for your comments, it'll be at least anotherr month till I can put the list up.

Mogwai, I read a breat review about "Age of Consent" in either the Independent or the Guardian, and Thom Yorke from Radiohead plugged it in an interview so when I get round to reading it I'm expecting great things!

[Danton]

Monsignour Quixote by Graham Greene

[El Socialista]

Damn, you guys sure know some books! I only read a bigraphy on Che and Das Kapital, written by Karl Marx...
Am currently reading Guerilla warefare, by Che Guevara. So the governement of The Netherlands is overthrown in now and 2 years, you know who there is to blame :P :)

[mentalbunny]

First draft, not completed:

In no particular order:

Recommended by:
abstractmentality
anger is a gift
Cobber
commieboy
Comrade Wenty
CrazyPete
Danton
Dirty Commie
dsmtuner
Dyermaker
Emmanuel Goldstein
feoric
Fever
Hampton
happyguy
kingbee
mentalbunny
Nickademus
praxis1966
Rastafari
redstarshining


Writers:
William Blum
Noam Chomsky
Parenti

Fiction:
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson
Ficciones by Jean-Louis Borges
Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Junk by Melvin Burgess
The Outsider by Albert Camus
Don Quixote by Cervantes
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Crime And Punishment by Dostoyevsky
100 years of solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse
The Dharma bums by Jack Kerouac
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
That Hideous Strength by C S Lewis
The Iron Heel by Jack London
1984 by George Orwell
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Coming up for air by Orwel
The catcher in the Rye by J D Salinger
Nausea by Jean Paul Sartre
Requiem for a Dream by Hubert Selby Jnr
Bread and Wine by Ignaczio Silone
One day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The death of Ivan Iliych by Leo Tolstoy
Johnny Got his Gun by Dalton Trumbo
American Empire: Blood and Iron by Henry Turtledove
Candide by Voltaire
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnecut

Non-fiction:

Biographies and Documents:
Guevara, also known as Che by Paco Ignacio Taibo II
Motorcycle Diaries by Ernesto Guevara
The Huey P. Newton Reader edited by David Hilliard & Donald Weise
Bolivian Diary by Ernesto Guevara
Chasing Che by Patrick Symmes (Motorcycle Diaries revisited)
The Autobiography of Malcolm X--by Malcolm X, transcribed and edited by Alex Haley
The Black Panthers Speak--edited by Philip S. Foner
The Blue Book of the John Birch Society - a transcript of a conference/seminars held in 1959 by American businessmen and gives you an understanding of the fear they had of communism.
Ho Chi Minh by William J Duiker
I May Not Get There With You: The Real Martin Luther King by Micheal Eric Dyson
The Wisdom of Mao by Chinese Foreign Language Press Ed.
Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev by McNeal
Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela (autobiography)
Live from Death Row by Mumia Abu-Jamal
A Testament of Hope- Writings and Speeches of Marin Luther King
Malcolm X Speaks
The Black Panthers Speak edited by Philip Foner
Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver
Prison Writings: My Life is my Sun Dance by Leonard Peltier
Killing Pablo by Mark Bowden
Bullwhip Days edited by James Mellon
Homage to Catalonia by Orwell
Die Nigger Die by H. Rap Brown
Revolutionary Suicide by Huey P. Newton
Assata by Assata Shakur
Soledad Brother by George Jackson
Cointelpro Papers by Ward Churchill and James Vander Wall
Fortunate Son by J.H. Hatfield
Collected Essays of George Orwell
Episodes of the Cuban Revolutionary War 1956-58 by Ernesto Guevara, edited by Mary Alice Waters
Villa & Zapata by Franck McLynn

History:
A People's History of the United States of America by Howard Zinn
Basta! Land and the Zapatista Rebellion in Chiapas--by George Collier with Maria Lowery Quaratiello
A Revolutionary Life by Jon Lee Anderson
Liberation, Imagination, and the Black Panther Party edited by Kathleen Cleaver and George Katsiaficas
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
Seize the Time by Bobby Seale
The Marxists by Mills
The Russian Revolution by Trotsky
Workers Councils by Anton Pannekoek
The Trial of Henry Kissenger by Christopher Hitchens (do ANYTHING to avoid paying for this book)
The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
A Little Matter of Genocide by Ward Churchill
Secret Trials and Executions by Barbara Olshansky
Afghan guerrilla warfare by Ali Ahmad Jalaili & Lester W. Grau
Black skin, White masks by Frantz Fanon

Theory etc:
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Fredreich Engels
Das Kapital by Karl Marx
The Second Sex by Simone De Bouviour
Hegemony and Revolution: A Study of Antonio Gramsi's Political and Cultural Theory by Walter L. Adamson
The Marx-Engels Reader
The Zapatista Reader by Hayden
Historical Capitalism by Immanuel Wallerstein
In Defence of Anarchism by Robert Paul Wolff
Ideology and the Ideological State Apparatus by Louis Althusser
Po: beyond yes & no by Edward de Bono
Anarchism by Peter Kropotkin
No Gods No masters Vol 1 and 2 edited by Daniel Guerin

Globalisation:
The Lexus And The Olive Tree by Thomas L. Friedman


Current issues:
Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since WWII by William Blum
No Logo by Naomi Klein
When Corporations Rule the World by David Korten
Downsize This! by Michael Moore
Stupid White Men by Michael Moore
Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
Stolen Harvest by Vandana Shiva
Hard Work by Polly Toynbee
You are Being Lied To: The Disinformation Guide to Media Distortion, Historical Whitewashes and Cultural Myths edited by Russ Kick
Everything You Know Is Wrong: The Disinformation Guide to Secrets & Lies edited by Russ Kick
Terrorism and War by Howard Zinn
Ain’t No Making It by Jay MacLeod
Blood in My Eye by George Jackson
Economic Apartheid in America by Chuck Collins & United for a Fair Economy, forward by Juliet B. Schor
Jihad Vs. Mcworld by Benjamin R. Barber

Practical information:
Coup d'Etat: A Practical Handbook by Edward Luttwak
How to Overthrow the Government by Arianna Huffington
The Anarchist Cookbook by William Powell
The SAS Survival Handbook by John Wiseman
Guerrilla Warfare by Che Guevara
On Guerrilla warfare by Mao Tse-Tung

Other:
Basta! Land and the Zapatista Rebellion in Chiapas--by George Collier with Maria Lowery Quaratiello
Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paolo Friere
Pedagogy of Freedom by Paolo Friere
Education for Critical Consciousness by Paolo Friere
Rogue State by William Blum
Better than Sex: Confessions of a Political Junkie by Hunter S. Thompson
Corporations Are Gonna Get Your Mama edited by Kevin Danaher, forward by Noam Chomsky
Resistance, Rebellion, and Death by Albert Camus
What Uncle Sam Really Wants by Noam Chomsky
Declarations of Independence by Howard Zinn
Against Empire by Michael Parenti

Miscellaneous:
The Illuminated Poems of Allen Ginsberg
Selected Poems of T.S. Eliot, esp. "The Hollow Men"
Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. DuBois
Song of the doomed - Hunter S Thompson
Journey to Ixtlan by Carlos Casteneda

Unknown:
Terror Of The Machine by Benjamin R. Barber
Victims Of Progress by
Global Spin by
Steal this Book by Abbie Hoffman
Woodstock Nation by Abbie Hoffman
Burn The Olive Tree, Sell The Lexus by Greg Palast & Oliver Shykles
Ethnocide and the IMF by John McMurtry
Open World:/The Truth About Globalisation by Philippe Legrain
Empire by Antonio Negri
25 Years on the MOVE by MOVE
Our word is our weapon.
Cuba: Communism or Castroism by Some "Exile"
Spaceships and Gumshoes by Lunn, esp "Kalediescope"
This Magazine
In Enemy Hands by Danncocks
Down the Road Never Taken by Stornwall Press.
Fidel Castro (I found this in my grandpa's library from 66' a British journalist who was with the guerrillas during the war.)
Episodes of the Cuban revolution by Che
Compesino (Incorrect spelling I know) a bio of Che by unknown
naomi klein - fences and windows or no logo
Rules for radicals - saul ailensky
The selfish gene - richard dawkins
of mice and men - john Steinbeck
albert camus - the fall or the outsider
ernest hemingway - a farewell to arms
jack kerouac - on the road
hunter s thompson - hells angels

[Karelmarx]

Two great books I can recomend are Jennifer Government by Max Barry (an orwellian cautionary tale of capitalism at its hight) and Sartre on Cuba

[ComradeRed]

What about the classics?
Homer (the iliad, the odyssey)
Plato
Aeschylus (Agamemnon,Libation Bearers; Eumenides )
Plutarch
Tacitus
Herodotus
Virgil
Aristophanes
Archimedes
Aristotle
Thucydides
Augustine
Anselm
etc?

[MysticArcher]

I just got this from the used book store in town, a book called History Will Absolve Me by Fidel Castro
it's a good book, but it's like 40 years old, it's the text of the speech he gave in his defense at his trial in 1953

[Hegemonicretribution]

Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh (better than the film once you are past the Scotish dialect)
Captain Corelli's Mandoline by Louis de Berniers
Hyperion by John Keats
Oscar Wirld- any
Mill on Liberty and Utalitarianism by John Stuart Mill
Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

[Le Libérer]

I'm sure this topic has been throttled to death on this site, but I'm less than a year new here, and I like updates to this kind of topic. I would love to hear some favs from you guys, old and new. I'm running low on interesting reading, so help! :D

Oh, and if you say the bible, thats a great source for literary intrigue (i have read it a few times) but not very original, and is a little more than predictable.

Okay my choices.

1. The Motorcycle Diaries - Che Gueverra
2. The Hero With a Thousand Faces-Joseph Campbell
3. The Tropic of Capricorn - Henry Miller
4.1984 - George Orwell
5. Farenheight 451 - Ray Bradbury
6. The Prophet- Kahil Gibran
7.The Mafia Kingfish- John H. Davis and John F. Davis (Carlos Marcello and the Assassination of John F. Kennedy)

[Le Libérer]

Doh! I just saw the sticky. If a mod could move this there I would appreciate it.

[canikickit]

What are you talking about Debora?

[Bad Grrrl Agro]

rainbow boys - by alex sanchez
revolutionary voices-a queer youth anthology - by various writers
silencing dissent - nancy chang

[Bad Grrrl Agro]

oh and theres this fabulous essay by albert einstien called "why socialism"

[mentalbunny]

I reckon we should try to sort it out in levels of difficulty in reading, if anyone's up for the job.

[FatFreeMilk]

Don Quixote can be up there for "the most difficult".

[ComradeRed]

aww comon, i read it in about two years straight, it's not THAT difficult. :D
The spirit of Laws-Montesquieu
Candide-Voltaire
Social Contract-Rousseau

[left for dead]

under current issues:

Magical Urbanism by Mike Davis

[Adam]

Stupid White Men-Michael Moore
1984-George Orwell (essential)
Number nine dream-David Mitchell
Ghostwritten-David Mitchell
The Catcher in the Rye-J. D. Salinger

[Adam]

Alsoa short book by Kurt Vonnegurt called Fates Worse than Death.

[Comrade Marcel]

This is from our study course, "Intro to Marxism".

Everything is available online, and it is ment to cover all the basics and be understandable to those who are completely new. It is also ment to be even with ideologies (ie. not lend favour to Maoism or Trotskyism etc.).

I would love to hear opinions on this, and any suggestions for improvements.

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YLiberation School:
INTRODUCTION TO MARXISM
- Compiled by: A. Tambureno, M.V. Rodden & P. Vivanco -
v-2.9b

What is communism? Is socialism about dictatorship, or freedom? Why are Western countries so rich, while most people in the world are poor and starving? Why is the US at a constant state of war with poor countries? What is revolution? Isn't it violent? Why is racism and sexism so prevalent? Is Canada a class society? Aren't we all middle class? Is Canada really democratic?

If you struggle with any of theses questions, then you are going to want to participate in this course! Young Left is beginning a 12 week course on Introduction to Marxist Theory. The course is aimed at both those new to Leftist politics, and those who are more experienced.

Subject Overview

Levels:
Easy - Marked with "E", these studies are understandable to people completely new to politics
Beginner - Marked with "B", these studies are understandable to people new to Marxism, but some understanding of politics is preferable (but not needed).
Intermediate - Marked with "I", these studies are optimal for people with an understanding of politics, but they do not have to be advanced. These studies will further explore the ideas and philosophies discussed in the Easy and Beginner courses.
Advanced - Marked with an "A", these studies are better for those who have a bit more background on politics, philosophy, and/or Marxism. People with little experience may want to try these studies, but it would require attention. Some of these may include "classic" Marxist writings.
Expert - Marked with an "X", these studies are usually made up of "classic" Marxist writings, such as those written by Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Trotsky, Gramsci, Hoxha, and others. These writings can usually be quite long, and incorporate the use of "heavy" rhetoric and languages. These require a lot of attention to study, and it requires a lot of "getting used to" to study these writings in-depth. We encourage students to try, and just relax if you get frustrated, and never hesitate to ask a fellow Comrade for help!

A General level is given for each course, and levels are also indicated beside each reading. This is to help each student decide which readings would be best for them to study.

Any key writings will be marked with an asterisk (*) if applicable. This means they will be the main topics discussed in the group.

It is recommended that each student pick as many readings as possible to read for each subject. Remember, even if you only get to read some of the writings, it is still a good idea to attend the study group - that way you can learn from the discussion and ask questions. Of course, it is better if you have enough time to take notes, and bring your opinion and debate with other Comrades. Regardless, the most important part is to take part.

Remember, you can always e-mail the Coordinator of Educational and Social Activities with questions and/or comments: [email protected]

Calendar: http://events.rebelyouth.ca Liberation School: http://school.rebelyouth.ca

Index:

Class 1: What is Marxism? - A brief Introduction to Marx, Engels, and Communism

Class 2: What is Capitalism? - What are the main social classes in Canada and why is there so much inequality?

Class 3: Capitalist Economics 101 - How are working people exploited, and how do the wealthy become rich?

Class 4: Capitalism: Sexism and Racism - Why racism is the cornerstone of capitalism, How gender inequality is built in to class society, and how socialism will end it.

Class 5: Women in the Struggle - Women's role in the struggle and the battle against Sexism within the movement

Class 6: Colonialism and Imperialism - Military violence and corporate plunder of the 3rd World' by the West

Class 7: Workers of Colour and the Fight Against Racism and Imperialism - How workers of colour both in the 3rd world and within the "belly of the beast" fight back

Class 8: The State, Revolution and the road to Socialism - Which classes does the government serve? Why revolution is needed

Class 9: Political Party's - Do they all Serve the Rich?

Class 10: Nationalism and patriotism? - What are these and who do these serve?

Class 11: Communists and War - Are Marxists Pacifists?

Class 12: How Socialism Works - Will there be elections? Will everyone get paid the same? What about individual freedom?

Class 13: Life Under Socialism - Further (but brief) Exploration of what Culture, Arts, Education, Relationships, Science, Morality, Politics, Philosophy, etc. under Socialism will be like.

Class 1
What is Marxism? (E)

What is Marxism?
Who were Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels?
What is Communism?
What is Socialism?
Basic socialist political terms

Readings:

Main:
An ABC of Communism - http://www.oneparty.co.uk/index.html?http%...k/html/abc.html (http://www.oneparty.co.uk/index.html?http%3A//www.oneparty.co.uk/html/abc.html) (E)

Reference:
Encyclopedia of Marxism: Communism - http://marxists.org/glossary/terms/c/o.htm#communism (B)
Encyclopedia of Marxism: Marxism - http://marxists.org/glossary/terms/m/a.htm#marxist (B)
Encyclopedia of Marxism: Marxism-Leninism - http://marxists.org/glossary/terms/m/a.htm...arxism-leninism (http://marxists.org/glossary/terms/m/a.htm#marxism-leninism) (B)
Encyclopedia of Marxism: Karl Marx - http://marxists.org/glossary/people/m/a.htm#marx-karl (B)
Encyclopedia of Marxism: Friedrich Engels - http://marxists.org/glossary/people/e/n.htm#engels (B)
Encyclopedia of Marxism: Politics - http://marxists.org/glossary/terms/p/o.htm#politics (B)
Encyclopedia of Marxism: Revolutionary - http://marxists.org/glossary/terms/r/e.htm...revolutionaries (http://marxists.org/glossary/terms/r/e.htm#revolutionaries) (B)
Follow up:
The Communist Manifesto - http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/184...festo/index.htm (http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/index.htm) (A)

CLASS 2
WHAT IS CAPITALISM? (E)

What are social classes?
What are 'modes of production'?
What is exploitation?
Capitalist class structure
How class societies developed ? The development of capitalism
What is the state?
Basic socialist political terms

Readings:

Main:
*What is Capitalism? - http://www.angelfire.com/co2/socialism/wha...pitalismis.html (http://www.angelfire.com/co2/socialism/whatcapitalismis.html) (E)
*RCP Draft # 5: Classes in US - http://rwor.org/margorp/a-uf2.htm (E)
Marxism Made Simple: Class - http://www.marxismmadesimple.esmartweb.com...om/mainpage.htm (http://www.marxismmadesimple.esmartweb.com/mainpage.htm) (click on "Class") (B)
*Marxism Made Simple: The State - http://www.marxismmadesimple.esmartweb.com...om/mainpage.htm (http://www.marxismmadesimple.esmartweb.com/mainpage.htm) (click on "The State") (B)

Reference:
THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIETY - http://www.oneparty.co.uk/index.html?http%...k/html/abc.html (http://www.oneparty.co.uk/index.html?http%3A//www.oneparty.co.uk/html/abc.html) (E)
Encyclopedia of Marxism: Politics - http://marxists.org/glossary/terms/p/o.htm#politics (B)
Encyclopedia of Marxism: Capitalism - http://marxists.org/glossary/terms/c/a.htm#capitalism (B)
Encyclopedia of Marxism: Class - http://marxists.org/glossary/terms/c/l.htm#class (B)
Encyclopedia of Marxism: Proletariat - http://marxists.org/glossary/terms/p/r.htm#proletariat
Encyclopedia of Marxism: Petty-Bourgeois - http://marxists.org/glossary/terms/p/e.htm...petty-bourgeois (http://marxists.org/glossary/terms/p/e.htm#petty-bourgeois)
Encyclopedia of Marxism: Bourgeoisie/Bourgeois Society - http://marxists.org/glossary/terms/b/o.htm#bourgeoisie
Encyclopedia of Marxism: Mode of Production - http://marxists.org/glossary/terms/m/o.htm...mode-production (http://marxists.org/glossary/terms/m/o.htm#mode-production) (B)
Encyclopedia of Marxism: Means of Production - http://marxists.org/glossary/terms/m/e.htm...eans-production (http://marxists.org/glossary/terms/m/e.htm#means-production) (B)
Encyclopedia of Marxism: Division of Labour - http://marxists.org/glossary/terms/d/i.htm...division-labour (http://marxists.org/glossary/terms/d/i.htm#division-labour) (I)
Encyclopedia of Marxism: Property - http://marxists.org/glossary/terms/p/r.htm#property (I)
Encyclopedia of Marxism: Private Property - http://marxists.org/glossary/terms/p/r.htm...rivate-property (http://marxists.org/glossary/terms/p/r.htm#private-property) (B)


Follow-up:
The Part played by Labour in the Transition from Ape to Man - http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works...abour/index.htm (http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1876/part-played-labour/index.htm) (X)
The Condition of the Working Class in England - http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/184...class/index.htm (http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/condition-working-class/index.htm) (A)

CLASS 3
Capitalist Economics 101 (E)

HOW DOES CAPITALIST ECONOMICS WORK?
What are commodities?
What are markets?
How are the pricesvalue of commodities determined?
Why is money so important in capitalism?
What is labour power?
How is the cost of wages determined?
What is surplus value?
What is capital?
How are profits made
What is Class Struggle?
Why are there economic slumpsdepressions
What is monopoly capitalism?
Finance capitalism

Readings:

Main:
*PRINCIPLES OF MARXISM-LENINISM: How Capitalism Works Part One - http://www.oneparty.co.uk/html/marxism/Cl2.html (E)
*PRINCIPLES OF MARXISM-LENINISM: How Capitalism Works Part Two - http://www.oneparty.co.uk/html/marxism/Cl3.html (E)
Marxism Made Simple: Marxist Economics - http://www.marxismmadesimple.esmartweb.com...om/mainpage.htm (http://www.marxismmadesimple.esmartweb.com/mainpage.htm) (click on "Economics") (B)

Reference:
Encyclopedia of Marxism: Economics - http://marxists.org/glossary/terms/e/c.htm#economics (B)
Encyclopedia of Marxism: Labour - http://marxists.org/glossary/terms/l/a.htm#labour (B)
Encyclopedia of Marxism: Commodity - http://marxists.org/glossary/terms/c/o.htm#commodity (B)
Encyclopedia of Marxism: Capital - http://marxists.org/glossary/terms/c/a.htm#capital (B)
Encyclopedia of Marxism: Rent - http://marxists.org/glossary/terms/r/e.htm#rent (B)

Follow-up:
Value, Price and Profit -
http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/186...rofit/index.htm (http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1865/value-price-profit/index.htm) (X)
Karl Marx: Wage Labour and Capital - http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/184...abour/index.htm (http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/wage-labour/index.htm) (X)
Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy - http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works...onomy/index.htm (http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1859/critique-pol-economy/index.htm) (X)

Video: HB Birth of capitalism

Class 4
Capitalism: Sexism and Racism (B)

How did racism and sexism originate?
What is the scientific truth about race?
How is class a factor?
Why is sexism and racism part of the very essence of capitalism?
How will Socialism end racism and sexism?

Readings:

Main:
*Why Does Capitalism Create Racism and Sexism? - http://www.angelfire.com/co2/socialism/rac...mandsexism.html (http://www.angelfire.com/co2/socialism/racismandsexism.html) (E)
Marxism made Simple: Gender - http://www.marxismmadesimple.esmartweb.com...om/mainpage.htm (http://www.marxismmadesimple.esmartweb.com/mainpage.htm) (B) (click on "Gender")

Extra:
Capitalism and Racism: G8 Style - http://www.web.net/sworker/381-07-g8capitalism.html (B)
Capitalism's dependence on racism - http://www.peak.sfu.ca/the-peak/2001-3/iss...fe-caprace.html (http://www.peak.sfu.ca/the-peak/2001-3/issue5/fe-caprace.html) (B)
The roots of racism - http://www.socialistworker.org/2002-2/431/...08_Racism.shtml (http://www.socialistworker.org/2002-2/431/431_08_Racism.shtml) (B)
Racism Still Achilles Heel of U.S. Capitalism - http://www.plp.org/comm03/7racism.html (I)

Reference:
Encyclopedia of Marxism: Racism - http://marxists.org/glossary/terms/r/a.htm#racism (B)



Class 5
Women in the Struggle
Is sexism embedded in capitalism?
Should feminism be revolutionary or reformist?
How does sexual liberation fit in to women's liberation?
Is there sexism within the resistance movement?

Readings:

Main:
Alexandra Kollontai, 'Women's Day' February 1913, http://www.marxists.org/archive/kollonta/w...orks/womday.htm (http://www.marxists.org/archive/kollonta/works/womday.htm)
Safiya Bukhari-Alston, ON THE QUESTION OF SEXISM WITHIN THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY, http://www.anarco-nyc.net/anarchistpanther...erwriting6.html (http://www.anarco-nyc.net/anarchistpanther/otherwriting6.html)
Rosa Luxemburg, Women's Suffrage and Class Struggle, http://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/.../1912/05/12.htm (http://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1912/05/12.htm)

Sheila Jeffreys, How Orgasm Politics Has Hijacked the Women's Movement, http://mosaic.echonyc.com/~onissues/s96orgasm.html

Reference:
Encyclopedia of Marxism: Women's Liberation Movement - http://marxists.org/glossary/events/w/o.ht...womens-movement (http://marxists.org/glossary/events/w/o.htm#womens-movement) (B)
Encyclopedia of Marxism: Feminism http://marxists.org/glossary/terms/f/e.htm#feminism (B)
Encyclopedia of Marxism: May Day - http://marxists.org/glossary/events/m/a.htm#may-day (B)

CLASS 6
COLONIALSM & IMPERIALISM (B)

Why does capitalism create colonies?
What are superprofits?
What is imperialism
Do Imperialist country workers benefit from imperialism (is there a labour aristocracy)?
How do Imperialist nation capitalists respond to 3rd world liberation struggles?

Readings:

Main:
RCP Draft Programme Part I: The World Is Intolerable and Cries Out for Justice! - http://rwor.org/margorp/progpart1-e.htm (read until: 'Communism: The Goal of the Proletarian Revolution') (B)
Marxism Made Simple: Imperialism - http://www.marxismmadesimple.esmartweb.com...om/mainpage.htm (http://www.marxismmadesimple.esmartweb.com/mainpage.htm) (click on "Imperialism") (B)

Extra:
Imperialism 101 by Michael Parenti - http://www.michaelparenti.org/Imperialism101.html (I)
WHAT THE MASSES FACE--ALL OVER THE WORLD--AND WHAT THE MASSES NEED, By Bob Avakian, Chairman of the RCP,USA - http://rwor.org/a/v22/1080-89/1081/baface.htm (E)

Reference:
Encyclopedia of Marxism: Imperialism - http://marxists.org/glossary/terms/i/m.htm#imperialism (B)
Encyclopedia of Marxism: Neo-colonialism - http://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/n/e...#neocolonialism (http://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/n/e.htm#neocolonialism) (B)

Follow-up:
Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism - http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/work...p-hsc/index.htm (http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/index.htm) (X)

Videos:
HB Colonialism and Imperialism
Mickey Mouse Goes to Haiti

CLASS 7
Workers of Colour and the fight against Racism and Imperialism

What are the connections between racism and capitalism?
Can imperialism be challenged without fighting capitalism?
What are the perspectives of revolution from the maldelveloped World?
Is nationalism the answer?

Readings:

Main:
Malcolm X And The Fight Against Imperialism, http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45a/070.html
C L R James,The Historical Development of the Negro in the United States, http://www.marxists.org/archive/james-clr/...les/negro43.htm (http://www.marxists.org/archive/james-clr/works/articles/negro43.htm)
Angela Davis , Political Prisoners, Prisons, and Black Liberation, http://www.anarco-nyc.net/anarchistpanther...erwriting5.html (http://www.anarco-nyc.net/anarchistpanther/otherwriting5.html)
W. E. B. DuBois: The Trumpet of Confrontation, http://www.rit.edu/~nrcgsh/bx/bx08c.html

Reference:
Encyclopedia of Marxism: National Liberation - http://marxists.org/glossary/events/n/a.ht...onal-liberation (http://marxists.org/glossary/events/n/a.htm#national-liberation) (B)
Encyclopedia of Marxism: Imperialism - http://marxists.org/glossary/terms/i/m.htm#imperialism (B)
Encyclopedia of Marxism: Neo-colonialism - http://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/n/e...#neocolonialism (http://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/n/e.htm#neocolonialism) (B)
Encyclopedia of Marxism: Peasantry - http://marxists.org/glossary/terms/p/e.htm#peasantry

CLASS 8
THE STATE AND THE ROAD TO SOCIALISM (B)

How is capitalist 'democracy' a sham?
Why socialism can not come about through capitalist elections
What is the welfare state?
State control of industry: Is Canada, Sweden etc 12 socialist?
What is Fascism?
How can socialism come about?

[Soviet power supreme]

Hmm

Nobody hasnt mention this classic

The Art of War
by Sun Tzu

Here you can read it on the net
http://www.kimsoft.com/polwar.htm

[Jesus Sanchez]

Lenin

Robert Service

[Danton]

"To make the people smile again" - George Wheeler

[pandora]

Forgive me, Long List

List of the more Marxist based ones:
1. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels "The Communist Manifesto" (Suppose I should confess, I tend to prefer Engels, always have, don't hate me.)
2. The Philosophical Foundations of Marxism by Louis Dupre
3.Pedagogy of the Heart and Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
4.**Globalization and It's Discontents by Saskia Sassen (Essays on the New Mobility of People and Money)
7. Motorcycle Diaries, beginning Back on the Road, Otra Vez [Che]
8. Eleanor Marx, Volume I, by Yvonne Kapp
9. The Russian Revolution: Leninism or Marxism by Rosa Luxemburg (have to visit as it's $19!)
10.My Disillusionment in Russia by Emma Goldman
and the reader which I also am visiting.
11. Marxism Beyond Marxism, edited by Saree Makdis and Cesare Casarino, nice feminist chap
12. article: "The Radical Roots of Martin Luther King Jr. [article]: Christian Core, Socialist Bedrock at http://solidarity.igc.org/atc/96MLK.html


Cuba: [Many of these I've had to return to Library, darn]
1. Cole, Blasier, "The Giant's Rival: U.S. Responses to Revolutionary Change in Latin America" [1976 Uni of Pitts Press]
2. Also by Cole, "Cuba in The World"
3. Guevara, Che Speaks, [NY, Columbia Uni Press 1963.]translated by Josie Fanon (Uni of Pitts copy)
4.translation from French by Pomerans, Karol, K.S. "Guerillas in Power, The Course of the Cuban Rev" (NY, 1970)
5.Mr. Thomas Paterson, "Contesting Castro: The U.S. and the Triumph of the Cuban Revolution" (Oxford Uni 1963)
6. Sergio Roca, "Cuban Econ Policy and Ideology: The Ten Million Ton Sugar Harvest" (from Beverely Hills?weird, 1976.)[This one if very important esp. if Idaho Senator gets it his way]
7. Tres Importante "THe Impact of the Cuban Revolution on the Political Status of Puerto Rico by Ms. Ana Mercedes Rodriguez Ward (Columbia Uni)
8.Carlo Franqui "Diary of A Cuban Revolutionary"translated by Georgette Felix (NY Viking 1980)
9.The Che Guevara Reader edited by David Deutshmann, (Rev. Life by Jon Lee Anderson looks to flashy for me is it good?)
10. Jose Marti: Selected Writings by Esther Allen
11. {Only in the library this one, too fragile for take out} Pearl of the Antilles, [1898, Havana]
12. [Research] Richard Ned Lebow, The Hawk's Cay Conference, (NY:Columbia Uni 1987.)
13. {Lovely article} Hawkins, "Classified Disaster," National Review, 31 Dec. 1996, 48 (25):36-38
14. {also nice} "Ambassador Bowles Critizes 'Hot Headed Military'" NYT, 17 Sept 62.
15. & "Monroe Doctrine 1823 and Cuba," Mr. Leary Fitzgerald, NYT, 23 Sept 61 p.10
15. INCREDIBLE IF YOU CAN FIND IT, I found it in New Mexico learned a lot, Louis A. Perez, ]"Lords of the Mountain: Social Banditry and Peasant Protest in Cuba, 1878-1918[/color]. (Uni Pitts Press 1943.)
16. "Kennedy Orders Embargo on $35 Million Annually" [the beg. of stupidity] NYT, 4 Feb 61
17. G. Gordon Liddy, "Will" [excellent info on rough treatment of CIA of Cuban expats.](Viking 80)
18.Edwin Tetlow, Eye on Cuba (NY 63)
19. David Healy, "The United States in Cuba, 1898-1902"
20. [not translated] Manuel Moreno Franginals, "El Ingenio: Complejo Economico Social Cubano Del Nuestra Historia" [The Ingenious Engineers: Completion of the Social Economics of Cuba, Our History]
Ciencencias Sociales (Havana: Universidad de Ciencencias Sociales, 73)
21. Ayala Cesar, "Social and Econ Aspects of Sugar Production in Cuba," 1880-1930. Latin American Research Review. 1995 30 (1):95-124. Latin Amer Studies Assoc., Austin Tx
22. Major Guevara Says He Resents Reports Abroad Linking Him to Communists--Officers Stress Holding Role," "NYT, 4 Jan 1959.
Yo tons more, write if interested don't want to bore ya. ( Did thesis on embargo, and reworking too much to figure out how to write fun article on any of all this on this zine without boring yall to tears, so keeping mi trap shut, if there's another freak like me write and we can compare notes.)


Otherwise:
1.new translation of Rumi, Gardens of the Beloved
2. Whispers of the Beloved, by same authoresses/translators.
2.Daniel Ladinsky's translations of Hafiz "The Gift"
3. Liberation In the Palm of Your Hand, by Venerable Trijong Rinpoche [translation of talk by Pebongka Rinpoche.
4. "Joyful Path of Good Fortune", Geshe Kelsang Gyatso's translation of Trijong.
5. "Understanding the Mind" Geshe Kelsang Gyatso.
6.Reading Lolita in Tehran authoress, Azar Nafi very well spoken, lucky enough to witness her she said, "When I got my doctorate and went to Iran in 78 the fundamentalists were in power and we were losing freedoms, then in 98 I came here, once again the Fundamentalists were in power and we are losing freedoms. If you are around me you are in trouble, because I have bad luck.
7. Max Barry [I]"Jennifer Government" also has computer game Nation State
8. From Hearing to Healing, edited by Anne Bannister.
9. "Farenheiit 451", Ray Bradbury, new interview in the back
10. "Strip City: A Stripper's Farewell Journey Across America" by Lily Burana
11. "Dharma Punx", Noah Levine, also aids Insight Prison Meditation Network
Various studies on emotional issues of adolescents who have been abused, too many throw away kids due to culture of isolationism . The greatest fear after 9/11 seemed to be that of vulnerability in our society as a sign of weakness.
?Does anyone know of a book by Enrique Dussel {Argentine writer} on ethics in English? :unsure:[I]

[Bad Grrrl Agro]

I just read the seaqual to Rainbow Boys by alex sanchez
Its Rainbow High

[SittingBull47]

Live From Death Row: Mumia Abu-Jamal
A day in the life of Ivan Denisovich: Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Rules for Radicals: Saul D. Alinsky
1984: George Orwell
Animal Farm: George Orwell
Che: John Lee Anderson (duh)
The Prince: Machiavelli
Art of War: Sun-Tzu or the edition by Machiavelli
The Politics: Aristotle

I'm compiling a master list of books on revolutionaries, social science, justice, etc. If anybody wants to help out, e-mail me.

[SittingBull47]

The Grapes of Wrath - Steinback
Great Expectations - Dickens
Steal This Book - Adams

[FatFreeMilk]

Just finished Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neal Hurston.
Starting Black Boy soon.

[Zapatista207]

I suggest War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy. Be forewarned though, its very long!

[Knowledge 6 6 6]

Capitalism and Slavery

By: Eric Williams

[demonio comunista]

tonight i went to the library and got:
Che Guevara: A revolutionary Life - by Jon Lee Anderson ( so excited to read it)
and Lenin.
i have a 12 hour bus ride tomorrow to read :D

[ComradeRed]

if you want a thorough education read everything here (http://books.mirror.org/gb.home.html)

but if you want to know about history read H. G. Wells' 'the outline of history'

[Red Flag]

'Karl Marx' David McLellan
'Marxist Social Thought' Robert Freedman
'Survival Handbook' Peter Darman
'The Illustrated Guide To Edible Wild Plants' Department of the Army (The Lyons Press)
'A Short History of Nearly Everything' Bill Bryson
'Emergency Medical Procedures Handbook' Gordon A Brenner, Richard E Church, Lance Field

[Subversive Rob]

Selections From the Prison Notebooks - Antonio Gramsci
One Dimnesional Man - Herbert Marcuse

[Nickademus]

where white men fear to tread ... autobiography of russell means (one of the founders of AIM -- American Indian Movement) ... fantastic book

[Scottish_Militant]

Lenin and Trotsky - what they really stood for (http://www.marxist.com/LeninAndTrotsky/)

Bolshevism - The Road to Revolution (http://www.marxist.com/bolshevism/)

Russia - From Revolution to Counter-Revolution (http://www.marxist.com/russiabook/)

Reason in Revolt - Marxist Philosophy and Modern Science (http://www.marxist.com/rircontents.asp)

In the Cause of Labour - A History of British Trade Unionism (http://www.marxist.com/hbtu/article_socapp.html)

History of British Trotskyism (http://www.marxist.com/hbt/)

[Kurai Tsuki]

Rogue State*
William Blum

Killing Hope
William Blum

West Bloc Dissident, a Cold War Memoir
William Blum

Why do People Hate America?
Ziauddin Sardar
Merryl Lyn Davis

To Kill A Nation, The Attack on Yugolsavia*
Michael Parenti

Against Empire
Michael Parenti

No Logo*
Naomi Klein

Fences and Windows
Naomi Klein

Branded, The Buying and Selling of Teenagers
Alissa Quart

Arabs and Israel for Beginners*
Ron David

The Autobiography of Malcom X*
Guess

Guevara, Also Known as Che*
Paco Ignacio 2

Guerilla Warfare
Che Guevara

The Communist Manifesto
Marx and Engals


~Books for Religious Tolerance and Understanding~


The Koran (Penguin Classics version)
The supposed Message of God which was told to Muhammed by the angel Gabriel and later compiled after Muhammed's death.

The Truth About Witchcraft Today
Scott Cunningham


* --> Information from these marked books was used in this my posts.

[SittingBull47]

just bought Chomsky's "radical priorities". Anybody else read it?

[FatFreeMilk]

100 years of solitude by gabriel garcia marquez. it's a treasure.
What liberal media by eric alterman. i'm readin this one for some good ass concrete details for a big ass essay I have to write.

[Edward Penishands]

Steal this Book by Abbie Hoffman

On Guerrilla Warfare by Mao

[Sammi87]

i recently read: Free at last, diaries 1991 -2001 by Tony Benn and thought that it was excellent

[Sideshow Luke Perry]

"Lies and The Lying Liars Who Tell Them" - Al Franken

Not really a socialist, but tons of good material to use against the right, and it's funny too.

[Bolshevist]

Jennifer Government by Max Berry. The story is set in the future, and how still will be when everything is privatized. Its quite good political satire.

[SittingBull47]

Originally posted by [email protected] 26 2004, 06:00 AM
where white men fear to tread ... autobiography of russell means (one of the founders of AIM -- American Indian Movement) ... fantastic book
awesome book indeed, bro.

[mentalbunny]

Frida Kalho's Biography (the one with the piccy from the film with Salma hayek on the front).

[DaCuBaN]

Skepticism Incorporated, Bo Fowler

I made a catholic read this, and they enjoyed it :rolleyes:

[LuZhiming]

Adam Smith: Wealth of Nations
George Orwell: 1984
George Orwell: Animal Farm
Noam Chomsky/Edward Herman: Political Economy of Human Rights(I and II)
Noam Chomsky/Edward Herman: Manufacturing Consent
Noam Chomsky: Necessary Illusions
Noam Chomsky: Year 501
Noam Chomsky: Hegemony or Survival
Noam Chomsky: Towards A New Cold War
Noam Chomsky: The Fateful Triangle
Howard Zinn: A People's History of the United States(both the 1492-Present and nineteenth century)
Greg Palast: The Best Democracy Money Can Buy
Tariq Ali: The Clash of Fundamentalisms
Tariq Ali: Bush in Babylon
Hanna Batatu: The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movements of Iraq
Hanna Batatu: Syria's Peasentry, the Descendants of Its Lesser Rural Notables, and Their Politics
Norman Finkelstein: Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict
Norman Finkelstein: The Holocaust Industry
William Blum: Killing Hope
Samuel Huntington/Michel Crozier: The Crisis of Democracy
Elizabeth A. Fones-Wolf: Selling Free Enterprise
David Montgomery: The Fall of the House of Labor
Norman Ware: The Industrial Worker, 1840-1860, The Reaction of American Industrial Society to the Advance of the Industrial Revolution
Karl Marx: Communist Manifesto
Edward Said: Orientalism
Nick Cullather: The CIA's Classified Account of Its Operations in Guatemala, 1952-1954
Herbert P. Blix: Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
Piero Gleijeses: Shattered Hope
Piero Gleijeses: Conflicting Missions, Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959-1976
Piero Gleijeses: The Dominican Crisis, The 1965 Consitutionalist Revolt and American Intervention
Dilip Hiro: Between Marx and Muhammad, The Changing Face of Central Asia
Dilip Hiro: The Longest War, the Iran-Iraq Military Conflict
Dilip Hiro: Iran Under the Ayatollahs
Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy in America I and II
Alexis de Tocqueville: The Old Regime and the French Revolution
Alexis de Tocqueville: Writings on Empire and Slavery
David E. Stannard: American Holocaust, The Conquest of the New World
Leften S. Stavrianos: The Third World Comes of Age
Wilhelm Von Humboldt: The Limits of State Action
Francis Jennings: The Invasion of America, Indians, Colonialism, and the Cant of Conquest
Michael Leffler: A Preponderence of Power
Gabriel Kolko: Anatomy of a War
Gabriel Kolko: Confronting the Third World
Gabriel Kolko: The Triumph of Conservatism
Gabriel Kolko: Century of War
Gabriel Kolko: Politics of War
Gabriel Kolko: The Roots of American Foreign Policy
V.G. Kiernan: European Empires From Conquest to Collapse
V.G. Kiernan: America, The New Imperialism, From White Settlement to World Hegemony
Gerald Haines: The Americanization of Brazil
James D. Tracy: The Political Economy of Merchant Empires, State Power and World Trade, 1350-1750
James D. Tracy: The Rise of Merchant Empires, Long Distance Trade in the Early Modern World 1350-1370
Sylvia Ann Hewlett: The Cruel Dilemmas of Developement, Twentieth-Century Brazil
John Brewer: The Sinwers of Power, War and the English State 1688-1783
Maurice Bishop: Maurice Bishop Speaks, The Grenada Revolution
Christopher Hill: A Nation of Change and Novelty
Richard Morris: The American Revolution Reconsidered
Richard Morris: The Forging of the Union
Joe Moore: Japanese Workers and the Struggle for Power
Edward I. Thompson: Rise and Fulfillment of British Rule in India
Jawaharlal Nehru: Discovery of India
Frederick Clairmonte: Rise and Fall of British India
T.H. Ashton: The Brenner Debate, Agrarian Class Structure and Economic Developement in Pre-Industrial Europe
Nathan Miller: The Founding Finaglers
Alexander Saxton: The Rise and Fall of the White Republic, Class Politics and Mass Culture in Nineteenth Century America
Daniel P. Mannix: Black Cargoes, A History of the Atlantic Slave Trade
Thomas Andrew Bailey: A Diplomatic History of the American People
Richard Drinnon: Facing West, The Metaphysics of Indian-Hating and Empire Building
Richard Drinnon: White Savage, The Case of John Dunn Hunter
Dexter Perkins: Monroe Doctrine
Lawrence S. Kaplan: Entangling Alliances With None, American Foreign Policy in the Age of Jefferson
Joyce Appleby: Capitalism and a New Social Order
Thomas R. Hietala: Manifest Design, American Exceptionalism and Empire
Reginald Horsman: The New Republic, The United States of America 1789-1815
Reginald Horsman: Race and Manifest Destiny, Origins of American Racial Anglo-Saxionism
Reginald Horsman: Expansion and American Indian Policy, 1783-1812
Reginald Horsman: Causes of the War of 1812
Reginald Horsman: The Diplomacy of the New Republic, 1776-1815
Reginald Horsman: The Frontier in the Formative Years, 1783-1815
Helen Hunt Jackson: Century of Dishonor
Lars Schoultz: Human Rights and United States Policy Toward Latin America
Jim Zwick/Mark Twain: Mark Twain's Weapons of Satire, Anti-Imperialist Writings on the Philippine-American War
Tzvetan Todorov: The Conquest of America
Stephen Rabe: The Road to OPEC
Michael Krenn: U.S. Policy Toward Economic Nationalism in Latin America 1917-1929
Susanne Jonas: The Battle for Guatemala
Michael Vickery: Cambodia, 1975-1982
David Bergamini: Japan's Imperial Conspiracy
Bruce Franklin: War Stars, The Superweapon and the American Imagination'
Robert Fisk: Pity the Nation, the Abduction of Lebanon
Naomi Klein: No Logo, No Space, No Jobs
John Keay: Honorable Company
Samuel E. Epstein: The Politics of Cancer
Maurice Brinton: The Bolsheviks and Workers' Control 1917-1921
Mikhail Bakunin/G.P. Maximoff: Political Philosophy of Bakunin
Rudolf Rocker: Anarchosynidcalism
Doug Henwood: After the New Economy
Doug Henwood: Wall Street, How It Works and for Whom
Doug Henwood: The State of the U.S.A. Atlas
John Pilger: Heroes
John Pilger: The New Rulers of the World
John Pilger: Hidden Agendas
John Pilger: A Secret Country
Chalmers Johnson: Peasent Nationalism and Communist Power
Chalmers Johnson: Miti and the Japanese Miracle, The Growth of Industrial Policy, 1925-1975
Chalmers Johson: Japan, Who Governs?
Edith Terry: How Asia Got Rich



Yeah, it's a lot, but it covers just about everything you need to know. I would urge people not to read pointless books by Che Guevara, Michael Moore, Al Franken, Max Berry, Mao Zedong and others mindless dribble.

[Kurai Tsuki]

At War in Nicaragua
They Dare to Speak Out

[VictorRaul!]

If you're of Latin American heritage you must read "The Epic of Latin America" by John Crow. It is 900+ pages but it gives great insight of the history of ALL countries of Latin America and since it's written by a white American it doesn't have any nationalistic biases towards any one country.

[Faceless]

If you ever want an explanation as to why bollocks is spewed in the name of culture:

"Enlightenment as Mass Deception" - Theodor Adorno

If you do undergraduate sociology:

"Popular Music & Society" - Brian Longhurst

[ComradeRed]

David Ricardo's Basic Principles of Political Economy and Taxation
The Works of Thucydides
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants by Stephen Hawking
Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason, and Seeking Truth in the Sciences (http://www.literature.org/authors/descartes-rene/reason-discourse/), by Des Cartes
Critique of Judgement, by Immanuel Kant
The Science of Right, by Immanuel Kant
General Introduction to the Metaphysic of Morals, by Immanuel Kant
Preface and Introduction to the Metaphysical Elements of Ethics with a Note on Conscience, by Immanuel Kant
Critique of Practical Reason , by Immanuel Kant
Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals, by Immanuel Kant
Critique of Pure Reason, by Immanuel Kant
Faust, by Goëthe
A Discourse on Political Economy, by Rousseau
The Social Contract, or Principles of Political Right, by Rousseau
War and Peace, by Tolstoy
The Brothers Karamazov, by Dostoevsky
Crime and Punishment, by Dostoevsky
Notes from the Underground, by Dostoevsky
The possesed, by Dostoevsky

[Djehuti]

Hegel
Wissenschaft der Logik

Karl Marx
The Communist Manifesto
Capital
Critique of the Gotha Program
The Civil War in France

Friedrich Nietzsche
Beyond Good and Evil
On the Genealogy of Morals

CLR James
Notes on Dialectics
State Capitalism and World Revolution

Anton Pannekoek
Why Past Revolutionary Movements Have Failed
State Capitalism and Dictatorship
Party and Working Class

Paul Mattick
Council Communism,
Anti-Bolshevik Communism: Introduction
Marxism: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

Louis Althusser & Etienne Balibar
Reading Capital

Mario Tronti
The Strategy of Refusal
Workers and capital

Harry Cleaver
Reading capital politically

Guy Debord
Society of the spectacle

Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari
A thousand plateaus

Gilles Dauvé & François Martin
Eclipse and Re-Emergence of the Communist Movement

Martin Glaberman & Seymour Faber
Back to the Future: The Continuing Relevance of Marx

Paul Cardan
The meaning of socialism

Ivan Turgenev
Fathers and Sons

Loren Goldner
Communism Is The Material Human Community

And more...

[refuse_resist]

The Communist Manifesto, The Poverty of Philosophy by Karl Marx and Freidrich Engels

The State and Revolution, Imperialism - The Highest Stage of Capitalism and What Is To Be Done? by Vladimir I. Lenin

[Hegemonicretribution]

Ben Elton:Stark not finished yet but it seems good so far and quite frightening (in a matrix style with a few more laughs) possibility.

[Poop]

"Deterring Democracy" - Noam Chomsky
"Anarchism and Other Essays" - Emma Goldman
"Animal Farm" and "1984" - George Orwell
"Black Boy" and "Native Son" - Richard Wright
"What is Communist Anarchism" - Alexander Berkman
"Brave New World" - Aldous Huxley
"No Contest: The Case Against Competition" - Alfie Kohn
"Catch-22" - Joseph Heller
"Dumbing Us Down" - John Taylor Gatto

[Poop]

"Deterring Democracy" - Noam Chomsky
"Anarchism and Other Essays" - Emma Goldman
"Animal Farm" and "1984" - George Orwell
"Black Boy" and "Native Son" - Richard Wright
"What is Communist Anarchism" - Alexander Berkman
"Brave New World" - Aldous Huxley
"No Contest: The Case Against Competition" - Alfie Kohn
"Catch-22" - Joseph Heller
"Dumbing Us Down" - John Taylor Gatto

[Poop]

"Deterring Democracy" - Noam Chomsky
"Anarchism and Other Essays" - Emma Goldman
"Animal Farm" and "1984" - George Orwell
"Black Boy" and "Native Son" - Richard Wright
"What is Communist Anarchism" - Alexander Berkman
"Brave New World" - Aldous Huxley
"No Contest: The Case Against Competition" - Alfie Kohn
"Catch-22" - Joseph Heller
"Dumbing Us Down" - John Taylor Gatto

[king Royale]

One that I'm am reading now is the Huey P. Newton Reader (founder of the Black Panthers)

I would reccomned Ho CHi Minh, a biography (giant book, no light reading here), Guerrilla Warfare by Che Guevara, The Communist Manifesto as listed before, one of the books by Fawaz Turki, I can't remember the name, and Rebellion From the Roots.

These are just a few that I can remember off of the top of my head.

[bunk]

def. WE WANT FREEDOM: a life in the black panther party by Mumia Abu-Jamal. I'm reading at the moment.

[refuse_resist]

Some others I'd like to recommend...

Guerrilla Warfare by Che Guevara

The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State by Freidrich Engels

Economics and Politics in the Era of the Dicatorship of the Proletariat by Vladimir I. Lenin

On New Democracy, On Guerrilla Warfare by Mao TseTung

[Vallegrande]

Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
Walden by Henry David Thoreau

I think these are two separate books.

[Monty Cantsin]

Originally posted by [email protected] 10 2004, 02:51 PM
Hegel
Wissenschaft der Logik

Karl Marx
The Communist Manifesto
Capital
Critique of the Gotha Program
The Civil War in France

Friedrich Nietzsche
Beyond Good and Evil
On the Genealogy of Morals

CLR James
Notes on Dialectics
State Capitalism and World Revolution

Anton Pannekoek
Why Past Revolutionary Movements Have Failed
State Capitalism and Dictatorship
Party and Working Class

Paul Mattick
Council Communism,
Anti-Bolshevik Communism: Introduction
Marxism: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

Louis Althusser & Etienne Balibar
Reading Capital

Mario Tronti
The Strategy of Refusal
Workers and capital

Harry Cleaver
Reading capital politically

Guy Debord
Society of the spectacle

Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari
A thousand plateaus

Gilles Dauvé & François Martin
Eclipse and Re-Emergence of the Communist Movement

Martin Glaberman & Seymour Faber
Back to the Future: The Continuing Relevance of Marx

Paul Cardan
The meaning of socialism

Ivan Turgenev
Fathers and Sons

Loren Goldner
Communism Is The Material Human Community

And more...
I like this list the best.

[Zingu]

Understanding the F-Word: American Fascism and the Politics of Illusion

Derailing Democracy

Chávez : Venezuela and the New Latin America

Venezuelan Politics in the Chavez Era: Class, Polarization, and Conflict

More Terrible than Death: Massacres, Drugs, and America's War in Colombia

The Rape of Naking- The Forgotten Holocast

[Zingu]

More books:

Unfinished Business...the Politics of Class War

Atheism: The Case Against God

The Impossibility of God

The Anatomy of Fascism

The Atheist Universe

[Questionauthority]

The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin
otherwise I think other people have covered the rest and I don't really want to go repeating!

[Rage Against the Right]

Anything by Ayn Rand,, specifically Atlas Shrugged. Also "For Whom the Bell Tolls" is a great fiction story with Communist undertones! Check it out!

[BernardMarx]

James Baldwin a few books by him that i can't think of the name for

a maybe lesser known Che Guevara. "A New Society: Reflections for Today's World"

Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller

The Gulag Archipelago - Solzenhitzen

Steal this Book - Abbie Hoffman

A Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

[Motorcycle_diAries]

Just some...........

George Orwell- Animal Farm
George Orwell - 1984
frantz fanon- anything and everything
Richard Crossman- The God that Failed

[General Secretary of RWLP]

Anything by Ayn Rand,, specifically Atlas Shrugged
WHAT! Rand was a trator to the USSR and her work is nothing more than Right Wing propaganda and hate mongering!

-General Secretary of GHRWLP

[American_Trotskyist]

Yeah, Rage Ayn Rand was a believer in total ultra capitalism, she even criticized helping people. Alen Greenspan is a follower of hers, a great socialist I might add.

Ten Days That Shook The World- John Reed

Nickle and Dimed

The Anrchist Cookbook- heh put an A between the n and r(im not getting taped for that)
The Jungle

Johnny Got His Gun

[slightlyleft7_26]

Any Eric Hobsbawm is very good..its all history...

[FatFreeMilk]

The Story Of Philosophy by Will Durant. Picked it up at UC Santa Barbara :D

[refuse_resist]

Dialectical and Historical Materialism - Josef Stalin

[More Fire for the People]

Socialism and Nationalism (http://www.marxists.org/archive/connolly/1897/01/socnat.htm) - James Connolly

Socialism in Ireleand (http://www.marxists.org/archive/connolly/1908/03/socinire.htm) - James Connolly

Outlook for Socialism in the United States (http://www.marxists.org/archive/debs/works/1900/outlook.htm) - Eugene Debs

The Canton, Ohio Speech, Anti-War Speech (http://www.marxists.org/archive/debs/works/1918/canton.htm) - Eugene Debs

The Crisis in Mexico (http://www.marxists.org/archive/debs/works/1911/mexico.htm) - Eugene Debs

A Better World (http://www.marxists.org/archive/hekmat-mansoor/1994/07/better-world/index.htm) - Mansoor Hekmat

[Djehuti]

Originally posted by [email protected] 19 2005, 10:33 PM
Any Eric Hobsbawm is very good..its all history...
Agreed, Hobsbawm is great. Even bourgeoisie historians can't claim otherwise, he is to much respected.

Leo Huberman is also great, you should really order "Man's Worldly Goods" if you are interested in great economic history from a marxist perspective.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detai...=books&n=507846 (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0853450706/qid=1113695155/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/102-5706685-3156160?v=glance&s=books&n=507846)


I would also like to recomend Perry Anderson's "Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism" for those interested in a marxist analyzis on...well, check the title. ;)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detai...=books&n=507846 (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1859841074/qid=1113695166/sr=8-3/ref=pd_csp_3/102-5706685-3156160?v=glance&s=books&n=507846)



Fernand Braudel is also quite interesting, and The Wheels of Commerce (Civilization and Capitalism: 15Th-18th Century -Volume 2) is great.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detai...=glance&s=books (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0520081153/qid=1113695436/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/102-5706685-3156160?v=glance&s=books)

[Pimpin'Princip]

hi guys, this is my first post. The thing that immediately comes to my mind to suggest is Stephen Cranes poetry. I'm not a big fan of his short stories, but i love his poetry and much of it has an anarchist message. Mostly about individual anarchism.

[peru_anny]

have u guys read: The Little red Book

[Viva Fidel]

can anyone reccommend me a good non anti-marxist book on the history of the dominican republic el salvador or bolivia?

[cephyr]

Not sure if its been mentioned, but:

Che - A Revoultionary Life by Jon Lee Anderson.

Written from a balanced standpoint and written by the man who probably knows Che better than he knew himself. The Ultimate Resource on Che.

[romanm]

MIM Theory

[Led Zeppelin]

Finance capital by Rudolf Hilferding.

[Quinlan Vos]

Absolutely Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord
Lots of great Bordiga and Dauvé texts are online
The Monkeywrench Gang by Ed Abbey

[Le People]

I just came in on this conversation so I don't Know too much here but I say The Russian Revoulotion BY Trotsky

[Redvolution]

Adam Smith's the Wealth of Nat...jk ;)
Though my oldest brothers idol is Smith, and mine is Marx...haha we have very interesting discussions.

Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich was kind of eye-opening.

Sophie's World (A novel on philosophy) was a very simplified book on philosophy. Very easy to understand, very well-written.

Siddhartha was very good, as well.

I know the last two are somewhat irrelevant, but they're good reading nonetheless.

[amos]

The Star Fraction by Ken MacLeod
The Stone Canal by Ken MacLeod
The Cassini Division by Ken MacLeod
The Sky Road by Ken MacLeod

The Further Adventures Of Halley's Comet by John Calvin Batchelor
The Birth Of The People's Republic Of Antarctica by John Calvin Batchelor
Peter Nevsky And The True Story Of The Russian Moon Landing by John Calvin Batchelor

Vineland by Thomas Pynchon

Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco

Just for starters...

Cheers
Amos

[Batman]

'The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists' by Robert Tressell

[Jersey Devil]

Weavers of Revolution-Peter Winn (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0195045580/qid=1122268948/sr=8-2/ref=pd_bbs_sbs_2/102-1755339-6884145?v=glance&s=books&n=507846)

I am reading this book for a class in Latin American history. I am halfway done with it and it seems quite good. It revolves around the Yarur mill in Chile and the process it made along with changing governments in Chile and how the textile workers, after years of strife with the owner Juan Yarur and his two sons Amador and Jorge, were able to form an independent union and of how they would eventually took over the factory. The book is written by Peter Winn who actually traveled to Chile during this time and spoke to workers and Allende himself. Winn is himself a historian and currently teaches at Tufts University and was educated in Colombia University with post-graduate education at Cambridge University. He also worked with PBS for a documentary on the history of Latin America. I like the way he explains the labor movement inside the mill, the complexity of it all, the different factions within both the workers and the Popular Unity government. I would recommend it but ask that the children stay away from it because they will taint Winn's good book with their simplistic minds.

Winn's page at Tufts University.

http://ase.tufts.edu/history/faculty/pwinn.html

[poppy]

Please take some time to read about the indigenous people and the environmental issues they face in central and south America, as well. . these topics may not deal directly with communism but it does show direct effects capitalism has made in the third world. these are issues these people are fighting today, and every day for their survival.

Savages - by joe kane - is my all time favorite
Crisis under the Canopy - by Randy Smith
Amazon Journal - by Geoffrey O'Conner
Entagled Eden - by Candace Slater
One River - by Wade Davis
The Tribe That Hides from Man - by Adrian Cowell
Amazon Crude - by Judith Kimerling
Jungle Stories - by Sting
The Decade of Destruction - by Adrian Cowell
In Trouble Again - by Redmond O'Hanlon
Amazon Stranger - by Mike Tidwell
Darkness in El Dorado - by Patrick Tierney
Thy Will Be Done - by Gerard Colby
Yanomama - by Ettore Biocca
Tales of Shaman's Apprentice - by Mark Plotkin
Bitter Fruit - by Stephen Schlesinger & Stephen Kinzer
The Burning Season - by Andre Revkin

I admit these titles may not appeal to everyone here as they are not spear-headed toward communism, socialism, anarchism and such. but if you are concerned about the environment and the harm globalization has on the world these are very interesting reads. You will learn a lot about the little peoples that are rarely reported in our main stream media. they are people that deserve to be.... and should be heard through out the world.

[Abbigail]

Originally posted by [email protected] 27 2004, 07:49 PM
Yeah, it's a lot, but it covers just about everything you need to know. I would urge people not to read pointless books by Che Guevara, Michael Moore, Al Franken, Max Berry, Mao Zedong and others mindless dribble.
why are they mindless dribble?

[robot lenin]

For me it's just one-
the great 'The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists' by Robert Tressell. Go out and read/borrow it and when you're finished, you will understand Socialism so much better.

[RebelOutcast]

The Corporation: The pathological pursuit of profit and power
Joel Bakan

[Sankara1983]

My recommendations:

- A People's History of the United States (Howard Zinn)
- A Small Place (Jamaica Kincaid)
- The Assassination of Lumumba (Ludo De Witte)
- The Basque History of the World (Mark Kurlansky)
- Clash of Fundamentalisms (Tariq Ali)
- Cuba: A New History (Richard Gott)
- Exception to the Rulers (Amy Goodman)
- Fast Food Nation (Eric Schlosser)
- Homage to Catalonia (George Orwell)
- Killing Hope (William Blum)
- Kim Il Sung: the North Korean Leader (Dae-sook Suh)
- Maurice Bishop Speaks (Maurice Bishop)
- Max Havelaar (Multatuli)
- Open Veins of Latin America (Eduardo Galeano)
- Thomas Sankara Speaks (Thomas Sankara)
- Upside Down (Eduardo Galeano)
- Writings of Louis Proyect (http://www.columbia.edu/~lnp3/mypage.htm)
- Tim Hector's Fan the Flame columns (http://www.candw.ag/~jardinea/fanflame.htm)

[Comrade Yastrebkov]

I have rea four of the above - will try t get hold of the rest

One of my recommendations is "Blackshirts and Reds" by Michael Parenti - great read, clarifies a lot of things to do with communism.

[Ginger Goodwin]

;)

[Nothing Human Is Alien]

Ahh Animal Farm the classic anti-communist work. The bourgeoisie think so much of it they made it mandatory reading in US highschools!

The moral: don't ever try to overthrow the system because you are doomed to failure. :lol:

[Nothing Human Is Alien]

Some recs. of my own:

"Challengers to Capitalism" Gurley
"Cuba: Dictatorship or Democracy" Marta Hernecker
"Fidel Castro's Political Strategy" Marta Hernecker
"Fidel Castro Speeches 1984-85: War and Crisis in the Americas" Castro
"Che Guevara Reader" Che
"Pedagogy of the oppressed" Freire
"The Civil War in France" Marx
"Che Guevara and the Latin American Revolutionary Movements" Piñeiro
"Capital Vol 1" Marx
"I Write What I Like" Steve Biko

[rioters bloc]

quiet rumours - an anarcha-feminist reader.

[Ginger Goodwin]

;)

[erebus]

- Selected Military Writings of Mao Tse-tung (Foreign Language Press)
- Blueprint for Revolution (F.M. Woods)
- The Urban Guerrilla (Oppenheimer)
- Minimanual of the Urban Guerrilla (Carlos Marighella)
- National Liberation Fronts (Hodges and Shanab)
- How People Get Power (Si Kahn)
- Regis Debray and the Latin American Revolution (Monthly Review Press)
- UK/BM Translation (Al Qaeda)
- Psychological Operations in Guerrilla Warfare (US Marines Translation)

[Red Leader]

Mao's colletive quotations, aka "the little red book" basically started my intrest in communism.

As well, anything by george orwell,

1984
Animal farm
Homage to catalonia
Down and out in paris and london
The road to wigan pier

[Scars]

The Social Contract- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Discourse on the Origin of Inequality- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

[Led Zeppelin]

Has anyone here read "Mother" by Maxim Gorky? If so, do you recommend it?

[Doshka]

Definitely read Mother!!! I read it in Arabic, but it is brilliant in any language. You can just tell.


My recommendations:

fiction:

Samarkand by Amin Maalouf
Leo the African by Amin Maalouf
War and Peace by Tolstoy (I know, typical, but it really is brilliant)
Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut
Galapagnos by Kurt Vonnegut
If on a winters night a traveller... by Italo Calvino
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie (I've read all his work and I don't think anything else is worth a damn to be honest)
The Dying Animal by Phillip Roth
Goodbye Columbus by Phillip Roth
The Counterlife by Phillip Roth
Portnoy's Complaint by Phillip Roth
The Great American Novel by Phillip Roth
(Basically anything by Phillip Roth)
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Crime and Punishment by Destoyevsky (Again, typical, but a masterpiece)
An Imaginary Life by David Maalouf (Australian of Lebanese decent, little known for some reason. he's amazing)
Memoirs of a Survivor by Doris Lessing
The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing
100 Years of Solitude by Marquez
Love in the Time of Cholera by Marquez
Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
Portrait in Sepia by Isabel Allende
Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
House of Spirits by Isabel Allende
(again, anything for Allende or Marquez if you are into mytical reality. except for City of the Beasts for Allende, it's crap)
Skinny Legs and All by Tom Robbins
The Old Gringo by Carlos Fuentez
My Years with Lauro Diaz by Carlos Fuentez
Shepherds of the Night by Jorge Armado
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
The Body Artist by Don DeLillo
Libra by Don DeLillo
The House of Sleeping Beauties by Kawabata
The Persian Boy by Mary Renault
Money by Martin Amos
The Solitaire Mystery by Jostein Gaarder
Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
Steppen Wolf by Herman Hesse
The Volcano Lover by Susan Sontag
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
Great Expectations by Dickens
Nicolas Nickleby by Dickens
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Oryx and Crake by Atwood
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf


Sorry, I picked what I thought were the best for each author. I'm probably forgetting a shitload of very good books but it's 4 am here and I'm not thinking straight.


Plays:
Accidental Death of an Anarchist by Dario Fo
Mother Courage and her children by Brecht
An Enemy of the People by Ibsen
Glenn Garys Glenn Ross by David Mammot (I probably fucked up the spelling of the title, but it's seriously amazing shit)
The Quiet American by Graham Greene


By the way, sorry if I am repeating many afformentioned books, but I can't be fucked to read all 7 pages of this conversation at the moment.

Stay far far away from Balzac (my opinion), unless you enjoy suicide, and let me know if you're interested in any of the ones I listed. The ones I mentioned are pretty random and they are of very different types. So if anyone likes anything in particular I can recommend literature that is similar. I like books. And I'm posting poets and non-fiction tomorrow. I'm tired.

oh wait whoever it was that recommended Howard Zin, you are amazing.

[Doshka]

Ok, to continue last night's post:

Poets (my poets are very typical):

Edna St. Vincent Millay
Sylvia Plath (obviously)
Robert Frost (read "Come In" - my favorite :D )
David Mammot
Ogden Nash (heh heh)
Lord Byron
Bob Dylan
Leonard Cohen
John Donne
Andrew Marvell
Delmore Schwartz
Pablo Neruda

Non-fiction:

No Logo by Noami Klein
No War by Noami Klein
Hegemony or Survival by Chomsky
The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many by Chomsky
Secrets, Lies and Democracy by Chomsky
What Uncle Sam Really Wants by Chomsky
Necessary Illusions by Chomsky - about the media and the crap role it plays
(ok yeah, everything Chomsky)
Bitter Harvest by Sami Hadawi
the Gun & the Olive Branch by David Hirst
Cheated by the World: the Palestinian Experience by Punyapriya Dasgupta
(those three are for anyone interested in the Palestinian cause and the history of the conflict)
The End of Imagination by Arundhati Roy - a critique of the Indian government's nuclear policies
The Cost of Living by Arundhati Roy - also a crusade against India's massive hydroelectric dam projects in the central and western states of Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat
Public Power in the Age of Empire by Arundhati Roy
War Talk by Arundhati Roy
Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag - about war photojournalism
Against Interpretation and Other Essays by Susan Sontag
All That Remains by Walid Khalidi
Before Their Diaspora: A Photographic History of the Palestinians 1876-1948 by Walid Khalidi
Jewish History, Jewish Religion: The Weight of Three Thousand Years by Israel Shahak
Open Secrets: Israel's Nuclear and Foreign Policies by Israel Shahak
After the Last Sky by Eduard Said
Blaming the Victims by Eduard Said
Culture and Imperialism by Eduard Said
Orientalism by Eduard Said
The Pen and the Sword by Eduard Said
Reflections on Exile by Eduard Said
Rocking the Boat by Gore Vidal
Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia by Gore Vidal
The Last Empire: essays 1992–2000 by Gore Vidal
Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta by Gore Vidal
Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson by Gore Vidal
Pity the Nation by Robert Fisk - history of Lebanon and the Lebanese civil war, absolutely brilliant
Drinking the Sea at Gaza: Days and Nights in a Land under Siege by Amira Hass
An Israeli Journalist in an Occupied Land by Amira Hass



Fiction (a few I forgot yesterday):

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
The Sun Shines Over the Sanggan River by Ding Ling
In America by Susan Sontag
Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Red and the Black by Stendhal
Dark Green, Bright Red by Gore Vidal
The Golden Age by Gore Vidal
The Tempest by Shakespeare (my favorite play)



there's more but my fingers are starting to cramp.

[anomaly]

I'm currently reading The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. It is a rather good tale of the life of a worker in the meat packing industry.

[Dien Bien]

Anything by Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky, Mao, Castro, Guevara, and Chomsky are essential reads. Michael Moore and Naomi Klein are good too. Plato's Republic is well worth reading, and Orwell definitely has some important things to say. A personal favourite of mine is the New Testament of the Bible... if you look at what it has to say, if you look at Jesus, you'll quickly and clearly see that it is all very much in line with socialist and communist beliefs.

Other essential works are Smith's Wealth of Nations, Keynes' General Theory, Rousseau, Locke, Hobbes, and Hitler's Mein Kampf.

[Soheran]

Just a few:

Memory of Fire - Eduardo Galeano (especially the third book in the trilogy, Century of the Wind)

Capital - Karl Marx

The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

God and the State - Mikhail Bakunin

People's History of the United States - Howard Zinn

The Howard Zinn Reader - Howard Zinn

Deterring Democracy - Noam Chomsky

Hegemony or Survival - Noam Chomsky

Any of Noam Chomsky's interviews in book form with David Barsamian; very detailed, very informative, and very readable.

Killing Hope - William Blum

Clash of Fundamentalisms - Tariq Ali

[Kamerat Voldstad]

Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations" (or am I kidding...)
G.W.F.Hegel's "The Phenomenology of the Spirit"
and Jean-Jaques Rousseau's "The Social Contract"

[mentalbunny]

Hehe, I must be insane. I'll try to compile the list again. I'm going to categorise the books, most likely by relevance and difficulty., hope people don't object to my subjective views on these books.

[Eoin Dubh]

The next 5 on of my bookshelf, which I must yet find the time to read are :
"The Anarchists" -edited by Irving Horowitz
"The Russian Revolution" --Leon Trotsky
"A Discourse on Inequality"--Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"The Compassionate Rebel"--Dorothy G. Steeves
"Frederick Engels"--Yelena Stepanova

[CCCPneubauten]

As far as fiction goes any thing Kurt Vonnegut is great.

Also...'Capitalism in Crisis' by Fidel Castro. It can get dry, but these are speeches after all.

[milk]

Originally posted by rioters [email protected] 13 2005, 09:51 AM
quiet rumours - an anarcha-feminist reader.
Yep. :)

[Led Zeppelin]

Crime and Punishment - Dostoyevsky

I'm going to start on that one a week or so from now.

[stealthisname67]

This book has hardly anything to do with revolution, but it does have a lot of goofing off while at war...can you guess what it is?



Catch-22

[Comrade Don]

Well I'll suggest a few things, Many are related directly to the DPRK, Because I have found alot of people on this forum with a negative veiw of them based on false hoods.

Basically the Entire works of Kim Il Sung, as he was a great mind in the communist world, You can find his entire life works in hard cover form here: http://www.north-korea-books.com/servlet/t...ORKS/Categories (http://www.north-korea-books.com/servlet/the-NORTH-KOREA-BOOKS-cln-KIM-IL-SUNG-cln-COMPLETE-WORKS/Categories)

A Duel Of Reason Between Korea And America: This book basically explains from the Korean perspective , The troubled relationship between the two countries, Essential reading if you want the full story , not just one side of it.
The book can be found here: http://www.north-korea-books.com/servlet/t...F-REASON/Detail (http://www.north-korea-books.com/servlet/the-188/A-DUEL-OF-REASON/Detail)


Experiances In Rural Technical Revolution: The subject of this book is basically the role of the rural people in a revolution , and in every aspect of society. http://www.north-korea-books.com/servlet/t...ECHNICAL/Detail (http://www.north-korea-books.com/servlet/the-195/EXPERIENCES-IN-RURAL-TECHNICAL/Detail)

Che : The biography by John Lee Anderson, Iam sure everyone here has read it, But for those who havent then I highly recommend it.

[which doctor]

Originally posted by Comrade [email protected] 25 2006, 12:09 AM
Basically the Entire works of Kim Il Sung, as he was a great mind in the communist world, You can find his entire life works in hard cover form here: http://www.north-korea-books.com/servlet/t...ORKS/Categories (http://www.north-korea-books.com/servlet/the-NORTH-KOREA-BOOKS-cln-KIM-IL-SUNG-cln-COMPLETE-WORKS/Categories)
How can someone who wasn't even a communist be a great mind in the communist world?

[Vlad Rostov]

Originally posted by Fist of Blood+Jun 25 2006, 05:14 AM--> (Fist of Blood @ Jun 25 2006, 05:14 AM)
Comrade [email protected] 25 2006, 12:09 AM
Basically the Entire works of Kim Il Sung, as he was a great mind in the communist world, You can find his entire life works in hard cover form here: http://www.north-korea-books.com/servlet/t...ORKS/Categories (http://www.north-korea-books.com/servlet/the-NORTH-KOREA-BOOKS-cln-KIM-IL-SUNG-cln-COMPLETE-WORKS/Categories)
How can someone who wasn't even a communist be a great mind in the communist world? [/b]
Since when was Kim Il Sung not a communist? I wouldnt consider his hamster face sun as one, But Sung surely was.

[rioters bloc]

against empire: feminisms, racism, and the west


Zillah Eisenstein grew up against the background of the civil rights movement in the USA. The daughter of communist, atheist, Jewish parents, her worldview has been shaped by this unusual background of politics.

She writes: I have never known God as an explanation for what people do, or for what happens to them. I was brought up to believe in people: that people make the world through their struggle and pain.

Her questioning attitude results in a book that is thoughtful, sometimes complex, but never complacent. She asks why it is that Bush can speak of good and evil in biblical terms, see no moral ambiguity in dropping bombs on Iraq, and yet be regarded as the leader of a secular state, while on the other hand Islamic leaders are defined as religious fanatics.

Her analyses of colonization and of how the West is defined are illuminating. She brings to it scepticism about the language of racism and whiteness, of slavery and how this is both racialized and sexualized in the US context. Eisenstein examines the effect of September 11, the appropriations of Afghan women and the variety of feminist responses. Her vision for the future includes a theory of anti-racist feminism, and polyversal feminisms which take account of location and situatedness in terms of language, culture, class and a host of other defining identities.

This book is timely in its trenchant critique of globalization and US unilateralism. Her take, as a US citizen, on US imperial irresponsibility is refreshing.

not as interesting as it sounds but give it a go if you want.

[Forward Union]

Originally posted by Vlad Rostov+Jun 25 2006, 04:25 PM--> (Vlad Rostov @ Jun 25 2006, 04:25 PM)
Originally posted by Fist of [email protected] 25 2006, 05:14 AM

Comrade [email protected] 25 2006, 12:09 AM
Basically the Entire works of Kim Il Sung, as he was a great mind in the communist world, You can find his entire life works in hard cover form here: http://www.north-korea-books.com/servlet/t...ORKS/Categories (http://www.north-korea-books.com/servlet/the-NORTH-KOREA-BOOKS-cln-KIM-IL-SUNG-cln-COMPLETE-WORKS/Categories)
How can someone who wasn't even a communist be a great mind in the communist world?
Since when was Kim Il Sung not a communist? I wouldnt consider his hamster face sun as one, But Sung surely was. [/b]
Hey comrade Don, fuck off. You were banned for a reason.

[Vlad Rostov]

Originally posted by Additives Free+Jun 25 2006, 08:50 PM--> (Additives Free @ Jun 25 2006, 08:50 PM)
Originally posted by Vlad [email protected] 25 2006, 04:25 PM

Originally posted by Fist of [email protected] 25 2006, 05:14 AM

Comrade [email protected] 25 2006, 12:09 AM
Basically the Entire works of Kim Il Sung, as he was a great mind in the communist world, You can find his entire life works in hard cover form here: http://www.north-korea-books.com/servlet/t...ORKS/Categories (http://www.north-korea-books.com/servlet/the-NORTH-KOREA-BOOKS-cln-KIM-IL-SUNG-cln-COMPLETE-WORKS/Categories)
How can someone who wasn't even a communist be a great mind in the communist world?
Since when was Kim Il Sung not a communist? I wouldnt consider his hamster face sun as one, But Sung surely was.
Hey comrade Don, fuck off. You were banned for a reason. [/b]
Ummm, who?

I think that you have the wrong guy qouted here.

[Forward Union]

Originally posted by Vlad [email protected] 25 2006, 10:32 PM
Ummm, who?

I think that you have the wrong guy qouted here.
Your an idiot I can see your fucking IP, expect to be banned again soon.

[Ander]

Originally posted by Additives Free+Jun 26 2006, 07:41 AM--> (Additives Free @ Jun 26 2006, 07:41 AM)
Vlad [email protected] 25 2006, 10:32 PM
Ummm, who?

I think that you have the wrong guy qouted here.
Your an idiot I can see your fucking IP, expect to be banned again soon. [/b]
HAHAHAHA :lol:

[Soviet Militia]

Originally posted by Comrade [email protected] 25 2006, 05:09 AM
Well I'll suggest a few things, Many are related directly to the DPRK, Because I have found alot of people on this forum with a negative veiw of them based on false hoods.

Basically the Entire works of Kim Il Sung, as he was a great mind in the communist world, You can find his entire life works in hard cover form here: http://www.north-korea-books.com/servlet/t...ORKS/Categories (http://www.north-korea-books.com/servlet/the-NORTH-KOREA-BOOKS-cln-KIM-IL-SUNG-cln-COMPLETE-WORKS/Categories)

A Duel Of Reason Between Korea And America: This book basically explains from the Korean perspective , The troubled relationship between the two countries, Essential reading if you want the full story , not just one side of it.
The book can be found here: http://www.north-korea-books.com/servlet/t...F-REASON/Detail (http://www.north-korea-books.com/servlet/the-188/A-DUEL-OF-REASON/Detail)


Experiances In Rural Technical Revolution: The subject of this book is basically the role of the rural people in a revolution , and in every aspect of society. http://www.north-korea-books.com/servlet/t...ECHNICAL/Detail (http://www.north-korea-books.com/servlet/the-195/EXPERIENCES-IN-RURAL-TECHNICAL/Detail)

Che : The biography by John Lee Anderson, Iam sure everyone here has read it, But for those who havent then I highly recommend it.
I thought about having a read through some of these books, How are they?

[which doctor]

Originally posted by Soviet Militia+Jun 29 2006, 10:40 PM--> (Soviet Militia @ Jun 29 2006, 10:40 PM)
Comrade [email protected] 25 2006, 05:09 AM
Well I'll suggest a few things, Many are related directly to the DPRK, Because I have found alot of people on this forum with a negative veiw of them based on false hoods.

Basically the Entire works of Kim Il Sung, as he was a great mind in the communist world, You can find his entire life works in hard cover form here: http://www.north-korea-books.com/servlet/t...ORKS/Categories (http://www.north-korea-books.com/servlet/the-NORTH-KOREA-BOOKS-cln-KIM-IL-SUNG-cln-COMPLETE-WORKS/Categories)

A Duel Of Reason Between Korea And America: This book basically explains from the Korean perspective , The troubled relationship between the two countries, Essential reading if you want the full story , not just one side of it.
The book can be found here: http://www.north-korea-books.com/servlet/t...F-REASON/Detail (http://www.north-korea-books.com/servlet/the-188/A-DUEL-OF-REASON/Detail)


Experiances In Rural Technical Revolution: The subject of this book is basically the role of the rural people in a revolution , and in every aspect of society. http://www.north-korea-books.com/servlet/t...ECHNICAL/Detail (http://www.north-korea-books.com/servlet/the-195/EXPERIENCES-IN-RURAL-TECHNICAL/Detail)

Che : The biography by John Lee Anderson, Iam sure everyone here has read it, But for those who havent then I highly recommend it.
I thought about having a read through some of these books, How are they? [/b]
You just quoted yourself. :blink:

[Soviet Militia]

Originally posted by Fist of Blood+Jun 30 2006, 03:52 AM--> (Fist of Blood @ Jun 30 2006, 03:52 AM)
Originally posted by Soviet [email protected] 29 2006, 10:40 PM

Comrade [email protected] 25 2006, 05:09 AM
Well I'll suggest a few things, Many are related directly to the DPRK, Because I have found alot of people on this forum with a negative veiw of them based on false hoods.

Basically the Entire works of Kim Il Sung, as he was a great mind in the communist world, You can find his entire life works in hard cover form here: http://www.north-korea-books.com/servlet/t...ORKS/Categories (http://www.north-korea-books.com/servlet/the-NORTH-KOREA-BOOKS-cln-KIM-IL-SUNG-cln-COMPLETE-WORKS/Categories)

A Duel Of Reason Between Korea And America: This book basically explains from the Korean perspective , The troubled relationship between the two countries, Essential reading if you want the full story , not just one side of it.
The book can be found here: http://www.north-korea-books.com/servlet/t...F-REASON/Detail (http://www.north-korea-books.com/servlet/the-188/A-DUEL-OF-REASON/Detail)


Experiances In Rural Technical Revolution: The subject of this book is basically the role of the rural people in a revolution , and in every aspect of society. http://www.north-korea-books.com/servlet/t...ECHNICAL/Detail (http://www.north-korea-books.com/servlet/the-195/EXPERIENCES-IN-RURAL-TECHNICAL/Detail)

Che : The biography by John Lee Anderson, Iam sure everyone here has read it, But for those who havent then I highly recommend it.
I thought about having a read through some of these books, How are they?
You just quoted yourself. :blink: [/b]
huh? You sure you got the right guy bud, I found this site like 1 hour ago.

[kasturbai]

La Casa Blanca contra Salvador Allende / The White House against Salvador Allende (http://www.addall.com/detail/8496320049.html) by Patricia Verdugo

So sad and infuriating.

[kasturbai]

This one is fiction, I read it a long time ago and it made a deep impression. Its main character is the most unlikely literary hero ever.

I found it painfully funny, moving and uglily beautiful, if I can say that. Some people I know just find it boring, though. I strongly recommend it:

The Horse's Mouth (http://www.nybooks.com/shop/product?usca_p=t&product_id=17) by Joyce Cary

[FREEDOMisMoreThanAnIDEA]

the social and political thought of karl marx by shlomo avineri

great book. very well written. the author gives a rather interesting view of marxs in this book. written on a highly academic level great for a better understanding of marxs ideas.

[MeTaLhEaD]

Chavez
un hombre que anda por ahi
an interview with chavez by Aleida Guevara

[Red_Vendetta]

I reccommend Living My Life by Emma Goldman.

[outsydrka]

well, everyone seem to read and know so many books...i'd love to read some of them as well, but does anyone know if it's possible to get them on the internet and print them and from which website? (because our libraries are not capable of having such good books...)
thanx

[negative potential]

Keeping things strictly to works available in English:

Marx - Capital

Marx - Parisian Manuscripts

Marx - The German ideology

Anton Pannekoek - Workers Councils

Georg Lukacs - History and Class Consciousness (Especially the essay, "Reification and the Consciousness of the Proletariat")

T.W. Adorno - An Introduction to Sociology

Max Horkheimer - Traditional and Critical Theory

Walter Benjamin - Theses on the Philosophy of History

I.I. Rubin - Essays on Marx's Theory of Value

John Holloway - Change the World Without Taking Power

Martin Glaberman - Punching Out

C.L.R. James, Grace Lee Boggs, Cornelius Castoriadis - Facing Reality

[UndergroundConnexion]

Erich Maria Remarque. - All quiet on the Western Front

Leon Trotsky - The Revolution Betrayed

books by Fidel

Sofokles - Oedipus

Charles Perry - Portrait of a young man drowning

[Patchd]

The Fight for Socialism: Principles and Program of the Workers Party (http://www.marxists.org/archive/shachtma/1946/ffs/index.htm) - Max Shachtman

[harris0]

Here's what's on my list. Hopefully a couple of them will make their way under the tree Christmas morn...

BOOKS ON ANARCHISM

"No Gods, No Masters"
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/190485925...ASIN=1904859259 (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1904859259?ie=UTF8&tag=htbacfm-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1904859259)---"The first English translation of Guerin's monumental anthology of anarchism, published here in one volume. It details a vast array of unpublished documents, letters, debates, manifestos, reports, impassioned calls-to-arms and reasoned analysis; the history, organization and practice of the movement-its theorists, advocates and activists; the great names and the obscure, towering legends and unsung heroes.
This definitive anthology portrays anarchism as a sophisticated ideology whose nuances and complexities highlight the natural desire for freedom in all of us. The classical texts will re-establish anarchism as both an intellectual and practical force to be reckoned with. Includes writings by Emma Goldman, Kropotkin, Berkman, Bakunin, Prouhon, and Malatesta."

"Chomsy on Anarchism"
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/190485920...ASIN=1904859208 (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1904859208?ie=UTF8&tag=htbacfm-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1904859208) --- "We all know what Noam Chomsky is against. His scathing analysis of everything that's wrong with our society reaches more and more people every day. His brilliant critiques of-among other things-capitalism, imperialism, domestic repression and government propaganda have become mini-publishing industries unto themselves. But, in this flood of publishing and republishing, very little ever gets said about what exactly Chomsky stands for, his own personal politics, his vision of the future.

Not, that is, until Chomsky on Anarchism, a groundbreaking new book that shows a different side of this best-selling author: the anarchist principles that have guided him since he was a teenager. This collection of Chomsky's essays and inter-views includes numerous pieces that have never been published before, as well as rare material that first saw the light of day in hard-to-find pamphlets and anarchist periodicals. Taken together, they paint a fresh picture of Chomsky, showing his lifelong involvement with the anarchist community, his constant commitment to nonhierarchical models of political organization and his hopes for a future world without rulers. For anyone who's been touched by Chomsky's trenchant analysis of our current situation, as well as anyone looking for an intelligent and coherent discussion of anarchism itself, Chomsky on Anarchism will be one of this season's most exciting and surprising reads."[/url][/b]

Anarchism and Other Essays
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/048622484...ASIN=0486224848 (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0486224848?ie=UTF8&tag=htbacfm-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0486224848) ---"This title is the classic collection of Emma Goldman essays which were originally published in 1910. Emma Goldman is widely known as the first major female radical and became the female face of leftist politics in the early 20th century. Anarchism and Other Essays should be read by anyone interested in early works on women's rights or the origins of leftist female politics."

The Spanish Anarchists: The Heroic Years 1868-936
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/187317604...ASIN=187317604X (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/187317604X?ie=UTF8&tag=htbacfm-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=187317604X)
---Bookchin covers the exponential growth of the anarchist movement in Spain from it's beginnings in 1868, to the outbreak of the country's civil war in 1936.

Anarchists In the Spanish Revolution
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/090038453...ASIN=0900384530 (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0900384530?ie=UTF8&tag=htbacfm-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0900384530) ----An account of the social revolution that was carried out in both the Spanish Cities and the country side in the midst of the civil war which lasted from 1936-1939. The author lived through the era as a member of the most influential anarchist trade union of the time.

Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/048641955...ASIN=048641955X (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/048641955X?ie=UTF8&tag=htbacfm-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=048641955X) "Important writings by the leading theorist of anarchism, including the brief but moving "Spirit of Revolt," "Law and Authority," an argument for social control through custom and education; "Prisons and Their Moral Influence on Prisoners," an unparalleled description of the evils of the prison system, and other documents. An invaluable addition to the libraries of instructors, students, and anyone interested in history, government, and anarchist thought."

Bakunin: Statism and Anarchy
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/052136973...ASIN=0521369738 (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0521369738?ie=UTF8&tag=htbacfm-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0521369738)
---"Statism and Anarchy is a complete English translation of the last work by the great Russian anarchist Michael Bakunin. It was written in 1873, in the aftermath of the rise of the German Empire and the clash between Bakunin and Karl Marx in the first International. Bakunin assesses the strength of a European state system dominated by Bismarck. Then, in the most remarkable part of the book, he assails the Marxist alternative, predicting that a "dictatorship of the proletariat" will in fact be a dictatorship over the proletariat, and will produce a new class of socialist rulers. Instead, he outlines his vision of an anarchist society and identifies the social forces he believes will achieve an ananarchist revolution. Statism and Anarchy had an immediate influence on the "to the people" movement of Russian populism, and Bakunin's ideas inspired other anarchist movements. This is the only complete and reliable rendition of Statism and Anarchy in English, and in a lucid introduction Marshall Shatz locates Bakunin in his immediate historical and intellectual context, and assesses the impact of his ideas on the wider development of European radical thought. A guide to further reading and a chronology of events are appended as aids to students encountering Bakunin's thought for the first time."

Proudhon:What is Property?
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/052140556...ASIN=0521405564 (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0521405564?ie=UTF8&tag=htbacfm-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0521405564) ---This is a new translation of one of the classics of the traditions of anarchism and socialism. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon was a contemporary of Marx and one of the most acute, influential, and subversive critics of modern French and European society. What is Property? (1840) has become a classic of political thought through its wide-ranging and deep-reaching critique of private property as at once the essential institution of Western culture and the root cause of greed, corruption, political tyranny, social division, and violation of natural law.

Vision On Fire: Emma Goldman on the Spanish Revolution
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/190485957...ASIN=1904859577 (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1904859577?ie=UTF8&tag=htbacfm-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1904859577) --"This carefully chosen collection features the most important writings from the turbulent last four years of Emma Goldman's life. This incredible follow-up her popular autobiography, Living My Life, reveals her struggles with the contradictions of the Spanish Revolution and her efforts to maintain integrity and vision in the heat of political activism."

Anarchist Voices: An Oral History of Anarchism in America
http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=htbacfm...=1&a=1904859275 (http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=htbacfm-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1904859275) --"The 180 interviewees in this oral history (mostly anarchists, but also their friends, associates and relatives) represent diverse political tendencies-individualists, collectivists, pacifists, revolutionaries. What unites them is an optimistic faith that people will live in harmony once the impositions of government disappear. The respondents give firsthand recollections of Emma Goldman, Rudolf Rocker, Sacco and Vanzetti and other key anarchists; describe their experiences in libertarian schools and colonies; and offer trenchant observations on the dangers of authoritarian communism, bureaucracy and entrenched institutions. Among those interviewed are self-proclaimed "philosophical anarchist" Roger Baldwin, founder of the American Civil Liberties Union; Daniel Guerin, historian of the U.S. labor movement; Alexandra Kropotkin, English-born daughter of Russian anarchist Peter Kropotkin; Albert Boni, publisher of "Modern Library" classics and a socialist; and Dwight Macdonald, who launched the journal Politics in 1944. Avrich (The Haymarket Tragedy) profiles a movement that continues to exercise an appeal with its calls for self-determination, direct grass-roots action and voluntary cooperation."

The Russian Anarchists
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/190485948...ASIN=1904859488 (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1904859488?ie=UTF8&tag=htbacfm-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1904859488) --In the turmoil of the Russian insurrection of 1905 and civil war of 1917, the anarchists attempted to carry out their program of "direct action"-workers' control of production, the creation of free rural and urban communes, and partisan warfare against the enemies of a free society.

Avrich consulted published material in five languages and anarchist archives worldwide to present a picture of the philosophers, bomb throwers, peasants, and soldiers who fought and died for the freedom of "Mother Russia." Including the influence and ideas of Bakunin and Kropotkin, the armed uprisings of Makhno, the activities of Volin, Maximoff, and the attempted aid of Berkman and Emma Goldman"

Anarcho Syndicalism: Theory and Practice
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/190259392...ASIN=1902593928 (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1902593928?ie=UTF8&tag=htbacfm-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1902593928) ---"In 1937, at the behest of Emma Goldman, Rocker penned this political and philosophical masterpiece as an introduction to the ideals fueling the Spanish social revolution and resistance to capitalism the world over. Within, Rocker offers an introduction to anarchist ideas, a history of the international workers' movement, and an outline of the strategies and tactics embraced at the time (direct action, sabotage and the general strike). New introduction by Mike Davis, with a Preface by Noam Chomsky."

OTHER STRUGGLE BOOKS


Subterranean Fire: A History of Working-Class Radicalism in the United States
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/193185923...ASIN=193185923X (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/193185923X?ie=UTF8&tag=htbacfm-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=193185923X) ---Sharon Smith belongs to the International Socialist Organization (Trotskyist). But whether or not you subscribe to her narrow ideology or not, this is an inspiring, exciting overview of the history of the labor movement in the United States. While I was a little disapointed in the absence of a personal hero of mine--Emma Goldman--in the book, don't let that hold you bac from getting this. Good read.

People's History of the United States
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/006083865...ASIN=0060838655 (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060838655?ie=UTF8&tag=htbacfm-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0060838655) ---"According to this classic of revisionist American history, narratives of national unity and progress are a smoke screen disguising the ceaseless conflict between elites and the masses whom they oppress and exploit. Historian Zinn sides with the latter group in chronicling Indians' struggle against Europeans, blacks' struggle against racism, women's struggle against patriarchy, and workers' struggle against capitalists. First published in 1980, the volume sums up decades of post-war scholarship into a definitive statement of leftist, multicultural, anti-imperialist historiography. This edition updates that project with new chapters on the Clinton and Bush presidencies, which deplore Clinton's pro-business agenda, celebrate the 1999 Seattle anti-globalization protests and apologize for previous editions' slighting of the struggles of Latinos and gays. Zinn's work is an vital corrective to triumphalist accounts, but his uncompromising radicalism shades, at times, into cynicism. Zinn views the Bill of Rights, universal suffrage, affirmative action and collective bargaining not as fundamental (albeit imperfect) extensions of freedom, but as tactical concessions by monied elites to defuse and contain more revolutionary impulses; voting, in fact, is but the most insidious of the "controls." It's too bad that Zinn dismisses two centuries of talk about "patriotism, democracy, national interest" as mere "slogans" and "pretense," because the history he recounts is in large part the effort of downtrodden people to claim these ideals for their own."

Wobblies!: A Graphic History of the IWW
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/184467525...ASIN=1844675254 (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1844675254?ie=UTF8&tag=htbacfm-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1844675254) --- "Imagine being a workers' rights activist at the time of the Industrial Revolution. As shown in Wobblies!: A Graphic History of the Industrial Workers of the World, you had to have resolve as steely as anything produced on the factory floor. It's slightly ironic, then, to have these heroic, life-and-death tales of class warfare captured in the ephemeral medium of a comic book. Created as a collaboration between historians and graphic novelists, it is an engaging, informative, and sometimes uneven look at a time of violent social upheaval. The editors of this collection assume that their readers are at least somewhat familiar with the history of the Wobblies--this is not a children's primer. Many entries are similar, filled with pedantic text, but two in particular are superb, harnessing the potential power of the graphic novel form to great emotional effect. "Strike! (Lawrence 1912)," by Seth Tobocman, tells of ruling-class cruelty against striking workers with a ghostly grace born from its wood-cut graphical style. Nicole Schulman's "Mourn Not the Dead" strikes the right balance between storytelling and artistry, bringing the terrible reality of the Cook County Prison--where Wobblies died from mistreatment behind bars--to unforgettable reality. These entries alone fulfill the promise of a book that seeks to make the often overlooked history of the Wobblies relevant again."

The Cointelpro Papers
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/089608648...ASIN=0896086488 (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0896086488?ie=UTF8&tag=htbacfm-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0896086488) ---Readers anxious about civil liberties under George W. Bush will find fodder for fears-and suggestions for activism-in The COINTELPRO Papers. Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall's expose of America's political police force, the FBI, reveals the steel fist undergirding "compassionate conservatism's" velvet glove. Using original FBI memos, the authors provide extensive analysis of the agency's treatment of the left, from the Communist Party in the 1950s to the Central America solidarity movement in the 1980s. The authors' new introduction posits likely trajectories for domestic repression."

Homage to Catalonia
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/015642117...ASIN=0156421178 (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0156421178?ie=UTF8&tag=htbacfm-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0156421178) ----"Most war correspondents observe wars and then tell stories about the battles, the soldiers and the civilians. George Orwell--novelist, journalist, sometime socialist--actually traded his press pass for a uniform and fought against Franco's Fascists in the Spanish Civil War during 1936 and 1937. He put his politics and his formidable conscience to the toughest tests during those days in the trenches in the Catalan section of Spain. Then, after nearly getting killed, he went back to England and wrote a gripping account of his experiences, as well as a complex analysis of the political machinations that led to the defeat of the socialist Republicans and the victory of the Fascists."

Zapatista Reader
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/156025335...ASIN=1560253355 (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1560253355?ie=UTF8&tag=htbacfm-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1560253355) ----"
Collecting essays, interviews, articles and letters that center on a Latin American guerilla revolution and its hero, Subcomandante Marcos, this anthology is an excellent resource for anyone interested in the movement born in 1983 as the National Zapatista Liberation Army. As Hayden, a California state senator and the author of Irish on the Inside, writes in his introduction, largely because of Marcos, there is "a diary, a poetry, an intellectual account" of the struggles of southern Mexico's indigenous communities to preserve their lands and their rights. Hayden's thoughtful volume is divided into three sections: eyewitness accounts of the movement's most spectacular display (on Jan. 1, 1994, 3,000 Zapatistas took control of six large towns and hundreds of smaller ranches in response to the implementation of NAFTA); the poetic writings of Marcos; and a series of essays by political and intellectual leaders reflecting on the Zapatistas. Since the 1994 uprising, skirmishes between the Mexican government and the Zapatistas have continued lives are lost and lands are stolen, returned and stolen again but the U.S. media reports little of these affairs. This neglect has encouraged Latin American and European journalists and writers to step forward, their imaginations caught up with what many consider to be one of the last revolutions of and for the people. Jos‚ Saramago, Gabriel Garc¡a M rquez, Octavio Paz and Eduardo Galeano all weigh in on the insurgency and its mysterious and charismatic leader; it is these essays, along with Marcos's letters and speeches, that make this collection a worthy addition to the canon of Latin and South American literature as well as a valuable historical text."

Marx For Beginners
http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=htbacfm...=1&a=0375714618 (http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=htbacfm-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0375714618) ---Rius through cartoons explains the core ideas of "Marxism" in an easy to read and simple way, yet doesn't lose any of their subtelty. Great read for a beginner, or anyone really. The cartoons are very humorous! It's a welcome break from dry philosophical analysis.

The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/193185925...ASIN=1931859256 (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1931859256?ie=UTF8&tag=htbacfm-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1931859256) ----The best version of the Manifesto out there. It's fully annotated, with lots of historical facts and trivia for everybody. Related essays are also included.

Worker's Councils
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/190259356...ASIN=1902593561 (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1902593561?ie=UTF8&tag=htbacfm-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1902593561) ---"Contemporaries across the spectrum of Left thought, from Antonio Negri to Noam Chomsky, are falling over each other to claim the mantle of Left Communism. Left Communism is the theory and practice of worker control and self-organization whose adherents provided the main opposition to the Bolsheviks. Rarely printed, often cited, Pannekoek's Workers' Councils is the Das Kapital of Left Communism. This updated edition includes a substantial introduction from Noam Chomsky, illuminating the continuing relevance of this classic text."

[Chocobo]

Does anyone have any recommendations for books describing fascism? Or fascist actions? I know enouhg about fascism to be like, fuck fascists and their nationalist shit, but I wanna understand it more clearly, and from the pro-fascist side. So! Any books? Movies? Anything?

[Zeruzo]

pro-fascist... thats a difficult one, i'd start with mussolini, and searching stormfront, and mein kampf of course.

[ComradeZac]

The State and Revolution-Lenin
Principles of Communism-Marx
Wage Labour and Capital-Marx
Homage to Catalonia- Orwell
Enemy of the Empire- Eamon McGuire
Bobby Sands, nothing but an unfinished song- Dennis O'Hearn

the first three are of course about socialism, the orwell is just a good read, and the last two deal with Irish Republicanism

[Vicarious]

The Prince - Niccolò MachiaveIIi
The Communist Manifesto - its obvious

[Comrade Nadezhda]

my recommendations:

Karl Marx: Capital
Karl Marx & Frederick Engels: The Communist Manifesto
Lenin: The State and Revolution; anything else you can find, I admit I have more than any library for that matter.. well I have my own "library" of his collected and selected works (among other things).
Machiavelli: The Prince
Leon Trotsky: The Revolution Betrayed

and the list goes on, i will post more another time

[Djehuti]

WORK - COMMUNITY - POLITICS - WAR (pamphlet)
http://prole.info/introduction/intro_0.html


"Man's Worldly Goods: The Story of the Wealth of Nations" by Leo Huberman
From a marxist perspective this book answers the question of the development of capitalism. A very easy read.


"Reading Capital Politically" by Harry Cleaver
How to use Marx' Capital as a weapon for the working class. Some parts are difficult, but in general it is not very hard to read, much easier than Capital itself.


"Workers' Councils and the Economics of a Self-Managed Society" by Cornelius Castoriadis
The title sais what it's all about. In my opinion the best book there is on the subject.
http://www.point-of-departure.org/Lust-For...ndEconomics.htm (http://www.point-of-departure.org/Lust-For-Life/WorkersCouncilsAndEconomics/WorkersCouncilsAndEconomics.htm)

[Comrade Nadezhda]

Originally posted by Comrade [email protected] 07, 2007 01:28 am
my recommendations:

Karl Marx: Capital
Karl Marx & Frederick Engels: The Communist Manifesto
Lenin: The State and Revolution; anything else you can find, I admit I have more than any library for that matter.. well I have my own "library" of his collected and selected works (among other things).
Machiavelli: The Prince
Leon Trotsky: The Revolution Betrayed

and the list goes on, i will post more another time
now that it is a bit earlier in the day i will add more:

Rosa Luxemburg: Reform or Revolution
Lenin: Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
Lenin: What is to be done?
Leon Trotsky: In Defense of Marxism
Leon Trotsky: The Permanent Revolution

I will add more again later.

[guerilla E]

Know your enemy people, study it, so you are better prepared;

Imperialism and Social Classes by Schumpeter
International Economics published by Cambridge University in 1933 (only the 1944 copies are still in circulation)
Future of Capitalism by some smart right wing bastard.

All of these books provided a wealth of information in order to better understand why socialism is a better system, not just because Marx said so, but because you understand the logic behind the rival systems and can judge for yourself why you DONT want imperialism/capitalism. Also Schumpeter is an overlooked master of sociology/economic theory who got too little credit due to being shy/humble beyond human capability.

[Organic Revolution]

Quiet Rumours: An Anarcha-Feminist reader.

[Led Zeppelin]

Edward Bellamy: Looking Backward.

I am almost done reading it and it's awesome!

Highly recommend it.

[jaffe]

at the moment I'm reading
god and the state by Michael Bakunin

just finished with
anti-fascist by Martin Lux
very funny book for everyone interested in English antifascism during the 70's

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fusea...endID=118803727 (http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=118803727)

[AGITprop]

George Orwell: Nineteen Eighty Four

It shows us how things may become.

[Comrade Nadezhda]

Updated List

Lenin:
- Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
- What is to be done?
- One Step Forward, Two Steps Back (the crisis in our party)
- Two Tactics of Social-Democracy in the Democratic Revolution
- The Tasks of the Proletariat in our Revolution
- Lenin: The State and Revolution
- "Left-Wing" Childishness and the Petty-Bourgeois Mentality
- Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder

Rosa Luxemburg: Reform or Revolution

Machiavelli: The Prince

Karl Marx: Capital
Karl Marx & Frederick Engels: The Communist Manifesto

Leon Trotsky:
- The Revolution Betrayed
- In Defense of Marxism
- The Permanent Revolution
- Terrorism and Communism

[Dem_Soc]

George Orwell - Animal Farm , 1984

Gramsci - Selections from Prison notebooks

Marx And Engels - Selected works (includes communist manifesto and socialism utopian and scientific, at the moment just reading the manifesto)

Engels - Anti Duhring (heavy read, not got though all of it yet)

Robert Corfe - Reinventing democratic socialism for people prosperity (Just started reading it recently, Interesting book on the whole, mainly concerned with how to reinvent democratic socialism for the modern age)

bolshevik revolution - a social history of the russian revolution by Marc Ferro

[Revolucija]

1984 by George Orwell
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
A Clockwork Orange by Andy Burgess
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Fredreich Engels
Marx for beginners by M. Rius :)
Anarchism by Peter Kropotkin
Anarchism by Daniel Guerin
Fascism by Todor Kuljic
The Concept of the Urban Guerilla



will add more later.

[Y Chwyldro Comiwnyddol Cymraeg]

For easy introductions....

A rebels guide to:
Marx
Lenin
Gramscy

Introducing Marxism

Karl Marx and f. Engles- communist Manifesto

Malcolm X - autobiog

Noam Chomsky - Failed states

Pamphlets by the CPB

Fidel Castro - clive Foss (an easy read)

Face to Face with Fidel Castro

bash the rich - Ian Bone

Animal farm - Orwell

[Marsella]

I got a book from a dead relative of Oscar Wilde's short stories, poems and plays.

The short stories are good: The Happy Prince, the Nightingale and the Rose, the Selfish Giant, The Devoted Friend, The Sphinx Without a Secret...

And there was one play called Vera, or the Nihilists which as the title suggests deals with the Nihilists and their struggle against the Tsar. It was an OK play.

Also the other play I read was The Importance of Being Earnest, which was quite good and humorous in parts.

And I have also read an article of Oscar Wilde's arguing for socialism, albeit he was a Christian socialist it seems.

All in all the stories and plays were quite decent which is surprising since I have never read anything of the kind before.

[Monty Cantsin]

I’d be interested if someone could recommend something in a particular vain.

I wont to find myself a good collection of essays written by people with a poetic style. Not just writing that has good logical flow and makes a well founded argument, something that has something more too it – a bang.

So what writers do you know of whom you consider to have a great prose style?

[Y Chwyldro Comiwnyddol Cymraeg]

Originally posted by Monty [email protected] 13, 2007 09:18 pm


So what writers do you know of whom you consider to have a great prose style?
Political?

I would say the communist manifesto

[Comrade Nadezhda]

Adding to this again--

Updated List

Lenin:
- What is to be done?
- One Step Forward, Two Steps Back (the crisis in our party)
- Two Tactics of Social-Democracy in the Democratic Revolution
- Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
- The Tasks of the Proletariat in our Revolution
- The State and Revolution
- "Left-Wing" Childishness and the Petty-Bourgeois Mentality
- Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder

Karl Marx
- The Communist Manifesto
- Capital (volumes 1-3)
- Economico-Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844

Leon Trotsky:
- Results and Prospects
- Terrorism and Communism
- Platform of the Opposition
- The Permanent Revolution
- In Defense of October
- The Revolution Betrayed
- In Defense of Marxism
- Fascism: What it is and how to fight it

Rosa Luxemburg:
- Reform or Revolution
- Leninism or Marxism
- Accumulation of Capital
- The Russian Revolution

Fidel Castro:
- Capitalism in Crisis: globalization and world politics today

Machiavelli:
- The Prince

[machiadolphus]

To avoid becoming dogmatic i highly recommend anything by Michel Foucault, especially Discipline and Punish: Birth of the prison system.

Other then that still to avoid dogmatism:
-The Intellectuals and the Masses, by John Carey
-Perpetual Peace by Immanuel Kant
-Anything by Voltaire

but if you don't like counter revolutionary reading, some of my fav are:
-Anti-Machiavel by Frederick of Prussia
-Utopia by Thomas Moore
-The Social Contract by Jean-Jaque Rousseau
-Both Art of Wars by Machiavelli and Sun Tsu

and just for a laugh Steven Colbert's new book I am America (and so can you) is brilliant.

[which doctor]

Originally posted by Monty [email protected] 13, 2007 04:17 pm
I’d be interested if someone could recommend something in a particular vain.

I wont to find myself a good collection of essays written by people with a poetic style. Not just writing that has good logical flow and makes a well founded argument, something that has something more too it – a bang.

So what writers do you know of whom you consider to have a great prose style?
I suggest you read some of Kenneth Rexroth's essays.

[Bilan]

A Precocious Autobiography - Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Absolutely amazing biography of a Russian Communist poet, who grew up in the Stalin years of Russia, but who remained true to the ideals of communism, and Marxism (and Leninism).
Really amazingly written - he's an amazing poet, too.

Definite recommendation to all!

[Sky]

Required fiction:

Nikolai Chernyshevsky - "What is to be Done?"
Henri Barbusse - "Clarity"
Jaroslav Hašek - "The Good Soldier"
Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz - "Fame and Glory"
Ramon Sender - "Chronicle of Dawn"
Ernest Hemingway - "For Whom the Bell Tolls"
Chou Li-po - "The Molten Iron Flows"
Philip Bonosky - "The Burning Valley"
Jorge Amado - "Red Sprouts"
Louis Aragon - "Residential Quarter"
Martin Andersen-Nexø - "Morten the Red"
Anna Seghers - "Seventh Cross"

[Comrade Nadezhda]

further updates, once again. will always remain incomplete. ;)

Updated List

Lenin:
- What is to be done?
- One Step Forward, Two Steps Back (the crisis in our party)
- Two Tactics of Social-Democracy in the Democratic Revolution
- Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
- The Military Programme of the Proletarian Revolution
- The Tasks of the Proletariat in our Revolution
- The State and Revolution
- "Left-Wing" Childishness and the Petty-Bourgeois Mentality
- The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky
- Economics and Politics In the Era of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat
- Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder

Marx/Engels:
- The Communist Manifesto
- Capital (volumes 1-3)
- Economico-Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844
- The German Ideology
- Anti-Duhring
- The Peasant War In Germany
- The Condition of the Working Class In England

Stalin:
-Trotskyism or Leninism

Trotsky:
- Results and Prospects
- Terrorism and Communism
- Platform of the Opposition
- The Permanent Revolution
- In Defense of October
- The Revolution Betrayed
- In Defense of Marxism
- Fascism: What it is and how to fight it

Rosa Luxemburg:
- Reform or Revolution
- Leninism or Marxism
- Accumulation of Capital
- The Russian Revolution

OTHER WORK(S):
- Ten Days That Shook the World / John Reed
- Capitalism in Crisis: globalization and world politics today / Fidel Castro
- The World Economic and Social Crisis / Fidel Castro
- The African Dream / Che Guevara
- The Price / Machiavelli

[Die Neue Zeit]

Updated List

Lenin:
- Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
- What is to be done?
- One Step Forward, Two Steps Back (the crisis in our party)
- Two Tactics of Social-Democracy in the Democratic Revolution
- The Tasks of the Proletariat in our Revolution
- Lenin: The State and Revolution
- "Left-Wing" Childishness and the Petty-Bourgeois Mentality
- Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder

You stole most of my Lenin works, damn it! ;)

Anyhow, I'll add just one more (but one that you yourself really need to read): Economics and Politics in the Era of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat :)

EDIT: You stole this one, too, you meanie! At least you didn't add this one: Our Immediate Task (http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1899/articles/arg3oit.htm#v04pp64h-215) ;)

Now, on to other authors (socialist and otherwise):

The Class Struggle (Erfurt Program) by Karl Kautsky
The Social Revolution by Karl Kautsky
Letter to Vera Zasulich by Karl Marx
Late Marx and the Russian Road: Marx and 'the Peripheries of Capitalism' by Teodor Shanin
The Managerial Revolution by James Burnham
The Soviet Century by Moshe Lewin
Lenin's Last Struggle by Moshe Lewin
Lenin Rediscovered: What Is To Be Done? in Context by Lars Lih
Stalin's Wars: From World War to Cold War, 1939-1953 by Geoffrey Roberts
Cold Peace: Stalin and the Soviet Ruling Circle, 1945-1953 by Yoram Gorlizki and Oleg Khlevniuk
The Soviet Elite from Lenin to Gorbachev: The Central Committee and its Members, 1917-1991 by Evan Mawdsley
Marx at the Millennium by Cyril Smith

[anarchy666]

Les Miserables, anything by John Steinbeck and Ray Bradbury

Go to ratm.com and look at the booklist, it is amazing. I found tons of books their

[Comrade Nadezhda]

You stole most of my Lenin works, damn it! ;)

Anyhow, I'll add just one more (but one that you yourself really need to read): Economics and Politics in the Era of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat :)

EDIT: You stole this one, too, you meanie! ;)
There isn't much I haven't read. What's on the list is a very small portion of what I have actually read. I have several volumes of Lenin's collected works, by the way, which I don't just leave to sit on a shelf. I read them. Entirely.

Nevertheless, take time to read the works that are less than 20 pages long, in many cases it helps connect the dots between theory and the practice of it. You seem to understand, rather coherently, many of the theories on the table, but you need to read more about how they were put into use, acted upon; take my advice up on reading the entire volumes, Jacob Richter.

[crimsonzephyr]

I'm currently reading "Lies my teacher told me" & "The ten minute activist"

[Voice_of_Reason]

I actually just got done reading Mark Twain's on the Damned of the Human race I thought it was very good he does some great mocking by pretending he is the hugest fan of some of the most corrupt ideas. I am open to all ideas so the book interested me but If you are communist %100 then I wouldn't completely suggest it he basically finds flaws in most everything.

[Malakangga]

Das Kapital - Karl Marx
Communist Manifesto - Marx and Engels

[rocker935]

The Axis of Justice has a good reading list. The Axis of Justice is an organization founded by Tom Morello (Guitarist for Rage Against The Machine) & Serj Tankian (Vocals for System of a Down). I would also recommend checking out the movies and music section.

http://www.axisofjustice.org/books.htm

Some ones on there that I would recommend would be...
Recipes For Disaster
Fast Food Nation
V For Vendetta
Guerrilla Warfare
A People's History of the United States
The Chomsky Reader
Into The Wild(I only saw the movie but plan on reading the book)
Anything By Noam Chomsky

[professorchaos]

Also listen to the radio archives there. Some good "rebel music" but they end up playing the same songs a bunch of times and, regrettably enough, the Dixie Chicks. The show itself is funny though.

[Sarah Palin]

If you are a fan of obscure science fiction, I would recommend Indoctrinaire by Christopher Priest.

[JohannGE]

Wobblies and Zapatistas

Easily found torrent or a legit pdf for $10 here:-

https://secure.pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=77

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"Wobblies and Zapatistas: Conversations on Anarchism, Marxism and Radical History

Wobblies and Zapatistas offers the reader an encounter between two generations and two traditions. Andrej Grubacic is an anarchist from the Balkans. Staughton Lynd is a lifelong pacifist, influenced by Marxism. They meet in dialogue in an effort to bring together the anarchist and Marxist traditions, to discuss the writing of history by those who make it, and to remind us of the idea that "my country is the world." Encompassing a Left libertarian perspective and an emphatically activist standpoint, these conversations are meant to be read in the clubs and affinity groups of the new Movement.

The authors accompany us on a journey through modern revolutions, direct actions, anti-globalist counter summits, Freedom Schools, Zapatista cooperatives, Haymarket and Petrograd, Hanoi and Belgrade, 'intentional' communities, wildcat strikes, early Protestant communities, Native American democratic practices, the Workers' Solidarity Club of Youngstown, occupied factories, self-organized councils and soviets, the lives of forgotten revolutionaries, Quaker meetings, antiwar movements, and prison rebellions. Neglected and forgotten moments of interracial self-activity are brought to light. The book invites the attention of readers who believe that a better world, on the other side of capitalism and state bureaucracy, may indeed be possible."

[bellyscratch]

Just read a book called 'Revolution in the 21st Century' by Jack Grassby. Its a really easy to read book and is a good read for people who are new to revolutionary politics and live in the UK. It gives a basic outline of revolutionary politics without promoting any particular stand (although does come more from a Marxist perspective I suppose) and it seems quite honest.

[GiantBear91]

Havn't seen a lot of Chomsky on here...
N = I have not read it yet, but, read the prefaces to them and added them to my reading list.
R = reading
RE = re-reading
F = finished it

Political:
Failed States - Naom Chomsky(r)
The American Way of War - Eugene Jarecki(n)
Fight the Power: Rap, Race, and Reality - Chuck D(n)
The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels(re)
Our Word is Our Weapon - Subcomandante Marcos(n)
Guerrilla Warfare - Che Guevara(n)
Manifesto: Three Classic Essays on How to Change the World - Che Guevara, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Rosa Luxemburg(n)
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess(f)
1984 - George Orwell(n)

Political humor:
Better than Sex: Conffesions of a Political Junkie - Hunter S. Thompson(f)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson(n)
The Great Shark Hunt - Hunter S. Thompson(n)
Hell's Angels : A Strange and Terrible Saga - Hunter S. Thompson(n)
Kingdom of Fear - Hunter S. Thompson(n)
The Curse of Lono - Hunter S. Thompson(n)


Humor:
Brain Droppings - George Carlin(f)
When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops - George Carlin(n)
Napalm and Silly Putty - George Carlin(n)
Why We Suck - Dennis Leary(n)

Bio's:
A Revolutionary Life - John Lee Anderson(r)
My Life - Fidel Castro (n)

Other:
Love All the People: Letters, Lyrics, Routines - Bill Hicks(n)
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test - Tom Wolfe(n)
The rose that grew from concrete - Tupac Shakur(n)

[GiantBear91]

Oh I forgot to add this to the humor section:

The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to follow the Bible as Literally as Possible - AJ Jacobs

I have not read it yet but it looks funny as fuck.:D

[AntinoiteBolshevik]

Hi comrades, I am looking for a Soviet book and i'm hoping you can help me. Last year someone told me the name of a book or a pamphlet a female Soviet writer wrote about homosexuality and gay liberation in the Soviet Union after the triumph of the Bolshevik Revolution. This book was written in 20's or earlier. I don't know the exact date.

I hope someone on this site can help me locate the book, much appreciated :).

[-marx-]

Hi comrades, I am looking for a Soviet book and i'm hoping you can help me. Last year someone told me the name of a book or a pamphlet a female Soviet writer wrote about homosexuality and gay liberation in the Soviet Union after the triumph of the Bolshevik Revolution. This book was written in 20's or earlier. I don't know the exact date.

I hope someone on this site can help me locate the book, much appreciated :).
I'd be interested in reading such a book myself.

[ʇsıɥɔɹɐuɐ ıɯɐbıɹo]

Did anyone mention Red London by Stewart Home?


From the pages of the "Industrial Worker"

RED LONDON, by Stewart Home
ISBN 1 873176 12 0
Published in 1994 by AK Press
22 Lutton Place, Edinburgh EH8 9PE, Scotland, UK
5.95 Pounds + 10% handling

U.S. order to AK Press, POB 40682, San Francisco, CA 94140-0682
$12.95 + $2.00 shipping


RED LONDON is a novel about a revolt of the oppressed against their oppressors. Its protagonists spend their working lives as members of what is termed these days by official authorities from Clinton to Habermas as the "underclass". The sell their time as prostitutes, obscure rock musicians, porn magazine photographers and so forth; while devoting their free time to sexual pleasure and the murder of the ruling class. They are libertines with visceral passions. Their practice of meeting out class vengeance is both crude and ruthless. They are serious proles with serious lusts.

RED LONDON is not for the squeamish or prudish of heart. Stewart Home's prose is on a par with the Marquis de Sade when it comes to sex and violence. Here's a taste. The setting is a rock concert for conservative teens, given by an older Tory rock star, Sebastian Fame, whose neurosis of choice happens to be pedophilia. Security for the concert is by a gang of fascist boot boys, known as the Aryan Youth League. Nobody suspects that the Soho Prostitutes Collective has planned a guerilla action.

"The minders jumped to attention when a van skidded to a halt outside the hall. Twelve masked wimmin leapt from the transit, while the driver remained at the wheel. The heavies relaxed. Obviously these birds were a part of some practical joke, one of their mates had no doubt set them up by writing to Jeremy Beadle. The two AYL yobs were mentally incapable of accepting the fact that many of the greatest fighters down the ages had been wimmin. "'We don't need to see your faces', the fatter of the pair laughed,'just get your tits out.' "'Get your tits out, get your tits out, get your tits out for the lads!' his mate chanted, but not for long! "Cleo floored the sexist retard with a kidney punch that brought blood bubbling up through his mouth. Then the kung fu chick broke the bastard's spine by bringing her boot down on th back of his neck. There was the satisfying crunch of splintering bone and the fascist bore became just another name on the Met's long list of murder victims. "Simultaneously, Melody Thrush slammed a clenched fist into the other minder's mouth. Having rearranged the brickhead's teeth, she landed a devastating blow to his stomach and within seconds, the prick was puking his lunch. If nature had been left to take its course, it looked like the bastard would have retched up his guts, piece by little piece. Instead the steel toe-capped boots of several SPC members rained in against his body. After the first few ribs had snapped with a sickening crack, a badly aimed kick hit the ****'s head and the beer boy's body went limp. It was bloody unfortunate that his brain no longer registered the searing pain which accompanied the early stages of the beating. But, to the fascist, the icy numbness of physical blackout was more welcome than a million pound win on the pools.

"Sebastian faltered and broke off midway through a song as the SPC cut through the hall in a flying wedge. After a few screams, the crowd fell silent and the only sound to be heard was the tramping of boots on the wooden floor. Cleo and Melody grabbed Fame. The other SPC members herded the audience into a side room. Adults were simply shot through the head and left where they fell. "Sebastian was shoved across the stage and held against the wooden cross. Melody removed two hammers and a fistfull of six-inch nails..."

RED LONDON is Home's latest novel. Like his previous works of fiction: NO PITY, PURE MANIA and DEFIANT POSE, Home has set RED LONDON in a Britain which has already raced through the cautionary traffic light, flashing " a clockwork orange", into a nearly visible future populated by an increasingly class conscious, if semi-educated, proletariat, who live within the socio-economic boundaries of a capitalist system in terminal decay. In RED LONDON, the self-appointed vanguard of the lumpen and proles is composed of young men and wimmin, who have cut their ideological teeth on a tract penned by the then notorious K.L. Callan. Callan's infamous, banned book, MARX, CHRIST, and SATAN UNITED IN STRUGGLE is passed in xerox copies between self-styled anarchist fighting units and individual anarcho-nihilists, like Adolf Kramer. Kramer is the main protagonist. His mental interior reads like a politico-genetic cross between Charles Manson and Ulrike Meinhof. He is the archetypical child of the urban terrorist govement, grown more sly; but just as psychopathically dogmatic as his forbearers. Adolf and his comrades are prone to using the blood of their class antagonists to dab quotes on walls at the scenes of their actions. It is invariably K.L. Callan's MARX, CHRIST and SATAN UNITED IN STRUGGLE which is quoted.

"Adolf slit Gallon's throat with a flick-knife, then set to work ritually mutilating the bodies of the two class traitors. After dipping his fingers in the gouts of blood that were still spurting from Gallon's bulk, Kramer scrawled the following observation across the living room wall: Contrary to orthodox opinion, be it situationist or conservative, it is quantitative--not qualitative--problems that lie at the root of the current crisis. "It was a quotation from MARX, CHRIST and SATAN UNITED IN STRUGGLE, magnum opus of that most mysterious of nihilists K.L. Callan."

These exiles from main street move within a milieu of militant vegans, situationists, buddhist priests, nazis, skinheads and other assorted denizens of lumpen and prole origins. You follow them through the pages of RED LONDON as they drink, fight, and sexually amuse themselves in the public housing projects, whorehouses, streets and bogs of the city. RED LONDON is a simple book, written in a minimalist style, with more than a few repetitious icons e.g. the ubiquitous bottles of 100 Pipers Scotch, preferred brand of the underclass; the ever present sexual motif of couples, "beating out the primitive rhythm of the swamps."

It's also an exciting bit of anarchist pulp fiction. The sex and ultra-violence can stir up your deepest Id-ish fantasies. But, I don't think that it should be read as an organizing prescription, the way its heroines/heroes seem to have read K.L. Callan's MARX... . Nor do it think that Stewart Home sees himself as the K.L. Callan of today. There is more tongue in cheek within RED LONDON than is to be found in the numerous scenes of oral sex.

No. RL might better be read as a warning; much as the proles of yesteryear read Jack London's IRON HEEL, that foreboding tale predicting the advent of the fascist States of the mid 20th Century. The warining this time is for the bourgeois of the world, whose commodified morality leads them to treat their wage-slaves as nothing more than carbon-based biological work units to be thrown on society's scrap heap when they're all used up. Home has given us a novel about a pissed off underclass of midnight ramblers who are going to be the first to stick their knives right down the throats of the ruling class--and baby it hurts! The
warning is as simple as that old working class aphorism--what goes around, comes around.

Mike Ballard

You can subscribe to the "Industrial Worker" for a mere $15 a year.
Just send your money, name and address to:
Industrial Worker Distribution, P.O. Box 2056, Ann Arbor, MI
48106, USA

[-marx-]

Thought I would add my favorites:

Marx-Engels:Selected Works, 2 volume set. Foreign languages publishing house Moscow, 1958.
Marx-Engels:On Religion. Foreign languages publishing house Moscow, 1957.
Che Guevara: Guerrilla Warfare. Pelican books,1969.
V.I Lenin:Marx-Engels-Marxism.Foreign languages publishing house Moscow, 1951.
V.I.Lenin:Materialism and Empirio-Criticism. Foreign languages publishing house Moscow, 1952.
Mao Tse-Tung: Little Red Book. Foreign languages publishing, 1966.

[narcomprom]

I don't quite like the modern sentimental sensationalist western leftwing writers. they are stating the obvious in a way that makes my head hurt.

It does suffice to know of history of any time and place; especially the peasant wars, rebellions, revolutions, times of social change, right and leftwing guerilla warfare etc. etc. to get a hang of how the world works.

macchiavelli, sun tze and the roman historians are a perfectly quotable source.

the main concepts in marxism + lenin's attacks on bourgeois democracy + his concept of imperialism + hobbesian and liberal concepts. the rest you can derrive for yourself.

all those fancy postmarxists, neomarxists, postcolonialists, western new leftists, radical democrats, leftwing feminists, post-colonialists, culture criticists etc etc you can dip into later by choice.

[narcomprom]

Hi comrades, I am looking for a Soviet book and i'm hoping you can help me. Last year someone told me the name of a book or a pamphlet a female Soviet writer wrote about homosexuality and gay liberation in the Soviet Union after the triumph of the Bolshevik Revolution. This book was written in 20's or earlier. I don't know the exact date.

I hope someone on this site can help me locate the book, much appreciated :).
The female bolshevik authority on all sexual affairs was Kollontai. Her writings are avaible on marxists.org. The family was to be replaced by the collective, in which recreational sex of any kind was to be praised and love for profit to be condemned.
You might also want to read trotsky's comment on the Oscar Wilde trial written back in the 19th century.

[samizdat]

currently, I've been reading:

Thorenstein Veblen's "The Theory of the Leisure Class"

as far as literature on communism--I've recently completed Boris Kagarlitsky's "The THinking Reed" which is some of the most conceptually abstract material I've ever tried to digest.

[Misanthrope]

Imperialism: A Study - Hobson


The Age of Revolution - Hobsbawm

Manifest Destiny, A Study of Nationalist Expansionism - Albert K. Weinberg


Das Kapital - Karl Marx
Communist Manifesto - Marx and Engels

I can't say I'm familiar with these works :P

[kalu]

1) Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paolo Freire
2) America: The New Imperialism by VG Kiernan
3) Das Kapital, 3 volumes by Karl Marx and a Marx commentary (ie., David Harvey's Introduction to Marx's Capital will be out soon, or you can just check out davidharvey.org for free)
4) Selections from the Prison Notebooks by Antonio Gramsci
5) Orientalism by Edward Said
6) Beyond Good and Evil, On the Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche
7) Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault, and a Foucault commentary (ie., Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics by Robert Dreyfus and Paul Rabinow)
8) The Condition of Postmodernity by David Harvey
9) Refashioning Futures by David Scott
10) Hegemony and Socialist Strategy by Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe

In that general order. Over several years I've sifted through quite a few radical tomes ranging from Chomsky, Ali, Zinn and the rest of the ZMag crew to philosophy to radical anthropology. This is the best of the best, in my opinion. Just go to the library and pick up a book a week, though you'll probably need to use interlibrary loan. One will be well versed in both radical politics and its "posts-", which should not be taken lightly. The latter are a necessary development towards emancipatory futures.

[Liberateeducate]

"Exterminate Them": Written Accounts of the Murder, Rape, and Slavery of Native Americans During the California Gold Rush, 1848-1868 by Clifford E. Trafzer (Editor), Joel R. Hyer (Editor)]

Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy by Barbara Ehren reich and Arlie Hochschild (Editors)

Island by Aldous Huxley

Subtractive Schooling: U.S. Mexican Youth and the Politics of Caring by Angela Valenzuela

Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life By Annette Lareau Hide

Power Politics BY Arundhati Roy

This Land Is Their Land: Reports from a Divided Nation By Barbara Ehrenreich

Race Matters by Cornel West

Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism by Cornel West

The Working Poor: Invisible in America by David K. Shipler

Tangled Routes: Women, Work, and Globalization on the Tomato Trail by Deborah Barndt

The Power of Their Ideas: Lessons for America from a Small School in Harlem by Deborah Meier

Out of Place: A Memoir by Edward W. Said

Theory for Education by William E. Deal and Timothy K. Beal (Theory4)Greg Dimitriadis

Abiding Courage: African American Migrant Women and the East Bay Community by Gretchen Lemke-Santangelo

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond

Black Economics: Solutions for Economic and Community Empowerment by Jawanza Kunjufu

How Children Learn (Classics in Child Development) By John Holt

Instead of Education: Ways to Help People do Things Better by John Holt

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

The Night Is Dark and I Am Far From Home by Jonathan Kozol

The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America by Jonathan Kozol

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Golden State, Golden Youth: The California Image in Popular Culture 1955-1966 by Kirse Granat May

Learning to Teach for Social Justice BY Linda (EDT)/ French, Jennifer (EDT)/ Garcia-Lopez, Silvia Paloma (EDT) Darling-Hammond

Other People's Children Cultural Conflict in the Classroom by Lisa Delpit

How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America: Problems in Race, Political Economy, and Society BY Manning Marable

Critical Race Theory and Education: A Marxist Response (Marxism and Education) by Mike Cole

Survival Pending Revolution: The History of the Black Panther Party by Paul Alkebulan

Beyond Borders: Thinking Critically About Global Issues by Paula S. Rothenberg

THE BERKELEY REBELLION AND BEYOND essays on politics and eduction in the Technological Society BY Sheldon S. wolin and John H. Schaar

The Tortilla Curtain by T. Coraghessan Boyle

To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher by William Ayers

Desert Exile: The Uprooting of a Japanese-American Family by Yoshiko Uchida

war talk BY arundhati roy

Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom by bell hooks


this is just a list from the books I read last year, some for classes most just in my free time

[ellipsis]

And if you really wanna overthrow the government, you'll need this too: *The SAS Survival Handbook--by John Wiseman

P.S. *I used to consider the Holy Trinity of Revolution Guerilla Warfare, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, and The SAS Survival Handbook (acompanied, of course, by The Anarchist Cookbook)

probably already covered somewhere in this thread but the anarchist cookbook, especially the jolly roger version in an unreliable piece of literature to be used BY ITSELF. in conjunction with a wider study of related literature you would be able to tell what is safe and what is not.

[brigadista]

has anyone mentioned angela davis?

women race and class is a great book

also to see the emergence of a revolutionary see the autobiography of malcolm X .
Angela's autobiography is also worth a read .

[Ostrinski]

Black Skin, White Masks- Frantz Fanon
Revolutionary Suicide- Huey P. Newton
The Motorcycle Diaries- Ernesto Che Guevara
The Communist Manifesto- Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels
Profit Over People- Noam Chomsky
What We Say Goes- Noam Chomsky

[RMH94]

Nothing to do with leftism, but "The 13th Apostle" by Richard Heller is a good book.

[Lunatic Concept]

The ragged trousered philanthropists is a spiffing book :thumbup1:

[Ostrinski]

All the books mentioned should be put into one list for reference.

[Ostrinski]

Invisible Man- Ralph Ellison

[Ostrinski]

The Jungle- Upton Sinclair

[ColonelCossack]

i would also very strongly recommend,

the ragged trousered philanthropists, by Robert Tressell. Its about the lives of a group of early 20th century proles in a small village in england, over the course of a year.

the jungle, by Upton Sinclair. again set in the early 20th century, its about the life of a polish immigrant to chicago or boston or somewhere, and his life working in a fertiliser plant. the author was actually a senator who was also a socialist, very early in the century.

Also, didnt john steinbeck, auther of Of mice and men, in dubious battle, and the grapes of wrath have communist leanings? i heard he was in a communist writers organisation:confused:

[ColonelCossack]

i would also very strongly recommend,

the ragged trousered philanthropists, by Robert Tressell. Its about the lives of a group of early 20th century proles in a small village in england, over the course of a year.

the jungle, by Upton Sinclair. again set in the early 20th century, its about the life of a polish immigrant to chicago or boston or somewhere, and his life working in a fertiliser plant. the author was actually a senator who was also a socialist, very early in the century.

Also, didnt john steinbeck, auther of Of mice and men, in dubious battle, and the grapes of wrath have communist leanings? i heard he was in a communist writers organisation:confused:

oh shizer ive been looking over the posts and all these are already there!!! I Failed lolololol

[alphshuffel]

I have read a book by a worst dictator and now I want to share it with you. That is
In The Line Of Fire by Ret. General Pervaiz Musharraf:D

[Niall]

a couple considering todays date

blanketmen and afterlives by richard orawe

[sickle]

Is 'An Appeal To The Toiling, Oppressed And Exhausted Peoples Of Europe' by Trotsky worth reading?

[marl]

I haven't read Capital (which should be obvious because I'm a shit poster), but here's what I've read (in no particular order):

Manifesto of the Communist Party (http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/)
Socialism: Scientific and Utopian (http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1880/soc-utop/index.htm)
The Civil War in France (http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1871/civil-war-france/index.htm) (I actually recommend this to people who haven't read it, it's quite good)
The Principles of Communism (http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/11/prin-com.htm)
The State and Revolution (http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/index.htm)
Imperalism: the Highest Stage of Capitalism (http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/index.htm)
The Permanent Revolution (http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1931/tpr/index.htm)

[X5N]

The Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis
The European Union: A Very Short Introduction
Dance the Eagle to Sleep by Marge Piercy
The Paris Commune by Donny Gluckstein

So far. I'm still waiting for the first two to arrive.

[Davide]

Thanks for the the books and thanks for starting this thread, I also want to share few books:

Motorcycle Diaries by Ernesto Guevara
Bolivian Diary by Ernesto Guevara
Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson

[Nakidana]

I have read a book by a worst dictator and now I want to share it with you. That is
In The Line Of Fire by Ret. General Pervaiz Musharraf:D

My God how are you still alive after reading that drivel? :laugh: