Reading Material

[FatsoFreako]

Anyone got any good reading suggestions? Im interested in Marxism, Democratic Socialism Anarcho Communism,and left ideologies in general and before I decide where most closley lean I figure I should really read up in further detail on the different types. So any suggestions would be great.

[MarxSchmarx]

Anyone got any good reading suggestions? Im interested in Marxism, Democratic Socialism Anarcho Communism,and left ideologies in general and before I decide where most closley lean I figure I should really read up in further detail on the different types. So any suggestions would be great.

I would recommend "Marx for Beginners" by Tom Rius, which is surprisingly good, the anarchist FAQ, lenin's state and revolution, and the "Past" half of Michael Harrington's "Socialism:Past and Future".

[Susurrus]

Read Kropotkin's The Conquest of Bread and Fields, Factories, and Workshops, , George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia, No Gods, No Masters: An Anthology of Anarchism, The Marx-Engels Reader(2nd ed), Alexander Berkman's The Bolshevik Myth, and Zinn's A People's History of the United States.

[Libertador]

I second Homage to Catalonia.

Also, Chomsky.

[postanarchism]

Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau (American transcendentalist)
Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution by Peter Kropotkin (Russian anarchist)
Workers' Councils and the Economics of a Self-Managed Society by Cornelius Castoriadis (Greco-French libertarian socialist)
Empire by Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt (Italian autonomists)
From Bakunin to Lacan by Saul Newman (post-anarchist)

[The Idler]

From Handicraft to Capitalism by Karl Kautsky
The Right to be Lazy by Paul Lafargue
Obsolete Communism by Daniel Cohn-Bendit

[Ostrinski]

Marxism- Das Kapital- Karl Marx
Anarcho-Communism- Mutual Aid- Kropotkin
Democratic Socialism- idk Bertrand Russell maybe

[graymouser]

The Communist Manifesto (http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/index.htm) and Socialism Utopian and Scientific (http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1880/soc-utop/index.htm) are a good place to start for Marxism.

[thefinalmarch]

Marxism- Das Kapital- Karl Marx
Nope. Far too long for an introductory text to Marx's critique of political economy / "Marxian economics".

Wage Labour and Capital (http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/wage-labour/index.htm) and Value, Price and Profit (http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1865/value-price-profit/) are both basically the standard introductory texts to "Marxian economics". Both are around only 30 pages. In the former there is even a part of the Preliminary which says "We shall seek to portray this as simply and popularly as possible, and shall not presuppose a knowledge of even the most elementary notions of political economy. We wish to be understood by the workers."