One text from each tendency

[Bronco]

Ok so I'm still a pretty new leftist but I think I have a solid understanding of basic Marxism and of Anarchism but I'm interested in branching out my knowledge and reading some literature from the likes of Lenin, Trostsky, Luxemburg etc. just to gain a better understanding if nothing else. So I was thinking if you had to recommend one core, must-read text from each of these tendencys then what would it be, I'll include Marxism and Anarchism even though I've read a decent amount on those two, someone might suggest a text I haven't previously heard of:

Communism: (I'd say the Communist Manifesto, obvious I know)
Anarchism: (Berkman's ABC of Anarchism interested me the most)
Anarcho-Communism: (I'm guessing something by Kropotkin)
Anarcho-Syndicalism: (not read it but I've heard Rudolf Rocker's Anarcho Syndicalism is pretty good?)
Leninism:
Trotskyism:
Marxist-Leninism:
Hoxhaism:
Maoism/Marxist-Leninist-Maoism: (would these two effectively be considered one and the same?)
Luxemburgism:
Left-Communism:

Any suggestions would be great, thanks

[Искра]

For Anarcho-Communism Kropotkin's Conquest of Bread.
For Marxism-Leninism Stalin's Fundations of Marxism-Leninism.

[Koba1917]

Marxism-Leninism: The Foundations of Leninism: JV Stalin

Hoxhaism: Imperialism and the Revolution: Enver Hoxha

[Renegade Saint]

Leninism: The Foundations of Leninism: JV Stalin
[/I]

Fail. The one work that best expounds Lenin's thought. By Josef Stalin. :rolleyes:

Leninism: The State and Revolution.

[Koba1917]

Fail. The one work that best expounds Lenin's thought. By Josef Stalin. :rolleyes:

Leninism: The State and Revolution.

Fixed, I ment to say 'Marxism-Leninism'.

[Die Rote Fahne]

Luxemburgism: "The Mass Strike"

[norwegianwood90]

For Trotskyism, I would suggest either The Revolution Betrayed or The History of the Russian Revolution.

My suggestion for Luxemburgism would probably be Reform or Revolution?, though its revolutionary-not-reformist message is obviously not unique to Luxemburgism.

I'm not terribly familiar with Maoist texts, though I assume Mao's Little Red Book would be a good start.

[OhYesIdid]

situationism: The Society of the Spectacle.

take cover!

[OhYesIdid]

I think "the mass strike" is probably more uniquely luxembourguist

[28350]

read marx before you read marxists

[graymouser]

For Trotskyism you'd need to pick from among The Permanent Revolution, History of the Russian Revolution, The Revolution Betrayed and The Transitional Program. Those four contain the basics of Trotsky's ideas and methods; narrowing it down to one I'd actually pick the Transitional Program - it contains the elements of the rest in practice and distilled down into practical notions.

For Maoism, I'd imagine you would want to use Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung, better known as the "Little Red Book." I sometimes admire Mao's pithiness, even though generally I'm not sympathetic to the politics.

Rocker's Anarcho-Syndicalism is an excellent synthesis of its subject, and one of the few anarchist books I found satisfying in its clarity of thought and presentation.

There is no coherent "Luxemburgist" tendency, and in general I think The Mass Strike actually is a work that profoundly impacts the thinking of most subsequent Marxists.

[Bronco]

Thanks for all the suggestions


read marx before you read marxists

Well like I said I think I already have a decent basic understanding of Marx; I've read the Manifesto, Wage Labour & Capital, Value Price & Profit & the Critique of the Gotha Program, and also Engel#s Principles of Communism and Socialism Utopian & Scientific, I'm just looking to branch out my knowledge a bit

[Rusty Shackleford]

For Marxism in general i'd say: Socialism: Utopian & Scientific. i dont know why, but i find it to be a fantastic piece.