What books have you read about communism & other political subjects?

[SacRedMan]

What books has Revleft already read about communism and other political subjects?

My list is this:
-The Capital Volume I
-Perestoika
-Violence from Slavoj Zizek
-Eurocommunism and Western Marxism
-First as Tragedy, then as Farce from Slavoj Zizek too
-Stalin from Henri Barbusche
-Trotski from L. Comby
-The English working class from Friedrich Engels
-Marx in Brussels
-The Little Red Book from Mao

What's your list?

[The Idler]

Obsolete Communism by Cohn-Bendit
The State and the Socialist Revolution by Martov
Open Society and its Enemies by Karl Popper
Marxism and Bolshevism: Democracy and Dictatorship by Kautsky
The Russian Revolution in Retreat by Pirani
The Bolshevik Myth by Alexander Berkman
Open Letter to Lenin by Gorter
The Unknown Revolution by Voline

[Sasha]

God so much, very influential have been;
Living my life by Emma Goldman
How non-violence protects the state by peter gelderloos
Anarchy's cossak about makhno
No retreat and beating the fascists about AFA-england
Bash the rich by ian bone
How it all began by bommi bauman
Waarachtige volksvrienden by Dennis bos
The 43 group by morris beckman
The end of Judaism by hajo meyer
Society of the spectacle
Unabomber manifesto
The subversion of politics by George Katsiaficas

[VirgJans12]

The Rise and Fall of Communism - Archie Brown
The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx / Friedrich Engels
Das Kapital - Marx (though I never finished it. It's the Collector's Edition I think it has all the volumes)

[The Douche]

Unabomber manifesto

I thought I was the only one.:wub:

[Искра]

I don't read books I use youtube.

[Ostrinski]

The essentials of Marx and Lenin, some Luxemburg, nothing beyond that yet.

[Sixiang]

Okay, long ass list. I started reading about socialism and communism in the Spring of 2010.

Marx and Engels:
The Communist Manifesto
Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
Capital Volume 1
Wage Labor and Capital
Preface and Introduction to a Contribution the Critique of Political Economy
Wages, Price and Profit
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
Critique of the Gotha Programme
The Civil War in France
Principles of Communism
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
On Marx's Capital
The Condition of the Working Class in England
The Mark

V.I. Lenin:
What is to be Done? Burning Questions of Our Movement
Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism
The State
"Left-Wing" Communism, an Infantile Disorder

J.V. Stalin:
Dialectical and Historical Materialism
Trotskyism or Leninism?
Economic Problems of Socialism in the U.S.S.R.

Mao Zedong:
Five Essays on Philosophy
On Protracted War
On New Democracy
Five Documents on Literature and Art
In Memory of Norman Bethune/Serve the People
Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung
Poems

George Orwell's non-fiction political writings:
The Road to Wigan Pier
Down and Out in Paris and London
Why I Write
Homage to Catalonia
A Collection of Essays

Fidel Castro:
My Early Years
My Life: A Spoken Autobiography

Other stuff of importance to my political development:
The Autobiography of Malcolm X, by Malcolm X and Alex Haley
Black Boy, by Richard Wright
Common Sense, the Rights of Man and Other Essential Writing, by Thomas Paine
A Man Without a Country, by Kurt Vonnegut
First as Tragedy, Then as Farce, by Slavoj Zizek
The Story of my Life, by Helen Keller
China! Inside the People's Republic, by the Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars
Give Me Liberty! An American History, by Eric Foner
Fast Food Nation, by Eric Schlosser
Marx for Beginners, by Rius
Walden and Civil Disobedience, by Henry David Thoreau
Self-Reliance and Other Essays, by Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Republic, by Plato
The Origin of Communism, by Nikolai Berdyaev
The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States, by Thomas Jefferson
The Symposium, by Plato
Gorgias, by Plato

Some of those less overtly socialist or communist ones were books I read before I really got into studying communism, but they opened my mind in ways that led me to read other books that led me to reading communism and being open to accepting it.

[Rooster]

Is this a pissing contest? If so then I'll get back to you with a very long list.

[o well this is ok I guess]

Is this a pissing contest? If so then I'll get back to you with a very long list. I'll get back to you with an incredibly obscure list.

[Tim Cornelis]

I'm not going to list all, but only the books/booklets that were most important.

- Black Flame: the revolutionary class politics of anarchism and syndicalism, by Van der Walt and Schmidt
- State and Revolution, by Lenin
- Workers' Councils and the Economics of a Self-Managed Society, Cornelis Castoriadis

and also An Anarchist FAQ, sorta (not entirely of course).

[Rooster]

I'll get back to you with an incredibly obscure list.

Come at me, bro.

[o well this is ok I guess]

Come at me, bro. Nah man
you're
you're just
not prole enough for such an obscure list

[ellipsis]

Shouldn't this be in art and lit? two other admins left it where it was....

[ellipsis]

Also the only book ive ever read is seven chinese brothers.

[ArrowLance]

Of course I've read many books but one of the more important and also slightly obscure books I've read is The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Trotsky by Lenin.

I say obscure because it isn't Capital or the Manifesto of the Communist Party.

[NoOneIsIllegal]

I read a lot, so it would be insane to list everything.
I'll list my favorites and major influences:

Black Flame: The Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism <--- One of my favorites of all time. Crammed full with useful information, strategies, ideas, etc. Whenever I'm pondering over something, I somehow always glance back at this. This will always remain on my book shelf.

Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice <--- obvious book is obvious

Ecology and Socialism <--- best book on climate change

No One is Illegal <--- best book on immigration

The Bending Cross <--- had a major influence on me when I first started getting into socialism

Anarchism and the City <-- probably the best "lessons learned" book, lots of interesting information Spanish anarchists, etc.

A People's History of the World <--- one of the best history books, period. World History with a Marxian analysis

No Logo <--- had a major influence on me in my young years

The Shock Doctrine <--- got me into reading history/politics



Yeah yeah yeah, I know the last 2 books were written by a liberal/social-democrat :p

[Dogs On Acid]

Not enough!

[SacRedMan]

You don't have to say what books you have read in your whole life :laugh: Only those from which you've learned the most or find interesting. And if so, you can post a review on it, your critique or your opinion and if it was a good one recommend it. :thumbup1:

[Искра]

There's only one book which influenced my life and that's Bushido.

Also I find Dance of Fire and Ice series more interesting than your "wanna be coolest Marxist nerd" shit.

[bcbm]

'at daggers drawn' by anonymous
'the art of war' by sun tzu
'species being' by dupont

[Ele'ill]

Tiger Is A Scaredy Cat

[Lucretia]

Too long a list to type out.

[Искра]

Too long a list to type out.
It would go like this...

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[ellipsis]

consensus=move to art and lit

[Ele'ill]

consensus=move to art and lit

You didn't get a temperature check on it yet- respect the process...

[ellipsis]

You didn't get a temperature check on it yet- respect the process...

jazzhands

[Lucretia]

It would go like this...

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Remind which thread I humiliated you in so I can get a better sense of why you're trying to troll me here. :confused:

[SacRedMan]

There's only one book which influenced my life and that's Bushido.

Also I find Dance of Fire and Ice series more interesting than your "wanna be coolest Marxist nerd" shit.

But, that's not my intention. I didn't open this topic just to show I'm a "cool marxist". Why do you think that?