Anarchist and Communist books

[Jesus Saves Gretzky Scores]

I'm going on a road trip with the family to Florida, and I realized it would be a great chance to do some political reading/research. I ordered Twilight of the Machines by John Zerzan (Yeah I know, primitivism, but I thought it still might be an interesting read.) What are some other good anarchist/socialist/communist/leftist books I should read, outside the obvious(Conquest of Bread, Manifesto, etc.)
Thanks!

[Proukunin]

I haven't read it yet but God and The State by Bakunin is supposed to be a good read.

You can read a more modern anarchist 'manifesto' called The Coming Insurrection by The Invisible Committee. I liked it a lot actually. it's an anarchist call to arms.

[Jesus Saves Gretzky Scores]

I haven't read it yet but God and The State by Bakunin is supposed to be a good read.

You can read a more modern anarchist 'manifesto' called The Coming Insurrection by The Invisible Committee. I liked it a lot actually. it's an anarchist call to arms.

I just heard about TCI today! It was Glen Becks report on it. I've heard it's hard to get though.

[Zav]

Ishmail by Dan Quinn is good, and as much as it sounds primitivist, it isn't. It's more like neo-tribalism. You might read Exquisite Rebel. It's a collection of Voltairine De Cleyre's writings. She really doesn't get enough love.


I've heard it's hard to get though.
That is probably propaganda. They certainly wouldn't want you reading it.

You can print it to read on the road. :)

[TheGodlessUtopian]

A Peoples History of the United States by Howard Zinn, or, A Peoples History of the World by Chris Harmen.

Neither are technically Anarchist or communist but they are leftist. I believe Howard Zinn classified himself as a Libertarian Socialist.

[Jesus Saves Gretzky Scores]

A Peoples History of the United States by Howard Zinn, or, A Peoples History of the World by Chris Harmen.

Neither are technically Anarchist or communist but they are leftist. I believe Howard Zinn classified himself as a Libertarian Socialist.

Isn't libertarian socialist anarchist?

I've heard of both of those, I've heard Howard Zinn is very good, my teacher recommended him. Thanks!

[Jesus Saves Gretzky Scores]

Ishmail by Dan Quinn is good, and as much as it sounds primitivist, it isn't. It's more like neo-tribalism. You might read Exquisite Rebel. It's a collection of Voltairine De Cleyre's writings. She really doesn't get enough love.


That is probably propaganda. They certainly wouldn't want you reading it.
Here you go:

You can print it to read on the road. :)

Fantastic, thanks! I'm trying to not pay much, so free is good.

[Proukunin]

I just heard about TCI today! It was Glen Becks report on it. I've heard it's hard to get though.

Got mine on Amazon for like 8 dollars or something.

Although I hate having to buy things from Amazon.

[Proukunin]

Isn't libertarian socialist anarchist?

I've heard of both of those, I've heard Howard Zinn is very good, my teacher recommended him. Thanks!

Libertarian socialist can mean anything from anarchist to libertarian marxist to council communism.

[Yuppie Grinder]

Howard Zinn is a Chomskyite academic. A People's History of the United States is still a good both, though.

[TheGodlessUtopian]

If you are looking for something more theory heavy you could also check out David Harvey's Companion to Capital. Gives an excellent guidebook to understanding Marx's Capital and prepares you for reading said text.

If you are looking for a specific history book I highly recommend John A. Dower's "Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II." The author is, I believe, some kind of Neo-Marxist. Plenty of great insights there which won him the pulitzer prize, among many other accommodations.

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...If you are looking for a specific history book I highly recommend John A. Dower's "Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II." The author is, I believe, some kind of Neo-Marxist. ...

Dower's book is excellent. He's a specialist on Japan, and his other books on that subject include War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War and Japan in War and Peace, a collection of essays.

I'm not certain of his political orientation, but his approach to history is materialist as the evidence of his books shows.

One might fairly describe Paul Preston as a Marxist though. His many books on modern Spain and the Civil War in particular are good reads, packed with information and insights. I especially liked We Saw Spain Die, a history of foreign correspondents in who covered Spain during the Civil War.

[PC LOAD LETTER]

I just heard about TCI today! It was Glen Becks report on it. I've heard it's hard to get though.
My local Barnes & Noble had a copy in the Philosophy section

[TheRedAnarchist23]

I like the way one can just post a link to The Pirate Bay without his post being deleted, which is what happens on other forums.

Have you read The Bolshevik Myth by Alexander Berkman, it is a dairy about the time Alexander Berkman was deported to Russia (USSR 1920), it talks about the USSR with anarchist point-of-view.

Here: http://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/alexander-berkman-the-bolshevik-myth-diary-1920-22

You can download as pdf.

[Brosa Luxemburg]

Here are some suggestions off the top of my head, but you may disagree with some of them.

Books:
Lenin by Lars T. Lih
The Failure of Capitalist Production: Underlying Causes of the Great Recession by Andrew Kliman
The Terrorism Trap by Michael Parenti

Articles and Essays:
Party and Class by Amadeo Bordiga
On The Dialectical Method by Amadeo Bordiga
Force, Violence, and Dictatorship in the Class Struggle by Amadeo Bordiga
Open Letter to Comrade Lenin by Herman Gorter


Some of these can be found on MIA. Yes, I have been reading a lot of Bordiga lately.

[TheGodlessUtopian]

Edited Zav and TheMza's posts so as to delete the torrent link. Torrents are not allowed here under any circumstances.

[Firebrand]

Try the Dispossessed by Ursula leGuin if you want fiction

[The Idler]

What about torrenting legal content to share out bandwidth? I think you mean illegal content irrespective of how it is distributed.

[NoOneIsIllegal]

I just heard about TCI today! It was Glen Becks report on it. I've heard it's hard to get though.
Actually, it's in every major bookstore. Ever since Glenn Beck mentioned it 2-3 years ago, I've seen it in every Barnes & Noble I have stepped into. You can find it under the Philosophy section. Fairly cheap to buy, and very quick to read.

If you're reading from Chicago to Florida, you should be able to gobble this up most the way:
"Black Flame: The Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism"

^ Fantastic anarchist book.

I would also second "A People's History of the World" by Chris Harman. It's his best book, and should be on every revolutionary's bookshelf.
He also has a good book called "The Lost Revolution" - check that out too.


If you're into biographies, I would really recommend "Bakunin: The Creative Passion" by Mark Leier- I'm personally not a fan of Bakunin; but holy hell it's quite the book. It's probably the best biography I've ever read; "Rosa Luxemburg" by Paul Frolich is a close second.

[The Idler]

Socialism or Your Money Back (http://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/socialism-or-your-money-back) is a book of about 70 articles published in the Socialist Standard over a period of a hundred years by the Socialist Party of Great Britain.

[x359594]

How Shall We Bring About the Revolution? (1910; English edition 1913)by Emile Pataud and Emile Pouget is a science fiction novel about a successful workers' revolution in France led by anarcho-syndicalists.

[ВАЛТЕР]

I've heard it's hard to get though.


When I was in the US I got it at a Barnes & Nobles (in a bible-belt state mind you). It can't be that hard. I read it in a couple of hours, I liked it.

[Peoples' War]

How Shall We Bring About the Revolution? (1910; English edition 1913)by Emile Pataud and Emile Pouget is a science fiction novel about a successful workers' revolution in France led by anarcho-syndicalists.
Accurate that it would be a science-Fiction novel...

Im just fucking with you...not really though.

Probably mentioned, but Homage to Catalonia, if you want fiction, look to The Dispossessed.

Edit: Kafka's "The Trial", maybe.

[x359594]

...Probably mentioned, but Homage to Catalonia, if you want fiction, look to The Dispossessed...

One of the best novels about the Spanish working class is Seven Red Sundays by Ramon J. Sender. Sender's wife and brother were shot by the fascists during the Civil War while Sender was fighting at the Aragon front.