Best Socialist reads?

[ibrown39]

Possibly movies as well?

[Sentinel]

Moved to Lit&Films.

[Two Buck Chuck]

Upton Sinclair's The Jungle is a old American socialist novel, still taught in a lot of schools in the US. When it was serialized in the socialist newspaper Appeal to Reason, most of the public outrage it drew was not from the portrayal of exploited factory workers living in poverty, but the descriptions of abysmal food quality control.

[tuwix]

"The communist manifesto"
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon "What is property?"
and
http://touchoftheabsolute.blog.com/2009/05/30/a-conversation-with-god-god-loves-a-communism/

movies: Zeitgeist series.

[Jimmie Higgins]

Fiction? "In Dubious Battle" by Steinbeck is one of the best US fiction books I've ever read about a strike.

[Nevsky]

Some important socialist reads include:

-"What Is to Be Done?", "Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism", and "The State and Revolution" by Lenin

http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1901/witbd/index.htm
http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/index.htm
http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/index.htm

- Bukharin's and Preobazhensky's "ABC of Communism"

http://www.marxists.org/archive/bukharin/works/1920/abc/index.htm

-Stalin's works on Leninism:

http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1924/foundations-leninism/index.htm
http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1926/01/25.htm

-Stalin interview with H.G. Wells on socialism and liberalism:

http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1934/07/23.htm

- Anna Louise Strong on socialist progress in Tibet:

http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/strong-anna-louise/1959/tibet/ch17.htm

There are a few great revolutionary leftist films worth watching. I recommend "Battleship Potemkin" and "October" by Sergei Eisenstein, "1900" by Bernardo Bertolucci and "Sacco & Vanzetti" by Giuliano Montaldo.

[The Idler]

Non-fiction general
Socialism or Your Money Back (2004)

[La Guaneña]

Ten Days that shook the world and "Reds". The first is a book, the second a movie.

[Goblin]

A Dolls House by Henrik Ibsen. Its a feminist play.

[Red Commissar]

What kind of books/movies are you looking for? Fiction? Non-fiction? History? Theory? Or anything?

[Astarte]

HBO's 1992 in-home blockbuster STALIN: Duvall

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Indeed, many a comrade has legitimately criticized this film for its, at times, overbearing and crude bourgeois propaganda. Though, if I may mention without being accused of being overly sardonic, there are two things of great value to be taken from this film that are not always completely mutually exclusive: A. Humor and B. a fairly accurate portrayal of Stalinist political culture.

[Under Water Anarchism]

This is going to sound strange, but I think a socialist/communist might enjoy the first Hunger Games book (Suzanne Collins). I was personally intrigued by her illustration of a society that has gotten so rotten that people feel the need to throw kids in an arena to kill each other. Disgusting, but very interesting. It also points out how the people in the Capital (colorful, strange-looking higher class) laughs and gets a thrill out of the games. I think that in particular relates to the problem in capitalist society where we're all thrown into this labour game of survival while the capitalists watch us go mad while trying to make a profit.

I don't know, give it a read if it sounds interesting enough.

[smellincoffee]

As far as movies...I like The Edukators.

[Sudsy]

If you are interested in the Russian Civil War, check out How The Steel Was Tempered