Beginner needs help

[sgt_chillum]

Need some advice or simplified beginners reading material to begin with..

I have read the Communist Manifesto.

Thanks. I know there might be tons of threads like this, sorry for not taking extra effort, didn't have sufficient time to do a search.

[tuwix]

I think that asking questions will be the best way. :)

[Queen Mab]

Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
Wage Labour and Capital
The German Ideology (part I only)

[Sea]

On Marxist politics generally. I'd recommend going through these in order from top to bottom. Most are pretty short:

http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/11/prin-com.htm Freddy Engels - The Principles of Communism
http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1880/soc-utop/index.htm Freddy Engels - Sociaism: Utopian and Scientific
http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1913/mar/x01.htm Vladimir Lenin - The Three Sources and Three Components Parts of Marxism
http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1875/gotha/index.htm Karl Marx - Critique of the Gotha Programma
http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/index.htm Vladimir Lenin - The State and Revolution
http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1920/lwc/index.htm Vladimir Lenin - "Left-Wing" Communism: An Infantile Disorder
http://marxists.org/archive/plekhanov/1895/monist/index.htm Georgi Plekhanov - The Development of the Monist View of History

On capitalism:

http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/index.htm Vladimir Lenin - Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/wage-labour/index.htm Karl Marx - Wage Labor and Capital
http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/index.htm Karl Marx - Capital (vol. 1)

In case you need more motivation to read the last one:

http://marxists.org/archive/serge/1926/repression/index.htm Victor Serge - What everyone should know about repression


I know it's a big list, so if you have to only pick a couple, try Socialism: Utopian and Scientific, and Serge's work on repression. Feel free to ask any questions you may have! :)

[motion denied]

Some mandatory:

Engels' Principles of Communism (http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/11/prin-com.htm)

Marx's Wage Labour and Capital (http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/wage-labour/index.htm) - Value, Price and Profit (http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1865/value-price-profit/index.htm) - Preface to A Contribution to the Critic of Political Economy (http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1859/critique-pol-economy/preface.htm) - Theses on Feuerbach (http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/theses/index.htm)

These should help for a first and overall glance (they are longer):

Mandel's Introduction to Marxist Economic Theory (http://www.marxists.org/archive/mandel/1967/intromet/index.htm)
Paul Sweezy's Theory of Capitalist Development

Keep in mind that there have been critiques to Mandel's and Sweezy's works, so it's always better to stick with Marx and Engels.

[Brosa Luxemburg]

Introduction of Marxist Economics by Ernest Mandel
http://www.marxists.org/archive/mandel/1967/intromet/

Reproduction of Daily Life by Fredy Perlman
http://www.spunk.org/texts/writers/perlman/sp001702/repro.html

[Ro Laren]

I found this list by Q to be really helpful.

revleft.com/vb/blog.php?b=7728

Can't post actual links, sorry.

[#FF0000]

Folks posted a lot of good suggestions in this thread so far so I'm also gonna say that you shouldn't hesitate to post threads for specific questions you come up with while reading.

[sgt_chillum]

Thanks a lot of good response here.
Will look into the suggestions