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[uncontent_soul]

To help me understand communism more I depth could I ask for some basic reading for each of the following topics...if it's not too much to ask.

Kim il-Sung
Lin Biao
Hi Chi Minh
Che Guevera and Fidel Castro
Anarcho-Communism
Stalinism
The Black Panthers
Pre-Marx/Engels Communism

[willowtooth]

The Black Panthers- Revolutionary Suicide by Huey P. Newton 1995

[Blake's Baby]

Anarchist-Communism, I'd recommend

What is Communist Anarchism? by Alexander Berkman, or the the ABC of Anarchism also by Berkman

http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/bright/berkman/communistanarchy.pdf

https://libcom.org/files/AlexanderBerkman-ABCofAnarchism.pdf

You're going to have a problem with reading about 'Stalinism', especially if you want texts sympathetic to it, as Stalinists don't call themselves Stalinists. They call themselves Marxist-Leninists (or just Communists) but often 'Marxist-Leninist', especially in the names of parties, actually means Maoist, which is a subset of Stalinist.

Pre-Marx-Engels Communism? Seriously? I'd look at the 'Utopian Socialists' described in the Manifesto (primarily Robert Owen, Claude comte de Saint Simon, and Charles Fourier) and try to find out what you can about them. Or for a very different take try getting hold of Norman Cohn's The Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages, about apocalyptic communist cults in medieval and early modern northern Europe, or the novel Q by Wu Ming, covering similar territory; it's a cracking read.

[Comrade Jacob]

To help me understand communism more I depth could I ask for some basic reading for each of the following topics...if it's not too much to ask.



Kim il-Sung - Nothing notable but there is a selected works book out
Lin Biao - Nothing notable but there is a selected works book out
Hi Chi Minh - Nothing notable
Che Guevera and Fidel Castro - My life, Obama and the Empire (fidel), Motorcycle diaries (che)
Anarcho-Communism - haven't read much to recommend
Stalinism - Leninism, National Question, Marxism and the problems of linguistics, Anarchism or Socialism?
The Black Panthers - revolutionary suicide
Pre-Marx/Engels Communism - Hegal (utopian)

[Sewer Socialist]

i think understanding marx might help with a lot of these people, since they considered themselves to be extending and applying his theory. i started with the German Ideology; i think it was a good way to dive in.

The 18th Brumaire of louis Napolean Bonaparte is also a good read for further understanding marx's conception of history.

The Civil War in France is a good analysis of the 1871 Paris Commune - the best example of a communist movement in Marx's lifetime.

Capital is his work on economics, and his most thorough work.

I have no idea how to understand Kim Il Sung, though. :confused: