What are the top five foundational texts (according to you)?

[Red Guardian]

If you could only choose five texts to recommend to somebody else, what would you choose? Especially foundational texts, i.e texts that contain critical theories or insights about key struggles and issues. I'm not sure myself, but I'd be sure to include Capital. I'm interested to see what others pick.

[WOLFETONE]

I don't have anything to contributed to this thread, but I would like to see what others would add.

[Tim Cornelis]

Surprised this thread didn't get picked up. Seems to have some potential.

I think Anti-Duhring was good, and its reworking Socialism: Utopian and Scientific. Other than that, there's not really complete works that I would consider foundational, that I would consider whole and complete enough to deserve that list. Yeah, Kapital I suppose.

[Anglo-Saxon Philistine]

Antiduehring and On the Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State by Engels, The State and the Revolution, by Lenin, In Defence of Marxism by Trotsky and either Cuba and Marxist Theory by the Revolutionary Tendency of the SWP or World Prospect for Socialism by the SLL.

[Guardia Rossa]

IMHO all texts are important together and worthless alone. But The German Ideology alone can be used as the base for the Marxist Philosophy, but I don't know if this is correct (I have about 6 books by Marx and Engels, noone too large or costly.)

[Invader Zim]

In order of preference:

Foundation and Empire (1952)
Foundation (1951)
Second Foundation (1953)
Prelude to Foundation (1988)
Foundation's Edge (1982)

[Comrade Jacob]

From what I've actually read myself:
Wage labour and capital - Marx
Origins of the family, private property and the state - Engels
State and revolution - Lenin
On practice and On contradiction - Mao
Dialectical and Historical Materialism - Stalin

[Invader Zim]

From what I've actually read myself:
On practice and On contradiction - Mao
Dialectical and Historical Materialism - Stalin

Ah, the Stephenie Meyer's of Marxism.

[BIXX]

Baedan 1, 2, 3
Hostis
Anything by tiqqun
Guy hoquenguem (I absolutely butchered that spelling).
Alfredo m bonano
Renzo novatore

I've forgotten some but there are many more good ones.

[Art Vandelay]

Capital - Marx
The German Ideology - M&E
State & Revolution - Lenin
In Defence of Marxism - Trotsky
The Struggle for a Proletarian Party - Cannon

[bricolage]

Lyrics to the Big Rock Candy Mountains.
3 volumes of capital.
[Insert other]

[Anatoli]

Das Kapital 1,2,3. Rigid theoretical work of Marx. All up to you to improvise a la Fidel Castro, Che Guevarra and Josef Stalin.