Suggested reading???

[ComradeRed]

I am assembling a small "library", and I wanted to know what books I should have? I have on my list:
The state and revolution
On Imperialism and Imperialists
Imperialism: The highest stage of capitalism
The complete works of marx and engels

What else???

[Guerrilla22]

Add a bunch of Chomsky books, in fact add them all if you can.

[SonofRage]

Workers' Councils by Anton Pannekoek

[ComradeRed]

Thanks, but I was thinking something more traditional...

BTW, is there a site that has chomsky's writings online?

[Adamore]

G.Orwell man 1984 its a badass book

[Saint-Just]

Read Quotations from the Chairman Mao Zedong. There are also many other good things by Mao here:

http://www.etext.org/Politics/MIM/classics/mao/index.html
http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/index.htm

1984 is anti-communist propaganda and Chomsky is a bourgeois pseudo-intellectual.

[Guerrilla22]

Little Women was a good book. ;)

[Misodoctakleidist]

Originally posted by [email protected] 12 2004, 05:20 AM
G.Orwell man 1984 its a badass book
I can't stand George Orwell worship, he was an idiot.

Can someone tell me what was so great about 1984? It hardly contains any great political understanding, I think people just harp on about it to "prove" how anti-totalitarian they are.

As for this mini-library, I would include something a little more intellectual that Lenin. The German Ideology and Das Kapital are essential reading if you ant to understand Marxism.

[SittingBull47]

http://www.chomsky.info/books.htm

chomsky's books. for free.

[ComradeRed]

As for this mini-library, I would include something a little more intellectual that Lenin. The German Ideology and Das Kapital are essential reading if you ant to understand Marxism. Oh yeah, I thought I put it down, but I am getting the COMPLETE works of Marx and Engels.


Little Women was a good book. :) Yes, wasn't it written by lonely little men :lol: I'm sorry, I couldn't resist. Is it a good book?

I am getting the equivelent to "the great books of the western world" also.


G.Orwell man 1984 its a badass book I have animal farm, but I don't think I am getting 1984. It was a good book though...


1984 is anti-communist propaganda and Chomsky is a bourgeois pseudo-intellectual. I thought 1984 was anti-leninist :o

Chomsky isn't too bad. As redstar2000 put it he's "an icon of the American 'left' [...] icons always let you down".

I want more on Marxism though!

[canikickit]

Originally posted by [email protected] 12 2004, 05:19 PM
Can someone tell me what was so great about 1984? It hardly contains any great political understanding
I liked it for some of the ideas whch are presented in it, and how the relate to societies today.

The need for an enemy - (Goldstein/bin Laden).
The need for war - both to drum up money, for scarmongering and to aid the sustainability of a power base.
Meaningless slogans to grasp people's emotions.

The essay on Newspeak was also facinating, as were the tracts from "The Book" which the protaganist read.

[Adamore]

i completely agree Canikickit its a very good book but not the best
and im offended by ur statement Misodoctakleidist about G.Orwell worship
i never said to worship him but just to read his work ne one who worships someone just because they write a badass book is a loon :blink: :ph34r:

[FatFreeMilk]

Aren't you the guy who hates Jews?

Anyways, after you get all your Marx books, and after you read every single one of them, get The Zapatista Reader. Go to your local library or whatever and look it up. They should have it.

[Hampton]

You know it!

http://www.uiowa.edu/~gelit/books/images/malcolm.jpg

[captain anarchy]

anything by edgar allen poe, poppy z. brite, shakespeare, chauncer, the kurt cobain journals, the anarchist cook book, the big book of mischeif, the terrorist hand book, anything about che, anything by anne rice, steven king, the jesus mysteries.