Commie Reading List?

[Matty_UK]

Some local comrades are setting up a marxist reading group and the first meeting is tomorrow where we're going to discuss what we would like to read etc....I can't really think of any books in particular that would be interesting that I haven't already read, so could anyone recommend me some stuff?

[Leo]

The Accumulation of Capital by Luxemburg

History and Class Consciousness by Lukacs

[TheDifferenceEngine]

Das capital and the manifesto

1984 and animal farm. (To keep you from making mistakes.)

[Okocim]

Lenin - State and Revolution (http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/index.htm)

[Leo]

Also,

"Open Letter to Comrade Lenin" by Herman Gorter

"Lyon Theses" by Amadeo Bordiga

[The Author]

Frederick Engels, "The Bakuninists at Work"

http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works...kunin/index.htm (http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1873/bakunin/index.htm)

Joseph Stalin, "Marxism and the National Question"

http://www.marx2mao.com/Stalin/MNQ12.html

[nickdlc]

Bolsheviks and Workers Control by Maurice Brinton
should be on libcom

[ComradeRed]

Das Kapital, The Communist Manifesto, and (well) anything by Marx or Engels really.

I wouldn't suggest reading Lenin or anyone else until you have read Marx extensively.

Just my "bias".

[OneBrickOneVoice]

The Civil War in France - Karl Marx

What is to be Done? - Lenin

Cuba: Dictatorship or democracy? - Marta Harnecker

[Red October]

the russian revolution - trotsky

[rouchambeau]

Pretty much anything by Gilles Dauve.

[Lamanov]

Karl Marx: Civil War in France
Anton Pannekoek: Workers' Councils
Gilles Dauvé: When Insurrections Die
Guy Debord: Proletariat as Subject and Representation from The Society of the Spectacle
Aufheben: What was the USSR?

[More Fire for the People]

Karl Marx & Fredrick Engels —
Wage-Labor and Capital
The Civil War in France
Ludwig Feuerbach

Vladimir Lenin —
What is to be done?
The State and Revolution
The Immediate Tasks of the Soviet Government

Leon Trotsky —
The Permanent Revolution
The Revolution Betrayed
The Transitional Program for Socialist Revolution

Others —
Workers' Opposition by Alexandra Kollontai
Reform or Revolution? by Rosa Luxemburg
Theses on History by Walter Benjamin

[sri]

Biography of Karl Marx

Communist manifesto

[Okocim]

Originally posted by [email protected] 7 2006, 05:57 PM
Biography of Karl Marx

Communist manifesto
a biography of Marx? :huh:

surely that's likely to only confuse matters by putting in the author's bias and own interpretation of what Marx himself wrote?

[LoneRed]

the most "objective" and the most information is

Karl Marx- David McClellan

or something like that

[sonofthedog]

Marxism/Socialism:
"Socialism: Utopian & Scientific" - Engels
"State & Revolution" - Lenin
"The Revolution Betrayed" - Trotsky
"Left-wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder" - Lenin
"The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte" - Marx
"Building the Party" - Tony Cliff
"Lenin & the Revolutionary Party" - Paul Le Blanc
"Imperialism" - Lenin
"The Origins of the Family, Private Property, and the State" - Engels
"Their Morals and Ours" - Trotsky
"Reform or Revolution?" - Luxembourg

Economics:
"Capital" Vol. I - Marx
"Explaining the Crisis" - Chris Harman
"Capitalism & Slavery" - Eric Williams
"Labor & Monopoly Capital" - Harry Braverman


Labor Movement:
"Strike!" - Jeremy Brecher
"The Teamster Rebellion" - Farrell Dobbs
"Subterranean Fire" - Sharon Smith
"Striking Flint" - Susan Rosenthal

Racism/Sexism:
"Class, Race, & the Civil Rights Movement" - Jack Bloom
"How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America" - Manning Marable
"Black Liberation and Socialism" - Ahmed Shawki
"Covering Islam" - Edward Said
"Women & Socialism" - Sharon Smith
"The Emancipation of Women" - Lenin
"Personal Politics: The Roots of Women's Liberation" - Sara Evans

[sonofthedog]

Also, a good semi-biography of Marx, and more importantly, how Marx developed Marxism, is Michael Lowy's "The Theory of Revolution in the Young Marx".

[Leo]

So, uh, Matty, how did the reading group meeting go?

[TheDifferenceEngine]

gurilla warfare- che guevara
art of war- sun tzu
the prince- machiavelli

[The Author]

I think it is extremely important to read these two works, especially if one wants to understand how the transition from capitalism to communism is to be made successfully:

Karl Marx, "Critique of the Gotha Program"

http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works...gotha/index.htm (http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1875/gotha/index.htm)

Frederick Engels, "On Authority"

http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works...0/authority.htm (http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1872/10/authority.htm)

[Marxist-Anarchist]

"Homage to Catalonia" by George Orwell

[Son of a Strummer]

Build It Now! Socialism for the 21st Century- Marxist economist Michael A. Lebowitz's newest book about strategies for realizing socialism. Up-to-date and totally state of the art critque and construction.

[Matty_UK]

Originally posted by Leo [email protected] 8 2006, 03:00 PM
So, uh, Matty, how did the reading group meeting go?
Pretty good cheers, we just basically wrote down the books suggested and we're tryin to see which ones we can get a hold of them but in the meantime we're just doing Capital, which I thought was a bit of a boring and obvious choice but I suppose it's something that has to be read really.

Cheers for all the suggestions guys.

[Leo]

Pretty good

It's good to hear that :)


we just basically wrote down the books suggested and we're tryin to see which ones we can get a hold of them but in the meantime we're just doing Capital, which I thought was a bit of a boring and obvious choice but I suppose it's something that has to be read really.

Oh, that's not gonna be an easy read, it is a pretty good idea to read that with a group. Well, good luck with it man

[Vyru]

Guerilla warfare by Che Guevara is good (Dunno if it's been suggested already).

Also Che - Images of a revolutionary published by new internationalist and Guerilla by David Rooney

[Marx_1369]

Originally posted by [email protected] 7 2006, 02:11 AM
Das Kapital, The Communist Manifesto, and (well) anything by Marx or Engels really.

I wouldn't suggest reading Lenin or anyone else until you have read Marx extensively.

Just my "bias".


I have to agree fully...

This is good information.