Greatest Left-Wing Readings

[blueeyedboy]

Hi comrades, I was wondering what everyones top ten lefist texts are and to post them on here. I didn't know where to post this topic, so I put it here. I'm asking because I'm trying to get my friend to acquire leftist views and I need a top ten from anyone willing to post theirs on here. I've already got Lenin's State and Revolution and Rosa Luxembourg's Accumalation Of Capital.

All the left spectrum would be good, and I would prefer if you can read these texts on the Internet, marxists.org would be a good start.

Thanks

[Bolshevist]

Hi mate

Some good material here: http://www.marxist.com/marxist-books.htm

:)

[Dominicana_1965]

Well one of my favorites is of course :

Che Guevara-A Revolutionary Life- by Jon Lee Anderson.

Its not online but if you want to read a review on it. Heres the link...i highly recommend it.
Its 700+ pages of good information on Che/Fidel/Cuban Revolution..but overall Che's life.



http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearc...802135582&itm=1 (http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&EAN=9780802135582&itm=1)

[chimx]

personally i prefer to read history books over theory books. too often the historic circumstances that the latter was written isn't taken into account, yet people still dogmatically cling to them as holding truth, despite being inherently anachronistic.

that said, i particularly enjoy:

The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte by Karl Marx
The Subversion of Politics by George Katsiaficas
The Bolsheviks Come to Power by Rabinowitch
Origins by Bruce Cummings

[Red Menace]

I guess the communist manifesto goes unsaid then :D

[sav]

Three I've recently enjoyed:

God and the State - Bakunin
http://www.infoshop.org/library/index.php/...d_and_the_State (http://www.infoshop.org/library/index.php/Mikhail_Bakunin:God_and_the_State)


Anarchism - Kropotkin
http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archi...ilandideal.html (http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/kropotkin/philandideal.html)


Anarchism: What it realy stands for - Goldman
http://www.audioanarchy.org/emma.php#comments

[Cryotank Screams]

Mutual Aid: Theory of Evolution by Peter Kropotkin.
Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin.
Fields, Factories, and Workshops by Peter Kropotkin.
Marxism, Freedom, and the State by Mikhail Bakunin.
Der Einzige und sein Eigentum by Max Stirner.

[Vargha Poralli]

I have read :

The Communist Manifesto - Marx and Engels.
The History of Russian Revolution Volume 1 - Leon Trotsky.
The Lessons of October - Leon Trotsky.

Currently Reading :

The Capital volume 1 - Karl Marx.
My Life - Leon Trotsky.
History of Russian Revolution Volume 2 - Leon Trotsky.
10 days that shook the world - John Reed.
The Part Played by Labour in the Transition from Ape to Man - Engels

;)

[Cloud]

I'd say my top ten varies. Not everything on it is theoretical but leftist.

(In no particular order)
1. Our Enemies in Blue
2. The Communist Manifesto
3. Scientific Socialism
4. State and Revolution
5. Chomsky on Anarchism
6. Anarcho-syndicialism
7. Capital: Volume 1
8. Capital: Volume 2
9. The foundations of Leninism
10. The New Class

Of course i'd recommend others but I just sort of liked all those. Of course some are those are more advanced works and some pre-research is needed, never the less though, they are good.

[Zeruzo]

1. Collected works of Mao tse-tung
2. Basic principles of Leninism - Joseph Stalin
3. Restoration of capitalism in the USSR - W.B. Bland
4. Rosa would not stand up - Martin Luther King
5. History of the communist party of the Soviet Union
6. The Chinese road to socialism - Wheelwright & McFarlane
7. Another view of Stalin - Ludo Martens
8. Blackskirts and reds - Michael Parenti
9. USSR, the velvet counter-revolution - Ludo Martens
10. Marxism and the national question - Joseph Stalin

I'll see if i can find on-line sources of these.

1. http://www.marx2mao.com/Mao/Index.html (It's the selected works though, not the collected ones)
2. http://www.marx2mao.com/Stalin/FL24.html (The foundations of Leninism)
3. http://website.lineone.net/~comleague/book/ussrindex.html
4. So it has a different name in english >_> It's 'stride towards freedom'. Well, i did my best... couldn't find it on-line. So here's amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Stride-Toward-Freedo...y/dp/0062504908 (http://www.amazon.com/Stride-Toward-Freedom-Montgomery-Story/dp/0062504908)
5. http://www.marx2mao.com/Other/HCPSU39NB.html
6. Nope, no on-line resource... http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/085...mofficialbooks/ (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0853451508/mimofficialbooks/)
7. Well, there is this kind of crapy on-line version that only shows parts of the book >_> http://www.plp.org/books/Stalin/book.html
And you can buy it... http://www.epo.be/international/start.php around here i guess :).
8. http://www.michaelparenti.org/BlackShirts.html here's the first part, you can buy the rest... http://www.amazon.com/Blackshirts-Reds-Rat...m/dp/0872863298 (http://www.amazon.com/Blackshirts-Reds-Rational-Overthrow-Communism/dp/0872863298)
9. You can buy it at the same website as 'another view of Stalin'
10. http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/...rks/1913/03.htm (http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1913/03.htm)

[Forward Union]

1. Manifesto of Libertarian Communism (http://flag.blackened.net/af/ace/mlc.html)
2. Marriage and Love (http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/goldman/aando/marriageandlove.html) - Emma goldman
3. God and the State - Bakunin
4. The Communist manifesto
5. Conquest of Bread - Kropotkin
6. Class Warfair - Chomsky
7. We are everywhere

I can't think of any others. 7 isa nice round number.

[Son of a Strummer]

in no particular order:

Unthinking Social Science- Immanuel Wallerstein
Transcritique: on Kant and Marx- Kojin Karatani
Hegemony or Survival- Noam Chomsky
Economic Justice and Democracy- Robin Hahnel
The Theory of the Leisure Class- Thorstein Veblen
Democracy and Economic Planning- Pat Devine
The Great Transformation- Karl Polanyi
Beyond Capital - Michael A. Lebowitz
Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844- Karl Marx
Marx's Ecology- John Bellamy Foster