Socialist Books

[Brother No. 1]

Comrades what are your favorite Socailist book and whose the author and give your reason why. mine are The Communsit Manifesto,Kapital, and Maos little Red Book. The authors Karl heinrich Marx,Freiedrich egles, and Mao Tse-Tung.Reasons are they tell about my favorite ideals and theroies of my favorite people.

[revolution inaction]

Comrades what are your favorite Socailist book and whose the author and give your reason why. mine are The Communsit Manifesto,Kapital, and Maos little Red Book. The authors Karl heinrich Marx,Freiedrich egles, and Mao Tse-Tung.Reasons are they tell about my favorite ideals and theroies of my favorite people.

have you read them all?

i could really pick individual books, libcom (libcom.org) and the MIA (marxists.org/) are both excellent

[Brother No. 1]

yes I have read those books but your books seem more intersiting

[lombas]

I have read the Communist Manifesto and parts of the Little Red Book and The Capital. Also I've read Mandel's Introduction to Marxist Economy.

However, I would like to read something from Lenin, Trotsky, Kautsky &c. But I really don't know where to begin.

[Dóchas]

I have read the Communist Manifesto and parts of the Little Red Book and The Capital. Also I've read Mandel's Introduction to Marxist Economy.

However, I would like to read something from Lenin, Trotsky, Kautsky &c. But I really don't know where to begin.

if you wat to read something on lenin i think state and revolution is pretty good

[Kassad]

If you're looking to read some of Lenin's works, I would recommend State and Revolution and What is to be Done? I found this book a while ago:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0486253333

It contains the two books listed above, along with The Development of Capitalism in Russia and Imperialism, the Highest State of Capitalism. If you can find it, it's definitely worth picking up. If not, all of these books can either be bought separately, or you can go to www.Marxists.org (http://www.Marxists.org) and find them all online. I find it rather grueling to stare at a computer screen for such an extended period of time, but it's free and convenient.

[lombas]

if you wat to read something on lenin i think state and revolution is pretty good

Yeah, I didn't mean it that way. I know the major works, but just not where to begin. :D

Thanks anyway, kind of you.

Just reminds me: I would also like to read two books from Engels himself: Condition of the Working Class and that thing with the History of the Family. Anti-Dühring might be something for in the future, I don't know if I know enough Marxist theory to cope with that.

[lombas]

If you're looking to read some of Lenin's works, I would recommend State and Revolution and What is to be Done? I found this book a while ago:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0486253333

It contains the two books listed above, along with The Development of Capitalism in Russia and Imperialism, the Highest State of Capitalism. If you can find it, it's definitely worth picking up. If not, all of these books can either be bought separately, or you can go to www.Marxists.org (http://www.Marxists.org) and find them all online. I find it rather grueling to stare at a computer screen for such an extended period of time, but it's free and convenient.

Thanks comrade, access to the works is difficult and also expensive for me, so Marxists.org has been in my bookmarks for a long time. :lol:

[Dóchas]

Yeah, I didn't mean it that way. I know the major works, but just not where to begin. :D

Thanks anyway, kind of you.

Just reminds me: I would also like to read two books from Engels himself: Condition of the Working Class and that thing with the History of the Family. Anti-Dühring might be something for in the future, I don't know if I know enough Marxist theory to cope with that.

well i suppose if you read an autobiography of lenin and read about the russian revolution it would give you a good foundation and then start reading lenins theory like the ones suggested. im planning to do that i just need to get the books but ill be doing it soon enough

[Kassad]

Thanks comrade, access to the works is difficult and also expensive for me, so Marxists.org has been in my bookmarks for a long time. :lol:

Welcome to my life. :laugh:

[revolution inaction]

yes I have read those books but your books seem more intersiting

I'm impressed i'v only got to chapter 3 in Capital

[Brother No. 1]

thank you comrade

[Magdalen]

Does anyone know where I can get hold of a solid copy of Lenin's Imperialism & The Split in Socialism? I've located the text online, but I'd like to get my hands on a proper edition, as I had to give my old copy back to the comrade I'd been borrowing it from for the past year or so. A search of Amazon last week yielded nothing.

[Die Neue Zeit]

I have read the Communist Manifesto and parts of the Little Red Book and The Capital. Also I've read Mandel's Introduction to Marxist Economy.

However, I would like to read something from Lenin, Trotsky, Kautsky &c. But I really don't know where to begin.

You can begin with the Study Groups thread on that profoundly true and important work of 1891-1892 known otherwise in English as The Class Struggle and in the original German as Das Erfurter Programm. :)

[OneNamedNameLess]

I still love Gramsci's Prison Notebooks.

[x359594]

It's not a favorite of mine, but Socialism and America by Irving Howe is a very interesting assessment of the movment in the US by a social democrat stalwart.

[Mister X]

Just reminds me: I would also like to read two books from Engels himself: Condition of the Working Class and that thing with the History of the Family. Anti-Dühring might be something for in the future, I don't know if I know enough Marxist theory to cope with that.

History of the Family is a very good place to start when reading Engels. This will help you to understand Lenin too. It is an easy read, my wife picked it up and read it(and she has no revolutionary knowledge) . After that she told me that it was the only communist book that she did not stopped reading past the 10th page. She was reading it like a maniac and finished it in less than a week. It is a very enjoying read.

As about anti-duhring , don't make the mistake and read it right now. It's very complicated . I had tried to read it once when I was young and couldn't get it. Now I can read it but I still find it tedious and boring.

[Die Neue Zeit]

^^^ In regards to the Anti-Duhring, comrades should skip to the political economy and socialism sections, absorb the material there, and ONLY whenever they've got time for philosophical fancy read the Socialism: Utopian and Scientific pamphlet section on Philosophy.

[duffers]

Always makes me laugh, the irony that socialist books are generally quite expensive.

I've just got a host this Christmas; The Brown Dog Affair by Peter Mason, about the anti-vivisection, and general far left coalition movement in response to a dog being murdered by 'scientists', a book on Peadar O'Donnell, Irish revolutionary, and on a somewhat related note, some Sean O'Casey plays. I have the Communist Manifesto and the Civil War in France by Marx and Engels, and Marx respectively, waiting to be read aswell. I'm swamped.

[LOLseph Stalin]

Wow! I feel so behind in my reading now. I have only read the Communist Manifesto, bits and pieces of Mao's Little Red Book, some article by Engels, and another article by Trotsky.

[LOLseph Stalin]

History of the Family is a very good place to start when reading Engels.

I'll keep that in mind. ^^

[Charles Xavier]

The best beginners works with Engels I would say are On Authority http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1872/10/authority.htm which is a funny little essay and The Principles of Communism http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/11/prin-com.htm