Since I'm going through a period where I want to increase my theoretical and historical knowledge of socialism in my process of reevaluating my politic position with in socialism (I still, as I said in the ex-trot group, currently uphold Marx, Engels and Lenin though), so I'm looking for book suggestions about Marxism-Leninism. I'm mainly looking for a book that is as close as you can get to being unbiased about the Soviet Union during Stalin's life, any books that explain Marxism-Leninism not written by Lenin (extra points if it's by Stalin), and anything other books you suggest I read. I do want to say to the Hoxhaists here, as much as I enjoy your posts involving Hoxha's writings, I want to hold of on that until I have a greater knowledge of about what Marxism-Leninism entails before I read anything by him. Though I know I plan get to some of his stuff eventually.
http://www.marxists.org/reference/ar...nism/index.htm This is very good. http://www.marxists.org/archive/luka...enin/index.htm I like this a lot aswell though he went a bit towards the end.
'Fundamentals of Marxism-Leninism' by O. Kuusinen, make sure to get the first edition from 1961 though, rather than the 1963 version. Apparently the second one tries to justify all the "state of the whole people" and other revisionist stuff that they were pushing by that point, whereas the first one only really has the revisionist influence when it's talking about Stalin ie. "he had his contributions but he was rude to everybody and promoted his own personality cult".
Here's a nice study guide for you: http://marxistleninist.wordpress.com/study-guide/
"'Fundamentals of Marxism-Leninism" is the best book you'll find for this topic. You can read it here; http://leninist.biz/en/1963/FML734/index.html It's the 1963 version which is fine for me because I'm not an "anti-revisionist".
[FONT="]Foundations of Leninism by Joseph Stalin, like RedSunRising suggested. That's a must read. Forget the Khrushchevite shit above. [/FONT]
