introductionary readinglist (nicked from the aftermath group on facebook)

  1. Sasha
    Sasha
    // INTRODUCTORY TEXTS FOR YOU ALL! \\\

    # LEFT-COMMUNISM ('20s/'50s)
    http://www.marxists.org/subject/left-wing/
    - Vladimir Lenin, "Left-Wing Communism: an Infantile Disorder"
    https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1920/lwc/
    - Anton Pannekoek, "Party and Class"
    http://www.marxists.org/archi…/pannekoe/1936/party-class.htm
    - Herman Gorter, "Open letter to comrade Lenin":
    http://www.marxists.org/archive/…/1920/open-letter/index.htm
    - Otto Ruhle, "The struggle against fascism begins with the struggle against bolshevism"
    http://www.marxists.org/archive/ruhle/1939/ruhle01.htm
    - Amadeo Bordiga,
    "The democratic principle"
    http://www.marxists.org/…/wor…/1922/democratic-principle.htm
    "Seize Power or Seize the Factory?"
    http://www.marxists.org/…/bordiga/works/1920/seize-power.htm
    - "Bilan", articles about spanish revolution
    http://www.international-communist-party.org/…/Texts/SpainB…
    - Philippe Bourrinet, "The 'bordigist' current (1912-1952)"
    https://libcom.org/…/p.bourrinet%20-%20the%20'bordigist'%20…

    # POST-LEFTCOM/ULTRALEFT ('60s/'70s)
    - G. Dauvé,
    "The story of our origins"
    http://libcom.org/library/the-story-of-our-origins-dauve
    "The renegade Kautsky and his disciple Lenin" http://www.prole.info/texts/kautsky_lenin.html
    "Capitalism and Communism"
    http://libcom.org/library/capitalism-communism-gilles-dauve
    - G. Debord, "Society of Spectacle"
    http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/debord/society.htm
    - OJTR, "Militancy, highest stage of alienation"
    http://web.archive.org/…/www.geociti…/~johngray/milititl.htm
    - La Guerre Sociale, "The question of the state"
    http://web.archive.org/…/www.geocities…/~johngray/questa.htm
    - J. Camatte,
    "The democratic mystification"
    http://www.marxists.org/archive/camatte/demyst.htm
    "Capital and Community"
    http://www.marxists.org/archive/camatte/capcom/

    # COMMUNISATION THEORIES
    - Troploin (Dauvè&Nesic), introduction to communisation
    http://libcom.org/library/communisation
    - Endnotes, #1, "Preliminary materials for a balance sheet of the 20th century" (Troploin vs Theorie Communiste)
    http://endnotes.org.uk/issues/1
    - Théorie Communiste, "Who are we?"
    http://libcom.org/library/who-are-we
    - Bruno Astarian website, "Hic Salta"
    http://www.hicsalta-communisation.com/
    - SIC, International Journal for Communisation
    http://sic.communisation.net/
    - Bernard Lyon, "We are not 'Anti'" https://www.facebook.com/…/We%20are%20not%20Anti%20-%20Bern…
    - V.A. , "Communization and its discontents"
    http://libcom.org/…/communization-its-discontents-contestat…

    # GENDER
    - Silvia Federici, "Caliban and the witch"
    http://libcom.org/files/Caliban%20and%20the%20Witch.pdf
    - Roland Simon, "Gender distinction, programmatism and communisation"
    http://libcom.org/…/gender-distinction-programmatism-commun…
    - Maya Andrea Gonzalez, "Communization and the abolition of gender"
    http://libcom.org/library/communization-abolition-gender
    - Endnotes, #3, "The logic of gender"
    http://endnotes.org.uk/en/endnotes-the-logic-of-gender

    # CRITIQUE OF POLITICAL ECONOMY
    - K. Marx, "Results of the Direct Production Process" (unedited draft chapter 6 of Capital)
    http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1864/economic/
    - R. Rosdolsky, "The Making of Marx's 'Capital'" (PDF)
    http://gruppegrundrisse.files.wordpress.com/…/rosdolsky-the…
    - I. Rubin, "Essays on Marx's theory of value"
    http://www.marxists.org/archive/rubin/value/
    - P. Mattick, "Economic Crisis and Crisis Theory"
    http://www.marxists.org/archive/matt...l/1974/crisis/
    - M. Heinrich, "An introduction to the three volumes of Karl Marx's Capital"
    http://leandromarshall.files.wordpress.com/…/heinrich-micha…

    # RACE & CULTURE
    - Adolph Reed, "Black Particularity Reconsidered"
    https://libcom.org/…/black-particularity-reconsidered-adolp…
    - Adolph Reed, "Django Unchained, or, The Help: How “Cultural Politics” Is Worse Than No Politics at All, and Why"
    http://nonsite.org/…/django-unchained-or-the-help-how-cultu…

    # ON THE RUSSIAN/SOVIET QUESTION
    - Loren Goldner, "The Agrarian Question in the Russian Revolution: From Material Community to Productivism, and Back"
    http://insurgentnotes.com/…/the-agrarian-question-in-the-r…/

    # VARIOUS STUFF
    - Krisis, "Manifesto Against Labour"
    http://www.krisis.org/1999/manifesto-against-labour
    - Riff-Raff, http://www.riff-raff.se/en/
    - Monsieur Dupont, "Nihilist communism"
    http://libcom.org/library/nihilist-c...onsieur-dupont
    - Sam Moss, "The impotence of the revolutionary group"
    http://www.lettersjournal.org/moss.html
    - Grandizo Munis, "Unions Against Revolution"
    http://libcom.org/…/Grandizo%20Munis-%20Unions%20against%20…
    - Tiqqun,
    "The coming insurrection"
    http://bloom0101.org/thecominginsurrection.pdf
    "Raw materials for a theory of the Jeune-Fille"
    http://libcom.org/files/jeune-fille.pdf
    - Dauvé, "Letter on animal liberation"
    http://libcom.org/…/letter-on-animal-liberation-gilles-dauve
    - Loren Goldner webpage:
    http://home.earthlink.net/~lrgoldner/
    - Gruppen: Why anti-national?
    http://www.jungelinke.de/en/why-anti-national
  2. Ethics Gradient, Traitor For All Ages
    Ethics Gradient, Traitor For All Ages
    Hey cool, some activity here. Want to read some of these collectively and discuss? Probably one on the short side, based on passed revleft reading group experiences. Id suggest the Lenin piece first since it's relatively short
  3. Ele'ill
    Ele'ill
    yes can this happen plz
  4. BIXX
    BIXX
    Count me in nerds

    I'd be interested in anything communization/tiqqun etc...
  5. Luc
    Luc
    Thanks for posting this Sasha!