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    gonna be bored as fuck this summer so i was wondering if anyone had any suggestions for books i could read about communism and socialism and how they work more. i would like to get books that i dont have to pay much money for so if you could suggest some books i can get at the library or online for free that would be great
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    I found the Cambridge Companion to Marx at my local library; it seemed as a relatively good marx summary to me.

    I just received my autographed copy of Killing Hope by William Blum, I plan on spending the rest of the summer on it.
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    Here's a heavy, if you want: Russia At War (1941-1945) by Alexander Werth.

    Lots of detail, interviews, personal anecdotes and I think it's a good read because it was written from the perspective of a Russian who wasn't a commie, so you won't find any discrepancies in detail (most official Soviet accounts of WW2 included bloated figures of death tolls and casualties of war; for purely propaganda purposes).
    The prolonged barrage engulfed Zero-One in the glow of a thousand suns. But unlike their former masters with their delicate flesh, the machines had little to fear of the bombs' radiation and heat. Thus did Zero-One's troops advance outwards in every direction. And one after another, mankind surrendered its territories. So the leaders of men conceived of their most desperate strategy yet. A final solution: the destruction of the sky.
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    I like biographies myself, so go to the library and pick up biographies of Marx, Lenin, Stalin, and Mao.
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