If you want to learn more then you should read those two. What have you read? I would stick in The German Ideology up there as well as Hal Draper's Two Souls of Socialism and Lenin's State and Revolution.
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Literature to help me understand further the concepts of socialism ?
Anyone know any good books I could read ?
i.e. communist manifest, Das Kapital etc.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks.
'A REVOLUTIONARY has no personal interests, only his PASSION for the REVOLUTION itself'
If you want to learn more then you should read those two. What have you read? I would stick in The German Ideology up there as well as Hal Draper's Two Souls of Socialism and Lenin's State and Revolution.
Non-Market Socialism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries by Maximilien Rubel and John Crump.
Mein Kampf by you-know-who. After all, it IS the go-to book for socialism, on a national level.
Just kidding
But yeah, +1 for Communist Manifesto and Capital, some stuff by Lenin, sure, but if you really want to get a broad knowledge of socialism, I'd recommend going on here: http://marxists.org/archive/index.htm and going through all the major, important figures on here, and read their important works (which are generally bolded so that you can notice them easier). Anything from Marx, to Engels, to Kautsky, to Lenin, Trotsky, and even Stalin. Major figures and their major works are my suggestions.
It is not hard to guess who'll win a fight between ballots and bullets. - Alexander Berkman
http://www.revleft.com/vb/revleft-co...001/index.html
http://www.revleft.com/vb/revleft-re...793/index.html
Just pick out whatever has the most appealing title y0.
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Anarchism: a system involving no government, invented by the Sex Pistols.[/FONT]
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Economic: -55 billion
Wage Labor and Capital by Marx
Value Price and Profit by Marx
Reform or Revoluton by Rosa Luxemburg as well.
If you can find Ernst Fischer's book Marx in his own Words then I recommend getting it. It has a list of topics that Marx wrote about, has extracts about them from Marx and has some running narrative by Fischer himself, spaced out into a chapter per topic. It's a small book and is quite easy to read.
Trying to read 'The accumulation of capital', any additional Luxemburg essentials?
Engels has a great 'Catechism' on Communism you might find valuable.
