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What are the top five foundational texts (according to you)?
If you could only choose five texts to recommend to somebody else, what would you choose? Especially foundational texts, i.e texts that contain critical theories or insights about key struggles and issues. I'm not sure myself, but I'd be sure to include Capital. I'm interested to see what others pick.
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Surprised this thread didn't get picked up. Seems to have some potential.
I think Anti-Duhring was good, and its reworking Socialism: Utopian and Scientific. Other than that, there's not really complete works that I would consider foundational, that I would consider whole and complete enough to deserve that list. Yeah, Kapital I suppose.
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Antiduehring and On the Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State by Engels, The State and the Revolution, by Lenin, In Defence of Marxism by Trotsky and either Cuba and Marxist Theory by the Revolutionary Tendency of the SWP or World Prospect for Socialism by the SLL.
IMHO all texts are important together and worthless alone. But The German Ideology alone can be used as the base for the Marxist Philosophy, but I don't know if this is correct (I have about 6 books by Marx and Engels, noone too large or costly.)
In order of preference:
Foundation and Empire (1952)
Foundation (1951)
Second Foundation (1953)
Prelude to Foundation (1988)
Foundation's Edge (1982)
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
- Hanlon's Razor
From what I've actually read myself:
Wage labour and capital - Marx
Origins of the family, private property and the state - Engels
State and revolution - Lenin
On practice and On contradiction - Mao
Dialectical and Historical Materialism - Stalin
Ah, the Stephenie Meyer's of Marxism.
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
- Hanlon's Razor
Baedan 1, 2, 3
Hostis
Anything by tiqqun
Guy hoquenguem (I absolutely butchered that spelling).
Alfredo m bonano
Renzo novatore
I've forgotten some but there are many more good ones.
"I'm not interested in indulging whims from members of your faction."
Seeing as this is seen as acceptable by an admin, from here on out when I have a disagreement with someone I will be asking them to reference this. If you want an explanation of my views, too bad.
Capital - Marx
The German Ideology - M&E
State & Revolution - Lenin
In Defence of Marxism - Trotsky
The Struggle for a Proletarian Party - Cannon
Lyrics to the Big Rock Candy Mountains.
3 volumes of capital.
[Insert other]
I'm bound to stay
Where you sleep all day
Where they hung the jerk
That invented work
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains.
Das Kapital 1,2,3. Rigid theoretical work of Marx. All up to you to improvise a la Fidel Castro, Che Guevarra and Josef Stalin.
