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I am young (16) yet i have a thrist for leftist books. I have plowed my way haphazardly through "anarchy" by malatesta, the communist manifesto and che guevara : a ravolutionary life, a guid to post war soviet litreture and a collection of the writings of tolstoy. I am now left with a basic understanding of the left, and i thrist for more knowledge. I was wondering if any of the better read members of the community could tell me of another other books as to help my broaden my leftist horizons (i am currently working my way through das kaptial). Maybe even some good right wing stuff, i have read mein kampf and a collection of neitzche's works, and i feel in order to battle the right wing you must understand it first.
Money Is Simply An Interesting Luxury
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Money Is Simply An Interesting Luxury
James Connolly: Collected Works Vol 1 and 2
Connolly was a very good Marxist writer.
“There are no boundaries in this struggle to the death. We cannot be indifferent to what happens anywhere in the world, for a victory by any country over imperialism is our victory; just as any country's defeat is a defeat for all of us.” – Che Guevara
“We still believe that the struggle of Ireland for freedom is a part of the world-wide upward movement of the toilers of the earth, and we still believe that the emancipation of the working class carries within it the end of all tyranny – national, political and social.” – James Connolly
When I first became a marxist, I read a few books by Michael Parenti, one of the few active Marxists in the US. He doesn't write openly about communism, however his writing on current events, capitalism, america, is really good.
http://www.michaelparenti.org
Read up on communist/marxist history, before you head into the heavy philosophical/intellectual stuff. It will give you a better sense of perspective, and you'll appreciate the ideology better...imho, at least.
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.
-- The 2nd Renaissance (Part2), Animatrix
I tend to prefer non-fiction, but if you like fiction, it was written in several biographies that Che and Fidel both liked:
The Citadel
Vanity Fair
Grapes of Wrath
Poetry of Pablo Neruda
Thoreau's works
Jack London's works
In the non-fiction category, go to www.pathfinderpress.com
for some good short writings on current marxism, you may find current events easier to put into perspective.
Now don't forget to re-read:
The New Testament
The Old Testament Proverbs
Good luck and keep reading! Read everything you can get your hands on and remember never to beleive in all of it!
Let us be judged by how we treat the least among us....Supermodel, rubia y descamisada...
In Defense Of Anarchism by Robert Paul Wolff
this one may be a little hard to find, as i think it is out of print, but i found a copy of it, and liked it a lot. short (82 pages), but very good.
"...in our kiss we taste revolution." - The (International) Noise Conspiracy
"The world is full of ideologies that claim to offer freedom, but in reality simply offer us bigger cages and longer chains. The demand for an end to cages and chains may seem idealistic to some people, but the real idealists are those who think we can carry on as we are." - Larry Law
Third World Forum
Students for Justice in Palestine - Davis
Jack London? He was a racist..but a good author though
"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why they are poor, they call me a communist." -- Hélder Pessoa Câmara
Downsize This!- Michael Moore
The Spanish Civil War - Antony Beevor
Hidden Agenda- John Pilger
Angles On Anarchism - George Walford (panflet)
The Abolishion On Britain - Peter Hitchens
Critical Thinking,an introduction to the basic skill,3rd edition - Willaim Hughes
Homage To Catalonia - George Orwell
You Can't Be Neutral On A Moving Train - Howard Zinn (autobiography)
Terrorism And War - Howard Zinn
and if you don't belive that fun is a bougieois indulgance, TV Go Home and The Onion rule the earth.
(the onion is avliable to read online at www.theonion.com and you can get a couple of fuckin A periodicals in some bookshop.TVGH is no longer updated at the site but find the book if you can)
All that should feed your mind for abit.
Welcome aboard
chris
\"A year on from September 11th the question we should all be asking ourselves is,\" where was Spider Man?\"
" State and Revolution" by Lenin
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" Scientific Communism" ( of course , if you find it in English).
I think George Orwell's books are great for younger readers. My first commie book, which I read in January this year, was Animal Farm by George Orwell and I enjoyed it. I read 1984 after it and probably enjoyed it more. So that is my advice! READ ORWELL!
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the revolution betrayed - trotsky
also, read some of pablo neruda's poetry if you can. i like "i can write the saddest lines"
Property Is Theft.
you do realize that Animal Farm was anti communist?
Even though George Orville was a socialist.
"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why they are poor, they call me a communist." -- Hélder Pessoa Câmara
WRONG
animal farm was anti-stalinist, not anti-communist. George Orwell supported the bolshevik revolution and Trotsky.
Are you sure he was a Trotskyist? In Homage to Catalonia he describes being aligned with the anarcho-syndicalist POUM.
“There are no boundaries in this struggle to the death. We cannot be indifferent to what happens anywhere in the world, for a victory by any country over imperialism is our victory; just as any country's defeat is a defeat for all of us.” – Che Guevara
“We still believe that the struggle of Ireland for freedom is a part of the world-wide upward movement of the toilers of the earth, and we still believe that the emancipation of the working class carries within it the end of all tyranny – national, political and social.” – James Connolly
Orwell had no truck with Communist Parties,mainly because of their shamefull lies and plotting he witness when fighting with the POUM.
He was also very weary of the Left press aswell for the same reason.
He was a revoultionary Socialists ,which pretty much rules you out of working with the likes of Commie Party anyway!
\"A year on from September 11th the question we should all be asking ourselves is,\" where was Spider Man?\"
Orwell often described himself as a democratic socialist.
“There are no boundaries in this struggle to the death. We cannot be indifferent to what happens anywhere in the world, for a victory by any country over imperialism is our victory; just as any country's defeat is a defeat for all of us.” – Che Guevara
“We still believe that the struggle of Ireland for freedom is a part of the world-wide upward movement of the toilers of the earth, and we still believe that the emancipation of the working class carries within it the end of all tyranny – national, political and social.” – James Connolly
www.ratm.com has a great reading list that is full of leftist books as well as very creative and origianl books. I've read all of the books on it that i can find, they were all good.
The people are afraid poorly. Poor is not the socialism. We diligently struggle positively to construct. But, in the good heart's core, the dignity and just forever is higher than richly. We forever and peace-loving people in same place. The formidable imperialism dares rampant. Then, we must fight with it. We do not need too to argue. Practice. We must win. The world people unite as one, does not divide the belief nationality and the region. Our friendship long live.
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Dude, Napoleon was Stalin and Snowball was Trotsky! Snowball was portrayed as good because Orwell liked Trotsky and communism! He hated stalinism and portrayed Napoleon as a *****
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Captain Blackadder: You see, Baldrick, in order to prevent war two great super-armies developed. Us, the Russians and the French on one side, Germany and Austro-Hungary on the other. The idea being that each army would act as the other's deterrent. That way, there could never be a war.
Private Baldrick: Except, this is sort of a war, isn't it?
Captain Blackadder: That's right. There was one tiny flaw in the plan.
Lieutenant George: O, what was that?
Captain Blackadder: It was bollocks.
