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### Recommended Intros
**[Lenin: The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism](https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1913/mar/x01.htm)**
- Quick lesson on the importance of Political Education from Chairman Fred Hampton **[Fred Hampton on the importance of revolutionary education - Invidious](https://yewtu.be/watch?v=DviCUygm3eM)**
- **[Lenin: The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism](https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1913/mar/x01.htm)**
- **[How Lenin Studied Marx](https://www.marxists.org/archive/krupskaya/works/howleninstudiedmarx.htm)**
**[How Lenin Studied Marx](https://www.marxists.org/archive/krupskaya/works/howleninstudiedmarx.htm)**
- **[The Weapon of Theory by Amilcar Cabral](https://www.marxists.org/subject/africa/cabral/1966/weapon-theory.htm)**
- **[Basic Principles of Marxism-Leninism: A Primer,](https://foreignlanguages.press/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/S20-Basic-Principles-of-ML-A-Primer.pdf) [Jose Maria Sison](https://foreignlanguages.press/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/S20-Basic-Principles-of-ML-A-Primer.pdf)** A comprehensive introduction to Marxism-Leninism, covering the development and theory of dialectical materialism, historical materialism and Marxist-Leninist political economy
- **Decolonial Marxism: Essays from the Pan African Revolution by Walter Rodney** Decolonial Marxism records such a life by collecting previously unbound essays written during the world-turning days of Black revolution. In drawing together pages where he elaborates on the nexus of race and class, offers his reflections on radical pedagogy, outlines programs for newly independent nation-states, considers the challenges of anti-colonial historiography, and produces balance sheets for a dozen wars for national liberation, this volume captures something of the range and power of Rodneys output. But it also demonstrates the unbending consistency that unites his life and work: the ongoing reinvention of living conception of Marxism, and a respect for the still untapped potential of mass self-rule.
**[The Weapon of Theory by Amilcar Cabral](https://www.marxists.org/subject/africa/cabral/1966/weapon-theory.htm)**
**[Basic Principles of Marxism-Leninism: A Primer,](https://foreignlanguages.press/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/S20-Basic-Principles-of-ML-A-Primer.pdf) [Jose Maria Sison](https://foreignlanguages.press/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/S20-Basic-Principles-of-ML-A-Primer.pdf)** A comprehensive introduction to Marxism-Leninism, covering the development and theory of dialectical materialism, historical materialism and Marxist-Leninist political economy
**Decolonial Marxism: Essays from the Pan African Revolution by Walter Rodney**
**[Vita Wa Watu a New Afrikan Theoretical
Journal 1988 Book Twelve](https://brothermalcolm.net/TRANSFORMED/PDF/book12.pdf)** Must Read!
**[Instructions to one studying independentLy by N. K. Krupskaya](https://foreignlanguages.press/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/C35-Krupskaya-On-Education-1st-Printing.pdf)** <mark>Note:</mark> will probably place in section of its own in the repository in conjuction with other education material.
- **[Vita Wa Watu a New Afrikan Theoretical
Journal 1988 Book Twelve](https://brothermalcolm.net/TRANSFORMED/PDF/book12.pdf)** New Afrikans Must Read!
- **[Instructions to one studying independentLy by N. K. Krupskaya](https://foreignlanguages.press/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/C35-Krupskaya-On-Education-1st-Printing.pdf)** <mark>Note:</mark> will probably place in section of its own in the repository in conjuction with other education material.
- Quick lesson on the importance of Political Education from Chairman Fred Hampton [Fred Hampton on the importance of revolutionary education - Invidious](https://yewtu.be/watch?v=DviCUygm3eM)
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- [ELEMENTARY PRINCIPLES of PHILOSOPHY by Georges Politzer](http://www.readmarxeveryday.org/epop/index.html) Beginner Friendly
**List from a user from communism101:**
Primary (chronologically):
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12. **Lenin: Materialism and Empirio-criticism.** After the defeat of the 1905-06 Russian Revolution neo-Kantian and positivist philosophical positions took a hold within the ranks of the Bolsheviks, prompting Lenin to write his longest worked out philosophical work. Building on Engels, Feuerbach and Dietzgen, this is largely focused on epistemology, the theory of science and materialism. Contrary to the popular cliché Lenin is not an undialectical thinker here (he never was).
13. **Lenin: The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism.** Gives a short theorization of the main elements of Marxism as a whole.
14. **Lenin: Philosophical Notebooks.** The core of this is Lenin's study of Hegel's Logic, which is in essence a Marxist demystification of Hegel. These studies were crucial in his theorization of imperialism and the struggle against its effects within the labor movement (the revisionism of the Second International, the national question, the labor aristocracy, etc.). Woefully under read, this is Lenin's most important philosophical work and it has influenced the greatest philosophers in Marxism (Mao, Ilyenkov, Lukács).
15. **Lenin: Karl Marx.** Written during his Hegel studies, this is a masterpiece of theoretical condensation and includes an account of materialist dialectics.
16. **Lenin: Once Again On The Trade Unions.** Forced by the mistakes of Trotsky and Bukharin, Lenin gives a brief but pointed discussion of the basics of dialectics, with an important differentiation to eclecticism (which Marx already always stressed as characteristic for petite bourgeois thought).
17. **Lenin: On the Significance of Militant Materialism.** A brief text in which Lenin stresses the importance of materialist dialectics for the natural sciences in particular as well as the relation of the Marxist philosopher to the natural scientists.
18. **Mao: On Practice** . A fantastically accessible, deep presentation of the basics of dialectical materialism. **Study Guide**
19. **Mao: On Contradiction.** Mao advances the Marxist theory of contradiction in this crucial masterpiece of materialist dialectics. Here as well as in On Practice he built on Lenin's Philosophical Notebooks. **Study Guide** **Must Read!**
20. **Stalin: Dialectical and Historical Materialism**. Stalin's classical presentation. Much maligned and indeed flawed (arguably its greatest error is a complete omission of the core of dialectics, the unity of opposites), this is still a good introductory text to Marxism. It just shouldn't be read as an exhaustive account of Marxism. **Study Guide**
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8. **Ilyenkov: Dialectics of the Abstract & the Concrete in Marxs Capital.** Imo still the finest analysis of Marx' method in Capital.
9. **Lukács: Destruction of Reason.** Lukács investigates the roots of fascist ideology in the tradition of German philosophy (he's not claiming that this is an exclusively German phenomenon) and the causes for the decline of bourgeois philosophy after Hegel, especially after the bourgeoisie had secured its rule in 1871 and the working class had emerged as the new historical force threatening bourgeois society. Not that difficult to read but necessitates some understanding of Hegel to get the central thesis.` 
9. **Lukács: Destruction of Reason.** Lukács investigates the roots of fascist ideology in the tradition of German philosophy (he's not claiming that this is an exclusively German phenomenon) and the causes for the decline of bourgeois philosophy after Hegel, especially after the bourgeoisie had secured its rule in 1871 and the working class had emerged as the new historical force threatening bourgeois society. Not that difficult to read but necessitates some understanding of Hegel to get the central thesis.
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## Historical Materialism
**The Basic Concepts of Historical Materialism by Marta H** <mark>NOTE</mark>: ask for copy being reformated atm
**[Historical Materialism ](https://www.redstarpublishers.org/CornHistMat.pdf)by Maurice Cornforth**
**[Historical Materialism A System of Sociology](https://www.marxists.org/archive/bukharin/works/1921/histmat/index.htm) by Nikolai Bukharin**
- **The Basic Concepts of Historical Materialism by Marta H** <mark>NOTE</mark>: ask for copy being reformated atm
- **[Historical Materialism ](https://www.redstarpublishers.org/CornHistMat.pdf)by Maurice Cornforth**
- **[Historical Materialism A System of Sociology](https://www.marxists.org/archive/bukharin/works/1921/histmat/index.htm) by Nikolai Bukharin**
## Marxist Epistomology
**[Where Do Correct Ideas Come From?, Mao Zedong](https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-9/mswv9_01.htm)** Short piece from Mao Zedong which summarises the dialectical-materialist theory of knowledge that recognises the primary role of practice and experience in developing understanding.
- **[Where Do Correct Ideas Come From?, Mao Zedong](https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-9/mswv9_01.htm)** Short piece from Mao Zedong which summarises the dialectical-materialist theory of knowledge that recognises the primary role of practice and experience in developing understanding.
**[Theory of Knowledge ](https://www.marxists.org/archive/cornforth/1955/theory-knowledge.pdf)by Maurice CornForth**
- **[Theory of Knowledge ](https://www.marxists.org/archive/cornforth/1955/theory-knowledge.pdf)by Maurice CornForth**
## Morality and Ethics
**[Activist Study/Araling Aktabista](https://foreignlanguages.press/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/S22-Activist-Study-ARAK-4th-Printing.pdf)** Part of the Filipino revolutionary curriculum that compiles easy-to-understand lessons on revolutionary attitude, revolutionary
analysis, the mass line and democratic centralism
- **[Activist Study/Araling Aktabista](https://foreignlanguages.press/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/S22-Activist-Study-ARAK-4th-Printing.pdf)** Part of the Filipino revolutionary curriculum that compiles easy-to-understand lessons on revolutionary attitude, revolutionary
analysis, the mass line and democratic centralism
- **[ON THE CORRECT HANDLING OF CONTRADICTIONS AMONG THE PEOPLE ](https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-5/mswv5_58.htm)** By Mao
- **[The Correct Handling of a Revolution, In Defense of Self Defense, The Black Panther, July 20, 1967](https://www.marxists.org/archive/newton/1967/07/20.htm) by Huey P. Newton**
- **[On Communist Ethics](https://www.marxists.org/archive/krupskaya/works/ethics.htm) by Nadezhda Krupskaya**
- TBAH:
- Ho Chi Minhs Essay goes here
- Ajiths Essay on Materialist Ethics
- Engels on Ethics
**[ON THE CORRECT HANDLING OF CONTRADICTIONS AMONG THE PEOPLE ](https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-5/mswv5_58.htm)** By Mao
## Other trends in Philosophy
- Siraj. [***Postmodernism Today: A Brief Introduction***](http://www.bannedthought.net/India/PeoplesMarch/PM1999-2006/publications/post-modernism/contents.htm)  An analysis of postmodernist philosophy and ideology from an explicitly Maoist perspective, demonstrating its reactionary relationship to Marxism, and the way it digests concepts of “power” by neutralizing all strategic discussions of *seizing* power. Siraj uses a plethora of quotations from foundational postmodernist texts, and it can be quite rough-going if one is not familiar with them. Nevertheless it is one of the most important texts on postmodernism given its source and purpose: to vindicate the Marxist method in the 21st century. <mark>WARNING</mark> PEOPLE FROM INDIA DO NOT CLICK ITS FROM BANNED THOUGHT
**[The Correct Handling of a Revolution, In Defense of Self Defense, The Black Panther, July 20, 1967](https://www.marxists.org/archive/newton/1967/07/20.htm) by Huey P. Newton**
**[On Communist Ethics](https://www.marxists.org/archive/krupskaya/works/ethics.htm) by Nadezhda Krupskaya**
TBAH:
Ho Chi Minhs Essay goes here
Ajiths Essay on Materialist Ethics
Engels on Ethics
## Philosophy Media
**[Half Nelson Dialectics Classroom Scenes - Invidious](https://yewtu.be/watch?v=H4J2ArKlxnA)**
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## Political Economy
- The Fundementals of Political Economy **Study Guide Beginner Friendly**
- **Capital I, II, III, Contribution to a critique of political economy**.
- Lenin's [***Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism***](https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/) Lenins work on imperialism remains one of the most important illuminations of the 20th century, and is pivotal to any coherent analysis of capitalism in the modern era. Although much has been added to the body of knowledge and analysis of imperialism since this works
publication, it has not (as some would argue) become obsolete as a
result, but strengthened and verified by more than a hundred years of
experience. This document is at the foundation of modern political
economy, and cannot be neglected.
- **Introduction to Neocolonialism by Jack Woodis** note trying to find a copy
- **Introduction to Neocolonialism by Jack Woodis** **<mark>NOTE</mark>** trying to find a copy
- **Divided World Divided Class by Zac Cope** A thorough expose on the ideology of
first-worldism and its historical and political-economic foundations.
Contains historical analysis of the development of first-worldism,
empirical measurements of international value transfer, and discussion
of implications.
- **Divided World Divided Class: Global Political Economy and the Stratification of Labour Under Capitalism** By Zak Cope
Divided World Divided Class charts the history of the labour aristocracy in the capitalist world system, from its roots in colonialism to its birth and eventual maturation into a full-fledged middle class in the age of imperialism. It argues that pervasive national, racial and cultural chauvinism in the core capitalist countries is not primarily attributable to false class consciousness, ideological indoctrination or ignorance as much left and liberal thinking assumes. Rather, these and related forms of bigotry are concentrated expressions of the major social strata of the core capitalist nations shared economic interest in the exploitation and repression of dependent nations.
The book demonstrates not only how redistribution of income derived from super-exploitation has allowed for the amelioration of class conflict in the wealthy capitalist countries, it also shows that the exorbitant super-wage paid to workers there has meant the disappearance of a domestic vehicle for socialism, an exploited working class. Rather, in its place is a deeply conservative metropolitan workforce committed to maintaining, and even extending, its privileged position through imperialism.
The book is intended as a major contribution to debates on the international class structure and socialist strategy for the twenty-first century
- **Marx and Engels: On Colonies, Industrial Monopoly and the Working Class Movement** A compilation of letters, excerpts and reflections from Marx and Engels on the impact of colonialism and nascent imperialism on the working
class movement, and the development of the embryonic labor aristocracy.
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important concepts in the collection. Also includes an extraordinary
introduction from Torkil Lauesen and Zak Cope putting the contents of
the work into a modern perspective.
- Unequal Exchange
- **Unequal Exchange** By Arghiri Emmanuel
- ManifestCommunist Working Group. [***Unequal Exchange and the Prospects of Socialism***](http://snylterstaten.dk/english/unequal-exchange-and-prospects-socialism-communist-working-group) Unravels the mechanics of unequal exchange using Marxist political
economy, based mainly on the work of Arghiri Emmanuel. Very clear and
accessible. Also contains a solid overview / refresher on foundational
concepts such as value, surplus value, and price. **Beginner Friendly**
- MIM's Imperialism study pack
- **[MIM's Imperialism study pack](http://almhvxlkr4wwj7ah564vd4rwqk7bfcjiupyf7rs6ppcg5d7bgavbscad.onion/archive/books/Economics/ImperialismHighestStageofGlobalCapitalism.pdf)** collection of writings for understanding imperialism <mark>WARNING</mark> use tor
- ***Che Guevara: The Economics of Revolution Yaffe, Helen.*** An important work from Helen Yaffe on the, as yet untranslated, works
on political economy by Che Guevara. The work serves as an in-depth
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opportunists.
- **[Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism](https://archive.org/details/unset0000unse_b2a2), Kwame Nkrumah**
- **[Imperialism in a Coffee Cup, John Smith](https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/oureconomy/imperialism-coffee-cup/)** Short article that illustrates imperialism in the 21st century
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Georgy whatever his name is
MIM Study pack on Facism
MIM Study pack on Fascism
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## Eurocentrism and White Chauvinism
TBA
White BlindSpot
- White BlindSpot
Satres Preface in Wretched of the Earth
- Satres Preface in Wretched of the Earth
Lenins Great Russian Chauvinism essay
Eurocentrism in the Communist movement.
How the Irish became white.
- Lenins Great Russian Chauvinism essay
- Biel Robert. [***Eurocentrism and the Communist Movement***](https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/uk.hightide/euro.pdf)  As the title implies, an extensive discussion of eurocentrism within Marxism. Explores eurocentric theory and practices within the broad communist movement of past and present, and also within the works of Marx and Engels themselves, in order to motivate a genuinely anti-imperialist Marxism.
- How the Irish became white.
## Revolutionary Nationalism
**[Lenin: The Socialist Revolution and the Right of Nations to Self-Determination](https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/jan/x01.htm)**
- **[Lenin: The Socialist Revolution and the Right of Nations to Self-Determination](https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/jan/x01.htm)**
- **[Huey Newton interview On Revolutionary Nationalism and Reactionary Nationalism](https://medium.com/@merricatherine/huey-p-newtons-interview-with-the-movement-magazine-1968-a328e6b78c32)** <mark>NOTE</mark> back this up asap
- **[MIM's Nationalism and Proletarian Feminism Study Pack](http://almhvxlkr4wwj7ah564vd4rwqk7bfcjiupyf7rs6ppcg5d7bgavbscad.onion/archive/books/mt/ProlFemRevNationalism_MIMPrisons.pdf)** <mark>WARNING</mark> USE TOR FOR LINK IT WON'T WORK WITHOUT.
**[Huey Newton interview On Revolutionary Nationalism and Reactionary Nationalism](https://medium.com/@merricatherine/huey-p-newtons-interview-with-the-movement-magazine-1968-a328e6b78c32)**
- **[The National and Colonial Question by Joseph Stalin](https://foreignlanguages.press/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/C28-Marxism-and-the-National-and-Colonial-Question-1st-Printing.pdf)**
**[MIM's Nationalism and Proletarian Feminism](http://almhvxlkr4wwj7ah564vd4rwqk7bfcjiupyf7rs6ppcg5d7bgavbscad.onion/archive/books/mt/ProlFemRevNationalism_MIMPrisons.pdf)**
- **[Message To The Grass Roots - Malcolm X - Invidious](https://yewtu.be/watch?v=a59Kwp35Z80)**
- Memmi, Albert. [***The Colonizer and the Colonized***](https://antiimperialism.files.wordpress.com/2017/01/the_colonizer_and_the_colonized_-_albert_memmi_jean-paul_sartre_nadine_gordimer_1991.pdf) Unpacks the effects of colonialism on both the colonizer and the colonized. A good complementary text to Fanons *Wretched*. Contains great insight into the mindset of the colonizing people,
providing convincing explanations for reaction among poor colonizers.
- <mark>NOTE</mark> Add Ajiths neocolonial mind essay.
## Cuba
"A Nation for All” by Alejandro de la Fuente
find sources on Cuba neocolonialism
Add sources on Cuba's neocolonial relationship with the social imperialist USSR.
## China
- **Science Walks on Two Legs** *description and link to be added later*
- **From Victory to Defeat** How can a country that developed the most advanced socialist society in the history of the world change directions so quickly and so completely? In *From Victory to Defeat* Pao-yu Ching dissects this question, providing economic analysis of what it means to actually “build socialism” with all of the necessary contradictions and obstacles that must be overcome. **[link](https://foreignlanguages.press/new-roads/from-victory-to-defeat-pao-yu-ching/)**
- **bonus video video covering topics from the book** **[China's Socialist Development & Defeat](https://yewtu.be/watch?v=dfV3KhTjZzk&listen=1)**
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###### Polemics of China Under Mao:
Write-ups re-evaluating the cultural revolution from beyond the incoherent praise of GPCR without understanding its dynamics that most parties seem to engage in. Ignore the leading light propaganda though: za
1. **[Two Roads Defeated in the Cultural Revolution (Part 1 of 3): young generals and mass movements &#8211; Leading Light Communist Organization](https://llco.org/two-roads-defeated-in-the-cultural-revolution-part-1-of-3-young-generals-and-mass-movements/)**
2. **[Two Roads Defeated in the Cultural Revolution Part 2: Lin Biaos Road &#8211; Leading Light Communist Organization](https://llco.org/two-roads-defeated-in-the-cultural-revolution-part-2-lin-biaos-road/)**
3. **[Two Roads Defeated Part 3: Proletarian Jacobins &#8211; Leading Light Communist Organization](https://llco.org/two-roads-defeated-part-3-proletarian-jacobins/)**
4. **[Whither China? - Sheng-wu-lien | libcom.org](https://libcom.org/article/whither-china-sheng-wu-lien)**
## New Afrikan
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## Scienetific Socialism
## Scientific Socialism
**Rethinking Socialism**: This essay succinctly answers the question “Is China still socialist?” and tries to give an objective analysis of the reasons behind the defeat of socialism in China. This essay also helps with understanding what is and isn't socialism.
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## Latin Amerika
Galeano, Eduardo. [***Open Veins of Latin America***](http://library.uniteddiversity.coop/More_Books_and_Reports/Open_Veins_of_Latin_America.pdf)  A landmark historical work on the political-economic history of colonialism and neo-colonialism in Latin America from a an unapologetically communist perspective. Galeanos work here serves as an invaluable, albeit intensely depressing, resource on the conquest and domination of an entire continent.
## Additional Resources