POL / MARXIST THEORY

MY READING LIST

(do note that this list will take years to finish for some, and I for one am not even halfway through it)
Apologies for any dodgy formatting
Introduction (would recc reading the first five listed here, in order, then go wherever else you want, I have no particular reading order)
Preface and Chapters One through Three of Capital Vol. 1
Critique of the Gotha Programme
Theses on Feuerbach
Address of the Central Committee to the Communist League
Manifesto of the Communist Party
Principles of Communism (it ain't a better introduction than the manifesto, the points on what the Proletariat is are better elaborated on elsewhere, particularly in THQ)
Socialism; Utopian and Scientific
Burning Questions of Our Movement
Three Sources and Components of Marxism
Value Price & Profit
On The Jewish Question (this is also required reading because THERE ARE TOO MANY FUCKING BAUERIANS ONLINE)
Conspectus of Bakunin's Statism and Anarchy Preface and Feuerbach Chapter of The German Ideology On Authority Private Property & Communism (Paris Manu's are a long term read, but this section is important for tracking Old Nick's ideological development) The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky ABC's of Communism The Evolution of Property Historical Materialism 4 Letters on Historical Materialism The German Ideology Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State (much of the anthropology is very outdated, Engels says some wild shit in here [I for one would kill to see an updated version] but it's still a decent work) Onwards Barbarians (read after finishing the above) Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (quite possibly my favorite piece of writing, ever, period) Ethnological Notebooks (disappointingly, this is not about Proletarian race science and why the Engl*sh are genetic hitlerists quite hard to find, but I've heard many good things and have read tract of it myself) Chapter Seven of The Doctrine of Being (How Hegel puts the dialectic on his own terms) The Great Alibi (ignore the preface or just read it on the ICP site) Materialism & Empirio Criticism The Battilocchio in History Critique Of Political Economy Capital Vol 1 Capital Vol 2 Capital Vol 3 (Read all of the volumes, no matter how long it takes. Do not be another Kautsky) Grundrisse (Marx's self referential guide while writing the above three) Theories of Surplus Value The Housing Question Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy Wage Labor and Capital Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism Imperialism & World Economy (More in depth version of the above) The Spirit of Horsepower Doctrine of the Body Possessed by the Devil Murder of the Dead Summary of Marx's Capital The Original Content of the Communist Program Economic Theory of The Leisure Class (Marginaloids btfo) World Revolution and Communist Tactics (generally speaking I dislike the councilists but holy Pancake channeled the ghost of Marx after seeing him in a telescope here) The Tax In Kind (read this or shut up about the NEP) In Defence Of Scientific Socialism State & Revolution The Poverty of Philosophy Fundamentals of Revolutionary Communism Anti-Dühring The Lyons Theses Fundamentals for a Marxist Orientation The Civil War in France Marxism of the Stammerers The Historical 'Invariance' of Marxism Reform or Revolution Reformism in the Russian Social Democratic Movement The Democratic Principle Report on Fascism Terrorism & Communism World Revolution and Communist Tactics Proletarian Internationalism The National Question Formation of the Vietnamese National State The Balkan War War on Behalf of Bourgeois States, National Oppression, Only One Class and Revolutionary Solution Nationalism & Socialism Zimmerwald Conference The Defeat of One's Own Government in the Imperialist War The Right of Nations to Self Determination Anti-Stalinism Dialogue With Stalin (The translation kind of sucks but eh, what'll ya do?) A Revolution Summed Up Why Russia Isn't Socialist (this and the above two are required reading) The Soviet Wages System Prices & Wages in the Soviet Union The Economic and Social Structure of Russia Today Mao's China: Certified Copy of the Bourgeois Capitalist Society Various works by the groups members of the sub tend to identify with (I AM NOT AFFILLIATED WITH ANY MENTIONED) I.C.P: What Distinguishes Our Party Lenin, The Organic Centralist The Unitary and Invariant Body of Party Theses The Communist Party in the Tradition of the Left ICT: For Communism Bordiga, Beyond the Myth & Rhetoric Gramsci: Between Marxism & Idealism Other Paul Lafargue (undertalked about, unjustly so) Clara Zetkin Alexandra Kollontai (her and the above have still relevant work on the Women's Question) Paul Mattick Anton Pannekoek Hermann Gorter (The above three are mixed bags, Mattick has higher highs but lower lows) GegenstandPunkt.com RuthlessCriticism.com (Haven't really gotten anything too wrong out of GSP, but I haven't read their books so I may be mistaken.) Suggestions welcome!

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