It is once again, again, time to collect more suggestions. As usual, texts should be Marxist theory of some kind and will be selected (if appropriate) roughly based on number of upvotes.
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Avoid suggesting the following texts since they’ve already been used:
Previous texts
Marx:
Engels:
Lenin:
- Imperialism, the highest stage of capitalism
- “Left-Wing” Communism: an Infantile Disorder
- The Defeat of One’s Own Government in the Imperialist War
- The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky
- The State and Revolution
- What is to be done?
Stalin:
Mao:
Other:
- Aimé Césaire’s Discourse on Colonialism
- Clara Zetkin’s Fighting Fascism: How to Struggle and How to Win
- Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth (1, 2-3, 4, 5-)
- George Jackson’s Blood in My Eye
- Georges Politzer’s Elementary principles of philosophy
- Kwame Nkrumah’s Neocolonialism, the Last Stage of Imperialism
- Liu Shaoqi’s How to Be a Good Communist
- Michael Parenti’s Blackshirts & Reds
- Roderic Day’s China Has Billionaires
- Roland Boer’s Socialism with Chinese Characteristics: A Concise Guide
- Decolonization is not a metaphor
- Psychological Warfare in the Strategy of Imperialism
And Marx not supporting revolution reeks of Western academia’s attempts to coopt him. I’ve heard that take a lot from specifically college-educated liberals whose only exposure to him was in like introduction to philosophy or sociology.
Yeah, I remember someone here saying that Marx was turned into a mere theorist or something, and it echoes the “liberal effect” that plagues many communist and anti-capitalist figures: they are demonized, ignored, or pacified (in this case, Marx is generally pacified by being turned into “some well-meaning but wrong theorist”. Honestly, are college people the type that is most likely to become communist? I saw a video of a Cuban meeting a college communist (I think it was a skit, but still), and there is this weird assumption that communists are somehow overrepresented by college students (probably from conservatives spreading the cultural Marxism trope, despite that phrase having nothing to do with Marxism).