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
But you could argue that the circumstances might have justified a fight against the Japanese first (though I do not know the exact circumstances behind the war, and I know that Japan had a really nasty history with how they treated Chinese people), so calling it revolutionary defeatism seems strange. I have heard of such a thing when someone (probably Lenin) talked about WWI and how all countries (besides Russia and Serbia, I think?) had their communist parties fight for their motherland rather than seizing opportunities or whatever.