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.
For those who aren’t interested in participating, is there any particular reason other than the time commitment? Leave your answer in the comments and don’t forget to like and subscribe
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
On War, by Carl Philipp Gottlieb von Clausewitz. This book is very influential on Lenin’s thinking about war, and it influenced the whole Red Army war doctrine. Today with the increasing number of wars and the growing efficacy of asymmetrical warfare in regards to resistance against imperialism, it’s important to understand war, strategy and tactics and it’s ramifications with politics.
Unfortunately, finding a complete copy was apparently quite difficult for me because back when I tried to find a full copy, I just got shorter versions online (I never tried to buy the physical versions).
Edit: Oh, I would also like a discussion on that.
I link one here in the foreword (more intuitive than the one included in the page imo) https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Library:On_War