Custer died for your sins seems pretty good. Also Women, Race, and Class is excellent.
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After several months of hiatus, the theory discussion group will be moving from Matrix to Lemmygrad, and now you (yes, you!) can suggest texts (yes, texts!) for us to read
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FREE EBOOK: The Worldview and Philosophical Methodology of Marxism-Leninism
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This book is so foundational, I think it really should be required reading for any budding comrade. I've read this book once before, and would totally read it again. It does such an excellent job laying out the bedrock that is Dialectical Materialism and the Dialectic Materialist World View. This book synthesizes the philosophical concepts laid out across multiple texts by Lenin, Marx, and Engels into one body of work. Best of all, the PDF is free. This year Luna and her team should be releasing Part 2: Historical Dialectical Materialism, which I'm very excited for.
The only critique I have of this book is the incredibly long and cumbersome title, ha!
"Curriculum of the Basic Principles of Marxism-Leninism, Part 1: The Worldview and Philosophical Methodology of Marxism-Leninism "
What a mouthful.
Luna and her team did an excellent work with this book. Thanks for the recommendation!
My top 3:
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Against Capybaras by Mao Zedong
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"I hate all South American rodents" by V.I. Lenin
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Anti-Duering by Engels (serious)
I have to say #2 is a very slept on work, he goes on to contrast them with the Proletarian spirit of the bever
you're on thin ice
Im just Paraphrasing Lennin, take it up with him
The Wretched of the Earth - Frantz Fanon
The Defeat of One’s Own Government in the Imperialist War?
It may become relevant to a lot of us pretty soon.
Great recommendation! It is already relevant to those of us who live in Europe and the US. Our governments are already involved in an imperialist proxy war which we should do everything we can to make sure they lose.
I would add "On Protracted War", even though it was already chosen a while back, as they work together very well. Haven't read the earlier "On Guerrilla Warfare" but sounds cool too.
I would be curious to read some marxist feminist texts. I've read Make Way for Winged Eros by Kollontai before by chance and thought it was interesting
can someone make some suggestions? I'm not insisting on them for the reading group necessarily
Combahee River Collective and Brixton Black Women's Group manifestos are great:
https://americanstudies.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/Keyword%20Coalition_Readings.pdf
The ABC of Communism - Nikolai Bukharin, Yevgeni Preobrazhensky
Reform or Revolution, Rosa Luxemburg A really good introductory text and one I recommend to anyone just getting into left wing thought.
The red and the green the rise and fall of collectivized agriculture in Marxist regimes / Frederic L. Pryor
If I can pitch a shorter work, it would be Jones Manoel's Western Marxism Loves Purity and Martyrdom, But Not Real Revolution
I think "The National Question" and "Inevitability of Wars Between Capitalist Countries" would be a great follow-up from "The Defeat of One's Government", those texts really compliment each other:
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1924/foundations-leninism/ch06.htm
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1951/economic-problems/ch07.htm
Great suggestions!
Thank you!
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