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>>22161
based

My Reccs:
Marx's The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital

Lenin's State and Revolution and Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/

Stalin's
Dialectical and Historical Materialism: https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1938/09.htm
Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR: https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1951/economic-problems/index.htm

Mao's Red Treasure Book - the most important excerpts of his Selected Works.

Castro's History Will Absolve Me: https://www.marxists.org/history/cuba/archive/castro/1953/10/16.htm

Parenti's Blackshirt's and Reds (pdf)

The first two are the groundwork of communist theory and understanding capitalism's development, the second is as direct as it gets; the relation of a capitalist or monarchist state relative to a communist Revolution and the intricacies of a revolution as well as the relation to Imperialism. Stalin's works involve a consolidation of Marxist-Leninist ideology, a concrete analysis of how and what Materialism is for socialists and the second work about practical issues and considerations that the first real attempt at socialism has run into. Mao's works are excellent motivators and Castro was a spirited defense of himself and his movement while on trial. Parenti discusses the Post-Soviet Sphere. Losurdo has some similar works as well.

Instead of reading multiple short books, just read Das kapital and Lenin's Imperialism. It's honestly most of what you need.

If you still insist: Gotha is my favorite short text, as it teaches you to show skepticism towards the liberal left. To always ask: "privilege to whom, at what cost, to what extent, to what end?"

I will put down here books I like not of leftypol thought which is really just overthink most of the time. I have put down more than four because that is way too short.

>Confucius
He was the first socialist. He created the idea of human nature as good and the idea of great unity or communism. His school should be studied especially Menicus.

>Tao Te Ching
NEET philosopher Laozi explains his idea of Tao which is superior to old skool Marxist materialism as Tao is an immanent non-transcendent force which is the source of all things whereas Marx idea of matter is really simpleton theory

>Republic Of Plato
Creator of Platonic communism. This is a must read for everybody interested in pol shit. Pay attention to Platos mysticism which is covered up by most Westoid gay "researchers"

>Three Books Of Occult Philosophy by Agrippa
Mostly this is a book of magick and the occult with important stuff relating to transformation and self-transfromation (spiritual alchemy)

>Communist Manifesto
Duh obvious no brainer. Its an easy read too and covers most shit

>Wage Labor and Capital by Marx
Okay so this is easier to read than DAS KAPITAL and is a good intro to that book. Every beginner should read it

>Discipline and Punish by Foucault
Everybody should read this. Its about how disciplinary power and mass surveillance is necessary for capitalism

Grover Furr 's book Khurschev Lied and Dialectical and Historical Materialism by Stalin are the only books you ever need.

Value, Price and Profit + Wage Labour and Capital are the best short introduction to Marxism possible. I don't really know about the other two. Terminator vs Avatar by Mark Fisher is also a text that is essential for modern Marxists, but it would violate your second rule.

>>22180
Yeah I can tell some people read that and only that

>>22183
Recommanding a falsifier and a schizo to understand Marxism instead of Marx makes me think you glow hard

>>22160
Not capitalist realism, that's for sure. Doomer pessimism.

Capital (By Marx/Engels)
Grundrisse (By Marx)
Dialectics of the Abstract and the Concrete in Marx's Capital (By Evald Ilyenkov)
Thinking and Speech (By Lev Vygotsky)

This is literally all you'll ever need. The highest kernel of truth is hidden here, maybe revelations have further requisites, but in the end, ultimately, these 4 texts contain the answers. BUT WHAT ABOUT MY POST LEFTISM, WHAT ABOUT CONTINTENTAL CRITICAL THEORY BLAH BLAH BLAH, PSYCHOANALYSIS ETC.
No. I've been there anon, I've been to the end of the earth and back. And, in truly Hegelian fashion, like the dialectical loop of reality's limit-point, where does all of that lead you…? As they say, "Back to me."

>>22237
P.S. there is… one more text beyond all of this. But that's too high power level for this place so I won't disclose it. Maybe one day you'll all come to understand.

>>22160
>essential, uncomplicated and short
Umberto Eco's pamphlet on fascism. It's timeless. lt's on libgen.is

read postmodernist lit instead Its better than leftypol marxoid garbej

The Communist Manifesto (read Fight for Socialism by Max Shachtman if it's too hard for you, ignore all the nonsense he says about state capitalism)

State and Revolution

Imperialism

Lessons of October by Trotsky

>>22243
It's also wrong/liberal analysis

Start with Rousseau's Discourse On Inequality and The Social Contract. Then move on to the Economic and Political Manuscripts of 1844 and the Manifesto.

Then read Baudrillard's Mirror of Production and Passwords along with Foucault's History of Sexuality. You will have ceased to be a Marxist and ascend to post-leftism. Then this site will become totally useless to you and you will find yourself coming here less and less.

>>22161
Good list. For Direct Action it seems like someone search and replaced every instance of "man" or male pronouns for "woman" and female pronouns for some reason; it uses the wrong pronouns for Moritz Rittinghausen, for example. Made me kek when I realized it, what a strange thing for someone to do.

>>22181
I'd add the Lenin three component parts of marxism one

I always recommend Bullshit Jobs. It's not the best book on leftism by a long shot, but it's a very accessible one that deals in issues most people are already kind of aware of. It's good for dealing with people who are otherwise politically illiterate.

>a bunch of theory kiddies recommending continental sloppa in a starter pack thread
Dimwit pseudointellectualism is quite funny

>>22160
capital, cgp, the communist manifesto and the anti-duhring

Bumping for uncomplicated theory

>>22160
Socialism, Utopian and Scientific - Engels
Wage Labour and Capital - Marx
Value, Price and Profit - Marx
Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism - Lenin

idk if 4 is enough

Value Price and Profit
Wage Labour and Capital
Principles of Communism
Critique of the Gotha Programme
The German Ideology
Anti-Duhring
Socialism Utopian and Scientific
What is to be Done
State and Revolution
Imperialism
Foundations of Leninism
The National Question
On Contradiction
On Practice
Combat Liberalism

Capital V1
Capital V2
Capital V3
Grundrisse

What about chapters of longer works?

>>22886
Chapters of volume 1 in this order: 10, 13 through 15, 26 through 33 with appendix on the value-form.

Technically one (1) book.

1) Engels - The Principles of Communism
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/11/prin-com.htm

2) Lenin - Karl Marx
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1914/granat/index.htm

3) Marx - Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/preface.htm

4) Marx - Critique of the Gotha Programme
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1875/gotha/

>>22993
On Contradiction is like one of those vaguely anti-capitalist economics books, that articulate a lot of marxist concepts in a subtly worse way, but for dialectics. It might be a good introduction to some people. Mao famously had an instinctive grasp on marxism and only read Capital later in life.

>>22993
Y'know Mao was a better writer for normal people, right?

>>22997
>Mao famously had an instinctive grasp on marxism and only read Capital later in life.
He was an anarchist LARPing (to great success) as a Marxist. It's why the western left idolizes him. If you actually read Marx and take it seriously you wind up like Deng or Xi.