>>2925496 The three basic essential starter books that I would advise are the Communist Manifesto
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/Manifesto.pdf , the State and Revolution
https://www.marxists.org/ebooks/lenin/state-and-revolution.pdf , and the German Ideology
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/Marx_The_German_Ideology.pdf , as the Communist manifesto provides a very basic overview of Marxism that is pretty understandable for beginners, the State and Revolution provides an In-depth explanation of the Marxist conception of the State as a Dictatorship of one Class over another, along with the critique of reformist Social Democracy (ie. Karl Kautsky) and a clarification of the fact that Socialism can only be established through a armed Revolution that overthrows the Dictatorship of the Bourgeoisie and replaces it with a Dictatorship of the Proletariat, which is necessary to understand if you want to be a Real Communist (Marxist-Leninist-Maoist), and the German Ideology provides the strongest critique of Idealism combined with the most In-depth articulation of the Materialist Conception of History, in particular the core concepts of the Mode of Production (ie. Primitive Communal, Ancient, Feudal, Capitalist, Socialist, and Communist) and the Base-Superstructure Model (the Marxist conception of Culture, including Religion, Art, Law, Politics, Government, Gender roles, Nationalism, Philosophy, Metaphysics, etc. as an Ideological Superstructure used by the Ruling Class to reinforce the Material Base, ie. Mode of Production, while continuously being shaped by it in a mutually reinforcing dialectical relationship) that are required to grasp the Dialectical Materialism that makes Marxism the Universal/Immortal Scientific Theory of History, Politics, Society, Economics, Culture, etc., and after reading these three texts, then I would move onto Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/imperialism.pdf , Value, Price, and Profit
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/value-price-profit.pdf , Wage, Labour, and Capital
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/wage-labour/ , The Right of Nations to Self-Determination
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1914/self-det/ , Marxism and the National Question
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1913/03a.htm , On Practice
https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/uk.secondwave/practice.htm , On Contradiction
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-1/mswv1_17.htm , On Guerrilla Warfare
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/works/1937/guerrilla-warfare/ , On Protracted War
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-2/mswv2_09.htm , and the Quotations from Mao Tse Tung
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/works/red-book/index.htm , as Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism articulates the Leninist Theory of Imperialism as when Monopolistic Corporations in the Imperial Core export Capital in order to extract cheap labor and raw materials/natural resources from the Periphery, Value, Price, and Profit and Wage, Labor, and Capital, articulate the Marxist analysis of the Capitalist Mode of Production found in Capital: A critique of Political Economy in a much shorter and comprehensible way, the Right of Nations to Self-Determination and Marxism and the National Question articulate the Leninist principle of Self-Determination for all Nations in their own SSR and Stalin’s definition of the Nation, On Practice and On Contradiction articulate the Maoist conception of Knowledge originating entirely from Social Practice and the Maoist theory of Contradiction, respectively, while On Guerrilla Warfare and On Protracted War articulate the Maoist concept of Protracted People’s War as the proven scientific method for Socialist Revolution, while the Quotations from Mao Tse Tung gives a broad overview of Maoism, including the key concepts of Mass Line, Cultural Revolution, and Protracted People’s War, all of which are required reading to embrace the Immortal Science of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, the Highest Stage of Marxism, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🚀☢️ 💇♀️👩🦲!