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PostPosted: Thu Apr 01, 2010 1:00 am


This here thread is for the better read members of the guild to recommend certain works for newbies. Post here if:

1.) You are well read in your ideology
2.) You have a looooong list of works to recommend.

otherwise, make a new thread.
PostPosted: Mon Sep 30, 2013 4:07 pm


Books and Online Texts:


Beginners (Modern and under 200 pages)


Oxford University Press
Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction by Colin Ward
Communism: A Very Short Introduction by Leslie Holmes
Socialism: A Very Short Introduction by Michael Newman
Marx: A Very Short Introduction by Peter Singer
Engels: A Very Short Introduction by Terrell Harver

Icon Books/Pantheon/Totem
Introducing Marx by Rius
Introducing Lenin by Richard Appignanesi and Oscar Zarate
Introducing Trotsky by Tariq Ali and Phil Evans
Marx's Kapital for Beginners by David N. Smith and Phil Evans

Hodder and Stoughton
Marx: A Beginners Guide by Gill Hands

Oneworld
Marx: A Beginners Guide by Andrew Collier

Bookmarks
A Rebel's Guide to Marx by Mike Gonzalez
A Rebel's Guide to Lenin by Ian Birchall
A Rebel's Guide to Trotsky by Esme Choonara

Continuum
Marx a Guide for the Perplexed by John Seed

Grantha
How to read Marx by Peter Osborne

Pluto Press
Introduction to Marxism by Ernest Mandel

Economics

Wage Labour and Capital by Karl Marx
Value, Price, Profit by Karl Marx
Fields, Factories and Workshops by Peter Kropotkin
Robin Hahnel, The ABCs of Political Economy, (Pluto Press, 2002)
Das Kapital (volume 1)[Audio]

General

Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx, Frederick Engles
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific by Frederick Engels
The Principles of Communism by Frederick Engels
ABC of Socialism- Leo Huberman
Quotations from Mao Tse Tung
Main Currents of Marxism by Leszek Kolakowski
Paul Blackledge, Reflections on the Marxist Theory of History, (Manchester University Press, 2006)
Matt Perry, Marxism and History, (Palgrave, 2002)

Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, (Polity Press, 1989)
Willie Thompson, What Happened to History?, (Pluto Press, 2000)
Dictionary of Marxist Terminology
Why Socialism? by Albert Einstein

Anarchism

ABC of Anarchism - By Alexander Berkman
Anarchism and Other Essays by Emma Goldman
Anarchist Communism: It's Basis and Principles by Peter Kropotkin
The Russian Anarchists by Paul Avrich
The Conquest of Bread - Peter Kropotkin
The Abolition of Work by Bob Black
Other Rants and Essays by Bob Black
Ivan Illich archives
Ivan Illich works
Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction by Colin Ward

Maoism

Mao's Red Book- Mao Zedong

History

The Civil War in France by Karl Marx
Critique of the Gotha Programme by Karl Marx
Ten Days that Shook the World by John Reed
The Che Guevara Reader by Ernesto 'Che' Guevara
The Revolution Betrayed by Leon Trotsky
The Russian Revolution by Rosa Luxemburg
The Communist Left in Germany 1918-21 by Gilles Dauvé and Denis Authier
From Left Radicalism to Council Communism: Anton Pannekoek and German Revolutionary Marxism by John Gerber
The Marxian Concept of Capital and the Soviet Experience by Paresh Chattopadhyay
The Making of the English Working Class by E.P. Thompson
Work on the Paris Commune by Lissagaray
Reclaiming Marx's Capital -Andrew Kliman
Rabinowitch's trilogy of Prelude to Revolution, The Bolsheviks Come to Power and The Bolsheviks in Power
The Russian Civil War - Evan Mawdsley
Lenin Rediscovered: What is to be Done? in context - Lars T. Lih
The Myth of Lenin's "Concept of the Party" by Draper
A People's History of the World by Chris Harman
The Black Jacobins by CLR James

Chinese History

Wild Swans and Mao's Agrarian Strategy by Wim F. Wertheim
Mao and Lincoln by Henry C K Liu
50 Years After: The Tragedy of China's Great Leap Forward by John Riddell

Romanian History

Coercion and Dissent in Romania, 1965-1989

The State/Revolution

The State and Revolution by Vladimir Lenin
Marxism, Freedom, and the State by Mikhail Bakunin
God and the State by Mikhail Bakunin
Nationalism and Cultural by Rudolf Rocker
Socialism and War by Vladimir Lenin
Reform or Revolution by Rosa Luxemburg
Karl Marx & the State by David Adam

Philosophy

On Contradiction by Mao Zedong
On the Significance of Militant Materialism by Lenin
Human Nature: Justice Verse Power
Michel Foucault and Noam Chomsky

The Archeology of Knowledge by Michel Foucault
What is Enlightenment? by Michel Foucault
Language and Mind by Noam Chomsky
Glossary of Kant's Terms
Foucault, Marxism, and History by Mark Poster
Marxist Library of Philosophy
Starting with Hegel - Craig Matarrese
Marxism and Hegel - Colletti

Philosophy Encyclopedias:

The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Philosophical Dictionary
Glossary of Kantian technical terms
Encyclopedia of Marxism
Meta-Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Contemporary Crisis of Capitalism

Bonfire of Illusions by Alex Callinicos (Polity, 2010)
The Enigma of Capital by David Harvey (Profile Books, 2010)
Beyond the Profits System by Harry Shutt (Zed Books, 2010)

Dialectical Materialism

List of resources
Anti-Dialectics for Dummies
Anti-Dialectics for Beginners

On Fascism

Fascism and the Far Right by P. Davies & D. Lynch
The Splendid Blond Beast by C. Simpson (selections)
The Beast Reawakens by M. A. Lee
Fascism and Social Revolution by R. P. Dutt
Understanding the F Word by D. McGowan
Blackshirts and Reds by M. Parenti
Blowback by C. Simpson
Facts and Fascism by G. Seldes
The Authoritarian Personality by T. W. Adorno, E. Frenkel-Brunswik, & D. J. Levinson
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by. W. Shirer
The Secret War Against the Jews by J. Loftus & M. Aarons
A History of Militarism by A. Vagts (selections)
The Theory of Capitalist Development by P. Sweezy (selections)
Against Fascism and War by G. Dimitrov
"Thesis on the Philosophy of History," in Illuminations, by W. Benjamin

Bibliography of Marxism:

The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, 1848.
Wage Labour and Capital, Karl Marx, 1847.
Value, Price and Profit, Karl Marx, 1865.
The German Ideology, Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, 1846.
Preface to a Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, Karl Marx, 1859.
Capital, Volume One, Karl Marx, 1867.
The Civil War in France, Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, 1871.
Critique of the Gotha Programme, Karl Marx, 1875.
Socialism: Scientific and Utopian, Engels, 1880.
Full index here.

Works on authors:
Karl Marx: His Life and Works by Otto Ruhle, 1928.
On the Death of Engels by Vladimir Lenin, 1895
Friedrich Engels: The Shadow Prophet (London, 1965) by Grace Carlton.
Engels, Manchester and the Working Class (New York, 1974) by Steven Marcus.

Works on subject as a whole:
The Marx-Engels Reader. Ed Robert Tucker. 2nd ed (New York: Norton, 197 cool

Marx and Engels: Basic Writings on Politics and Philosophy, ed. L Feuer (New York, 1959).

The Unknown Marx: Reconstructing a Unified Perspective, Takahisa Oishi (Pluto Press, 2001)

Bibliography of Social Democracy (Bernstein, Kautsky and Luxemburg)

Important works by authors:
The Dilemma of Democratic Socialism: Eduard Bernstein's Challenge to Marx (New York, 1962), Peter Gay.
'Red Rosa, 1917' in 1917: Before and After (London, 1969), E.H Carr.
Rosa Luxemburg, (Oxford 1966), unabridged version, J.P Nettl.
'Rosa Luxemburg and the Impact of Imperialism', The Economic Journal, Vol. 81, No. 324, George Lee

Lenin, Rosa Luxemburg and the Dilemma of the Non-Revolutionary Proletariat, Midwest Journal of Political Science, Vol. 9, No. 4 (Nov. 1965), pp. 327-338, Charles F. Elliott

Works on period:
History of the International, 1964-1914 (London, 1966), Julius Braunthal.
Socialism and the Great War: The Collapse of the Second International (Oxford, 1972), Georges Haupt

The German Social Democratic Party 1890-1914 as a Political Model, Past and Present Journal, 30 (1965), J.P Nettl

German Social Democracy, 1905-1917: The Development of the Great Schism (Cambridge Mass. 1955), Carl Schorske.

'Sources of Reformism in the SPD of Germany: 1890-1914', Journal of Modern History, XI, 3 (1939), Harry J Marks.

The German Revolution of 1918: A Study of German Socialism in War and Revolt (Cambridge, 1967), A.J Ryder.

Germany: From Revolution to Counter-Revolution, 1988, Rob Sewell

And Red is the Colour of Our Flag, Oskar Hippe, Index Books.

Bibliography of Austro-Marxism:


Works by Authors:
Finance Capital: The Latest Phase of Capitalist Development by Rudolf Hilferding, 1910.
Karl Marx and the Close of His System by Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk, 1896.
Otto Bauer Archive (little of importance).
Karl Renner, The Institutions of Private Law and their Social Functions', ed. G Kahn-Freund, 2nd ed. (London, 1976).

Article on Authors and Ideas:
'Austro-Marxism: A Reappraisal', in The Left Wing Intellectuals between the Wars 1919-1939, ed. W Laquer, and G Mosse (New York, 1966) by N Leser.

Websites:

The Marxist Internet Archive
International Library of the Communist Left
http://www.bopsecrets.org/
http://library.nothingness.org/articles/SI/all/
The Anarchist Library
Another Anarchist Library
The Anarchist FAQ
http://libcom.org/
Revleft


Resource list taken and converted from http://www.revleft.com/vb/revleft-resource-list-t143793/index.html
 

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