Communism Recommendations
This is a list of important works in the Marxist canon. Each of the works has three features:
*I have read it
*The work is available to read online
*I find it invaluable in explaining some aspect of Marxism.
Marxist Canon
Marx:
The Manifesto Of the Communist Party [X][PDF] { the Manifesto } READ THIS NOW!
Wage Labour and Capital [X] { WLC }
Value, Price and Profit [X] (also called Wages, Price and Profit) { WPP }
The Civil War in France [X] { CivWar }
Critique of the Gotha Programme [X] { Gotha }
The Class Struggles in France [X] { Class Struggles }
The Holy Family [X] { Holy Family }
Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right [X] { CritRight }
Writings on the North American Civil War [X] { US Civil War }
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte [X] { Brumaire }
Engels:
Principles of Communism [X] {PrinCom} READ THIS NOW! READ THIS NOW! READ THIS NOW!
Dialectics of Nature [X][PDF] { DoN }
Origins of the Family, Private Property, and the State [X][PDF] { OFFPS } READ THIS NOW!
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific [X] [PDF] { Socialism } READ THIS NOW!
The Housing Question [X] [PDF] { HQ }
Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical Germany Philosophy [X] { Feuerbach }
On the History of the Communist League [X] { HCL }
Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Germany [X] { RCRG }
The Bakuninists At Work [X] { B@W }
Anti-Duhring [X] { Anti-Duhring }
Lenin:
Better Fewer, But Better [X] { Better Fewer }
The State and Revolution [X] { S&R } READ THIS NOW!
Proletarian Reavolution and the Renegade Kautsky [X] { PR&RK }
What Is To Be Done? [X][PDF] { WITBD? }
The Three Sourses and Three Component Parts of Marxism [X] { Three Sources } READ THIS NOW!
Materialism and Empirio-Criticism [X] { MEc }
Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism [X][PDF] { Imperialism }
"Left-Wing" Communism: An Infantile Disorder [X][PDF] { Infantile }
Purging the Party [X] { PurgeParty }
Can the Bolsheviks Retain State Power [X] { RetPower }
Trotsky:
Terrorism and Communism [X] { TerCom }
The lessons of October [X][PDF { LesOct }
The Death Agony of capitalism and the Tasks of the Fourth International [X][PDF] { TransProg } READ THIS NOW!
The Revolution Betrayed [X] { RevBet }
Some Results and Prospects [X] { ResPros }
The Permanent Revolution [X] { PermRev }
The Third International After Lenin [X][PDF] { 3intAfter }
The Stalin School of Falsification [X][PDF] { Falsification }
Their Morals and Ours [X] { Morals } READ THIS NOW!
In Defence of Marxism [X][PDF] { IDM }
Others:
Hill: The English Revolution [X]
Kautsky: The Foundations of Christianity [X]
Luxemburg: The Junius Pamphlet [X]
Mehring: On Historical Materialism [X]
Plekhanov: The Materialist Conception of History [X]
Not in the Marxist canon, but great articles:
International Communist League (Fourth Internationalist):
Declaration of Principles and Some Elements of Program [X]
Critical Notes on the “Death of Communism” and the Ideological Conditions of the Post-Soviet World [X]
The Bankruptcy of "New Class" Theories [X]
China on the Brink: Workers Political Revolution or Capitalist Enslavement? [X]
The "N" Word in Racist America [X]
Marxist Principles and Electoral Tactics [X]
Afghanistan and the Left: The Russian Question Point Blank [X]
The Senile Dementia of Post-Marxism [X]
U.S./UN Crusade Against "Sex Trafficing" [X]
Obama: Commander-In-Chief of Racist U.S. Imperialism [X]
U.S. Capitalism in Decay [X]
How Marx Became a Marxist [X]
An excerpt from Marxism vs Anarcism [X]
*I have read it
*The work is available to read online
*I find it invaluable in explaining some aspect of Marxism.
Marxist Canon
Marx:
The Manifesto Of the Communist Party [X][PDF] { the Manifesto } READ THIS NOW!
Wage Labour and Capital [X] { WLC }
Value, Price and Profit [X] (also called Wages, Price and Profit) { WPP }
The Civil War in France [X] { CivWar }
Critique of the Gotha Programme [X] { Gotha }
The Class Struggles in France [X] { Class Struggles }
The Holy Family [X] { Holy Family }
Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right [X] { CritRight }
Writings on the North American Civil War [X] { US Civil War }
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte [X] { Brumaire }
Engels:
Principles of Communism [X] {PrinCom} READ THIS NOW! READ THIS NOW! READ THIS NOW!
Dialectics of Nature [X][PDF] { DoN }
Origins of the Family, Private Property, and the State [X][PDF] { OFFPS } READ THIS NOW!
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific [X] [PDF] { Socialism } READ THIS NOW!
The Housing Question [X] [PDF] { HQ }
Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical Germany Philosophy [X] { Feuerbach }
On the History of the Communist League [X] { HCL }
Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Germany [X] { RCRG }
The Bakuninists At Work [X] { B@W }
Anti-Duhring [X] { Anti-Duhring }
Lenin:
Better Fewer, But Better [X] { Better Fewer }
The State and Revolution [X] { S&R } READ THIS NOW!
Proletarian Reavolution and the Renegade Kautsky [X] { PR&RK }
What Is To Be Done? [X][PDF] { WITBD? }
The Three Sourses and Three Component Parts of Marxism [X] { Three Sources } READ THIS NOW!
Materialism and Empirio-Criticism [X] { MEc }
Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism [X][PDF] { Imperialism }
"Left-Wing" Communism: An Infantile Disorder [X][PDF] { Infantile }
Purging the Party [X] { PurgeParty }
Can the Bolsheviks Retain State Power [X] { RetPower }
Trotsky:
Terrorism and Communism [X] { TerCom }
The lessons of October [X][PDF { LesOct }
The Death Agony of capitalism and the Tasks of the Fourth International [X][PDF] { TransProg } READ THIS NOW!
The Revolution Betrayed [X] { RevBet }
Some Results and Prospects [X] { ResPros }
The Permanent Revolution [X] { PermRev }
The Third International After Lenin [X][PDF] { 3intAfter }
The Stalin School of Falsification [X][PDF] { Falsification }
Their Morals and Ours [X] { Morals } READ THIS NOW!
In Defence of Marxism [X][PDF] { IDM }
Others:
Hill: The English Revolution [X]
Kautsky: The Foundations of Christianity [X]
Luxemburg: The Junius Pamphlet [X]
Mehring: On Historical Materialism [X]
Plekhanov: The Materialist Conception of History [X]
Not in the Marxist canon, but great articles:
International Communist League (Fourth Internationalist):
Declaration of Principles and Some Elements of Program [X]
Critical Notes on the “Death of Communism” and the Ideological Conditions of the Post-Soviet World [X]
The Bankruptcy of "New Class" Theories [X]
China on the Brink: Workers Political Revolution or Capitalist Enslavement? [X]
The "N" Word in Racist America [X]
Marxist Principles and Electoral Tactics [X]
Afghanistan and the Left: The Russian Question Point Blank [X]
The Senile Dementia of Post-Marxism [X]
U.S./UN Crusade Against "Sex Trafficing" [X]
Obama: Commander-In-Chief of Racist U.S. Imperialism [X]
U.S. Capitalism in Decay [X]
How Marx Became a Marxist [X]
An excerpt from Marxism vs Anarcism [X]
