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The following Basic Study Lists are crucial for strengthening our grasp, and command of, communist theory. The material consists mainly of the “Marxist classics” alongside some more modern contributions. Like most things, it’s best studied collectively and in combination with practical activity.
Confronting Myths & Lies: Exposing anticommunist slander and setting the record the straight
| Why Socialism? (1949) Albert Einstein | Text | PDF | Audiobook (~8 pages) |
| Stand for Socialism against Modern Revisionism (1992) Jose Maria Sison | Text | PDF | Audiobook (~110 pages) |
| Blackshirts & Reds: Rational Fascism & the Overthrow of Communism (1997) Michael Parenti | PDF | Audiobook (~180 pages) |
| Friendly Feudalism: The Tibet Myth (2007) Michael Parenti | Text | PDF | Audiobook (~14 pages) |
| Stalin: History and Critique of a Black Legend (2008) Domenico Losurdo | PDF (~390 pages) |
| “Stalin’s Purges” of 1937-38: What Really Happened? (2012) Yuri Emelyanov | PDF (~90 pages) |
Working People, Economics and Historical Development
| Wage-Labour and Capital (1847) Karl Marx | Text | PDF | Audiobook (~35 pages) |
| Value, Price and Profit (1865) Karl Marx | Text | PDF | Audiobook (~30 pages) |
| The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (1884) Friedrich Engels | Text | PDF | Audiobook (~170 pages) |
| Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism (1916) V.I. Lenin | Text | PDF | Audiobook (~140 pages) |
| Communism and the Family (1920) Alexandra Kollontai | Text | PDF (pg. 171-187) | Audiobook (~15 pages) |
| Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR (1951, 1972) J.V. Stalin, with Mao Zedong’s Commentaries | Stalin’s Text, Mao’s Critique | PDF (~95 pages) |
| How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (1973) Walter Rodney | Text | PDF | Audiobook (~300 pages) |
The Class Struggle: On organizing, making revolution, building socialism and reaching towards communism
| What Is To Be Done? by Lenin | Text | PDF | Audiobook (~150 pages) |
| The State and Revolution by Lenin | Text | PDF | Audiobook (~120 pages) |
| “Left-Wing” Communism, an Infantile Disorder by Lenin | Text | PDF | Audiobook (~120 pages) |
| Marxism and the National Question by Stalin | Text | PDF (pg. 8-77) | Audiobook (~70 pages) |
| The Foundations of Leninism by Stalin | Text | PDF | Audiobook (~110 pages) |
| Oppose Book Worship by Mao Zedong | Text | PDF | Audiobook (~10 pages) |
| On Protracted War by Mao Zedong | Text | PDF (pg. 119-198) (~80 pages) |
| On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People by Mao Zedong | Text | PDF | Audiobook (~70 pages) |
| Some Questions Concerning Methods of Leadership by Mao Zedong | Text | PDF (pg. 99-109) | Audiobook (~6 pages) |
| Guerrilla Tactics by Hồ Chí Minh | PDF (pg. 459-489) (~30 pages) |
| On the Ten Major Relationships by Mao Zedong | Text | PDF (pg. 292-315) (~23 pages) |
| On Exercising All-Round Dictatorship Over the Bourgeoisie by Zhang Chunqiao | Text | PDF (~30 pages) |
| For a principled struggle against modern revisionism by In Struggle! | Text (~3 pages) |
| Fascism, Fundamentalism, and Patriarchy by Anuradha Ghandy | Text | PDF (pg. 239-253)| Audiobook (~12 pages) |
Marxism: The logic of revolution and philosophy of praxis
| The Communist Manifesto by Marx & Engels | Text | PDF | Audiobook (~50 pages) |
| Anti-Dühring by Engels | Text | PDF | (~370 pages) |
| Anarchism or Socialism? by Stalin | Text | PDF | Audiobook (~80 pages) |
| On Practice by Mao Zedong | Text | PDF (pg. 5-31) | Audiobook (~20 pages) |
| On Contradiction by Mao Zedong | Text | PDF (pg. 31-94) | Audiobook (~50 pages) |
| Dialectical and Historical Materialism by Stalin | Text | PDF (pg. 6-36) | Audiobook (~30 pages) |
| The Study of Philosophy and of Historical Materialism by Antonio Gramsci | Text | PDF (pg. 57-74) (~20 pages) |
| Constructive Criticism: A Handbook by Vicki Legion (a.k.a. Gracie Lyons) | PDF | Audiobook (~100 pages) |
| Philosophical Trends in the Feminist Movement by Anuradha Ghandy | PDF | Audiobook (~100 pages) |