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Alright y'all, it's that time for a Marxist book recommendation post (hexbear.net)

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I figure this is a common ask but I haven't seen a post anywhere in the recent past, so....What is the VERY first book on theory that I need to read?

I haven't read any theory yet, besides a short excerpt from the Communist Manifesto a long time ago. I have read some Parenti and Blackshirts & Reds is definitely on my list. I'm also interested in history books, biographies, autobiographies, anything socialist/marxist really.

I am also very interested in recommendations from non-white folks, as well as any literature about non-white socialist movements/people/history/theory etc.

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[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago

https://www.marxists.org/archive/olgin/pamphlets/1933/whycomindex.htm

October by China mieville

Howard zinn's peoples history

Ten days that shook the world by John Reed

Molotov Remembers by himself and transcribed by Felix Chuev

Felix Dzerzhinsky: a biography

Dialectical and historical materialism by Stalin

Fundamentals of Marxism-Leninism by Otto Wille Kuusinen

Foundations of Leninism by Stalin

Marxism and the national question by Stalin

Inside north Korea by Anna Louise Strong

The origin of family, private property, and the State by Engels

On inter-party struggle by Liu Shaoqi

This Monstrous War By Wilfred G. Burchett

Fraud, Famine and Fascism: The Ukrainian Genocide Myth from Hitler to Harvard By Douglas Tottle

The Lesson of Germany By Gerhart Eisler, Albert Norden, Albert Schreiner

The Origins of Christianity By Archibald Robertson

Science and Religion By Marcel Cachin

Soviet Democracy and Bourgeois Democracy By M.B. Mitin