This reading list is not an exhaustive list of important Marxist texts but intends to recommend some that we believe all revolutionary socialists should be familiar with. We are also doing monthly discussions of short Marxist texts online so check our social media for the latest updates on those and please join us.
links provided where copyright allows, most others can be found online or at your local library
Foundational Texts
The Communist Manifesto - Marx/Engels
The Principles of Communism - Engels
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific - Engels
Value, Price, and Profit - Marx
1850 Address of the Central Committee to the Communist League - Marx/Engels
Critique of the Gotha Programme - Marx
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State - Engels
Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism - Lenin
"Left-Wing" Communism: An Infantile Disorder - Lenin
Dialectical and Historical Materialism - Stalin
African Socialism
African Socialism Revisited - Nkrumah
Consciencism - Nkrumah
The Relevance of Marxism-Leninism - Cabral
Women's Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle - Sankara
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa - Rodney
The Wretched of the Earth - Fanon
South American / Carribean Socialism
Open Veins of Latin America - Galeano
My Life: A Spoken Autobiography - Castro/Ramonet
Chinese Socialism
On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People - Mao
Where Do Correct Ideas Come From? - Mao
The East is Still Red - Martinez
Fascism
Blackshirts & Reds - Parenti
Fascism and Social Revolution - Dutt
Other recommendations
The Social Basis of the Woman Question - Kollontai
Revolutionary Suicide - Newton
Against Empire - Parenti
Endless Holocausts - Smith
Western Marxism - Losurdo
Stalin: History and Critique of a Black Legend - Losurdo
If We Burn - Bevins
Michael Parenti Lecture on US interventionism, the 3rd world, and the USSR