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.
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