Communist Reading List

The Official Communist Revolution Reading List

a. Part 1 - Basics

Principles of Communism by Friedrich Engels
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific by Friedrich Engels
Foundations of Leninism by Joseph Stalin
Activist Study
Elementary Principles of Philosophy by Georges Politzer
Myth-Busting Marxism by the Welsh Underground Network

b. Part 2 - Intermediate

Wage, Labour, and Capital + Wages, Price, and Profit by Karl Marx
The State and Revolution by Vladimir Lenin
Basic Principles of Marxism-Leninism by Jose Maria Sison
What is to be Done? by Vladimir Lenin
Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism by Vladimir Lenin
Fundamentals of Political Economy (Chapters 1-11)

c. Part 3 - Advanced

Five Essays on Philosophy by Mao Zedong
Anarchism or Socialism? by Joseph Stalin
On the Party by Liu Shaoqi
Left Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder by Vladimir Lenin
The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky by Vladimir Lenin
Fundamentals of Political Economy (Chapters 12-23)
Writings on Organization and the Mass Line by Mao Zedong
Marxism and the National Question by Joseph Stalin
Philosophical Trends in the Feminist Movement by Anuradha Ghandy
Reform or Revolution? by Rosa Luxemburg
The Fascist Offensive and the Unity of the Working Class by Georgi Dimitrov

d. Part 4 - Further Study

Anti-Duhring by Friedrich Engels
Origins of the Family, Private Property, and the State by Friedrich Engels
Materialism and Empirio-Criticism by Vladimir Lenin
Two Tactics of Social Democracy in the Democratic Revolution by Vladimir Lenin
The Rights of Nations to Self-Determination by Vladimir Lenin
History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks)
On Exercising All-Round Dictatorship Over the Bourgeoisie by Zhang Chunqiao
Constructive Criticism: A Handbook by Vicki Legion
Towards a Scientific Analysis of the Gay Question by the Los Angeles Research Group
Post-Modernism Today by Siraj
Stand for Socialism Against Modern Revisionism by Armando Liwanag
Fascism and Social Revolution by R. Palme Dutt
Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
Trotskyism: Counter Revolution in Disguise by M.J. Olgin