Book recomendations

So far, I've read a few socialist classics:
- The Communist Manifesto
- Wage Labour and Capital
- Reform or Revolution
- The Conquest of Bread

Pretty good stuff, but it feels a bit disconnected from present times.

What good modern socialists would you recommend?
I was thinking of reading some ZIzek (his interviews are pretty entertaining, and leftypol seems to like him).

Also, anyone got some epubs? I see a bunch of PDFs being shared, but I feel like epubs are much better to read on a phone during the daily commute.

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marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/index.htm
marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1924/foundations-leninism/index.htm
marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/wage-labour/index.htm
marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-5/mswv5_58.htm
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I have only read the commie manifesto, should i read wage labor and capital next?

Bookchin's Post-Scarcity Anarchism and The Ecology Of Freedom are both good reads.

THE EGO AND HIS OWN by THE MILKMAN
THE SOUL OF MAN UNDER SOCIALISM by OSCAR WILDE
ANARCHY by ERRICO MALATESTA

Zizek doesn't have any theory, ignore it, it's softcore

Bookchin is very contemporary because of the kurdish question, you should check some of his books like said


You could. It talks about economy and it gives a ton of examples of how the value of a commodity comes from the worker. Also it goes to the core of what capitalism is - a system in which bosses take the surplus value (difference between wage and the market value of a good) of the worker as profit. Without doing any work the capitalist gets rich. Pretty obvious but i was mind blown when i read it.

Are there any books or especially short texts whose primary focus is the exposition of capitalism? I know of Capital, but as someone relatively new, I don't know where to begin.

Wage Labor and Capital is precisely that fam.


Why not?


Theory is either constricted by ML's and Maoists or purely academic (and not even all that radical much of the time).

I recommend the Situationists OP.

A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy is also good and not as long.

Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death.

Psychology / Philosophy. My favorite book for the last couple of years. Got into an existential crisis and then out of it.

Hold on lemme knock you up this stunning beginner's reading list:

- 11 thesis on .bach
- Communist Manifesto
- David Harvey Limits To Capital Chapter One
- Capital Volume 1 Part Three Chapter One the first few pages or so
- The German Ideology The (First?) Chapter on Materialist philosophy.
- Empire Chapter 1, section 1


- The Cambridge Companion to Marx Chapter 4: History and Irony (Read this at any point the earlier the better, it's available on libgen)


Harvey's Limit(s?) To Capital or Companions will hand hold you through the body of Marxist research on Capitalism

Sounds good actually.
Does anyone have epubs from him?


Sometimes some light leftist reading feels good…


Never read any Situationists….
Closest thing that I read was probably "The Incoming Insurrection" (didn't like it much).
Any book in particular that you'd recommend?

Why Socialism by Albert Einstein

If you don't know anything about a subject, I'd recommend you stfu about it.

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I would suggest to not become an individual circle jerk, so do not only read socialist books.

Tell me where Zizek touched you?

my heart

David Graeber, Debt The First 5000 Years

is probably one of the most important books of the last 10 years

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Thank you very much.

get lit boyyyyyy

I wonder if that was some cointelpro shit.

Here it is in PDF form, with an added bonus.

The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism by Lenin

Guattari's Communists Like Us is pretty good.
It's also good if you want n easy to read book by him, as Guattari and Deleuze's work is usually pretty complex.

What is the general thesis of Utopia of Rules?

It was.

There's also fixed recipes and you can tell where they go wrong if you have some knowledge of the chemistry and mechanics and electronics in them

you anons need to get /fringe/

ffs, anybody recommending a book please write two or three sentences about it.

there is a Situationist anthology here
bopsecrets.org/SI/index.htm

all is good but especially

The Explosion Point of Ideology in China, The Decline and Fall of the Spectacle-Commodity Economy, Ideologies, Classes, and the Domination of Nature, Report on the Construction of Situations

Read
The grapes of wrath

A very subversive leftist made that first chart.

wtf i hate markets now

Nice. I was looking for more situationist works

It tackles a bunch of different themes without going too much in-depth into them but the big one is that life is becoming ever more bureaucratic, things like science lost their idealism and became ensnared by corporatism and how much people don't realize that the liberal model of society end economics failed to deliver on its promise to free man from bureaucracy and rules.

Bumping to make sure this thread is still alive when I get home tomorrow.

Sort of on-topic I started pic related today, it's not long so I'll probably finish it tomorrow. (English title is "Against the Double Blackmail")

From what I've read so far, it's more a 'state of the left' type thing where he critiques the European left and does a critical analysis of the lefts response to the refugee crisis and Islamic terrorism. I'll write something about it here tomorrow.

I can confirm this. There's no need to believe me but I was the one who initially spread the "Green Pill" meme. It was an attempt to subvert occult tinged Holla Forums bullshit by pushing vaguely left-wing mysticism and conspiratorial material. That was before I came to the realization that their conclusions come first and they then gather material to support their conclusions. It's not that they're drawn to the conspiratorial worldview, it's that they use the conspiratorial style to support their right-wing worldview. It's not that they're mystics and are therefore right-wing, it's that they'll use mystical language and imagery if it supports their right-wing beliefs. Both the conspiratorial style and mysticism will be dropped more readily than the right-wing belief system. If nothing else, it was an education in how belief actually functions.

101 readings, you should read at least this:

>Karl Marx, LENIN: marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1914/granat/index.htm

>Dialectical and historical materialism, STALIN: marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1938/09.htm

>State and Revolution, LENIN: marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/index.htm

>Foundations of leninism, STALIN: marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1924/foundations-leninism/index.htm

>Wage, labor and capital, MARX: marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/wage-labour/index.htm

>On the correct handling of contradictions among the people, MAO: marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-5/mswv5_58.htm

Basic readings

>Elementary principles of philosophy, POLITZER: scribd.com/document/308584781/Elementary-Principles-of-Philosophy-by-Georges-Politzer

>Political Economy, a begginer's course, LEONTIEV: marxistleninist.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/1936_political-economy-_a-beginners-course_a-leontiev_1936.pdf

>What is to be done?, LENIN: marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1901/witbd/index.htm

>Imperialism, the highest stage of capitalism, LENIN: marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/index.htm

>The right of nations to self-determination, LENIN: marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1914/self-det/index.htm

>On practice, MAO: marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-1/mswv1_16.htm

>On contradiction, MAO: marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-1/mswv1_17.htm

>Combat liberalism, MAO: marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-2/mswv2_03.htm

>Ten days that shook the World, REED: marxists.org/archive/reed/1919/10days/10days/

>History of the CPSU(b), CC of the CPSU(b): marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1939/x01/

Recomended readings

>Anti-Duhring, ENGELS: marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1877/anti-duhring/index.htm

>Questions of leninism, STALIN: marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1926/01/25.htm

>The right danger in the Communist Party, STALIN: marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1928/10/19.htm

>Problems of linguistics, STALIN: marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1950/jun/20.htm

>Economic problems of socialism in the USSR, STALIN: marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1951/economic-problems/index.htm

>Anarchism or socialism, STALIN: marx2mao.com/Stalin/AS07.html

>The United Front, DIMITROV: marx2mao.com/Other/TUF35NB.html

>On the question of Stalin, HONGQI MAGAZINE: marxists.org/subject/china/documents/polemic/qstalin.htm

>Critique of Stalin’s Economic Problems Of Socialism In The USSR, MAO: marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-8/mswv8_66.htm

>Directives regarding Cultural Revolution, MAO: marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-9/mswv9_84.htm

>Long live the Cultural Revolution, HONGQI MAGAZINE:marxists.org/subject/china/peking-review/1966/PR1966-25f.htm

>Reject the Revisionist Theses of the XX Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Anti-Marxist Stand of Krushchev's Group! Uphold Marxism-Leninism!, HOXHA: marxists.org/reference/archive/hoxha/works/nov1960.htm

>Eurocommunism is anticommunism, HOXHA: marxists.org/reference/archive/hoxha/works/euroco/env2-1.htm

>Class struggles in the USSR 1917-1923, BETTELHEIM: marx2mao.com/Other/CSSUi76NB.html

>Class struggles in the USSR 1923-1930, BETTELHEIM: marx2mao.com/Other/CSSUii77NB.html

>Cultural revolution and industrialization in China, BETTELHEIM: marx2mao.com/Other/CRIOC74.html

bookzz.org/book/2359314/90c0b1

You faggots will like this one, because it's Giddens earlier interpretation of Marx, which can also be read as an introduction to Marx thanks to the way it's written and laid out. Also, because the introduction to Marx comes before Durkheim, it won't be a fucking forest of implications to weed out criticisms immanent in Marx's writings on the latter.

this is an interesting conclusion and one that I more or less came to when observing right-wing groups online and IRL as well. interesting to see someone else back this up (even if it's anecdotal)

Anymore modern leftist literature like Bookchin? I've only ever read pre-20th century shit like Kropotkin but am looking for modern, practical literature.