What leftist books or articles have you read?

[Describer]

As for me-
Marx/Engels : Communist Manifesto, Das Kapital
Lenin : What Is To Be Done? , The Tasks of the Proletariat in Our Revolution , The State and Revolution, The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky
Mao : Red Book, On Protracted War
Trotsky : Permanent Revolution, The Revolution Betrayed
Stalin : Marxism and national question
Kim Jong-Il : On the Juche Idea

On to-read list : some Bukharin, Bakunin and Chomsky.

[Veni_Zelos]

i've read some of the stuff you mentioned, but not that much from lenin.

also some of bakunin's "notebooks" (free translation from greek to english)

[Maksim Chuikov]

Marx & Engels: (work in progress) Das Kapital, volume 1
Lenin: What is to be Done, some chapters from the state and the revolution
Trotsky: Permanent revolution (and My Life)
Kolontai: Articles concerning the Soviet education
Bukharin: ABC of Communism (work in progress)

That's all I can think of right now. I pretty much read the most essential works concerning the communist movement and the revolution and what I consider essential (or find interesting).

[pharaoh]

I really really really really envy all of you comrade!!! I only read part of Tan Malaka's Materialism, Dialectic and Logic, which means I risked my freedom to read the torn pages of his writings.

Prohibited in Indonesia, even for academic discussion or even bedtime stories. I also read Sub Marcos(EZLN) communiques because some one e-mail it to me. Off course we do that activities on public IP, so the government can't track us.

[Phoenix Quinn]

an excellent and wide-ranging on-line resource is: http://www.marx.org/archive/index.htm

[Alex Lorre]

Dang Pharaoh that's intense... you have some hardcore respect from me.

[Fredrick Engels]

Marx/Engels: Capital Vol. 1(Studying now), Critique of the Gotha Program, Socialism:Utopian and Scientific, The Communist Manifesto, Anti-Dühring, Wage, Labor, and Capital, and I'm trying to get my hands on Grundisse, Origin of the Family, The German Ideology, Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844, The Poverty of Philosophy, and The Civil War in France. I've also just read random articles and essays written by them at the Marxist Internet Archive.
Lenin: Parts of What is to be Done, The State and Revolution, The April Theses, and I really want to read Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism.
Trotsky: The History of the Russian Revolution(If Maksim is interested in the history of communist movements check this one out) and I want to read the Transitional Programme. I've also read a few random writings by him on the MIA.

[hakim bey]

I have read countless "leftist" books, part for study part for my interest.
The "Classics" of leftist tought are already mentioned, but I want to suggest to you the work of Alfredo Maria Bonanno, an italian anarchist. I suggest his books between other good pages because he is not only a fine intellectual, but a real lighthouse for the struggle of anarchists and radical left people.

He was imprisoned for 18 months by the italian governament only for an essay, Armed Joy, one of his "classics". Because the tought is worse than a bomb for the Power.

He was again sentenced to 6 years in 2003, with the charge of be the ideological "inspirer" of an eversive group ( with no link with Bonanno).

And four days ago he was arrested with a greek anarchist in Greece on suspicion of having carried out an armed robbery in a local bank.
He is oppressed everywhere by the State for the power of his ideas.

Part of his books are available on the net fo free.

P.S.: Kim Jong Il? I don't really think that in North Korea there is communism, or other than masked fascism.

P.S.S: Pharaon on I consider you a very brave guy. Spasibo tovarich!!!!!

[johnobrow]

I wish I'd kept a list. Let me see. Here are some of the authors I've read stuff by.

Marx and Engels.
Trotsky.
Luxemburg.
Kropotkin.
Bakunin.
Goldman.
Berkman.
And other stuff. Oh and Chomsky of course. How could I forget Chomsky?!

[Comrad3]

I own just about every book Noam has put out, and I have quite a selection of stuff written by various left, or left leaning philosophers.

[Veni_Zelos]

i think that chomsky is a bright example of a good leftist theoretician of our time. hes not marx, but thats probably because a big part of the work, its foundations, have already been laid down by others.

[Oogieboogie_3]

Portions of the Communist Manifesto and a little bit of Chomsky. But I read Johnny's constant dose of radical leftistism...

[Winster Huntinghawk]

Marx & Engels - Communist Manifesto
Marx - Das Kapital, Critique of the Gotha Program
Carlo Cafoera - Das Kapital ( Summary )
Eugen Varga - Essays of Capitalist economy political

[Thought Criminal]

I did listen to Das Kapital and i have read the Commie manifesto. I just finished reading My Disillusionment in Russia by Goldman, I probably will not be able to read any Lenin or Trotsky for a while after reading that book. I did just find the "Communist" section of my Universities library so i think i need to start studying.

[Glorious Connolly]

Connolly- Socialism made easy, couple articles and speeches as well
marx- communist manifesto
Jack London- Some articles cant remember the names though
Ta Power document along with other IRSP policy documents

[Max Wellbrock-Talley]

Sadly, as I live in Conservative Kansas, the number of books on Leftism (that aren't in opposition to it) available to me is very limited. I've read every book there which deals with Socialism and Communism (which is only about 4 or 5), as well as some Chomsky. I have no access to Das Kapital (which I have been saving up to buy for the past month, but with little progress), no access to any of Lenin, Trotsky, Marx, Engels, or really any other major Leftist. I have, however, read the Manifesto, because, although the public library does not have it, the high school library does.

[Fredrick Engels]

Sadly, as I live in Conservative Kansas, the number of books on Leftism (that aren't in opposition to it) available to me is very limited. I've read every book there which deals with Socialism and Communism (which is only about 4 or 5), as well as some Chomsky. I have no access to Das Kapital (which I have been saving up to buy for the past month, but with little progress), no access to any of Lenin, Trotsky, Marx, Engels, or really any other major Leftist. I have, however, read the Manifesto, because, although the public library does not have it, the high school library does.

Your high school has the Manifesto in their library? I wish mine had one...
But there is an online site with about every book written by Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky, and their letters, speeches, pictures, etc.
http://www.marxists.org/archive/index.htm
If you didn't know about it, have some fun.

[Max Wellbrock-Talley]

You know that I probably won't leave that website now for the next month or so, right?

Thanks, Comrade.

[Schnitzl]

so far I have read these books:
Communist Manifesto by Marx & Engels
Das Kapital by Marx
Comrades!: A History of World Communism by Robert Service

[Comrad3]

Comrades!: A History of World Communism by Robert Service

I was looking at that in the book store the other day. Is it any good?

[Phoenix Quinn]

Robert Service (not to be confused with the Yukon poet Robert W. Service) is a British historian at Oxford who specializes in Russian studies. As I understand it, he's generally considered to be an anti-communist but since I haven't read any of his books, I couldn't comment on that, nor is that necessarily a reason to not read his books.

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