READING LIST V2

A Marxist-Leninist-(Maoist) reading list. Contains links to each book (in English) online where you can read for free. Some will be denoted with "(c)" which represents books that you should read critically and not just absorb knowledge from, either because they are somewhat incorrect, outdated, the author was a revisionist/liberal, etc.. There are also some YouTube videos sprinkled throughout, kind of like documentaries.
There are some rather great books that have been excluded due to lack of online scans, mainly in the Chinese section

Please recommend any texts, criticism, way to rearrange, etc., dm on Discord (if you don't know my Discord, ask elsewhere)

NOTES ON EACH CATEGORY

"Basics" is for the most basic Marxist texts that introduce simple Marxist concepts

"Philosophy" is focused on Marxist philosophy and dialectics

"Politics" is focused on Leninism and the history and political development of Marxism

"Economics" is focused on Marxian economics

"Social" is focused on Marxist views of social issues, such as nations or race or sexuality

"Fascism" is focused on understanding and combating fascism. It contains the foundational fascist text, by Gentile and Mussolini, at the very start, though this is only to understand how they describe fascism. Be very critical of this text while you read it

"History of the Union" is focused on the Soviet Union

"History of the People's Republics focuses on China and Albania," the two socialist states that existed after the revisionist takeover in the USSR. As this is a Maoist reading list, it primarily focuses China first, then Albania. It ends off with a couple of Hoxhaist works criticizing MZT and Maoist works criticizing Hoxhaism. You are encouraged to read critically and draw your own conclusions, I won't give mine here because I'm not trying to sway you, but you can ask me if you want :)

"Other Socialist Projects" is focused on socialist projects besides the Soviet Union

"Higher Stages of Socialist Development" is focused on revisionism, anti-revisionism, and Maoism

"Modern People's Struggles" is focused on currently existing struggles globe-wide. Palestine, India, the Philippines, etc., as well as other regions experiencing similar campaigns. "Modern" just refers to 21st century/late 20th century

BASICS

Manifesto of the Communist Party : Marx https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/

Principles of Communism : Engels https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/11/prin-com.htm

MLM Basic Course : CPI(Maoist) https://foreignlanguages.press/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/S01-MLM-Basic-Course-Revised-14th-Printing.pdf

PHILOSOPHY

Three Components and Three Sources of Marxism : Lenin https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1913/mar/x01.htm

Introduction to the Critique of Political Economy : Marx https://www.redstarpublishers.org/IntroCritique.pdf

Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State : Engels https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1884/origin-family/index.htm

The Condition of the Working Class in England : Engels https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/condition-working-class/

Socialism: Utopian and Scientific : Engels https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1880/soc-utop/index.htm

Anti-Dühring : Engels https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1877/anti-duhring/index.htm

Materialism and Empirio-criticism : Lenin https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1908/mec/

Dialectical and Historical Materialism : Stalin https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1938/09.htm

Anarchism or Socialism? : Stalin https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1906/12/x01.htm

Dialectics of Nature : Engels https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1883/don/index.htm

A Textbook of Marxist Philosophy : CPSU https://www.marxists.org/history/international/comintern/sections/britain/subject/left-book-club/1937/textbook/index.htm

The Poverty of Philosophy : Marx https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/poverty-philosophy/index.htm

POLITICS

Foundations of Leninism : Stalin https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1924/foundations-leninism/index.htm

One Step Forward, Two Steps Back : Lenin https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1904/onestep/index.htm

The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky : Lenin https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1918/prrk/

(C) Terrorism and Communism : Trotsky https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1920/terrcomm/

What is to be Done? : Lenin https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1901/witbd/

State and Revolution : Lenin https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/

On the Questions of the Period of Transition From Capitalism to Socialism and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat : Kim Il-sung https://november8ph.files.wordpress.com/2022/07/kim_transition_dotp.pdf

Organization and Structure of the Communist Party : Comintern https://www.redstarpublishers.org/OrgPrinciplesPartyCI.pdf

Reform or Revolution : Luxemburg https://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1900/reform-revolution/

Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder : Lenin https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1920/lwc/

On Authority : Engels https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1872/10/authority.htm

The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte : Marx https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1852/18th-brumaire/

The Civil War in France : Marx https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1871/civil-war-france/index.htm

ECONOMICS

Critique of the German Ideology / Theses on Feuerbach : Marx https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/german-ideology/ https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/theses/theses.htm

Ludwig Feuerbach and the Outcome of the Classical German Philosophy : Engels https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1886/ludwig-feuerbach/index.htm

Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 : Marx https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/preface.htm

Wage Labour and Capital / Value, Price, Profit : Marx https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/wage-labour/ https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/value-price-profit.pdf

Grundrisse : Marx https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1857/grundrisse/

Capital Vol. 1 : Marx https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/

Capital Vol. 2 : Marx https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1885-c2/

Capital Vol. 3 : Marx https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1894-c3/

A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy : Marx https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1859/critique-pol-economy

Critique of the Gotha Programme : Marx https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1875/gotha/

Imperialism; the Highest Stage of Capitalism : Lenin https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa : Rodney https://abahlali.org/files/3295358-walter-rodney.pdf

SOCIAL

Origin of the Family, re : Engels https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1884/origin-family/index.htm

The Housing Question : Engels https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1872/housing-question/

Foundations, re : Stalin https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1924/foundations-leninism/index.htm

Marxism and the National and Colonial Question : Stalin https://foreignlanguages.press/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/C28-Marxism-and-the-National-and-Colonial-Question-1st-Printing.pdf

Marxism and the Problem of Linguistics : Stalin https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1950/jun/20.htm

The Right of Nations to Self-Determination : Lenin https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1914/self-det/

Wretched of the Earth : Fanon https://monoskop.org/images/6/6b/Fanon_Frantz_The_Wretched_of_the_Earth_1963.pdf

(c) Settlers : J. Sakai https://readsettlers.org/text-index.html

The Negro National Colonial Question : Peery https://www.redstarpublishers.org/Peery.pdf

It's a Class Struggle Goddamnit! : Fred Hampton https://www.lfks.net/en/content/fred-hampton-its-class-struggle-goddammit-november-1969

On Literature, Music, and Philosophy : Zhdanov https://www.marxists.org/subject/art/lit_crit/zhdanov/lit-music-philosophy.htm

FASCISM

(c) The Doctrine of Fascism : Gentile https://sjsu.edu/faculty/wooda/2B-HUM/Readings/The-Doctrine-of-Fascism.pdf

Neither Fascism or Liberalism; Sovietism! : Gramsci https://www.marxists.org/archive/gramsci/1924/10/fascism-liberalism.htm

Antonio Gramsci's Speech to the Italian Fascist Parliament : Gramsci https://www.marxists.org/archive/gramsci/1925/05/speech.htm

(c) Fascism, What It Is and How to Fight It : Trotsky https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/works/1944/1944-fas.htm

Selected Works of Dimitrov : Dimitrov https://november8ph.files.wordpress.com/2023/03/dimitrov-selected-works.pdf

Prison Notebooks (limited) : Gramsci https://www.marxists.org/archive/gramsci/prison_notebooks/

HISTORY OF THE UNION

On the Soviet Union : Robeson https://november8ph.files.wordpress.com/2023/01/robeson-ussr.pdf

History of the Civil War in the USSR : CPSU https://www.redstarpublishers.org/HistCivWarV1.pdf https://www.redstarpublishers.org/HistoryCivil%20WarUssr2.pdf

History of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks); Short Course : CPSU https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1939/x01/

A History of the USSR : Rothstein https://www.redstarpublishers.org/rothstein.pdf

NEP Explained : FinBol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcnvMIQDV5I

Hue and Cry Over Kronstadt : Trotsky https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1938/01/kronstadt.htm

The Truth about the Kronstadt Mutiny : FinBol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnUNrTX8YCo

The Errors of Trotskyism : CPGB https://www.marxists.org/history/international/comintern/sections/britain/pamphlets/1925/trotskyism/index.htm

Mastering Bolshevism : Stalin http://www.marx2mao.com/Stalin/MB37.html

The 1936 Stalin Constitution : CPSU https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1936/12/05.htm

Soviet Democracy : Sloan https://ia904703.us.archive.org/22/items/in.ernet.dli.2015.261348/2015.261348.Soviet-Democracy.pdf

Dictatorship and Democracy : Anna Louise Strong https://november8ph.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/strong-democracyfarmers.pdf

(1954, pre-revision) Political Economy : CPSU https://www.revolutionarydemocracy.org/archive/PoliticalEconomy.pdf

Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR : Stalin (With commentary by Mao) https://foreignlanguages.press/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/C33-Economic-Problems-in-the-USSR-1st-Printing.pdf

A Critique of Soviet Economics : Mao http://www.marx2mao.com/Mao/CSE58.html

Homosexuality in the USSR : Stalin Society https://web.archive.org/web/20150720010113/http://www.stalinsociety.org/2015/04/08/homosexuality-in-the-ussr/

The Soviets Expected It : Anna Louise Strong https://www.redstarpublishers.org/ALSSoviets.pdf

Fraud, Famine, and Fascism : Tottle https://www.redstarpublishers.org/tottle.pdf

Memoirs from Meeting With Stalin : Hoxha https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hoxha/works/stalin/meet1.htm

The Stalin Era : Anna Louise Strong https://bannedthought.net/Journalists/Strong-AL/Strong-TheStalinEra-1956-OCR.pdf

Falsifiers of History : CPSU http://www.bannedthought.net/USSR/ForeignAffairs-SocialistEra/CommitteeForPromotionOfPeace-FrederickSchuman-1948-FalsifiersOfHistory-OnTheOriginsOfWorldWarII-OCR.pdf

On Anti-semetism : Stalin https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1931/01/12.htm

Soviet "Anti-Semitism", the Big Lie! : Miller https://www.marxists.org/subject/jewish/miller-soviet.pdf

Soviet White Paper on the North Atlantic Pact : CPSU https://november8ph.ca/the-soviet-white-paper-on-the-north-atlantic-pact/

Stalin Biography : CPSU https://november8ph.files.wordpress.com/2022/12/shortbio-1.pdf

The Khruschevites : Hoxha https://november8ph.files.wordpress.com/2023/03/khrushchevites-1.pdf

Comment on the Open Letter of the Central Committee of the CPSU (IX) : Mao https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/works/1964/phnycom.htm

Congress of Betrayal : Hoxha https://november8ph.files.wordpress.com/2022/06/on-khrushchevwoappendix.pdf

How Capitalism has been Restored in the Soviet Union and What This Means for the World Struggle : RCP https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/periodicals/red-papers/red-papers-7/index.htm

Restoration of Capitalism in the USSR / Restoration of Capitalism in the Soviet Union : Nicolaus / Bland http://www.marx2mao.com/Other/RCSU75.html https://revolutionarydemocracy.org/archive/BlandRestoration.pdf

When and Why Socialism in the Soviet Union Failed : KPD/ML https://www.redstarpublishers.org/BookEnglishwCRbook.pdf

HISTORY OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLICS

The People's Republic of China

Red Star over China : Snow https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.52426

1954 Mao Constitution of the People's Republic of China https://web.archive.org/web/20160628133639/http://e-chaupak.net/database/chicon/1954/1954bilingual.htm

The Great Debate : CPC https://flpress.storenvy.com/products/33779149-documents-of-the-cpc-the-great-debate-volume-1 https://flpress.storenvy.com/products/35126977-documents-of-the-cpc-the-great-debate-volume-2

Fanshen : Hinton https://firewords.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/fanshen-a-documentary-of-revolution-in-a-chinese-village-hinton-william.pdf

Paris Commune in Shanghai : Hosheng Jiang https://dukespace.lib.duke.edu/dspace/bitstream/handle/10161/2356/D_Jiang_Hongsheng_a_201005.pdf

Hundred Day War, the Cultural Revolution at Tsinghua University : Hinton https://www.bannedthought.net/Journalists/Hinton-William/Hinton-HundredDayWar-TheCulturalRevolutionAtTsinghuaUniversity-1972-OCR-sm.pdf

Fundamentals of Political Economy : Wang https://www.redstarpublishers.org/RJFundamentals.pdf

The Battle For China’s Past : Mobo Gao https://espressostalinist.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/battle-for-chinas-past.pdf

Revolution and Counterrevolution : Pao-yu Ching https://foreignlanguages.press/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/N11-Revolution-and-Counterrevolution-1st-Printing.pdf

A Critique of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics : Johan Manges https://maoistloungeblog.wordpress.com/2021/06/17/on-the-contradiction-between-the-productive-forces-and-the-relations-of-production-a-critique-of-socialism-with-chinese-characteristics/

Is China an Imperialist Country? : Turner https://www.redstarpublishers.org/IsChinaAnImperialistCountry.pdf

China – a new Social-Imperialist power! : CPI(Maoist) http://www.bannedthought.net/India/CPI-Maoist-Docs/Books/China-Social-Imperialism-CPI-Maoist-2021-Eng-view.pdf

In China, Capitalism Is Being Consolidated, Not Socialism : PCMLdE https://www.redstarpublishers.org/EnMarchaChinaEng.pdf

The People's (Socialist) Republic of Albania

The Constitution of the People's Socialist Republic of Albania https://data.globalcit.eu/NationalDB/docs/ALB%20The%20Constitution%20of%20the%20Peoples%20Socialist%20Republic%20of%20Albania%201976.pdf

When the Party Was Born : Hoxha https://november8ph.files.wordpress.com/2023/03/when-the-party-was-born-1.pdf

Albania, General Information : NAM https://november8ph.files.wordpress.com/2023/03/albania-geninfo.pdf

(c) The People's Republic of Albania : Prof. Pano https://archive.org/details/peoplesrepublico0000unse_m2m1

Pickaxe and Rifle : Ash https://ia802900.us.archive.org/3/items/PickaxeRifle/Pickaxe%20Rifle_text.pdf

The Anglo-American Threat to Albania : Hoxha https://november8ph.files.wordpress.com/2023/03/anglo-american-threat.pdf

Scientific Conference on the Marxist-Leninist Theoretical Thinking of the Party of Labour of Albania and Comrade Enver Hoxha : PPSH https://november8ph.files.wordpress.com/2022/05/sciconf.pdf

Our Younger Generation Marches Along the Revolutionary Road of the Party : Hoxha https://november8ph.files.wordpress.com/2022/05/younger_generation-1.pdf

By Way of a Testament : Hoxha https://november8ph.files.wordpress.com/2023/03/by-way-of-a-testament.pdf

(c) Our Enver : Alia https://november8ph.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/our-enver-mels.pdf

Capitalist Albania: The Ripoff and the Revolt : RW PAGES 12-15 https://www.bannedthought.net/USA/RCP/RW/1997/RW902-English.pdf

The Sino-Albanian Split / Maoism VS. Hoxhaism

Hoxhaism against Maoism

Can the Chinese Revolution Be Called a Proletarian Revolution? : Hoxha https://november8ph.files.wordpress.com/2022/03/canthechineserevolutionbecalledaproletarianrevolution.pdf

Imperialism and Revolution : Hoxha https://november8ph.files.wordpress.com/2022/03/imprevlulu.pdf

Eurocommunism is Anti-Communism : Hoxha https://www.lulu.com/shop/enver-hoxha/eurocommunism-is-anti-communism/paperback/product-nepjy5.html?page=1&pageSize=4

Socialism Cannot Be Built in Alliance with the Bourgeoisie : Washington https://november8ph.ca/socialism-cannot-be-built-in-alliance-with-the-bourgeoisie/

Maoism against Hoxhaism

Beat Back the Dogmato-Revisionist Attack on Mao Zedong Thought : Werner https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/ncm-5/rcp-hoxha/section1.htm

Hoxha Versus Mao Zedong : KABD https://bannedthought.net/Germany/KABD/HoxhaVersusMaoTsetung-KABD-1981.htm

OTHER SOCIALIST PROJECTS

General

History of the International Communist Movement 1848-1917 https://www.redstarpublishers.org/ICMv1.pdf

The Jakarta Method : Bevins https://archive.org/details/JakartaMethod

PR Mongolia

A Short Outline of the History of the Mongolian People’s Revolution : Choibalsan https://november8ph.files.wordpress.com/2023/01/choibalsan-mongolian-revolution.pdf

SR Czechoslovakia

The Czechoslovak Socialist Republic Caught in the Grip of Soviet Revisionist Invaders : PPSH https://www.bannedthought.net/Albania/ForeignRelations/TheCzechoslovakSocialistRepublicCaughtInTheGripOfSovietRevisionistInvaders-1968-OCR.pdf

SFR Lithuania

The New Lithuania : Anna Louise Strong https://www.redstarpublishers.org/lithuania.pdf

RL Poland

Inside Liberated Poland : Anna Louise Strong https://www.redstarpublishers.org/strongpoland.pdf

Greece and Civil War

White Book of the EAM : 'Greek American Council' https://www.redstarpublishers.org/GreekNLF.pdf

Cuba

Motorcycle Diaries : Guevara https://www.marxists.org/archive/guevara/1952/motorcycle-diaries/index.htm

Che: A Revolutionary Life : Anderson https://archive.org/details/cheguevara00jonl

GDR (East Germany)

The German Democratic Republic in the Fight for the Unity of Germany : SED https://november8ph.files.wordpress.com/2023/01/german_unity_gdr-1.pdf

(c) Stasi State or Socialist Paradise? : la Motte https://ia800109.us.archive.org/4/items/StasiStateOrSocialistParadise/StasiStateOrSocialistParadi-JohnGreen.pdf

Spanish Republic and Civil War

Spain and the Peoples Front : Dimitrov https://www.redstarpublishers.org/dimitroffspain.pdf

Spain in Arms : Anna Louise Strong https://www.redstarpublishers.org/SpainArms.pdf

DPRK (North Korea)

In North Korea : Anna Louise Strong https://www.redstarpublishers.org/ALSKorea.pdf

The US Imperialists Started the Korean War : Ho Jong Ho, Kang Sok Hui, Pak Thae Ho https://november8ph.files.wordpress.com/2023/03/korean-war.pdf

Report on the Crime of American Imperialists in Spreading Bacteria in Korea : CPC https://november8ph.ca/report-on-the-crime-of-american-imperialists-in-spreading-bacteria-in-korea/

Two Articles Against Soviet Revisionism : WPK https://november8ph.files.wordpress.com/2022/12/dprk-against-revisionism.pdf

(sc) Modern History of Korea : Kim Han-gil https://november8ph.files.wordpress.com/2023/05/modern-history-of-korea.pdf

(c) The Historical Lesson in Building Socialism : Kim Jong-il https://november8ph.files.wordpress.com/2022/05/historicallesson.pdf

SFR Yugoslavia

Tito Unmasked : Kyosev https://november8ph.ca/tito-unmasked/

Letters to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia : Stalin https://november8ph.ca/letters-to-the-central-committee-of-the-communist-party-of-yugoslavia/

Yugoslav “Self-Administration” — A Capitalist Theory and Practice : Hoxha https://november8ph.files.wordpress.com/2023/02/yugoslavselfmanagement.pdf

The Titoites : Hoxha https://november8ph.files.wordpress.com/2022/04/titoites.pdf

HIGHER STAGES OF SOCIALIST DEVELOPMENT

Marxism and Revisionism : Lenin https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1908/apr/03.htm

Defeating Revisionism, Reformism, and Opportunism : Ka Joma https://www.bannedthought.net/Philippines/CPP/Sison/SelectedWritingsOfJoseMariaSison-1968-1991-DefeatingRevisionismReformismAndOpportunism-1969-1974.pdf

On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People : Mao https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-5/mswv5_58.htm

[prior to Guerrilla Warfare by Mao] (c) Guerrilla Warfare : Guevara https://www.marxists.org/archive/guevara/1963/09/guerrilla-warfare.htm

Selected Works of Chairman Mao https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/index.htm

Selected Works of Ka Joma https://foreignlanguages.press/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/B07-Selected-Readings-of-Jose-Maria-Sison-4th-Printing.pdf

SOLIDIFY

State and Rev, re : Lenin https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/

Quotations From Chairman Mao Zedong https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/works/red-book/

MODERN PEOPLE'S STRUGGLES

Peru

The Communist Party of Peru : AIA Ireland https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0HtkjTiKis&t=26s

Collected Works of the Communist Party of Peru (Shining Path) https://michaelharrison.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/The-Collected-Works-of-the-Communist-Party-of-Peru.pdf

Palestine and Israel

On the Communist Approach to Zionism : CPUSA https://www.redstarpublishers.org/CommunistZionism.pdf

Strategy for the Liberation of Palestine : PFLP http://pflp-documents.org/documents/PFLP_StrategyforLiberationofPalestine1969.pdf

Philippines and the CPP-NPA

Resistance to Martial Law : CPP https://flpress.storenvy.com/products/36471192-documents-of-the-cpp-resistance-to-martial-law

The Second Rectification Movement : CPP https://flpress.storenvy.com/products/36436780-documents-of-the-cpp-the-second-rectific-t-on-movement

India and Naxalites

Historic Eight Documents : Mazumdar https://flpress.storenvy.com/products/30186022-historic-eight-documents-ch-ru-m-zumdar

Maoists in India : Azad https://flpress.storenvy.com/products/28706257-maoists-in-india-writings-interviews-azad

Urban Perspective : CPI(Maoist) https://flpress.storenvy.com/products/29615797-urban-perspective-cp-m-ist

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