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books that you should read critically and not just absorb knowledge from, either because they are somewhat incorrect, outdated, the author was a revisionist/liberal, etc..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