Basic Marxism-Leninism Study Plan
Introduction
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Lenin. The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism
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Lenin. Karl Marx: A Brief Biographical Sketch With an Exposition of Marxism
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Marx, Engels. Manifesto of the Communist Party
Historical Materialism
- Marx, Engels. The German Ideology, chapter I
Scientific Socialism
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Lenin. What Is To Be Done?
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Lenin. The State and Revolution
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Lenin. Opportunism, and the Collapse of the Second International
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Lenin. Certain Features of the Historical Development of Marxism
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Lenin. Marxism and Revisionism
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Lenin. Marxism and Reformism
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Stalin. The Foundations of Leninism
Philosophy
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Mao. On Contradiction
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Engels. Anti-Dühring, part I: Philosophy
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Engels. Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy
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Marx. Theses on Feuerbach
Political Economy
How to Make Historical Materialist Analysis
Introduction to the method
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Marx. A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, preface
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Marx, Engels. The German Ideology, chapter I
Marx & Engels’ Application
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Marx. The Civil War in France
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Engels. The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
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Engels. The Peasant War in Germany
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Engels. Anti-Dühring: Herr Eugen Dühring’s Revolution in Science
Other
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Plekhanov. Historical Materialism and the Arts
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Plekhanov. The Materialist Conception of History
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Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat by J. Sakai
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Divided World, Divided Class: Global Political Economy and the Stratification of Labour Under Capitalism by Zak Cope
Resources for Marxist Political Economy
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The Law of Worldwide Value by Samir Amin
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Luxemburg. The Accumulation of Capital
I don’t want to be an ass, truly, but any foundational guide to ML should include marxist feminist texts, decolonization texts, and marxist influenced queer liberation texts.
ML is an evolving science and giving a reading guide that is fundamentally pre 1920 is not great. It’s reminiscent of what trots do tbh.
Seeing Sakai, who is valuable, but memeified, but not Fanon? Really?
Atleast include Kollontai, also. Maybe also some Arruzza and Federici.
Disagree or agree with PSL, but their liberation school curriculum is on point.
IMO this list is filled with redundant texts and non necessary reads also. This is fully inadequate to beginners, and also runs the risk of beginners seeing necessary and crucial developments in ML thought as secondary. A lot needs to be scrapped.
I’d also recommend including Althusser and Gramsci.
would you be down to amend the reading list? i’d love to read more on marxist feminism and queer lib. i’m familiar with fanon and am currently working my way through wretched of the earth.