This is what you might call a “reupload” of a HUGE list of Marxist resources compiled by u/SavageTruths74 over on Reddit.
Reddit has begun to take down people’s resource compilations as “spam”, which is what happened with SavageTruth’s USSR megathread. Therefore I want to help preserve his compilations by uploading ALL of it here onto Lemmygrad, where it will be guaranteed a safe space free from censorship.
NONE OF THIS IS MY OWN. This is all compiled by comrade u/SavageTruths74. Dude put a huge amount of time into putting this all together and it deserves to be shared more.
Must read/watch:
a must watch to understand the impact of former socialist nations
https://www.reddit.com/r/InformedTankie/comments/hnc2cr/capitalism_is_unsustainable/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDoqQNWtni0
The difference between personal and private property
Books:
Reform or revolution by Rosa Luxembourg https://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1900/reform-revolution/
Farm to Factory by Robert C. Allen https://eastsidemarxism.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/robert-c-allen-farm-to-factory-a-reinterpretation-of-the-soviet-industrial-revolution-1.pdf
How Europe under-developed Africa by Walter Rodney https://archive.org/details/HowEuropeUnderdevelopedAfricaByWalterRodney/page/n1/mode/2up
Unequal exchange: The prospects of socialism https://web.archive.org/web/20170919180937/http://snylterstaten.dk/english/unequal-exchange-and-prospects-socialism-communist-working-group
Fundamentals of Marxism-Leninism https://archive.org/details/FundamentalsOfMarxismLeninism
Das Kapital by Karl Marx https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.124455/page/n5/mode/2up
The communist Manifesto by Karl Marx https://archive.org/details/ComManifesto/mode/2up
Its not over: Learning from the socialist experiment https://www.ebookphp.com/its-not-over-learning-from-the-socialist-experiment-epub-pdf/
Economic problems in the USSR by Josef Stalin https://archive.org/details/economicproblemssocialismussrstalin
The Myth of Capitalism Reborn: A Marxist critique of Theories of Capitalist Restoration in the USSR https://archive.org/details/TheMythOfCapitalismReborn/page/n53/mode/2up
Killing hope: US military and CIA interventions since World war 2 https://archive.org/details/pdfy-q0ULBH2DJICRS3Vg/mode/2up
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific by Friedrich Engels https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1880/soc-utop/index.htm
Imperialism The Highest Stage Of Capitalism By Lenin https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.3317/mode/2up
The State and Revolution by Lenin https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/ch01.htm
Wage Labor and Capital https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/wage-labour-capital.pdf
Marxism and Feminism https://www.marxists.org/archive/harman/1979/marxism/ch12.html
Economics for dummies, to help people understand capitalism but be wary, it is semi pro capitalism https://archive.org/details/EconomicsForDummies_/mode/2up
The great conspiracy against Russia by Michael Sayer and Albert E. Kahn https://mltheory.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/great-conspiracy-against-russia.pdf \
Towards a new socialism by W. Paul Cockshott and Allin Cottrell http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/socialism_book/new_socialism.pd
Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of communism (an absolute must read for Marxists-Leninists) https://eastsidemarxism.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/michael-parenti-blackshirts-and-reds-rational-fascism-and-the-overthrow-of-communism.pdf
Late Victorian Holocausts by Mark Davis (how the introduction of capitalism causes famine) https://archive.org/details/latevictorianhol00dav_wbr
Anti Communism: Who benefits from it? by Vladimir Mshvenieradze. it reveals just how prevalent anti-communism was and still is. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-V4quceAKK9bXVaOEx0Nm4xXzQ/view
Youtubers and Youtube Videos:
Hakim (Marxist-Leninist youtuber) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPPZoYsfoSekIpLcz9plX1Q
TheFinnishBolshevik (Marxist-Leninist youtuber) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCvdjsJtifsZoShjcAAHZpA
Every anti-communist argument debunked https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjwL1mSrPLA
Benji (Marxist-Leninist youtuber) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDG87s_QtD4YrIamqb9k5WQ
DemocraticSocialist01 (Marxist-Leninist youtuber) https://www.youtube.com/user/MrReco12
ComradeSloth (Marxist-Leninist youtuber) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZtETWkXOblKAN5V1GUfnyg
Tovarisch Endymion (Marxist-Leninist youtuber) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTG-iJm0HtjWVOAwN8sA4Xg
Spooky Scary Socialist (Marxist-Leninist youtuber) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl_A_42M6kvjH8Gr-rwfCUw
Capitalism is destroying us, socialism is not an option https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVpV_wVYOEg
How capitalism is theft https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFEzJovH2yo
Resource document pages and Archives:
huge socialist FAQ/essays on every topic https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/master/socialism_faq.md
big articles on socialism on many topics http://www.bannedthought.net/
A complete Marxist archive https://www.marxists.org/
Socialist history https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pxjkfhzh65ZfVEAJrv0NE96YFqhFAM1EQOokHoLFW6M/edit
The basics of Marxist-Leninist Theory https://archive.org/details/basics_of_marxist__leninist_theory
Massive document page debunking anti socialist lies by Albamc35 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rRBtOd7tCPwJgXNy4m1PLvDnPrbMcn6yMe7mVIIHZfA/edit
The case for Marxism-Leninism https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uOAy23Rouv_Mg14_NgcEOm-K19ragMTlB03RV7Td01Q/edit
Another document page debunking lies against socialism https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Gxwhh-vdeB--47HM-20cEVRC9eAMhrapbNf0Sk8VSOs/edit
massive right winger fact sheet (click left tan for an index of subjects) https://socdoneleft.github.io/stinky_rightwinger_factsheet.html#public_healthcare
Socialist archive https://revolutionarydemocracy.org/index.htm
Huge socialist book archive https://archive.org/details/@ismail_badiou
Huge Marxist-Leninist archive https://neodemocracy.blogspot.com/
Huge soviet archive and pro socialist articles https://northstarcompass.org/
Huge Marxist archive by comrade Bluesytb full of information/books on many subjects https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/18fVB3IGbVOwHhDETEeytx0ZJNa-3iwO-
Another good socialist archive including non socialist but still relevant topics. https://ebookcollective.tumblr.com/archive
Complete resource list on the USSR https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qeYeYeLN7uKxfMdoe7TAmOMD2fmgyZdU_urvW6eAsRg/edit#bookmark=id.ie987hvbw24t
basically everything you need https://en16ma.neocities.org/site/Why_Socialism.html
Good Marxist Blogs and websites:
Super insightful, information filled Marxist-Leninist blog https://espressostalinist.com/
Another good Marxist-Leninist blog https://aredinohio.wordpress.com/
Another insightful Marxist-Leninist blog https://marxistleninist.wordpress.com/
Another good blog by the youtuber TheFinnishBolshevik https://mltheory.wordpress.com/
Information filled Articles and Posts:
Lies about the history of the soviet union https://www.northstarcompass.org/nsc9912/lies.htm
Effects of US embargo on Cuba https://www.cetim.ch/the-effects-of-the-us-embargo-against-cuba-and-the-reasons-of-the-urgent-need-to-lift-it/
The need for planning by Joseph Ball http://maoists.org/needforplanning.pdf
Here is an archived post of his FULL of information debunking almost every anti-communist argument. https://www.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/c4j3xl/useful_studies_and_sources_for_debating/
A socialist resource list by Komradsuvo https://www.reddit.com/user/komradsuvo/comments/hcgha0/mine/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
(found by comrade Jobhi) Declassified post WWII Marshall Plan documents ‘communism has a much greater ability of ending hunger and transitioning backwards societies into modern world powers’ https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Memo_PPS23_by_George_Kennanhttps://www.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/6uhar8/comrades_reading_the_declassified_post_ww2/https://imgur.com/a/qD3jF
35 Countries where the U.S. has supported fascists, drug lords, and terrorists https://www.salon.com/control/2014/03/08/35_countries_the_u_s_has_backed_international_crime_partner/
in socialist Poland the average person consumed more animal proteins than western Europe https://www.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/c42sx4/in_the_mid1970s_the_polish_peoples_republic/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
the gulag argument debunked https://www.reddit.com/r/socialism/comments/g92l9v/putting_the_gulag_argument_to_bed/
Detailed post on the achievements of the USSR https://www.reddit.com/r/socialism/comments/8h8c77/looks_like_we_need_another_space_race/dyiju07/
Basically every anti communist myth debunked https://www.reddit.com/r/communism/wiki/debunk
a VERY big list of resources for socialists https://www.reddit.com/r/socialism/comments/93swdx/a_very_big_list_of_resources_for_socialism_and/
Very interesting stats on capitalism https://i.imgur.com/6W4Iwly.jpg
Masterpost dealing with the purges, and Holodomor also by comrade Flesh_eating_turtle https://www.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/e8kpow/masterpost_on_joseph_stalin_and_the_great_purge/
The black book of communism debunked https://medium.com/@discomfiting/debunking-communism-killed-more-people-than-naziism-7a9880696f67
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsvZoAATfOw
https://web.archive.org/web/20000304051103/http://www.feedmag.com:80/essay/es271_meta3.html
http://guerrillaontologies.com/2014/05/attempting-the-impossible-calculating-capitalisms-death-toll/ (the link includes a section on the black book of communism).
Thanks for the contribution, comrade, and many thanks to the original compiler.
Link doesn’t seem to work for me, gives me a 404 error. Anyone has a backup at hand? EDIT: If anyone is interested, the web archived version of this post (by @AgreeableLandscape@lemmygrad.ml) has a working link. Many thanks to him!
Also, it may be useful to structure all these sources somewhat, maybe sorting them in a loose read order or something. I know there are plenty of reading lists already, but it might be of more use that way nontheless. The book I mentioned sprung my interest, but I’ll be damned if I don’t have some more basic reading to do already, so I’d like to know at least if I should look more into that instead of the aforementioned title.
I’ve been thinking of doing something like that, compiling a list of books into a single megathread, and sorting them by topic. And people could make suggestions and just make the list longer and more comprehensive. That would be a great megathread for sure!
That would be awesome. Though I am new here in Lemmygrad, so I’m unaware if such a thing has already be done here before. I know many such lists existed back over on Reddit, maybe we could import them somehow and then tweak them in accordance with the community.
Here are two unrelated examples I had saved.
Marx to Mao. Old ass website a friend showed me. Could probably use some expansion and edition.
Socialism in the 21st Century. I honestly don’t even know how I stumbled upon this by myself. Probably some late night scrolling through communist Reddit before the quarantine. In any case, it’s quite comprehensive.
Hope any of this helps.
EDIT: Indeed, here at /c/communism there is such a list from a while ago. Though maybe it could stand to be expanded.
I’ve seen S21C before! Looks like an amazing megalist. I think we could make a list with a simpler design and more concise categorisation, for sure.
Indeed, it’s quite good. Agreed about the design and/or formatting, although I’m not sure on how to go about it.