resources for baby leftist here
these will give you a good intro to both history & theory (links provided):
Parenti's Yellow Lecture (video): highly recommend good primer on amerikan foreign policy serving the interests of capital
Engels Principles of Communism (pdf): very short easy to read starts with basic definitions
Marx Wage Labor & Capital (pdf): most of marx's writing is just examining the objective mechanisms of the capitalist system to reveal its inherent contradictions. many aha moments
(this just made me think of that one time el0n mu$k tweeted something like "marx loved capitalism he even wrote a book about it" & every time I’m reminded of that it ruins my day)
stalin dialectical & historical materialism: good intro to marxist philosophy (for the most part...)
Franz Fanon the wretched of the earth: major anticolonial text extremely relevant highly recommend
misc resources:
Marxists internet archive: every marxist text ever can be found here
marx engels manifesto of the communist party:
ilyenkov dialectics of abstract & concrete:
the leftist library: online mutual aid collection of leftist resources, most great some meh
walter rodney how europe underdeveloped africa:
ollman dance of the dialectic:
Guy Debord the society of the spectacle:
Iskra books: publisher of contemporary leftist books. every book has free pdf
Huey p newton revolutionary suicide: autobiography of black panther party founder
Angela Davis Women Race & Class: intersectionality,
foucault history of sexuality:
Gaza fights for freedom: 2019 documentary on the great march of return protests in gaza
Rosa Luxemburg reform or revolution: self explanatory, very good
William blum killing hope: read william blum's book on u.s. military & cia interventions on the cia's own website
lukacs history & class consciousness:
poverty of student life S.I: dropouts vindicated (me)
mark fisher capitalist realism:
vaneigem revolution of everyday life:
thomas sankara women's liberation & the african freedom struggle:
some audio books: parenti blackshirts & reds, newton revolutionary suicide, bevins jakarta method,
audio books: many many marxist writings audio books
angela davis are prisons obsolete:
freire pedagogy of the oppressed:
