This is the recommended reading list to understand Marxism-Leninism. I do not recommend reading this list alone and coming to your own conclusions. Reading in a group will always be better than reading alone. If you have no one to read with, come to Twitch on Theory Thursday. I’ll do the reading for you, and we can discuss it together.

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Section I: basics

1. The Principles of Communism by Frederick Engels [ X ]
2. Socialism: Utopian or Scientific?, Frederick Engels [ X ]
3. Wage, Labor, and Capital by Karl Marx & Frederick Engels [ X ]
4. Value, Price, and Profit by Karl Marx [ X ]
5. Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State, Frederick Engels [ X ]
6. The Civil War in France by Karl Marx [ X ]
7. Dialectical and Historical Materialism, Josef Stalin [ X ]
8. State & Revolution by Vladimir Lenin [ X ]
9. Imperialism, The Highest Stage of Capitalism by Vladimir Lenin [ X ]
10. The Foundations of Leninism by Josef Stalin [ X ]
11. The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx & Frederick Engels [ X ]

Section II: intermediate

1. What is to be Done? by Vladimir Lenin [ X ]
2. “Left Wing” Communism: An Infantile Disorder by Vladimir Lenin [ X ]
3. Marxism & The National Question by Josef Stalin [ X ]
4. Combat Liberalism by Mao Zedong [ X ]
5. Discourse on Colonialism by Aime Cesaire [ X ]
6. The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon [ X ]
7. Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon [ X ]
8. Communism & the Family by Alexandra Kollontai [ X ]
9. The Social Basis of the Women Question by Alexandra Kollontai [ X ]
10. Only In Conjunction With the Proletarian Women
    Will Socialism Be Victorious by Clara Zetkin [ X ]
11. Gay Identity & Capitalism by John D’Emilio [ X ]
12. On Having The Correct Understanding of Nationalism by Kim Jong Il [ X ]

section iii: advanced

1. Critique of the Gotha Program by Karl Marx [ X ]
2. The Tax in Kind by Vladimir Lenin [ X ]
3. Capital by Karl Marx [ X ]
4. Anarchism or Socialism? by Josef Stalin [ X ]
5. The Path Which Led Me To Leninism by Ho Chi Minh [ X ]
6. Speech on Marxism-Leninism by Fidel Castro [ X ]
7. The Revolution Must Be A School of Unfettered Thought by Fidel Castro [ X ]
8. We Can Develop A Market Economy Under Socialism by Deng Xiaoping [ X ]
9. Let Us Devote Ourselves To The Service For the Masses of the People by Kim Il Sung [ X ]
10. Socialism Is a Science, Kim Jong Il [ X ]
11. Prostitution & Ways of Fighting It by Alexandra Kollontai [ X ]
12. The Fracturing of LGBT Identity Under Neoliberal Capitalism by Peter Drucker [ X ]

It is to be understood that this is not an exhaustive list of everything I have read, nor should it signal a complete analysis of Marxism-Leninism. This is a Study-Guide that will put those interested in my perspective on politics to understand how I came to have my perspective, and will also give you a fairly comprehensive understanding of Marxist-Leninist theory.