This category includes writings whose primary focus is on philosophy, communism, socialism, capitalism, imperialism and/or colonialism, as well as the political, economic, and military history of socialist experiments (USSR, Cuba, Laos, China, DPRK, Vietnam, etc.). Writings only tangentially or incidentally relating to these topics can be found in the "Other" category.
People's Army, People's War // Vo Nguyen Giap
The Wretched of the Earth // Frantz Fanon
The Communist Manifesto // Marx + Engels
★ The German Ideology // Marx + Engels
★ On Contradiction // Mao
On Practice // Mao
Cities Without Crisis // Mike Davidow
★ Dialectical Materialism // Alexander Spirkin
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note: I tried to put these roughly (?) in the order in which I first read them.
The State and Revolution // Lenin
Imperialism, The Highest Stage of Capitalism // Lenin
The Dialectical Biologist // Richard Levins
Black Bolshevik: Autobiography of an Afro-American Communist // Harry Haywood
Dialectical and Historical Materialism // Stalin
What is Surplus Value? // Tatyana Volkova
The Governance of China // Xi Jinping
Women, Race and Class // Angela Davis
Wind in the Tower: Mao Zedong & the Chinese Revolution, 1949-1975 // Han Suyin
Liberalism: A Counter-History // Domenico Losurdo
Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism // Michael Parenti
To Kill a Nation: The Attack on Yugoslavia // Michael Parenti
Patriots, Traitors, and Empires: The Story of Korea's Struggle for Freedom // Stephan Gowans
War is a Racket // Smedley D. Butler
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And many, many more... goodness knows how many pdfs I chuck into my reading folder each day 😔
note: Some of these, like State and Rev and Imperialism... I've read more than half of or read in bits and pieces, but I should probably start them over from the beginning and so I don't feel that putting them in the "read" section makes sense.