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In this thread you can find link to leftist literature and educational material.
Massive site with complete works:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/Communist manifesto:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/index.htmDas Kapital/Capital:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/Feel free to add
Courtesy of /leftypol/
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Very short introduction to communism
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Very short introduction to socialism
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Very short introduction to Marx
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An introduction to Marxist Economics
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The Anarchist Libraryhttp://theanarchistlibrary.org/Full of text about anarchism and related topics.
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Marx on "Value, Price and Profit" Taken from a speech at a workers' council
No.25
Revolutionary Maoist propaganda:
http://www.bannedthought.net/Includes babby's first guide to Maoism and communism in general, you can read this if nothing else:
http://www.bannedthought.net/India/PeoplesMarch/PM1999-2006/publications/mlm/contents.htm No.27
The Culture Industry - Adorno
From the wiki:
>The term culture industry was coined by the critical theorists Theodor Adorno (1903–1969) and Max Horkheimer (1895–1973), and was presented as critical vocabulary in the chapter “The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception”, of the book Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944), wherein they proposed that popular culture is akin to a factory producing standardized cultural goods — films, radio programmes, magazines, etc. — that are used to manipulate mass society into passivity. Consumption of the easy pleasures of popular culture, made available by the mass communications media, renders people docile and content, no matter how difficult their economic circumstances. The inherent danger of the culture industry is the cultivation of false psychological needs that can only be met and satisfied by the products of capitalism; thus Adorno and Horkheimer especially perceived mass-produced culture as dangerous to the more technically and intellectually difficult high arts. In contrast, true psychological needs are freedom, creativity, and genuine happiness, which refer to an earlier demarcation of human needs, established by Herbert Marcuse. (See Eros and Civilization, 1955).
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Adventures in Transcendental Materialism - Adrian Johnston
>Since Bacon, Gallileo and Descartes in the early 17th century, the relations between science and religion as well as mind and body have remained volatile fault lines of conflict. The controversies surrounding these relations are as alive and pressing now as at any point over the course of the past four centuries.
>Adrian Johnston’s transcendental materialism offers a new theoretical approach to these issues. Arming himself with resources provided by German idealism, Marxism, psychoanalysis, the life sciences and contemporary philosophical developments, Johnston formulates an account of subjectivity that, although being both materialist and naturalist, does full justice to human beings as irreducible to natural matter alone. At the same time he argues against relapses into idealisms, dualisms and spiritualisms.
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History of Neoliberalism - David Harvey
>Neoliberalism - the doctrine that market exchange is an ethic in itself, capable of acting as a guide for all human action - has become dominant in both thought and practice throughout much of the world since 1970 or so.Its spread has depended upon a reconstitution of state powers such that privatization, finance, and market processes are emphasized. State interventions in the economy are minimized, while the obligations of the state to provide for the welfare of its citizens are diminished. David Harvey, authorof 'The New Imperialism' and 'The Condition of Postmodernity', here tells the political-economic story of where neoliberalization came from and how it proliferated on the world stage. While Thatcher and Reagan are often cited as primary authors of this neoliberal turn, Harvey shows how a complex offorces, from Chile to China and from New York City to Mexico City, have also played their part. In addition he explores the continuities and contrasts between neoliberalism of the Clinton sort and the recent turn towards neoconservative imperialism of George W. Bush. Finally, through criticalengagement with this history, Harvey constructs a framework not only for analyzing the political and economic dangers that now surround us, but also for assessing the prospects for the more socially just alternatives being advocated by many oppositional movements.
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No.38
Lenin - The State and Revolution
No.44
Trotsky - The Transitional Program
No.65
Trotsky - The War and the International
No.72
Trotsky - The Third International After Lenin
No.136
D. Harvey - A Companion to Marx's "Capital"
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>>5Personally, I have no system…
>pic relatedread the whole thing, not just the first sentence. I like to make my informational monologues have a certain degree of "unexpected surprises" No.230
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0A7FFF28B99C1303 This playlist is a course of reading Marx's Capital with David Harvey, who is this guy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Harvey for anyone who didn't know and couldn't be bothered to google :)
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300GET
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Lenin - "What is to be Done?" 1902
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Marx, Das Kapital Volumes 1 and 2
Volume 1 was the only volume finished in Marx's lifetime. Volumes 2 and 3 were incomplete and compiled and finished by Engels after Marx's death. Volume 1 is often considered to the be most important of Marx's works. It is a critique of Capitalism.
No.334
Rosa Luxemburg, "The Accumulation of Capital".
Luxemburg explores the connections between Capitalism, Imperialism, and Economic Reproduction (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reproduction_(economics) )
No.335
Rosa Luxemburg, "Reform or Revolution"
A pamphlet published in Germany, in 1899.
No.338
Trotsky, 1930/1932, "The History of the Russian Revolution" Volume 1
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http://www.arvindguptatoys.com/arvindgupta/marx-beginners.pdf
File is too big to upload. Essential reading for beginners, easy to digest.
No.514
See >>>/leftypol/201631 for Modern Leftist Scholarship
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No.578
An introduction to Dialectical Materialism, in a short pamphlet written by Trotsky in 1939. Very easy to get through, only 6 pages long but well worth the read.
No.624
Autonomist interpretation of 'Capital'
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>>624
> autonomous interpretation
plz explain
No.638
>>636
Don't know really, haven't read it. Try this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomism
No.640
Please add some Cornelius Castoriadis if you can. It will be much appreciated.
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http://www14.zippyshare.com/v/qaAT5Sec/file.html
Karl Kautsky - The Materialist Conception of History
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>>640
A selected collection of his work, translated into English. Did you want French originals or are you looking for English versions? His stuff is kinda hard to find :/
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>>578
essential reading for anyone who does not have a full understanding of dialectical materialism (essential premise of marxist thought)
No.798
The German Ideology, Marx and Engels, 1845
No.800
J. V. STALIN
ECONOMIC PROBLEMS
OF SOCIALISM
IN THE U.S.S.R.
No.801
Calculation, Complexity And Planning:
The Socialist Calculation Debate Once Again
Allin Cottrell and W. Paul Cockshott
July, 1993
No.803
T O W A R D S
A N E W
S O C I A L I S M
W. P A U L C O C K S H O T T
A N D
A L L I N C O T T R E L L
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No.815
Because these books are so hard to get and suppressed.
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>>815
Did anyone imply that?
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No.910
>>815
This guy gets it.
This thread is kinda anachronistic, and the best versions of stuff here mostly aren't posted.
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>>910
If you find better free versions then please post them.
How exactly is this thread anachronistic? We're aware that much of this material exists online, this is just a good centralization/archive of that literature.
No.990
bumping and asking for introductions to modern marxism
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No.1017
Anything designed for children?
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https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8B2364D7C0D31D63
Not sure if this has been posted yet, but a v. good lecture series on Marxist theory
No.1025
Does anyone have an anarchist reading list? I want to know which books to start with.
No.1052
Rosa Luxemburg, Reform or Revolution
(pdf I made myself taken from marxist.org, arranged with page numbers and a proper contents page - hope you enjoy)
No.1064
Is there a good pdf copy of the Grundrisse anywhere?
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>>1025
There's a whole anarchist literature thread m80 >>688
No.1071
Anything on Left Communism (other than Lenin)?
No.1072
something ive been reading, explains anarchism and communism for complete newbies. if you want to understand more about these ideologies before actually making decisions unlike the uneducated /pol/fags, this is the book for you
No.1073
For a lengthier answer to the old question of "Human Nature" (and worth a read for those who think they already know the answer well): Erich Fromm, "Marx's Concept of Man".