Show Notes
This is a bit of a departure from our usual format. Rather than having a specific topic, our guest Andre will give brief summaries and reviews of a number of texts which they recommend as a foundation for anyone who is interested in Marxism or Marxism-Leninism. I would say that this is a great episode for you to share with left-n00bs who you don't want to go down any dark paths of tendency, but it's also great for those who are looking for things to read on the specific subtopics addressed.
We're talking overcoming anti-AES propaganda, decolonial theory and history, as well as what Andre calls "the endless Cold War." Reading and Viewing Recommendations: Andre's Beginner Communist Resource Video Quote Reading From The Russians Are Coming Quote Reading From Socialism Betrayed Main Books And Their Respective Follow-Ups: Anna Louise Strong, This Soviet World
V.L Allen, The Russians Are Coming: The Politics of Anti-Sovietism
Roger Keeran and Thomas Kenny, Socialism Betrayed: Behind the Collapse of the Soviet Union
Aimé Césaire, Discourse On Colonialism
Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
A.B Abrams, Atrocity Fabrication And Its Consequences: How Fake News Shapes World Order
Samir Amin, The Liberal Virus: Permanent War And The Americanization Of The World
A.B Abrams, Power And Primacy: A History of Western Intervention in the Asia-Pacific (2023 Updated Edition)
Other Cited Texts: Stuart Hall, When We Are All Enemies of the State
Karl Marx, Theses On Feuerbach
Basic Curriculum of the Principles of Marxism Leninism (Translated by Luna Nyugun)
Georges Politzer, Elementary Principles of Philosophy (ProleWiki Link) (Foreign Language Press version)
Maurice Cornforth, Dialectical Materialism: An Introduction (Volumes 1-3) PDF Hosted On Prolewiki
Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade And The Missing Revolution
Domenico Losurdo, Flight from History? The Communist Movement between Self-Criticism and Self-Contempt
Agustín Lage Dávila, The Knowledge Economy And Socialism: Science And Society In Cuba
Kyle Ferrana, Why The World Needs China: Development, Environmentalism, Conflict Resolution & Common Prosperity
Douglas Valentine, The CIA As Organized Crime: How Illegal Operations Corrupt America And The World
Albert Szymanski, Human Rights In The Soviet Union: Including Comparisons With The U.S.A
Extra Recommended Readings: E.H Carr, The Soviet Impact On The Western World
Anna Lousie Strong, In North Korea: First Eye-Witness Report
Albert Szymanski, Is The Red Flag Flying? The Political Economy of the Soviet Union Today
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