I figure this is a common ask but I haven't seen a post anywhere in the recent past, so....What is the VERY first book on theory that I need to read?

I haven't read any theory yet, besides a short excerpt from the Communist Manifesto a long time ago. I have read some Parenti and Blackshirts & Reds is definitely on my list. I'm also interested in history books, biographies, autobiographies, anything socialist/marxist really.

I am also very interested in recommendations from non-white folks, as well as any literature about non-white socialist movements/people/history/theory etc.

  • Alaskaball [comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    https://www.marxists.org/archive/olgin/pamphlets/1933/whycomindex.htm

    October by China mieville

    Howard zinn's peoples history

    Ten days that shook the world by John Reed

    Molotov Remembers by himself and transcribed by Felix Chuev

    Felix Dzerzhinsky: a biography

    Dialectical and historical materialism by Stalin

    Fundamentals of Marxism-Leninism by Otto Wille Kuusinen

    Foundations of Leninism by Stalin

    Marxism and the national question by Stalin

    Inside north Korea by Anna Louise Strong

    The origin of family, private property, and the State by Engels

    On inter-party struggle by Liu Shaoqi

    This Monstrous War By Wilfred G. Burchett

    Fraud, Famine and Fascism: The Ukrainian Genocide Myth from Hitler to Harvard By Douglas Tottle

    The Lesson of Germany By Gerhart Eisler, Albert Norden, Albert Schreiner

    The Origins of Christianity By Archibald Robertson

    Science and Religion By Marcel Cachin

    Soviet Democracy ​and​ Bourgeois Democracy By M.B. Mitin