The Winner by a very large margin is:

’Blackshirts & Reds’ (2001) - Michael Parenti | tag: Marxism-Leninism

Parenti shows how “rational fascism” renders service to capitalism. How corporate power undermines democracy, and how revolutions are a form of mass empowerment against forces of exploitative privilege. He also maps the external and internal forces that destroyed communism and the disastrous impact of the “free-market” victory on Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. source

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    • MaoTheLawn [any, any]
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      4 years ago

      Gonna add to this. Chomsky's "How The World Works" - its a collection of easily digestable speeches transcribed into words. Nice n simple. Gave me enough knowledge to dunk on every pro-american person I've ever had the misfortune of meeting.

    • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Most of Lenin's stuff is like that too. All surprisingly easy to comprehend and even when he does get into the more theoretical stuff, he usually includes a quote and breaks it down.