I teased the idea here and got one suggestion (Theses on Feuerbach).
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'Important' in communist history (think Lenin rather than a cool blogpost or Jacobin article)
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'Short'; I'm reluctant to give a specific word-limit. It should be readable in one sitting. 'Short' doesn't have to mean 3 pages, but shouldn't mean 59 pages. Basically nothing you'd call a book: a speech✔, a pamphlet✔, a letter✔, an essay✔
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Available to us all online
I would pin the discussion thread for one week, maybe 10 days.
This would be good for people who don't want to read long things to educate themselves.
The drafts of the response to Vera Zasulich's inquiry: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1881/zasulich/
The correct order is 'second' -> 'first' -> third -> fourth, as the original editor got the actual first draft and the actual second draft backwards.
Has 1. repetition / rephrasings to build understanding of 2. one the key fundamentals of Marx's theories 3. as expressed by Old!Marx 4. in response to wrongheaded ideas of what his ideas are.
Also some of Deng's works could be neat e.g.
On agit-prop: https://dengxiaopingworks.wordpress.com/2013/02/22/the-principles-tasks-and-orientation-for-cultural-work-in-the-129th-division/
On the organization of the people's revolutionary government: https://dengxiaopingworks.wordpress.com/2013/02/22/the-party-and-the-anti-japanese-democratic-government/
Foundation of Dengism (aka "the ideology of the modern Communist Party of China"): https://dengxiaopingworks.wordpress.com/2013/02/25/emancipate-the-mind-seek-truth-from-facts-and-unite-as-one-in-looking-to-the-future/
On the dictatorship of the proletariat: https://dengxiaopingworks.wordpress.com/2013/02/25/uphold-the-four-cardinal-principles/
Also the interview with Deng by Oriana Fallaci is neat: https://redsails.org/deng-and-fallaci/
