See title, this builds up on the previous request for reading lists, but is a bit more open ended and is supposed to be a contemporary update that I would like to post twice a year.

The texts at best are accessible without too much previous knowledge. Open for videos, and other media, as well as group formats, and activities too. You have to participate in protest training and actually cook for others to see how both those things feel.

I would be more happy with fewer thick works or only excerpts from complicated stuff, than to suggest the complete collection of Marx's works. Some popular and recent books i.e. Jakarta Method, Klein, or recent organizing books would be welcome, too.

The next time I post this question (and feel free to paste your own suggested template) will be December/January 2023.

  • AssortedBiscuits [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    What about books from the Black Radical Tradition:

    The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X with Alex Haley

    Malcolm X Speaks by Malcolm X

    Revolutionary Suicide by Huey Newton

    Soledad Brother by George Jackson

    Blood in my Eye by George Jackson

    Assata by Assata Shakur

    Ready for Revolution by Kwame Ture

    Stokely Speaks by Kwame Ture

    Most of them are either autobiographies or compilations of letters/speeches. You also have Walter Rodney's works (How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, The Groundings with My Brothers).

    And finally, there's the Vietnamese college textbook that Luna Oi translated: https://archive.org/details/intro-basic-princ-marx-lenin-part-1-final/. None of these works require you to be exposed to Marxism whatsoever.