Glad you’re reading settlers it’s really good

I’d also check out blackshirts and red by parenti, for a lot of western propaganda debunking

Pedagogy of the oppressed by Freire

Modern imperialism by John smith

Fraud famine and fascism by Douglas tottle

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'Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists during the Great Depression' by Robin D.G. Kelley

The southern US used to be ground zero for communist movements in the US during the 20s/30s primarily because of the solidarity between racial lines of the working class when everywhere else was hostile towards Black folks. The Black community took the teachings of Marx and Lenin and blended it with their own influence from their lived experiences and essentially created a huge movement. Really interesting book that I don't see mentioned very often and it's a cool piece of Black history since it is Black history month.

Going to repost my recs from this comment:

1. Lenin's Electoral Strategy from Marx and Engels Through the Revolution of 1905: The Ballot, the Streets—or Both by August H. Nimtz is a wonderful book that I think is very important for our current moment. It explains how Marx, Engels, Lenin, and many other Marxists viewed electoral politics as a ground for propaganda and agitation, but not as a means to take power. That can only be done through a revolution, and therefore you must have an independent workers party to educate the masses. Helps cut through a lot of the "lesser evil" discourse around left-leaning spaces, and does so with a heavy dose of theory.
2. Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation by Silvia Federici is a great book about primitive accumulation (building on Marx and Luxemburg) in the context of the early modern world, and how it laid the groundwork for (and continues to feed into) modern day labor exploitation. Very readable.
3. Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam-Power and the Roots of Global Warming by Andreas Malm is my favorite book on here. It's a Marxist account of how the switch to burning coal over water wheels was predicated on labor control rather than anything to do with price, and demonstrates how the cause of global warming lie squarely in the court of capitalists, and not "humanity" or some other vague amalgamation of people. Really recommend this one

BONUS: The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View by Ellen Meiksins Wood. Great account that builds on Marx to demonstrate how capitalism was not inevitable, but a historically specific development in 17th century England that relied on a very lucky coincidence of factors. Easy introduction to this very large and important topic.

Open Veins of Latin America

• How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
• Profit Pathology and Other Indecencies
• On Practice and On Contradiction
• Washington Bullets
• the Jakarta Method
• the Prison Notebooks

If you have trouble sticking to reading lists, you might want to throw some books in there that you just read for pleasure. It really helped me when I started to get bogged down with all the theory-heavy books that I had on my list. Ursula K. Le Guin and China Mieville are my favorites for this. I would really highly recommend The Left Hand of Darkness by Le Guin because it will pair well with Trans Liberation.

just here to be the annoying one to tell you to read Debt: The First 5,000 Years

Beyond pink or blue was excellent. I’m a cis ally and that was still probably the most exciting leftist book I’ve read recently

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Listen, Liberal - by Thomas Frank. Basically explains how the Democratic Party stopped being the party of the working class.

Orientalism by Edward Said is a foundational book, critical to understanding western ideology as it relates to the rest of the world.

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