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A Reading Guide
The following Reading Guide is only an initial attempt at beginning to organize many of the texts
scattered among the various "Collections" into broad topical areas. It is my hope that this may assist not
only readers who are unfamiliar with the basic texts of Scientific Socialism and the Communist
movement, but those who have gone beyond the basics and wish to deepen their knowledge of specific
areas. Needless to say, these "topical areas" do not exhaust the subject matter contained in the
Collections, nor are they exclusive of each other. As always, your comments, suggestions, and criticisms
are always welcome, and most especially in regard to developing this Reading Guide.
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The following texts are recommended to for those who have very little, or, in this day and age of
reaction, absolutely no, familiarity of with the basic tenets of Scientific Socialism. Most of these texts
offer broad brush strokes, and others provide a little more detail. This material is barely the "tip of the
iceberg" and only include texts contained in this website.
Historical/Intellectual Background
Engels:
Lenin:
A Reading Guide
Lenin:
Karl Marx (A Brief Biographical Sketch with an Exposition of Marxism) (1914) (127k)
What the "Friends of the People" Are (1894) (Part I) (287k)
Stalin:
Political Economy
Marx:
The State
Lenin:
Dialectics
Lenin:
Mao:
A Reading Guide
Socialism
Marx:
Lenin:
Economics and Politics in the Era of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat (1919) (30k)
Mao:
Lenin:
Stalin:
A Reading Guide
Lenin:
Stalin:
Lenin:
A Reading Guide
Lenin:
Preliminary Draft Theses on the National and the Colonial Questions. For the Second Congress of the Communist
International (1920) (25k)
The Second Congress of the Communist International (1920) (125k)
Stalin:
Organizational Issues:
Lenin:
Stalin:
Mao:
Comintern:
A Reading Guide
Politcal Economy:
Marx:
Lenin:
Lenin:
Socialism:
Marx:
Lenin:
Mao:
A Reading Guide
The State:
Lenin:
Politics
Lenin:
Stalin:
Mao:
A Reading Guide
Lenin:
The Dissoultion of the Duma and the Tasks of the Proletariat (1906) (60k)
Marxism and Insurrection (1917) (26k)
Advice of an Onlooker (1917) (9k)
Stalin:
Mao: