This list forms the basis of the theoretical positions of this initiative and will be updated continually. It includes all reading necessary for a full understanding of proletarian socialism and its methodology. We recommend anybody who wishes to begin studying Communist theory to read the first section, followed by the ‘Minimum’ parts of the second, third and fourth sections, all in the order presented, and then move on to the rest.
Sections:
Introductory Works
F. Engels – The Principles of Communism (1847)
K. H. Marx & F. Engels – The Communist Manifesto (1848)
F. Engels – Anti-Dühring (1877)
Materialist Dialectics & Historical Materialism
Minimum:
K. H. Marx – Theses on Feuerbach (1845)
K. H. Marx & F. Engels – The German Ideology (1845)
F. Engels – Ludwig Feuerbach & the End of Classical German Philosophy (1886)
F. Engels – Four Letters on Historical Materialism (1890-93)
Further reading:
K. H. Marx – The Poverty of Philosophy (1847)
K. H. Marx – The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (1852)
K. H. Marx & F. Engels – Circular Against Kriege (1846)
K. H. Marx & F. Engels – The Revolutions of 1848 (1848-50)
F. Engels – The Peasant War in Germany (1850)
F. Engels – Revolution & Counter-Revolution in Germany (1852)
F. Engels – The Dialectics of Nature (1883)
F. Engels – The Origin of the Family, Private Property & the State (1884)
F. Engels – The Role of Force in History (1887)
F. Engels – On the History of Early Christianity (1894)
P. J. Dietzgen – Social-Democratic Philosophy (1876)
P. J. Dietzgen – The Positive Outcome of Philosophy (1887)
F. E. Mehring – Philosophy & Philosophising (1909)
V. I. Lenin – Socialism & Religion (1905)
V. I. Lenin – Materialism & Empirio-Criticism (1908)
V. I. Lenin – Philosophical Notebooks (1895 – 1916)
V. I. Lenin – Imperialism & the Split in Socialism (1916)
I. V. Stalin – Marxism & the National & Colonial Question (1913-48)
I. V. Stalin – Marxism & the Problem of Linguistics (1950)
S. K. Minin – Throw Philosophy Overboard! (1922)
V. V. Adoratsky – On Ideology (1922)
A. S. F. Gramsci – Selections from the Prison Notebooks (1929-35)
R. P. Dutt – Fascism & Social Revolution (1935)
A. A. Zhdanov – On the History of Philosophy (1947)
A. A. Zhdanov – On Literature, Music & Philosophy (1950)
A. V. Lunacharsky – On Literature & Art (1965)
S. Sikder – Post-Modernism Today (2018)
Critique of Political Economy
Minimum:
K. H. Marx – Wage-Labour & Capital (1847)
K. H. Marx – Value, Price & Profit (1865)
K. H. Marx – A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy (1859)
V. I. Lenin – Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism (1916)
Further reading:
K. H. Marx – Grundrisse (1857)
K. H. Marx – Capital: Volume 1 (1867)
K. H. Marx – Capital: Volume 2 (1885)
K. H. Marx – Capital: Volume 3 (1894)
K. H. Marx – Theories of Surplus Value (Capital: Volume 4) (1863)
K. H. Marx & F. Engels – On the Question of Free Trade (1847 – 48)
F. Engels – The Housing Question (1872)
V. I. Lenin – A Characterisation of Economic Romanticism (1897)
V. I. Lenin – The Development of Capitalism in Russia (1899)
V. I. Lenin – A Caricature of Marxism & Imperialist Economism (1916)
N. I. Bukharin – Imperialism & World Economy (1917)
F. K. Nkrumah – Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism (1965)
J. Boggs – A New Outlook on Health (1975)
E. H. Hoxha – The Superpowers (1984)
A. Kliman – Reclaiming Marx’s ‘Capital‘ (2006)
A. Kliman – The Failure of Capitalist Production (2011)
N. Klein – This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate (2014)
A. M. Shaikh – Capitalism: Competition, Conflict, Crises (2016)
J. C. Smith – Imperialism in the 21st Century (2016)
M. Roberts – The Long Depression: Marxism & the Global Crisis of Capitalism (2016)
F. Moseley – Money & Totality: A Macro-Monetary Interpretation of Marx’s Logic in Capital & the End of the ‘Transformation Problem’ (2017)
M. Smith – Invisible Leviathan: Marx’s Law of Value in the Twilight of Capitalism (2018)
S. Amin – Modern Imperialism, Monopoly Finance Capital, & Marx’s Law of Value (2018)
P. Jones – The Falling Rate of Profit & the Great Recession of 2007 – 09 (2023)
Scientific Socialism
Minimum:
K. H. Marx – Critique of the Gotha Programme (1875)
V. I. Lenin – State & Revolution (1917)
S. K. Mammaev – Karl Marx’s Proletarian Socialism (2021)
A. B. Razlatsky – The Second Communist Manifesto (1979)
Further reading:
K. H. Marx – The Civil War in France (1871)
K. H. Marx – Political Indifferentism (1873)
F. Engels – On Authority (1872)
F. Engels – The Bakuninists at Work (1873)
F. Engels – Nationalism, Internationalism & the Polish Question (1882)
F. A. Bebel – Woman & Socialism (1879)
R. Luxemburg – Reform or Revolution? (1900)
V. I. Lenin – Anarchism & Socialism (1901)
V. I. Lenin – What is to be Done? (1901)
V. I. Lenin – Revolutionary Adventurism (1902)
V. I. Lenin – One Step Forward, Two Steps Back (1904)
V. I. Lenin – The Revolutionary-Democratic Dictatorship of the Proletariat & the Peasantry (1905)
V. I. Lenin – Two Tactics of Social-Democracy in the Democratic Revolution (1905)
V. I. Lenin – Guerrilla Warfare (1906)
V. I. Lenin – The Attitude of the Workers’ Party to Religion (1909)
V. I. Lenin – Critical Remarks on the National Question (1913)
V. I. Lenin – The Right of Nations to Self-Determination (1914)
V. I. Lenin – Corrupting the Workers with Refined Nationalism (1914)
V. I. Lenin – The Defeat of One’s Own Government in the Imperialist War (1915)
V. I. Lenin – On the Slogan for a United States of Europe (1915)
V. I. Lenin – Socialism & War (1915)
V. I. Lenin – The Socialist Revolution & the Right of Nations to Self-Determination (1916)
V. I. Lenin – The “Disarmament” Slogan (1916)
V. I. Lenin – One of the Fundamental Questions of the Revolution (1917)
V. I. Lenin – The April Theses (1917)
V. I. Lenin – A Proletarian Militia (1917)
V. I. Lenin – How to Organise Competition (1917)
V. I. Lenin – The Soviets at Work (1918)
V. I. Lenin – “Left-Wing” Childishness (1918)
V. I. Lenin – Proletarian Revolution & the Renegade Kautsky (1918)
V. I. Lenin – Economics & Politics in the Era of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat (1919)
V. I. Lenin – What is Soviet Power? (1919)
V. I. Lenin – “Left-Wing” Communism: An Infantile Disorder (1920)
V. I. Lenin – On Proletarian Culture (1920)
V. I. Lenin – The New Economic Policy (1921)
V. I. Lenin – Once Again on the Trade Unions (1921)
V. I. Lenin – On Cooperation (1923)
V. I. Lenin – Women & Marxism (1870-1924)
I. V. Stalin – The Proletarian Class & the Proletarian Party (1905)
I. V. Stalin – The Agrarian Question (1906)
I. V. Stalin – Anarchism or Socialism? (1907)
I. V. Stalin – Trotskyism or Leninism? (1924)
I. V. Stalin – Political Report of the Central Committee to the Fourteenth Congress (1925)
I. V. Stalin – Concerning Questions of Leninism (1926)
I. V. Stalin – Against Vulgarising the Slogan of Self-Criticism (1928)
I. V. Stalin – A Year of Great Change (1929)
I. V. Stalin – The Right Deviation in the CPSU(B) (1929)
I. V. Stalin – Dizzy with Success (1930)
I. V. Stalin – Mastering Bolshevism (1937)
G. M. Dimitrov – The Fascist Offensive & Unity of the Working-Class (1935)
P. Sloan – Soviet Democracy (1937)
M. I. Kalinin – On Communist Education (1926-45)
M. Zedong – Writings on Organisation & the Mass-Line (1929-63)
M. Zedong – Peaceful Coexistence: 2 Diametrically Opposed Policies (1963)
Z. Chunqiao – On Exercising All-Round Dictatorship Over the Bourgeoisie (1975)
E. H. Hoxha – Marxism-Leninism Teaches that the People are the Creators of History (1953)
E. H. Hoxha – On the Intellectuals (1958)
E. H. Hoxha – The Further Deepening of the Ideological & Cultural Revolution (1967)
E. H. Hoxha – Report on the Role & Tasks of the Democratic Front for the Complete Triumph of Socialism in Albania (1967)
E. H. Hoxha – The Fist of the Marxist-Leninist Communists Must Also Smash Left Adventurism (1968)
E. H. Hoxha – The Working-Class in the Revisionist Countries Must Take the Field & Re-Establish the Dictatorship of the Proletariat (1968)
E. H. Hoxha – The Tragic Events in Chile: A Lesson for the Revolutionaries of the Whole World (1973)
E. H. Hoxha – Theory & Practice of the Revolution (1977)
E. H. Hoxha – Imperialism & the Revolution (1978)
E. H. Hoxha – Proletarian Democracy is Genuine Democracy (1978)
E. H. Hoxha – Yugoslav “Self-Management”: A Capitalist Theory and Practice (1978)
E. H. Hoxha – On Literature & Art (1949-80)
E. H. Hoxha – Euro-Communism is Anti-Communism (1980)
E. H. Hoxha – The Khruschevites (1980)
E. H. Hoxha – The Titoites (1982)
State University of Tirana – Problems of the Struggle for the Complete Emancipation of Women (1973)
W. B. Bland – On Terrorism (1975)
Z. Xholi – The Socialist Cultural Revolution & the People’s National Culture (1977)
P. Pot – Long Live the 17th Anniversary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea! (1977)
P. Pot – Interview With Yugoslavian Journalists (1978)
P. Pot – Talks With the Delegation Of the Belgium-Kampuchea Association (1978)
K. Samphan – Cambodia’s Economy and Industrial Development (1979)
K. Il-Sung – Theses on the Socialist Rural Question in our Country (1964)
K Il-Sung – Socialist Medical Science is Preventative Medicine (1966)
K. Il-Sung – On the Questions of the Period of Transition from Capitalism to Socialism & the Dictatorship of the Proletariat (1967)
K. Il-Sung – On the Full Implementation of the Theses on Socialist Education (1977)
K. Il-Sung – On Further Developing Communist Policies (1985)
K. Il-Sung – We Should Work for the People (1980-89)
K. Il-Sung – Living Standards Must be Improved to Hasten the Complete Victory of Socialism (1991)
K. Il-Sung – On Self-Reliance & the Building of an Independent National Economy (1961-93)
A. B. Razlatsky – The Lower Phase of Communism (1987)
J. M. Sison – Stand for Socialism Against Modern Revisionism (1992)
K. Jong-Il – Abuses of Socialism are Intolerable (1993)
W. Eggers – World Proletarian Military Science & the Art of World-Revolutionary Class War (2005)
K. Un-Chong – Modern Revisionist Theories That Distort the Essence of Socialist Ownership (2018)
K. Jong-Un – On Giving Precedence to Science and Technology (2012-19)
K. Jong-Un – Let us Achieve a Comprehensive Development of Socialism (2014-22)
K. Jong-Un – Let us Open a Great New Era of Socialist Rural Construction (2014-22)
R. Y. Nam – Several Important Issues Arising in Ensuring Producer Masses Fulfil Their Responsibilities & Roles as Masters (2018)
H. Chol – The New-Era Rural Revolution Programme & the Victory of Socialism (2025)
Australia
E. F. Hill – Revolution & the Australian State (1974)
H. D. McQueen – A New Britannia (1986)
E. T. Humphrys – How Labour Built Neo-Liberalism (2018)
C. Fernandes – Sub-Imperial Power: Australia in the International Arena (2022)
Communist Self-Development
M. Zedong – A Study of Physical Education (1917)
V. I. Lenin – The Tasks of the Youth Leagues (1920)
L. Shaoqi – How to be a Good Communist (1939)
H. C. Minh – On Revolutionary Morality (1958)
E. H. Hoxha – For the Continuous Improvement of the Composition of the Party & its Growth for the Protection of the Purity of its Ranks (1966)
E. H. Hoxha – Study Marxist-Leninist Theory Linking it Closely With Revolutionary Practice (1970)
E. H. Hoxha – Intensify the Ideological Struggle Against Alien Manifestations & Liberal Attitudes Towards Them (1973)
