I’d recommend Principles of Communism (specifically question 17, though the whole pamphlet is tremendously useful) as well as Socialism: Utopian and Scientific from Engels if you haven’t engaged with Marxist theory before. S:UaS does a great job of elaborating on Historical and Dialectical Materialism in a short form-factor, elaborating on the why of Communism to begin with, essentially working with analysis of present systems and predicting forwards, as opposed to coming up with a “utopia” and working backwards.
If you want a Marxist analysis of Capitalism and why it will prepare the foundations for Communism, I recommend Wage Labor and Capital as well as Wages, Price, and Profit if you want the short version and don’t want to read Capital.
I’d recommend Principles of Communism (specifically question 17, though the whole pamphlet is tremendously useful) as well as Socialism: Utopian and Scientific from Engels if you haven’t engaged with Marxist theory before. S:UaS does a great job of elaborating on Historical and Dialectical Materialism in a short form-factor, elaborating on the why of Communism to begin with, essentially working with analysis of present systems and predicting forwards, as opposed to coming up with a “utopia” and working backwards.
If you want a Marxist analysis of Capitalism and why it will prepare the foundations for Communism, I recommend Wage Labor and Capital as well as Wages, Price, and Profit if you want the short version and don’t want to read Capital.
I also have a beginner Marxist-Leninist reading list I curated for easy sharing.
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