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How Does it Work?
Our suggested reading list is broken down into stages. These stages are in an order meant to help you progress from accessible texts to more complex texts that build upon each other. Within each stage feel free to go out of order, but the order listed is the order suggested.
Between stages you will see books that do not go out of order and are purposefully placed between one stage to the next. These "transitional must read" are placed to either help solidify what has been talked about in the stage you just finished and/or to help prepare you for the next stage.
You will also see "Optional Texts". These texts are complementary for the stages they are placed in, but are not required to move on to the next stage.
In practice this would look a little like this:
Start Stage One: On Authority -> Principles of Communism -> Dialectical and Historical Materialism -> Transitional Must Read: Blackshirts and Reds -> Move on to Stage Two: The State and Revolution -> and so on...
Audiobook List
Stage 1
Principles of Communism by Engels
On Authority by Engels
Dialectical and Historical Materialism by Stalin
Optional Texts
Why Socialism? by Einstein
The Communist Manifesto by Marx and Engels
*TRANSITIONAL MUST READ*
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Stage 2
State and Revolution by Lenin
Wage Labor and Capital by Marx
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific by Engels
Optional Texts
Critique of the Gotha Programme by Marx
Foundations of Leninism by Stalin
*TRANSITIONAL MUST READ*
Reform or Revolution by Luxemburg
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Stage 3
On Practice by Mao
On Contradiction by Mao
Optional Texts
Discourse on Colonialism by Aime Cesaire
*TRANSITIONAL MUST READ*
What is to be Done? by Lenin
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Stage 4
Some Questions Concerning Methods of Leadership by Mao
On the Party: V. Democratic Centralism within the Party by Liu Shaoqi
On Correcting Mistaken Ideas in the Party by Mao
Combat Liberalism by Mao
Oppose Book Worship by Mao
The Three Main Rules of Discipline and the Eight Points for Attention by Mao
In Memory of Norman Bethune by Mao
Optional Texts
Freedom to Criticise and Unity of Action by Lenin
Twelve Recommendations by Ho Chi Minh
The Foolish Old Man Who Removed the Mountains by Mao
Serve the People by Mao
*MUST READ*
Marxism and the National Question by Stalin
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