Recs if you like The State and Revolution...
Handbook for the Revolution
Why we need a revolution and how we get there
(left) communist reading list
The leftcom perspective: the line running from Marx to Lenin, to the foundation of the Third International and the birth of the Communist Party in Livorno, 1921. The struggle against Stalinism and the degeneration of the revolution in Moscow.
Missing a lot of important articles by virtue of them not being books. Google "ultraleft new reading list" for the whole thing
I like history so I also added some Marxist-adjacent history works that (I think) are a good complement to all the theory here
nonfiction to rewire your brain
best recommended pulls from my nonfiction shelf
leftism
marxism, anarchism, radical left etc.
Elementary Marxism
Basic, accessible Marxism according to the Revolutionary Communist Party (https://communist.red/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/How-to-Study-Marxism.pdf)
Communism/Socialism Intro
Curated by the Communist Party USA - Oregon District. One missing reading: the CPUSA Party Program titled Road to Socialism.
Marxism Starter Pack
leftist reading
for tired socialists and leftists i guess
Books that make you want to start a revolution
essential leftist literature
HOW TO BE A DICTATOR (irony)
ETA: People seem to be missing the point. We need to be informed, so we don't fall on the same mistakes. Biographies of the world’s most notorious dictators, but also their own manifestos and speeches. Figures such as Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, and Mao stand before you, their lives and their own words entwined. Let's discern the thoughts that shaped their actions, and the convictions that enabled them to seize and maintain absolute power to never let it happen again.
