Recs if you like The State and Revolution...

Why we need a revolution and how we get there

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

best recommended pulls from my nonfiction shelf

marxism, anarchism, radical left etc.

Curated by the Communist Party USA - Oregon District. One missing reading: the CPUSA Party Program titled Road to Socialism.

for tired socialists and leftists i guess

essential leftist literature

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.