Basic Marxism-Leninism Study Plan
Introduction
Lenin. The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism
Lenin. Karl Marx: A Brief Biographical Sketch With an Exposition of Marxism
Marx, Engels. Manifesto of the Communist Party
Historical Materialism
- Marx, Engels. The German Ideology, chapter I
Scientific Socialism
Lenin. What Is To Be Done?
Lenin. The State and Revolution
Lenin. Opportunism, and the Collapse of the Second International
Lenin. Certain Features of the Historical Development of Marxism
Lenin. Marxism and Revisionism
Lenin. Marxism and Reformism
Stalin. The Foundations of Leninism
Philosophy
Mao. On Contradiction
Engels. Anti-Dühring, part I: Philosophy
Engels. Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy
Marx. Theses on Feuerbach
Political Economy
How to Make Historical Materialist Analysis
Introduction to the method
Marx. A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, preface
Marx, Engels. The German Ideology, chapter I
Marx & Engels' Application
Marx. The Civil War in France
Engels. The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
Engels. The Peasant War in Germany
Engels. Anti-Dühring: Herr Eugen Dühring's Revolution in Science
Other
Plekhanov. Historical Materialism and the Arts
Plekhanov. The Materialist Conception of History
Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat by J. Sakai
Divided World, Divided Class: Global Political Economy and the Stratification of Labour Under Capitalism by Zak Cope
Resources for Marxist Political Economy
The Law of Worldwide Value by Samir Amin
Luxemburg. The Accumulation of Capital
I don't want to be an ass, truly, but any foundational guide to ML should include marxist feminist texts, decolonization texts, and marxist influenced queer liberation texts.
ML is an evolving science and giving a reading guide that is fundamentally pre 1920 is not great. It's reminiscent of what trots do tbh.
Seeing Sakai, who is valuable, but memeified, but not Fanon? Really?
Atleast include Kollontai, also. Maybe also some Arruzza and Federici.
Disagree or agree with PSL, but their liberation school curriculum is on point.
IMO this list is filled with redundant texts and non necessary reads also. This is fully inadequate to beginners, and also runs the risk of beginners seeing necessary and crucial developments in ML thought as secondary. A lot needs to be scrapped.
I'd also recommend including Althusser and Gramsci.
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