Reading List for Beginners

Reading list for beginners who are beginning to study Marxism-Leninism.

Basic Books

• Blackshirts & Reds - Michael Parenti
• Principles of Communism - Friedrich Engels
• The 3 sources & 3 Component parts of Marxism - Lenin
• Socialism: Utopian & Scientific - Friedrich Engels
• Karl Marx: a brief biographical sketch with an exposition of Marxism - Lenin
• Wage Labor & Capital - Karl Marx
• Value Price & Profit - Karl Marx
• The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
• The origin of the family, private property, and the state - Friedrich Engels
• State & Revolution - Lenin
• Marxism vs Liberalism - Joseph Stalin
• Foundations of Leninism - Joseph Stalin
• Dialectical & Historical Materialism - Joseph Stalin
• Dialectical Materialism - Mao
• On Practice - Mao
• On Contradiction - Mao
• Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism - Lenin
• Left communism: an infantile disorder - Lenin
• What is to be done? - Lenin
• Anti-Dühring - Friedrich Engels