How familiar is this person with Communism and AES? If I just want to recommend a good intro for someone with no familiarity, I usually recommend Engels’ Principles of Communism and if they are anti-AES but willing to read I recommend Parenti’s Blackshirts and Reds.
From there, it becomes more important to understand that Marxism-Leninism is broken into 3 major components:
Dialectical and Historical Materialism
Critique of Capitalism along the lines of Marx’s Law of Value
After reading all of this, whoever has completed these works should have a good grasp of the basics of Marxism-Leninism and be equipped to do their own Marxist-Leninist analysis, though tons of excellent and fairly critical works were dropped for the sake of limiting the scope to an intro reading list. I can make more “advanced” recommendations if they are necessary as well.
Ah, understood. In that case, I would keep the same list, but in Arabic if that’s more comfortable, and add the PFLP’s Strategy For the Liberation of Palestine to the beginning of the list as well, perhaps right after Principles of Communism.
How familiar is this person with Communism and AES? If I just want to recommend a good intro for someone with no familiarity, I usually recommend Engels’ Principles of Communism and if they are anti-AES but willing to read I recommend Parenti’s Blackshirts and Reds.
From there, it becomes more important to understand that Marxism-Leninism is broken into 3 major components:
Dialectical and Historical Materialism
Critique of Capitalism along the lines of Marx’s Law of Value
Advocacy for Revolutionary Socialism
And as such, I recommend, in order:
Politzer’s Elementary Principles of Philosophy
Engels’ Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
Marx’s Wage Labor and Capital as well as Wages, Price and Profit
Lenin’s Imperialism, The Highest Stage of Capitalism
Lenin’s The State and Revolution
After reading all of this, whoever has completed these works should have a good grasp of the basics of Marxism-Leninism and be equipped to do their own Marxist-Leninist analysis, though tons of excellent and fairly critical works were dropped for the sake of limiting the scope to an intro reading list. I can make more “advanced” recommendations if they are necessary as well.
She’s not familiar at all ,she thinks positive of Cuba like everyone form Palestine does ,she’s a woman from Gaza who is there right now
Ah, understood. In that case, I would keep the same list, but in Arabic if that’s more comfortable, and add the PFLP’s Strategy For the Liberation of Palestine to the beginning of the list as well, perhaps right after Principles of Communism.
Palestine will be free.