EDUCATION
Reading list
Basic level (3 months from applying)
Despite their brevity, these texts by Marx, Engels, and Lenin paint a full picture. Despite their being written a century ago they remain highly relevant today still. This package of about 160 A6 pages is supplemented by our articles which explain our positions on some key topics.
Middle level (first two years of membership)
These texts expand substantially the views on philosophy, economy, and history. They offer context, without which the knowledge of the basic works would remain sterile.
- Origins of Capitalism (E. M. Wood)
- Renewing Historical Materialism I. diel (E. M. Wood)
- Kapitál I, kapitoly 1-9 (K. Marx)
- The dialectics of the Abstract & the Concrete (E. Iľenkov)
- Kritika Gothajského programu (K. Marx)
- The Workers’ State, Thermidor, and Bonapartism (L. Trocký)
- Fašizmus (L. Trocký)
- Spomienky na Lenina (N. Krupská)
Advanced
These works we consider more advanced (in their content or length). That doesn't make them optional - far from it!
Mainline episodes of our podcast
Audio resources
- Introduction
- I. Class Society and the State
- II. The Experience of 1848-51
- III. The Experience of the Paris Commune
- IV. Supplementary Explanations by Engels
- V. The Economic Base of the Withering Away of the State
- VI. The Vulgarisation of Marxism by Opportunists
- VII. The Experience of the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917
- I. Fascism – What Is It?
- II. How Mussolini Triumphed
- III. The Fascist Danger Looms in Germany
- IV. An Aesop Fable
- V. The German Cops and Army
- VI. Bourgeoisie, Petty Bourgeoisie, and Proletariat
- VII. The Collapse of Bourgeois Democracy
- VIII. Does the Petty Bourgeoisie Fear Revolution?
- IX. The Workers’ Militia and Its Opponents
- X. The Perspective in the United States
- XI. Build the Revolutionary Party!
- BONUS: Why Marxists Oppose Individual Terrorism
Our reading guides:
Philosophy
Mao: O kontradikcii
Engels: Vývoj socializmu od utópie k vede
E.M.Wood: Renewing Historical Materialism
Economy
Marx: Mzda, cena, zisk
Lenin: Imperializmus
Marx: Kapitál I.
Politics and history
E.M.Wood: Origin of Capitalism
Lenin: Štát a revolúcia
Marx: Kritika Gothajského programu
