Our Education Committee has compiled the following list of recommended articles, books, and podcasts for members interested in expanding their understanding of socialism.
Short Articles
- Why Socialism? – Albert Einstein
- Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy – Marx
- ABC of Materialist Dialectics – Trotsky
- The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism – Lenin
- Why the Working Class – Hal Draper
- The Socialist Manifesto by Bhaskar Sunkara
- Liberalism, Ultraleftism, or Mass Action by Peter Camejo
- The Great Moving Right Show – Stuart Hall
- Anatomy of a Microsect – Hal Draper
- Democracy is Power, Chapter 1 by Labor Notes
Economic Foundations
- Wage Labour and Capital by Marx
- A People’s Guide to Capitalism by Hadas Thier
- The Deficit Myth by Stephanie Kelton
Theoretical Frameworks
- Malcolm X Speaks
- Freedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Davis
- The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
- Autobiography of Malcom X
- Introduction to Mutual Aid by Andrej Grubacic and David Graeber (Audible Anarchist)
- Mike Duncan’s Summary of Marxism (Podcast episode)
Prison & Policing Abolition
- We Do This ‘Till We Free Us by Mariame Kaba
- The End of Policing by Alex Vitale
- The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
- Are Prisons Obsolete by Angela Davis
- Working the Reserve Army: Proletarianization in Revanchist New Orleans by Cedric Johnson
- The Economic Origins of Mass Incarceration by John Clegg and Adaner Usmani
- Trumpism, Policing, and the Problem of Surplus Population by Cedric Johnson
Imperialism
- How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney
- The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein
- The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins
- The Management of Savagery by Max Blumenthal
- Blowback (podcast) https://blowback.show/
- The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World by Vijay Prashad
- The Divide by Jason Hickel
Environmental Justice
- This Changes Everything by Naomi Klein
- On Fire by Naomi Klein
- A Planet to Win – Why We Need a Green New Deal
- Energy Democracy – Denise Fairchild
- The Red Deal: Indigenous Action To Save Our Earth
Historical Context
- The Black Jacobins by C.L.R. James
- The Counter-Revolution of 1776 by Gerald Horne
- Black Reconstruction by W.E.B. Dubois
- A People’s History by Howard Zinn
- Hammer and Hoe by Robin DG Kelly
- ABCs of Socialism
- You May Plow Here by Sara Brooks
- The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte by Marx
- A Twenty-Year Legacy of Ultra-Leftism by Paul Saba
- Summary of Theodore Allen’s “The Invention of the White Race, Volume I”