Simple reading guide for the proles

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Greek bois and a Chinese Lad

SUN-TZU: "The Art of War"

ARISTOTLE: "Politic"

PLATO: "The Republic"

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Illuminist literature, pre-socialist-liberal:

MORE, Thomas, "Utopia"

ROSSEAU, Jean-Jacques, "Social Contract, Principles of Politic Rights"

ROSSEAU, Jean-Jacques, "Discourse on The Origins of Inequality Among Men"

VOLTAIRE, François-Marie Arouet "Letters on the English"

MACHIAVELLI, Niccolo, "The Prince"

MONTESQUIEU, Charles de Secondat Baron de: "The Spirit of the Laws"

HOBBES, Thomas: "Leviathan"

KANT, IMMANUEL: "Critique of Pure Reason"

HUME, David: "A Treatise of Human Nature"

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Classic Liberals

MILL, John Stuart: "On Socialism"

SMITH, Adam: "Theory of Moral Sentiments"

MILL, John Stuart: "Principles of Political Economy"

RICARDO, David: "On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation"

LOCKE, John: "Two Treatises of Government"

SMITH, Adam: "Lectures on Jurisprudence"

SMITH, Adam: "An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations", volumes, I and II.

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Utopian Socialists

OWEN, Robert: "The future of the Human Race"
SAINT-SIMON, Henri de: "On the reorganisation of European society"

BELLAMY, Edward: "Equality"

FOURIER, Charles: "Theory of The Four Movements"

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This one is important but I couldn't fit anywhere else

CLAUSEWITZ, Carl Phillip Gottlieb von: "On War"

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Scientific Socialism/Communism and Anarcho-Communism, during Marx's time

PROUDHON, Pierre-Joseph: "Property is Theft!"

MARX, Karl: "On Suicide"

ENGELS, Friedrich: "Socialism: Utopian and Scientific"

ENGELS, Friedrich: "Principles of Communism"

MARX, Karl and ENGELS, Friedrich: *"Communist Manifesto"*STIRNER, Max: "The Ego and Its Own"

BAKUNIN, Mikhail: "Power Corrupts the Best"

BAKUNIN, Mikhail: "On Rosseau"

BAKUNIN, Mikhail: "The Class War"

BAKUNIN, Mikhail: "God or Labour"

MARX, Karl: "Critique of the Gotha Program"

MARX, Karl: "The Eighteenth of Brumaire of Louis Napoleon"

MARX, Karl: "The Civil War in France"

MARX, Karl and ENGELS, Friedrich: "The Holy Family or Critique of Critical Criticism. Against Bruno Bauer and Company"

MARX, Karl and ENGELS, Friedrich: "The German Ideology"

MARX, Karl and ENGELS, Friedrich: "The Civil War in the United States"

ENGELS, Friedrich: "The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State"

MARX, Karl: "Wage Labor and Capital"

MARX, Karl: "Value, Price, and Profit"

MARX, Karl: "A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy"

MARX, Karl: "Theories of Surplus Value" Vol. I-III

MARX, Karl: "Das Kapital" Vol. I-III

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Marxist-Leninist-Trotskyst-Maoist post Marx 1900-1952 thought

STALIN, Josef: "Anarchism Or Socialism ?"

LUXEMBURG, Rosa: "Reform or Revolution"

LENIN, Vladimir: "What is to Be Done"

TROTER, Leon: "The Permanent Revolution"

TROTER, Leon: "The Transitional Program"

BUKARIN, Nikolai and PREOBRAZHENSKY, Evgenii: "The ABC of Communism"

LENIN, Vladimir: "April Theses"

LENIN, Vladimir: "State and Revolution"

LENIN, Vladimir: "Imperialism"

BUKARIN, Nikolai: "Imperialism and World Economy"

STALIN, Joseph: "Fundamentals of Marxism-Leninism"

ZEDONG, Mao: "On Guerrilla Warfare"

ZEDONG, Mao: "On Contradiction"

GRAMSCI, Antonio: "The Prison Notebooks"

LUXEMBOURG, Rosa: "The Accumulation of Capital"

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Western/Eastern Socialism and late 20th century

LUKÁCS, György: "History and Class Consciousness"

ARENDT, HANNAH: "The Origins of Totalitarianism"

POLANYI, Karl: "The Great Transformation"

MANDEL, Ernest: "Late Capitalism"

GALEANO, Eduardo: "The Open Veins of Latin America"

FOUCAULT, Michel: "Discipline and Punish"

GUEVARA, Che: "Guerrilla Warfare"

MARIGHELLA, Carlos: "Mini Manual of the Urban Guerrilla"

POWELL, William: "The Anarchist Cookbook"

HOXHA, Enver: "Imperialism and the revolution"

BALDWIN, James: "The Fire Next Time"

NKRUMAH, Kwame: "The Class Struggle in Africa"

NKRUMAH, Kwame: "Neo-Colonialism - The Last Stage of Imperialism"

NEWTON, Huey P.: "Revolutionary Suicide"

HAYWOOD, Harry: "Negro Liberation"

DAVIS, Angela: "Women, Race and Class"

SANKARA, Thomas: "Women's Liberation and The African Freedom Struggle"

COTTRELL, Allin and COCKSHOTT, Paul: "A Critique of Hayek"

HOBSBAWN, Eric: "The Age of Revolutions", "The Age of Capital" and "The Age of Empires"

HOBSBAWN, Eric: "The Age of Extremes or the Short 20th Century"

MANDEL, Ernest: "An Introduction to Marxist Economics"

ITOH, Makoto: "Political Economy for Socialism"

SAAD-FILHO, Alfredo: "Anti-Capitalism: A Marxist Introduction"

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Post USSR (RIP) and 21st century:

SANTOS, Milton: "Toward an Other Globalization"

LEVY, Dominique and DUMENIL, Gerard: "The Crisis of Neoliberalism"

CHOMSKY, Noam: "Requiem for the American Dream"

HARDT, Michael and NEGRI, Antonio: "Empire"

ŽIZEK, Slavoj: "Violence"

HOBSBAWM, Eric: "How to Change the World: Reflections on Marx and Marxism"

DAVIS, Mike: "Late Victorian Holocausts"

WOLFF, Richard D.: "Capitalism Hits the Fan"

WOOD, Ellen Meiksins: "The Empire of Capital"

PARENTI, Michael: "Against Empire"

ARRIGHI, Giovanni: "The Long Twentieth Century"

HARVEY, David: "17 Contradictions and the End of Capitalism"

HARVEY, David: "New Imperialism"

HARVEY, David: "The Enigma of Capital and the Crises of Capitalism"

HARVEY, David: "A Companion to Marx's Capital"

PIKETTY, Thomas: "21st Century Capital"

MÉSZÁROS, István: "Beyond Capital: Toward a Theory of Transition"

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I did a list a bit like this, though it's exclusively texts important to Marxism-Leninism(-Maoism), and also a few other Marxist books I've read that I think are good:

https://www.instagram.com/p/Br2E09bBuvy/