Communism


The Communist Manifesto
Animal Farm
The State and Revolution
Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
The Principles of Communism
1984
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
What Is to Be Done?
Capital: A Critique of Political Economy Volume 1
The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)
Gulag: A History
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956
The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynAnimal Farm by George OrwellBloodlands by Timothy SnyderGulag by Anne ApplebaumDarkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
Communist Genocide
202 books — 58 voters
Animal Farm by George OrwellThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryThe Prince by Niccolò MachiavelliThe Communist Manifesto by Karl MarxThe Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Most influential books under 100 pages
253 books — 923 voters

Corrections in Ink by Keri BlakingerOrange Is the New Black by Piper KermanLeaving Isn't the Hardest Thing by Lauren  Hough30 Years Behind Bars by Karen  GedneyPrisoner of Tehran by Marina Nemat
Women's prison memoirs
68 books — 50 voters
Capitalist Realism by Mark FisherInventing the Future by Nick SrnicekBullshit Jobs by David GraeberPostcapitalism by Paul  MasonFour Futures by Peter Frase
FALC
48 books — 23 voters

Lenin as Philosopher by Anton PannekoekThe Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distri... by Group of International Comm...Open Letter To Comrade Lenin by Herman GorterBordiga Beyond the Myth by Onorato DamenAnti-bolshevik communism by Paul Mattick
Left Communism
66 books — 10 voters

Karl Marx
The bourgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all, even the most barbarian, nations into civilization. The cheap prices of its commodities are the heavy artillery with which it batters down all Chinese walls, with which it forces the barbarians' intensely obstinate hatred of foreigners to capitulate. It compels all nations, on pain of extinction, to adopt the bourgeois mode of production; it compels them to ...more
Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

Todor Bombov
This acute, “a selfdissolving contradiction,” Marx had very precisely seen and foreseen that “it establishes a monopoly in certain spheres and thereby requires state interference.” This contradiction “reproduces a new financial aristocracy” (how much Marx was right!), no matter it will call itself Communist Party of Soviet Union or DuPont Financial Circle. It reproduces “a new variety of parasites . . . , a whole system of swindling and cheating by means of corporation promotion, stock issuance, ...more
Todor Bombov, Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code-Socialism with a Human Face

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