Reading Recommendations

Communism:

The Prophet: The Life of Leon Trotsky - Issac Deutscher Stalin - Issac Deutscher The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx & Freidrich Engels Karl Marx - Francis Wheen Karl Marx: His Life and Environment - Isaiah Berlin The Soviet Mind: Russian Culture under Communism - Isaiah Berlin Main Currents of Marxism - Kolakowski How to Change the World: Marx and Marxism - Hobsbawm Marxism and the French Left - Tony Judt The Permanent Revolution - Trotsky The Conquest of Bread - Kropotkin Reform or Revolution - Rosa Luxembourg The Stalinist Legacy: Its Impact on 20th-Century World Politics - Tariq Ali Lenin and the Russian Revolution - Christopher Hill Considerations on Western Marxism - Perry Anderson Poverty of Theory - EP Thomson Cambodia: Year Zero – Francois Ponchaud The Communist Hypothesis - Badiou "Left-Wing" Communism: An Infantile Disorder - Lenin Lenin's Last Struggle - Moshe Lewin History and Class Consciousness - Lukacs The Power of the Powerless - Vaclav Havel The Gulag Archipelago - Solzhenitsyn

Amongst many others....

Most of these authors are very prolific writers so I would advise seeking out all of their work. I actually strongly dislike communism but it's important to know what you're talking about when trying to refute it (as with any subject).

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