Zig Forums reading list

I've heard of this platypus group before. What's thier deal?

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I don't have any reading to offer but I can recommend a bunch of youtube channels.

Leftist:

Democracy at Work is the main channel of Richard Wolf. He is a left economist and has been very active in analysing the current economic problems, how they relate to capitalism and how to move past them. He is a good point of entryism, since he mainly advocates for worker coops.
youtube.com/channel/UCK-6FjMu9OI8i0Fo6bkW0VA

Muke is a Zig Forums user, which distinguishes him from most other leftists channels on youtube, since most of them are high on idpol. He makes some okay theory and debate videos and can be funny.
youtube.com/channel/UCDULjo1v2Hivuu4h4LZSTUQ

Bad Mouse is, according to Muke at least, the best active leftist youtuber (not counting lecturers like Wolf). His content has a higher production value than most other channels and he does both humour and serious theory pretty well.
youtube.com/user/xaxie1/videos

Philosophy:

Wes Cecil is a great lecturer that talks about many topics in an eye opening, humorous but effective way. He has done various lecture series, including my favourite, Myths of the American Mind, as well as Forgotten Philosophers (which has a Stirner lecture) and Uses of Philosophy for Living, which I also highly recommend. While not openly leftist, he exposes the ridiculousness of capitalism and what it has done to our culture, as well as generally breaking up myths.
youtube.com/channel/UC9ff15w4ufviWfv9UfIuByA

Theramin Trees and Qualia Soup do similar content and are irl brothers, so I'll list them as one. Their channels are focussed on religious criticism on a philosophical basis as well as on moral philosophy in general. They are probably the best channels on religion on yoututbe.
youtube.com/channel/UCJ-vHE5CrGaL_ITEg-n3OeA
youtube.com/channel/UCc_xdkOBgSYLmXTn-VSQ4uA

Yale has an open access project, meaning that they film various lectures and upload them. If you weren't born boug enough to go to Yale, this is your chance to get some of their knowledge. While the lectures cover all kinds of topics and can be really interesting, this is by no means a leftists institution, so don't let them spook you with their human nature.
youtube.com/channel/UC4EY_qnSeAP1xGsh61eOoJA

Science:

CGP Grey is a favourite of many. His videos have high production value and he covers many topics, from voting systems to mechanization, all of which are quite relevant to the modern leftists. You should watch all of his videos, they are that good.
youtube.com/channel/UC2C_jShtL725hvbm1arSV9w

Frame of Essence is a small channel with a low output. He has some pretty good physics videos explaining relativity and quantum computers, among other things.
youtube.com/channel/UCQHsMwcGoH1ygyi-pJs5Z8A

Myles Power is a more entertainment focussed channel that debunks various conspiracy theorists and snake oil merchants. He has done a good series on 9/11 truthers and a lot of good stuff on conspiracy theories about biotechnology like evolved plants.
youtube.com/channel/UCS_H_4AmsqC705DObesZIIg

inFact is a channel related to the Skeptoid podcast, both of which have the same focus of debunking myths and conspiracy theories.
youtube.com/channel/UCG9DGRmeyQZAlcCD4JGMilQ

Wendover Productions is a channel with pretty mixed content, just take a look at his stuff, it's all interesting in it's own right, covering economics, architecture, geography and more.
youtube.com/channel/UC9RM-iSvTu1uPJb8X5yp3EQ

Lastly, this is more of general recommendation. The PBS has a lot of youtube channels that produce high quality content on various scientific topics. Take a look through their list of related channels to find more stuff that interests you. The one I'm linking here is PBS Spacetime, which covers physics.
youtube.com/channel/UC7_gcs09iThXybpVgjHZ_7g

Original OP, started making a wiki here:
leftypol-reading-list.wikia.com/wiki/Zig Forums_reading_list_Wiki
Feel free to edit as it is fairly terrible and doesn't include any of what is on here

Relevant to this thread, this torrent needs our help. Download and seed pls.

progressivetorrents.com/details.php?id=9736

Excellent, thanks guys. In a recent thread I committed to starting a structured reading club, I'm in the process of reading through some works and organising how it will be structured so we can work to it together- which means we can learn more together and support those who have a difficult time committing to reading.
You'll have to bare with me though, I've just started a new job so it might take me a few weeks.

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tbh

archive.org/details/TheGulagArchipelago-Threevolumes

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I love you, Zig Forums.

When I get home I'll make a mega or torrent of all the books I've collected from leftypol over the years.

thanks a lot for that

Only bourgs have time to read

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Max Stirner- The Ego and His Own theanarchistlibrary.org/library/max-stirner-the-ego-and-his-own

Markets Not Capitalism radgeek.com/gt/2011/10/Markets-Not-Capitalism-2011-Chartier-and-Johnson.pdf

Read this one bros

I asked a fairly well-known commie blogger if he had a reading list, because I was worried not just about what to read but in which order. He said he would look it up, then ignored me. Oh well.

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If this was 2005 that image would make a good YTMND.

Since you are already posting here whatever, have some Soviet propaganda.
Quality is hideous, language is Russian, but there are English subs and it's about US elections.

Target is your brain (1984)
youtube.com/watch?v=VdLNyr3BarE

is this nigga serious

this is the most complete reading list i've ever seen. much love

I guess actual experiences of life under communism are better off being ignored.

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kek

Rousseau

The Social Contract
earlymoderntexts.com/assets/pdfs/rousseau1762.pdf

Discourse on Inequality
aub.edu.lb/fas/cvsp/Documents/DiscourseonInequality.pdf879500092.pdf

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The Platypus society reading lists for its London Chapter are pretty well rounded

Part one: platypus1917.org/2016/07/25/platypus-primary-marxist-reading-group-summer-fallautumn-2016-winter-2017/
Part two: platypus1917.org/2017/01/09/london-platypus-primary-reading-group-spring-2017/

For anyone who wants a structured, comprehensive, well written introduction to Marxist theory which aims at also teaching you how to think critically, I'd recommend using the attached reading list. The further readings for each seminar are ordered in such a way that one links into the next; the aim of which is to make you think about what you are reading and what each author has to say on the other.

Not all of the further readings are available online, but for those that are you can use either bookzz or libgen to find them. This is an undergraduate reading list, so it's designed to be accessible to almost anyone.

Ah yes, the true experience from the fascist sympathizer who claimed the NKVD executed 110 million Russians

Recommended informative videos and lectures would be nice too

Here's a collection of Ted's Writings that I've found. Not sure how legitimate it is, but I just took a cursory look over Industrial Society and Its Future in this and it seems fine. I've also included the version of Industrial Society and Its Future that I have.

This is the stuff.
Easy to read.
Analysis of class struggle throughout America.
Info can be used to redpill nomies.
'nuff said.

Here's a one thing I learned about that is so based: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacon's_Rebellion

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interview with william gillis- youtube.com/watch?v=leW18Q8SnMk

cody wilson lecture- youtube.com/watch?v=v3zx8kyVtGM&t=347s

In the theme of easy to read and good for converting normies,
Debt: The First 5,000 years is amazing. I'll paste a short review I wrote:

Semi-related question: why can't this site check the fucking captcha BEFORE I upload a giant PDF, instead of waiting three minutes and cockblocking me, then forcing me to upload over again?

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I read several excerpts from this for a class. I think it'd be one of the first things I'd read cover to cover if I were running for office (kek) or getting into some serious organizing. Seems like a talking point goldmine.

Good for exactly how, where and why class forces cause identity oppression, so you can punch out SJWs metaphorically and so on

I made such a post already, here you go:

I also happened upon a few other channels worth checking out afterwards.

The Finnish Bolshevik does various informational videos, similar to Bad Mouse. He has a good introductory series on communism, check his playlists.
youtube.com/channel/UCCvdjsJtifsZoShjcAAHZpA

Activism Munich uploads various videos, often lectures and talks, in both german and english. If you like one of the people talking there, they are bound to have more videos on other channels, so look them up.
youtube.com/channel/UCe5hl70Es-VQ4OWvxssFH4A

Lastly, Gregory Sadler is a philosophy lecturer. One part of Marxism, Dialectics, is hard to get into, because it's based on Hegel and he writes less understandable than End of Evangelion. Sadler goes over his writings in minute detail, so even people like you and I might be able to get what he is talking about. He also does some other philosophy stuff.
youtube.com/channel/UCEtxsMx4qsoitFwjBdLU_gA

I usually just go to /b/ and post nigger in a random thread before uploading anything large. Good way to make the captcha show up.
I'm pretty sure codeman has heard this complaint before but just to be sure, why don't you go over to /sudo/ and ask him? He made a bunch of good additions already, no reason why he can't fix this as well.

I would seriously recommend reading this. I know Bookchin is kind of a meme at this point, but this book is very short and contains many good insights whilst giving a clear overview of both his theories and how we can take action to put them into practice.

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On leninism I might add:
Principles of Leninism by Stalin
Trotzkism or Leninism by Stalin

I just want to say how proud I am of Zig Forums and everyone on it for having this thread.

I have been stressing the importance of revolutionary theory and education for about two years here, I made /freedu/ and I always try to post pdfs and articles online for people asking questions. I feel like I've contributed, in my own small way, to this ethic on Zig Forums, and I'm proud of myself too.

Let the ruling class tremble at the power of an educated, organized, revolutionary working class!

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We have nothing to lose but our brains! We have a world to win!

Hey, it's the bookfag that said he'd make a torrent of his collection. I'm retarded and have never made a torrent before. What trackers can/should I use when creating the torrent file? Using qBittorrent for whatever it's worth.

Imo
Ego and Its Own
Stirner's Critics
Wage labour and Capital
Value Price and Profit
Das Kapital
Mutual Aid
Debt: The First 5000 Years

Actually, I think I got it? I stole some trackers from github.com/ngosang/trackerslist

I have the torrent file here: mediafire.com/?x686g2agpqdvgs8 I was going to just slap it on the piratebay but since I just registered it'll be an hour before I can upload anything there.

If there's a better way of doing this or I fucked something up, please let me know. I'm not good with computers.

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Imo
Ego and Its Own
Stirner's Critics
Wage labour and Capital
Value Price and Profit
Das Kapital
Mutual Aid
Debt: The First 5000 Years

I'd rather read Lenin to learn about Leninism.

m8

im getting like 4kbps, check your settings
if i can get it ill seed for a while

I'll do what I can m8e.

vOv

Relatively short, but substantive and concise anarchist/socialist theory.
archive.org/details/proposedroadstof00russuoft

Blue of Noon - Bataille

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What that has to do with leftism?

I don't know either but if you have a fetish for pee or incest I can recommend Bataille.

Now up on the Piratebay

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Maybe it's just vpns and proxies but I've seen connections from all over the world. USA, Nepal, South Korea, Bangladesh, The Netherlands, Germany, France, Portugal, India, Tunisia, and even more, and it seems like more show up with each passing moment.

I can't help but feel inspired somehow.

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If you're partial to Derrida, everything is all text.

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Here you go fams

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Emma Goldman

theanarchistlibrary.org/category/author/emma-goldman

Rosa Luxemburg

marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/

Grigorij Plekhanov

marxists.org/archive/plekhanov/

I especially recommend:

E. Goldman "My Disillusionment in Russia"
theanarchistlibrary.org/library/emma-goldman-my-disillusionment-in-russia

R. Luxemburg "The Mass Strike"
marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1906/mass-strike/index.htm

G. Plekhanov "Bernstein and materialism"
marxists.org/archive/plekhanov/1898/07/bernsteinmat.html

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Oh, I forgot. And this:

H. Marcuse "Eros and Civilisation"
marxists.org/reference/archive/marcuse/works/eros-civilisation/index.htm

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He was a leftist. Story of the Eye isn't so political, but Blue of Noon dealt with radical politics in the lead up to WWII. Albeit as a minor theme.

Lenin never had a chance to sum up all his works, did he?

Kek.
If you want Lenin cliffnotes get Lenin cliffnotes. No need for a politically mangled take by the gravedigger of the revolution.

Dover's Essential Works of Lenin contains What is to be Done, Imperialism: the Highest Stage of Capitalism, and State and Revolution all unabridged, plus key sections of The Development of Capitalism in Russia. The physical book is cheap, compact, and convenient, but I'm pretty sure you can read all four online. That represents the "core" of his theory.

Are you friends with Liberal burgers?
Maybe they don't really like Clinton but still think a Bernie type figure could succeed inside the party?
Want to save them but don't want to go hard on
the diamat and the socialist rhetoric?
Read this, it explains exactly how and why the Democrats stopped representing anyone but those who have money. How they sabotage and purge reformists and radical working class representatives and just how flimsy and fake all of Clinton and Obama's achievements are.
No big words or fancy concepts, just facts and a sordid history.
gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=B49FD02A4E6EB9CBE5A8A53A35A89B06

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Unless Trotsky was the only one capable of understanding Lenin - did Trotsky even make a review? - your opinion requires a bit more substance, since book was approved by the Party at the time.

Doesn't even include Three Sources and Three Components of Marxism - a sum up of Marxism by Lenin.

Incidentally, LeftCom would also call it "politically mangled take by the gravedigger of the revolution".

Well, this is as politically correct as they come, but it has some nice quotes.

Lol no. The "gravedigger of the revolution" is how Bordiga referred to Stalin, it has nothing to do with Lenin (who was pretty based imo).

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Here's mine contribution.

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This is the updated Leninism reading list I made to replace that one quite some time ago. My only regret in this list is not deciding to replace Unfinished Leninism (which I never read) with Lukacs's Lenin and the Unity of his Thought because Lukacs is great.

Man, I remember making that list. My regret there was putting the Anti-Duhring in Advanced Political Economy when only a third of it is economics while the other two-thirds is philosophy.

In my mind Leninism isn't the political/philosophical thought of Lenin per se, but rather that of his followers directly after his death. After Lenin had died, his self-proclaimed successors each postured against each other, presenting their "Leninism" as the true authentic one, using Lenin and his writings as legitimization. (which is why, despite having little contemporary significance, my list uses Bukharin and Preobrazhensky so much since Bukharin was increadibly influential upon post-October Bolshevism and 1920s Soviet ideology and Preobrazhensky shaped how socialism was percieved throughout the 20th century) Lenin was not a Leninist as Marx was not a Marxist, and just like Marxism, Leninism is an organic movement who's ideological shifts match shifts in the practical movement. The Marxism of a hundred years ago is different from today; the Leninism 50 years ago is different from today.

"Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality [will] have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the premises now in existence." ~ the German Ideology

The Essential Works omits several essential chapters from What is to Be Done?, and waves it off by misinterpreting Lenin as an elitist and concentrating on parts where he can tear out of context and portray Lenin as an elitist, and the book's commentary in general is rife with anti-communist nonsense. If you really want to get Lenin, or rather into a systematic refutation of the common prejudices by bourgeois academia against him, I with full confidence (with my only complaint being how Lih de-emphasizing Lenin's split with Kautsky and therefore the Third with the Second International can easily be read as a rationalization for a revitalization of Kautskyism, which is stupid) recommend Lenin Rediscovered by Lars Lih.

If you want a decent collection of writings of Stalin, you're better off reading Problems of Leninism.

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And few others to add.

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Some youtube docu's on the biggest nominally socialist state, the People's Republic of China. Needs to be studied if we want to see where to go from here, as they have reached a point not that different from our liberal societies: a perception that there is no alternative to the current system, but also no future for the system, in a sense.

Early twentieth century to today

youtube.com/watch?v=m7C40M9GM3k&list=PLO_sLtxST1N1nNNe2gPttoX1DrjsUbSAV
youtube.com/watch?v=GgpKv-xXgf8&index=2&list=PLO_sLtxST1N1nNNe2gPttoX1DrjsUbSAV
youtube.com/watch?v=lZLYKnQ8c4Q&index=3&list=PLO_sLtxST1N1nNNe2gPttoX1DrjsUbSAV

Contemporary (early 2000's)

youtube.com/watch?v=qSFcAK5s4nU
youtube.com/watch?v=1GKp8qNa75Q
youtube.com/watch?v=3GNbBniBnqk
youtube.com/watch?v=9rj534NjQnM

Modern

youtube.com/watch?v=KOGh9GMm0WA

(it's a very film-student-esque vid, but the interviews are really interesting)

I know you're trying to troll but Wealth of Nations lends itself to leftism, but you wouldn't know that because you haven't read it.

Adam Smith was neoliberal just like myself. Of course it lends to leftism.

neoliberalism didn't arise until the 1980s mate

Smith was a classical liberal which is why the neoliberals are neoliberals. Marxism, like most ideologies, borrows heavily from classical liberalism (and back in Marx's time this also included support of 'free trade' but has nothing to do with Marxism nowadays)

also a lolbertarian would never call himself a leftist unless he was an idiot

ur bad at shitposting

Bordiga is not the only (or the mainstream) LeftCom.

For example, Mattick:

What's with people here suggesting anthologies? There are online libraries with all the works already. If you want suggest a specific reading list, it would make more sense to simply list the works.

Because an anthology is a collection of works in one place, which is the entire point of compiling a list in the first place. Why make a list when the list has already been made?

I could have given a pdf, but the first link from literally googling the book gives exactly just a reading list
marx2mao.com/Stalin/POLtc.html

This is how you tell someone doesn't read

You forgot one.

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We weren't talking about Trotsky, and I don't see how he's relevant to the matter
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Its like two pages long dude
You get the same info from just talking to someone or lurking here

Wew lad
Incidentally, Stalin and Hitler both had mustaches

>The Essential Works omits several essential chapters from What is to Be Done?
Hm, now that you mention it, it does seem to be missing "V. The “Plan” For an All-Russia Political Newspaper," which the back seems to deny while the section's introduction acknowledges…
Not sure how "essential" I would call it, though. and it's complete besides that and this brief appendix marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1901/witbd/appendix.htm
I don't find the editor's forward and introductions remotely useful or authoritative. The commentary is really quite minimal so it doesn't make a huge difference, but mostly, the volume is your public transit buddy.

Ayyy, you forgot to put Orwell's 1984 in the fifth slot

Wasn't "History and Class Consciousness" considered revisionism or something? I know Lukács had to do self-criticism because of it.

I want to begin reading Proudhon - do I need to read other stuff prior to this to fully understand him? Like Hegel with Marx, etc?

You can just read him. My copy of What is Property provides all the necessary historical background and it is just a pocket edition for instance.
Don't fall for that meme. I know Lenin said it but it is not true at all.

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Alright, thanks friend. Marx and Hegel was just something I've heard on here several times. I'll probably pick up What is Property soon-ish.

Can you guys recommend good fiction books/writers with a leftist perspective (as in The Grapes of Wrath, The Jungle etc.)?

It doesn't need to be outright communist works, just by seeing the viewpoint of the working class and other exploited people would be fine.

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Berthold Brecht (anything), Maxim Gorky - The Mother, Ursula LeGuin - The Dispossessed

It's one of the most influential books in Western Marxism, the school of Marxism opposed to offical Soviet Marxism.

And the book he wrote to deflect criticism aimed against him was Lenin and the Unity of his Thought, which is a great book by itself regardless of the context behind it.

Don't deny the influence of ABC of Communism and Imperialism and World Economy. Those two books where used as textbooks approved by the Communist Party and Vladimir Lenin himself following the October Revolution. Economics of the Transition Period is there because Bukharin was prominent in debates following Lenin's death, and it offers a counterbalance to New Economics which is on the opposite side of Bukharin/

It's essential because it's precisely the chapter that gives the name to the whole book. Everyone emphasizes the first three chapters because that's where Lenin's polemic against Rebochaii Delo lies, when the truth was that the last two chapters (which most ignore), where written before the prior chapters, and was Lenin's practical solution to the problems of organization in his day, and also why the book was influential when it was published. Lenin's call for a single unified central organ was in truth a fight against the disparate organization of competing sects (which, looking at the situation of the Left today, we can all understand) in exchange for a unity of an authentic radical Marxism, which underlies the whole premise of the book. The point isn't that "the conditions are different so lets do something else", but to find the framework that Lenin employed to put theory into practice.

Also, the 'public transit' translation is garbage. Stikhinost does not mean "spontaneity" and stikhinyii does not mean "spontaneous". Their etymological root (stikhi) has nothing to do with "spontaneous" and more so to do with what is elemental (cosmic force) and elementary (the original building blocks). The word Lenin uses inherently implies disorganization and the initial arising. In translating from English to Russian Webbs' Industrial Democracy, where these two words appear prominently, nowhere does Lenin translate "spontaneous" as stikhinost. I could go on and on (ie "professional revolutionary" has nothing to do with professionalism but moreso to do with profession, as in job/occupation). Lenin Rediscovered dedicates whole chapters on refuting these myths surrounding What is to Be Done.

Eugh, besides, reading What is to Be Done? by itself without context is so confusing because it's so very polemical. The book wasn't even seen as 'defining' Bolshevism until after Lenin had died, and even then years after that happened people just forgot why it was. Being given something that only makes sense in context with horrible context means giving people the wrong impression.