Here's mine contribution.
Zig Forums reading list
Hunter Walker
Aiden Wright
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.
Jackson Campbell
And few others to add.
David Foster
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
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Contemporary (early 2000's)
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Modern
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(it's a very film-student-esque vid, but the interviews are really interesting)
Hunter Long
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.
Jason Clark
Adam Smith was neoliberal just like myself. Of course it lends to leftism.
Ryder Cruz
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
Alexander Torres
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.
Isaac Miller
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
Joshua Brooks
This is how you tell someone doesn't read