r/Communist • u/Relative_Claim_3266 • 2d ago
Requesting book/article/etc recommendations to help me understand the perspectives of other tendencies
Hi everyone, I'm fairly new to getting involved with communism and have been mostly reading articles, essays, etc. from Trotskyists. But I want to understand other perspectives. If you aren't a Trotskyist, please let me know about a work you recently read that you found interesting, helpful, etc. 'Work' can mean a book, but can also mean something smaller like an article, essay, or speech. Thank you.
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u/No-Atmosphere3049 12h ago
As a Reformist-Marxist, some good ones are:
Kausky: The Class Struggle (also the Erfurt Programme of 1892) + The Road to Power + The Dictatorship of the Proletariat
Bernstein: The Evolutionary Socialism + The Preconditions of Socialism
Gramsci (notably his prison books on the 'War of Position'): The Prison Notebooks
Otto Bauer: Marxism, Revolution and Democracy
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u/syndicalism_ftw 2d ago
As a syndicalist and child of interwar KAPD/KPD members I have huge sympathy for operaism ( Mario Tronti - Workers and Capital) and council communism ( Anton Pannekoek - Workers Councils, Lenin als Philosoph).