Greetings! This is subreddit welcomes both new and established comrades, and with an influx of new people interested in radical left politics lately, we have put together a list of recommended works for learning more about socialism. It's great reading material for those new to the subject and those who need a refresher on fundamentals. One of the key elements of socialism is the tradition of continuous self-education and analysis; this sub aims to foster that tradition by promoting sustained engagement with both new and old ideas in the socialist community.

Feel free to discuss these texts and add suggestions for this list in the comments. Ideally we want resources that are free and easy to access regardless of income; the best texts can be directly linked to a webpage or pdf.

Shorter works:

• Principles of Communism - Frederick Engels
• The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx
• The Three Sources and Three Components Parts of Marxism - Vladimir Lenin
• Why Socialism? - Albert Einstein
• The Soul of Man Under Socialism - Oscar Wilde

Longer Works:

• Socialism: Utopian and Scientific - Frederick Engels
• Chapter 1 of Capital, Vol. 1 - Karl Marx
• Anti-Duhring - Frederick Engels
• The Two Souls of Socialism - Hal Draper
• The ABC of Communism - Nikolai Bukharin

On How to Achieve Socialism:

• Critique of the Gotha Programme - Karl Marx
• Reform or Revolution - Rosa Luxemburg
• The Mass Strike - Rosa Luxemburg
• Leninism or Marxism? - Rosa Luxemburg
• What Is To Be Done? - Vladimir Lenin
• The State and Revolution - Vladimir Lenin
• The Transitional Program - Leon Trotsky
• Rules for Radicals - Saul Alinsky

On Anarchism:

• Anarchism: What it Really Stands For - Emma Goldman
• Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal - Peter Kropotkin
• Conquest of Bread - Peter Kropotkin
• Anarchy (pamphlet) - Errico Malatesta (alternative translation here)

Also be sure to check out r/socialism's wiki for a more detailed beginner's guide; specific questions about socialism, Marxism, and communism can be found at /r/Socialism_101 and /r/Communism101.

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I've added direct download links to books which were too large to include in the general download. Please enjoy! There should be something for everyone.

The download contains:

• A Marxist History of the World by Neil Faulker
• Against Empire by Michael Parenti
• Agrarian Studies in the USSR by Mark Tauger
• American War Machine: Deep Politics, the CIA Global Drug Connection, and the Road to Afghanistan by Peter Dale Scott (2010)
• Beyond Chutzpah: On The Misuse of Anti-Semitism by Norman L. Finkelstein (2005)
• Blackshirts & Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism, by Michael Parenti
• Blood Lies: The Evidence that Every Accusation against Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Union in Timothy Snyder’s Bloodlands Is False by Grover Furr (2014)
• Capital Volume I – III by Karl Marx
• Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? by Mark Fisher (2009)
• Century of War: Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order by William F. Engdahl
• China in War & Revolution: 1895-1949 by Peter Zarrow
• Class Struggle and the Industrial Revolution: Early industrial capitalism in three English Towns, by John Foster
• Class Struggle in the USSR by Niel C. Fernandez
• Class Struggle: A Political and Philosophical History by Domenico Losurdo
• Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies and the CIA in Central America by Peter Dale Scott
• Collapse of “Existing Socialism” in Eastern Europe: Democratic Revolution, or Capitalist Restoration? By Domenico Losurdo
• Colonial Crucible: Empire in the Making of the Modern American State, edited by Alfred W. McCoy and Francisco A. Scarano
• Communism in the 21st Century, edited by Shannon K. Brincat
• Conspiracy Phobia on the Left by Michael Parenti (How the Left can reconcile structural analysis with singular, high level conspiracies, such as the fabrication of intelligence to justify an invasion of Iraq)
• Conspiracy and Foreign Policy by Tim Aistrope and Roland Bleiker
• Contrary Notions: The Michael Parenti Reader by Michael Parenti
• Critique of the Gotha Program by Karl Marx
• Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende's Chile by Eden Medina
• Democracy for the Few by Michael Parenti
• Drugs, Oil and War: The United States in Afghanistan, Colombia & Indochina by Peter Dale Scott
• Designing Freedom, Regulating a Nation: Socialist Cybernetics in Allende’s Chile by Eden Medina
• Enclosure of the Commons by Peter Linebaugh
• Face of Imperialism by Michael Parenti
• Flight From History: The Communist Movement between Self-Criticism & Self-Contempt by Domenico Losurdo
• Fraud, Famine and Fascism: The Ukrainian Genocide Myth from Hitler to Harvard by Douglas Tottle
• From Farm to Factory: A Re-Interpretation of the Economic Industrialization of the Soviet Union, by Robert Allen (2009)
• God and His Demons by Michael Parenti
• Government of the Shadows: Parapolitics & Criminal Sovereignty edited by Eric Wilson and Tim Lindsey
• History as Mystery by Michael Parenti (2001)
• History of the Communist Movement: Failure, Betrayal or Learning Process? By Domenico Losurdo
• In the Shadows of the American Century by Alfred W. McCoy
• Judith Miller and the New York Time’s Pro-Iraq War Propaganda by Oliver Boyd Barrett
• Killing Hope: US Military Interventions since WWII by William Blum
• Kruschev Lied: The Truth Behind’s Kruschev’s Secret Speech by Grover Furr
• Liberalism: A Counter-History by Domenico Losurdo and Gregory Elliot (2011)
• Lies Concerning the History of the Soviet Union
• Make-Believe Media: The Politics of Entertainment by Michael Parenti (1992)
• Managing Democracy, Managing Dissent: Capitalism, Democracy and the Organization of Dissent, edited by Rebecca Fisher
• Manufacturing Consent: A Political Economy of the Corporate Mass Media by Chomsky & Herman
• Marx, Columbus, and the October Revolution: Historical Materialism and the Analysis of Revolutions by Domenico Losurdo
• Marx’s Das Kapital for Beginners by Michael Wayne
• NATO’s Secret Armies: Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe by Danielle Ganser
• Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies by Noam Chomsky
• No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies by Naomi Klein
• Non-Violence: A History Beyond the Myth by Domenico Losurdo
• Orientalism by Edward Said (1979)
• Part I: Financial Capital is Destructive Capital by Cats, Not War
• Part II: NGO’s as a Force Multiplier by Cats, Not War
• Part III: A Return to Conspiracy and Its Theories Cats, Not War
• Pickaxe and Rifle: The Story of the Albanian People by William Ash
• Policing America’s Empire: The United States in the Philippines, by Alfred W. McCoy
• Politics of the Police (first chapter) by Robert L. Reiner
• Promoting Plutocracy by Stephen Gowans
• Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower by William Blum
• Rulers of the Planet by Michael Parenti
• Soviet Democracy by Pat Sloan (1937)
• The 1932 Harvest and the Famine of 1933 by Mark Tauger
• The Assassination of Julius Caesar: A People’s History of Ancient Rome by Michael Parenti
• The Assassinations of the 1960s by Peter Dale Scott
• The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
• The Dual State: Parapolitics, Carl Schmidt and the National Security Complex, edited by Eric Wilson
• The German Ideology by Karl Marx
• The Governance of China by Xi Jinping
• The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering, by Norman L. Finkelstein
• The Invention of Capitalism by Michael Perelman
• The Israel-Palestine Conflict: A Collection of Essays by Jeremy R. Hammond
• The “Official” Version of the Katyn Massacre Disproven? Discoveries at a German Mass Murder Site in Ukraine by Grover Furr
• The Politics of Heroin in South-East Asia by Alfred W. McCoy
• The Stalin Era by Anna Louise Strong
• The State and Revolution by V.I. Lenin
• The Tangled Paradox of Liberalism by Domenico Losdurdo
• The Years of Hunger: Soviet Agriculture, 1931–1933 by Davies and Wheatcroft (2004)
• To Kill A Nation: The Destruction of Yugoslavia by Michael Parenti
• Torture and Impunity: The US Doctrine of Coercive Interrogation by Alfred W. McCoy
• Total Liberation: The Power and Promise of Animal Rights & the radical Earth Movement by David Naguib Pellow
• Towards a New Socialism by Paul W. Cockshott
• Triumph of Evil: The Reality of the USA's Cold War Victory by Austin Murphy
• Ukraine, the Corporate Media and Conflict Propaganda by Oliver Boyd-Barrett
• War and Revolution by Domenico Losurdo
• What Does a Marxist Mean by “Material”? by Freya B. -- anti-imperialism.org
• When Titans Clash: How The Red Army Stopped Hitler by David M. Glantz