Lenin: A Study in the Unity of His Thought
8 best books like Lenin: A Study in the Unity of His Thought (György Lukács): Socialism: Utopian and Scientific, The Revolution Betrayed, Fascism: What It Is and How to Fight It, Estado y revolución, German Ideology, Marx's General: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels, For Marx, The Communist Hypothesis
| Author | Friedrich Engels |
| ISBN | 0873485793 |
In my opinion, this is a better introduction to Marxism than the Communist Manifesto. The first chapter focuses on utopian socialist who tried to make reforms but ran up against roadblocks of the bourgeoisie, and since it was based on an unscientific view, it lead to a "mish-mash of critical statements,...
| Author | Leon Trotsky |
| ISBN | 0486433986 |
One of Marxism's most important texts, The Revolution Betrayed explores the fate of the Russian Revolution after Lenin's death. Written in 1936 and published the following year, this brilliant and profound evaluation of Stalinism from the Marxist standpoint prophesied the collapse of the Soviet...
Fascism: What It Is and How to Fight It
| Author | Leon Trotsky |
| ISBN | 0873481062 |
Trotsky admits that fascism is a middle class(which he calls the petty bourgeoisie) movement that grows out of a collapse of capitalism. It is opposed to both the upper crust of the bourgeoisie and a proletarian revolution. Developed countries with a large middle class are resistant to a proletarian...
If you happen to get the version which has a forward by Richard Pipes, I strongly suggest reading the text of Vladimir Lenin first, maybe Google or Wikipedia some of the historical references, and draw your own conclusion. Richard Pipes is your classical establishment propaganda clerk who's job is...
| Author | Karl Marx |
| ISBN | 0717803015 |
2011 Reprint of 1939 Edition. Parts I & III of "The German Ideology". Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Originally published by the Marx-Engels Institute in Moscow in 1939. "The German Ideology" was written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels...
| Author | Tristram Hunt |
| ISBN | 0805080252 |
A remarkable new biography from one of Britain’s leading young historians that recovers the co-founder of communism from the shadows of history
Friedrich Engels is one of the most intriguing and contradictory figures of the nineteenth century. Born to a prosperous Prussian mercantile...
A milestone in the development of post-war Marxist thought.
This is the work in which Louis Althusser formulated some of his most influential ideas. For Marx, first published in France in 1968, has come to be regarded as the founding text of the school of “structuralist Marxism” which...
| Author | Alain Badiou |
| ISBN | 1844676005 |
“We know that communism is the right hypothesis. All those who abandon this hypothesis immediately resign themselves to the market economy, to parliamentary democracy—the form of state suited to capitalism—and to the inevitable and ‘natural’ character of the most monstrous inequalities.”—Alain...
