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Previous texts
- The Defeat of One’s Own Government in the Imperialist War
- How to Be a Good Communist
- The Wretched of the Earth (1, 2-3, 4, 5-)
- The Foundations of Leninism
- Decolonization is not a metaphor
- Marxism and the National Question
- China Has Billionaires
- Imperialism, the highest stage of capitalism
- Wage Labour and Capital
- Value, Price and Profit
- On the shortcomings of party work […]
- Fighting Fascism: How to Struggle and How to Win
- Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
- What is to be done?
- Elementary principles of philosophy
- The State and Revolution
- “Left-Wing” Communism: an Infantile Disorder
- Blood in My Eye
- On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People
- The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky
- The Poverty of Philosophy
Keep in mind that the book has its flaws. Parenti refers to Stalin as a “dictator” in one section, and he seemed to have fallen for US propaganda about post-Mao China. Regardless, it’s still a valuable introductory resource to the history of anticommunism.
The version on ProleWiki has a few formatting errors (e.g. at least one missing word at the beginning of a section), but the book is also available as an EPUB or PDF on Anna’s Archive.
I may skip this one, but let me know when or if we’re doing Historical Materialism: A System of Sociology by Nikolai Bukharin.