For me the most annoying part about deprogramming a liberal is that even when they think they’ve cleared away all the false assumptions that neoliberalism and capitalism have furbished them with… they haven’t. And so their progress keeps crashing to a halt when they get hung up on some point of contention that stems from still having a lie as a starting premise somewhere.

If that sounds familiar, “American Exceptionalism And American Innocence” by Danny Haiphong and Roberto Sirvent is good. It’s not Dialectical Materialism itself but rather a wrecking ball directed at the generations of lies the US-led hegemony has built up. It gets people to the point of assuming anything an American or Neoliberal says is a lie until proven otherwise, which is kind of necessary for any kind of meaningful dialectics.

Hakim has recommendations specially for American libs in his playlist.

Not really theory but black shirts and reds is good. The manifesto is short. I found Lenin easier to read than marx at first

Principles of communism, or socialism utopian and scientific.

For modern books:

This book isn’t bad although its written by a trot: paul d’amato - the meaning of marxism.

Chris harmon - how marxism works

Principles of Communism or Communist Manifesto.

Alex Berkman - The ABCs of Anarchist Communism. Good place to start imo, it’s where I started.