A friend of mine is helping another friend into communist works, and wants Lenin to be the introduction. Do any of you have any sort of recommendation as to what can be used?
Tried to put this together so it’d all make sense when read in order. Included Peasant Movement in Hunan because it’s a good demo of Mao’s “On Practice” in real life. Tried to not include Lenin’s work where it’s mostly him beefing with other theorists since that requires a bit of external reading.
By Lenin
A Brief Biographical Sketch With an Exposition of Marxism
The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism
Certain Features of the Historical Development of Marxism
Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism
By Mao
ON CORRECTING MISTAKEN IDEAS IN THE PARTY
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In my opinion, the three key works are
Thank you to everybody who gave recommendations, these seem really useful.
I think Mao’s little red book would be an easier introduction than Lenin
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I mean, yeah. It’s called “Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong”.
It’s excellent quick gotcha reference for shutting up western maoists though.
