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I just started to read Women and Socialism by August Bebel.

It is often said and written that the main point in Marx’s theory is the class struggle. But this is wrong. And this wrong notion very often results in an opportunist distortion of Marxism and its falsification in a spirit acceptable to the bourgeoisie. For the theory of the class struggle was created not by Marx, but by the bourgeoisie before Marx, and, generally speaking, it is acceptable to the bourgeoisie. Those who recognize only the class struggle are not yet Marxists; they may be found to be still within the bounds of bourgeois thinking and bourgeois politics. To confine Marxism to the theory of the class struggle means curtailing Marxism, distorting it, reducing it to something acceptable to the bourgeoisie. Only he is a Marxist who extends the recognition of the class struggle to the recognition of the dictatorship of the proletariat.

This part really stuck with me the longest, back when I first read this I was a baby leftist, so I thought that core of all of Socialism(and Marxism by extension) was the class struggle. And so reading this was quite eye opening and it and other texts by Lenin really helped me to become an ML.

I’d recommend The Struggle Against Fascism by Clara Zetkin.

It was the first thing I read when I was trying to understand what Fascism was and to this day I still really like it.