PDM Reading List
Section 1: Introductory Works for Combating Anti-Communist Mythology in the 21st Century
Blackshirts & Reds: Rational Fascism & The Overthrow of Communism, by Michael Parenti
Washington Bullets: A History of the CIA, Coups, and Assassinations, by Vijay Prashad
The Jakarta Method, by Vincent Bevins
The Triumph of Evil, by Austin Murphy
War and Revolution: Rethinking the 20th Century, by Domenico Losurdo
The Face of Imperialism, by Michael Parenti
To Kill a Nation: The Attack on Yugoslavia, by Michael Parenti
History as Mystery, by Michael Parenti
Section 2: Marxist Philosophy and Fundamentals
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific, by Frederich Engels
The State and Revolution: The Economic Basis of the Withering Away of the State, by V.I. Lenin
Dialectical and Historical Materialism, by Joseph Stalin
Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism, by V.I. Lenin
What is to be Done? by V.I. Lenin
The Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx & Frederich Engels
Reform or Revolution? by Rosa Luxemburg
Foundations of Leninism, by Joseph Stalin
Section 3: On Ultra-Left Deviations
“Left-Wing” Communism: An Infantile Disorder, by V.I. Lenin
Socialism or Anarchism? by Joseph Stalin
On Authority, by Frederich Engels
Section 4: On Fascism
Against Fascism and War, by Georgi Dimitrov
Fascism & Social Revolution by R. Palme Dutt
Lectures on Fascism, by Palmiro Togliatti
Fascism & Big Business, by Daniel Guérin
Fascism in the Colonies, by George Padmore
Section 5: Marxist Feminism
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State, by Frederich Engels
Women, Race, & Class, by Angela Davis
Guidelines for the Communist Women’s Movement, by Clara Zetkin
Red Love, by Alexandra Kollontai
A Great Love, by Alexandra Kollontai
The Woman Question, by Edward Aveling and Eleanor Marx Aveling
The Woman Worker, by Nadezhda Krupskaya
Preface to The Emancipation of Women (from Writings of V.I. Lenin) by Nadezhda Krupskaya
Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation, by Silvia Federici
Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism, by Kristen Ghodsee
Women's Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle, by Thomas Sankara
Section 6: On Nations, Nationalism, and Colonialism
Red Star Over the Third World, by Vijay Prashad
The Right of Nations to Self-Determination, by V.I. Lenin
The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World, by Vijay Prashad
The Socialist Revolution and the Right of Nations to Self-Determination, by V.I. Lenin
Marxism & the National Question, by Joseph Stalin
Marx at the Margins, On Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Non-Western Societies, by Kevin B. Anderson
Liberate the Colonies! Edited by John Riddell, Vijay Prashad, and Nazeef Mollah
On Colonialism, by Karl Marx and Frederich Engels (compilation of texts published by Aakar Books, 2016)
Our Own Path to Socialism: Selected Speeches of Hugo Chavez, Edited by Manolo De Los Santos, Carlos Ron, and Vijay Prashad
Communist Histories, Edited by Vijay Prashad
The East Was Read: Socialist Culture in the Third World, by Vijay Prashad
India in Transition, by M.N. Roy
Red Nations: The Nationalities Experience in and After the USSR, by Jeremy Smith
Open Veins of Latin America, by Eduardo Galeano
The Motorcycle Diaries, by Ernesto Che Guevara
Decolonial Marxism, by Walter Rodney
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, by Walter Rodney
Neo-Colonialism: The Highest Stage of Imperialism, by Kwame Nkrumah
Africa Must Unite, by Kwame Nkrumah
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution, by C.L.R. James
Discourse on Colonialism, by Aimé Césaire
The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century, by Gerald Horne
The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America, by Gerald Horne
Washington’s Secret War Against Afghanistan, by Phillip Bonosky
Selected Ho Chi Minh, Edited by Vijay Prashad
How the National Question was Solved in Soviet Central Asia, by R. Tuzhmuhamedov
Section 7: Marxist Analyses of the Soviet Union and the October Revolution
The End of the Beginning: Lessons of the Soviet Collapse, by Carlos Martinez
The Russian Revolution, by Walter Rodney
Red October: The Russian Revolution and the Communist Horizon, Edited by Vijay Prashad
Is the Red Flag Flying? The Political Economy of the Soviet Union Today, by Albert Szymanski
Human Rights in the Soviet Union, Including Comparisons with the U.S.A., by Albert Szymanski
Ten Days That Shook the World, by John Reed
Heroic Struggle, Bitter Defeat: Factors Contributing to the Dismantling of the Socialist State in the USSR, by Bahman Azad
Socialism Betrayed: Behind the Collapse of the Soviet Union, by Roger Keeran and Thomas Kenny
A Black Communist in the Freedom Struggle, by Harry Haywood
Perestroika: Its Rise & Fall, by Mike Davidow
Another View of Stalin, by Ludo Martens
Stalin: The History & Critique of a Black Legend, by Domenico Losurdo
Soviet Democracy, by Pat Sloan
The Soviet Union and National Liberation Movements in the Third World, by Galia Golan
Section 8: Canadian Authors
The Politics of Passion: Norman Bethune's Writing and Art, by Larry Hannant
Left, Right: Marching to the Beat of Imperial Canada, by Yves Engler
Canada in Africa: 300 Years of Aid and Exploitation, by Yves Engler
Canada and Israel: Building Apartheid, by Yves Engler
Stand on Guard for Whom? A People’s History of the Canadian Military, by Yves Engler
Canada’s Long Fight Against Democracy, by Yves Engler
The Black Book of Canadian Foreign Policy, by Yves Engler
The One-and-a-Half Men: The Story of Jim Brady and Malcolm Norris, by Murray Dobbin
Fraud, Famine and Fascism: The Holodomor Myth from Hitler to Harvard, by Douglas Tottle
From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada’s Siberian Expedition, 1917-1919, by Benjamin Isitt
Thirty Years: 1922-1952, The Story of the Communist Movement in Canada, by Tim Buck
Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition, by Glen Sean Coulthard
The North-West Is Our Mother, by Jean Teillet
Section 9: Advanced Marxist Philosophy and Academic Works
Materialism and Empirio-Criticism: Critical Comments on a Reactionary Philosophy, by V.I. Lenin
Fundamentals of Marxism-Leninism, A Soviet Textbook, by the Marx Engels Lenin Institute
Das Kapital, by Karl Marx
The German Ideology, by Karl Marx
Grundrisse, Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy, by Karl Marx
Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, by Karl Marx
Theses on Feuerbach, by Karl Marx
The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, by Karl Marx
Anti-Dühring, Herr Eugen Dühring's Revolution in Science, by Frederich Engels
Dialectics of Nature, by Frederich Engels
Liberalism: A Counter History, by Domenico Losurdo
The Logic of Imperialism, by Albert Szymanski