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Introduction: Socialist Action believes strongly in the need
to study revolutionary theory and learn the lessons of history. In that
spirit we are providing this recommended reading list as an educational
resource for activists. Some of
the readings below are online, but some you’ll have to look up at your
local library or bookstore.
Introduction to Socialist Politics:
- What is
Socialism?
- How to Make
a Revolution in the U.S.
- What Would
a Socialist America Look Like?
- Who Should
You Vote For?
- Marxism vs.
Anarchism
Basic Marxist Classics:
- Communist
Manifesto by Karl Marx
- The 3
Component Parts of Marxism by V.I. Lenin
- The
Transitional Program by Leon Trotsky
- Vanguard
Parties by Ernest Mandel
Misc. Interesting Readings:
- History of
the American Trotskyist Movement
- Black
Self-Determination & Socialist Revolution in the U.S.
- Role Played
by Labor in the Transition From Ape to Man
Political Novels:
- Native Son by
Richard Wright
- For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest
Hemingway
- In Dubious Battle by John Steinbeck
- Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
- Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- Uncle Tom’s Children by Richard Wright
- Year One of the Russian Revolution by
Victor Serge
- The Mother by Gorky
- The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
- Born of the Fourth of July by Ron Kovics
- 1984 by George Orwell
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- Homeland by Barbara Kingsolver
- Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood
- Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy
- Blood Child by Octavia Butler
- Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg
- Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
- The Dispossessed by Ursala
LeGuin
- The Left hand of Darkness by Ursala LeGuin
- The Iron Heel by Jack London
Eyewitness Historical
Accounts:
- Ten Days That Shook the
World by John Reed
- Negroes With Guns by Williams
- Teamster Rebellion by Farrell Dobbs
Political Biographies:
- The Rebel Girl
by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
- The Bending Cross (Eugene Debs bio) by
Ray Ginger
- Autobiography of Frederick Douglas
- Autobiography of W.E.B. Dubois
- Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex
Haley
- My Life by Leon Trotsky
- John L. Lewis by Robert Zieger
- Stalin by Leon Trotsky
- Motorcycle Diaries by Che Guevara
- The Prophet Armed (Vol. 1 of Trotsky
bio) by Isaac Deutscher
- The Prophet Unarmed (Vol. 2) by Isaac Deutscher
- The Prophet Outcast (Vol. 3) by Isaac Deutscher
- My Brother, My Comrade: Remembering Jake Cooper
by Mark Harris
- Joe Hill by John McDermott
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