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Introduction: Socialist Action believes strongly in the need
to study revolutionary theory and learn the lessons of history. Therefore
we are providing this reading list to both educate you about our ideas
and politics, as well as to serve as a general 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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