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In addition to the Socialism F.A.Q. located on the right hand menu bar of this website, Youth for Socialist Action recommends that all of its members and supporters read the following documents:

 

 YSA Political Manifesto

 The History of YSA

 Communist Manifesto

 Transitional Program

 In Defense of October

 Revolutionary Socialism Today

 

 

 

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 What Is Communism?
 What Are the Main Concepts of Marxism?
 What Makes Marxism Scientific?
 What's So Important About the Working Class?
 What Do Marxists Propose to Do About Racism?
 What Do Marxists Say About GLBT Oppression?
 What Do Marxists Say About Women's Oppression
 What Do Marxists Have Say About the Environment?
 What's Wrong With Capitalism?
 What are the Causes of Alienation?
 Who Was Karl Marx?
 Who Was V.I. Lenin?
 Who Was Leon Trotsky?
 What is Marx's Theory of Surplus-Value?
 What is Dialectics?
 What is Dialectical Materialism?
 What is Trotsky's Theory of 'Permanent Revolution'?
 Can American Workers Make a Revolution?
 How Do We Win Strikes?
 What is the Best Way to Fight Racist Groups?
 What If They Try to Arrest Us?
 Were There Any Gains Made From Previous Revolutions?
 What is the Dictatorship of the Proletariat?
 What is the Marxist View on Building Classless Societies

 

 

 

Recommended Reading List

 

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 Accounts:


 Ten Days That Shook the World by John Reed
 Negroes With Guns by Williams
 Teamster Rebellion by Farrell Dobbs

Biographies:


 The Rebel Girl by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
 The Bending Cross (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
 Joe Hill by John McDermott

 Remembering Jake Cooper by Mark Harris

 

 

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