Political Theory Recommendations

Hello everyone, here is a list of the books and essays I recommend reading if you're new to Leftism. The list is in no particular order.


1. State and Revolution - Lenin

2. Political Economy - John Eaton (best for beginners)

3. The Marx and Engels Reader

4. Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses - Althusser 

5. Phenomenology of Spirit - Hegel 

6. Socialism Utopian and Scientific - Engels 

7. Capital - Marx

8. Capitalism by Anwar Shaikh 

9. The Prison Notebooks - Gramsci 

10. On Ideology - Althusser 

11. Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844- Marx

12. The Grundrisse - Marx

13. Reading Capital 

14. Value Price and Profit - Marx 

15. What is to be Done -Lenin

16. Dialectic of Enlightenment - Horkheimer and Adorno 

17. A Dictionary of Marxist Thought 

18. Monopoly Capital - Paul Sweezy

19. Critical Theory - Horkheimer 

20.One-Dimensional Man - Marcuse

21. History and Class Consciousness - Lukács

22. Introduction to Critical Theory - David Held

23. Ego and the Id - Freud 

24. A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis - Freud 

25. Eros and Civilization - Marcuse 

26. Wage labour and capital- Marx 

27. Principles of Communism - Engels 

28. The Mirror of Production - Baudrillard 

29. Introduction to Critical Theory - David Held 

30. Essays on Marx's Theory of Value - I.I Rueben 

31. Economic Theory of the Leisure Class - Bukharin

32. Why Socialism - Albert Einstein

33. On Contradiction - Mao Zedong

34. The three sources and three components of Marxism - Vladimir Lenin

35. Du Contrat Social - Rousseau

36. La pensée de Karl Marx - JY Calvez

37. Dialectics and Society - Michel Freitag

38. Reform or Revoluton - Rosa Luxemburg

39. Mutual Aid: A factor in revolution - Peter Kropotkin

40. The conquest of bread - Peter Kropotkin


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