Join the Connecticut Radical Reading Group to engage in Marxist-Leninist discussions, enhance political awareness, and foster revolutionary thought in the community.

Reading List

We are studying a list of reading materials that includes:

  • Stalin vol. 1, Stephen Kotkin
  • Stalin: History and Critique of a Black Legend, Domenico Losurdo
  • The Counter-Revolution in Hungary in the Light of Marxism-Leninism, Gyula Kallai
  • 1956 Counter-Revolution in Hungary, Words and Weapons, Janos Berencz

Revisiting the Basics

  • The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
  • Class Struggle, Domenico Losurdo
  • The Black Panther Party: Service to the People Programs, Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation, edited by David Hilliard
  • “Freedom to Criticize, Unity of Action,” V.I. Lenin

Intro to Political Economy

  • Wage Labour and Capital / Value, Price, and Profit, Karl Marx
  • Critique of the Gotha Program, Karl Marx
  • “The Sentimental Criticism of Capitalism,” V.I. Lenin
  • Socialism: Utopian and Scientific, Friedrich Engels

Dialectical and Historical Materialism

  • Dialectical and Historical Materialism, J.V. Stalin
  • The Worldview and Philosophical Methodology of Marxism-Leninism, trans. Luna Nguyen
  • Kwame Ture Speech at Florida International University, 1992
  • On Practice, Mao Zedong
  • On Contradiction, Mao Zedong

Struggle

  • How to Be A Good Communist, Liu Shaoqi
  • “Combat Liberalism,” Mao Zedong
  • Constructive Criticism: A Handbook, Vicki Legion
  • Constructive Struggle, J. Katsfoter
  • On Agitation, Julius Martov