Midwestern Marx recommended readings

This is the Midwestern Marx online library as of December 2021.

Classics of Marx and Engels

• The Communist Manifesto
• Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
• Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844 (source)
• Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right
• The Holy Family
• The Poverty of Philosophy (source)
• The Grundrisse (source)
• Wage, Labour, and Capital
• The German Ideology
• Thesis on Feuerbach (source)
• The Class Struggles in France 1848-1850
• The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
• The Civil War in France
• The Conditions of the Working Class in England
• Capital Vol 1
• Capital Vol 2
• Capital Vol 3
• Capital Vol 4 (Theories of Surplus Value)
• The Origins of the Family, Private Property, and the State (source)
• Dialectics of Nature
• Ludwig Feuerbach and the Outcome of Classical German Philosophy
• Critique of the Gotha Program
• Anti-Duhring
• Pre-Capitalist Economic Formations (With supplementary texts)

Classics of Lenin

• What is to be Done?
• Imperialism
• State and Revolution
• Left-Wing Communism; An Infantile Disorder
• Materialism and Empirio-Criticism
• The Development of Capitalism in Russia
• On the Question of Dialectics

Classics of Mao

• On Contradiction
• On Practice  
• On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People

Other 19th and 20th Century Marxist/Post Marxist Works

• Lafargue's The Right to be Lazy
• Kollontai's Selected Works
• Luxenburg's Reform or Revolution
• Lukac's History and Class Consciousness
• Mariategui's Seven Essays of Interpretation of Peruvian Reality
• Marcuse's One-Dimensional Man
• Debord's Society of the Spectacle
• Hardt & Negri's Empire
• Althusser's Reading Capital
• Althusser Selected Writings
• Thompson's The Poverty of Theory
• Gramsci's Prison Notebooks
• Foster's Marx's Ecology

Classic Works That Helped Form Marxist Thought

• Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit
• Hegel's The Science of Logic
• Hegel's Encyclopedia
• Feuerbach's The Essence of Christianity
• Fourier's Theory of the Four Movements
• Morgan's Ancient Societies
• Smith's The Wealth of Nations

Anti Colonial/Anti Imperialist

• Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth
• Cesaire's Return to my Native Land
• Cabral's Selected Works
• Che Guevarra's Selected Works
• Fidel's Selected Works
• Dussel's Collected Works
• Connolly's Selected Works

US Socialists

• Flynn's The Rebel Girl; Biography
• Debs' Selected Works
• Foster's The New Political Basis for a Labor Party in the US
• Haywood's Industrial Socialism
• DeLeon's Reform or Revolution
• Foster's Towards a Soviet America
• H. Haywood Selected Works

History

• Zinn's A People's History of the United States
• Perkins' Confessions of an Economic Hitman
• Parenti's History as Mystery
• Parenti's Blackshirts and Reds
• Brecher's Strike!
• Polanyi's The Great Transformation
• Prashad's The Darker Nations
• Blum's Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since WWII

Lectures and Documentaries

• Michael Parenti Lecture
• Harry Bridges A Man and His Union
• Richard Wolff On Coop Socialism
• David Harvey Reading Capital Lecture Series
• David Harvey The Grundrisse Lecture Series
• Andrew Feenberg On Lukac's Reification
• Paul Robeson Here I Stand
• Gregory Sadler 30 Minute Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit Series
• Thomas Sankara The Upright Man