Reading List
Authoritarian Left
Communism is not love.
It is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy. Mao Zedong
Horace B. Davis
Nationalism and Socialism
Horace B. Davis
Analyses left wing nationalism, and its criticism by libertarian leftists like Bakunin and Luxemburg.
Nick Bonner
Printed in North Korea: The Art of Everyday Life in the DPRK
Nick Bonner
Insights from a Beijing-based tour operator to North Korea.
David Hoffmann
Stalinism: The Essential Readings
David Hoffmann
Scholarly essays on the origins and consequences of Stalinism.
Kristen Ghodsee
The Left Side of History: WWII and the Unfulfilled Promise of Communism in Eastern Europe
Kristen Ghodsee
Analyses the growing nostalgia for communism in Eastern Europe, in the light of post-Communist inequalities
Samir Amin
THE LIBERAL VIRUS: Permanent War and the Americanization of the world
Samir Amin
Scathing and erudite critique by a prominent Marxist who long ago distanced himself from Soviet Marxism, then Maoism
Kim Jong Il
KIM JONG IL On the Art of Opera
Kim Jong Il
Fidel Castro
Capitalism in Crisis: Globalization and World Politics Today
Fidel Castro
The Cuban ex-President’s take on economic justice and the new global order
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Much quoted and seldom read
Introduction to Leninism as Ideology.
G. Neil Harding
Essential Works
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
On Imperialism and Imperialists
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Chairman Mao Zedong
Political power comes from the barrel of a gun
On Guerrilla Warfare
Chairman Mao Zedong
Quotations from Mao Zedong (The Little Red Book)
Chairman Mao Zedong
Quotations and Sayings of Chairman Mao, a compact overview of Maoist ideology.