A Shortcut to the Theoretical Foundations of Marxism for Understanding the Marxist Revolutionary Tradition

My top picks for just diving in:

(READ) Essay trilogy on Marxism and modernity by J. Moufawad Paul

(READ) Understanding History by George Novack

(LISTEN) Marx’s theory of Base & Superstructure by Prolekult

On the schools of philosophical idealism vs materialism:

(LISTEN) Socialism: Utopian and Scientific by Friedrich Engels

On alienation as the epistemic foundation of Marx’s theory:

(READ) Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 by Karl Marx, links to section titled “Estranged Labor”

(READ) Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism: Capital, Nature, and the Unfinished Critique of Political Economy by Kohei Saito (Ch. 1)

On dialectical materialism:

(LISTEN) Dialectical Materialism by Henri Lefebvre

(READ) Selection of Soviet books on dialectical materialism

For those with a proclivity for anarchism over and against Marxism:

(READ) The Nature of the Left: On the Question of Human Nature

(READ) On Authority by Friedrich Engels

For liberal pacifists:

(READ) Non-Violence: A History Beyond the Myth by Domenico Losurdo

(LISTEN) What is the relationship between the state, imperialism, and capitalism?

(LISTEN) Clip about the The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins