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POLITICS & ANTI-POLITICS


COMMUNISM & SOCIALISM

"The Principles of Communism", Frederick Engels (Audiobook) alt: https://youtu.be/7u6hZUEPRKI

"The Communist Manifesto", Karl Marx & Frederick Engels (Audiobook) alt: https://youtu.be/PdYLRTGmQ3c

"Karl Marx", Vladimir Lenin

"Capitalism and Communism", Gilles Dauvé

"Socialism: Utopian and Scientific", Frederick Engels (Audiobook) alt: https://youtu.be/sxNYkJFhJ8c

"The Soul of Man under Socialism", Oscar Wilde (Audiobook) (The artists, and individualists, case for libertarian socialism)

"Discourse on Voluntary Servitude", Étienne De La BoĂ©tie

"The Reproduction of Everyday Life", Fredy Perlman (Audiobook) (Good intro to some Marxist concepts such as alienation, commodity fetishism, etc.)

"The State and Revolution", Vladimir Lenin (Audiobook) alt: https://youtu.be/uDOafVeKmpE

Wage Labour and Capital https://youtu.be/GIPX9ZFpTNo

Value Price and Profit https://youtu.be/ZFSVc7N9wY4

Critique of the Gotha Programme https://youtu.be/gYwrCxggqcA

A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, Preface https://youtu.be/ecp3A-Bswvs

Engels Synopsis of Capital https://youtu.be/rtl9N2ezfCg

What Is To Be Done https://youtu.be/1lRM_fsjanE

Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism

More Audiobooks


COMMUNISATION

"Communization and its Discontents", Benjamin Noys

"The Coming Insurrection", Comité invisible

"Theory of Bloom", Tiqqun

"Raw Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl", Tiqqun

"Bring Out Your Dead"

"When Insurrections Die", Gilles Dauvé (Audiobook) (Brilliant critique from communisation tendency.)

"Eclipse and reemergence of the communist movement", Gilles Dauvé and François Martin

"Endnotes, issue 1" (a debate between GD and TC over the basis for the failure of the old workers movement)

"Insurrection and Production", Angry Workers World


SITUATIONIST

"An Introduction to the Situationists", Jan D. Matthews

"On the Poverty of Student Life"

"The Revolution of Everyday Life", Raoul Vaneigem

"The Society of the Spectacle", Guy Debord (Foundational situ text)

"Theory of the DĂ©rive". Guy Debord

"Formulary For a New Urbanism", Ivan Chtcheglov

"Ways In and Ways Out of the Situationist Labyrinth", Alejandro de Acosta


ANARCHY

FOR BEGINNERS

"Anarchy" - Errico Malatesta | PDF, Audiobook

"Anarchism" - Voltairine de Cleyre | PDF

"The Conquest of Bread" - Peter Kropotkin | PDF, Audiobook

"Anarchism and Other Essays" - Emma Goldman | PDF, Audiobook

"What is an Anarchist?" - Émile Armand | PDF

"What is Communist Anarchism?" - Alexander Berkman | PDF, Audiobook

"Anarchy in Action" - Colin Ward | PDF

"The Anarchist Tension" - Alfredo M. Bonanno | PDF, Audiobook

"Anarchy 101" - Bob Black | PDF

"On Anarchism" - Noam Chomsky & Nathan Schneider | Available for Download

"Anarchism: A Beginner's Guide" - Ruth Kinna | PDF

"Anarchy Works" - Peter Gelderloos | PDF

"Anarchism and Its Aspirations" - Cindy Milstein | Available for Download

FURTHER READING

"God and the State", Mikhail Bakunin (Audiobook)

"Marxism, Freedom and the State", Mikhail Bakunin (Bakunin's case against the dictatorship of the proletariat)

"Anarchism: from theory to practice", Daniel Guerin

"Anarchism and Anarcho-Syndicalism", Rudolf Rocker

"Fighting for ourselves: Anarcho-syndicalism and the class struggle", Solidarity Federation (A more contemporary introduction to anarcho-syndicalism)

"Mutual Aid", Peter Kropotkin (Audiobook)

"Organisational Platform of the Libertarian Communists", Dielo Truda (Workers’ Cause) (Historical importance; platformism)

"The Anarchist Synthesis", SĂ©bastien Faure (Historical importance; synthesis anarchism)

"At Daggers Drawn with the Existent, its Defenders and its False Critics", Anonymous (Audiobook) (Compelling introduction to insurrectionism)

"T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism", Hakim Bey

"Socialism, Anarchism And Feminism", Carol Ehrlich

"The Anarchist Ethic in the Age of the Anti-Globalization Movement", Anonymous (Insurrectionist classic)

"Listen, Marxist!", Murray Bookchin

"The Abolition of Work", Bob Black

"Bartleby, The Scrivener", Herman Melville

"The Negativity of Anarchism", David Wieck (Good basic analysis of what ties all variations of anarchism together)

"From Democracy to Freedom", CrimethInc. (Best overview of anarchist critique of democracy)

"Democracy vs Desire: Beyond the Politics of Measure", Andy Robinson

"Obsolete communism: The left wing alternative", Daniel and Gabriel Cohn-Bendit (An account of the May '68 uprising)

"Deserting the Digital Utopia", CrimethInc. (Important reality check in this digital age)

"What is Security Culture?", CrimethInc (Audiobook)

"Toward the Creative Nothing", Renzo Novatore

"Neither Lord Nor Subject", Bao Jingyan

"The Kronstadt Uprising of 1921", Ida Mett

"The End of Anarchism?", Luigi Galleani

"Postanarchism in a Nutshell", Jason Adams


INSURRECTIONIST & ILLEGALIST

"Armed Joy", Alfredo Bonanno (Audiobook)

"I Saw Fire: Reflections on Riots, Revolt & The Black Block", Doug Gilbert (Audiobook)

"Some Notes on Insurrectionary Anarchism", Sasha K (Audiobook)

"Why Insurrection?" Alfredo M. Bonanno

"No Selves to Abolish", K. Aarons

"Civil Disobedience", Henry David Thoreau (Audiobook)

"The Illegalists”, Doug Imrie

"Fire At Midnight Destruction At Dawn", Kasimere Bran (Audiobook)

"At Daggers Drawn", Anonymous (Audiobook)

"Call", Anonymous


POST-LEFT, POST-ANARCHISM & EGOISM

"The Unique & Its Property", Max Stirner (Audiobook (Old Translation))

"Mutual Utilization: Relationship and Revolt in Max Stirner", Massimo Passamani

"Nihilism as Egoism", Keiji Nishitani

"Whatever You Do, Get Away with It" by Jason McQuinn

"Leftism 101" by Lawrence Jarach

"Anarchists, Don't let the Left(overs) Ruin your Appetite" by Lawrence Jarach

"Critical Analysis of the Left: Lets Clean House" by Joaquin Cienfuegos

"Against the Logic of Submission" by Wolfi Landstreicher

"Critical Thinking as an Anarchist Weapon" by Wolfi Landstreicher & Jason McQuinn

"Against Organizationalism: Anarchism as both Theory & Critique of Organization" by Jason McQuinn

"Demoralizing Moralism: The Futility of Fetishized Values" by Jason McQuinn

"From Politics to Life: Ridding anarchy of the leftist millstone" by Wolfi Landstreicher (heavily critiqued by Lilith in "Gender Disobedience: Antifeminism & Insurrectionist Non-dialogue"

"Radical Theory: A Wrecking Ball for Ivory Towers" by Wolfi Landstreicher

"Against Identity Politics" by Lupus Dragonowl

"Against Mass Society" by Chris Wilson

"On Organization" by Jacques Camatte

"Pilsen: Chicago’s Revolution of Everyday Life" by Silas Crane

"Anarchy in the Age of Dinosaurs"


ANTI-CIV ANARCHY & ANARCHIST NIHILISM

"Desert", anonymous (Audiobook)

"Blessed is the Flame", Serafinski

"Nihilism, Anarchy, and the 21st Century", Aragorn!

"Some Nihilists I Have Met", Voltairine de Cleyre

"A Primitivist Primer", John Moore

"An Invitation to Desertion", Bellamy Fitzpatrick

"Green Nihilism or Cosmic Pessimism", Alejandro de Acosta

"Baedan", Baedan

"Gender Nihilism: An Anti-Manifesto", Alyson Escalante

"Against His-story, Against Leviathan!", Fredy Perlman

"The Primitivist Critique of Civilization", Richard Heinberg

"Permanent Subsistence Zones", Seaweed

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celebratedrecluse OP wrote

the ross douthat reading series from way back are so fucking funny

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celebratedrecluse OP wrote

Cool finally got it all formatted. Communist and Socialist lit is at the top, as I expect that will be more to the taste of a lot of us here.

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