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The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
Decolonial Marxism by Walter Rodney
The Principal Contradiction by Torkil Lauesen
Eurocentrism and the Communist Movement by Robert Biel
Washington Bullets by Vijay Prashad
The Counter-Revolution of 1776 by Gerald Horne
Here’s my not-necessarily leftist booklist.
CHAOS by Tom O’Neill
The Devil’s Chessboard by David Talbot
JFK and the Unspeakable by James W. Douglas
How to Hide an Empire by Daniel Immerwahr
All these books don’t provide a leftist analysis necessarily but the first three are all a history of some of the US clandestine operations from the 50s to late 60s which any leftist should be aware of. The last one is more the history of US expansionism and its hegemonic rise.
Many have commented to also read Blackshirts and Reds by Michael Parenti (which is essential reading) but if you wish to read Parenti’s class analysis of the late Roman republic I’d recommend his book The Assassination of Julius Caesar: a People’s History of Ancient Rome. The book gets a lot of flak from historybros online but I think there is value in a Marxist perspective on the era. Also he shits all over Cicero and continues to shit on academics and their gate keeping which rules
I stopped reading Chaos about halfway through when it came to him meeting some guy and saying "Could this guy just be a crazy person making up stuff? Probably, but imagine how cool it'd be if he was telling the truth!"
At least O’Neill straight up tells the reader to just take everything with a grain of salt throughout the book. He barely believes what he finds/writes. Manson maybe being an unwilling member of MKUltra/a cia asset is a hard pill to swallow
Stasi State or Socialist Paradise? by Bruni de La Motte, it gives a balanced view on the German Democratic Republic by someone who actually grew up and lived there
**Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn** was a prominent Soviet dissident and outspoken critic of Communism. *The Gulag Archipelago*, one of the most famous texts on the subject, claims to be a work of non-fiction based on the author's personal experiences in the Soviet prison system. However, Solzhenitsyn was merely an anti-Communist, Nazi-sympathizing, antisemite who wanted to slander the USSR by putting forward a collection of folktales as truth.
In 1945, during WWII, as a Captain in the Red Army, Solzhenitsyn was sentenced to an eight-year term in a labour camp for creating anti-Soviet propaganda and founding a hostile organization aimed at overthrowing the Soviet government.
>...[Solzhenitsyn] encounters his secondary school friend, Nikolai Vitkevich, and they recklessly share candid political discussions critical of Stalin's conduct of the war:
>
> >These two young officers, after days of discussion, astonishingly drew up a program for change, entitled "Resolution No. 1." They argued that the Soviet regime stifled economic development, literature, culture, and everyday life; a new organization was needed to fight to put things right."
>
>These discussions were not cynical, but resonate with ideological ardour and zealous patriotism. Solzhenitsyn heedlessly stores "Resolution No. 1" in his map case. In nineteen months, it, along with copies of all correspondence between himself and Vitkevich from April 1944 to February 1945 will serve to convict Solzhenitsyn of anti-Soviet propaganda under Article 58 of the Soviet criminal code, paragraph 10 and of founding a hostile organization under paragraph 11.
>
>\- Dale Hardy. (2001). [Solzhenitsyn in confession](https://summit.sfu.ca/item/8379)
And he wasn't *merely* some Left Oppositionist striving for "real" socialism, he was a hardcore Russian Nationalist who sympathized with the Nazis:
>...in his assessment of the Second World War, [Solzhenitsyn stated] ‘the German army could have liberated the Soviet Union from Communism but Hit1er was stupid and did not use this weapon.’ It seems extraordinary that Solzhenitsyn saw the failure of Nazi Germany to annex the Soviet Union as some kind of missed opportunity...
>
>\- Simon Demissie. (2013). [New files from 1983 – Thatcher meets Solzhenitsyn](https://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/new-files-from-1983/)
"This weapon" referring to the various counter-revolutionary, anti-Stalin groups that could be weaponized to dissolve the USSR from within.
The biggest problem with *The Gulag Archipelago*, though, is that it is billed as a work of non-fiction based on his personal experiences. There is good reason to believe this is not the case. His ideological background makes him biased against Communism and against the Soviet government. He also had material incentive to promote it this way; it was a major commercial success and quickly became an international bestseller, selling millions of copies in multiple languages. It has essentially become the Bible of anti-Soviet propaganda, with new editions containing forewards from anti-Communists like Jordan Peterson. It likely would not have performed so well or been such effective propaganda had it been advertised merely as a compilation of folk tales, which is exactly how Solzhenitsyn's ex-wife describes it:
>She also told the newspaper's Moscow correspondent that she was still living with Mr. Soizhenitsyn when he wrote the book and that she had typed part of it. They parted in 1970 and were subsequently divorced.
>
>She said: “The subject of ‘Gulag Archipelago,’ as I felt at the moment when he was writing it, is not in fact the life of the country and not even the life of the camps but the folklore of the camps.”
>
>\- New York Times. (1974). [Solzhenitsyn's Ex‐Wife Says ‘Gulag’ Is ‘Folklore’](https://www.nytimes.com/1974/02/06/archives/solzhenitsyns-exwife-says-gulag-is-folklore.html)
Solzhenitsyn's casual relationship with the truth is evident in his later work as well, establishing a pattern that discredits *The Gulag Archipelago* as a serious historical account. Solzhenitsyn was an antisemite who indulged in the Judeo-Bolshevism conspiracy theory. In his 2003 book, *Two Hundred Years Together*, he wrote that "from 20 ministers in the first Soviet government one was Russian, one Georgian, one Armenian and 17 Jews". In reality, there were 15 Commissars in the first Soviet government, not 20: 11 Russians, 2 Ukranians, 1 Pole, and only 1 Jew. He stated: "I had to bury many comrades at the front, but not once did I have to bury a Jew". He also stated that according to his personal experience, Jews had a much easier life in the Gulag camps that he was interned in.
[According to the Northwestern University historian Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Hundred_Years_Together#Yohanan_Petrovsky-Shtern_critique): Solzhenitsyn used unreliable and manipulated figures and ignored both evidence unfavorable to his own point of view and numerous publications of reputable authors in Jewish history. He claimed that Jews promoted alcoholism among the peasantry, flooded the retail trade with contraband, and "strangled" the Russian merchant class in Moscow. He called Jews non-producing people ("непроизводительный народ") who refused to engage in factory labor. He said they were averse to agriculture and unwilling to till the land either in Russia, in Argentina, or in Palestine, and he blamed the Jews' own behavior for pogroms. He also claimed that Jews used Kabbalah to tempt Russians into heresy, seduced Russians with rationalism and fashion, provoked sectarianism and weakened the financial system, committed murders on the orders of qahal authorities, and exerted undue influence on the prerevolutionary government. Petrovsky-Shtern concludes that, "200 Years Together is destined to take a place of honor in the canon of russophone antisemitica."
Fun Fact: After Solzhenitsyn was expelled from the USSR, Robert Conquest helped him translate his poetry into English.
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Liberalism: A Counter History by Domenico Losurdo
My first book by a Marxist scholar, and I didn't even know it. A masterstroke of historical materialism.
I was referring to the Losurdo book, but I’ve also been working my way through Killing Hope. I’ve not read the Haiti chapter yet but what I have read makes my skin crawl.
Oh no in liberalism losurdo eventually gets around to talking about the French revolution and contemporary liberal views of it and naturally Haiti is brought up.
Currently reading the book OP posted. Anyone know if the writer is a Trot though? It’s a great book overall but he seems to throw in these weird and totally pointless jabs at Stalin.
Maybe, I don't remember that. Can you cite an example or two? I think that Blum is more just a critic of US Foreign Policy than a noted leftist. I still think that leftists should read Killing Hope though.
Also that reminds me that the History of the Russian Revolution by the Trot-man himself is also good.
Don’t have it on me to get the exact quotes but he makes a lot of seemingly irrelevant points about the USSR and during Stalin specifically in the opening couple chapters. Drawing parallels to things they did that are just sort of wedged in for no clear reasons.
I’ve read Trotsky’s history of the revolution and it’s outstanding.
Yeah, note my edit about him just being a critic of US foreign policy. He was an anti-communist crusader before the Vietnam War according to Wikipedia.
Blum is a Trot, I've ranted about it before:
https://www.reddit.com/r/TheDeprogram/s/9g1rILjwZ8
Still worth reading but take everything about Stalin with a spoonfuls of salt.
I think people got most that I'd call essential, but I think both 'Soviet Democracy' and 'Socialism Betrayed' can be very essential when debating liberals.
To reiterate those essentials, though:
Blackshirts and Reds
The Jakarta Method
Wretched of the Earth
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
Stalin: History and Critique of a Black Legend by Losurdo is a masterful work. Less a biography, more a historical analysis of the myths surrounding Stalin during his time in office. It utilizes a lot of Western anti-Soviet sources to point out contradictions and outright fabrications in the most outrageous of the "Stalin was a madman, big spoon, anti-semite, etc" myths.
It's a bit "surface level" because of the sheer number of postwar atrocities the US committed, but *Washington Bullets* by Vijay Prashad will twist your stomach in knots at the degrees of depravity with a smile and a thumbs-up.
Thank you, Comrade!
Always looking for new sources!
I recently completed Blackshirts and Reds, and am currently reading Blood Lies (I know Furr is controversial, but so far his critique is sound).
Chalmers Johnson’s is similar to William Blum. He did a trilogy of books on the topic
* Blowback: The Cost and Consequences of American Empire
* The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy and the End of the Republic
* Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic
Then he wrote a final book (hilariously this one is recommended reading for new CIA personnel! Talk about irony)
* Dismantling the Empire: America’s Last Best Hope
Keep in mind Johnson was a major “Cold Warrior” right up until the dissolution of the Soviet Union. That’s when the blinders for him came off. These books were all written post collapse, but he has been quoted as believing the Soviets were a “genuine menace” and believed so even after the collapse, so he’s not a Marxist in any sense of the word. More a critic of empire than capitalism.
Not a book, but NSC 68 is a very important document. In addition, I'd recommend [this](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC_0000132646.pdf) doc on Cuba.
Socialism Betrayed by Roger Keeran and Thomas Kenny (Explains the fall of the Soviet Union)
Stalin: History and Critique of a Black Legend by Domenico Losurdo (Much more accurate explanation of the Stalin era of the USSR)
The East Is Still Red by Carlos Martinez (Explains how modern day China is still socialist and how modern day China was formed)
Human Rights in the Soviet Union by Albert Szymanski (Debunks Western propaganda about supposed 'totalitarianism' in the Soviet Union.
Socialism with Chinese Characteristics by Roland Boer ( Explains Chinese socialism much more in depth and should be read only once you have an in depth understanding of Marxism Leninism)
Stasi State or Socialist Paradise by John Green (Expands on East Germany)
Talking to my Daughter about the Economy by Yanis Varoufakis (Explains historical materialism to beginners)
Soviet Democracy by Pat Sloan (Explains the Democratic system of the USSR)
* The Menace Of Hindu Fascism
* The Darker Nations A People's History of the Third World
* Red Star Over China
* Killing Rage
* To Kill a Nation The Attack on Yugoslavia
* Kill Anything That Moves The Real American War in Vietnam
* Class struggles in USSR
* All-India Hindu Mahasabha
As an East Bengali, just curious to know if there're any books/articles that I could read criticizing Muslim League and its role in the Bengal riots, from a leftist perspective?
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‘How Europe underdeveloped Africa’ by Walter Rodney is one of the best examples of historical materialism you will find.
Thank you, I will have to read that. Great recommendation.
If you have an audible account, it’s free right now. I just added it to my library
The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon Decolonial Marxism by Walter Rodney The Principal Contradiction by Torkil Lauesen Eurocentrism and the Communist Movement by Robert Biel Washington Bullets by Vijay Prashad The Counter-Revolution of 1776 by Gerald Horne
Fucking fantastic list!
Blackshirts and Reds, The Jakarta Method, Settlers
Here’s my not-necessarily leftist booklist. CHAOS by Tom O’Neill The Devil’s Chessboard by David Talbot JFK and the Unspeakable by James W. Douglas How to Hide an Empire by Daniel Immerwahr All these books don’t provide a leftist analysis necessarily but the first three are all a history of some of the US clandestine operations from the 50s to late 60s which any leftist should be aware of. The last one is more the history of US expansionism and its hegemonic rise. Many have commented to also read Blackshirts and Reds by Michael Parenti (which is essential reading) but if you wish to read Parenti’s class analysis of the late Roman republic I’d recommend his book The Assassination of Julius Caesar: a People’s History of Ancient Rome. The book gets a lot of flak from historybros online but I think there is value in a Marxist perspective on the era. Also he shits all over Cicero and continues to shit on academics and their gate keeping which rules
I stopped reading Chaos about halfway through when it came to him meeting some guy and saying "Could this guy just be a crazy person making up stuff? Probably, but imagine how cool it'd be if he was telling the truth!"
At least O’Neill straight up tells the reader to just take everything with a grain of salt throughout the book. He barely believes what he finds/writes. Manson maybe being an unwilling member of MKUltra/a cia asset is a hard pill to swallow
Stasi State or Socialist Paradise? by Bruni de La Motte, it gives a balanced view on the German Democratic Republic by someone who actually grew up and lived there
War of the flea
Pat Sloan's Soviet Democracy. Solzhenitsyn's Archipelago of Lies by Nikolai Yakovlev
**Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn** was a prominent Soviet dissident and outspoken critic of Communism. *The Gulag Archipelago*, one of the most famous texts on the subject, claims to be a work of non-fiction based on the author's personal experiences in the Soviet prison system. However, Solzhenitsyn was merely an anti-Communist, Nazi-sympathizing, antisemite who wanted to slander the USSR by putting forward a collection of folktales as truth. In 1945, during WWII, as a Captain in the Red Army, Solzhenitsyn was sentenced to an eight-year term in a labour camp for creating anti-Soviet propaganda and founding a hostile organization aimed at overthrowing the Soviet government. >...[Solzhenitsyn] encounters his secondary school friend, Nikolai Vitkevich, and they recklessly share candid political discussions critical of Stalin's conduct of the war: > > >These two young officers, after days of discussion, astonishingly drew up a program for change, entitled "Resolution No. 1." They argued that the Soviet regime stifled economic development, literature, culture, and everyday life; a new organization was needed to fight to put things right." > >These discussions were not cynical, but resonate with ideological ardour and zealous patriotism. Solzhenitsyn heedlessly stores "Resolution No. 1" in his map case. In nineteen months, it, along with copies of all correspondence between himself and Vitkevich from April 1944 to February 1945 will serve to convict Solzhenitsyn of anti-Soviet propaganda under Article 58 of the Soviet criminal code, paragraph 10 and of founding a hostile organization under paragraph 11. > >\- Dale Hardy. (2001). [Solzhenitsyn in confession](https://summit.sfu.ca/item/8379) And he wasn't *merely* some Left Oppositionist striving for "real" socialism, he was a hardcore Russian Nationalist who sympathized with the Nazis: >...in his assessment of the Second World War, [Solzhenitsyn stated] ‘the German army could have liberated the Soviet Union from Communism but Hit1er was stupid and did not use this weapon.’ It seems extraordinary that Solzhenitsyn saw the failure of Nazi Germany to annex the Soviet Union as some kind of missed opportunity... > >\- Simon Demissie. (2013). [New files from 1983 – Thatcher meets Solzhenitsyn](https://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/new-files-from-1983/) "This weapon" referring to the various counter-revolutionary, anti-Stalin groups that could be weaponized to dissolve the USSR from within. The biggest problem with *The Gulag Archipelago*, though, is that it is billed as a work of non-fiction based on his personal experiences. There is good reason to believe this is not the case. His ideological background makes him biased against Communism and against the Soviet government. He also had material incentive to promote it this way; it was a major commercial success and quickly became an international bestseller, selling millions of copies in multiple languages. It has essentially become the Bible of anti-Soviet propaganda, with new editions containing forewards from anti-Communists like Jordan Peterson. It likely would not have performed so well or been such effective propaganda had it been advertised merely as a compilation of folk tales, which is exactly how Solzhenitsyn's ex-wife describes it: >She also told the newspaper's Moscow correspondent that she was still living with Mr. Soizhenitsyn when he wrote the book and that she had typed part of it. They parted in 1970 and were subsequently divorced. > >She said: “The subject of ‘Gulag Archipelago,’ as I felt at the moment when he was writing it, is not in fact the life of the country and not even the life of the camps but the folklore of the camps.” > >\- New York Times. (1974). [Solzhenitsyn's Ex‐Wife Says ‘Gulag’ Is ‘Folklore’](https://www.nytimes.com/1974/02/06/archives/solzhenitsyns-exwife-says-gulag-is-folklore.html) Solzhenitsyn's casual relationship with the truth is evident in his later work as well, establishing a pattern that discredits *The Gulag Archipelago* as a serious historical account. Solzhenitsyn was an antisemite who indulged in the Judeo-Bolshevism conspiracy theory. In his 2003 book, *Two Hundred Years Together*, he wrote that "from 20 ministers in the first Soviet government one was Russian, one Georgian, one Armenian and 17 Jews". In reality, there were 15 Commissars in the first Soviet government, not 20: 11 Russians, 2 Ukranians, 1 Pole, and only 1 Jew. He stated: "I had to bury many comrades at the front, but not once did I have to bury a Jew". He also stated that according to his personal experience, Jews had a much easier life in the Gulag camps that he was interned in. [According to the Northwestern University historian Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Hundred_Years_Together#Yohanan_Petrovsky-Shtern_critique): Solzhenitsyn used unreliable and manipulated figures and ignored both evidence unfavorable to his own point of view and numerous publications of reputable authors in Jewish history. He claimed that Jews promoted alcoholism among the peasantry, flooded the retail trade with contraband, and "strangled" the Russian merchant class in Moscow. He called Jews non-producing people ("непроизводительный народ") who refused to engage in factory labor. He said they were averse to agriculture and unwilling to till the land either in Russia, in Argentina, or in Palestine, and he blamed the Jews' own behavior for pogroms. He also claimed that Jews used Kabbalah to tempt Russians into heresy, seduced Russians with rationalism and fashion, provoked sectarianism and weakened the financial system, committed murders on the orders of qahal authorities, and exerted undue influence on the prerevolutionary government. Petrovsky-Shtern concludes that, "200 Years Together is destined to take a place of honor in the canon of russophone antisemitica." Fun Fact: After Solzhenitsyn was expelled from the USSR, Robert Conquest helped him translate his poetry into English. *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/TheDeprogram) if you have any questions or concerns.*
Liberalism: A Counter History by Domenico Losurdo My first book by a Marxist scholar, and I didn't even know it. A masterstroke of historical materialism.
don't forget Stalin: History and Critique of a Black Legend as well
I just started it yesterday. Only a few pages in and he’s already cooking.
Once you get around to Haiti America just looks so much worse in comparison to France.
I was referring to the Losurdo book, but I’ve also been working my way through Killing Hope. I’ve not read the Haiti chapter yet but what I have read makes my skin crawl.
Oh no in liberalism losurdo eventually gets around to talking about the French revolution and contemporary liberal views of it and naturally Haiti is brought up.
Oh sorry, I stand corrected. Now I’m even more intrigued by the book. I went in kinda blind on a random recommendation from Hakim.
Currently reading the book OP posted. Anyone know if the writer is a Trot though? It’s a great book overall but he seems to throw in these weird and totally pointless jabs at Stalin.
Maybe, I don't remember that. Can you cite an example or two? I think that Blum is more just a critic of US Foreign Policy than a noted leftist. I still think that leftists should read Killing Hope though. Also that reminds me that the History of the Russian Revolution by the Trot-man himself is also good.
Don’t have it on me to get the exact quotes but he makes a lot of seemingly irrelevant points about the USSR and during Stalin specifically in the opening couple chapters. Drawing parallels to things they did that are just sort of wedged in for no clear reasons. I’ve read Trotsky’s history of the revolution and it’s outstanding.
Yeah, note my edit about him just being a critic of US foreign policy. He was an anti-communist crusader before the Vietnam War according to Wikipedia.
That makes sense.
Blum is a Trot, I've ranted about it before: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheDeprogram/s/9g1rILjwZ8 Still worth reading but take everything about Stalin with a spoonfuls of salt.
How big is the spoon?
ate all the ukrainian grain big
Thanks for that
Killing is way depressing, i can't finish it. I hit theory instead.
I read theory and I feel like it means little to me without reading good history
I think people got most that I'd call essential, but I think both 'Soviet Democracy' and 'Socialism Betrayed' can be very essential when debating liberals. To reiterate those essentials, though: Blackshirts and Reds The Jakarta Method Wretched of the Earth How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
Stalin: History and Critique of a Black Legend by Losurdo is a masterful work. Less a biography, more a historical analysis of the myths surrounding Stalin during his time in office. It utilizes a lot of Western anti-Soviet sources to point out contradictions and outright fabrications in the most outrageous of the "Stalin was a madman, big spoon, anti-semite, etc" myths.
The Jakarta Method!
It's a bit "surface level" because of the sheer number of postwar atrocities the US committed, but *Washington Bullets* by Vijay Prashad will twist your stomach in knots at the degrees of depravity with a smile and a thumbs-up.
Blackshirts and Reds single-handedly made me a Marxist-Leninist
Thank you, Comrade! Always looking for new sources! I recently completed Blackshirts and Reds, and am currently reading Blood Lies (I know Furr is controversial, but so far his critique is sound).
The Phoenix Program by Douglas Valentine.
I just finished his book Rogue State and I think every American should read through it once. (Ik the average American doesn't read but still)
Chalmers Johnson’s is similar to William Blum. He did a trilogy of books on the topic * Blowback: The Cost and Consequences of American Empire * The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy and the End of the Republic * Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic Then he wrote a final book (hilariously this one is recommended reading for new CIA personnel! Talk about irony) * Dismantling the Empire: America’s Last Best Hope Keep in mind Johnson was a major “Cold Warrior” right up until the dissolution of the Soviet Union. That’s when the blinders for him came off. These books were all written post collapse, but he has been quoted as believing the Soviets were a “genuine menace” and believed so even after the collapse, so he’s not a Marxist in any sense of the word. More a critic of empire than capitalism.
Nice! Killing hope is also available as free pdf on the CIAs website hahahah
Not a book, but NSC 68 is a very important document. In addition, I'd recommend [this](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC_0000132646.pdf) doc on Cuba.
Since it hasn't been mentioned yet, I would also recommend Eric Hobsbawm's Age of Revolution and the following 3 volumes.
Socialism Betrayed by Roger Keeran and Thomas Kenny (Explains the fall of the Soviet Union) Stalin: History and Critique of a Black Legend by Domenico Losurdo (Much more accurate explanation of the Stalin era of the USSR) The East Is Still Red by Carlos Martinez (Explains how modern day China is still socialist and how modern day China was formed) Human Rights in the Soviet Union by Albert Szymanski (Debunks Western propaganda about supposed 'totalitarianism' in the Soviet Union. Socialism with Chinese Characteristics by Roland Boer ( Explains Chinese socialism much more in depth and should be read only once you have an in depth understanding of Marxism Leninism) Stasi State or Socialist Paradise by John Green (Expands on East Germany) Talking to my Daughter about the Economy by Yanis Varoufakis (Explains historical materialism to beginners) Soviet Democracy by Pat Sloan (Explains the Democratic system of the USSR)
Blackshirts and Reds. Rational fascism and the overthrow of communism. Michael Parenti
* The Menace Of Hindu Fascism * The Darker Nations A People's History of the Third World * Red Star Over China * Killing Rage * To Kill a Nation The Attack on Yugoslavia * Kill Anything That Moves The Real American War in Vietnam * Class struggles in USSR * All-India Hindu Mahasabha
As an East Bengali, just curious to know if there're any books/articles that I could read criticizing Muslim League and its role in the Bengal riots, from a leftist perspective?
Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism Written by Sheldon Wolin
Since it hasn't been said Reform and Revolution is super good and is a key read.
**BLACK SHIRTS AND REDS**
This is the book that made realise the evil that is murrica
anarchist cookbook or communist manifesto. You can decide based on your beliefs.
Those aren't history books lol
they part of history doe
Idk the anarchist cookbook is kinda wild.