The Party’s Education
If you are accepted into the party as a candidate member, you will be enrolled into Marxism 101, our introductory course to Marxist theory and practice. It is a 10 week course that covers several essential readings and concepts from dialectical materialism to the dictatorship of the proletariat to the national question and beyond. Passing this course is a requirement for membership.
Reading List for Marxist-Leninist Study
If you are looking to do further reading on Anti-Revisionism, Communism, or Dialectical Materialism, the following are the texts we often read in Marxism 101 and are considered essential in studying Marxism-Leninism.
V. I. Lenin:
The Rights of Nations to Self-Determination
Imperialism, The Highest Stage of Capitalism
''Left-Wing'' Communism, An Infantile Disorder
Draft Thesis on National and Colonial Questions
Tactics of the Class Struggle of the Proletariat
Economics and Politics in the Era of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat
Enver Hoxha:
For the Continuous Improvement of the Composition of the Party and its Growth
Invigoration of the Life of the Party
Imperialism and the Revolution
Eurocommunism is Anti-Communism
Reject the Revisionist Thesis of the 20th Congress
The Marxist-Leninist Movement and the World Crisis of Capitalism
Theory and Practice of the Revolution
Yugoslav "Self-Administration" - Capitalist Theory and Practice
Selected works from other authors:
The following publications are works that we consider informative for Marxist-Leninist theoretical development and historical understanding. We may not endorse the entire canon of each of these writers.
Bill Bland - The Restoration of Capitalism in the Soviet Union
Bill Bland - Principles of Marxism-Leninism: A Study Course
William Z. Foster - Letter to the National Committee
William Z. Foster - On the Question of Revisionism
William Z. Foster - The Struggle Against Revisionism
Grover Furr - The Murder of Sergei Kirov: History, Scholarship and the Anti-Stalin Paradigm
Georg Lukács - History & Class Consciousness
Ho Chi Minh - Some Considerations on the Colonial Question
Kwame Nkrumah - Neo-Colonialism, the Last Stage of Imperialism
John Reed - Ten Days that Shook the World
Palmiro Togliatti - Lectures on Fascism
Mao Zedong - Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan — Not a theoretical work, but worth reading for insight into who Mao was as a person.
Online resources:
PCMLE: The Class Nature of the Communist Party — An analysis of revisionism within communist parties, and how to combat and address current problems in the movement.
Marxist-Leninist Currents — A theoretical journal of the American Party of Labor.
The Real Stalin Series — An exhaustive overview of the various anti-communist myths, attacks, and slanders against Stalin, prepared by the late Dennis "Klo" McKinsey.
The Espresso Stalinist Online Library — A collection of freely downloadable mostly book-length PDFs on a wide variety of issues relating to world Communism.
Soviet Revisionism — An in-depth analysis of Soviet revisionism and social-imperialism.
Chinese Revisionism — An outline of the case against Dengism and Socialism with Chinese Characteristics.
Marxist-Leninist Translations — A large collection of translated works from international Marxist-Leninist parties.