American Party of Labor

Reading List


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. 






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 - Khrushchev Lied

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.