#1 Reading List | American Communist Party
(September 2024 - January 2025)
Classics
• Marx and Engels: Manifesto of the • Mao: “Against Book Worshiping”
Communist Party • Deng: “Mao Zedong Thought Must
• Marx: “Preface” to A Contribution to Be Correctly Understood as an
the Critique of Political Economy Integral Whole”
• Marx: Wage Labor and Capital • Deng: “Realize the Four
• Engels: “Letters on Historical Modernizations and Never Seek
Materialism” Hegemony”
• Engels: Ludwig Feuerbach • Deng: “Hold High the Banner of
• Engels: Socialism: Utopian and Mao Zedong Thought and Adhere to
Scientific the Principle of Seeking Truth from
• Engels: “On Authority” Facts”
• Lenin: “On the Question of • Deng: “Emancipate the Mind, Seek
Dialectics” Truth from Facts and Unite as One in
• Lenin: “The Sources and Three Looking to the Future”
Component Parts of Marxism” • Deng: “Uphold the Four Cardinal
• Lenin: “Karl Marx: A Brief Principles”
Biographical Sketch with an • Deng: “To Build Socialism We Must
Exposition of Marxism” First Develop the Productive Forces”
• Lenin: Ch. 1 of State and Revolution • Deng: “Building a Socialism with a
• Lenin: Imperialism: The Highest Specifically Chinese Character”
Stage of Capitalism
Contemporary
• Lenin: Left-Wing Communism: An
Infantile Disorder • Parenti: Blackshirts and Reds
• Lenin: “Imperialism and the Split in • Keeran and Kenny: Socialism
Socialism” Betrayed: Behind the Collapse of the
• Stalin: Foundations of Leninism Soviet Union
• Stalin: “Dialectical and Historical • Boer: Socialism with Chinese
Materialism” Characteristics: A Guide for
• Dimitrov: “On Fascism: Speech at Foreigners
the Seventh World Congress of the • Enfu: “Five Characteristics of Neo-
Communist International” Imperialism”
• Mao: On Contradiction • Hudson: “Finance Capitalism versus
• Mao: “On Practice” Industrial Capitalism: The Rentier
• Mao: “Where do Correct Ideas Come Resurgence and Takeover”
From” • Garrido: The Purity Fetish and the
• Mao: “The Mass Line” in Quotations Crisis of Western Marxism
(Little Red Book) • Garrido: Why We Need American
• Mao: “Combat Liberalism” Marxism
