One comrade's recommended reading list for 2011Paul Mattick, Anti-Bolshevik Communism
Keith Graham, The Battle of Democracy
Nigel Harris, National Liberation
Martin Oppenheimer, The Urban Guerilla
Michael Harrington, The Accidental Century
George Lichtheim, Imperialism
Richard Gombin, The Origins of Modern Leftism
John Westergaard & Henrietta Resler, Class in a Capitalist Society
GEM de Ste Croix, The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World
CB Macpherson, The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism
EP Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class
Joel Carmichael, A Short History of the Russian Revolution
David McLellan, Karl Marx. His Life and Thought
M. Rubel and M. Manale, Marx without Myth
Francis Wheen, Karl Marx
Keith Graham, Marx Our Contemporary
Paul Thomas, Karl Marx and the Anarchists
Ernest Mandel, Marxist Economic Theory Vol 1 [but not Volume 2!]
John Quail, The Slow Burning Fuse
Stuart Macintyre, A Proletarian Science
David A Perrin, The Socialist Party of Great Britain
Alexander Allard, The Human Imperative
Ashley Montagu (ed), Man and Aggression
Rose, Lewontin & Kamin, Not in Our Genes
JAC Brown, The Social Psychology of Industry
And of course the classics:
Engels, Socialism Utopian and Scientific
Marx and Engels (ed C.J. Arthur), The German Ideology Part One
Bottomore and Rubel, Karl Marx, Selected Writings in Sociology and Social Philosophy.
Karl Kautsky, The Dictatorship of the Proletariat
Louis Boudin, The Theoretical System of Karl Marx
Readers are free and very welcome to add their own suggestions at comments
If you fancy getting your teeth into all 4 volumes of Marx's Capital in the new year this book is the best introduction going:
ReplyDelete'Marx's Capital' by Ben Fine & Alfredo Saad-Filho (ISBN 978-0745330167)
Curious to see Slow Burning Fuse listed. I read it years ago, and I'm not really sure where it fits in with the rest of the reading list.
ReplyDeleteThe book that I hope to see appear in 2011 is Quail's next book. His long anticipated history of Solidarity.
Judging by Mandels introductions to 'Capital' I don't think I'd recommend reading him.
ReplyDeleteInstead read Ben Fine & Alfredo Saad-Filho's 'Marx's Capital' a new edition is out this year.