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Introductory Commie reading/watch list

This page contains some relevant digital information debunking capitalist, fascist, neo-liberal and so on propaganda and misinformation, which I find to be good introductory material.

If you disagree with something being here, or want to add another entry, be that a book, article or youtube video, PRs are welcome.

To reiterate: this list is not exhaustive, it's introductory.

Some words of advice:

Embrace critical thinking and steer clear of doomerism. While this advice might seem clichéd, it bears repeating. I've placed it in a details container to avoid annoying those who may not be interested.

Chances are, you've experienced the discomfort of being misinformed at some point. That's perfectly normal, as long as you acknowledge and accept when you're wrong. The world is in a constant state of change, and those who deny this follow a metaphysical, idealistic worldview.

Such a perspective is convenient for oppressors, as it implies their power is eternal. However, history has shown that even absolutist monarchs can be stripped of their power, and the same can be done with the bourgeoisie who oppress us today.

Remember, there is no unchanging human nature; we are shaped by our environment. To understand and challenge the status quo, employ the Marxist method of dialectical materialism. When applied correctly, it consistently leads to accurate conclusions. Additionally, cultivate class consciousness by recognizing your place in the socio-economic structure and understanding the dynamics between different classes. This awareness is crucial for collective action and meaningful change.

Books

If you find a version of a Book not linked below, please open a PR.

  • How Marxism Works - Chris Harman PDF | Audiobook
  • Principles of Communism - Marx & Engels HTML | PDF | Audiobook
  • Wage Labour and Capital HTML | PDF | Audiobook
  • Value, Price and Profit - Marx HTML | PDF | Audiobook
  • he Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism - Lenin HTML | PDF | Audiobook
  • Imperialism, the highest stage of capitalism - Lenin HTML | PDF | Audiobook
  • Elementary Principles of Philosophy - Georges Politzer PDF | Audiobook
  • Manifesto of the Communist Party - Marx & Engels PDF | Audiobook
  • The state and revolution - Lenin HTML | PDF | Audiobook
  • Zionist Colonialism in Palestine - Fayez A. Sayegh HTML
  • Dialectical and Historical Materialism - Stalin HTML | PDF | Audiobook
  • The Revolutionary East and the Next Tasks of the Communist International - Pak Chin-sun HTML | Audiobook
  • Combat Liberalism - Mao Zedong HTML | Audiobook
  • Articles

  • Taiwan: An Anti-Imperialist Resource - Qiao Collective
  • Socialism with Chinese Characteristics—Introductory Study Guide - Qiao Collective
  • Xinjiang: A Report and Resource Compilation - Qiao Collective
  • Hong Kong Reading List - Qiao Collective
  • Another View of Tiananmen - Sun Feiyang, Roderic Day
  • Youtube

  • Debunking Every Anti-Communist Argument Ever - Spooky Scary Socialist
  • The Only Leftist Reading List You'll Ever Need (lol) - Hakim
  • Communism is when no food (debunking every anti-communist talking point) - Hakim
  • "Socialism always fails" is a stupid argument - Hakim
  • What About Venezuela? Socialism Fails Every time- DEBUNKED - Midwestern Marx
  • Capitalism Really Sucks, But Why? - Hakim
  • Liberalism is a death cult - Hakim
  • Neoliberalism Explained: Its Theory, Practice, and Consequences - BadEmpanada
  • Why "Hearing Both Sides" Is Dangerous - Second Thought
  • Karl Marx's ENTIRE Theory Simply Explained in 48 Minutes - Red Pen
  • What Can We Do About Fascism? - Elliot Sang
  • Capitalism’s Final Form: The Billionaire Apocalypse - Elliot Sang
  • Why Capitalism can't handle crises. - YUGOPNIK
  • Why Would Anyone Work Under Socialism? - Second Thought
  • “Yeah Capitalism Is Bad…But What Can We Do?” - Second Thought
  • Free Stuff is Good, Actually - Unlearning Economics
  • How Economists Just Make Stuff Up - BadEmpanada
  • Why Social Democracy Isn't Good Enough Second Thought
  • Social-Democracy Can't Fix Capitalism - TheFinnishBolshevik
  • Health care doesn’t have to be like this. - Elliot Sang
  • This is why you're poor - Second Thought
  • The Reason You're Poor (it's more than just taxes) - Hakim
  • The Myth Of The "Self-Made" Billionaire - Second Thought
  • Why Billionaire Philantorphy won't solve anything - Second Thought
  • When Billionaires Fund Science Education - The Hated One
  • Billionaire Foundation - The Most Immoral Charity In The World - The Hated One
  • The Fed's Money "Printing" Explained - The Hated One
  • How The Most Corrupt Bank In The World Got Away With Everything - The Hated One
  • No, Kurzgesagt, We WON'T Fix Climate Change - The Danger of Fake Optimism - BadEmpanada
  • How Kurzgesagt Cooks Propaganda For Billionaires - The Hated One
  • You've Never Had an Original Thought (Media Manipulation and "Freedom" of the Press) - Hakim
  • Why Capitalism Will Always Fail (Capitalism's In-Built Self-Destruct; The Falling Rate of Profit) - Hakim
  • The Myth of Capitalist Peace - Second Thought
  • America Never Stood For Freedom - Hakim
  • Every Leader The US Has Assassinated - Hakim
  • Is The Us a Police State? - Second Thought
  • This is how the government robs the innocent | Civil Asset Forfeiture - The Hated One
  • The United Kingdom Is a Dystopian S*!THOLE! - The Hated One
  • Why copyright makes no sense | The case against intellectual property - The Hated One
  • If China steals IP, why doesn't it have KFC's recipe? - Jerry's Take on China
  • Why The US Prison System Is The Worst In The Developed World - Second Thought
  • Why are Americans so afraid of Socialism? The Red Scare analyzed. - YUGOPNIK
  • The USA and Cuba: A Colonial Relationship - Antonio Alexander
  • The Cuban Embargo Explained - azureScapegoat
  • The U.S. Embargo on Cuba Is MUCH WORSE Than It Seems - BadEmpanada
  • How Democracy Works in Cuba - azureScapegoat
  • How Cuba Works - BadEmpanada
  • The Truth About The Cuba Protests - Second Thought
  • Has Cuba Turned Capitalist? - azureScapegoat
  • Why They Hate The USA: CUBA - Hakim
  • Does North Korea Hate America? - Hakim
  • The Tiananmen Square "Massacre" Never Happened - Hakim
  • How Capitalism Destroyed Russia - Second Thought
  • The Crumbling of Modern Russia - Hakim
  • Why is Ukraine doing so badly? - Hakim
  • The Trap of Decommunization. Ukraine, Yugoslavia, war. - YUGOPNIK
  • Capitalism in the Third Reich: Economics of WW2 Germany - Fredda
  • How shoving a bottle up a farmer's a** caused the fall of Yugoslavia | Weird History - Hakim
  • We Need To Talk About "Authoritarianism" - Second Thought
  • A Summary of Xi Jinping's Governance of China - Red Pen
  • Sweatshops or Workers Rights in China? - Jerry's Take on China
  • Can Chinese people complain? Of course they can. So, why don't they? - Jerry's Take on China
  • Free Speech in China. Yes... Which is banned in USA: the KKK or the Communist Party? - Jerry's Take on China
  • China Is BY FAR the ‘Lesser Evil’ Great Power vs the USA – And This Won't Change - BadEmpanadaLive
  • Is the USA a Force for Good in the World? - BadEmpanada
  • Americans Are Being Watched (and it’s getting worse) - Second Thought
  • Silicon Valley Is Building The Future Of War...And It's Horrifying - First Thought
  • Autonomous Weapons Are Unstoppable - The Hated One
  • The World's Next Battleground - First Thought
  • Why China isn't really a surveillance state - Jerry's Take on China
  • The US Empire Is In Decline - First Thought
  • The Internet Is Running Out of Water - The Hated One
  • Australia Has Turned Into a Dystopian Police State - The Hated One
  • UBI is kinda stupid, really - Hakim
  • Why you are wrong about Universal Basic Income | The power of AI within the hands of the few - The Hated One
  • Why Are You So Sad? - Hakim
  • Stupid propaganda against Hungarian communism - TheFinnishBolshevik
  • Revolution Today: The Philippines | National Democratic Revolution - Marxism Today
  • Irish Socialist Republicanism - Marxism Today
  • Revolution Today: India | New Democracy - Marxism Today
  • Christopher Columbus: What He REALLY Did and Said - BadEmpanada
  • Knowing Better Columbus AGAIN - Response to Knowing Better's 'Response' - BadEmpanada
  • The Truth About Columbus - Knowing Better Refuted - BadEmpanada
  • PragerU's Columbus Kindergarten Class - BadEmpanada
  • Crimea vs Taiwan: Who Gets Self-Determination? - BadEmpanada
  • The Truth About China's Renewable Revolution - First Thought
  • Can This Small Country Become An Energy Superpower? - Hakim
  • Honest Government Ad | Net Zero (feat. Greta Thunberg) - thejuicemedia
  • Anti Palestine TikTok - Noah Samsen
  • Why Palestine Must Be Free - Our Changing Climate
  • Gaza Death Toll Denial Debunked - BadEmpanada
  • How to Defend Genocide - BadEmpanada
  • October 7th: The Real History - BadEmpanada
  • The Truth About Israel - It's Not Just Netanyahu - BadEmpanada
  • Jewish Exceptionalism, Liberal Zionism, Jewish Supremacy - How YOU Inadvertently Support Israel - BadEmpanada
  • The New Anti-Semitism: The Arab Global Conspiracy - BadEmpanada
  • The Appeal to Jewishness Fallacy, Explained & Dismantled - BadEmpanada
  • Were Israel’s Actions in the Gaza War Justified? Eylon Levy vs. Mehdi Hasan - Open to Debate
  • Refuting Vaush's Neoliberal Propaganda - The 'Leftist' Margaret Thatcher - BadEmpanadaLive
  • Ethan Klein: Weaponizing Anti-Semitism for Genocide - BadEmpanadaLive
  • Content Tsar Bomba - Ethan Klein - BadEmpanada
  • You Can't Be Pro-Palestine and Anti-Resistance - BadEmpanadaLive
  • What Nasrallah Actually Wanted for Palestine - BadEmpanada
  • Why Germany Is More Israeli than Israel - Indie Nile
  • The Hypocrisy of Mehdi Hasan - Radio Free America
  • How Societies Turn Cruel - Three Arrows
  • How American Fire Departments are Getting People Killed - Not Just Bikes
  • How the U.S. Keeps Losing its Wars - Three Arrows
  • The Iraq War WAS About Oil - Response to Kraut, GDF & Johnny Harris - BadEmpanada
  • Germany Was Never Denazified - Antonio Alexander
  • Israel Is Going To Implode - First Thought
  • Diversity in World War 2 - Three Arrows
  • There was never a "Hitler-Stalin" Pact - Hakim
  • Is Vietnam socialist? - Luna oi!
  • Correcting emmablackery on North Korea (With Raven & The Hammer and Sickle) - TheFinnishBolshevik
  • How the media lies about North Korea (with RiSKich) - TheFinnishBolshevik
  • What If North Korea was a Democracy? - Hakim
  • Dispelling Myths about North Korea - Colorado NCTA
  • Soviet Government & Electoral System - TheFinnishBolshevik
  • Marxist Responds to Zizek vs Peterson Debate - TheFinnishBolshevik
  • Jordan Peterson Is Everything He Criticizes (And Can't Read) - Hakim
  • Rich Socialists - YUGOPNIK
  • Capitalism is ruining your love life. | The Commodification of Love, Romance, and the Family. - YUGOPNIK
  • our conception of love is messed up. - oliSUNvia
  • Why Leftists Can't Enjoy Anything - YUGOPNIK
  • Everything You Own Is Made By One Single Company - Hakim
  • The Problem With the European Union - 1Dime Radio
  • EU: Imperialist Capitalism - TheFinnishBolshevik
  • The EU is Bad, Actually | Left-Wing Perspective - Marxism Today
  • Capitalist arguments against the labor theory of value suck (Explaining the LTOV) - Socialism 101 - Hakim
  • Socialism is just better, scientifically - Hakim
  • Smug zoomer conservative doesn't know what Socialism is - Hakim
  • Ghost Towns: The Silent Depopulation of Eastern Europe - Hakim
  • Former Socialism's Faults - Hakim
  • Socialism Is Better Than Capitalism...Right? - Hakim
  • Explaining stuff about Socialism that confuses you (WATCH THIS, L I B E R A L) - Socialism 101 - Hakim
  • Kraut - Using Liberal Political Theory Instead of History - Fredda
  • The Socialist guide to surviving in Capitalism | Doing well isn't treason. - YUGOPNIK
  • HOW SOCIALISM IN THE SOVIET UNION WORKED (1917-1953) - Comrade Rhys
  • US may be rich but China is better off - Jerry's Take on China
  • Why Capitalism Loves Doomers - Second Thought
  • Do you have more free speech in US or China? - Trip Britten
  • The Holodomor Genocide Question: How Wikipedia Lies to You - BadEmpanada
  • I've Been DEBUNKED - My Response on the Holodomor Genocide Question - BadEmpanada
  • Antifeminism VS FACTS - hbomberguy
  • Gen Z Deserves Better - Elliot Sang
  • Small Talk is Good, Actually - Elliot Sang
  • Why is Everyone so Mean?
  • How The US Took Over The World - Second Thought
  • Libya: How To Kill a Nation - Hakim
  • How the Right Lies about Black Crime Stats - Hakim
  • Breadtube, Debate-Bros, and The Problems of The Western Left - Hakim
  • THIS is What I Found in Xinjiang CHINA: I was WARNED Not to Come Here - Danny Haipong
  • Responding to a response on my take on Xinjiang - Radio Free America
  • 10 worst mass killers, regimes and dictators - TheFinnishBolshevik
  • Why is the West So Rich? - Hakim
  • The US Empire Is In Decline - First Thought
  • How 'Terrorism' Became a Dirty Word - BadEmpanada
  • You Will Be Okay. You Have No Choice. - Elliot Sang
  • Singapore: The Real Ba Sing Se - Elliot Sang
  • China's Poverty Alleviation is VERY Real - Jerry's Take on China
  • Poverty Alleviation: China's modernisation Part 1 of 3 - Jerry's Take on China
  • Why Housing Keeps Getting More Expensive - Second Thought
  • Aesthetics of Evil - The Nazi Salute - YUGOPNIK
  • Was Every German Soldier Evil? - Three Arrows
  • Did Oil Make Norway Rich? - Fredda
  • The Environmental Disaster No One Knows About - Boy Boy
  • When An Indian Historian Lashed Out At The West - Brut India
  • The man who "brought down" the Soviet Union was a terrible human being - Hakim
  • Why Is Elon Musk Like That? - Second Thought
  • China State Sponsored Hackers... or are they? - Jerry's Take on China
  • China is a Dictatorship - there's no denying it anymore Jerry's Take on China
  • Did Xi make himself president for life - or not - Jerry's Take on China
  • Crime and Punishment in China - Jerry's Take on China
  • How Trump Will Destroy The US Economy - First Thought
  • Key Lessons for Socialists - Summary of Lenin's "Left Communism" - Red Pen
  • State and Revolution (Summary of Ch. 1-3) - Red Pen
  • State and Revolution (Summary of Ch. 4-6) - Red Pen
  • The Story Behind the Famous Photo of Che Guevara - Red Pen
  • The History & Political Economy of Mao's China - Red Pen
  • The Century of Humiliation - Red Pen