By Any Means Necessary: Study Guide for Revolutionary Marxism

I have cobbled this study guide together from a variety of sources as an introduction to my own personal Marxist leanings, which at this time I have decided do not fall into anyone sect. Rather it is a revolutionary socialism that borrows from a wide range of Marxist and Marxian thought, including those that many would think could not be put together, like Luxemburg, Trotsky and Mao. The list is a mix of articles and books, with most of the articles and some of the books having links to the full-text versions. Also, some of the books have links to partial transcriptions or summaries of the books.

I have decided to try and split them into different categories, though as should be expected, there is considerable overlap in some places.

(I'd also like to credit Comradezero's, of the Marxist-Leninist, study for Marxism-Leninism as being the skeleton upon which I have constructed my own, distinct guide)

Introduction to Revolutionary Marxism:

Manifesto of the C ommunist Party by Marx & Engels
Principles of Communism by Frederick Engels
Karl Marx: A Brie f Biographical Sketch With an Exposition of Marxism by V. I. Lenin
The Three Sources and T hree Componen t Parts of Marxism by V. I. Lenin
The Lessons of October by Leon Trotsky
The Third International After Lenin by Leon Trotsky
In Defense of October by Leon Trotsky

Marxist Philosophy & Dialectical and Historical Materialism:

Letters on Diale ctics by Marx and Engels
Ludwig Feuerbach & the End of Classical German Philosophy by Frederick Engels
The Marxist Doctrine by V. I. Lenin
Materialism and Empirio-Criticism by V. I. Lenin
On t he Question of Dialectics by V. I. Lenin
Class Consciousness by Georg Lukács
Marxism and Philosophy by Karl Korsch
The Study of Philosophy by Antonio Gramsci
On Practice by Mao Zedong
On Contradiction by Mao Zedong
Where Do Correct Ideas Come From? by Mao Zedong
On Marxism by Louis Althusser
For Marx by Louis Althusser
Lenin and Philosophy by Louis Althusser
Philosophy as a Revolutionary Weapon by Louis Althusser
Lenin before Hegel by Louis Althusser
Mao Zedong: the Marxist Lord of Misrule by Slavoj Zizek *
An Essential Philosophical Thesis: It is Right to Rebel Again st the Re actionaries by Alain Badiou

* - Should be read in conjunction with Mao's works

Political Economy of Capitalism:

Wage-Labor and Capital by Karl Marx
Value, Pric e and Profit by Karl Marx
Preface to Capital Volume One by Louis Althusser *
Reading “Capital” by Louis Althusser & Étienne Balibar *
Capital, Vol 1 by Karl Marx
Capital, Vol 2 by Karl Marx
Capital, Vol 3 by Karl Marx
Marx’s Economic Doctrine by V. I. Lenin
Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism by V. I. Lenin
Imperialism and the Split in Socialism by V. I. Lenin
The Accumulation of Capital by Rosa Luxemburg

* - Read these two pieces BEFORE reading Capital

Marxist Theory of the State, Dictatorship & Democracy:

Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State by Frederick Engels *
The State and Revolution by V. I. Lenin
The State by V. I. Lenin
“Democracy” and Dictator ship by V. I. Lenin
Bourgeois and Proletarian Democracy by V. I. Lenin
Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses by Louis Althusser
Terrorism and Communism by Leon Trotsky
The Modern Prince by Antonio Gramsci
State and Civil Society by Antonio Gramsci
Thomas Jefferson, or, the Transition of Democracy by Michael Hardt **

* - This piece by Engels forms the basis for the pieces by Lenin
** - Should be read alongside Lenin's work on the state

International Proletarian Revolution:

The Civil War in France by Karl Marx
Marxism and Insurrection by V. I. Lenin
Marxism and Reformism by V. I. Lenin
Should We Participate in Bourgeois Parliaments? by V. I. Lenin
The Transitional Program for Socialist Revol ution by Leon Trotsky
The Permanent Revolution by Leon Trotsky
Reform or Revolution by Rosa Luxemburg
Socialism and Political Reformers by James Connolly
Why Do the Yankees Hate the Cuban Revolution? by Fidel Castro
Guerrilla Warfare by Che Guevara
Guerrilla War, A Method by Che Guevara
Message to the Tricontinental by Che Guevara
Marxism and Direct Action by Phil Mitcheson

Revolutionary Organization:

Against Personality Cults (Marx to Wilhelm Blos) by Karl Marx
On Authority by Frederick Engels
What Is To Be Done? Burning Questions of our Movement by V. I. Lenin
On Terms of Admission into the Communist International by V. I. Lenin
Statement of Principles by the Socialist Party USA
Unity Statement by the Freedom Road Socialist Organization
Which Way Is Left? Theory, Politics, O rganization a nd 21st-Century Socialism by the Freedom Road Socialist Organization
A Rainbow Coalition the Second Time Around by the Freedom Road Socialist Organization
Solidarity Founding Statement by Solidarity
Socialist Organization Today by Solidarity
Why Socialists Need Organization by Solidarity
Regroupment & Refoundation of a U.S. Left - An Introduction by Solidarity

Methods of Leadership, Methods of Work & the Mass Line:

Some Questions Concer ning Methods of Leadership by Mao Zedong
Rectify the Party’s Style of Work by Mao Zedong
A Talk to the Editorial Staff of the Sha nsi -Suiyuan Daily by Mao Zedong
The Question of Independence and Initiative Within the United Front by Mao Zedong
Organizing Lessons from Civil Rights Leader Ella Baker by Chris Crass
The Left On the Threshold Of the Twenty First Century: Making the Impossible Possible by Marta Harnecker
Some Points on the Mass Line by the Freedom Road Socialist Organization

Socialist Political Economy & Working-Class Hegemony:

Critique of the Gotha Progr am me by Karl Marx
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific by Frederick Engels
Economics And Politics In The Era Of The Dictatorship Of The Proletariat by V. I. Lenin
The Economic Basis of the Withering Away of the State by V. I. Lenin
State Monopoly versus Socialism by James Connolly
The Difficulties of Socialism by James Connolly
Industrial Unionism and Constructive Socialism by James Connolly
The Two Souls of Socialism by Hal Draper
On the Correct Handling of C ontradictions Among the Peop le by Mao Zedong
Concerning ‘Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR’ by Mao Zedong
Critique of Stalin’s ‘Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR’ by Mao Zedong
Socialism and Man in Cuba by Ernesto Che Guevara

Ideological Struggle:

On Anarchism by Marx and Engels
Anti-Dühring by Frederick Engels
Marxism and Revisionism by V. I. Lenin
How Kautsky Turned Marx Into A Common Lib eral by V. I. Lenin
The Revolution Betrayed by Leon Trotsky
Comba t Liberalism by Mao Zedong
Marxism and Anarchism: The Philosophical Roots of the Marx-Bakunin Conflict by Ann Robertson *
A Better World Is Possible With Socialism by Ann Robertson
Noam Chomsky and Marxism: On the Roots of Modern "Authoritaria nism" by Heiko Khoo*
The Celia Hart Controversy - Stalinism or Leninism by Alan Woods
Workers' Control or Workers' Participation? by Ted Grant
Bureaucratism or Workers' Power by Ted Grant and Roger Silverman
Toward a Critical Reassessment of Maoism by the Freedom Road Socialist Organization
What Maoism Has Contributed by Samir Amin
Action Will Be Taken': Left Anti-intellectualism and Its Discontents by Liza Featherstone, Doug Henwood, and Christian Parenti
Freedom Road Socialist Organization Frequently Asked Questions (question on religion) by the Freedom Road Socialist Organization

* - Link is to the first part of a two part piece

The Anti-Colonial Struggle:

The Right of Nations to Self-Determination by V. I. Lenin
What is Internationalism? by V. I. Lenin
Draft Theses on National and Colonial Questions by V. I. Lenin
Socialism and Nationalism by James Connolly
Neo-Colonialism, the Last Stage of Imperialism by Kwame Nkrumah
African Socialism Revisited by Kwame Nkrumah
Preface to “Wretched of the Earth” by Jean-Paul Sartre
The Wretched of the Earth by Franz Fanon *
Towards the African Revolution by Frantz Fanon
U.S. imperialism is guilty of aggression in Vietnam by Che Guevara
Create Two, Three, Many Vietnams by Che Guevara
The Weapon of Theory by Amilcar Cabral
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney
Marxism, Nationalism and National Struggles Today by David McNally
Ho Chi Minh: the Communist as Nationalist by Walden Bello
The New Imperialism: Crisis and Contradictions in North/South Relations by Robert Biel
Imperialism 101 by Michael Parenti

Combating Racial and National Oppression:

The Struggle for the Leninist Position on the Negro Question in the United States by Harry Haywood
Negro Liberation by Harry Haywood
For A Revolutionary Position on the Negro Ques tion by Harry Haywood
Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon
Oppose Racial Discrimination by U.S. Imperialism by Mao Zedong
The Ballot or the Bullet by Malcolm X
A Message to the Grassroots by Malcolm X
Summary of the Argument of The Invention of the White Race by Theodore Allen
The Struggle for Chicano Liberation by the League of Revolutionary Struggle
A Program For Political Direction, National Consciousness Raising, And Mexicano Liberation by Unión del Barrio
J. Sakai’s Settlers and Anti-Racist Working-Class Politi cs by Sebastian Lamb
Unity Statement on National Oppression, National Liberation and Socialist Revolution by the Freedom Road Socialist Organization
Tortured People-Speaking to White Oppressors by Howard Adams
Red Power in the 60s by Howard Adams
Neocolonialism and the First Nations by Howard Adams
The Cost of Privilege: Taking On the System of White Supremacy and Racism
What Should White People Do? by Linda Martín-Alcoff

Women's Liberation and Socialism:

History of the Movement of Women Workers in Russia by Alexandra Kollontai
Only in Conjunction With the Proletarian Woman Will Socialism Be Victorious by Clara Zetkin
Lenin on the Women’s Question by Clara Zetkin
Women’s Suffrage and Class Struggle by Rosa Luxemburg
Soviet Power and the Status o f Women by V.I. Lenin
Letter to Inessa Armand (January 17, 1915) by V.I. Lenin
Letter to Inessa Armand (January 24, 1915) by V.I. Lenin
The Myth of Women’s Inferiority by Evelyn Reed
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
The Socialist Feminist Project by Nancy Holmstrom
What is Socialist Feminism? by Barbara Ehrenreich
Socialist Feminism: The First Decade, 1966-76 by Gloria Martin
Socialist Feminism: A Strategy for the Women's Movemen t by the Chicago Women's Liberation Union
Sisters, Comrades! by by Kjersti Ericsson
From Abortion Rights to Reproductive Justice by Solidarity
Won't Believe the Hype by the Freedom Road Socialist Organization
Friendly Advice in the Fight against Patriarchy by the Freedom Road Socialist Organization

Marxism and Queer Liberation:

AIDS Hysteria: A Marxist Analysis by Stephen Durham and Dr. Susan Williams
Lesbianism: A Socialist Feminist Perspective by Dr. Susan Williams
Gay Resistance: The Hidden History by by Sam Deaderick and Tamara Turner
On the Frontlines of Lavender Labor History by Su Docekal
The Invention of Heterosexuality by Jonathan Ned Katz
Lavender & Red by the Workers World Party
The Women’s Liberation and Gay Liberation Movements by Huey P. Newton

Ecosocialism:

An Ecosocialist Manifesto by Joel Kovel and Michael Lowy
Population, Climate Control, and the “Eco-Right” by Phil Ward *
Ecology Against Capitalism by John Bellamy Foster
Marx’s Ecology: Materialism and Nature by John Bellamy Foster
The Vulnerable Planet: A Short Economic History of the Environment by John Bellamy Foster
Ecosocialism or Barbarism by Jane Kelly and Sheila Malone
Who Said Marx Wasn't Green by William Bowles
Ecological crises: a priority for the Left in the early 21st Century by the Freedom Road Socialist Organinzation

* - Link is to the first part of a two part piece

The Intersectional Nature of Oppression:

Intersections: Two Talks On the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer Movement and the Fight Against Patriarchy by the Freedom Road Socialist Organization
Women, Race and Class by Angela Davis
The Emancipation of Women: Female Leadership in the Southern Civil Rights Struggle by Clara Fraser
Women of Color: Front-Runners for Freedom by Nancy Reiko Kato
I Am Your Sister: Black Women Organizing Across Sexualities by Audre Lorde

Culture, Education and Marxist Anthropology: