Authors: Nikolai Bukharin and EvgeniÄ PreobrazhenskiÄ
Written as "an elementary textbook of com-munist knowledge", The ABC of Communism carefully explains each aspect of the Bolshevik political line and praxis in 1919. Coupled with the Programme of the Communist Party of Russia itself, this work offers both a great look into Marxism-Leninism and a view into the thoughts of these revolutionaries as they started on the long road to proletarian liberation.
Author: Charles Loren
This work pictures the classes in the U.S. and conducts a lively debate about class versus fashionable substitute categories like occup-ation and income. Using Census and other data in a readable discussion, Loren argues that the working class now makes up 90% of the population, capitalists two percent, and an intermediate class of petty producers eight percent. At the same time, the book analyzes the remarkable survival power of petty bourgeois ideas and attitudes. Among the themes Loren confronts are those dwelling on the new middle class, the new working class, post-industrial society, and petty bourgeois strata.
A successor to Vladimir Lenin's iconic "Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism." Kwame Nkrumah (ex-President of Ghana) analyzes how Imperialism has developed into a new form: Neo-Colonialism, and observes how its functions serve to continue the exploitation of the African continent and her people.
Published in 1948, this is undoubtedly Harry Haywood's most important work. In it, he discusses the Black national question inside the United States through the lens of Marxism-Leninism. He provides a materialist analysis of the Black belt in the south, how it constitutes an oppressed nation within a nation, and why the liberation of Black people is key to the greater liberation struggle of the American working class.