The following study guide was originally published by The Marxist-Leninist news blog:
“The essential conditions for the existence and for the sway of the bourgeois class is the formation and augmentation of capital; the condition for capital is wage-labour. Wage-labour rests exclusively on competition between the labourers. The advance of industry, whose involuntary promoter is the bourgeoisie, replaces the isolation of the labourers, due to competition, by the revolutionary combination, due to association. The development of Modern Industry, therefore, cuts from under its feet the very foundation on which the bourgeoisie produces and appropriates products. What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable.” – Marx & Engels, Manifesto of the Communist Party
Basic and Essential readings
- Wage-Labor and Capital by Karl Marx
- Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism by V. I. Lenin
Supplementary readings
- Value, Price and Profit by Karl Marx
- Capital by Karl Marx
- Anti-Dühring (Part II: Political Economy) by Frederick Engels
- Marx’s Economic Doctrine by V. I. Lenin
- Outbreak and Causes of the Imperialist War from the History of the CPSU – Short Course
Theory and Tactics of the Bolshevik Party on the Question of War, Peace and Revolution from the History of the CPSU – Short Course - Political Economy: A Beginner’s Course by A. Leontiev (PDFs of chapters1, 2, and 3)
- Imperialism, the Eve of the Socialist Revolution of the Proletariat(Chapter 9 of Leontiev’s Political Economy)
- Imperialism 101 by Michael Parenti
- Imperialist Globalization and the United States by Steff Yorek and Mick Kelly for the National Executive Committee of FRSO
- Capitalism in Crisis: 160 years after the Communist Manifesto by Freedom Road Socialist Organization
- On the Capitalist Crisis videos of a talk by Harpal Brar
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