Link to an article by Caitlin Johnstone:
“They’re Launching A New COINTELPRO For The 21st Century”
Bonus link: Punishment Park
Scarlet – You Will Own Nothing
Link to an article by Scarlet:
“You Will Own Nothing: The Age of Rentier Capitalism”
Bonus link: Le Nouvel esprit du capitalisme
Prabhat Patnaik – Neo-Liberalism and The Intelligentsia
Link to an article by Prabhat Patnaik:
“Neo-Liberalism and The Intelligentsia”
Bonus link: “Patriot Front and What Once Was Chocolate City”
Ken Morales – Most Supreme Court Rulings Are Secretive Votes With Little Justification
Link to an article by Ken Morales:
“A Troubling Milestone: Most Supreme Court Rulings Are Secretive Votes With Little Justification”
Marjorie Cohn – Barely Stopping Trump’s Assault on Birthright Citizenship
Link to an article by Marjorie Cohn:
“Barely Stopping Trump’s Assault on Birthright Citizenship”
Bonus links: “The Supreme Court Just Made the Case for Its Own Expansion” and “The Supreme Court Wages Class War”
Essential Left Books and Articles
- Der Ursprung der Familie, des Privateigenthums und des Staats [The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State] (1884), Friedrich Engels
- Государство и революция. Учение марксизма о государстве и задачи пролетариата в революции [The State and the Revolution: The Marxist Doctrine of the State and the Tasks of the Proletariat in the Revolution] (1917), Vladimir Lenin [Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov]
- Les Damnés de la Terre [The Wretched of the Earth] (1961), Frantz Fanon
- Zur Psychopathologie des Alltagslebens [The Psychopathology of Everyday Life] (1901), Sigmund Freud
- Pedagogía del oprimido [Pedagogy of the Oppressed / Pedagogia do Oprimido] (1968), Paulo Freire
- Man Makes Himself (1951 ed. [originally published 1936]), V. Gordon Childe
- Discours sur l’origine et les fondements de l’inégalité parmi les hommes [Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men / Second Discourse] (1755), Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Du contrat social; ou, Principes du droit politique [On the Social Contract; or, Principles of Political Right] (1762), Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- “The Driving Forces of Imperialism” in Spheres of Influence in the Age of Imperialism (1972), Ernest Mandel
- Die Maßnahme [The Measures Taken] (1930), Bertolt Brecht (plus the complete works of Brecht from about 1930 onward)
Others:
- Ten Days that Shook the World (1919), John Reed
- Der deutsche Bauernkrieg [The Peasant War in Germany] (1850), Friedrich Engels
- The Sublime Object of Ideology (1989), Slavoj Žižek
- Das Kapital. Kritik der politischen Ökonomie [Capital: A Critique of Political Economy] (1867), Karl Marx
- Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei [Manifesto of the Communist Party] (1848), Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
- La Distinction: Critique sociale du jugement [Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste] (1979), Pierre Bourdieu
- L’An 1 de la révolution russe [Year One of the Russian Revolution] (1930), Victor Serge
- History of the Peloponnesian War (late 5th century BC), Thucydides
- “‘Why Are You Acting the Marxist?’ Frédéric Lordon on Thomas Piketty’s ‘Capital and Ideology’” (Jan. 31, 2020), Frédéric Lordon
- “The Lesson We Should Have Learned from ‘Silent Spring,'” Canadian Dimension (Jan. 3, 223), Nick Gottlieb
- “Against Georg Lukacs,” New Left Review I/84 (March-April 1974), Bertolt Brecht
- “Bolshevism Is a Menace—To Whom?” The Dial, Vol. 66 (Feb. 22, 1919), Thorstein Veblen
- Ideas and Opinions (1973), Albert Einstein
- “The Tyranny of Structurelessness” Jo Freeman (AKA Joreen) (~1972-73)
- What Is Sex (2017), Alenka Zupančič
- “The Apocalypse is (Still) Disappointing,” S: Journal of the Circle for Lacanian Ideology Critique, Vol. 11, 16-30 (2018), Alenka Zupančič
- Poor People’s Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail (1977), Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward
- The Triumph of Conservatism: A Reinterpretation of American History, 1900-1916 (1963), Gabriel Kolko
- “The Soul of Man Under Socialism,” Fortnightly Review (Feb. 1891), Oscar Wilde
- Clarence Darrow, “Crime and Criminals: Address to the Prisoners in the Chicago Jail” (1902)
- Looking Backward: 2000-1887 (1888), Edward Bellamy
- Malcolm X Speaks (1965), George Breitman ed.
- Walking With the Comrades (2011), Arundhati Roy
And a few films:
- Complete films of Jean-Luc Godard, including Week End (1968)
- The Murder of Fred Hampton (1971), dir. Howard Alk
- Our Daily Bread (1934), dir. King Vidor
Gabe Levine-Drizin – Blue Collar Empire: The Untold Story of US Labor’s Global Anticommunist Crusade (Review)
Link to a review by Gabe Levine-Drizin of Jeff Schuhrke‘s book Blue Collar Empire: Labor Internationalism, the Global Cold War, and the Untold History of the AFL-CIA:
“Blue Collar Empire: The Untold Story of US Labor’s Global Anticommunist Crusade (Review)”
Gary Wilson – Tech Bosses Cut Nearly 150,000 Workers as Profits Pour into AI Machinery
Link to an article by Gary Wilson:
“Tech Bosses Cut Nearly 150,000 Workers as Profits Pour into AI Machinery”
Bonus links: Forces of Production: A Social History of Industrial Automation and “$9 Trillion Collapse Machine” and “Rogue Nation Tries to Scuttle US – Iran Deal, AI Will End the West” (“Tech companies in the West are scrambling to exploit the momentum built for AI before it becomes widely apparent that Generative AI is a seriously flawed product that has been sold to people who do not understand how it works.”) and “No Path Forward, No Way Back—Imperial Decline Edition” and “Replacing the Capitalist Dream of AI-Driven Profits”
Vijay Prashad – Socialism Is Slow to Mature
Link to an article by Vijay Prashad:
Jonathan Basile – Natural Election
Link to a review by Jonathan Basile of the book Original Sin: On the Genetics of Vice, the Problem of Blame, and the Future of Forgiveness by Kathryn Paige Harden: