Black Red Guard’s Reading List and Educational Video Recommendations.
If you’re interested in studying/learning about Maoism, start here. I’m also open to suggestions for additions.
RIM (Revolutionary Internationalist Movement)
Long Live Marxism-Leninism-Maoism!
Black Panther Party:
Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party — Bobby Seale
Capitalism Plus Dope Equals Genocide — Michael “Cetewayo” Tabor
The Basis of Black Power — Stokely Carmichael, later known as Kwame Toure
Black Against Empire — Bloom, Martin — This is an comprehensive and thorough history of the BPP. If you want to know almost everything that could possibly be known, read it.
Revolutionary Suicide — Huey P. Newton
Assata — Assata Shakur
Soledad Brother: Prison Letters of George Jackson
Elaine Brown: A Taste of Power
My People Are Rising: Memoirs of a Black Panther Party Captain
Frantz Fanon (Influenced Huey P. Newton and the BPP):
Malcolm X:
Proletarian Feminism:
Philosophical Trends in the Feminist Movement — Avanti (CPI-Maoist)
Women, Race and Class — Angela Davis
Marxism, Mariategui and the Women’s Movement — Communist Party of Peru, CC
On Standards of Feminist Conduct
As If We Won’t Burn this Shit Down — Maoist Communist Party (OC)
PCR-RCP (Revolutionary Communist Party — Canada)/Canadian MLM
North Korea: Socialism Is Not Only Anti Imperialism
Protracted People’s War is the Only Way to Make Revolution
In Defense of Protracted People’s War
Red Fists: Communist Organization in Street Demos
Continuity and Rupture: Philosophy on the Maoist Terrain
RCP-USA (Before the solidification of the Avakianite cult/revisionism)
Mao Zedong’s Immortal Contributions
The Science of Revolution: An Introduction
J. Sakai
When Race Burns Class: Settlers Revisited
The Dangerous Class and Revolutionary Theory
Butch Lee/Red Rover
Night-Vision: Illuminating War and Class on The Neo-Colonial Terrain
Marx/Engels:
The Condition of the Working Class in England
The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
Socialism, Utopian and Scientific
Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
V.I. Lenin
The Right of Nations to Self Determination
Imperialism, The Highest Stage of Capitalism
The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky
Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism
Harry Haywood:
The Struggle for the Leninist Position on the Negro Question in the US
Trotsky’s Day in Court (From Black Bolshevik, a highly recommended autobiography)
Is the Black Bourgeoisie the Leader of the Black Liberation Movement?
The Nation of Islam: An Estimate
Crisis of Negro Reformism and the Growth of Nationalism
Pan-Africanism/African Revolutionary Socialist/Liberation Movements:
Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism — Kwame Nkrumah
African Socialism Revisited — Kwame Nkrumah
From Black Power to Pan-Africanism — Remembering Kwame Ture — AAPRP (All African People’s Revolutionary Party)
Arusha Declaration — Julius Nyerere
A Fundamental Necessity of the Revolution — Samora Machel
The Beira Speech — Samora Machel
Return to the Source: Selected Speeches of Amilcar Cabral
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa: Walter Rodney
J.V. Stalin:
Marxism and the National Question
Speeches on the American Communist Party
Prof. Jose Maria (Joma) Sison/CPP (Communist Party of the Philippines)/National Democracy Movement
Philippine Society and Revolution
Role of Youth and Tasks of Anakbayan in National Democratic Struggle
Rectify Errors and Rebuild the Party
Reaffirm Our Basic Principles and Rectify Errors
Mao Zedong
Report on An Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan
On Correcting Mistaken Ideas in the Party
A Single Spark Can Start A Prairie Fire
Talks at the Yenan Forum on Literature and Art
Cast Away Illusions, Prepare for Struggle
On the People’s Democratic Dictatorship
On Correct Handling of Contradictions
A Dialectical Approach to Inner Party Unity
Communist Party of China
A Basic Understanding of the Communist Party of China
On Exercising All Round Dictatorship Over the Bourgeoisie
Fundamentals of Political Economy (AKA Shanghai Textbook)
On Khrushchov’s Phony Communism and Its Historical Lessons for the World
Accounts of Revolutionary China
William Hinton: Fanshen, Shenfan, The Great Reversal, Through A Glass Darkly, Hundred Day War.
Edgar Snow: Red Star Over China.
Han Suyin: Eldest Son, The Morning Deluge, Wind in the Tower.
Adele and Allyn Rickett: Prisoners of Liberation.
On and From Cuba
On Revolutionary Medicine (Che)
Farewell Letter from Che to Castro
Che’s Message to the Tricontinental
History Will Absolve Me (Castro)
Castro’s Statement Denouncing Playa Giron Invasion
Communist Party of Peru — (Shining Path)
Interview with Chairman Gonzalo
Kevin “Rashid” Johnson
Answering A Revisionist Line on the Labor Aristocracy
The International Oppression of Youth of Color
Kill Yourself or Liberate Yourself
It’s Raining Pigs, Rats and Moles!
Third Worldism — A Fanciful World Where the Privileged Play at Revolution
Books by Rashid:
Defying the Tomb
Panther Vision
Here is a playlist of Maoist/revolutionary YouTube videos, again, constantly being updated as I watch new stuff.
