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Basics

Resources

Political Economy (Structure)

Political Economy

Beginner:
- CPGB-ML: Economics 101 - Capitalism (video lecture)
- Kapitalism 101: The Law of Value (video series)
Intermediary:
- Ben Fine and Alfredo Saad-Filho: Marx’s Capital (pdf)
Advanced:
- Otto Rühle: Karl Marx’s Capital (An abridged version of Capital)
- Karl Marx: Capital: Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3 (Reading Marx’s Capital, by David Harvey)

Classes

Proletariat:
- anti-imperialism: What is the Proletariat?
Labour Aristocracy:
- Bromma: The Worker Elite: Notes on the Labour Aristocracy (pdf)
- anti-imperialism: Toward a Concrete Class Analysis of the United States
- anti-imperialism: What is the Labor Aristocracy?

Bourgeois Economics

Monthly Review: The GDP Illusion: Value Added versus Value Capture
Nikolai Bukharin: Economic Theory of the Leisure Class (Attacks the Austrian School)

Money

A Critique of Crisis Theory: Bitcoins and Monetary Reform in the Digital Age
anti-imperialism Money: The Root of All Evil

Capital

anti-imperialism.com The materialist analysis of capital

Political Economy (History)

Capitalism

M-L-M Mayhem!: Capitalism Works… but that’s not the problem

Democracy

gawker: Study: The U.S. Is an Oligarchy

Wealth Inequality

politizane: Wealth Inequality in America (video)
Mark Karlin: Richest 300 Persons on Earth Have More Money Than Poorest 3 Billion
alyx.io: Solving World Hunger in 6.9 Days – The 256 Most Profitable Corporations

Poverty

Aljazeera: Exposing the great “poverty reduction” lie
The Guardian: It will take 100 years for the world’s poorest people to earn $1.25 a day
The Guardian: Poverty saps mental capacity to deal with complex tasks, say scientists

Homelessness

PolicyMic: Study Reveals It Costs Less to Give the Homeless Housing Than to Leave Them on the Street
Disinformation: There Are 24 Empty Houses for Every Homeless Person in America

Food

CNBC: A hungry world: Lots of food, in too few places
Institution of Mechanical Engineers: Global Food: Waste Not, Want Not (30–50% of all food produced never reaches a human stomach)

Water

water.org: Water Facts
urbantimes: Nestlé: The Global Search For Liquid Gold

Deaths

How many Americans die per year from poverty, inequality, and racism? (245,000 deaths per year due to low education; 176,000 to racial segregation; 162,000 to low social support; 133,000 to individual-level poverty; 119,000 to income inequality; and 39,000 to area-level (neighborhood) poverty)

Historical/Dialectical Materialism

Both

Joseph Stalin: Dialectical and Historical Materialism

Dialectical Materialism

101:
- anti-imperialism: A Short Primer on Dialectics
- Dialectics for Kids: What the Heck is Dialectics?
102:
- M-L-M Mayhem!: On Dialectical Materialism (Why dialectical materialism should be employed)
Terms:
- Frederick Engels: Anti-Dühring, Chapter 11: Negation of the Negation
- Thomas Weston: What is Mechanical Materialism?
Books:
- Mao Zedong: On Contradiction (reading notes. Both accessible and comprehensive, thoroughly recommended.)

Historical Materialism

M-L-M Mayhem!: NASA Funded Study Reasserts Historical Materialism

Philosophy

Idealism/Materialism

communism101: A Brief History of Idealism and Materialism

Morality

The Red Phoenix: On Communist Morality
International Socialist Review: Marxism, morality, and human nature

Epistemology

Introduction:
- Thomas Weston: Practice And Knowledge
Books:
- Mao Zedong: On Practice (reading notes)

Religion

The North Star: Socialism and Religion, Redux
Vladimir Lenin: The Attitude of the Workers’ Party to Religion

Anthropology/Sociology

Class Society

Introduction:
- CPGB-ML: Class Society & the State (video lecture – goes over The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State)
Books:
- Frederick Engels: The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (Describes the cause of patriarchy. An important feminist work as well.)