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My New Year's Resolution for 2025 is to read more theory, thoughts on my reading list?
(lemmygrad.ml)
note: the section labeled other things I want to read is just things I find interesting and want to learn about, not necessarily an endorsement of the ideologies or authors on there (and also not necessarily not an endorsement)
That is a good New Year's Resolution to have, as it's always better to know more theory. Personally I always recommend to anyone that is planing to do a deep dive in Marxist theory to start with the philosophy on which the theory itself is based, that means reading books on Dialectical Materialism as the first step.
You already have a couple of them in your list, so my recommendation is to prioritize them over their application in the more advanced books. On that note the only book I would add to your list is M. Cornforth's "Materialism and the Dialectical Method" which is arguably the book to describe Diamat in the most understandable way for modern readers.
Other than that, I would say after finishing that list it'd be time to tackle the two most important works of Marx and Engels in Engels' "Anti-Dühring" and Marx's "Capital".
Good reading, Comrade.
gonna keep it real with you comrade, I can't do capital
too long for my ADHD zoomer brain
I have ADHD as well, so I know your struggle. You should check out The Worldview and Philosophical Methodology of Marxism-Leninism: Curriculum of the Basic Principles of Marxism-Leninism Part 1. It is a free book. You can buy the E-Book for $0 on their site
From the Preface:
This book covers the following:
I found this book to be incredibly useful for laying the foundation of my understanding of Marxism-Leninism. It synthesizes all the theoretical work spread across many of the writings of Marx, Engels and Lenin into a single volume. It contains a glossary of terms as well, which is very useful as a study tool. I think it should be required reading for all comrades. I should probably give it another read.
Oh yeah, this is the one that Luna Oi and Noncompete translated. I heard about this but I never actually read it (or even watched either of their youtube channels lol) but it does make sense that a text made for literal teenagers would be easily digestible, especially because yknow... I'm a literal teenager :)
on the list!