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On Art & Culture:

Walter Benjamin "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" (html)

Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer "The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception" (html)

Kathleen Watson "Art and the Individual" (html)

J. B. Miles "Art for the People" (html)

Marxism & Leninism:

Karl Marx & Friedrich Engles Reading List / Selected Works (Start with the short list for beginners)

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin "Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism" (pdf)

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin "The State and Revolution" (pdf)

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin "Disruption of Unity Under Cover of Outcries for Unity" (html)

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin "What Is To Be Done?" (html)

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin "'Left-Wing' Childishness" (html)

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin "...The Current Situation and the Mistakes of Trotsky and Buhkarin" (html)

Mao Zedong (Tse-Tung) Thought :

Mao Tse-Tung "Oppose Book Worship" (html)

Mao Tse-Tung "On Practice" (html)

Mao Tse-Tung "On Contradiction" (html)

Mao Tse-Tung "Oppose Stereotyped Party Writing" (html)

Mao Tse-Tung "Dialectical Materialism - Notes of Lectures" (html)

"Quotations From Mao Tse-Tung" (Little Red Book) (html)

Black Panther Party :

Huey P. Newton "Functional Definition of Politics" (html)

Huey P. Newton "Essays from the Minister Of Defense" (Excerpt on Anarchists & Individualists) (html)

Fred Hampton "It's a Class Struggle, God Damnit!" (html)

Fred Hampton "Power Anywhere Where There's People!" (html)

Neo-Colonialism / Western Imperialism :

Thomas Sankara 1984 Speech Before The United Nations General Assembly in NYC (html)

Thomas Sankara "A United Front Against Debt” From His Speech Before The Organization Of African Unity" (html)

Anna Khachiyan - “Art in the Cloud” (Companion to her essay, "Art Won't Save Us", 2018)

Vijay Prashad - "What's the Left to Do in a World on Fire?" (The People's Forum, NYC, 2021)

Vijay Prashad - "The Necessity of Communism" (University of Toronto Mississauga, 2018)

Michael Parenti - "The Culture Struggle" (San Diego, 2006)

Michael Parenti - "Super Patriotism vs Real Patriotism" (1988)

Michael Parenti - "US Interventionism, The 3rd World, and the USSR" (Speech at UC Boulder, 1986)