Comrade:Charhapiti/sandbox/TurtleIslandStudyGroup

Turtle Island Study Group

All works listed have been carefully reviewed and approved for theory education espousing a 'decolonial dengist' aka real Marxist-Leninist approach applying Marxism-Leninism as it is understood by AES countries to the material conditions of indigenous peoples of Turtle Island. This list will teach the basics to get started with ML.

• No ultraleft or right deviations to be promoted here.
• This list excludes anti-Soviet, anti-AES, anti-China, and pro-Western sources.
• There will be no 'Marxian' academics, no worship of academia over traditional indigenous knowledge/cosmology, no sectarian liberal political influences, and no heedless acceptance of anticommunist slander.
• No Chicano or Mexican or Latinidad colonialism.
• No Ward Churchills either.
• Primary sources are valued first.

This list is intended to be read by indigenous people for indigenous people, and assumes a basic self-knowledge. This list cannot tell exactly what to do but it gives hints and a guide to action. This list is ultimately, a consciousness raiser and conversation-starter.

Each and every work is thought by me to contain one or more important pieces of wisdom. In the first section is a list of what I think are the best introductory works, and the second section expands knowledge. After completion of this reading list:

• the reader will hopefully be theoretically equipped to browse the classic Marxist literature in the usual places without suffering as many headaches, dead ends, and demoralization
• any literature in general dealing with Turtle Island or decolonization in general will become very easy to critically analyze
• the reader, no matter their education level, will be more educated on these themes than the average liberal academic, mental prisoner of "decolonial" academia; the tradition displayed on this page represents a tradition that has always existed outside of bourgeois academia; I have no formal education and believe in the accessibility of information to all people, for which I will continuously work to improve accessibility as any Marxist should
• the reader is cautioned that these works can never replace the wisdom of firsthand experience, they are meant to enhance it

Someone asked me what are the general topics covered. To sum it up:

• liberation from settler colonialism
• liberation from neocolonialism
• liberation from imperialism
• liberation from capitalism
• how to achieve prosperity
• on the rights of indigenous people
• how to achieve correct ideas
• how to unite
• historical accounts
• debunking falsehoods

If you want more works added to this list or see any problems, contact me

Reading List

Book	Link	Category	Summary
On Having a Correct Understanding of Nationalism by Kim Jong Il
https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Library:How_to_Be_a_Good_Communist
https://ahuehuete.substack.com/p/zapataletter
https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Library:Towards_A_Plurinational_America
https://annas-archive.org/md5/5d9d70c7e8b50f1264662d03af42d28b
https://annas-archive.org/md5/9844a112e88167de57e67389539249e9
https://annas-archive.org/md5/9844a112e88167de57e67389539249e9
https://annas-archive.org/md5/9844a112e88167de57e67389539249e9
https://annas-archive.org/md5/9844a112e88167de57e67389539249e9
https://annas-archive.org/md5/9844a112e88167de57e67389539249e9
https://annas-archive.org/slow_download/f51b236540fab531d0a0da9428e2adbf/0/1
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-6/mswv6_11.htm
selected sections from Elementary principles of philosophy by Georges Politzer
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/ho-chi-minh/works/1960/04/x01.htm
Class Struggle in Africa by Kwame Nkrumah
https://foreignlanguages.press/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/C01-Foundations-of-Leninism-4th-Printing.pdf
https://foreignlanguages.press/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/C21-Dialectical-and-Historical-Materialism-_-Questions-of-Leninism-2nd-Printing.pdf
https://archive.org/details/DialecticalMaterialismMarxEngelsLenin/page/n9/mode/1up?view=theater&ui=embed&wrapper=false
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/11/prin-com.htm (beginner)
The Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire (excerpt) (intermediate)
On Practice (Mao Zedong) (intermediate)
Library:On some problems of the ideological foundation of socialism
excerpt from The Dawning of the Apocalypse by Gerald Horne
https://www.columbia.edu/~lnp3/mydocs/Blaut/national_question.htm
https://www.marxists.org/subject/africa/cabral/1972/cabral-culture.pdf
https://www.marxists.org/subject/africa/cabral/1970/cabral-tactics-division.pdf
https://www.marxists.org/subject/africa/cabral/1971/cabral-portugal-imperialist.pdf
https://www.marxists.org/subject/africa/cabral/1966/weapon-theory.htm
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1884/origin-family/ch02.htm
excerpt(s) from Selected Works of Ho Chi Mihn
https://www.marxists.org/archive//giap/works/1961/peoples-war-peoples-army/1961-pwpa.pdf
Imperialism - The Eve of Socialist Revolution - Leontiev
On Practice - Mao
Where Do Correct Ideas Come From? - Mao
Some Questions Concerning Methods of Leadership - Mao
On the National Question - Stalin
Role of the Chinese Communist Party in the National War by Mao Zedong
On Contradiction - Mao
History of the Communist Party of the Socialist Revolution chapter 2: Formation of the Russian Social-Democratic Labor Party. Appearance of the Bolshevik and the Menshevik Groups Within the Party (1901-1904)
Classes & Class Struggle - Stalin Combat Liberalism by Mao | https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-2/mswv2_03.htm
Imperialism the Highest Stage of Capitalism by Lenin ch. 4: Export of Capital
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1914/may/00.htm
https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Library:Exposition_of_the_Principles_of_Juche_Idea
https://redsails.org/losurdo-on-china/
https://invent-the-future.org/2022/11/china-is-building-an-ecological-civilisation/
the Trail of Broken Treaties 20-pt paper
the San Andreas Accords
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1917/03/25.htm
https://redsails.org/jiang-on-empire/
https://redsails.org/really-existing-fascism/

Not included (further reading):

• Blood of the Land - The Government and Corporate War Against the American Indian Movement by Rex Weyler
• https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Library:Capital,_vol._I
• https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Library:Capital,_vol._II
• https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Library:Capital,_vol._III
• Zapata's writings https://web.archive.org/web/20230220163624/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.antorcha.net%2Fbiblioteca_virtual%2Fpolitica%2Fmanifiestos%2Findice.html
• The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
• Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon
• Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism by Lenin
• Is the Red Flag Flying? ch. 8 by Albert Szymanski
• Left Wing Communism - An Infantile Disorder by Lenin
• Mao Zedong on Dialectical Materialism ch.6 Philosophical Annotations and Marginalia by Mao Zedong https://quintus.memoryoftheworld.org/Mao%20Zedong/Mao%20Zedong%20on%20Dialectical%20Materialism_%20Writing%20on%20Philosophy,%201937%20(13627)/Mao%20Zedong%20on%20Dialectical%20Materialism_%20Wri%20-%20Mao%20Zedong.pdf
• Decolonial Marxism by Walter Rodney
• For a Revolutionary Position on the Negro Question, Harry Haywood
• How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, Walter Rodney
• The Open Veins of Latin America, Eduardo Galleani (I've heard criticism of this?)
• The Wretched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon
• History of the Black Panther Party and its Place in the Black Liberation Movement https://redsails.org/a-brief-history-of-the-black-panther-party/
• Prison of Grass by Howard Adams
• Following the Red Path by Vern Harper (biography)
• Tortured People: the Politics of Colonization by Howard Adams
• Howard Adams archive links: https://mgouldhawke.wordpress.com/2019/10/27/no-surrender-howard-adams-on-oka/
• The Development of Capitalism and the Subjugation of Native Women in Northern Canada – Ron Bourgeault (1983) - https://mgouldhawke.wordpress.com/2020/03/22/the-development-of-capitalism-and-the-subjugation-of-native-women-in-northern-canada/
• The Sea-Serpent – Tekahionwake (1911) - https://mgouldhawke.wordpress.com/2020/09/21/the-sea-serpent-tekahionwake-1911/
• https://redsails.org/capital-v1-summary
• From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawaii by Haunani-Kay Trask
• Compañeras ‒ Zapatista Women's Stories by Hilary Klein
• Marx and the Indigenous by John Bellamy Foster https://monthlyreview.org/2020/02/01/marx-and-the-indigenous/
• Black Elk Speaks
• The Earth Shall Weep: A History of Native America by James Wilson
• THE JUCHE PHILOSOPHY IS AN ORIGINAL REVOLUTIONARY PHILOSOPHY by Kim Jong-Il https://www.marxists.org/archive/kim-jong-il/works/The-Juche-Philosophy-Is-An-Original-Revolutionary-Philosophy.pdf
• Arab Marxism and National Liberation: Selected Writings of Mahdi Amel
• CURRICULUM OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF MARXISM-LENINISM PART 1 The Worldview and Philosophical Methodology of Marxism-Leninism by BanyanHouse.org https://archive.org/details/intro-basic-princ-marx-lenin-part-1-final/page/n173/mode/1up
• A Reappraisal of Marx's Ethnological Notebooks: Family, Gender, Individual vs. State, and Colonialism by Marcello Musto Canada https://internationalmagz.com/articles/a-reappraisal-of-marxs-ethnological-notebooks-family-gender-individual-vs-state-and-colonialism
• Lao people's revolution (talks about uniting the Lao of different ethnicities and creating a sense of national pride)
• What Is Dialectical Materialism O. Yakhot
• Oyeronke Oyewumi The Invention Of Women Making An African Sense Of Western Gender Discourses University Of Minnesota Press ( 1997) https://archive.org/details/oyeronkeoyewumitheinventionofwomenmakinganafricansenseofwesterngenderdiscoursesu/page/n7/mode/1up
• "Hwame, Koshkalaka, and the Rest: Lesbians in American Indian Cultures (The Sacred Hoop) by Paula Gunn Allen
• Opportunism, and the Collapse of the Second International by Lenin
• The State and Revolution by Lenin
• The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism by Lenin https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1913/mar/x01.htm
• Geopolitics of the Amazon by Álvaro García Linera
• The Conquest of the New World by David E. Stannard
• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown
• Encyclopedia of American Indian Contributions to the World: 15,000 Years of Inventions and Innovations by Emory Dean Keoke, Kay Marie Porterfield
• CIA's Shining Path by Andreo Matías
• What is to be Done? by Lenin
• Masses, Elites, and Rebels: The Theory of “Brainwashing” by Roderic Day https://redsails.org/masses-elites-and-rebels/
• The Ethnological Notebooks of Karl Marx
• Wage Labor and Capital by Karl Marx
• The Colonizer's Model of the World by James M. Blaut
• Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer
• Capitalism & Slavery by Eric Williams
• The Fourth World by George Manuel
• Gerald Horne - The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism_ The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in 17th Century North America and the Caribbean
• Sitting Bull: The Collected Speeches by _Alexander_Street_part_of_Clarivate
• Kayanerenkowa: The Great Law of Peace by Kayanesenh Paul Williams
• A Basic Call to Consciouness by Akwesasne
• Marx and Engels on Irish liberation from the English: https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1914/self-det/ch08.htm
• Class Struggle by Domenico Losurdo ch.2 in which it is shown how Marx and Engels supported national liberation and self-determination, not only the emancipatian of the oppressed class.