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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.

Tools for reading impaired: https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/ProleWiki:Accessibility_tools

• 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 schooling 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

Marxism is not a doctrine. It it is recommended that a baby communist should prioritize learning how to achieve correct ideas, or else any theory will only further confuse instead of illuminate. Many things will be unfamiliar and confusing at first. By learning how to achieve correct ideas, the communist can begin to understand the principles of the theory, think for themself, and one day generate theoretical original contributions. Be patient. A communist must push through the fog of incorrect thinking that has been trained into us since birth in the bourgeois society.

“To politicize the masses is not and cannot be to make a political speech. It means driving home to the masses that everything depends on them, that if we stagnate the fault is theirs, and that if we progress, they too are responsible, that there is no demiurge, no illustrious man taking responsibility for everything, but that the demiurge is the people and the magic lies in their hands and their hands alone.”

Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of The Earth

If you have any resource requests or suggestions feel free to send us them on our discord server.

Reading List

Book	Link	Difficulty	Category	Summary
Marxism and African Liberation by Walter Rodney	https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Library:Marxism_and_African_Liberation#Africa_and_Scientific_Socialism	Beginner
On Having a Correct Understanding of Nationalism by Kim Jong Il		Beginner
How to be a Good Communist by Liu Shaoqi	https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Library:How_to_Be_a_Good_Communist	Beginner
Zapata's Letter on the Russian Revolution	https://ahuehuete.substack.com/p/zapataletter	Beginner
Evo Morales's RUNASUR speech	https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Library:Towards_A_Plurinational_America	Beginner
Building a Socialism With a Specifically Chinese Character by Deng Xiaoping	https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Library:Building_a_socialism_with_a_specifically_Chinese_character	Beginner
CORRECTLY DISSEMINATE MAO ZEDONG THOUGHT by Deng Xiaoping in Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping vol. 1	https://annas-archive.org/md5/5d9d70c7e8b50f1264662d03af42d28b	Beginner
THE TWO WHATEVERS DO NOT ACCORD WITH MARXISM by Deng Xiaoping in Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping vol. 2	https://annas-archive.org/md5/9844a112e88167de57e67389539249e9	Beginner
HOLD HIGH THE BANNER OF MAO ZEDONG THOUGHT AND ADHERE TO THE PRINCIPLE OF SEEKING TRUTH FROM FACTS by Deng Xiaoping in Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping vol. 2	https://annas-archive.org/md5/9844a112e88167de57e67389539249e9	Beginner
CARRY OUT THE POLICY OF OPENING TO THE OUTSIDE WORLD AND LEARN ADVANCED SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FROM OTHER COUNTRIES by Deng Xiaoping in Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping vol. 2	https://annas-archive.org/md5/9844a112e88167de57e67389539249e9	Beginner
TO BUILD SOCIALISM WE MUST FIRST DEVELOP THE PRODUCTIVE FORCES by Deng Xiaoping in Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping vol. 2	https://annas-archive.org/md5/9844a112e88167de57e67389539249e9	Beginner
ON OPPOSING WRONG IDEOLOGICAL TENDENCIES by Deng Xiaoping in Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping vol. 2	https://annas-archive.org/md5/9844a112e88167de57e67389539249e9	Beginner
PLANT TREES EVERYWHERE by Deng Xiaoping in Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping vol. 3	https://annas-archive.org/slow_download/f51b236540fab531d0a0da9428e2adbf/0/1	Beginner
Oppose Book Worship by Mao Zedong	https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-6/mswv6_11.htm	Beginner
selected sections from Elementary principles of philosophy by Georges Politzer		Beginner
The Path Which Led Me to Leninism by Ho Chi Mihn	https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/ho-chi-minh/works/1960/04/x01.htm	Beginner
Class Struggle in Africa by Kwame Nkrumah		Beginner
The Foundations of Leninism by Stalin	https://foreignlanguages.press/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/C01-Foundations-of-Leninism-4th-Printing.pdf	Beginner
Dialectical and Historical Materialism: Concerning Questions of Leninism by Stalin	https://foreignlanguages.press/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/C21-Dialectical-and-Historical-Materialism-_-Questions-of-Leninism-2nd-Printing.pdf	Intermediate
Dialectical Materialism by Marx and Engels and Lenin	https://archive.org/details/DialecticalMaterialismMarxEngelsLenin/page/n9/mode/1up?view=theater&ui=embed&wrapper=false	Intermediate
The Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire (excerpt)		Beginner
On Practice (Mao Zedong)		Beginner
On some problems of the ideological foundation of socialism by Kim Jong-il	Library:On some problems of the ideological foundation of socialism	Advanced
excerpt from The Dawning of the Apocalypse by Gerald Horne		Beginner
The Theory of National Minorities," was published as Chapter 5 in J. M. Blaut, The National Question: Decolonizing the Theory of Nationalism	https://www.columbia.edu/~lnp3/mydocs/Blaut/national_question.htm	Beginner
Amilcar Cabral	https://www.marxists.org/subject/africa/cabral/1972/cabral-culture.pdf	Beginner
Amilcar Cabral - The Tactic of Division	https://www.marxists.org/subject/africa/cabral/1970/cabral-tactics-division.pdf	Beginner
Portugal is not an Imperialist Country by Amilcar Cabral	https://www.marxists.org/subject/africa/cabral/1971/cabral-portugal-imperialist.pdf	Intermediate
The Weapon of Theory by Amilcar Cabral	https://www.marxists.org/subject/africa/cabral/1966/weapon-theory.htm	Beginner
excerpts from Origins of the Family	https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1884/origin-family/ch02.htm	Advanced
excerpt(s) from Selected Works of Ho Chi Mihn		Beginner
People's War, People's Army - Vo Nguyen Giap	https://www.marxists.org/archive//giap/works/1961/peoples-war-peoples-army/1961-pwpa.pdf	Beginner
Imperialism - The Eve of Socialist Revolution - Leontiev		Intermediate
Where Do Correct Ideas Come From? - Mao		Beginner
Some Questions Concerning Methods of Leadership - Mao		Beginner
On the National Question - Stalin		Beginner
Role of the Chinese Communist Party in the National War by Mao Zedong
On Contradiction - Mao		Intermediate
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)		Intermediate
Classes & Class Struggle - Stalin		Intermediate
Combat Liberalism by Mao	https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-2/mswv2_03.htm	Beginner
Imperialism the Highest Stage of Capitalism by Lenin ch. 4: Export of Capital		Advanced
Bill on the Equality of Nations and the Safeguarding of the Rights of National Minorities by Lenin	https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1914/may/00.htm	Beginner
What is the View of the Juche Idea on the World by Kim Song Gwon	https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Library:Exposition_of_the_Principles_of_Juche_Idea	Beginner
Has China Turned to Capitalism? Reflections on the Transition from Capitalism to Socialism by Domenico Losurdo	https://redsails.org/losurdo-on-china/	Intermediate
China is building an ecological civilisation by Carlos Martinez	https://invent-the-future.org/2022/11/china-is-building-an-ecological-civilisation/	Intermediate
the Trail of Broken Treaties 20-pt paper		Beginner
the San Andreas Accords
Abolition of National Disabilities by Stalin	https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1917/03/25.htm	Beginner
A History of Empire Without Empire by Jiang Shijong	https://redsails.org/jiang-on-empire/	Advanced
Really Existing Fascism by Roderic Day	https://redsails.org/really-existing-fascism/	Intermediate
Certain Features of the Historical Development of Marxism by Lenin	https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Library:Certain_features_of_the_historical_development_of_Marxism	Beginner
US Interventionism, the Third World, and the USSR by Michael Parenti	https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Library:US_Interventionism,_the_Third_World,_and_the_USSR	Beginner
Lenin and the National Liberation Struggle	https://redsails.org/lenin-and-the-national-liberation-struggle/	Intermediate

Not included (further reading):

Book	Link	Difficulty	Category	Summary
Blood of the Land - The Government and Corporate War Against the American Indian Movement by Rex Weyler		Intermediate
Capital Vol 1 by Karl Marx	https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Library:Capital,_vol._I	Advanced
Capital Vol 2 by Karl Marx	https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Library:Capital,_vol._II	Advanced
Capital Vol 3 by Karl Marx	https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Library:Capital,_vol._III	Advanced
Zapata's writings	https://web.archive.org/web/20230220163624/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.antorcha.net%2Fbiblioteca_virtual%2Fpolitica%2Fmanifiestos%2Findice.html	Beginner
The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon		Beginner
Is the Red Flag Flying? ch. 8 by Albert Szymanski		Intermediate
Left Wing Communism - An Infantile Disorder by Lenin		Intermediate
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	Intermediate
Decolonial Marxism by Walter Rodney		Beginner
For a Revolutionary Position on the Negro Question, Harry Haywood		Beginner
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, Walter Rodney		Intermediate
The Open Veins of Latin America, Eduardo Galleani		Intermediate		(I've heard criticism of this?)
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/	Beginner
Prison of Grass by Howard Adams		Intermediate
Following the Red Path by Vern Harper (biography)		Beginner
Tortured People: the Politics of Colonization by Howard Adams		Beginner
Howard Adams on Oka Crisis:	https://mgouldhawke.wordpress.com/2019/10/27/no-surrender-howard-adams-on-oka/	Beginner
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/	Beginner
The Sea-Serpent – Tekahionwake (1911)	https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Library:The_Sea-Serpent	Beginner
Capital Vol 1 summary	https://redsails.org/capital-v1-summary/ https://redsails.org/capital-v1-summary	Intermediate
From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawaii by Haunani-Kay Trask		Beginner
Compañeras ‒ Zapatista Women's Stories by Hilary Klein		Beginner
Marx and the Indigenous by John Bellamy Foster	https://monthlyreview.org/2020/02/01/marx-and-the-indigenous/	Intermediate
Black Elk Speaks		Intermediate
The Earth Shall Weep: A History of Native America by James Wilson		Intermediate
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	Intermediate
Arab Marxism and National Liberation: Selected Writings of Mahdi Amel		Intermediate
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	Beginner
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	Intermediate
Lao people's revolution (talks about uniting the Lao of different ethnicities and creating a sense of national pride)		Advanced
What Is Dialectical Materialism O. Yakhot		Beginner
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	Beginner
"Hwame, Koshkalaka, and the Rest: Lesbians in American Indian Cultures (The Sacred Hoop) by Paula Gunn Allen		Beginner
Opportunism, and the Collapse of the Second International by Lenin		Beginner
The State and Revolution by Lenin		Intermediate
The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism by Lenin	https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1913/mar/x01.htm	Beginner
Geopolitics of the Amazon by Álvaro García Linera		Intermediate
The Conquest of the New World by David E. Stannard		Beginner
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown		Intermediate
Encyclopedia of American Indian Contributions to the World: 15,000 Years of Inventions and Innovations by Emory Dean Keoke, Kay Marie Porterfield		Beginner
CIA's Shining Path by Andreo Matías	https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Library:The_CIA%27s_Shining_Path:_Political_Warfare	Intermediate
What is to be Done? by Lenin		Intermediate
Masses, Elites, and Rebels: The Theory of “Brainwashing” by Roderic Day	https://redsails.org/masses-elites-and-rebels/	Intermediate
The Ethnological Notebooks of Karl Marx		Intermediate
Wage Labor and Capital by Karl Marx	https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Library:Wage_labour_and_capital	Beginner
The Colonizer's Model of the World by James M. Blaut		Intermediate
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer		Intermediate
Capitalism & Slavery by Eric Williams		Beginner
The Fourth World by George Manuel		Advanced
Gerald Horne - The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism_ The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in 17th Century North America and the Caribbean		Intermediate
Sitting Bull: The Collected Speeches by Alexander Street part of Clarivate		Beginner
Kayanerenkowa: The Great Law of Peace by Kayanesenh Paul Williams		Intermediate
A Basic Call to Consciouness by Akwesasne		Beginner
Marx and Engels on Irish liberation from the English:	https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1914/self-det/ch08.htm	Beginner
Class Struggle by Domenico Losurdo ch.2		Beginner		in which it is shown how Marx and Engels supported national liberation and self-determination, not only the emancipatian of the oppressed class.
Marxism and the Problems of Linguistics by J.V. Stalin	https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Library:Marxism_and_problems_of_linguistics	Intermediate