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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.

• 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.

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

Reading List

• On Having a Correct Understanding of Nationalism by Kim Jong Il
• How to be a Good Communist by Liu Shaoqi https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Library:How_to_Be_a_Good_Communist
• Zapata's Letter on the Russian Revolution https://ahuehuete.substack.com/p/zapataletter
• Evo Morales's RUNASUR speech https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Library:Towards_A_Plurinational_America
• CORRECTLY DISSEMINATE MAO ZEDONG THOUGHT by Deng Xiaoping in Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping vol. 1 (Anna's Archive)
• THE TWO WHATEVERS DO NOT ACCORD WITH MARXISM by Deng Xiaoping in Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping vol. 2 (Anna's Archive)
• 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 (Anna's Archive)
• 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 (Anna's Archive)
• TO BUILD SOCIALISM WE MUST FIRST DEVELOP THE PRODUCTIVE FORCES by Deng Xiaoping in Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping vol. 2 (Anna's Archive)
• ON OPPOSING WRONG IDEOLOGICAL TENDENCIES by Deng Xiaoping in Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping vol. 2 (Anna's Archive)
• PLANT TREES EVERYWHERE by Deng Xiaoping in Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping vol. 3 ([1])
• Oppose Book Worship by Mao Zedong https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-6/mswv6_11.htm
• selected sections from Elementary principles of philosophy by Georges Politzer
• The Path Which Led Me to Leninism by Ho Chi Mihn
• The Foundations of Leninism by Stalin https://foreignlanguages.press/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/C01-Foundations-of-Leninism-4th-Printing.pdf
• 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
• Dialectical Materialism by Marx and Engels and Lenin https://archive.org/details/DialecticalMaterialismMarxEngelsLenin/page/n9/mode/1up?view=theater&ui=embed&wrapper=false
• The Principles of Communism by Friedrich Engels 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)
• On some problems of the ideological foundation of socialism by Kim Jong-il - Library:On some problems of the ideological foundation of socialism
• excerpt from The Dawning of the Apocalypse by Gerald Horne
• 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
• Amilcar Cabral - https://www.marxists.org/subject/africa/cabral/1972/cabral-culture.pdf
• Amilcar Cabral - The Tactic of Division https://www.marxists.org/subject/africa/cabral/1970/cabral-tactics-division.pdf
• Portugal is not an Imperialist Country by Amilcar Cabral - https://www.marxists.org/subject/africa/cabral/1971/cabral-portugal-imperialist.pdf
• The Weapon of Theory by Amilcar Cabral - https://www.marxists.org/subject/africa/cabral/1966/weapon-theory.htm
• excerpts from Origins of the Family - https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1884/origin-family/ch02.htm
• excerpt(s) from Selected Works of Ho Chi Mihn
• People's War, People's Army - Vo Nguyen Giap 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
• 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
• 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
• Has China Turned to Capitalism? Reflections on the Transition from Capitalism to Socialism by Domenico Losurdo https://redsails.org/losurdo-on-china/
• China is building an ecological civilisation by Carlos Martinez https://invent-the-future.org/2022/11/china-is-building-an-ecological-civilisation/#more-1101
• the Trail of Broken Treaties 20-pt paper
• the San Andreas Accords

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 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 https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=85CB781F20EA3718B92EC7F58664AC2F
• anything by Domenico Losurdo
• 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 https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=E3DF9EF34357F97681E2B5980EF2F2FB
• 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 https://download.library.lol/main/2438000/f3b00ee7e279337fd97e11edd9a68057/%C3%81lvaro%20Garc%C3%ADa%20Linera%2C%20Richard%20Fidler%20-%20Geopolitics%20of%20the%20Amazon_%20Landed-Hereditary%20Power%20and%20Capitalist%20Accumulation-Climate%20and%20Capitalism%20%282013%29.pdf
• The Conquest of the New World by David E. Stannard https://download.library.lol/main/1615000/f6511e681c22216fff61c2b570fd0c08/David%20E.%20Stannard%20-%20American%20Holocaust_%20The%20Conquest%20of%20the%20New%20World-Oxford%20University%20Press%20%281993%29.pdf
• 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 Sendero Luminoso
• 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
• https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Library:Wage_labour_and_capital
• The Colonizer's Model of the World by James M. Blaut https://library.lol/main/AC90D2EAD54C271679C5E9BEF00192F3
• 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.