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	Difficulty	Category	Summary
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	https://annas-archive.org/md5/5d9d70c7e8b50f1264662d03af42d28b
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
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
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
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
ON OPPOSING WRONG IDEOLOGICAL TENDENCIES by Deng Xiaoping in Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping vol. 2	https://annas-archive.org/md5/9844a112e88167de57e67389539249e9
PLANT TREES EVERYWHERE by Deng Xiaoping in Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping vol. 3	https://annas-archive.org/slow_download/f51b236540fab531d0a0da9428e2adbf/0/1
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	https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/ho-chi-minh/works/1960/04/x01.htm
Class Struggle in Africa by Kwame Nkrumah
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)
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/
the Trail of Broken Treaties 20-pt paper
the San Andreas Accords
Abolition of National Disabilities by Stalin	https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1917/03/25.htm
A History of Empire Without Empire by Jiang Shijong	https://redsails.org/jiang-on-empire/
Really Existing Fascism by Roderic Day	https://redsails.org/really-existing-fascism/

Not included (further reading):

Reading List ==

Capital Vol 1 summary


Book	Link	Difficulty	Summary
Blood of the Land - The Government and Corporate War Against the American Indian Movement by Rex Weyler
Capital Vol 1 by Karl Marx	https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Library:Capital,_vol._I
Capital Vol 2 by Karl Marx	https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Library:Capital,_vol._II
Capital Vol 3 by Karl Marx	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		Long	(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/ 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	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	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.