Turtle Island Study Group

Reading List

Oppose Book Worship by Mao Zedong https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-6/mswv6_11.htm
Philosophical Conscientism by Nkrumah https://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/book/1afdd0f8-3fde-4910-8181-2c90ce2ad323
Neocolonialism, the Last Stage of Imperialism https://www.marxists.org/ebooks/nkrumah/nkrumah-neocolonialism.pdf
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 Colonizer's Model of the World by James M. Blaut https://library.lol/main/AC90D2EAD54C271679C5E9BEF00192F3
The Principles of Communism by Friedrich Engels https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/11/prin-com.htm (beginner)
Revolution in Guinea
Unity and Struggle by Cabral
Capitalism & Slavery by Eric Williams
Blood in My Eye by George Jackson
The Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire (excerpt) (intermediate)
On Practice (Mao Zedong) (intermediate)
Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer (excerpt) (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
The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins
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

Not included (further reading):

Is the Red Flag Flying? ch. 8 by Albert Szymanski
Left Wing Communism - An Infantile Disorder
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
Blood of the Land, Rex Weyler
Decolonial Marxism, Walter Rodney
For a Revolutionary Position on the Negro Question, Harry Haywood
Hammer & Hoe, Robin D.G. Kelley
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, Walter Rodney
Imperialism: the Highest Stage of Capitalism, V.I. Lenin
The Negro Nation, Harry Haywood
The Open Veins of Latin America, Eduardo Galleani (?)
The Wretched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon
In Defense of History: Marxism and the Postmodern Agenda by Ellen Meiksins Wood and John Bellamy Foster
Imperialism Without Colonies by Harry Magdoff https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=726CD62BFB426687F9B08FFA53464CAC
https://redsails.org/a-brief-history-of-the-black-panther-party/
famous study on Marxist alienation by Fritz Pappenheim in The Alienation Of Modern Man.
Bill Tabb’s “Marx Versus Marxism”. Tabb’s excellent knowledge of Marxism allows him to analyze Native American societies in relation to Marxism in a flexible and coherent manner
Prison of Grass by Howard Adams
Following the Red Path by Vern Harper
The Red Path and Socialism by Vern Harper https://mgouldhawke.wordpress.com/2019/11/08/the-red-path-and-socialism-vern-harper-1979/
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/
Marxism from a Native Perspective – John Mohawk (1981) - https://mgouldhawke.wordpress.com/2020/03/31/marxism-from-a-native-perspective-john-mohawk-1981/
Capitalism, the Final Stage of Exploitation – Lee Carter (1970) - https://mgouldhawke.wordpress.com/2020/04/17/capitalism-the-final-stage-of-exploitation-1970/
The Sea-Serpent – Tekahionwake (1911) - https://mgouldhawke.wordpress.com/2020/09/21/the-sea-serpent-tekahionwake-1911/
The New Latin American Left: Cracks in the Empire by Jeffery R. Webber, Barry Carr
The Impasse of the Latin American Left by Franck Gaudichaud, Massimo Modonesi, Jeffery R. Webber
Red October: Left-Indigenous Struggles in Modern Bolivia (Historical Materialism Book Series) by Jeffery R. Webber
From Rebellion to Reform in Bolivia: Class Struggle, Indigenous Liberation, and the Politics of Evo Morales by Jeffery R. Webber
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
Speaking of Indigenous Politics by J. Kehaulani Kauanui https://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/book/f4cc466b-ade5-4491-a020-7ae74Nkrumah
Deng Xiaoping’s Theory Of The Primary Stage Of Socialism by Jiaxiang Zhao https://archive.org/details/deng-xiaopings-theory-of-the-primary-stage-of-so
Marx and the Indigenous by John Bellamy Foster https://monthlyreview.org/2020/02/01/marx-and-the-indigenous/
Black Elk Speaks https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=3CD2166313507382DEB9E714171C4DF8
The Last Day of Oppression, and the First Day of the Same: The Politics and Economics of the New Latin American Left by Jeffery R. Webber
Contesting Land and Custom in Ghana: State, Chief and the Citizen by Janine M. Ubink, Kojo S. Amanor
The Earth Shall Weep: A History of Native America by James Wilson
Humanitarian Imperialism: Using Human Rights to Sell War by Jean Bricmont
The Encyclopedia of Political Revolutions by Jack A. Goldstone https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=C3A924458DB3ACFB5EE8D82E24BC7779
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
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
Haunani-Kay Trask
George Manuel
Sungmanitu - Some dialectical errors but seems legit ML
Claude Meillasoux
Maurice Godelier
Emmanuel Terray
Steve Talbot -