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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