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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 |