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SUGGESTED INITIAL READING LIST
All of the below are available to order from www.wellredbooks.net – the bookshop of
the IMT.
Alternatively, click the links for online access:

• What is Marxism? (Alan Woods and Rob Sewell)

• The Classics of Marxism: Volume 1

o The Communist Manifesto (Marx & Engels)
o Socialism: Utopian and Scientific (Engels)
o The State and Revolution (Lenin)
o The Transitional Programme (Trotsky)

• The Classics of Marxism: Volume 2

o Wage Labour and Capital (Marx)
o Value, Price, and Profit (Marx)
o “Left Wing Communism”: An Infantile Disorder (Lenin)
o In Defence of October (Trotsky)
o Stalinism and Bolshevism (Trotsky)

• Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy (Marx)

• The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State (Engels)

• Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism (Lenin)

• The Lessons of October (Trotsky)

• The Revolution Betrayed (Trotsky)

• The ABC of Materialist Dialectics (Trotsky)

• What is the theory of the Permanent Revolution? Basic Postulates (Trotsky)

• Programme of the International (Ted Grant)

 
• Problems of Entrism (Ted Grant)

See the Educate Yourself section of www.socialist.net for

suggestions for further reading