YCL Recommended Reading List
Basics of Marxism
1) Communist Manifesto Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
2) Socialism: Utopian or Scientific Friedrich Engels
3) Wage Labor & Capital Karl Marx
4) Value, Price & Profit Karl Marx
5) What Is to Be Done? V. I. Lenin
6) State & Revolution V. I. Lenin
7) Reform or Revolution Rosa Luxembourg
8) Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism V. I. Lenin
9) Philosophy and Class Struggle Dialego
10) “Left-Wing�? Communism, An Infantile Disorder by V. I. Lenin
11) Philosophical and Economic Manuscripts of 1844 Karl Marx
12) The Birth of the Communist Manifesto Dirk J. Struik
Fiction
1) The Jungle Upton Sinclair
2) In the Time of the Butterflies Julia Alvarez
3) Tinisima Elena Poniatowska
4) The Iron Heel Jack London
5) Salome of the Tenements Anzia Yezierska
6) An American Tragedy Theodore Dreiser
7) Invisible Man Ralph Ellison
8) Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston
9) Home Is Where You Hang Your Childhood Leanne Zugsmith
10) The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
Racial Justice
1) Orientalism Edward Said
2) Autobiography of Malcolm X Malcolm X with Alex Haley
3) John Brown W. E. B. DuBois
4) Fighting Racism Gus Hall
5) Reversing Discrimination: The Case for Affirmative Action Gerald Horne
6) Assata: An Autobiography Assata Shakur
Women’s Rights
1) The Second Sex Simone de Beauvior
2) The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State Friedrich Engels
3) Women, Race and Class Angela Davis
4) Emancipation of Women V. I. Lenin
5) Inessa Armand: Revolutionary and Feminist R. C. Elwood
6) Nikel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America Barbara Ehrenreich
Gay Rights
1) Stone Butch Blues Leslie Feinberg
2) The Trouble with Harry Hay Stuart Timmons
3) Radically Gay Harry Hay
4) Out at Work: Building a Gay-Labor Alliance Kitty Krupat & Patrick McCreely, eds.
5) Transgender Liberation: A Movement Whose Time Has Come Leslie Fienberg
6) Come Out Fighting: A Century of Essential Writing on Gay and Lesbian Liberation Chris Bull, ed
7) The Gay Question: A Marxist Appraisal Bob McCubbin
8) Making Trouble: Essays on Gay History, Politics, and the University John D\'Emilio
Working Class History
1) The Big Strike Mike Quinn
2) Hammer & Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression Robin D. G. Kelley
3) The Communist Party and the Auto Workers Unions Roger Keernan
4) The Big Strike Mike Quinn
5) Working Class, USA Gus Hall
6) May Day: A Short History Phillip Foner
7) Lucy Parsons, American Revolutionary Carolyn Ashbaugh
8) The Making of the English Working Class E. P. Thompson
9) Labor’s Untold Story Boyer & Morais
10) Strike!Jeremy Brecher
Socialism & Revolution
1) Ten Days That Shook the World John Reed
2) Song of Ariran Kim San
3) Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War Ernesto “Che�? Guevara
4) American Revolution, 1768-1788 Herbert Aptheker
5) Allende’s Chile Ed Boorstein
6) Counterrevolution: US Foreign Policy Ed Boorstein
7) Red Star Over China Edgar R Snow
Fascism and the Right
1) They Shall Not Pass! Dolores Ibarurri
2) Lectures on Fascism Palmiro Togliatti
3) United Front Against Fascism Georgi Dmitrov
4) Against Fascism & War by Gerogi Dmitrov
5) Eyes Right: Challenging the Rightwing Backlash Chip Berlet
6) Blinded by the Right David Brock
7) Up From the Right Michael Lind
8) Black Shirts and Reds: Rationale Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism Michael Parenti
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