“The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.” - Baruch de Spinoza
☭ The Cadres: The Backbone of the Revolution
◊ What Else We’re Reading
INTRODUCTORY:
The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism, Immanuel Ness, Zak Cope, (2016).
ON IMPERIALISM:
The African Roots of the War, W.E.B. DuBois, (1915).
Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism, Vladimir Lenin, (1917).
Imperialism and World Economy, Nikolai Bukharin, (1917).
The American Working Class: Friend or Foe?, Che Guevara (1954).
Neocolonialism, Kwame Nkrumah, (1965).
The Development of Underdevelopment, Andre Gunder Frank (1967).
Unequal Exchange, Arghiri Emmanuel, (1969).
Accumulation on a World Scale, Samir Amin, (1970).
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, Walter Rodney, (1973).
The Modern World-System I, Immanuel Wallerstein, (1974).
Unequal Development, Samir Amin, (1975).
Imperialism and World Development, Samir Amin, (1976).
World Accumulation, 1492-1789, Andre Gunder Frank, (1978).
The Geometry of Imperialism, Giovanni Arrighi, (1978).
Social Science as Imperialism, Claude Ake, (1979)
The Modern World-System II, Immanuel Wallerstein, (1980).
Culture and Imperialism, Edward Said, (1993).
Confessions of an Economic Hitman, John Perkins, (2004).
The Bias of the World, John Brolin, (2006).
The Wealth of (Some) Nations, Zak Cope, (2012).
Divided World, Divided Class, Zak Cope, (2015).
A Theory of Imperialism, Prabhat and Utsa Patnaik, (2016).
Imperialism in the 21st Century, John Smith, (2016).
Modern Imperialism, Monopoly Finance Capital, and Marx's Law of Value: Monopoly Capital and Marx's Law of Value, Samir Amin, (2018).
Washington Bullets, Vijay Prashad, (2020).
The Imperial Mode of Living, Markus Wissen, Ulrich Brand (2021).
Dialectics of Dependency, Ruy Mauro Marini, (2021).
China: Imperialism or Semi-Periphery?, Minqi Li, (2021).
Africa’s Last Colonial Currency: The CFA Franc Story, Fanny Pigeaud and Ndongo Samba Sylla, (2021).
ON COLONIALISM:
On Colonialism, Karl Marx, Frederich Engels, (1850s).
Seven Interpretive Essays on Peruvian Reality (essay 1), José Carlos Mariátegui (1928)
Discourse on Colonialism, Aimé Césaire, (1950).
The Wretched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon, (1961).
White-Settler Colonialism and the Myth of Investment Imperialism, Arghiri Emmanuel, (1972).
Orientalism, Edward Said, (1978).
A Political Economy of Africa, Claude Ake, (1981)
Settler Colonialism, Patrick Wolfe, (1999).
The Counter-Revolution of 1776, Gerald Horne, (2014).
The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism, Gerald Horne, (2018).
Theft is Property!, Robert Nichols, (2019).
The Cancer of Colonialism, W. Alphaeus Hunton, (2021).
ON ANTI-IMPERIALISM:
The Weapon of Theory, Amílcar Cabral, (1966).
Unity and Struggle: Speeches and Writings, Amílcar Cabral, (1979).
Unequal Exchange and the Prospects of Socialism, Communist Working Group, (1986).
Delinking, Samir Amin (1990).
Conflicting Missions, Piero Gleijeses, (2002).
Beyond U.S. Hegemony, Samir Amin, (2006).
Visions of Freedom, Piero Gleijeses, (2013).
War and Revolution, Domenico Losurdo, (2015).
Red Star Over the Third World, Vijay Prashad, (2017).
From the Tricontinental to the Global South: Race, Radicalism, and Transnational Solidarity, Anne Garland Mahler, (2018).
Through Pluripolarity to Socialism, International Manifesto Group, (2021).
International Brigade Against Apartheid, Ronnie Kasrils, (2022).
ON DECOLONIZATION:
Draft Theses on National and Colonial Questions, Vladimir Lenin, (1920).
The Black Jacobins, C.L.R. James, (1938).
A History of Pan-African Revolt, C.L.R. James, (1938).
Apologists Of Neo-Colonialism, Mao Tse-Tsung, (1963).
Colonialism is Doomed, Che Guevara (1964).
Settlers, J. Sakai, (1983).
The Darker Nations, Vijay Prashad (2006).
The Poorer Nations, Vijay Prashad, (2012).
Resistance and Decolonization, Amílcar Cabral, (2016).
Che Guevara and the Southern Africa Struggle to Defeat Racist Settler Colonialism, AAPRP, (2018).
White Supremacy Confronted, Gerald Horne, (2019).
Transnational Solidarity Anticolonialism in the Global Sixties - Racism, Resistance and Social Change, Zeina Maasri, Cathy Bergin, Francesca Burke (2022).
ON FEMINISM AND GENDER THEORY:
Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale, Maria Mies (1986).
Marx and Feminism, Selma James, (1994).
Caliban and the Witch, Silvia Federici, (2004).
Revolution at Point Zero, Silvia Federici, (2012).
A Socialist, Feminist, and Transgender Analysis of “Sex Work”, Proletarian Feminist (2020).
ON MARXISM/COMMUNISM:
Capital: Volume I, Karl Marx, (1867).
Marx-Zasulich Correspondence, Karl Marx, Vera Zasulich, (1881).
The Ethnographical Notebooks, Karl Marx, (1880-82).
State and Revolution, Vladimir Lenin, (1917).
Marx and the Third World, Umberto Melotti, (1977).
African Socialism or Socialist Africa?, A.M. Babu, (1981).
Black Marxism, Cedric Robinson, (1983).
Time, Labor, and Social Domination, Moishe Postone, (1996).
An Introduction to the Three Volumes of Karl Marx's Capital, Michael Heinrich, (2004).
Marx’s Inferno: The Political Theory of Capital, William Clare Roberts, (2016).
The Russian Revolution, a View From the Third World, Walter Rodney, (2018).
How to Read Marx’s Capital, Michael Heinrich, (2021).
Decolonial Marxism, Walter Rodney, (2022).