Here is a list of book recommendations for people interested in understanding capitalist political economy better as well as critiques of capitalist political economy. I have not read all of these books, but I do look forward to reading them all one day. In addition, I must say: I don’t believe that anyone should be able to credit or discredit the perks or downfalls of “Communism” without having truly read and understood at least TWO books on this list nor do I think that one could argue against the validity of the critique of Political Economy without seriously digesting at least One book written by a Black author on this list. You can find more information about each book by looking it up! And even purchase/download the books however you may see as necessary. Buh-bye. Go off and love each other.
- Cedric Robinson, Black Marxism
- Cedric Robinson, Terms of Orders
- Cedric Robinson, An Anthropology of Marxism
- CLR James, The Black Jacobins
- W.E.B Du Bois, Black Reconstruction
- Angela Davis, Women, Race and Class
- Angela Davis, Abolition Democracy
- Carole Boyce Davis, Left of Karl Marx
- Cheryl Higashida, Black Internationalist Feminism
- Robin Kelley, Hammer and Hoe
- Robin Kelley, Race Rebels
- Harry Haywood, Black Bolshevik
- Joshua Bloom, Black Against Empire
- Cornel West, The Ethical Dimensions of Marxist Thought
- Stuart Hall, Cultural Studies 1983
- Amilcar Cabral, Unity and Struggle
- Amilcar Cabral, Resistance and Decolonization
- Aime Cesaire, Discourse on Colonialism
- Frantz Fanon, Towards an African Revolution
- Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism
- Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth
- Hakim Adi, Pan-Africanism and Communism
- Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
- V.Y. Mudimbe, The Invention of Africa
- Karl Marx, Capital
- Louis Althusser, Reading Capital
- David Harvey, Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason
- Theodor Adorno, Negative Dialectics
- Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Imperialism
- Leon Trotsky, The Permanent Revolution
- Rosa Luxembourg, The Accumulation of Capital
- Antonio Gramsci, Prison Notebooks
- Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt, Multitude
- Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt, Empire
- Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt, Commonwealth
- Maurizio Lazzarato, Governing by Debt
- Maurizio Lazzarato, The Making of the Indebted Man
- Sylvia Federici, Caliban and The Witch
- Jean Francois-Lyotard, The Libidinal Economy
- Jean Baudrillard, The System of Objects
- Jean Baudrillard, The Mirror of Production
- Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism
- Immanuel Wallerstein, The Capitalist World-System
- Sayak Valencia, Gore Capitalism
- Jackie Wang, Carceral Capitalism
- Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Golden Gulag
- Joshua Bennett, Being Property Once Myself
- Alys Weinbaum, The Afterlife of Reproductive Slavery
- Daina Berry, The Price of their Pound of Flesh
- Stephanie Rogers, They Were Her Property
- Denise Ferriera Da Silva, Unpayable Debt ****
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