Rezistans Nwa Reading List

Readings (links to digital copies provided in most cases)

• Preliminary works we’re reading together:

• Discourse on Colonialism (Cesaire, A.)
• The Communist Manifesto (Marx & Engels)
• The Wretched of the Earth (Fanon, F.)
• The Clash of Civilizations? (Huntington, S.P.)
• Black Like Mao (Kelley, R.D.G., Esch, B.)
• Capitalist Realism (Fisher, M.)
• On Bullshit (Frankfurt, H.)
• Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition (Coulthard, G.)

Categories

• Economics

• Capital (Marx, K.)
• The Accumulation of Capital (Luxemburg, R.)
• Capital in the Twenty-First Century (Piketty, T.)

• Decolonization

• Discourse on Colonialism (Cesaire, A.)
• The Wretched of the Earth (Fanon, F.)
• Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition (Coulthard, G.)

• Imperialism/Anti-Imperialism

• Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism (Lenin, V. I.)
• Essays by Ricardo Flores Magon
• Claim No Easy Victories: The Legacy of Amilcar Cabral (Manji + Fletcher)
• How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (Rodney, W.)
• The Black Jacobins (James, C.L.R)        
• A History of Pan-African Revolt (James, C.L.R)
• Neo-Colonialism (Nkrumah, K.)
• An Anthropology of Marxism (Robinson, C.)
• Race, Ideology, and the Decline of Caribbean Marxism (Maingot, A.)
• Towards Colonial Freedom (Nkrumah)
• Postmodern Imperialism: Geopolitics and the Great Games (Walberg, E.)
• Our History is the Future (Estes, N)
• To Kill a Nation (Parenti, M.)
• Against Empire (Parenti, M.)
• NATO’s Secret Armies (Ganser, D.)

• Eco-Imperialism

• Ecological Imperialism (Crosby, A.W.)
• The Population Bomb (Ehrlich, Paul R.)
• On Fire (Klein, N.)

• Social Behaviours/Structures

• African Anarchism (Mbah, S.)
• Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture
• God and the State (Bakunin, M.)
• Forms of Capital (Bordieu, P.)
• The Struggle Against the State, and Other Essays (Makhno, N.)
• Ujamaa (Nyerere, J.)
• Ujamaa - Socialism from Above (Boesen, J., Madsen, B.S., Moody, T.)
• Social Dominance (Sidanius, J., Pratto, F.)

• Geopolitics

• A Brief History of Neoliberalism (Harvey, D.)
• The Clash of Civilizations? (Huntington, S.P.)
• The End of History? (Fukuyama, F.)
• Orientalism (Said, E.W.)

• Labour

• Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880 (Du Bois, W.E.B.)
• Black Americans and Organized Labor (Moreno, Paul D.)

• Black Radical Tradition

• Assata: An Autobiography (Shakur, A.)
• Women, Race, and Class (Davis, A.)
• Black Against Empire (Bloom, J., Martin, W.)
• Black Bolshevik (Haywood, H.)
• Black Like Mao (Kelley, R.D.G., Esch, B.)
• Negroes With Guns
• Confronting Black Jacobins (Horne, G.)
• Revolutionary Suicide (Dr. Huey P. Newton)
• War Against The Panthers (Dr. Huey P. Newton)

• Pan-Africanism

• Consciencism (Nkrumah, K.)
• Unity and Struggle (Cabral, A.)
• Return to the Source (Cabral, A.)
• In Nobody’s Backyard (Bishop, M.)

• Anti-Racism & White Supremacy

• Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880 (Du Bois, W.E.B.)
• The Wages of Whiteness (Roediger, D. R.)
• Black Marxism (Robinson, C.)
• Ontological Terror (Warren, Calvin L.)
• Colored White: Transcending the Racial Past (Roediger, D.)
• Identity Politics and Class Struggle (Kelly, Robin D.G.)
• Race Matters (West, C.)
• Black Skin, White Masks (Fanon, F.)
• Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Freire, P.)

• Media & Communications

• K-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher (2004-2016)
• Capitalist Realism (Fisher, M.)
• Manufacturing Consent (Chomsky, N.)
• On Bullshit (Frankfurt, H.)
• The Culture Struggle (Parenti, M.)

• Theory/Collections

• The Marx-Engels Reader
• Selections from the Prison Notebooks (Gramsci)
• The Communist Manifesto (Marx & Engels)
• The Huey P. Newton Reader
• Society of the Spectacle (Debord, G.)
• The Conquest of Bread (Kropotkin, P.)
• Anarchism and Other Essays (Goldman, E.)
• Dialectical and Historical Materialism (Stalin, J.V.)
• Foundations of Leninism (Stalin, J.V.)
• Reform or Revolution (Luxemburg, R.)

• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mWTmnLH0ec

• History

• Postwar (Judt, T.)
• A People’s History of the World (Harman, C.)
• Silencing The Past (Trouillot, M-R.)
• The Counter-Revolution of 1776 (Horne, G.)
• The Deepest South (Horne, G.)
• The Russian Revolution, A View From the Third World (Rodney, W.)

• Novels/Poetry/Screenplays

• The System of Dante’s Hell (Baraka, A.)

Readings can be found in the Discord Channel (https://discord.gg/3zbGqp), server #black-socialism-study-group (https://discord.gg/MHzcz6)