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Five Indispensable Texts for Revolutionary Marxists

recommended by Franklin Ridgway

Everyone should eventually get around to them.

  • 1

    Buy

    The Communist Manifesto (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Karl Marx & Frederic L. Bender

  • 2

    Buy

    Essential Works of Lenin:
    by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

  • 3

    Buy

    Reform Or Revolution And Other Writings (Dover Books on History, Political and Social Science)
    by Rosa Luxemburg

  • 4

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    History of the Russian Revolution
    by Leon Trotsky

  • 5

    Buy

    Selected Writings
    by Alexandra Kollontai

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