essential texts. don’t argue just read them first. plenty of time for that later. ill add more sometime. other recs include starting Capital Vol 1 and Socialism Utopian and Scientific. David Harvey has a companion to Capital if you don’t want to go at that alone as well as some lectures online.
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
pdf
www.bard.edu
online text
Manifesto of the Communist Party
audio book
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdYLRTGmQ3c
Principles of Communism by Friedrich Engels
pdf
michaelharrison.org.uk
online text
The Principles of Communism
audio book
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmtQcXhAWwo
Imperialism, The Highest Stage of Capitalism by Vladimir Lenin
pdf
www.readingfromtheleft.com
online text
Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism
audio book
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qn_sNCkzNTA&t=1613s
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State: in the Light of the Researches of Lewis H. Morgan
pdf
www.marxists.org
online text
Origins of the Family
audio book
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8W2GaAs5VLo