essential texts. 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