essential texts. I’ll add more sometime. other recs include starting Capital Vol 1. David Harvey has a companion to Capital if you don’t want to go at that alone as well as some lectures online.

Other guides:

• Socialism Crash Course - Basic terms and questions
• Socialism 4 All Youtube Channel - audiobooks of most major works
• Revolutionary Study Guide - important major texts as pdfs and communist texts from all around the world

Principles of Communism by Friedrich Engels

shortest read - should take you 30 min to 1 hour

pdf

michaelharrison.org.uk

online text

The Principles of Communism

audiobook

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmtQcXhAWwo

The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

classic

pdf

www.bard.edu

online text

Manifesto of the Communist Party

audiobook

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdYLRTGmQ3c

These are the two I recommend if you don’t want to tackle Capital …

Wage Labor and Capital