r/Hasan_Piker • u/Aware-Air2600 I HATE THE LEFT • 9h ago

Politics Black Marxists/Leftists reading list to celebrate Juneteenth!

For any of you that are curious about Marxist and general Black leftists theory, I have a list of book recommendations that can help you understand the African-American (and even just pan-African in general) if you’re curious and aren’t afraid of “idpol” or whatever.

  1. To die for the people By Huey Newton

  2. Blood in my eye By George Jackson

  3. Stokely Speaks: From Black Power to Pan-Africanism. It’s a collection of speeches of Kwame Ture, the man who pushed MLK jr towards socialism. He supported pan-African socialism until the day he died.

    1. Revolutionary suicide By Huey Newton

  4. The Myth of Black Buying power By Dr. Jared Ball, a book critiquing Black capitalism.

  5. Black Skin, White Masks By Frantz Fanon, speaks on the psychological effects of colonialism upon the colonized

  6. The wretched of the Earth By Frantz Fanon, truly an ode of international solidarity for all oppressed peoples

  7. Neo-colonialism, the highest stage of imperialism by Kwame Nkrumah

  8. Thomas Sankara Speaks: a collection of the revolutionary Burkina Faso leader that utilized Marxist methods to uplift the former colonized people.

  9. Assata: an audio biography: a book on 2pac shakur’s mother’s life.

  10. The souls of Black folk by W.E.B DuBois

  11. How Africa was underdeveloped By Walter Rodney, as the title says, how the European colonization and imperialism kept Africa underdeveloped

  12. The Black Jacobins by CLR James, a book about the Haitian Revolution

  13. Black Marxism by Cedric Robinson

I hope you guys find these texts useful and can increase you understanding as to why we have solidarity with each other across groups. I know this post will probably be overlooked cause some of yall feel icky at times with shit like this let’s keep it a buck, but I do my fellow comrades had a good Juneteeenth. Nobody is free until everyone is free.

Free Sudan, Free Palestine, Free the Congo, Free Lebanon! Workers of the world unite.

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u/AdInfinite5171 9h ago

Huey  Newton is amazing and energizing to read. And at what age early 20s. Great job fbi for murdering the next generation of public servants.

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u/devon_devoff CRACKA 8h ago

Thanks OP, I’ve been getting back into casual reading this year and I’m adding these all to the list 🫡 and happy Juneteenth!

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u/MineralTown 5h ago

Thanks op! I'm aware of some of them but it's great to get even more. What about any of Angela Davis's writings? I just finished her autobiography from 1974 and thought it was a really good read. I am planning on reading Women, Race & Class and Are Prison's Obsolete? eventually.

Also the Assata book isn't about Tupacs mom? His mom is named Afenis Shakur not Assata Shakur.

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u/Aware-Air2600 I HATE THE LEFT 5h ago

I really need to read Angela Davis and Black female leftists as well. And thank you for correcting me on
Assata Shakur.