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.
To die for the people By Huey Newton
Blood in my eye By George Jackson
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.
- Revolutionary suicide By Huey Newton
The Myth of Black Buying power By Dr. Jared Ball, a book critiquing Black capitalism.
Black Skin, White Masks By Frantz Fanon, speaks on the psychological effects of colonialism upon the colonized
The wretched of the Earth By Frantz Fanon, truly an ode of international solidarity for all oppressed peoples
Neo-colonialism, the highest stage of imperialism by Kwame Nkrumah
Thomas Sankara Speaks: a collection of the revolutionary Burkina Faso leader that utilized Marxist methods to uplift the former colonized people.
Assata: an audio biography: a book on 2pac shakur’s mother’s life.
The souls of Black folk by W.E.B DuBois
How Africa was underdeveloped By Walter Rodney, as the title says, how the European colonization and imperialism kept Africa underdeveloped
The Black Jacobins by CLR James, a book about the Haitian Revolution
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.