Oke comrade here it comes.

A “follow up” on Imperialism: the highest stage of capitalism, would be the work of kwame Nkruham (the liberator of Ghana from the British) the name is : Neo-Colonialism, the Last Stage of Imperialism ( Sound familiar???) Although not technically old school old school it is worth a read.

now the works of Stalin I have basically done all the audiobooks on that were on spotify from the Socialism for all podcast/channel but in case you dont have spotify hes als on youtube(he also sometimes gives some context about the situation that the books were written in, very helpfull). but heres the

Stalin list:

1. Mastering bolshevism 1937
2. The fight against right and “Ultra-Left” Deviations 1926
3. The proletarian class & the proletarian party 1905
4. The october revolution an the tactics of the Russian communists 1924
5. Stalin’s comments on Churchill’s “iron curtain” speech & post-ww2 hostilities
6. Marxism versus liberalism: an interview with H.G. Wells 1934 ( It’s technically not a book, but it shows how Stalin thought on his feet(he was prob sitting), his ideas on the west, spoken to a western person. Plus it was the thing that made me start looking into this bad boy, because I realized then and there that he wasn’t this brute that my western education had me believe he was.

Lenin:

1. A caricature of Marxism & imperialist economism 1916
2. On the two lines in the revolution 1915

Gramsci:

1. Prison notebooks (I have only started it, but its a heavy read… ) its about Wester Hegemony(he coined that I think??)

Rosa Luxemburg:

1. Reform or revolution 1900/1908 (be careful though, eventually she and Stalin had a semi intellectual b*itch fight) but its good to give perspective.

Mao:

1. on kruschev’s phony communism 1964 (Kruschev basically screwed us all over and created a split in global communist bloc and started implementing some weird anti-marxism/pro-capitalist policies… he was the start of the decline of the soviet union) its basically about the soviet/sino split.

A bit off topic but if youre into law/international law. The soviet union had one of the greatest lawyer/academic at that time Grigory Tunkin: Theory of international law. It gives a legal perspective on international communism.

I hope this list will get you started, And with this comrade, I wish good luck.