The contribution of Marx and Engels is essential to an understanding of a libertarian communist politics. It is a tool for the working class to critique capitalism, and to analyse class composition for future struggles. Here is a reading List of his major works, (Michael Heinrich’s introduction is a good place to start):
Reading List:
Michael Heinrich – An Introduction to the Three Volumes of Karl Marx’s Capital
Karl Marx – Early Writings
Karl Marx and Fredrich Engels – The German Ideology
Karl Marx – Wage Labour and Capital and Value Price and Profit
Karl Marx – The Civil War in France
Karl Marx – The Political Writings
Karl Marx- Dispatches For the New York Tribune
Karl Marx – Capital Volume I, II and III
Karl Marx – A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
Karl Marx – The Grundrisse
Karl Marx – The Theories of Surplus Value
Tom Bottomore – A Dictionary of Marxist Thought