# Top-level SOURCES — archives, libraries, publishers, podcast shows, and # channels worth exploring on their own, as opposed to the specific items # (single texts, episodes, films) that live in theme lens files. # # This is a curated "where to go dig" list. It is hand-maintained here (not # inferred from theme files), because sources span every theme. The generator # renders it into sources.md. The filename starts with "_" so Quartz does not # publish this raw file as a page. # # Fields: # name: required. The source's name. # type: archive | library | study-guide | course | publisher | podcast | channel | project | network # url: required. Where to explore it. # access: free | borrow | paywalled | print (optional; defaults to blank) # note: one line on what you'll find there. sources: # --- Archives & libraries --- - name: "Marxists Internet Archive" type: archive url: "https://www.marxists.org" access: free note: "The largest free archive of Marxist writing; most theory readings link here. Has study guides and a glossary." - name: "The Anarchist Library" type: library url: "https://theanarchistlibrary.org" access: free note: "A vast free library of anarchist texts, from classics to contemporary pamphlets." - name: "libcom.org library" type: library url: "https://libcom.org/library" access: free note: "Free library of libertarian-communist and working-class history, theory, and organizing texts." - name: "Internet Archive" type: archive url: "https://archive.org" access: borrow note: "Millions of books to borrow free (one-hour renewable loans), plus films, audio, and web history." - name: "Library of Congress Digital Collections" type: archive url: "https://www.loc.gov/collections/" access: free note: "Public-domain primary sources, including the WPA slave narratives and extensive labor history." - name: "Studs Terkel Radio Archive (WFMT)" type: archive url: "https://studsterkel.wfmt.com/" access: free note: "2,000+ streamable interviews on work, class, and ordinary life — a cornerstone oral-history archive." - name: "Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation (Cornell ILR)" type: archive url: "https://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/kheel/" access: free note: "Labor oral histories, campaign records, and the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire collection." # --- Publishers & imprints --- - name: "Monthly Review Press" type: publisher url: "https://monthlyreview.org" access: paywalled note: "Long-running socialist magazine and book publisher; the magazine archive has decades of essays." - name: "Haymarket Books" type: publisher url: "https://www.haymarketbooks.org" access: paywalled note: "Radical publisher with frequent free e-book giveaways and an active events series." - name: "Verso Books" type: publisher url: "https://www.versobooks.com" access: paywalled note: "The largest independent radical publisher; regular blog essays and discounted e-books." - name: "Pluto Press" type: publisher url: "https://www.plutobooks.com" access: paywalled note: "Left academic and movement publisher; source of many widely assigned study-group texts." # --- Podcasts & audio --- - name: "Upstream" type: podcast url: "https://www.upstreampodcast.org/" access: free note: "Documentary-style audio on post-capitalist economics, cooperatives, and just transition." - name: "Working People" type: podcast url: "https://inthesetimes.com/podcasts/working-people" access: free note: "First-person interviews with rank-and-file workers about their jobs and organizing." - name: "Economic Update (Democracy at Work)" type: podcast url: "https://www.democracyatwork.info/economicupdate" access: free note: "Richard Wolff's weekly show connecting wages, debt, and profit to how capitalism is structured." - name: "The Dig" type: podcast url: "https://thedigradio.com/" access: free note: "Long-form Jacobin interviews on political economy, history, and movements." # --- Video channels --- - name: "The Gravel Institute" type: channel url: "https://www.youtube.com/@GravelInstitute" access: free note: "Short, shareable left explainers built as a counter to right-wing edutainment." - name: "Second Thought" type: channel url: "https://www.youtube.com/@SecondThought" access: free note: "Accessible socialist explainers on class, wealth, and alternatives to capitalism." - name: "Andrewism" type: channel url: "https://www.youtube.com/@Andrewism" access: free note: "Solarpunk-anarchist video essays on ecology, the commons, and building alternatives." # --- Projects & networks --- - name: "Zinn Education Project" type: project url: "https://www.zinnedproject.org" access: free note: "Free people's-history teaching materials, primary-source readings, and dramatic readings." - name: "Labor Notes" type: network url: "https://labornotes.org" access: free note: "Rank-and-file organizing network; free handbooks, handouts, and a trainer's guide." - name: "Autonomous Tenants Union Network" type: network url: "https://atun-rsia.org" access: free note: "Tenant-union organizing guides and toolkits, in English and Spanish." # --- Study guides & reading plans --- - name: "Beginner's Guide to Marxism (Marxists Internet Archive)" type: study-guide url: "https://www.marxists.org/subject/students/index.htm" access: free note: "The MIA's guided starting path through Marx and Engels for new students." - name: "From Marx to Mao" type: study-guide url: "http://marx2mao.com/RG.html" access: free note: "A structured reading guide moving from Marx and Engels through Lenin to Mao." - name: "Marxist-Leninist Reading Hub" type: study-guide url: "https://www.mlreadinghub.org/" access: free note: "Curated reading lists and study-group resources in the Marxist-Leninist tradition." - name: "Marxism-Leninism Study Guide" type: study-guide url: "https://marxistleninist.wordpress.com/study-guide/" access: free note: "A structured study guide through the Marxist-Leninist canon." - name: "Marxism-Leninism-Maoism Basic Course" type: study-guide url: "https://foreignlanguages.press/colorful-classics/marxism-leninism-maoism-basic-course-english/" access: free note: "A structured introductory course in Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, from Foreign Languages Press." - name: "Massline.info" type: study-guide url: "http://www.massline.info" access: free note: "An archive and study site on the mass line and Maoist theory and practice." - name: "Revolutionary Communists of America — reading guides" type: study-guide url: "https://communistusa.org/marxist-theory/reading-guides/" access: free note: "Reading guides for selected classic texts." # --- Courses --- - name: "Socialism 101" type: course url: "https://www.socialism101.com/" access: free note: "A self-paced introduction to socialist ideas and history." - name: "Introduction to Mao Zedong Thought (TsinghuaX)" type: course url: "https://www.edx.org/learn/communist-china/tsinghua-university-introduction-to-mao-zedong-thought-mao-ze-dong-si-xiang-gai-lun" access: free note: "A university MOOC on Mao Zedong Thought; free to audit on edX." # --- Podcasts (contributed via the chapter resource list) --- - name: "5-4" type: podcast url: "https://www.fivefourpod.com/" access: free note: "How the U.S. Supreme Court is broken, from a left legal perspective." - name: "Chapo Trap House" type: podcast url: "https://www.chapotraphouse.com/" access: free note: "Irreverent leftist politics and culture." - name: "Guerrilla History" type: podcast url: "https://guerrillahistory.libsyn.com/" access: free note: "History as a tool for the anti-imperialist and revolutionary left." - name: "If Books Could Kill" type: podcast url: "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/if-books-could-kill/id1651876897" access: free note: "Debunks the pop-nonfiction bestsellers that shaped mainstream conventional wisdom." - name: "Kill James Bond" type: podcast url: "https://killjamesbond.com/" access: free note: "A leftist, feminist film podcast working through the Bond franchise and action cinema." - name: "Labor Jawn" type: podcast url: "https://www.laborjawn.com/" access: free note: "Labor history and the contemporary labor movement, rooted in Philadelphia." - name: "Marx Madness" type: podcast url: "https://open.spotify.com/show/7fMDBjIjMdrU5PYm3zXP25" access: free note: "A reading-group podcast working through Marxist texts." - name: "QAnon Anonymous" type: podcast url: "https://open.spotify.com/show/6qAmVJsQW0k51ZJ9bDZyZd" access: free note: "Investigates conspiracy theories and the far right from a left perspective." - name: "Red Library" type: podcast url: "https://redlibrary.libsyn.com/" access: free note: "Discussions of revolutionary theory, history, and culture." - name: "Red Menace" type: podcast url: "https://redmenace.libsyn.com/" access: free note: "Explains and applies revolutionary theory texts; a companion to Revolutionary Left Radio." - name: "Revolutionary Left Radio" type: podcast url: "https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/" access: free note: "Interviews on Marxist theory, history, and organizing." - name: "Revolutions" type: podcast url: "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/revolutions/id703889772" access: free note: "Mike Duncan's narrative history of the great political revolutions." - name: "Socialism for All" type: podcast url: "https://open.spotify.com/show/3byqQVsdTzhE2dOsnAUmK5" access: free note: "Introductory socialist concepts for newcomers." - name: "Theory and Philosophy" type: podcast url: "https://theoretician.podbean.com/" access: free note: "Accessible walkthroughs of critical theory and continental philosophy." - name: "What's Left of Philosophy" type: podcast url: "https://www.leftofphilosophy.com/" access: free note: "Four philosophers read Marxist and continental philosophy closely." - name: "Why Theory" type: podcast url: "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/why-theory/id1299863834" access: free note: "Psychoanalysis and Hegelian-Marxist theory applied to culture."