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The most important Marxist philosophers: Lukács, Korsch, Gramsci, Adorno, Horkheimer, Marcuse, Lefebvre, Althusser.

— Olavo de Carvalho

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If you want to argue with me, either you respect me, or hold your tears after I am done with you.

This is a reading program that can be accomplished in four or five years by a good student. I do not know, either in the Brazilian right or left, anyone, absolutely anyone, who has accomplished it.

Good books on the history of communist regimes written from a non-apologetic point of view.

The classics of Marxism: Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, Mao Zedong.

Main Currents of Marxism, by Leszek Kolakowski.

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Communism is the doctrine of the conditions of the liberation of the proletariat.

Friedrich Engels Principles of Communism (1847)

Communism has sometimes succeeded as a scavenger, but never as a leader. It has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

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