“The principles of communism” as well as “Value, price, and profit” are good reads iirc. For more long form text, I’d recommend the series "ABC of Social and Political Knowledge (scans here, it’s a textbook-style series on Marxism-Leninism published by the soviets in plain-enough English). Honestly though, you can learn a lot of the basics from other forms of media like videos (shoutout to Second Thought and Hakim) and podcasts (like RevLeft Radio). This might be controversial, but I’d recommend you read the works of Marx, Engels, Lenin, etc after you have the basics down from other sources that are already familiar in the theory.
“The principles of communism” as well as “Value, price, and profit” are good reads iirc. For more long form text, I’d recommend the series "ABC of Social and Political Knowledge (scans here, it’s a textbook-style series on Marxism-Leninism published by the soviets in plain-enough English). Honestly though, you can learn a lot of the basics from other forms of media like videos (shoutout to Second Thought and Hakim) and podcasts (like RevLeft Radio). This might be controversial, but I’d recommend you read the works of Marx, Engels, Lenin, etc after you have the basics down from other sources that are already familiar in the theory.