Also sharing because it’s incredibly well put together but this is cowbee’s reading list: https://hexbear.net/post/5974069

Also toss in Why Socialism? by Einstein. I think it’s a good intro for very new people to socialist ideas. If you have some Bernie or Zohran people in the “party school” that could b a good jumping off point.

One more, sorry lol. Elementary Principles of Philosophy by Georges Politzer is a great intro to thinking from a dialectics point of view as well. It’s a bit longer and more philosophy than theory but I highly recommend it.

This is the audiobook list so the links go to that but you can prob find the rest easily online:

Audiobooks: Principles of Communism - Engels https://open.spotify.com/show/5r9qzHZMtkMDEGcotb7lEg

Communist Manifesto - Engels & Marx https://open.spotify.com/show/3nZuwEi6G5qseUF3g8IlE3

Wage Labour and Capital - Marx https://open.spotify.com/show/1vAuQAwfBHYD92YiyLpluI

Value Price and Profit - Marx https://open.spotify.com/show/2Ou3gr6URd19ny8QeXM3uI

Reform or Revolution - Luxemburg https://open.spotify.com/album/3kQL2sHszrsAUsZYbvzWtb https://open.spotify.com/episode/3E5NjRqDNEmtvh2tYdOPYB

The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism - Lenin https://open.spotify.com/show/46SXs5brqzyCe6GN7DNt4y

What Is To Be Done - Lenin https://open.spotify.com/album/4elgTRD0M8HqHUnWhGiG6i

State and Rev - Lenin https://open.spotify.com/show/6uJwSCvFvaXZqe9cP6faPz

Inventing Reality - Parenti https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPYUOPVsBq0&list=PL0-IkmzWbjob0rkb9-tZlCvHAKse_HtF6

Blackshirts and Reds - Parenti https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4zpGwtNv3f3dcv2NjMC1y7

Note: I finally got around to Value Price and Profit and if you are looking for short and sweet, it can probably be skipped. Marx goes in a bit deeper with the Das Kapital related stuff. I’m also currently rereading through Lenin so this list might change a bit. It’s sort of a living document.