Reddit reviews Marx and the Third World

Here's just some random books:

"Monthly review" school defenses of China:

https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Hegemony-Assessing-Prospects-Multipolar/dp/1842777092
https://www.amazon.com/Reorienting-19th-Century-Economy-Continuing/dp/1612051243
https://www.amazon.com/Adam-Smith-Beijing-Lineages-Century/dp/1844672980

these are all the same book summarized here

https://monthlyreview.org/2013/03/01/china-2013/

leftist criticisms:

https://www.amazon.com/China-Demise-Capitalist-World-Economy/dp/158367182X

https://www.amazon.com/China-Socialism-Market-Reforms-Struggle/dp/1583671234

basically summarized here:

http://content.csbs.utah.edu/~mli/Economies%205430-6430/Hart-Landsberg-China%20and%20Transnational%20Accumulation.pdf

some important books on the cultural revolution and the conflict between Mao and Deng at a materialist level rather than in relation to personality (there are very few)

https://www.amazon.com/Chinese-Economic-Development-Chris-Bramall/dp/0415373484
https://cup.columbia.edu/book/red-chinas-green-revolution/9780231186674
https://dukespace.lib.duke.edu/dspace/bitstream/handle/10161/2356/D_Jiang_Hongsheng_a_201005.pdf
(if you can read French it's been published as a much shorter book)

some general books on imperialism and some of the things I'm talking about

https://www.amazon.com/Planet-Slums-Mike-Davis/dp/1784786616

https://www.amazon.com/Imperialism-Twenty-First-Century-Globalization-Super-Exploitation/dp/1583675779

both of these are a bit ambiguous on China

and about Marx and the first international

https://www.amazon.com/Marx-Third-World-Umberto-Melotti/dp/0333198174

as for the USSR and Bukharin/Stalin/Trotsky representing different lines, that should be easy enough to find. The one thing we don't lack are defenses of the USSR and Marxism-Leninism.

You can see which side I'm on based on the books I recommend so don't take me for a neutral observer. If someone knows a good book defending China based on Marxism (rather than Amin and co.'s eclecticism) I welcome it. There's Losurdo of course but that doesn't really interest me since it's a defense of China in terms of Marxist thought rather than an empirical investigation. Not that it's not valuable, just that the argument should be familiar to everyone already since it has become predominant on this sub.