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seeking sources on the upbringings/pre-revolutionary lives of socialists of note (hexbear.net)
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honestly it's mostly the fact that I want them as refs for my own personal worldbuilding and character writing. I don't trust Google for this so I'm outsourcing the query here.

I want to cut around the psychoanalysis industrial complex that seems to plague that genre of work. I'd appreciate sources for any notable socialist, but there are a few I'm going to name specifically because I'm either looking into them specifically or anticipate getting mired in doing so later:

  • Marx
  • Engels
  • Lenin
  • Stalin
  • Mao
  • Rosa
  • Che
  • Fidel
  • Sankara
  • Gramsci
  • Kim Il-Sung
  • Fred Hampton
  • Malcolm X
  • Ho Chi Minh
  • Trotsky

Some of these I have a general idea of, but it can't hurt to clear up the details. I'd also appreciate any socialist-adjacent (e.g. whatever John Brown was doing) figures as well.

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[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 5 points 4 days ago

I got a bunch of books for Stalin, im gonna wait until after work to really put out a list but off the top of my head Henri Barbusse was the authorized biographical writer for Stalin.