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seeking sources on the upbringings/pre-revolutionary lives of socialists of note (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by WhyEssEff@hexbear.net to c/history@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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[–] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I'll recommend a biography of Gramsci, if only because it seems grimly relevant, and hopeful in these times. Born in the periphery of a nation with colonial aspirations, living first hand the multiple oppressions caused by his origin, his disability, and his unshakeable willingness to be one with the workers he founded the PCdI along with, meant that at the time when the contradictions of industrialization he was an instrumental figure to understand and act in "the time of monsters".

I haven't read Jean Yves Fretigné's new biography, but the consensus seems to be positive