BOOK: "Our Revolution: Essays on Working-Class & International Revolution, 1904-1917" By Leon Trotsky

We expect modern right-leaning, Tea Party types to lump Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin together in the same totalitarian lodka. But we don't expect, or shouldn't expect, self-professed leftist/progressive types to do the same, right? Alas, too often their ignorance of (or failure to set the record straight about) the actual thoughts, motivations, actions, and differences among these men–to say nothing of the Russian people–is much more harmful than the standard Red-bashing recipe followed by the right-wing.

So let's know what we're talking about...

BOOK: "Socialism: Utopian and Scientific" By Frederick Engels

"The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844" by Friedrich Engels

Reading: "The Labor Contract | From Individual to Collective Bargaining" by Margaret Anna Schaffner (1907)

From the collections of the University of Wisconsin - Madison:

Bilingual Pamphlet: "Right to Work Laws—a Trap for America's Minorities" by Bayard Rustin & Cesar Chavez (1969)

VIDEO: "Strike" by Sergei Eisenstein

Via Archive.org:

Strike was directed in 1925 by Sergei Eisenstein. It was Esienstein's first feature film and an indicator of the brilliant films to follow. As with other Communist films of this period, the workers in general are the heroes. The composition and editing are spectacular, particularly with the scenes as the troop raid the apartment buildings, and the conclusion where the killing of the workers is intercut with the slaughter of cattle.