[paganel]

Not the OP but I can highly recommend Lenin's "What Is to Be Done?" [1], one of the best "no bullshit, no moralising, let's just get things done by seeing things as they really are" books of the "modern" era.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Is_to_Be_Done%3F

[jerzyt]

Thanks for the link. Interestingly, I grew up in Poland, under Marxism-Leninism, but none of his books were ever pushed on us, so this is somewhat of a surprise for me. I'm going to give it at least a quick scan to get an idea.

[oever]

Lenin's actual writing was not the message that the regime wanted to be known. Usually, the message that gets regimes in power is not the message that keeps them in power.

[danharaj]

Marxism-Leninism was Stalin's etiolation of Lenin's actual thought.