While eBay has almost all the used games that I'm interested in, they do not have the literature.

I just ordered the Collected Works of Vladimir Lenin Volume 14 for $15 along with The Collected Works of Marx and Engels Volume 5 also for $15.

Frankly, I've been running out of reading material. I bought 4 volumes of Mao Zedong along with a volume of Ho Chi Minh last year when I was going through my short pseudo-Maoist phase. After reading some of his works, I realized that Mao's ideas were completely different than those of Lenin's or Marx's. Completely. In every shape and form.

I also purchased the 3 volume set of Lenin's Selected Works. I've read the most important works in those 3 books. My volume 1 of Trotsky's History of the Russian Revolution is an ancient copy that I received as a gift from a professor and it's in poor condition so I can't carry that with me to college and read in my free time because it's falling apart. I also have Victor Serge's Year One of the Russian Revolution but I've read most of Trotsky's volume 1 of the Russian Revolution and I'd prefer to enhance my understanding of Marxism in all it's complex concepts and scientific facts.

I could continue and finish reading the other material in those 3 volumes of Lenin's Selected Works but they're not that major and I'd prefer to continue reading major significant works.

So I ordered Volume 14 of the Collected Works. It is one work really. Lenin's Materialism and Empirio-Criticism: Critical Comments on a Reactionary Philosophy. It is probably Lenin's most important philosophical work and should keep me occupied for a while.

I have one final thing to say. Whenever somebody asks me for a recommendation on a Marxist work, I always direct them to Marxists.org

I strongly, strongly, strongly urge them to not go out and buy a book with a compilation of works.

For several reasons. Here they are:
1. Left-wing literature is profitable. Believe it or not, it's very profitable. It's not hard for a publishing company to slap on 3-4 works of Lenin with nothing new added in and sell it for $30. And people will unfortunately buy it. Either they don't know about Marxists.org or maybe they're new to Marxism. Whatever reason it may be. The Socialist Workers Party USA actually owns a publishing company. They charge a lot of money for works of Marx, Lenin, and Trotsky. A lot of money. Especially for Trotsky. For a 200 page book, they'll charge you $25 + shipping. They even went as far as suing Marxists.org for publishing Trotsky's writings for free. It's true. The party is a revisionist party that has abandoned socialism and embraced Fidel Castro 30 years ago. The party leaders are a couple who own the publishing house. Last year they sold their condo in Manhattan for $2 million dollars. Their publishing company is Pathfinder Press. Stay away from it.

2. a. Editors. You cannot trust the editors. Firstly, there is a parasite that has been going around ever since Engels died. This parasite is known as Social Democracy aka democratic socialism. Over time, social democrats have taken Marx out of Marxism. It is no longer Marxism and this is why I call democratic socialism bourgeois socialism. That is fact. Social democrats decided to ignore and forget about 3/4ths of Marx's literature and focus on a few of his early philosophical works. They believe in reforming capitalism through peaceful "democratic" means. They may be socialists in words, but in deeds they are simply capitalist ministers. This is why the Russian Social Democratic Party of Labour split in 1903 into the Bolshevik and Menshevik camps. Mensheviks believed in parliamentarism, an open party that anybody can join, and later defending their country in WW1. They ignored what Marx wrote about how socialist society is meant to function in his works concerning The Paris Commune. Lenin did not. Socialist Party USA is one of these social democratic organizations.

b. Liberal editors. Liberals could publish some stuff, take it out of context, and give their own incorrect biased interpretation of it. I read one compilation that compared Marxism to religion throughout.

c. Stalinists. Stalinism and Maoism are still very popular in left-wing politics. Anybody supportive of Cuba, Vietnam, Laos, North Korea, China, etc are all Stalinists. They prefer to call themselves Marxist-Leninists. If you ever see this term, steer clear of it. If these editors publish works of Marx and Lenin, they will purposely take things out of context to somehow justify or give a positive image of Stalin, Mao, and Castro. Yes, Engel's wrote a short article called On Authority. If you take a few sentences out of the last paragraph out of context, anybody could justify mass murder.

That is why I recommend Marxists.org whenever somebody asks me. I learned the hard way.

But I can't always sit in front of a computer and read. It's uncomfortable and you could easily lose your place. I commute a lot and therefore do not feel like printing out dozens and dozens of pages This is why for a while now I've only been purchasing the official works.

Firstly, these books have been out of print for a long period of time. The only people who sell them are people cleaning out their house or a small bookstore. I'm not talking about a massive corporation like Barnes & Noble. I'm talking about a small business, and there is nothing wrong with a small business. Secondly, because it's used it's cheap. You get more for your money by purchasing an edition that is part of the Collected or Selected Works. A $15 collected work will feature more information than a $30 liberal bastardization ever will. Thirdly, you yourself can interpret the text only if you are smart and ignore the Stalinist editors. Most of these were published by the Soviet Union's international publishing organization known as Progress Publishers. The text is unchanged. The editions are practically all the same with the only difference being anti-something propaganda because this person or thing was at-the-time the "enemy" of the Soviet state. Ignore the preface, ignore the footnotes that weren't written by the original author, and ignore the minor biographical sketches in the back and you're good to go. These are the same versions that Marxists.org put up on their site.

These are the best translations and the best versions you will ever find. And because you are ignoring the Stalinist drivel included as propaganda, you are then left to your own interpretation. You don't have a filthy social democrat telling you Marx believed in evolution not revolution. You don't have a "Marxist-Leninist" justifying Stalin's mass murder. And you don't have a liberal taking things out of context trying to incorrectly prove that communism is a silly utopia.