A Democratic Socialist’s Almanac is a podcast exploring all things relevant to Socialism today, from the latest scholarship regarding the socialist tradition to socialist reflections on our current moment and where to go from here. Below is a partial prospectus with a subject by subject bibliography. Written by Lelyn R. Masters with a Memphis Music Soundtrack by Harry KoniditsiotisMarx’s EpicurianismFusaro, Diego. Marx, Epicurus, and the Origins of Historical Materialism. Permanent Press, 2017.The French and Haitian RevolutionsDavidson, Ian. The French Revolution: From Enlightenment to Tyranny. Profile Books, 2016.Furet, François, and Karl Marx. Marx and the French Revolution. University of Chicago Press, 1988.Israel, Jonathan. Revolutionary ideas: an intellectual history of the French Revolution from the Rights of Man to Robespierre. Princeton University Press, 2015.James, Cyril Lionel Robert. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution. Penguin UK, 2001.Scott, Julius S. The common wind: Afro-American currents in the age of the Haitian Revolution. Verso Books, 2018.Not Marx’s CapitalAnderson, Kevin B. Marx at the margins: on nationalism, ethnicity, and non-western societies. University of Chicago Press, 2016.Israel, Jonathan I. The Enlightenment that Failed: Ideas, Revolution, and Democratic Defeat, 1748-1830. Oxford University Press, 2019.Marik, Soma. Revolutionary Democracy: Emancipation in Classical Marxism. Haymarket Books, 2018.Rosenberg, Arthur. Democracy and socialism: a contribution to the political history of the past 150 years. Beacon Press, 1939.Eternal Life, Abolition and ClassBrooks, Kinitra D. Searching for Sycorax: Black Women's Hauntings of Contemporary Horror. Rutgers University Press, 2018.Carruthers, Charlene. Unapologetic: A Black, queer, and feminist mandate for radical movements. Beacon Press, 2018.Du Bois, W. E. B. Black Reconstruction In America: An Essay Toward A History Of The Part Which Black Folk Played In The Attempt To Reconstruct Democracy In America, 1860-1880. New York: Russell & Russell [1966, c1935. Print.Foner, Eric. The second founding: How the civil war and reconstruction remade the constitution. WW Norton & Company, 2019.Nadler, Steven. "Spinoza's' Ethics': An Introduction." (2006).World War I, Original Sin and Karl KautskyClark, Christopher M. Iron kingdom: the rise and downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947. Harvard University Press, 2006.Clark, Christopher. The sleepwalkers: How Europe went to war in 1914. Penguin UK, 2012.Donald, Moira. Marxism and Revolution: Karl Kautsky and the Russian Marxists, 1900-1924. Yale University Press, 1993.McMeekin, Sean. The Russian Origins of the First World War. Harvard University Press, 2011.Spinoza, Baruch. Spinoza: Complete Works. Hackett Publishing, 2002.Nero, Oreste, Stalin, TrotskyDeutsher, J. "The prophet armed." (1979).Deutscher, Isaac. The prophet unarmed: Trotsky, 1921-1929. Verso, 2003.Sgambato-Ledoux, Isabelle. Oreste et Néron. Spinoza, Freud et le mal. Classiques Garnier, 2017.Trotsky, Leon. History of the Russian revolution. Haymarket Books, 2008.Broué, Pierre. Communistes contre Staline. Fayard, 2003.The Spanish Civil War ReconsideredBeevor, Anthony. "The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936–1939 (London, 2006), 106–7 and 269–70 and Albertí." La Iglesia en llamas: 277-86.Graham, Helen. The Spanish Republic at War 1936-1939. Cambridge University Press, 2002.McKay, Claude. Amiable with Big Teeth. Penguin, 2017.Morrow, Felix. Revolution & Counter Revolution in Spain. Pathfinder Press, 1974.Orwell, George. Homage to Catalonia/Down and Out in Paris and London. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016.A Guide to High MaoismIsaacs, Harold Robert. The tragedy of the Chinese revolution. Haymarket Books, 2010.Lovell, Julia. Maoism: A Global History. Random House, 2019.A History of the Russian Revolution as if Ukraine MatteredRaleigh, Donald J. Provincial landscapes: local dimensions of Soviet power, 1917-1953. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001.Serge, Victor. Midnight in the Century. New York Review of Books, 2014.Snyder, Timothy. Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin. Random House, 2011.Snyder, Timothy, and Tony Judt. Thinking the twentieth century. Random House, 2013.From the Black Panther Party to Ta Nehisi-Coates, a Vanguard in our timeBloom, Joshua, Waldo E. Martin Jr, and Waldo E. Martin. Black against empire: The history and politics of the Black Panther Party. Univ of California Press, 2016.Coates, Ta-Nehisi. Between the world and me. Text publishing, 2015.APAJohnson, Cedric. Revolutionaries to race leaders: Black power and the making of African American politics. U of Minnesota Press, 2007.McWhorter, Ladelle. Racism and sexual oppression in Anglo-America: A genealogy. Indiana University Press, 2009.Perry, Ravi K. Black mayors, white majorities: The balancing act of racial politics. U of Nebraska Press, 2013.Rothstein, Richard. The color of law: A forgotten history of how our government segregated America. Liveright Publishing, 2017.The 2016 Election, A Fascist in the White HouseCrenshaw, Kimberle, eds. Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed The Movement. New York : New Press : 1995.Gessen, Masha. The future is history: How totalitarianism reclaimed Russia. Granta Books, 2017.Jamieson, Kathleen Hall. "Cyberwar." How Russian hackers and trolls helped elect a president (2018).Lewis, Michael. The fifth risk: undoing democracy. Penguin UK, 2018.Pomerantsev, Peter. Nothing is true and everything is possible: The surreal heart of the new Russia. Public Affairs, 2014.Snyder, Timothy. The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America. Tim Duggan Books, 2018.Wadhia, Shoba Sivaprasad. "National Security, Immigration and the Muslim Bans." Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 75 (2018): 1475.The Syrian RevolutionAbouzeid, Rania. No Turning Back: Life, Loss, and Hope in Wartime Syria. WW Norton & Company, 2018.Anderson, Eric A. The role of the military in Syria: the Shishakli years (1949-1954). Diss. 1971. al-Dik, Majd and Nathalie Bontemps (tr). A l'est de Damas, au bout du monde. Témoignage d'un révolutionnaire syrien: Témoignage d'un révolutionnaire syrien. Don Quichotte, 2016.Batatu, Hanna. Syria's peasantry, the descendants of its lesser rural notables, and their politics. Princeton University Press, 1999.Dagher, Sam. Assad Or We Burn the Country: How One Family's Lust for Power Destroyed Syria. Hachette UK, 2019.Hourani, Albert. A history of the Arab peoples: Updated edition. Faber & Faber, 2013.Kassab, Elizabeth Suzanne. Enlightenment on the Eve of Revolution: The Egyptian and Syrian Debates. Columbia University Press, 2019. Majed, Ziad. Syrie, la révolution orpheline. Éditions Actes Sud, 2018.Memmi, Albert. Decolonization and the Decolonized. U of Minnesota Press, 2006.Memmi, Albert. The colonizer and the colonized. Routledge, 2013.Minoui, Delphine. Les Passeurs de livres de Daraya: Une biblioteque secrete en Syrie. Editions du Seuil, 2017.Pearlman, Wendy R. We crossed a bridge and it trembled: Voices from Syria. Custom House, 2017.Rogan, Eugene. The Arabs: a history. Basic Books, 2012.Sentence to Hope: A Sa'dallah Wannous Reader. Yale University Press, 2019.Singh, Naunihal. Seizing power: The strategic logic of military coups. JHU Press, 2014.Sirees, Nihad. The Silence and the Roar. Pushkin Press, 2013.Yassin-Kassab, Robin, and Leila Al-Shami. Burning country: Syrians in revolution and war. Pluto Press, 2018.Yazbek, Samar. The Crossing: My journey to the shattered heart of Syria. Rider Books, 2015.And Much More!