Marxism.ca

A hub featuring links to selected resources about Marxism compiled by Connexions.

Major Sites

Marxists Internet Archive - Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.

Marxmail - The Marxism list is a worldwide moderated forum for activists and scholars in the Marxist tradition who favor a non-sectarian and non-dogmatic approach. It puts a premium on independent thought and rigorous but civil debate.

Marxism Page - Information about Marxism, and some Marxists classics. Marxism is understood here as the theory and practice of working class self-emancipation. "This theoretical and political tradition is radically different from the way Marxism is generally described by both critics and many 'adherents' who identify Marxism with the repressive state capitalist regimes that used to dominate Russia and eastern Europe and still hold sway in China, North Korea, Vietnam and Cuba."

Connexions - A library of progressive materials including a links and resources section, and the archive of The Red Menace, a libertarian socialist newsletter.

Periodicals and more Web sites

News and Letters - A newspaper written from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.

Alternatives Information - Free online library of social change materials.

Selected articles

Selected quotes

“In place of the old bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonisms, we shall have an association in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.”
- Karl Marx & Friendrich Engels, 1848

“Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past.
The tradition of all dead generations weighs like an nightmare on the brains of the living.”
- Karl Marx, 1852

“The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society. Production by an isolated individual outside society ... is as much of an absurdity as is the development of language without individuals living together and talking to each other.”
- Karl Marx, 1857

“Society does not consist of individuals, but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.”
- Karl Marx, 1857

“No social order is ever destroyed before all the productive forces for which it is sufficient have been developed, and new superior relations of production never replace older ones before the material conditions for their existence have matured within the framework of the old society. Mankind thus inevitably sets itself only such tasks as it is able to solve, since closer examination will always show that the problem itself arises only when the material conditions for its solution are already present or at least in the course of formation.”
- Karl Marx, 1859

“A commodity appears, at first sight, a very trivial thing, and easily understood. Its analysis shows that it is, in reality, a very queer thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.”
- Karl Marx, Capital, Chapter One

“Capital is dead labour, that, vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks.”
- Karl Marx, Capital, Chapter 10 ]

“In every stockjobbing swindle every one knows that some time or other the crash must come, but every one hopes that it may fall on the head of his neighbour, after he himself has caught the shower of gold and placed it in safety. Après moi le déluge! is the watchword of every capitalist and of every capitalist nation. Hence Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the labourer, unless under compulsion from society.”
- Karl Marx, Capital Chapter 10

“On the level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the imbecile flatness of the present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.”
- Karl Marx, Capital Chapter 16

“In a higher phase of communist society, ... ? only then then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be crossed in its entirety and society inscribe on its banners: From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs!”
- Karl Marx, Capital 1875

“Every step of real movement is more important than a dozen programmes.”
- Karl Marx, Letter to Bracke, 1875

“For nearly 40 years we have raised to prominence the idea of the class struggle as the immediate driving force of history, and particularly the class struggle between bourgeois and the proletariat as the great lever of the modern social revolution; ... At the founding of the International, we expressly formulated the battle cry: The emancipation of the working class must be the work of the working class itself.”
- Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, 1879

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