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- Albert, Michael , Hahnel , Robin: Socialism in Theory and Practice
Vol 1: Marxism and Socialist Theory
Resource Type: Book - Albert, Michael , Hahnel , Robin: Socialism in Theory and Practice
Vol 2 : Socialism Today and Tommorow
Resource Type: Book - Ali, Tariq: Street Fighting Years
An Autobiography of the Sixties
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1987
Tariq Ali takes readers through the fortunes of the British anti-war movement and the other political movements of the Sixties. - Anderson, Kevin; Hudis, Peter (ed.): The Rosa Luxemburg Reader
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2004
A definitive one-volume collection of Luxemburg's writings. - Aronowitz, Stanley: The Crisis In Historical Materialism
Class , Politics and Culture in Marxist Theory
Resource Type: Book - Aronowitz, Stanley: Working Class Hero
A New Strategy for Labor
Resource Type: Book
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- Barker, Jonathan; Cwikowski, Christine; Gombay, Kathrine; Shettima, Kole; Sundar, Aparna: Street Level Democracy
Political Settings at the Margins of Global Power
Resource Type: Book - Berman, Marshall: Adventures in Marxism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1999
Marshall Berman explores and rejoices in the emancipatory potential of Marxism. - Berman, Marshall: All That Is Solid Melts Into Air
The Experience of Modernity
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1988
Berman examines the clash of classes, histories, and clutures in the modern world, and ponders our prospects for coming to terms with the relationship between a liberating social and philosophical idealism and a complex, bureaucratic materialism. - Brecher, Jeremy: Strike!
The True History of Mass Insurgence from 1877 to the Present
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1997
A history-from-below that brings to light strikes as authentic revolutionary movements against the establishments of state, capital, and trade unionism. - Brecher, Jeremy: Who Advocates Spontaneity?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1973
The working class can come to understand its power to act only by acting. - Brecher, Jeremy and Costello, Tim (ed.): Building Bridges
The Emerging Grassroots Coalition of Labor and Community
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1990 - Brecher, Jeremy; Childs, John Brown; Cutler, Jill: Global Visions
Beyond the News World Order
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
This book seeks to establish how our diverse globalizing world can be turned into a common home. The authors create a dialogue about the two types of globalization occurring in the world: globalization from above and globalization from below. - Brecher, Jeremy; Costello, Tim: Common Sense for Hard Times
The Power of the Powerless to Cope with Everyday life and Transform Society in The Nineteen Seventies
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1976
Presents a vision of society as it is and as it could be. Putting the problems of contemporary daily life in historical perspective, it reveals that they have their roots in the way our society is organized, and thereby enables us to re-examine our own situation and experience.
- Brecher, Jeremy; Costello, Tim; Smith, Brendan: Globalization from Below
The power of solidarity
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2002
When tens of thousands of protestors brought the World Trade Organization in Seattle to a halt in November 1999, it marked the "coming out party" for a new global movement. Globalization from Below: The Power of Solidaritydraws on the history of past movements and their own experience as activists to propose strategies for building this powerful coalition into a successful movement for global democratization. - Bronner, Stephen Eric: A Revolutionary for our Times: Rosa Luxemburg
Resource Type: Book
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- Chomsky, Noam: The Soviet Union Versus Socialism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1986
Noam Chomsky explores the relationship between the two great systems of propaganda - socialism and the society created by Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin. In response to a certain doctrine assuming a relationship between the two, Chomsky argues that if this is indeed true, it is the relationship of contradiction. - Cleaver, Harry: Autonomist Marxism Course Outline
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
An outline of currents of thought and readings related to autonomist Marxism. The term autonomis" is used to designate a dominan characteristic of this particular tradition of radical political thought: the emphasis on the autonomy of the working class in its struggle against capital as well as on the autonomy of various groups of workers vis a vis others of their class. - Cliff, Tony: Rosa Luxemburg
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1969
A personification of the unity of theory and practice, Rosa Luxemburg’s life and work require a description of her activities as well as her thoughts – they are inseparable.
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- Diemer, Ulli: Against All Odds
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1985
The shadow haunting the power structure is the danger that those who are controlled will realize they are powerless only so long as they think they are. Once people stop believing they are powerless the whole edifice is in danger of collapse. - Diemer, Ulli: Anarchism vs. Marxism: A few notes on an old theme
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1978
Anarchist critiques of Marxism typically reveal a lack of knowledge of what Karl Marx actually wrote, resulting in sterile denunciations of a straw-man opponent. - Diemer, Ulli: Anarquismo vs. Marxismo
Algunas notas sobre un tema antiguo
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1978
Un movimiento que desdeña la teoría y adora las acciones sin crítica, el anarquismo sigue siendo un edificio tambaleante consistente de varios pedazos de análisis marxista, reforzando unos preceptos tácticos inflexibles. - Diemer, Ulli: Bain Co-op Meets Wages for Housework
A political thriller
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1977
The story of the struggle that gave birth to a housing co-operative and destroyed the credibility of the 'Wages for Housework' sect. - Diemer, Ulli: Bakunin vs. Marx
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1978
El movimiento anarquista que apadrinó ha sido plagado por la misma polaridad, por la tensión entre el liberalismo real en un lado y algunas veces la irresistible atracción del anti-intelectualismo, terrorismo y conspiración en el otro. - Diemer, Ulli: Bakunin vs. Marx
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1978
The anarchist-Marxist split started with Bakunin, who systematically misrepresented Marx's positions. - Diemer, Ulli: Contamination: The Poisonous Legacy of Ontario's Environmental Cutbacks
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2000
The story of Ontario's right-way Harris government, which gutted health and environmental protection polices, leading to the Walkerton water disaster. - Diemer, Ulli: Contre vents et marées
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1984 - Diemer, Ulli: Dances with Guilt: Looking at Men Looking at Violence
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1991
Why are some men violent? - Diemer, Ulli: 'Free speech' - as long as it doesn't offend anyone
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
On the issue of free speech most of the right and much of the left are in agreement, and so too are many liberals, activists, and human rights apparatchiks. They hold essentially the same position on freedom of expression – they are for it ‘in principle’, but only so long as it isn’t used to express views that they find unacceptable or offensive. What they disagree about is merely who gets to decide what ideas are unacceptable, i.e., who gets to censor who. - Diemer, Ulli: Green Municipalism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1991
A green municipalist analysis offers valuable perspectives but can become a straightjacket if it is seen as 'the' answer. - Diemer, Ulli: Hungary 1956: A workers' revolt crushed by the "workers' state"
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1973
The Hungarian revolution, brief though it was, did as much as a century of socialist theorizing to show what a united and determined people could do to transform their society. - Diemer, Ulli: Inclusion or exclusion
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2008
People who advocate a vision of distinct communities that speak different languages, keep apart from each other, and communicate with the structures of the larger society only through interpreters, are doing more harm than good. What they are advocating is not diversity but entrenched division. - Diemer, Ulli: Let's Stop Kidding Ourselves About the NDP
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1989
Canadian socialists are terribly reluctant to give up their illusions about the NDP. - Diemer, Ulli: Rosa Luxemburg
A letter about Rosa Luxemburg's contribution to Marxism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2000
In a time when the socialist movement was evolving in directions increasingly removed from Marx's positions -- Social Democratic reformism on the one hand, and Leninist bureaucratic centralism on the other -- Luxemburg was the leading exponent of a Marxism in the spirit of Marx. - Diemer, Ulli: New Hogtown Press
After Retrenchment, A Few Steps Forward
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1975
A profile of New Hogtown Press, a radical book and pamphlet publisher and distributor. - Diemer, Ulli: One Vote for Democracy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1986
Makes the case that the democratic model is better than the consensus model for activist group decision-making. - Diemer, Ulli: One Vote for Democracy - Chinese text
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1986 - Diemer, Ulli: Que es el Socialismo Libertario?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1977 - Diemer, Ulli: Radical Digressions
Resource Type: Internet WWW site
Published: 2009
Ulli Diemer's Notebook: events and comment from a left perspective. - Diemer, Ulli: Radical Newspapers
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1979
A radical newspaper succeeds to the extent that in engages in dialogue with its readers and community, rather than in preaching. - Diemer, Ulli: Réflections sur l'autodétermination
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1994
Pour Panitch et ses compagnons l'autodétermination n'a qu'un seul sens: celui de la sécession. Ils disent aux Quebécois: "Vous avez le droit de partir. Alors dépêchez-vous!" Il ne leur passe pas par la tête que les Quebécois peuvent choisir une option différente de celle de la sécession. - Diemer, Ulli: Rosa Luxemburg's contribución al Marxismo
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2000
Yo veo a Rosa Luxemburg como la marxista qui#n hizo lo mas que pudo para mostrar la teor#a-revolucionaria de Karl Marxs en el periodo despu#s de la muerte de Marx y Engels. - Diemer, Ulli: Tactics of Desperation: Using false accusations of ‘anti-Semitism’ - Arabic text
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009 - Diemer, Ulli: Tactics of desperation: Using false accusations of 'anti-semitism' as a weapon to silence criticism of Israel's behaviour
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
The Israeli state and its defenders are increasingly attempting to silence critics because they are losing the battle for public opinion. - Diemer, Ulli: Thinking About Self-Determination
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1994
Does that familiar canon of the left, 'the right to self-determination', actually mean anything, or is it an empty slogan whose main utility is that it relieves us of the trouble of thinking critically? - Diemer, Ulli: Trotskyism and the vanguard party
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1974
One of the most consistent achievements of the Trotskyists over the years has been to drive people away from radical politics. The number of burned-out and alienated ex-Trotskyists greatly exceeds the number of active Trotskyists. Their transparently manipulative tactics in the organizations they infiltrate tend to drive ordinary members away, forever wary of anyone identified as a Trotskyist. - Diemer, Ulli: Un vote pour la démocratie
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1988
Les groupes démocratiques sont mieux équipés pour traiter les problèmes de procédés. Ceci est parce que la démocratie permet un groupe pour procéder avec ce qu'il veut faire devant les gens qui sont peu coopératif, odieux ou insensible. - Diemer, Ulli: What Do We Do Now? Building a Social Movement in the Aftermath of Free Trade
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1989
We have the potential to create a social movement in this country that goes beyond single-issue organizing to work toward an integrated vision of a more just and caring society. - Diemer, Ulli: What is Libertarian Socialism?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1977
Revolution is a collective process of self-liberation: people and societies are transformed through their struggles for freedom and for a better world. - Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Israel/Palestine: Resources for peace, justice, and human rights
Resource Type: Internet WWW site
Published: 2009
A selection of resources for those looking for a solution to the Middle East crisis based on peace, justice, and human rights. - Draper, Hal: The ABC of National Liberation Movements
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1969
A war is politics continued by other, that is forcible, means. Our attitude toward a war must be congruent with our attitude toward the politics of which it is the continuation. This determines our principled position on the question of whether to support or oppose a given war – not primarily our opinion of the men, the government or the class leading the war, not our opinion of their past or present crimes. The latter considerations will be very relevant to how we support or oppose a war, but not to whether we do. - Draper, Hal: Anatomy of the Micro-Sect
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1973
Is there an alternative to the sect mode of organization which dominates the whole history of American socialism, past and present? - Draper, Hal: Berkeley: The New Student Revolt
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1965
- Draper, Hal: Civil Liberties in the Fight Against Fascism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1945
Fighting against an evil, like anti-Semitism or racial hatred, does not mean calling on the state to suppress the evil. - Draper, Hal: The Death of the State in Marx and Engels
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1970
Surveys the thinking of Marx and Engels on the “dying-away” of the state in socialist (communist) society. - Draper, Hal: How to Defend Israel
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1948
Out of the night of national hatred in Palestine, from the ranks of the working class there, there can arise a real Zion – a Middle East in which Jew and Arab build together a workers’ world without exploitation and oppression. - Draper, Hal: The “Inevitability of Socialism”
The Meaning of a Much Abused Formula
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1947
It is our conviction that the socialist revolution will triumph. There is no question of “equal possibility.” But this conviction is based on an examination of evidence – in the first place, upon our Marxist analysis of the social forces at work, the truth of which, like all human truth, is tested and confirmed only in practice (in struggle). It is not the same as saying that the socialist revolution is inevitable. - Draper, Hal: Israel's Arab Minority: The Beginning of a Tragedy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1956
Without in the least derogating this moral indignation at the treatment of the Arab minority, which is richly justified, one aspect of the denunciation misses the mark. The moral indignation should not be visited in the first place against the miserable, harassed, driven Jewish DPs from Europe who, in their fear and need, were used as pawns to grab the land and property of the dispossessed Arabs. They were steered and pushed into this position by those who knew what they were doing – Zionist arms like the Jewish Agency, Zionist authorities in the armed forces and government, both by design and by toleration.
Zionism – the ideology of Jewish chauvinism – showed that it was and is one of the deeply reactionary conceptions of the political world. The child of anti-Semitism, it became the father of another form of ethnic oppression; if genocide means the murder of a people as such, then there should be a word for the robbery of a people as such.
What Zionism created in Palestine in 1948 was the first act of a tragedy. - Draper, Hal: Israel’s Arab Minority: The Great Land Robbery
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1957
Something that is disturbing about those Israeli liberals who do tell the truth about the Arab minority is that they tend to pass the guilt off onto the backs of “the Jewish people.” They ask how could “the Jewish people” do this to “a helpless minority” when it has itself been the victim of robbery and exploitation and has so often vowed itself to righteousness and justice? One must respect the motives of this breast-beating, but the content is distressing. It was not “the Jewish people” who did this but the Zionist authorities, the Zionist movement, and the Zionist government that bear the responsibility; and the difference is enormous. - Draper, Hal: Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
Volume I: State and Bureaucracy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1977
A wide-ranging and thorough exposition of Marx's views on democracy. - Draper, Hal: Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
Volume II: The Politics of Social Classes
Resource Type: Book
Draper ranges through the development of the thought of Marx and Engels on the role of classes in society. - Draper, Hal: Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
Volume III: The Dictatorship of the Proletariat
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1986
Hal Draper examines how Marx and Marxism dealt with the issue of dictatorship in relation to the revolutionary use of force and repression, particularly as this debate has centered on the use of the term "dictatorship of the proletariat." Draper strips away the layers of misinterpretation and misinformation that have accumulated over the years to show what Marx and Engels themselves meant by the term. - Draper, Hal: Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
Volume IV: Critique of Other Socialisms
Resource Type: Book - Draper, Hal: Marx and the Economic-Jew Stereotype
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1977
The real Jewish question in Marx's time was: For or against the political emancipation of the Jews? For or against equal rights for Jews? - Draper, Hal: Marx-Engels Chronicle, The
A Day-by-Day Chronology of Marx and Engels' Life and Activity. Vol. 1 of the Marx-Engels Cyclopedia
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1985
- Draper, Hal: Marx-Engels Glossary, The
Glossary to the Chronicle & Register, & Index to the Glossary. Vol. 2 of the Marx-Engels Cyclopedia
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1986
- Draper, Hal: Marx-Engels Register, The
A Complete Bibliography of Marx Engels' Individual Writings. Vol. 3 of the Marx-Engels Cyclopedia
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1985
- Draper, Hal: Marx on Democratic Forms of Government
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1974
Marx’s socialism (communism) as a political programme may be most quickly defined, from the Marxist standpoint, as the complete democratization of society, not merely of political forms. For Marx, the fight for democratic forms of government – democratization in the state – was a leading edge of the socialist effort; not its be-all and end-all but an integral part of it all. - Draper, Hal: Marxism and the Trade Unions
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1970
Draper argues that essentially, no Marxist group has ever carried on any systematic revolutionary work in trade unions. - Draper, Hal: The Mind of Clark Kerr
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1964
The Compleat Bureaucrat does not approve of moral indignation or of political protest and struggle, not because he is cruel and unfeeling, but simply because these phenomena do not file neatly; they cannot be efficiently punched onto IBM cards; they upset routine; they raise non-regulation questions; they cannot be budgeted for in advance; they are refractory to manipulation. - Draper, Hal: The Myth of Lenin’s “Concept of The Party”
What They Did to What Is To Be Done?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1990
Lenin protested more than once that his initial formulations in WITBD were being distorted and misinterpreted by opponents, after which he went on to clarify and modify. If we want to know Lenin’s “concept of the party” we must look at the formulations he came to, after there had been discussions and attacks. - Draper, Hal: The Myth of Lenin’s “Revolutionary Defeatism”
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1954
Lenin discovered in practice that the defeat-slogan was incompatible with a living Marxist approach to the problem of the defense of the nation, conceived not in the social-patriotic sense of the “defense of the fatherland” but in the light of a Marxist class understanding of, and a dynamically revolutionary program for, the nation. - Draper, Hal: The Principle of Self-Emancipation in Marx and Engels
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1971
For Marx and Engels, there was a direct relationship between the revolutionary (literally subversive) nature of their socialism and the principle of emancipation-from-below, the principle that, as Engels wrote, “there is no concern for ... gracious patronage from above.”
Marxism, as the theory and practice of the proletarian revolution, therefore also had to be the theory and practice of the self-emancipation of the proletariat. Its essential originality flows from this source. - Draper, Hal: Statement of Principles of the Independent Socialist Club
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1964
Our view of socialism is both democratic and revolutionary, both humanist and working class; and it is only as a revolutionary-democratic movement of opposition to the Establishments that socialism can present a third choice for the world, a choice for a new world of freedom, peace and security. - Draper, Hal: The Student Movement of the Thirties
A Political History
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1965
Most of the references one hears to the student movement of the thirties, and most published references too, are quite wrong in one basic respect: they speak as if “the thirties” represented a single, homogeneous period for the student movement. But the biggest single fact about the history of this movement is that it went through a sweeping change in spirit, methods, and politics, which changed its face completely in mid-course. - Draper, Hal: Toward a New Beginning - On Another Road
The Alternative to the Micro-Sect
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1970
To Marx, any organization was a sect if it set up any special set of view (including Marx’s views) as its organizational boundary; if it made this special set of views the determinant of its organizational form.
Neither Marx nor Engels ever formed or wanted to form a “Marxist” group of any kind – that is, a membership group based on an exclusively Marxist program. All of their organizational activity was pointed along a different road. - Draper, Hal: The Two Souls of Socialism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1970
Socialism from Above vs. Socialism from Below. - Draper, Hal; Lipow, Anne G.: Marxist Women versus Bourgeois Feminism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1976
The texts presented here are intended to revive acquaintance with a revolutionary women’s movement which was undoubtedly the most important one of the kind that has yet been seen. Yet it has been so thoroughly dropped down the Memory Hole that even mention of its existence is hard to find. - Draper, Theodore: American Communism and Soviet Russia
The Formative Period
Resource Type: Book
- Dunayevskaya, Raya: Marxism and Freedom
From 1776 to Today
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1971
Dunayevskaya argues that Marx's theory is the generalisation of the instinctive striving of the proletariat for a new social order, a truly human society. - Dunayevskaya, Raya: Rosa Luxemburg, Women's Liberation, and Marx's Philosophy of Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1982
Part I - Rosa Luxemburg as Theoretician, as Activist, as Internationalist. Part II - The Women's Liberation Movement as Revolutionary Force and Reason. Part III - Karl Marx—From Critic of Hegel to Author of Capital and Theorist of "Revolution in Permanence." - Dunnington, C.: Why the Leninists will lose
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1978
The Leninist groups may still have the ability to disrupt the left, but they are long past the point of being able to achieve any kind of success in their own right.
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- Engels, Friedrich: The Condition of the Working Class in England
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1845 - Ettinger, Elzbeta: Rosa Luxemburg
A Life
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1986
A biography of the Marxist revolutionary.
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- Frolich, Paul: Rosa Luxemburg
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
A biography of Rosa Luxemburg written by a German revolutionary who worked with Luxemburg in the Spartacist organization.
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- Glaberman, Martin: Mao as a Dialectician
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1971
- Glaberman, Martin: Marxist Views of the Working Class
Resource Type: Audio - Glaberman, Martin: Structuralism as Defense of the Bureaucratic Status Quo
A Dialectical Critique of Althusserian Theory
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974 - Glaberman, Martin: Wartime Strikes
The struggle against the no-strike pledge in the UAW during World War II
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1980 - Glaberman, Martin: The Working Class and Social Change
Four Essays on the Working Class
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1975
A study of "The Working Class," and the complexities of its definition as economic categories diffused from profound bases of social demarcation during the 1960's. - Goldner, Loren: Break Their Haughty Power
Resource Type: Internet WWW site
Articles on capitalism, socialism, and revolution, from a left-Marxist perspective. - Goldner, Loren: Fictitious Capital for Beginners
Imperialism, “Anti-Imperialism”, and the Continuing Relevance of Rosa Luxemburg
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2007
Rosa Luxemburg's framework enabled her to see how capitalism could ultimately destroy society — barbarism, in her words, or the “mutual destruction of the contending classes” as the Communist Manifesto put it in 1847 — by being required to turn more and more to primitive accumulation and non-reproduction, a prophecy we see materializing before our eyes today. - Goldner, Loren: Multiculturalism or World Culture?
On a "Left"-Wing Response to Contemporary Social Breakdown
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2000
Post-modernists are profoundly bored by any questions of economics and technology which cannot be connected to cultural differences. The implicit agenda of the multiculturalists is to present the values associated with intensive capitalist accumulation as "white male", so "non-white" peoples such as Japanese or Koreans who currently embody those values with a greater fervour than most "whites" are ignored. - Goldner, Loren: “Socialism in One Country” Before Stalin, and the Origins of Reactionary “Anti-Imperialism”
The Case of Turkey, 1917-1925
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
Today's climate of "anti-imperialism" compels us to turn back to the history of such a profoundly reactionary ideology, deeply anti-working class both in the “advanced” and “underdeveloped” countries, by which any force, no matter how retrograde, that turns a gun against a Western power becomes “progressive” and worthy of “critical” or “military” support, or for the less subtle, simply “support”. - Guerin, Daniel: Fascism and Big Busness
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
A history of the rise of fascism in Europe and the role of big business in supporting fascism.
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- Harvey, David: Introduction to Marx’s Capital
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2009
This book is aimed to guide the first time reader through a difficult and intricate text. Harvey makes CAPITAL relevant to the understanding of contemporary capitalism. - Haug, Wolfgang Fritz (ed.): Historical-Critical Dictionary of Marxism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1994
12 volumes - Hobsbawm, Eric: Age of Extremes
The Short Twentieth Century 1914 - 1991
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1997
A overview of the history of the years 1914 - 1991. - Howard, Dick, Klare, Karl E.: The Unknown Dimension
European Marxism Since Lenin
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
The radical intellectual tradition of European post-Leninist Marxism, so different from the dogma of the orthodox leftist parties, is an unknowwn dimension. This anthology sets out to recover this Marxist tradition and to restore the centrality of Marxist revolutionary thought and practice. - Hutnyk, John: Bad Marxism
Capitalism and Cultural Studies
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2004
Cultural Studies commonly claims to be a radical discipline. This book thinks that's a bad assessment. After an introduction critiquing the 'Marxism' of the academy, Hutnyk provides detailed critical analyses of the approaches and theorists of cultural studies.
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- Inti: On the Question of Revolutionary Organization: the Case of the NPA in France
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
The challenge of creating an anti-bureaucratic, democratic revolutionary socialist party.
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- Jacobs, Ron: Rosa Luxemburg's Shock Doctrine
The "Hideous Nakedness" of Imperial Wars
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2008
Luxemburg’s discussion regarding capitalism and democracy speaks to the world we live in today. Imperial war, she wrote, shows capitalism in “all its hideous nakedness.” This bloody nakedness is not only essential to capitalist development, but depends on it. Indeed, it is the most cataclysmic and radical of all capitalist shocks. - James, C.L.R.: After Ten Years
On Trotsky’s The Revolution Betrayed
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1946 - James, C.L.R.: The Black Jacobins
Toussaint L'Overture and the San Domingo Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1963
An account of the Haitian Revolution of 1791-1803. - James, C.L.R., Lee, Grace C., Chaulieu, Pierre: Facing Reality
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
Inspired by the October 1956 Hungarian workers' revolution against Stalinist oppression, as well as the U.S. workers' "wild-cat" strikes (against capital and the union bureaucracies), the authors looked ahead to the rise of new mass emancipatory movements by African Americans as well as anti-colonialist/anti-imperialist currents in Africa and Asia. Virtually alone among the radical texts of the time, Facing Reality also rejected modern society's mania for "conquering nature," and welcomed women's struggles "for new relations between the sexes." - James, C.L.R.; Austin, David: You Don't Play With Revolution
The Montreal Lectures of C.L.R. James
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2009
A collection of never-before-published lectures by the Marxist cultural critic C.L.R. James, delivered in Canada in 1967-68, at the height of James's political maturity. - James, C.L.R.; Glaberman, Martin: Marxism and the Intellectuals
A review of Raymond Williams’ Culture and Society and The Long Revolution
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1962
Raymond Williams has shown the origins of British socialism in the history of Britain itself. He has concentrated on the manner in which British writers and the British workers have created what exists in Britain today. He has developed the idea of culture from an exclusive possession of the educated and intellectuals and shown that the only meaning the word has for today is a total way of life of the whole people.
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- Kinsman, Gary: Learning from Autonomous Marxism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2004 - Knabb, Ken: A Alegria da Revolução
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2007 - Korsch, Karl: Introduction to Capital
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1932
Marx’s book on capital, like Plato’s book on the state, like Machiavelli’s Prince and Rousseau’s Social Contract, owes its tremendous and enduring impact to the fact that it grasps and articulates, at a turning point of history, the full implications of the new force breaking in upon the old forms of life. All the economic, political, and social questions, upon which the analysis in Marx’s Capital theoretically devolves, are today world-shaking practical issues, over which the real-life struggle between great social forces, between states and classes, rages in every corner of the earth. - Korsch, Karl: Introduction to the Critique of the Gotha Programme
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Published: 1922
Next to the Communist Manifesto of 1847-8 and the ‘General Introduction’ to the Critique of Political Economy of 1857, the Critique of the Gotha Programme of 1875 is, of all Karl Marx’s shorter works, the most complete, lucid and forceful expression of the bases and consequences of his economic and social theory. - Korsch, Karl: Karl Marx
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1938
It is the purpose of this book to restate the most important principles and contents of Marx’s social science in the light of recent historical events and of the new theoretical needs which have arisen under the impact of those events. In so doing we shall deal throughout with the original ideas of Marx himself rather than with their subsequent developments brought about by the various “orthodox” and “revisionist,” dogmatic and critical, radical and moderate schools of the Marxists on the one hand, and their more or less violent critics and opponents on the other hand. - Korsch, Karl: Leading Principles of Marxism: A Restatement
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Published: 1937
Marx’s study of society is based upon a full recognition of the reality of historical change. Marx treats all conditions of existing bourgeois society as changing, ie more exactly, as conditions in the process of being changed by human actions. Bourgeois society is not, according to Marx, a general entity which can be replaced by another stage in a historical movement. It is both the result of an earlier phase and the starting point of a new phase, of the social class war which is leading to a social revolution. - Korsch, Karl: Lenin as Philosopher
Some additional remarks to Anton Pannekoek’s recent criticism of Lenin’s book Materialism and Empirio-Criticism
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Published: 1938
Both in his revolutionary materialist philosophy and m his revolutionary jacobinic politics, Lenin hid from himself the historical truth that his Russian revolution, in spite of a temporary attempt to break through its particular limitations in connection with the simultaneous revolutionary movement of the proletarian class in the West, was bound to remain in fact a belated successor of the great bourgeois revolutions of the past. - Korsch, Karl: Marxism and Philosophy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1970
- Korsch, Karl: The Marxism of the First International
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Published: 1924
On 28 September 1864 it was decided at an international meeting of workers in London to found the International Workingmen’s Association. On 25 July 1867, Karl Marx wrote the preface to the first edition of the first volume of Capital. Within one single period of history, in the 1860s, both aspects of Marxism attained their full realization: the new autonomous science of the working class attained its developed theoretical form in literature at the same time as the new autonomous movement of the proletariat achieved its practical form in history. - Korsch, Karl: A Non-Dogmatic Approach to Marxism
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Published: 1946
As against that altogether dogmatic approach which had already sterilized the revolutionary Marxist theory in all but a few phases of its century-long development in Europe, and by which the attempted extension of Marxism to the US has been blighted from the very beginning, it is here proposed to revindicate the critical, pragmatic, and activistic element which for all this has never been entirely eliminated from the social theory of Marx and which during the few short phases of its predominance has made that theory a most efficient weapon of the proletarian class struggle. - Korsch, Karl: The Present State of the Problem of ‘Marxism and Philosophy’
An Anti-Critique
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Published: 1930
A fundamental debate on the general state of modern Marxism has now begun, and there are many indications that despite secondary, transient or trivial conflicts, the real division on all major and decisive questions is between the old Marxist orthodoxy of Kautsky allied to the new Russian or ‘Leninist’ orthodoxy on the one side, and all critical and progressive theoretical tendencies in the proletarian movement today on the other side. - Korsch, Karl: Three Essays on Marxism
Leading Principles of Marxism; Introduction to Capital; Why I Am a Marxist
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
- Korsch, Karl: Why I am a Marxist
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1935
For the Marxist, there is no such thing as ‘Marxism’ in general any more than there is a ‘democracy’ in general, a ‘dictatorship’ in general or a ‘state’ in general. There is only a bourgeois state, a proletarian dictatorship or a fascist dictatorship, etc. And even these exist only at determinate stages of historical development, with corresponding historical characteristics, mainly economic, but conditioned also in part by geographical, traditional, and other factors. With the deferent levels of historical development, with the different environments of geographical distribution, with the well-known differences of creed and tendency among the various Marxist schools, there exist, both nationally and internationally, very different theoretical systems and practical movements which go by the name of Marxism. - Korsch, Karl: The Workers' Fight against Fascism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1941
We do not propose to discuss the “task” of the workers. The workers have already too long done other people's tasks, imposed on them under the high-sounding names of humanity, of human progress, of justice, and freedom, and what not. It is one of the redeeming features of a bad situation that some of the illusions, hitherto surviving among the working class from their past participation in the revolutionary fight of the bourgeoisie against feudal society, have finally been exploded. The only “task” for the workers, as for every other class, is to look out for themselves. - Kovel, Joel: The Enemy of Nature
The End of Capitalism or the End of the World?
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2007
We live in and from nature, but the way we have evolved of doing this is about to destroy u. Capitalism and its by-rpoducts -- imperialism, war, neoliberal globalization, racism, poverty, and the destruction of community -- are all playing apart in the destruction of our ecosystem.
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- Lebowitz, Michael: Build It Now
Socialism for the Twenty-First Century
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2006
Influenced by the dramatic proeesses unfolding in Venezuela, Lebowitz re-imagines a socialism for the twenty-first century that places workers and popular communities at the centre of the project. - Leon, Abram: The Jewish Question
A Marxist Interpretation
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Published: 1970 - Looker, Robert (ed.): Rosa Luxemburg
Selected Political Writings
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Published: 1972
A selection of Rosa Luxemburg's writings which highlight her outstanding contributions to the theory and practice of revolutionary socialism. - Luxemburg, Rosa: The Accumulation of Capital
Resource Type: Book
Rosa Luxemburg's analysis of the inherent contradictions of capitalist accumulation. - Luxemburg, Rosa: The Accumulation of Capital An Anti-Critique
The Accumulation of Capital, or What the Epigones Have Made of Marx's Theory
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Published: 1921 - Luxemburg, Rosa: Concerning Morocco
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Published: 1911
The duty of Social Democracy is not to reassure public opinion, but to do the very reverse, to rouse it and warn it against the dangers lying dormant in it such adventures in international politics today. It is not enough for us to rely on the pacific intentions of some capitalist clique as a factor in achieving peace; we can only count on the resistance of the enlightened masses. By obeying the order to keep our peace, incidentally, we would be seen to be falling in with the wishes of the rulers of the Moroccan policy. - Luxemburg, Rosa: The Dreyfus Affair and the Millerand Case
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1899
For in the Dreyfus case four social factors make themselves felt which give it the stamp of a question directly related to the class struggle. They are: militarism, chauvinism-nationalism, anti-Semitism, and clericalism. In our written and spoken agitation we always combat these direct enemies of the socialist proletariat by virtue of our general tendencies. It would thus be totally incomprehensible to not enter into a struggle with these enemies exactly when it is a question of unmasking them, not as abstract clichés, but through the use of living current events. - Luxemburg, Rosa: A Duty of Honour
Against Capital Punishment
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Published: 1918 - Luxemburg, Rosa: Eight-Hour Day at the Party Congress
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Published: 1899 - Luxemburg, Rosa: Either Or
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Published: 1916
It is a question of either-or! Either we nakedly and shamelessly betray the International or we take the International in deadly seriousness and attempt to extend it into a firm stronghold, a bulwark, of the international socialist proletariat and of world peace. - Luxemburg, Rosa: The Elections to the National Assembly
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Published: 1918
The great confrontation between capital and labour will determine the course of future history and, in its final result, admits of no other decision than the destruction of capitalist rule and the triumph of socialism. - Luxemburg, Rosa: Foreword to the Anthology: The Polish Question and the Socialist Movement
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Published: 1905 - Luxemburg, Rosa: House of Cards
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Published: 1919
Again and again the revolution will bring to the fore the basic question: the general reckoning between labour and capital. And this reckoning is a world historical conflict between two mortal enemies which can be fought out only in a long power struggle, eye to eye, hand to hand. - Luxemburg, Rosa: The Idea of May Day on the March
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1913
The brilliant basic idea of May Day is the autonomous, immediate stepping forward of the proletarian masses, the political mass action of the millions of workers who otherwise are atomized by the barriers of the state in the day-to-day parliamentary affairs, who mostly can give expression to their own will only through the ballot, through the election of their representatives. - Luxemburg, Rosa: In Memory of the Proletariat Party
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Published: 1903 - Luxemburg, Rosa: In the Storm
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Published: 1904
The war destroys the appearance which leads us to believe in peaceful social evolution; in the omnipotence and the untouchability of bourgeois legality; in national exclusivism; in the stability of political conditions; in the conscious direction of politics by these statesmen or parties. - Luxemburg, Rosa: The Industrial Development of Poland
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1898 - Luxemburg, Rosa: The Junius Pamphlet
The Crisis of Social Democracy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1916
The voting of war credits in August 1914 was a shattering moment in the life of individual socialists and of the socialist movement in Europe. Those who had worked for and wholly believed in the ability of organized labour to stand against war now saw the major social democratic parties of Germany, France, and England rush to the defense of their fatherlands. Worker solidarity had proved an impotent myth. Rosa Luxemburg had for years warned against the stultifying effects of the overly bureaucratized German Social Democratic Party and the anti-revolutionary tendencies of the trade unions that played such a large role in the party's policy decisions. She spent much of the war in jail, where she wrote and then smuggled this pamphlet. Published under the name "Junius," the pamphlet became the guiding statement for the International Group, which became the Spartacus League. - Luxemburg, Rosa: Letters from Prison to Sophie Liebknecht
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Published: 1918 - Luxemburg, Rosa: Life of Korolenko
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Published: 1918 - Luxemburg, Rosa: Martinique
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Published: 1902
Written after the volanic eruption in May, 1902 at the port of St. Pierre. - Luxemburg, Rosa: Marxist Theory and the Proletariat
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Published: 1903 - Luxemburg, Rosa: Mass Action
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Published: 1911
No party executive in the world can replace the mass of the party's own energy, and an organisation of a million which, at a great time and in the face of great tasks, would want to complain that it did not have the right leaders would prove its own shortcomings, because it would prove it has not understood the historical essence itself of the proletarian class struggle that consists in the proletarian masses not needing "leaders" in a bourgeois sense, that they are themselves leaders. - Luxemburg, Rosa: The Mass Strike, the Political Party and the Trade Unions
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1906
Luxemburg writes that "the mass strike in Russia [in 1905] has been realised not as means of evading the political struggle of the working-class, and especially of parliamentarism, not as a means of jumping suddenly into the social revolution by means of a theatrical coup, but as a means, firstly, of creating for the proletariat the conditions of the daily political struggle and especially of parliamentarism. The revolutionary struggle in Russia, in which mass strikes are the most important weapon, is, by the working people, and above all by the proletariat, conducted for those political rights and conditions whose necessity and importance in the struggle for the emancipation of the working-class Marx and Engels first pointed out, and in opposition to anarchism fought for with all their might in the International." - Luxemburg, Rosa: The Militia and Militarism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1899
In militarism, the power and rule of both the capitalist state and the bourgeois class are crystallized; just as Social Democracy is the only party which opposes them in principle, so too, inversely, is the opposition in principle to militarism part of the nature of Social Democracy. To abandon the struggle against the military system amounts in fact to the same thing as renouncing the struggle against the present social order in general. - Luxemburg, Rosa: The National Assembly
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1918
Today it is not a question of democracy or dictatorship. The question that history has placed on the agenda is: bourgeois democracy or socialist democracy? - Luxemburg, Rosa: The Next Step
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1910
A decision must be made as to whether German Social Democracy, which is supported by the strongest trade-union organization and the greatest army of voters in the world, can bring about a mass action (which has been done at various times with great success in little Belgium, in Italy, in Austria-Hungary, in Sweden - not to mention Russia), or whether in Germany a trade-union organization numbering two million members and a powerful, well-disciplined party is just as incapable of giving birth to an effective mass action at the crucial moment as were the French trade unions, which had been crippled by anarchist confusion, and the French Socialist party, which had been weakened by internal disputes. - Luxemburg, Rosa: Oh! How--German is this Revolution!
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1918
The existing penal system, breathing the spirit of brutal class-spirit and capitalist barbarism must be torn up by the roots. A fundamental system of prison-reform must be inaugurated immediately. - Luxemburg, Rosa: The Old Mole
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1917
The question of peace is in reality bound up with the unimpeded, radical development of the Russian Revolution. But the latter is in turn bound up with the parallel revolutionary struggles for peace on the part of the French, English, Italian and, especially, the German proletariat. - Luxemburg, Rosa: On the Spartacus Programme
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1918
For us the conquest of power will not be effected at one blow. It will be a progressive act, for we shall progressively occupy all the positions. of the capitalist state, defending tooth and nail each one that we seize. - Luxemburg, Rosa: Opportunism and the art of the possible
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1898
Opportunism is a political game which can be lost in two ways: not only basic principles but also practical success may be forfeited. - Luxemburg, Rosa: Order Prevails in Berlin
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1919
Rosa Luxemburg's last article, written just before she was murdered.
She concludes with the words: "You foolish lackeys! Your 'order' is built on sand. Tomorrow the revolution will 'rise up again, clashing its weapons,' and to your horror it will proclaim with trumpets blazing:
I was, I am, I shall be!" - Luxemburg, Rosa: Organizational Questions of the Russian Social Democracy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1904
Rosa Luxemburg’s contribution to the debate within the Russian Social Democratic movement on party organization and democratic centralism. Luxemburg joins Trotsky in warning of the dangers inherent in centralism and argues against the concentration of power in a Central Committee. From a Socialist Revolutionary perspective Luxemburg puts forward compelling arguments against Lenin’s conception of the revolutionary Party. - Luxemburg, Rosa: Our Program and the Political Situation
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1918
Tthe text of a speech by Rosa Luxemburg to the Founding Congress of the Communist Party of Germany (Spartacus League), made on December 31, 1918. - Luxemburg, Rosa: Peace Utopias
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1911
What is our task in the question of peace? It does not consist merely in vigorously demonstrating at all times the love of peace of the Social Democrats; but first and foremost our task is to make clear to the masses of people the nature of militarism and sharply and clearly to bring out the differences in principle between the standpoint of the Social Democrats and that of the bourgeois peace enthusiasts. - Luxemburg, Rosa: The Polish Question at the International Congress in London
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Published: 1896 - Luxemburg, Rosa: Rosa Luxemburg: Prison Letters
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- Luxemburg, Rosa: Rosa Luxemburg: Speech to the Hanover Congress
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Published: 1899 - Luxemburg, Rosa: Rosa Luxemburg: Speeches to Stuttgart Congress
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Published: 1898
Luxenburg criticizes Eduard Bernstein's comment: "The final goal, whatever it may be, is nothing to me: the movement is everything!" with the reply "Anyone who says that does not stand for the necessity of seizing political power. You see that some comrades in the Party do not stand for the final goals of our movement, and that it is necessary to express that fact unambiguously." - Luxemburg, Rosa (edited by Davis, Horace B.): The National Question
Selected Writings by Rosa Luxemburg
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1976
In her penetrating analysis of nationalism, Rosa Luxemburg argues that the formula, “the right of nations to self-determination,” is essentially not a political and problematic guideline in the nationality question, but only a means of avoiding that question. - Luxemburg, Rosa; Bukharin, Nikolai: The Accumulation of Capital An Anti-Critique and Imperialism and the Accumulation of Capital
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
Rosa Luxemburg's response to the criticisms of her book 'The Accumulation of Capital'. This volume also includes Nikolai Bukharin's reply to Luxemburg, 'Imperialism and the Accumulation of Capital'. - Lynd, Staughton; Grubacic, Andrej: Wobblies & Zapatistas
Conversations on Anarchism, Marxism and Radical Theory
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2008
Wobblies and Zapatistas offers readers an encounter between two generations and two traditions. Staughton Lynd and Andrej Grubacic meet in dialogue in an effort to bring together the anarchist and Marxist traditions, to discuss the writing of history by those who make it, and to remind us of the idea that 'my country is the world'.
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- Marx, Karl: Das Capital, Volume 1
A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production
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Published: 1890
Marx's great work sets out to grasp and portray the totality of the capitalist mode of production, and the bourgeois society that emerges from it. He describes and connects all its economic features, together with its legal, political, religious, artistic, philosophical and ideological manifestations. - Marx, Karl: Das Capital, Volume 2
The Process of Circulation of Capital
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Published: 1956
- Marx, Karl: Das Capital, Volume 3
The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole
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Published: 1971
- Marx, Karl: The Civil War in France
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1871
Written by Karl Marx as an address to the General Council of the International, with the aim of distributing to workers of all countries a clear understanding of the character and world-wide significance of the heroic struggle of the Paris Communards of 1871 and their historical experience to learn from. - Marx, Karl: The Class Struggles in France, 1848 to 1850
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Published: 1850
Originally a series of articles written between January and October 1850 specially for the Neue Rheinische Zeitung. Politisch-ökonomische Revue and published in it under the general title “1848-1849.” - Marx, Karl: The Communist Manifesto
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1848
Written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels as the theoretical and practical platform of the Communist League, a workers' association. - Marx, Karl: Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right
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Published: 1844
The struggle against religion is, therefore, indirectly the struggle against that world whose spiritual aroma is religion.
Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions. The criticism of religion is, therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo.
Criticism has plucked the imaginary flowers on the chain not in order that man shall continue to bear that chain without fantasy or consolation, but so that he shall throw off the chain and pluck the living flower. The criticism of religion disillusions man, so that he will think, act, and fashion his reality like a man who has discarded his illusions and regained his senses - Marx, Karl: A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
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Published: 1859
- Marx, Karl: Critique of the Gotha Programme
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Published: 1875
Karl Marx's criticisms of the programme adopted by congress to unite the two German socialist parties in 1875. - Marx, Karl: Economic & Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844
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Published: 1844 - Marx, Karl: The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
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Published: 1852
Marx wrote The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon between December 1851 and March 1852. The "Eighteenth Brumaire" refers to November 9, 1799 in the French Revolutionary Calendar — the day the first Napoleon Bonaparte had made himself dictator by a coup d'etat. Marx traces how the conflict of different social interests manifest themselves in the complex web of political struggles, and in particular the contradictory relationships between the outer form of a struggle and its real social content. - Marx, Karl: The Grundrisse
Outlines of the Critique of Political Economy
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Published: 1973
Marx wrote this huge manuscript as part of his preparation for what would become A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy (published in 1859) and Capital (published 1867). The series of seven notebooks were rough-drafted by Marx, chiefly for purposes of self-clarification, during the winter of 1857-8. The manuscript became lost in circumstances still unknown and was first effectively published, in the German original, in 1953.
- Marx, Karl: Inaugural Address of the International Workingmen's Association
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Published: 1864
Speech by Karl Marx to the founding meeting of the First International. - Marx, Karl: Introduction to the Critique of Political Economy
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Published: 1857
When we speak of production, we always have in mind production at a definite stage of social development. - Marx, Karl: Das Kapital I
Der Produktionsprozess des Kapitals
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Published: 1969 - Marx, Karl: Das Kapital II
Der Zirkulationsprozess des Kapitals
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Published: 1970 - Marx, Karl: Das Kapital III
Der Gesamtprozess der kapitalistischen Produktion
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Published: 1971 - Marx, Karl: Letter to Bracke
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Published: 1875
Karl Marx comments on the unity programme (Gotha programme) of the German Democratic Workers Party and the People's Party. - Marx, Karl: Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 28
Marx 1857 - 1861
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Economic Manuscripts of 1857-58. - Marx, Karl: Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 29
Marx 1857 - 1861
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Economic Manuscripts of 1857-58. - Marx, Karl: Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 30
Marx 1861 - 1863
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Economic Manuscripts of 1861-63. - Marx, Karl: Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 31
Marx 1861 - 1863
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A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy. - Marx, Karl: Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 32
Marx 1861 - 1863
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Economic Manuscript of 1861-63 (Continuation). A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy. - Marx, Karl: Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 33
Marx 1861 - 1863
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Economic Manuscript of 1861-63. A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy (Continuation). - Marx, Karl: Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 34
Marx 1861 - 1864
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Economic Manuscripts of 1861-64 (Conclusion). A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy. - Marx, Karl: Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 35
Capital Volume 1
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Capital. Volume 1. - Marx, Karl: The Poverty of Philosophy
Answer to the Philosophy of Poverty by M. Proudhon
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Published: 1847 - Marx, Karl: Pre-Capitalist Economic Formations
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- Marx, Karl: Revelations Concerning the Communist Trial in Cologne
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Published: 1852
Marx exposes the unseemly methods used by the Prussian police state against the communist movement. - Marx, Karl: Revolutionary Spain
Articles by Karl Marx in the New-York Herald Tribune
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Published: 1854
The series of articles Revolutionary Spain was written by Marx for the New-York Daily Tribune between August and November 1854. Marx observed all the symptoms of the revolutionary movement in Europe and paid much attention to the revolutionary events in the summer of 1854 in Spain. He held that the revolutionary struggle there could provide a stimulus for the development of the revolutionary movement in other European countries. - Marx, Karl: Selected Writings in Sociology and Social Philosophy
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- Marx, Karl: Value, Price and Profit
Speech by Marx to the International Working Men's Association, June 1865
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Published: 1898 - Marx, Karl: Wage Labour and Capital
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Published: 1891
- Marx, Karl: Wages, Price and Profit
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- Marx, Karl (Bottomore, ed.): Karl Marx: Early Writings
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- Marx, Karl (ed. Karl Kautsky): Theories of Surplus-Value
Part II
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Published: 1963 - Marx, Karl (edited by Kautsky, Karl): Theories of Surplus-Value
Part I
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Published: 1963
- Marx, Karl (Freedman ed.): Marx on Economics
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- Marx, Karl (Saul K. Padover, ed.): On the First International
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- Marx, Karl, Engels, Friedrich: Einfuhrungen in "Das Kapital" von Karl Marx
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- Marx, Karl, Engels, Friedrich: Manifesto of the Communist Party
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- Marx, Karl, Engels, Friedrich: Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 1
Marx 1835 - 1843
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- Marx, Karl, Engels, Friedrich: Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 3
Marx and Engels 1843 - 1844
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- Marx, Karl, Engels, Friedrich: Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 4
Marx and Engels 1844 - 1845
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Includes The Holy Family, or Critique of Critical Criticism, and The Condition of the Working-Class in England. - Marx, Karl, Engels, Friedrich: Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 5
Marx and Engels 1845 - 1847
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Includes The German Ideology. - Marx, Karl, Engels, Friedrich: Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 6
Marx and Engels 1845 - 1848
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Includes the Poverty of Philosophy and The Communist Manifesto. - Marx, Karl, Engels, Friedrich: Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 7
Marx and Engels 1848
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Includes articles from the Neue Rheinische Zeitung, June 1 — November 7, 1848. - Marx, Karl, Engels, Friedrich: Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 8
Marx and Engels 1848 - 1849
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Includes articles from the Neue Rheinische Zeitung November 8, 1848 — March 5, 1849. - Marx, Karl, Engels, Friedrich: Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 9
Marx and Engels 1849
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Includes articles from the Neue Rheinische Zeitung March 6—May 19, 1849. - Marx, Karl, Engels, Friedrich: Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 10
Marx and Engels 1849 - 1851
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Includes The Peasant War in Germany. - Marx, Karl, Engels, Friedrich: Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 11
Marx and Engels 1851 - 1853
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Includes Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Germany and The Eighteenth Brumaire
of Louis Bonaparte and Revelations Concerning the Communist Trial in Cologne - Marx, Karl, Engels, Friedrich: Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 12
Marx and Engels 1853 - 1854
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Articles mainly on British colonialism. - Marx, Karl, Engels, Friedrich: Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 13
Marx and Engels 1854 - 1855
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Includes Revolutionary Spain - Marx, Karl, Engels, Friedrich: Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 14
Marx and Engels 1855 - 1856
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Includes material on British politics and the Crimean War. - Marx, Karl, Engels, Friedrich: Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 15
Marx and Engels 1856 - 1858
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Mainly articles about Europe, colonialism, and India. - Marx, Karl, Engels, Friedrich: Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 16
Marx and Engels 1858 - 1860
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Mainly events in Europe. - Marx, Karl, Engels, Friedrich: Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 17
Marx and Engels 1859 - 1860
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Includes Herr Vogt and articles on military matters. - Marx, Karl, Engels, Friedrich: Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 18
Marx and Engels 1857 - 1862
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Articles for The New American Cyclopaedia. - Marx, Karl, Engels, Friedrich: Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 19
Marx and Engels 1861 - 1864
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Colonialism, slavery, and the American Civil War. - Marx, Karl, Engels, Friedrich: Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 20
Marx and Engels 1864- 1868
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Includes The Prussian Military Question and the (German Workers' Party), and Value, Price and Profit, and articles and Reviews written in connection with the publication of Volume One of Capital. - Marx, Karl, Engels, Friedrich: Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 21
Marx and Engels 1867 - 1870
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Materials related to the International Workingmen's Association. - Marx, Karl, Engels, Friedrich: Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 22
Marx and Engels 1870 - 1871
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Includes The Civil War in France and other materials on the Franco-Prussian War. - Marx, Karl, Engels, Friedrich: Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 23
Marx and Engels 1871 - 1874
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Articles on the International, Bakunin, and the Housing Question. - Marx, Karl, Engels, Friedrich: Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 24
Marx and Engels 1874 - 1883
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Includes the Critique of the Gotha Programme, and Socialism: Utopian and Scientific. - Marx, Karl, Engels, Friedrich: Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 38
Marx and Engels 1844 - 1851
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Letters. - Marx, Karl, Engels, Friedrich: Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 39
Marx and Engels 1852 - 1855
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Letters. - Marx, Karl, Engels, Friedrich: Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 40
Marx and Engels 1856 - 1859
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Letters. - Marx, Karl, Engels, Friedrich: Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 41
Marx and Engels 1860 - 1864
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Letters. - Marx, Karl, Engels, Friedrich: Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 42
Marx and Engels 1864 - 1868
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Letters. - Marx, Karl, Engels, Friedrich: Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 43
Marx and Engels 1868 - 1870
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Letters. - Marx, Karl, Engels, Friedrich: Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 44
Marx and Engels 1870 - 1873
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Letters. - Marx, Karl, Engels, Friedrich: Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 45
Marx and Engels 1874 - 1879
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Letters. - Marx, Karl, Engels, Friedrich: Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 46
Marx and Engels 1880 - 1883
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Letters. - Marx, Karl, Engels, Friedrich: Selected Correspondence
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- Marx, Karl, Engels, Friedrich (Draper, Hal, ed.): Writings on the Paris Commune
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Hal Draper's compilation of all the writings by Marx and Engels on the Paris Commune of 1871, when a working-class-led revolution took power and established a new type of state for the first time in the history of the world - temporarily, in one city. - Marx, Karl, Engels, Friedrich (edited by Feuer, Lewis S.): Marx and Engels
Basic Writings on Politics and Philosophy
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- Marx, Karl, Engels, Friedrich, edited & translated by Enzensberger, Hans Magnus: Gesprache Mit Marx und Engels
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- Marx, Karl, Engels, Friedrich, Lenin, V.I.: Anarchism and Anarcho-Syndicalism
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- Marx, Karl; Engels, Frederick: Selected Works
Volume 1
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Published: 1973 - Marx, Karl; Engels, Frederick: Selected Works
Volume 2
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Published: 1069 - Marx, Karl; Engels, Frederick: Selected Works
Volume 3
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Published: 1970 - Marx, Karl; Engels, Friedrich: The German Ideology
Critique of Modern German Philosophy According to Its Representatives Feuerbach, B. Bauer and Stirner, and of German Socialism According to
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Published: 1932
Marx and Engels take on the "philosophic charlatanry" and pettiness and "parochial narrowness" of the pseudo-radicals of their time, "in particular the tragicomic contrast between the illusions of these heroes about their achievements and the actual achievements themselves." - Marx, Karl; Engels, Friedrich: The Holy Family or Critique of Critical Criticism
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Published: 1845 - Marx, Karl; Engels, Friedrich: Ireland and the Irish Question
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Published: 1971
Brings together all of Marx's and Engels' writing on Ireland in one volume. - Mattick, Paul: Humanism and Socialism
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Published: 1965
The resumption of the struggle for socialism would also be the rebirth of socialist humanism. - Mattick, Paul: The Inevitability of Communism
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Published: 1936
A reaction to Sidney Hook's Towards the Understanding of Karl Marx. - Mattick, Paul: Luxemburg versus Lenin
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Published: 1935
On many essential points the conceptions of Luxemburg differ from those of Lenin as day from night, or – the same thing – as the problems of the bourgeois revolution from those of the proletarian. - Mattick, Paul: Rosa Luxemburg in Retrospect
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Published: 1978 - Miliband, Ralph; Saville, John (eds.): The Socialist Register 1979
A Survey of Movements & Ideas
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Published: 1979
A series of essays on the state of the global economy.
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- Nettl, Peter: Rosa Luxemburg
Abridged Edition
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Published: 1969
A biography of Luxemburg by a British academic.
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- Ollman, Bertell: Alienation
Marx's Conception of Man in Capitalist Society
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Published: 1971
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- Panitch, Leo: The Canadian State: Political Economy and Political Power
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Published: 1977 - Panitch, Leo; Keys, Colin (eds.): Telling the Truth
Socialist Register 2006
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Published: 2005
A collection of essays that examines the difficulties of illuminating the degenerative and secretive nature of public life. - Parvus; Luxemburg, Rosa; Kaustky, Karl; Pannekoek, Anton: Die Massenstreikdebatte
Arbeiterbewegung Theorie und Geschicthe
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Published: 1970
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- Rabinowitch, Alexander: The Bolsheviks in Power
The First Year of Soviet Rule in Petrograd
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Published: 2007 - Ross, John: Murdered by Capitalism
A Memoir of 150 Years of Life & Death on the American Left
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Published: 2004
Much of this book is in the form of a fictional dialogue between two radicals discussing the political events of both of their lifetimes. - Roussopoulos, Dimitgrios; Benelle, C. George: Participatory Democracy
Prospects for Democratizing Democracy
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Published: 2008
Twenty or more arguments for participatory democracy written contributors including Goerge Woodcock, Murray Bookchin, Gerry Hunnius, Colin Ward, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, and Don Calhoun. - Rowbotham, Sheila; Segal, Lynne; Wainright, Hilary: Beyond the Fragments
Feminism and the Making of Socialism
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Published: 1980
A call for various fractions of the left to unite and work for a socialism through grass-roots activism.
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- Sanders, Barry: The Green Zone
The Environmental Costs of Militarism
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Published: 2009
Environmentalism - it's the word on everyone's tongue. Reusable shopping bags, hybrid cars, and green home energy solutions allow us to reduce our carbon footprint, but it's only the tip of the quickly melting iceberg. The Green Zone presents a sobering revelation: until we address the attack that the US military is waging on the global environment, the things we do at home won't change a thing. - Schulkind, Eugene; (Editor): The Paris Commune of 1871
The View from the Left
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Published: 1972
For the Left, the Paris Commune of 1871 stands as the first example of the exercise of political power by a working class. Socialists, Communists and Anarchists have all looked to this 72-day revolution for lessons - often conflicting - in the development of approaches to state power, democratic processes and a vanguard party in socialist revolutions. This volume gives the English reader direct access to a substantial collection of documents from the time of the Commune - most of which have remained unpublished even in France. These are writings in which some Communards themselves express the view that the Commune was an egalitarian social revolution committed to the ultimate abolition of classes. - Serge, Victor: Year One of the Russian Revolution
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Published: 1972
The purpose of Year One of the Russian Revolution is essentially one of reconstructing the chain of events, in the Russia of revolution and counter-revolution, which has led from the ‘Commune-State’ of 1917 to the party dictatorship of late 1918. The terms of the narrative are fixed by Serge’s basic convictions, firstly, that the October Revolution of 1917 was a genuine expression of mass feeling by workers and peasants in their overwhelming majority, and secondly that the revolutionary wave had very quickly exhausted itself, or rather bled itself dry, through the military depredation and economic ruin which wrought havoc in an already enfeebled Russia during the early months following the Bolshevik seizure of power.
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- Thompson, Gabriel: Calling All Radicals
How Grassroots Organizers Can Help Save Our Democracy
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Published: 2007
Thompson argues that we can reclaim our democracy through grassroots organizing. - Traverso, Enzo (translated by Bernard Gibbons): The Marxists and the Jewish Question
The History of a Debate 1843 - 1943
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Published: 1994
Covers the difficult history of European Marxists' efforts to comprehend what "The Jewish Question" was about. The assumption that Jewish life and religion were a historical anachronism, something that would naturally disappear with the end of their specific economic function in the development of capitalism, also implied that the medieval legacy of Jew-hatred would vanish as well.The possibility of a new and even more virulent, racialist revival of Jew-hatred -- anti-Semitism -- was overlooked by thinkers and parties who envisioned an inevitable evolution toward socialism.
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- Waters, Mary Alice: Rosa Luxemburg Speaks
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Published: 1970
A selection of speeches and writings by Rosa Luxemburg.
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- Zetkin, Klara: Rosa Luxemburg: Her Fight Against the German Betrayers of International Socialism
Introduction to the Second Edition of the Junius Pamphlet, The Crisis of Social Democracy
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Published: 1919
It is as though Rosa Luxemburg, in anticipation of her sudden end, had gathered together in the Junius Pamphlet all the forces of her genial nature for a great work – the scientific, penetrating, independently searching and pondering mind of the theoretician, the fearless, burning passion of the convinced, daring revolutionary fighter, the inner richness and the splendid wealth of expression of the ever struggling artist. All the good spirits which nature had lavished upon her stood by her side as she wrote this work.
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