- Adventures in Marxism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1999
Marshall Berman explores and rejoices in the emancipatory potential of Marxism.
- Alienation
Marx's Conception of Man in Capitalist Society
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1971
- Anarchism and Marxism
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Political movements focused on achieving human liberation through political action.
- Anarchism vs. Marxism: A few notes on an old theme
Resource Type: Article
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.
- Anti-capitalism
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Describes a wide variety of movements, ideas, and attitudes which oppose capitalism.
- Bakunin vs. Marx
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1978
The anarchist-Marxist split started with Bakunin, who systematically misrepresented Marx's positions.
- The Betrayal of Marx
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1975
- Beyond the Fragments
Feminism and the Making of Socialism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1980
A call for various fractions of the left to unite and work for a socialism through grass-roots activism.
- Break Their Haughty Power
Resource Type: Website
Articles on capitalism, socialism, and revolution, from a left-Marxist perspective.
- Das Capital, Volume 1
A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production
Resource Type: Book
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.
- Das Capital, Volume 2
The Process of Circulation of Capital
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1956
- Das Capital, Volume 3
The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1971
- Capitalism for Beginners
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1981
An amusing, soundly researched, and highly accessible illustrated book that tells you everything you want to know about capitalism.
- 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.
- Communist League
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
The first Marxist international organization. It was founded originally as the League of the Just by German workers in Paris in 1836.
- 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.
- Connexions Library Chronological Index
Resources by Year of Publication
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2012
Documents in the Connexions Library catalogue in sorted by year and date of first publication.
- A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1859
- Critique of the Gotha Programme
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1875
Karl Marx's criticisms of the programme adopted by congress to unite the two German socialist parties in 1875.
- Debs, Eugene V.
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
American socialist politician and union leader, one of the founding members of the International Labor Union and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). (1855-1926).
- Ecosocialist Groups & Websites
Resource Type: Website
A list of ecosocialist websites and groups.
- Einfuhrungen in "Das Kapital" von Karl Marx
Resource Type: Book
- 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 you. Capitalism and its by-products -- imperialism, war, neoliberal globalization, racism, poverty, and the destruction of community -- are all playing a part in the destruction of our ecosystem.
- 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."
- Fourth International
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
An international Trotskyist communist organisation which opposes both capitalism and Stalinism.
- Gesprache Mit Marx und Engels
Resource Type: Book
- 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.
- Gorz, André
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Marxist, social philosopher. (1923-2007).
- Historical-Critical Dictionary of Marxism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1994
12 volumes
- Humanism and Socialism
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1965
The resumption of the struggle for socialism would also be the rebirth of socialist humanism.
- Inaugural Address of the International Workingmen's Association
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1864
Speech by Karl Marx to the founding meeting of the First International.
- The 'Inevitability of Socialism'
The Meaning of a Much Abused Formula
Resource Type: Article
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.
- Insurgent Notes
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
A journal of communist theory and practice.
- International Revolutionary Marxist Centre
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Was an international association of left-socialist parties. The member-parties rejected both mainstream social democracy and the Third International.
- International Workingmen's Association (The First International)
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
An international socialist organization which aimed at uniting a variety of different left-wing political groups and trade union organizations that were based on the working class and class struggle.
- Introduction to the Critique of the Gotha Programme
Resource Type: Article
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.
- 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.
- Karl Marx: His Life and Thought
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
- Karl Marx: Selected Writings in Sociology and Social Philosophy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1961
A selection of Marx's writings intended to present the evolution of his ideas, the main features of his mothod, and the chief conclusions of his research.
- 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.
- Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
Volume II: The Politics of Social Classes
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1978
Draper ranges through the development of the thought of Marx and Engels on the role of classes in society.
- 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.
- Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
Volume IV: Critique of Other Socialisms
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1990
Much of Karl Marx's most important work came out of his critique of other thinkers, including many socialists who differed significantly in their conceptions of socialism. Draper looks at these critiques to illuminate what Marx's socialism was, as well as what it was not.
- Left Communist Groups & Websites
Resource Type: Website
A list of left communist websites and groups.
- Left-libertarianism
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
A doctrine that has a strong commitment to personal liberty and egalitarianism.
- Left-wing internationals, list of
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
This is a list of socialist, communist, and anarchist internationals. An "International" # such as, the "First International", the "Second International", or the "Socialist International" # may refer to a number of multi-national communist, radical, socialist, or union organizations, typically composed of national sections.
- Let's Stop Kidding Ourselves About the NDP
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1989
Canadian socialists are terribly reluctant to give up their illusions about the NDP.
- Letter to Bracke
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1875
Karl Marx comments on the unity programme (Gotha programme) of the German Democratic Workers Party and the People's Party.
- Libertarian Socialism
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
A socialist political orientation which promote a non-hierarchical, non-bureaucratic, stateless society without private property in the means of production. Libertarian socialism is opposed to coercive forms of social organization, and promotes free association in place of the coercive social relations of capitalism
- Libertarian Socialist Groups & Websites in the Connexions Directory
Resource Type: Website
A list of libertarian socialist websites and groups.
- Rosa Luxemburg
A letter about Rosa Luxemburg's contribution to Marxism
Resource Type: Article
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.
- Main Currents of Marxism
Volume 2: The Golden Age
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1978
- Main Currents of Marxism
Volume 3: The Breakdown
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1978
- Manifestos, Programs, Visions
Selected Manifestos - Political Statements - Programs
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2009
A selection of left manifestos, programs, poltical statements and visions from the 1600s to today.
- Marx and Engels
Basic Writings on Politics and Philosophy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1959
- 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
- 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
- Marx-Engels Register, The
A Complete Bibliography of Marx Engels' Individual Writings. Vol. 3 of the Marx-Engels Cyclopedia
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1985
- Marx for Beginners
Resource Type: Book
- 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.
- Marxism and Philosophy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1970
- Marxist Groups & Websites
Resource Type: Website
A list of Marxist websites and groups.
- 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."
- Modern Politics
Resource Type: Book
- Murdered by Capitalism
A Memoir of 150 Years of Life & Death on the American Left
Resource Type: Book
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.
- 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 of "the right of nations to self-determination" is essentially not a political or programmatic guide to the nationality question, but only a means of avoiding that question.
- On the First International
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
- Our Program and the Political Situation
Resource Type: Article
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.
- Radical Digressions
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2010
Ulli Diemer's website/blog featuring comment from a radcial left-libertarian perspective.
- Radical Political Theory
Resources in the Connexions Library
Resource Type: Website
Books and articles on radical political thought in the Connexions Library.
- Radical Socialist Groups & Websites
Resource Type: Website
A list of radical socialist websites and groups.
- The Red Menace
A libertarian socialist newsletter
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1980
Articles on topics such as socialism, Marxism, anarchism, work, popular education, organizing, wages for housework, Leninism, bureaucracy, hierarchy, jargon, prostitution, obscenity, science fiction, and terrorism.
- Revolution in the Revolution
Resource Type: Book
- A Revolutionary for our Times: Rosa Luxemburg
Resource Type: Book
- Rosa Luxemburg
A Life
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1986
A biography of the Marxist revolutionary.
- 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.
- Rosa Luxemburg
Abridged Edition
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1969
A biography of Luxemburg by a British academic.
- Rosa Luxemburg
Selected Political Writings
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
A selection of Rosa Luxemburg's writings which highlight her outstanding contributions to the theory and practice of revolutionary socialism.
- Rosa Luxemburg: Prison Letters
Resource Type: Book
- The Rosa Luxemburg Reader
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2004
A definitive one-volume collection of Luxemburg's writings.
- Rosa Luxemburg Speaks
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1970
A selection of speeches and writings by Rosa Luxemburg.
- 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."
- Selected Writings in Sociology and Social Philosophy
Resource Type: Book
- Situationist International
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A group of revolutionaries, founded in 1957, which developed a radical Marxist critque of life under advanced capitalism. They suggested and experimented with the construction of situations: the setting up of environments favourable to the fulfillment of human desires outside and against the economy of markets and wage labour. The SI analyzed the modern world from the point of view of everyday life and attacked the capitalist degradation of life and the fake models advertised by the mass media and proposed a revolutionary alternative which integrated politics, art, critical thinking, desire, and play.
- Situationist International Anthology
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1981
- Social Anarchism
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Social anarchism sees individual freedom as conceptually connected with social equality and emphasize community and mutual aid.
- Social Reform or Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1908
Rosa Luxemburg's attack on reformism.
- Socialism in Theory and Practice
Vol 1: Marxism and Socialist Theory
Resource Type: Book
- Socialism in Theory and Practice
Vol 2 : Socialism Today and Tommorow
Resource Type: Book
- Socialism.ca
Resource Type: Website
A hub featuring links to selected resources about socialism, as well as other progressive sites of interest to socialists and activists.
- Socialisme ou Barbarie
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A French-based radical libertarian socialist group of the post-World War II period which existed from 1948 until 1965. Socialisme ou Barbarie was critical of Leninism, rejecting the idea of a revolutionary party, and placing an emphasis on the importance of workers' councils, and saw the daily struggles of working people as creating the true content of socialism.
- Socialist anarchism
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Social anarchism sees "individual freedom as conceptually connected with social equality and emphasize community and mutual aid
- The Socialist Register 1979
A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1979
A series of essays on the state of the global economy.
- The Soviet Union Versus Socialism
Resource Type: Article
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.
- Spontaneitat und Organisation
Resource Type: Book
- State-Capitalism and Marx's Humanism or Philosophy and Revolution
Resource Type: Book
- Statement of Principles of the Independent Socialist Club
Resource Type: Article
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.
- 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.
- Three Essays on Marxism
Leading Principles of Marxism; Introduction to Capital; Why I Am a Marxist
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
In these essays Korsch offers his thoughts on basic Marxist ideas.
- Towards a New Marxism
Resource Type: Book
- The Two Souls of Socialism
Socialism from Above vs. Socialism from Below
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1970
It was Marx who finally brought the two ideas of Socialism and Democracy together, because he developed a theory which made the synthesis possible for the first time. The heart of the theory is this proposition: that there is a social majority which has the interest and motivation to change the system, and that the aim of socialism can be the education and mobilization of this mass-majority. This is the exploited class, the working class, from which comes the eventual motive-force of revolution. Hence a socialism-from-below is possible, on the basis of a theory which sees the revolutionary potentialities in the broad masses, even if they seem backward at a given time and place. Marxism came into being, in self-conscious struggle against the advocates of the Educational Dictatorship, the Savior-Dictators, the revolutionary elitists, the communist authoritarians, as well as the philanthropic dogooders and bourgeois liberals.
- 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.
- Unorthodox Marxism
Resource Type: Book
- Wages, Price and Profit
Resource Type: Book
- What is Libertarian Socialism?
Resource Type: Article
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.
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