- 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.
- Anarchist St. Imier International
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
An international anarchist organization formed in 1872.
- Bakunin vs. Marx
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1978
The anarchist-Marxist split started with Bakunin, who systematically misrepresented Marx's positions.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Fictitious Capital for Beginners
Imperialism, 'Anti-Imperialism', and the Continuing Relevance of Rosa Luxemburg
Resource Type: Article
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.
- Fourth International
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
An international Trotskyist communist organisation which opposes both capitalism and Stalinism.
- Green Municipalism
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1991
A green municipalist analysis offers valuable perspectives but can become a straightjacket if it is seen as 'the' answer.
- Historical-Critical Dictionary of Marxism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1994
12 volumes
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- New Left
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Left-wing movements in different countries in the 1960s and 1970s .
- The Paris Commune of 1871
The View from the Left
Resource Type: Book
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.
- Radical Digressions
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2010
Ulli Diemer's website/blog featuring comment from a radcial left-libertarian perspective.
- 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.
- 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.
- The Rosa Luxemburg Reader
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2004
A definitive one-volume collection of Luxemburg's writings.
- 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.
- 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.
- Thinking About Self-Determination
Resource Type: Article
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?
- 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.
- What Do We Do Now? Building a Social Movement in the Aftermath of Free Trade
Resource Type: Article
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.
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