- The Accumulation of Capital
Resource Type: Book
Rosa Luxemburg's analysis of the inherent contradictions of capitalist accumulation.
- 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
- Alienation, Marx's theory of
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
As expressed in the writings of the young Karl Marx, refers to the separation of things that naturally belong together, or to put antagonism between things that are properly in harmony. In the concept's most important use, it refers to the social alienation of people from aspects of their "human nature". He believed that alienation is a systematic result of capitalism.
- 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.
- Autonomist Marxism Course Outline
Resource Type: Article
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.
- 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.
- Bakunin vs. Marx
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1978
The anarchist-Marxist split started with Bakunin, who systematically misrepresented Marx's positions.
- Berman, Marshall
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
American philosopher and Marxist Humanist writer. (Born 1940).
- 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.
- Class consciousness
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Consciousness of one's social class or economic rank in society.
- Commodity fetishism
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
In Marxist theory, commodity fetishism is a state of social relations in capitalist societies, in which social relationships are transformed into apparently objective relationships between commodities or money.
- 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.
- The Crisis In Historical Materialism
Class , Politics and Culture in Marxist Theory
Resource Type: Book
- 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.
- The Death of the State in Marx and Engels
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1970
Surveys the thinking of Marx and Engels on the 'dying-away' of the state in socialist (communist) society.
- Diemer, Ulli
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Canadian socialist publisher, writer, and archivist.
- Draper, Hal
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
American socialist activist, Marxist and author of a number of key works about Marxism. (1914-1990).
- 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.
- Engels, Manchester and the Working Class
Resource Type: Book
- 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."
- Facing Reality
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A radical left group in the United States which existed from about 1962 until 1970.
- False consciousness
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
The Marxist thesis that material and institutional processes in capitalist society are misleading to the proletariat, and to other classes.
- 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.
- Gesprache Mit Marx und Engels
Resource Type: Book
- Gorz, André
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Marxist, social philosopher. (1923-2007).
- The Grundrisse
Outlines of the Critique of Political Economy
Resource Type: Book
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.
- 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.
- Internationale Marx-Engels-Stiftung
Resource Type: Website
On the initiative of the International Institute of Social History (IISH) in Amsterdam, in 1990 the Internationale Marx-Engels-Stiftung (IMES) was established. The IMES is an international network, mainly based on the IISH, the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (BBAW), the Karl-Marx-Haus (KMH) of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Trier and the Russian State Archive for Social/Political History (RGA) and the Russian Independent Institute for the Study of Social and National Problems (RNI), both in Moscow. The main task of the IMES is to continue the publication of the Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe (MEGA-2).
- Introduction to Capital
Resource Type: Article
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.
- 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.
- Introduction to the Critique of Political Economy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1857
When we speak of production, we always have in mind production at a definite stage of social development.
- 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.
- Ireland and the Irish Question
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1971
Brings together all of Marx's and Engels' writing on Ireland in one volume.
- Johnson-Forest Tendency
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Refers to an American radical left tendency associated with Marxist theorists C.L.R. James and Raya Dunayevskaya.
- 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
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.
- 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.
- Leading Principles of Marxism: A Restatement
Resource Type: Article
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Luxemburg versus Lenin
Resource Type: Article
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.
- Luxemburgism
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A revolutionary theory within Marxism and communism based on the writings of Rosa Luxemburg.
- 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
- Manifesto of the Communist Party
Resource Type: Book
- 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 and Engels Collected Works Volume 1
Marx 1835 - 1843
Resource Type: Book
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 2
Engels 1838 - 1842
Resource Type: Book
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 3
Marx and Engels 1843 - 1844
Resource Type: Book
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 4
Marx and Engels 1844 - 1845
Resource Type: Book
Includes The Holy Family, or Critique of Critical Criticism, and The Condition of the Working-Class in England.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 5
Marx and Engels 1845 - 1847
Resource Type: Book
Includes The German Ideology.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 6
Marx and Engels 1845 - 1848
Resource Type: Book
Includes the Poverty of Philosophy and The Communist Manifesto.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 7
Marx and Engels 1848
Resource Type: Book
Includes articles from the Neue Rheinische Zeitung, June 1 # November 7, 1848.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 8
Marx and Engels 1848 - 1849
Resource Type: Book
Includes articles from the Neue Rheinische Zeitung November 8, 1848 # March 5, 1849.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 9
Marx and Engels 1849
Resource Type: Book
Includes articles from the Neue Rheinische Zeitung March 6#May 19, 1849.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 10
Marx and Engels 1849 - 1851
Resource Type: Book
Includes The Peasant War in Germany.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 11
Marx and Engels 1851 - 1853
Resource Type: Book
Includes Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Germany and The Eighteenth Brumaire
of Louis Bonaparte and Revelations Concerning the Communist Trial in Cologne
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 12
Marx and Engels 1853 - 1854
Resource Type: Book
Articles mainly on British colonialism.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 13
Marx and Engels 1854 - 1855
Resource Type: Book
Includes Revolutionary Spain
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 14
Marx and Engels 1855 - 1856
Resource Type: Book
Includes material on British politics and the Crimean War.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 15
Marx and Engels 1856 - 1858
Resource Type: Book
Mainly articles about Europe, colonialism, and India.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 16
Marx and Engels 1858 - 1860
Resource Type: Book
Mainly events in Europe.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 17
Marx and Engels 1859 - 1860
Resource Type: Book
Includes Herr Vogt and articles on military matters.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 18
Marx and Engels 1857 - 1862
Resource Type: Book
Articles for The New American Cyclopaedia.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 19
Marx and Engels 1861 - 1864
Resource Type: Book
Colonialism, slavery, and the American Civil War.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 20
Marx and Engels 1864- 1868
Resource Type: Book
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 and Engels Collected Works Volume 21
Marx and Engels 1867 - 1870
Resource Type: Book
Materials related to the International Workingmen's Association.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 22
Marx and Engels 1870 - 1871
Resource Type: Book
Includes The Civil War in France and other materials on the Franco-Prussian War.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 23
Marx and Engels 1871 - 1874
Resource Type: Book
Articles on the International, Bakunin, and the Housing Question.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 24
Marx and Engels 1874 - 1883
Resource Type: Book
Includes the Critique of the Gotha Programme, and Socialism: Utopian and Scientific.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 28
Marx 1857 - 1861
Resource Type: Book
Economic Manuscripts of 1857-58.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 29
Marx 1857 - 1861
Resource Type: Book
Economic Manuscripts of 1857-58.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 30
Marx 1861 - 1863
Resource Type: Book
Economic Manuscripts of 1861-63.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 31
Marx 1861 - 1863
Resource Type: Book
A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 32
Marx 1861 - 1863
Resource Type: Book
Economic Manuscript of 1861-63 (Continuation). A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 33
Marx 1861 - 1863
Resource Type: Book
Economic Manuscript of 1861-63. A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy (Continuation).
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 34
Marx 1861 - 1864
Resource Type: Book
Economic Manuscripts of 1861-64 (Conclusion). A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 35
Capital Volume 1
Resource Type: Book
Capital. Volume 1.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 39
Marx and Engels 1852 - 1855
Resource Type: Book
Letters.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 40
Marx and Engels 1856 - 1859
Resource Type: Book
Letters.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 41
Marx and Engels 1860 - 1864
Resource Type: Book
Letters.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 42
Marx and Engels 1864 - 1868
Resource Type: Book
Letters.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 43
Marx and Engels 1868 - 1870
Resource Type: Book
Letters.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 44
Marx and Engels 1870 - 1873
Resource Type: Book
Letters.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 45
Marx and Engels 1874 - 1879
Resource Type: Book
Letters.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 46
Marx and Engels 1880 - 1883
Resource Type: Book
Letters.
- 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
- Marx Myths & Legends
Resource Type: Website
A critical reading of the work of Karl Marx now requires us to lay to one side the myths and legends which have obscured his ideas over the past one hundred and twenty years- distortions and misinterpretations to which perhaps no thinker has been more prone. In one sense, this is not difficult, because there is enough of his writing preserved, albeit in translation, for any of us to read Marx in his own words. Most however have been unwilling or unable to do this. The fifty volumes of the Marx-Engels Collected Works are forbidding, and when beginning as one almost inevitably does, with the received wisdom surrounding Marx’s name, there is much to discourage a reader from seriously taking on the task of understanding Marx. The aim of this project is thus to begin to challenge some of those myths in order to clear the way for a fresh reading of Marx that will hopefully be less prone to the distortions, misunderstandings and blatant falsehoods that have so far surrounded Marx. We believe that what Marx had to say remains of considerable relevance to an understanding of problems we face today, but that a reading of Marx now must maintain a critical caution which does not merely reproduce received ideas- positive or negative- about Marx’s work.
- Marx on Democratic Forms of Government
Resource Type: Article
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.
- Marx on Economics
Resource Type: Book
- Marxism: A Re-Examination
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1967
- 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
- Marxism and the Intellectuals
A review of Raymond Williams# Culture and Society and The Long Revolution
Resource Type: Article
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.
- Marxism and the Party
Resource Type: Book
- Marxism and the Russian Anarchists
Resource Type: Book
- Marxism and the Trade Unions
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1970
Draper argues that essentially, no Marxist group has ever carried on any systematic revolutionary work in trade unions.
- The Marxism of the First International
Resource Type: Article
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.
- Marxist feminism
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Focuses on the dismantling of capitalism as the key to liberating women.
- Marxist Groups & Websites
Resource Type: Website
A list of Marxist websites and groups.
- Marxist Theory and the Proletariat
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1903
A sketch of Marxist theory.
- Marxist Views of the Working Class
Resource Type: Audio
- Marxist Women versus Bourgeois Feminism
Resource Type: Article
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.
- The Marxists and the Jewish Question
The History of a Debate 1843 - 1943
Resource Type: Book
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.
- Marx's Theory of Alienation
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1970
- 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."
- Mattick, Paul
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Marxist writer and activist. (1904-1981).
- Modern Politics
Resource Type: Book
- 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.
- A Non-Dogmatic Approach to Marxism
Resource Type: Article
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.
- On the First International
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
- Organizational Questions of the Russian Social Democracy
Resource Type: Article
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.
- 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.
- Philosophy and Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
- The Present State of the Problem of 'Marxism and Philosophy'
An Anti-Critique
Resource Type: Article
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.
- The Principle of Self-Emancipation in Marx and Engels
Resource Type: Article
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.
- 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.
- Review: Cyber-Marx - Aufheben
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2006
Aufheben critically review Nick Dyer-Witheford's Cyber-Marx: cycles and circuits of struggle in high-technology capitalism and its basis in the flawed theories of Antonio Negri.
- 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
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.
- 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."
- Seeds of Fire May 5, 1818: Birth of Karl Marx
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Marx breathes dialectics and revolution. For Marx, radicalism means going to the root, and Marx’s radicalism seeks to go to the root of capitalism, to comprehend its essence dialectically, to understand its inherent contradictions – and the seeds of revolution it contains.
- Selected Correspondence
Resource Type: Book
- Selected Writings in Sociology and Social Philosophy
Resource Type: Book
- Situationist International Anthology
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1981
- Social Reform or Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1908
Rosa Luxemburg's attack on reformism.
- 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.
- 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.
- Spontaneitat und Organisation
Resource Type: Book
- State-Capitalism and Marx's Humanism or Philosophy and Revolution
Resource Type: Book
- Structuralism as Defense of the Bureaucratic Status Quo
A Dialectical Critique of Althusserian Theory
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1974
Althusserian theory is deeply conservative and puts obstacles in the way of seeing the truly revolutionary currents that exist in the modern world.
- Theories of Surplus-Value
Part I
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1963
- Theory & Practice
A polemic against Comrade Kautsky's theory of the Mass Strike
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1910
Rosa Luxemburg confronts Karl Kautsky on the crucial questions of the General Mass Strike and on the relationship of spontaneity to organization, as well as on the unity of theory and practice. This crucial 1910 debate in German Social Democracy led to Luxemburg's revolutionary break with Karl Kautsky and foreshadowed the collapse of the Second International at the outbreak of World War I.
- The Theory of Need in Marx
Resource Type: Book
- 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.
- Toward a Marxist Humanism
Essays on the Left Today
Resource Type: Book
- 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
- 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.
- Why I am a Marxist
Resource Type: Article
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.
- 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'.
- Wood, Ellen Meiksins
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Marxist scholar. (Born 1942).
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