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- The Abolition of the State
Anarchist & Marxist Perspectives
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Both Anarchists and Marxists believe that it will be possible to do away with the state. But what do they mean by that? What is the state, after all? What institutions, if any, would be necessary to replace its functions? Would a transitional “dictatorship of the proletariat” be needed or will it be possible to immediately abolish the state? Does modern technology require a centralized institution such as the state? Throughout the history of revolutions, the people have created workplace councils and neighborhood assemblies--how could these replace the state?- Anarchism vs. Marxism: A few notes on an old theme
Resource Type: Article
First 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.- Bakunin vs. Marx
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
The anarchist-Marxist split started with Bakunin, who systematically misrepresented Marx's positions.- The Civil War in France
Resource Type: Book
First 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.- Critique of the Gotha Programme
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1875
Karl Marx's criticisms of the programme adopted by congress to unite the two German socialist parties in 1875.- Democracy Against Capitalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Wood provides a brilliant explication and defense of the key theoretical concepts relevant to socialism, understood to be the most radical social and economic democracy.- The Joy of Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997 Published: 2007
Knabb says "What is needed, I believe, is a worldwide participatory-democracy revolution that would abolish both capitalism and the state. This is admittedly a big order, but I'm afraid that nothing less can get to the root of our problems. It may seem absurd to talk about revolution; but all the alternatives assume the continuation of the present system, which is even more absurd."- Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
Volume II: The Politics of Social Classes
Resource Type: Book
First 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 IV: Critique of Other Socialisms
Resource Type: Book
First 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.- Libertarian Socialism
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
First 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- Marx, theoretician of anarchism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1973
Under the name communism, Marx developed a theory of anarchism; and further, in fact it was he who was the first to provide a rational basis for the anarchist utopia and to put forward a project for achieving it.- Marx's Vision of Communism
A Reconstruction
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Ollman tries to reconstruct Marx's vision of communism from his writings of 1844, the year in which he set down the broad lines of his analysis, to the end of his life.- The Two Souls of Socialism
Socialism from Above vs. Socialism from Below
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1960 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 that 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.- Writings on the Paris Commune
Resource Type: Book
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.