1. 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?
2. "All Power to the Soviets!" Biography of a Slogan
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2017
   An examination of the origins of the slogan "All Power to the Soviets" in its original context of Russia in 1917.
3. Bad Marxism
   Capitalism and Cultural Studies
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2004
   Cultural Studies commonly claims to be a radical discipline. This book thinks that's a bad assessment. After an introduction critiquing the so-called 'Marxism' of the academy, Hutnyk provides detailed critical analyses of the approaches and theorists of cultural studies.
4. The Betrayal of Marx 
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1975
   The public has too long been fed the view that figures such as Lenin and Stalin are genuine followers of Marx, simply because they have claimed that distinction. Nothing justifies the deeds of a perverse 'Marxism' (e.g. that of Stalin); a proper understanding of Marxist humanism, and its betrayal, in contrast, enables us to raise afresh the question of means and to reevaluate the relevant historical, economic, and political facts.
5. Beyond the Fragments 
   Feminism and the Making of Socialism
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1979   Published: 1980
   A call for various fractions of the left to unite and work for a socialism through grass-roots activism.
   
6. The Bolsheviks in Power
   The First Year of Soviet Rule in Petrograd
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2007
   
7. The Bolsheviks and Workers' Control 
   The State and Counter-Revolution
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1970
   A pamphlet exposing the struggle that took place over the running of workplaces in the immediate aftermath of the Russian Revolution. In doing so not only does it demolish the romantic Leninist "history" of the relationship between the working class and their party during these years (1917-21) but it also provides a backbone to understanding why the Russian revolution failed in the way it did. From this understanding flows alternative possibilities of revolutionary organization.
8. Bolshevism and Stalinism 
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 1947
   From any view that goes beyond the capitalist system of exploitation, Stalinism and Trotskyism are both relics of the past.
9. Bolshevism: The Road to Revolution
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 1999
   An in-depth analysis of the history of Bolshevism and the many programmatic, tactical and organisational lessons to be drawn from that history.
10. The Canadian Left 
    A Critical Analysis
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1977
    The main focus of the book is the emergence and development of Canadian socialist thought. Penner examines the origins of the Communist Party of Canada and its ideological base and the beginings and development of the CCF-NDP.
11. A Dictionary of Marxist Thought
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983
    
12. Didn't See The Same Movie
    Review of Max Elbaum, Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao and Che.
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2003
    
13. Everything you wanted to know about sects but were afraid to ask
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1978
    We would rather fight for what we want (even if we don#t get it in our lifetime) than fight for what we don't want ... and get it.
14. Facing Reality 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1958   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."
15. Failure of a Dream?
    Essays in the History of American Socialism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1974
    Examines the reasons for the relative weakness of American socialism.
16. Fourth International
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    An international Trotskyist communist organisation which opposes both capitalism and Stalinism.
17. The Fourth International, Stalinism and the Origins of the International Socialists
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1971
    
18. From Lenin to Stalin 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1937   Published: 1973
    A fascinating, first-hand account of the Stalinist takeover in Russia.
19. Germany's lost Bolshevik: Paul Levi revisited
    A review of David Fernbach (ed), In the Steps of Rosa Luxemburg: Selected Writings by Paul Levi
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Paul Levi’s name is almost unknown today outside a small community of specialised historians. But in the years 1919 and 1920 he was well known in Germany and abroad as the chair of the young Communist Party of Germany (KPD). He would become the most controversial figure in the German Communist movement. He was mainly responsible for building the KPD from a relatively small organisation in early 1918 into a truly mass party.
20. Gramsci's Marxism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1976
    Carl Boggs introduces Gramsci as one of the first marxist theorists to grapple with the problems of revolutionary change in advanced capitalist society and as the first to identify the importance of the ideological-cultural struggle against bourgeois values.
21. International Communism in the Era of Lenin
    A Documentary History
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
    
22. The International Situation
    World United Front & Proletarian Revolution
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1977
    These Canadian Marxist-Leninists distinguish themselves from those who they perceive as betrayers of the working class -- namely the Communist Party of Canada and other "phoney" communists. In this paper the authors engage with the international situation and analyze major trends on a global level. Accordingly, they seek to determine: 1) what effect the international situation will have on the revolutionary struggles in Canada and consequently on the tasks of Marxist-Leninists who must lead these struggles, and 2) the responsibilities and tasks of the Canadian working class and Marxist-Leninists in upholding proletarian internationalism. This is Pamphlet 2.
23. The Invading Socialist Society
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1947
    History has shown that in moments of great social crisis, its farthest flights fall short of the reality of the proletarian revolution. Never was the proletariat so ready for the revolutionary struggle, never was the need for it so great, never was it more certain that the proletarian upheaval, however long delayed, will only the more certainly take humanity forward in the greatest leap forward it has hitherto made. The periods of retreat, of quiescence, of inevitable defeats are mere episodes in the face of the absolute nature of the crisis.
24. "Left-Wing" Communism
    An Infantile Disorder
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1918
    Lenin's repsonse to ultraleftists who advocate 'no compromises' and refuse to work in 'reactionary' trade unions and parliamentary elections.
25. Lenin
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2011
    
26. Lenin and the Vanguard Party
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1963
    To believe that Bolshevism, or to be more precise, Leninism, would under the circumstances advocate or preach the theory of the vanguard party is to continue slander of Leninism, but not to his theory of the party (that is no longer viable) but to his central doctrine - the role of the proletariat in the preservation of society from barbarism. To interpret Leninism as the advocacy of a vanguard party of three million is nearly as bad as the doctrine of Goebbels that Christ was not a Jew. Objective circumstances in Russia forced Lenin into a certain position. He accepted it without apologising for it. He knew what he was doing and he knew also, for he said it many times, what he was not doing. His doubts about it, not only for other countries but for Russia, he made public many, many times.
27. Lenin as Philosopher
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1938   Published: 1948
    Since the importance of Lenin's philosophy is so strongly emphasised in Leninist organizations, it is necessary to make it the subject of a serious critical study. The doctrine of Party-Communism of the Third International cannot be judged adequately unless their philosophical basis is thoroughly examined.
28. Lenin as Philosopher
    Some additional remarks to Anton Pannekoek's recent criticism of Lenin's book Materialism and Empirio-Criticism
    Resource Type: Article
    First 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.
    
29. Lenin and the Bolshevik Party: A revolutionary collective
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    The Russian Revolution of 1917 clearly reveals the complexities of Bolshevism – Lenin's party – as a revolutionary collective.
30. Lenin in 1917
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1924   Published: 1925
    
31. The Lenin Legend
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1935
    For Lenin, socialism was in the last instance merely a kind of state-capitalism.
32. Lenin and Luxemburg (World Revolution for Beginners, Part I 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Both of these people are great revolutionaries and there are libraries of books written about them. So in two hours, I’m going to try to sort of summarize what I think is really important about them.
33. Lenin and Luxemburg: Negation in theory and Praxis
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1970
    
34. Lenin On The Need For Political Compromise
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Considering the nature of compromises and how to deal with them.
35. Lenin Rediscovered
    What is to Be Done? in Context
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    
36. Lenin, Trotsky and the Vanguard Party
    A Contemporary View
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1963   Published: 1964
    
37. Lenin and the Tsarist Duma
    A review of August H Nimtz, Lenin’s Electoral Strategy from Marx and Engels through the Revolution of 1905: The Ballot, the Streets—or Both
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Donnelly reviews Nimtz's two volume account of Lenin's pre-revolution electoral strategy and summarises the thesis that Lenin's critique of reformism in parliamentary democracy was rooted in the conclusions of Marx and Engels.
38. Lenin, Vladimir - Writings - Index
    Resource Type: Article
    
39. Leninism Under Lenin
    Resource Type: Book
    Liebman offers a portrayal of Lenin as primarily a revolutionary, focusing both on his fallibility and successes.
40. Leninism vs. Debs's Socialist Party
    The Communist Fight Against Black Oppression
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Articles by Eugene Debs, written as polemics against racists within the Socialist Party, are eloquent in defending black people against racism, in calling for working-class unity across racial lines and in emphasizing that the Socialist Party should open its ranks to black people. In "The Negro in the Class Struggle," Debs stressed, "The history of the Negro in the United States is a history of crime without a parallel." Debs stands out favorably against most of his contemporaries in the labor movement -- including within the SP. Debs's writing remains a powerful denunciation of white workers' racism. Debs recognized that black oppression, rather than making white workers privileged, degrades them, thus providing a refutation of the later concept of "white skin privilege."
41. The Leninist Facade
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1979
    In direct oppostion to what Marx advocated, the Bolsheviks tried to institute socialism without democracy. The damage to the socialist movement resulting from this was immense.
42. Listen, Marxist!
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1969   Published: 1971
    Murray Bookchin takes on the 'Marxist-Leninists' who are destroying the New Left.
43. Luxemburg versus Lenin 
    Resource Type: Article
    First 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.
44. Manual for Revolutionary Leaders
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
    A devious satire aimed at Leninists, Trotskyists, Maoists, and vanguardists of all stripes.
    
45. Mao as a Dialectician
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1968   Published: 1971
    
46. Marxists Internet Archive 
    Resource Type: Website
    Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
47. Multiphasic Bureaucratic Follow the Leader Exam
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1978
    
48. The Myth of Lenin's 'Concept of The Party'
    What They Did to What Is To Be Done?
    Resource Type: Article
    First 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.
49. The Myth of Lenin's 'Revolutionary Defeatism'
    Resource Type: Article
    First 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.
50. Notebook of an Agitator
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1958   Published: 1973
    Over 100 articles from the pen of an active participant in the events of thirty years of labor history. Cannon covers the campaigns to save Sacco and Vanzetti, the historic strikes of the 1930s, the Korean War, mcCarthyism, and prize fighting, movies, and the Catholic Church.
51. On left-wing dogmatism - a senile disorder
    plus, Vanguard, vanguard, who's got the vanguard?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1974
    
52. Organizational Questions of the Russian Social Democracy 
    Resource Type: Article
    First 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.
    
53. A People's History of the World 
    From the Stone Age to the New Millennium
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1999
    Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals.
54. Platformism & Bolshevism
    Pamphlet published by the International Bolshevik Tendency: A polemic against platformist anarchism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2002
    
55. Portugal: The Impossible Revolution?
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1977
    The story of what happened in Portugal between April 25, 1974 and November 25, 1975, as seen and felt by a deeply committed participant.
56. Practice and Theory of Bolshevism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1920   Published: 1962
    
57. The Question of Stalin
    Resource Type: Article
    Colletti explores the contradictions of Bolshevism as the vanguard party which constructed a powerful state apparatus to manage the socialist relations of production while abandoning the development of socialist democracy.
58. Radical America - Volume 4, No. 6 - September - October 1970
    Special Lenin-Hegel Issue
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1970
    
59. Radical America - Volume 4, Number 6
    Special Lenin-Hegel Issue - Periodical profile
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1970
    
60. The Red Menace 
    A libertarian socialist newsletter
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1975   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.
    
61. Red Menace #2
    Volume 2, Number 1 - Summer 1977
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1977
    A Libertarian Socialist Newsletter
62. Red Menace #3
    Volume 2, Number 2 - Spring 1978
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1978
    A Libertarian Socialist Newsletter
63. Red Menace #4
    Volume 3, Number 1 - Winter 1979
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1979
    A Libertarian Socialist Newsletter
64. Revolutionary Organisation and Open Letter to IS
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1972
    A 1972 pamphlet incorporating two previously published texts, 'Revolutionary Organisation' (1961) and 'An Open Letter to I.S.' (1968). They are presented as "a contribution to the serious discussing now taking place, within the ranks of revolutionaryies, as to what kind of organisation is necessary."
    
65. The Russian Revolution 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1918   Published: 1961
    The basic lesson of every great revolution, the law of its being, decrees: either the revolution must advance at a rapid, stormy, resolute tempo, break down all barriers with an iron hand and place its goals ever farther ahead, or it is quite soon thrown backward behind its feeble point of departure and suppressed by counter-revolution. To stand still, to mark time on one spot, to be contented with the first goal it happens to reach, is never possible in revolution. And he who tries to apply the home-made wisdom derived from parliamentary battles between frogs and mice to the field of revolutionary tactics only shows thereby that the very psychology and laws of existence of revolution are alien to him.
66. The Russian Revolution in Retreat
    Against The Current vol. 136
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    The relationship between “Leninism” and Stalinism has been a highly controversial topic between the political left and right as well as within the left itself. The “totalitarian” school of thought, historically associated with the political right and with many liberals, has held that there are no qualitative differences between the two regimes and that the main source of Stalinism was the Bolshevik ideology and politics that existed before the October Revolution.
67. SDS 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973   Published: 1974
    The rise and development of the Students for a Democratic Society, the organization that became the major expression of the American left in the 1960s -- its passage from student protest to institutional resistance to revolutionary activism, and its ultimate impact on American politics and life.
68. Situationist International Anthology 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1981   Published: 2006
    A selection of Situationist writings.
69. The Sixties 
    Years of Hope, Days of Rage
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
    One of the best books on the Sixties in the U.S., bringing to life the political and cultural currents, including especially the music, which raged during that decade, and setting them in historical context.
70. Social Anarchism, Individualist Anarchism, the State and Leninism
    A Reply to the International Socialist Organization
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    I take it that social or Left-anarchism and libertarian socialism are the same thing. Both stand opposed to Leninism, and both stand opposed to individualist anarchism.
71. The Socialist Register 1964
    Volume 1: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1964
    
72. The Socialist Register 1970
    Volume 7: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1970
    
73. The Socialist Register 1974
    Volume 11: A survey of Movements & Ideas
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1974
    
74. The Socialist Register 1975
    Volume 12: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1975
    
75. The Socialist Register 1978
    Volume 15: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1978
    
76. Society of the Spectacle 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1967   Published: 2005
    An analysis of modern society and how it can be changed, written in the form of 221 theses. The first thesis reads: "In societies dominated by modern conditions of production, life is presented as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has receded into a representation." Translator Ken Knabb describes the book as "an effort to clarify the nature of the society in which we find ourselves and the advantages and drawbacks of various methods for changing it. Every single thesis has a direct or indirect bearing on issues that are matters of life and death."
77. Soviet Russia Masters the Comintern
    International Communism in the Era of Stalin's Ascendancy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1974
    A documentary history.
78. Stalin, Marxism-Leninism and the Left
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1976
    
79. The State and Revolution 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1917
    Lenin on the Marxist view of the state and revolution.
80. The Transitional Program: The Death Agony of Capitalism and the Tasks of the Fourth International
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1938
    Leon Trotsky's program for the founding of the Fourth International.
    
81. Trotskyism and the vanguard party 
    Resource Type: Article
    First 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.
    
82. The Unknown Dimension 
    European Marxism Since Lenin
    Resource Type: Book
    First 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.
83. Vanguard, Vanguard, Who's Got the Vanguard?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1972
    A critique of Leninist vanguard-party theories and practice, especially as manifested in the new left groups of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Published in the May 1972 and August 1972 issues of Liberation magazine.
    
84. What Happened to Better Read Graphics?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1976
    Four members of the Better Read Graphics collective (identified only by their initials) explain the political differences which led the collective to decide to dissolve in the summer of 1976.
85. Why the Leninists will lose
    Resource Type: Article
    First 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.
86. Why the Leninists Will Win
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1977
    Clark argues that the failure of the libertarian left to take organizing seriously makes it likely that capitalism will be overthrown by Leninists who will preside over a social system as undemocratic as the old.

Experts on Leninismus in the Sources Directory

1. Center for Socialist History
2. Marxists Internet Archive