1. Against All Odds
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 1985
   The shadow haunting the power structure is the danger that those who are controlled will realize they are powerless only so long as they think they are. Once people stop believing they are powerless the whole edifice is in danger of collapse.
2. Anatomy of Big Business
   Resource Type: Book
   
3. Can the Ruling Class Shape History?
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 1969
   Originally entitled "Vietnam: Endless War".
   
4. The Canadian Corporate Elite
   An Analysis of Economic Power
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1975
   An exhaustive study of the concentration and perpetuation of economic power in Canada.
5. Das Capital, Volume 1 
   A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1867   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.
6. The Corporate Consensus
   A Guide to the Institutions of Global Power
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2000
   A detailed guide to the institutions and corporations which occupy the commanding heights of corporate power in the world today.
7. Corporate Power and Canadian Capitalism
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1986
   Carroll looks at the accumulation of capital in Canada since the Second World War. Most of the book is devoted to tracing actual patterns of corporate ownership and intercorporate relationships.
8. 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.
9. A Dictionary of Marxist Thought
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1983
   
10. The Great Class War
    1914-1918
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2016
    In this critical, revisionist account, historian Jacques Pauwels shows how the First World War was rooted in class strife that begin with the French Revolution in 1789 and continued long past the war itself. As Pauwels sees it, war seemed to offer major benefits to the European upper classes of the early twentieth century, who felt threatened by the seemingly irresistible process of democratization or, as they saw it, the "rise of the masses." War was expected to serve as an antidote to social revolution, causing workers to abandon socialism's focus on overthrowing the established order via internaitonal worker solidarity in favour of nationalism and militarism.
11. The Higher Circles
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
    
12. Highrise and Superprofits
    An Analysis of the Development Industry in Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
    
13. The History of Democracy 
    A Marxist Interpretation
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2013
    Roper traces the history of democracy from ancient Athens to the emergence of liberal representative and socialist participatory democracy. He argues that democracy cannot be understood separately from the social and economic contexts in which democratic states operate.
14. How Rich Are the 400 Richest Americans?
    And What They Do With Their Money
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    According to Forbes, a leading business magazine, the combined wealth of the 400 richest Americans has now reached the staggering total of $2.3 trillion. This gives them an average net worth of $5.7 billion – an increase of 14 percent over the previous year.
15. How the aristocracy preserved their power
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    After democracy finally shunted aside hereditary lords, they found new means to protect their extravagant riches. For all the modern tales of noble poverty and leaking ancestral homes, their private wealth and influence remain phenomenal.
16. The Invention of the White Race 
    Volume One: Racial Oppression and Social Control
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    One of the great contributions of Allen's study is a complete debunking of the myth that race and skin colour are the same thing.
17. Liberty Against the Law
    Some Seventeenth-century Controversies
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1996
    
18. A Marxist History of the World part 6: The First Ruling Class
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    This week Neil Faulkner looks at the rise of the first ruling classes as the surplus created through the increasing productivity of human labour allowed a section of society to live without producing.
19. A Marxist History of the World part 8: Crisis in the Bronze Age
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Why did Bronze Age empires rise and fall amid crisis and war? And why did this contradictory social form simply replicate itself over long periods of time? Neil Faulkner looks at the evidence.
20. A Marxist History of the World part 9: How History Happens
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    The complex societies that emerged from the division of society into classes also created societies that were wasteful, violent, stagnant and crisis prone. Understanding why is the key to how history happens argues Neil Faulkner.
21. Marxists Internet Archive 
    Resource Type: Website
    Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
22. New Democracy Internet site
    Resource Type: Website
    Supports a democratic revolution to overthrow corporate capitalism, but opposes socialism. Features short articles on labour issues, the deficit, education.
23. Notes from a Revolution Dying
    Against The Current vol. 134
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    In June 1922, five years on from the Russian Revolution, a group of Moscow communists gathered to discuss a letter by Vladimir Petrzhek, an auto worker, tendering his resignation from the communist (or Bolshevik) party. Petrzhek was one of the worker communists who swelled the party’s ranks during the civil war of 1918-19, when the communist “Reds” had defended the revolution from the western-supported “White” generals.
24. 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.
25. Plutocracy in America
    Runaway Exploitation
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Arguments for categorizing America as a plutocracy (a government of the rich and for the rich).
26. 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.
    
27. Selections from the Prison Notebooks 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1951   Published: 1973
    Gramsci's Notebooks cover a wide range of subjects including history, culture, politics, and philosophy.
28. The Socialist Register 1971
    Volume 8: A survey of movements and ideas
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1971
    
29. The Socialist Register 1980
    Volume 17: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1980
    
30. The Socialist Register 1983
    Volume 20: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1983
    
31. Socialist Register 1991
    Volume 27: Communist Regimes the Aftermath
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1991
    
32. Strike! 
    The True History of Mass Insurgence from 1877 to the Present
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972   Published: 1997
    A history-from-below that brings to light strikes as authentic revolutionary movements against the establishments of state, capital, and trade unionism.
33. Syriza and Sanders: "Just Say 'No'" to Neo-liberalism 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Hopes for Syriza's negotiations with the banking troika in the EU simmered and even boiled over among elements of the left, especially after the vaunted "No" referendum vote suggested that the Greeks would not succumb to another wave of austerity measures but would instead stand firm, even if this meant potentially leaving the EU. We have seen these hopes dashed by the subsequent "negotiations," in which Tsipras seemed to have negotiated backwards, arriving at an agreement that was worse than the one rejected by the Greek voters in the referendum vote.
34. Top 1 percent own more than half of world's wealth 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    A new report issued by the Swiss bank Credit Suisse finds that global wealth inequality continues to worsen and has reached a new milestone, with the top 1 percent owning more of the world’s assets than the bottom 99 percent combined. Of the estimated $250 trillion in global assets, the top 1 percent owned almost exactly 50 percent, while the bottom 50 percent of humanity owned collectively less than 1 percent. The richest 10 percent owned 87.7 percent of the world's wealth, leaving 12.3 percent for the bottom 90 percent of the population.
35. The Trouble With Billionaires 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2010
    The glittering lives of billionaires may seem to be a harmless source of entertainment, but authors Linda McQuaig and Neil Brooks argue that such financial power not only threatens everyone's economic and social well-being but also upsets the very functioning of democracy. Our society tends to regard great wealth as evidence of exceptional talent or accomplishment. Yet spectacular fortunes are often attributable to luck, ruthlessness, cheating, or advantageous positioning that allow some to build on the work and insights of others who have paved the way.
36. Why the Ruling Class is So Upset About Edward Snowden
    The Damage to Our Intelligence is Gut-Wrenching to See
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Is Snowden a hero, or a villain? The tiny power elite that controls the mainstream press and cable channels, the corporations that dutifully hand over meta-data to the state, the twin political parties, are sick to their stomachs that they’ve been so exposed.
37. Yes, There is an Imperialist Ruling Class
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Contemporary history is neither a series of random occurrences nor the predetermined plaything of a small cabal of super-empowered conspirators. The truth is somewhere in-between.

Experts on Classe dirigeante in the Sources Directory

1. Marxists Internet Archive