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  1. Adventures in Marxism 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1999
    Marshall Berman explores and rejoices in the emancipatory potential of Marxism.
  2. Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1789
    Approved by the National Assemby of France August 26, 1789.
  3. Declaration of the Rights of Women and Citizen
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1791
    Aware that women were being denied the new rights of liberty and property extended to all men by the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, Gouges composed her own Declaration of the Rights of Woman and Citizen, modeled on the 1789 document.
  4. Documents of the French Revolution
    Resource Type: Article
  5. French Revolution
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Was a period of political and social upheaval and radical change in the history of France, during which the French governmental structure, previously an absolute monarchy with feudal privileges for the aristocracy and Catholic clergy, underwent radical change to forms based on Enlightenment principles of citizenship and inalienable rights.
  6. 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.
  7. In Defence of the Terror
    Liberty or Death in the French Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2012
    A discussion about the causes and consequences of revolutionary violence, with the premise that dismissive disgust at bloodshed is an overly simplistic response.
  8. Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution 
    Volume I: State and Bureaucracy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1977
    A wide-ranging and thorough exposition of Marx's views on democracy.
  9. 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.
  10. Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
    Volume III: The Dictatorship of the Proletariat
    Resource Type: Book
    First 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.
  11. Manifestos, Programs, Visions 
    Selected Manifestos - Political Statements - Programs
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 1649   Published: 2016
    A selection of left manifestos, programs, poltical statements and visions from the 1600s to today.
  12. Marat, Jean-Paul
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Radical journalist and politician from the French Revolution. (1743-1793).
  13. A Marxist History of the World part 47: The French Revolution - Storming of the Bastille
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    In the latest of his series on the Marxist understanding of history, Neil Faulkner explores revolution and counter-revolution in 18th-Century France.
  14. A Marxist History of the World Part 48: The French Revolution - The Jacobin Dictatorship
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    In his latest instalment, Neil Faulkner explores the rise of the Jacobin dictatorship and the ever-present threat of counter-revolution in 18th Century France.
  15. A Marxist History of the World part 49: The French Revolution - Themidor, Directory and Napoleon
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    In his third chapter on the French Revolution, Neil Faulkner discusses the contradictions of bourgeois revolution - but celebrates the gains it won.
  16. A Marxist History of the World part 51: The origins of the Labour Movement
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    Capitalism's industrial revolution gave birth to its own gravediggers, argues Neil Faulkner as he examines the rise and fall of Chartism.
  17. Morris Slavin: 1913-2006
    Against The Current vol. 124
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    Morris Slavin, a historian of the French Revolution and one of the last remaining veterans of the American Trotskyist movement of the early 1930s, died on February 6 in Denver, Colorado, at the age of 92. The vast majority of Slavin's years were spent in Youngstown, Ohio, but his childhood took place in Russia.
  18. On Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1963   Published: 1968
    Arendt examines the American, French, and Russian revolutions and draws conclusions about the meaning of revolution.
  19. Our Generation
    Volume 20 Number 2
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1989
  20. Our Generation
    Volume 21 Number 1
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1989
  21. Paine, Thomas
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Author, pamphleteer, radical, inventor, intellectual, revolutionary. (1737-1809).
  22. Paris and London in the 18th Century
    Studies in Popular Protest
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1952   Published: 1970
    Articles relating to popular protests and revolts breaking out in Paris and London during the eighteenth century.
  23. 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.
  24. Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2013
    Against the thesis that Western subalterns are made of different stuff, Chibber argues that human beings are, at their core, not that different across contexts. The winds of history and culture may change many things, but not human constitutions. His defense of this argument sets the stage for a deliberate, careful explication of the key tenets of historical materialism. This argument is that humans, everywhere, take an interest in defending their well-being and their dignity.
  25. Reflections on the Revolution in France and the Rights of Man
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1961
  26. The Rights of Man
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1792
    Thomas Paine's defense of the French Revolution -- and the right to revolt.
  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 1967
    Volume 4: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1967
  29. Socialist Register 1992
    Volume 28: New World Order?
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1992
  30. Strange Fruit 
    Why Both Sides Are Wrong in the Race Debate
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    Malik makes the case that most anti-racists accept the belief, also held by racialists and outright racists, that differences between groups are of great importance. While racialists attribute the differences to biology, anti-racists attribute them to deep-rooted cultural traditions which are typically seen as inherent in the group. Malik argues that these positions are actually quite similar, and makes the case that racism and racial inequality are best combatted by focusing not on our differences but on what unites us. Malik also strongly criticizes the cultural relativism of many anti-racists, and their increasing tendency to reject science as some kind of western imperialist conspiracy to oppress the rest of the world.
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