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  1. The ABC of Communism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1920
    Written as a commentary on the Bolshevik Party program, combining a vision of communist society with a program for practical action.
  2. 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?
  3. Adventures in Marxism 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1999
    Marshall Berman explores and rejoices in the emancipatory potential of Marxism.
  4. Adventures of the Communist Manifesto
    Resource Type: Book
    Draper offers a comprehensive overview of the whole intellectual history of the Manifesto, combined with a new, strictly literal English-language translation. This translation is a major contribution, and the book as a whole is a gem.
  5. After the "Special Period"
    Against The Current vol. 89

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2000
    U.S. activists interview Cuban student. In July, Solidarity supporters Tim Marshall, Rachel Quinn and Sara Abraham had the opportunity to take classes at the University of Havana as a part of the Language and Culture program sponsored by Global Exchange. We met many people willing to share their opinions on the political and economic situation of the country. Everyone talked about how difficult the "special period" (early 1990s) was but felt that Cuba was emerging from this critical time.
  6. The Age of Permanent Revolution
    A Trotsky Anthology

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1964
    A collection of writings by Leon Trotsky.
  7. All That Is Solid Melts Into Air 
    The Experience of Modernity

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1982   Published: 1988
    Berman examines the clash of classes, histories, and clutures in the modern world, and ponders our prospects for coming to terms with the relationship between a liberating social and philosophical idealism and a complex, bureaucratic materialism.
  8. Alternate Societies
    A brief survey on intentional community in European history

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1993
    A brief outline of the history of attempts in western society to create living arrangements which would complement, and in some cases further, efforts to become economically independent.
  9. Anarchist communism
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    "Anarchist communism" is a term used by some anarchists to describe their vision of a future society. The term, like the related terms "libertarian communism" or "libertarian socialism," has been used to distinguish this vision of the future society from the so-called "Communism" that existed in the former Soviet Union, its satellite states, and in China. Because these states appropriated the terms "Socialism" and "Communism" as labels for authoritarian Stalinist state-capitalist regimes, those who adhere to the original vision of Communism have felt a need to clearly distinguish what they stand for from Stalinist "Communism."
    All of them refer to the project of creating a future society in which capitalism, private ownership of the means of production, and the capitalist state are abolished and replaced by common ownership of the means of production, direct democracy, and a horizontal network of voluntary associations and workers' councils with production and consumption.
  10. Anarchy and Art
    From the Paris Commune to the Fall of the Berlin Wall

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
  11. Anti-Bolshevist Communism in Germany 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1947
    Until the final collapse of the German labor movement, the retreat of the 'ultra-left' appeared to be a return to theoretical work. The organizations existed in the form of weekly and monthly publications, pamphlets and books. The publications secured the organizations, the organizations the publications. While mass-organizations served small capitalistic minorities, the mass of the workers were represented by individuals. The contradiction between the theories of the 'ultra-left' and the prevailing conditions became unbearable. The more one thought in collective terms the more isolated one became.
  12. Art and Aesthetics on the Left
    An interview with Andrew Hemingway

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Andrew Hemingway is an art historian and Professor Emeritus at University College London. His books include Artists on the Left. American Artists and the Communist Movement 1926-1956 (Yale University Press, 2002) and The Mysticism of Money: Precisionist Painting and Machine Age America (Periscope Publishing, 2013).
  13. 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.
  14. The Blackest Streets
    The Life and Death of a Victorian Slum

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
  15. Break Their Haughty Power 
    Resource Type: Website
    Articles on capitalism, socialism, and revolution, from a left-Marxist perspective.
  16. Burying the Typewriter
    Childhood Under the Eye of the Secret Police

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2012
    Carmen Bugan reflects on what life was like growing up in Romania during the 1980's with a dissident father.
  17. 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.
  18. Das Capital, Volume 2
    The Process of Circulation of Capital

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1893   Published: 1956
  19. Das Capital, Volume 3
    The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1894   Published: 1971
  20. Capitalism and communism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1972   Published: 1997
    Gilles Dauvé outlines the development of capitalism, and communism as the real movement in everyday life which tends towards the abolition of wage labour.
  21. Christian communism
    Wikipedia article

    Resource Type: Article
    Christian communism is a form of religious communism based on Christianity. It is a theological and political theory based upon the view that the teachings of Jesus Christ compel Christians to support communism as the ideal social system. Although there is no universal agreement on the exact date when Christian communism was founded, many Christian communists assert that evidence from the Bible suggests that the first Christians, including the Apostles, established their own small communist society in the years following Jesus' death and resurrection.
  22. The CIA's Greatest Hits
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    Brief case studies of the CIA's greatest 'triumphs'.
  23. Ciliga, Ante - Writings - Index
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Writings of Ante Ciliga (1898-1992).
  24. Communism is the Material Human Community: Amadeo Bordiga Today
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1991
  25. Communist League
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    The first Marxist international organization. It was founded originally as the League of the Just by German workers in Paris in 1836.
  26. The Communist Manifesto 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1848
    Written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels as the theoretical and practical platform of the Communist League, a workers' association.
  27. Communist Organizing in the Jim Crow South
    What's Not in The Great Debaters

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    The Great Debaters is a well-made movie. But in its paeans to dedication and debate, it downplays the real social struggle that was going on in the U.S. in the 1930s, including by black people in the South.
  28. Communist Workers International
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    Founded around the Manifesto of the Fourth Communist International, published by the Communist Workers' Party of Germany (KAPD) in 1921.
  29. The Communistic Societies of the United States 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1875   Published: 1965
    Describes a dozen Utopian societies.
  30. The Continuing Appeal of Nationalism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1984
  31. The Costs of McCarthyism
    Against The Current vol. 85

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2000
    Many Are the Crimes is far more than just an incisive diagnosis of the interlocking components of the historical era known as “McCarthyism.” Yeshiva University historian Ellen Schrecker has also produced a unique anti-witch-hunt study acknowledging that the vast majority of the legal targets of repression were, as the McCarthyites claimed, variously associated with the Communist movement.
  32. Council Communism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1939
    There is no dearth of proposals as to how to revive the labour movement; however, the serious investigator cannot help noticing that all such proposals for a 'new beginning' are in reality but the restatement and rediscovery of ideas and forms of activity developed with much greater clarity and consistency during the beginnings of the modern labour movement.
  33. Council communism
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    The central argument of council communism, in contrast to those of social democracy and Leninist Communism, is that democratic workers' councils arising in the factories and municipalities are the natural form of working class organisation and governmental power.
  34. Cry Hungary! Uprising 1956
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1986
    An account of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.
  35. Cult, Ghetto, and State
    The Persistence of Jewish Question

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983
    Jewish studies, Maxime Rodinson says in this book, has been a field in which ideological delirium has long had virtually free rein. In this collection of essays, he tries to redress the balance, bringing his expertise to bear on Jewish problems past and present.
  36. Democracy for the Few 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988   Published: 1995
    How does the U.S. political system work and for what purpose? What are the major forces shaping political life and how do they operate? Who governs in the United States? Who gets what, when, how, and why? Who pays and in what ways. These are the central questions investigated in this book.
  37. Description of Recently Founded Communist Colonies Still in Existence
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1844   Published: 1845
    If the workers are united among themselves, hold together and pursue one purpose, they are infinitely stronger than the rich. And if, moreover, they have set their sights upon such a rational purpose, and one which desires the best for all mankind, as community of goods, it is self-evident that the better and more intelligent among the rich will declare themselves in agreement with the workers and support them.
  38. A Dictionary of Marxist Thought
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983
  39. Dilemmas of Third World Communism
    The Destruction of the PKI in Indonesia

    Resource Type: Book
    Dilemmas of Third World Communism is a study of the Indonesian Communist Party that aims to answer more general questions about the difficulties, and even defeats, encountered by so many left-wing movements in the Third World. Olle Tornquist argues that one fundamental reason for the Indonesian military's successful destruction of the Party lay in the Party's failure to analyze the nature of the post-colonial capitalist society that was emerging.
  40. A Documentary History of Communism, Volume 2
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1960
  41. Double Standard
    The Secret History of Canadian Immigration

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
    A focused examination of the right-wing political bias and dishonesty that has charecterized Canada's post-war immigration and refugee policies. Policies were profoundly influenced by the Cold War. The RCMP served as the chief screening instrument, relying heavily on the American-Counter Intelligence Corps which was cooperating closely with the Gehlen group staffed by ex-Nazis. While belonging to a Communist party was grounds for exclusion being an ex-Nazi as early as 1950 was no longer regarded as such. The acceptance of 60,000 "boat" people was applauded by Canadians because they were fleeing Communist opression but the efforts of a few thousand Central Americans were stymied by two repressive refugee bills because they were fleeing the "oppression of our side". Whitacker grants that Canada is a safe haven of peace and freedom but only to those who are ideologically correct.
  42. The Economy of Cities
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
    Ideas about what makes cities rich or poor, how cities grow, and how city growth affects national economies.
  43. The Enemy of Nature 
    The End of Capitalism or the End of the World?

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2002   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.
  44. For Communism: Propositions on a Strategy for Revolution in the Advanced Capitalist Countries
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1970
    A series of 100 propositions addressing the strategic vacuum on the Italian and European left at the end of the 1960s.
  45. For Reasons of State
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
    Essays in which Chomsky analyzes the role of the American state and discusses some of the ways in which individuals can respond to its growing power.
  46. France: A Sea Change on the Left
    Against The Current vol. 137

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    In contrast with the United States, where the political arena has been dominated by two entrenched parties for a century, France has gone through major changes since the end of World War II. Back then, workers' demands were mostly put forward by the French Communist Party (PCF) which had over 30% of the vote, and the fear of a revolution forced the ruling class to concede to demands such as universal healthcare (called Sécurité sociale).
  47. France Spring 1968
    Masses in motion Ideas in free flow

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1968
  48. Free association Communism and Anarchism
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
  49. The Freudian Left
    Wilhelm Reich, Geza Roheim, Herbert Marcuse

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1969
    Paul Robinson tries to define a particular tradition in the history of psychoanalysis - the "radical" or "left-wing" tradition - through an analysis of its three most important representatives: Wilhelm Reich, Geza Roheim, and Herbert Marcuse.
  50. From the Bourgeois to the Proletarian Revolution 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1924   Published: 1974
    Parliaments are becoming increasingly empty trappings: the parties are collapsing, destroying one another, and losing their political credibility: the trade unions are changing into ruins. The breakdown of this organisational and political system all along the line is inevitable.
  51. Gatekeepers
    Reshaping Immigrant Lives in Cold War Canada

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
  52. Germany 1921: The March Action
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1964
    The debacle represented by the ‘March Action’ in Germany in 1921 was a crucial turning point in the development of the Communist International. The defeat led to a crisis in the German Communist Party (KPD), which had repercussions for the entire International.
  53. Heretics and Renegades
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1955   Published: 1969
    Essasy on the Soviet Union and the Soviet bloc.
  54. The Historical Moment That Produced Us 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    As we emerge, hopefully, from this dismal period of rollback, we recall Rosa Luxemburg's remark, shortly before her murder in 1919: "The revolution says: I was, I am, I shall be!" We assert the ongoing reality of communism, "the real movement developing before our eyes," as Marx put it in the Manifesto. Like Hegel's "knights of history," we locate our identities not in any immediacy but in the emerging new universal that must be the cutting edge of the next global offensive.
  55. The History of the German Resistance 1933-1945
    Widerstand, Staatsstreich, Attentat

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1969
    A thorough portrayal of the plans, hesitations, frustrations, and failures of the opposition to Hitler.
  56. In a Time of Torment
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1968
    Independent journalist I.F. Stone on the events and issues of the 1960s.
  57. The Inevitability of Communism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1936
    A reaction to Sidney Hook's Towards the Understanding of Karl Marx.
  58. International Communism in the Era of Lenin
    A Documentary History

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
  59. International Communist Tendency
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    An international centralised left communist organisation formed in 1975.
  60. Interview with Ulli Diemer
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1990
    Jeff Orchard interviews Ulli Diemer about socialism, capitalism, life, and social change.
  61. Introduction to 'Anti-Bolshevik Communism' 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1978
    The international socialist movement must of course be an anti-imperialist movement. But it has to actualise its anti-imperialism through the destruction of the capitalist system in the advanced countries. Were this accomplished, anti-imperialism would become meaningless and the social struggles in the underdeveloped part of the world would focus on internal class differences.
  62. Islamic Peril
    Media And Global Violence

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
  63. John Gray web Site
    Resource Type: Website
    Inactive/Defunct Periodical
    This site was intended to make communist, anti-capitalist and historical texts available on-line and to link to texts on other sites. The site has been organised to group some texts and links by author and subject. Was at http://www.geocities.com/~johngray/index.html
  64. John Reed Clubs and Proletarian Art - Part I
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    The writings of Marx and Engels provide no support for the idea, frequently associated with Marxism, that the movement of the working class to emancipate itself from capitalism and build a classless society requires a proletarian or revolutionary art as an aid to its struggles.
  65. 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.
  66. 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.
  67. 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.
  68. 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.
  69. The "Labor Aristocracy" and Working-Class Struggles: Consciousness in Flux, Part 2
    Against The Current vol. 124

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    Whatever the theoretical and empirical problems with the economics of the labor aristocracy thesis, its defenders still claim that well paid workers have generally been more reformist and conservative in their politics than lower paid workers. They point to the example of mostly white New York City construction workers ("hardhats") attacking antiwar demonstrators in the Spring of 1970; and contrast them with the militancy and progressive politics of some of the recent "Justice for Janitors" campaigns.
  70. The Labor Wars
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973   Published: 1974
    A survey of landmark events in the U.S. labour movement.
  71. Left-wing internationals, list of
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    This is a list of socialist, communist, and anarchist internationals. An "International" such as, the "First International", the "Second International", or the "Socialist International" may refer to a number of multi-national communist, radical, socialist, or union organizations, typically composed of national sections.
  72. Life after Communism West goes East
    New Internationalist April 2004

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2004
    A look at the effects of communist rule in the former Soviet Union and the post-communism transition.
  73. The Little Band
    The Clashes Between the Communists and the Political and Legal Establishment in Canada, 1928-1932

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983
  74. Living socialism, The experience of the eighties
    New Internationalist November 1985

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1985
    Discussion focusing on the challenges of living a socialist life in modern times. Political commitments to meeting people's needs can be more rhetoric than reality. "How can socialism maintain its ideals in an international climate shaped by those hostile towards it?"
  75. Looking for Democracy
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1989
    Instead of sitting on the sidelines congratulating ourselves on how wonderfully free and democratic we are, we should be pressing for a radical democratization of our own society.
  76. Main Currents of Marxism
    Volume 1: The Founders

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1978
    Kolakowski gives his interpretation of the origins of Marxism, and analyses the development of Marx's thought and its divergence from other forms of socialism.
  77. Main Currents of Marxism
    Volume 3: The Breakdown

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1978
    Kolakowski examines the origins and development of Stalinism, as well as the contributions of Trotsky, Gramsci, Lukacs, Marcuse, and others, and traces developments in Marxism it period after the Second World War.
  78. A Man Apart
    The Life of Henri Curiel

    Resource Type: Book
    Curiel was a key figure in founding the Egyptian and Sudanese communist movements; he trained and influenced most of the left militants in Nasser's Free Officer movement. Curiel remained one of the most prominent figures on the Middle East scene until he was assassinated in 1978. Eqypt, and especially the radical movement within it, is the backdrop.
  79. 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.
  80. Marxism and Freedom 
    From 1776 to Today

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1958   Published: 2000
    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.
  81. Marxism.ca 
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2016
    A gateway to resources about Marxism compiled by Connexions.
  82. A Marxist History of the World part 91: The Cold War
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    The Second World War had created a world divided between two imperialist blocs. Their nuclear arsenals acted as a ‘deterrent’, but rivalry and suspicion meant that war was never far away.
  83. Marxists Internet Archive 
    Resource Type: Website
    Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
  84. Marx's Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2013
    In contrast to the traditional view that Marx's work is restricted to a critique of capitalism – and that he consciously avoided any detailed conception of its alternative – this work shows that Marx was committed to a specific concept of a post-capitalist society which informed the whole of his approach to political economy.
  85. 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.
  86. Nationalism, Communism and Canadian Labour
    The CIO, The Communist Party, and the Canadian Congress of Labour 1935-1956

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
    A history of the Canadian Congress of Labour and of the CIO in Canada from the 1930s to the 1950s. The author raises many significant questions concerning the presence of American unions in Canada and the crucial role played by the Communist party in the history of the Canadian labour movement.
  87. 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.
  88. Our Path: Against Putschism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1921
    If a Communist Party is to be built up again in Germany, then the dead of central Germany, Hamburg, the Rhineland, Baden, Silesia and Berlin, not to mention the many thousands of prisoners who have fallen victim to this Bakuninist lunacy, all demand in the face of the events of the last week: “Never again!”
  89. Pannekoek and Gorter's Marxism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1978
    Anton Pannekoek and Herman Gorter were leading spokespersons for 'council communism.' They argued for the primacy of workers' own organizations, defending their importance agains the parliamentarists and Bolsheviks who saw in the party the nub of working-class organization, and against the anarchists who saw anathema in all organization. This volume contains represenative texts by Pannekoek and Goter, with an introduction by the editor.
  90. 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.
  91. Politics Past
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1958   Published: 1970
    A collection of essays by Dwight Macdonald.
  92. Practice and Theory of Bolshevism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1920   Published: 1962
  93. Presenting Insurgent Notes
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    We take our Marx and Engels seriously. Recent history, beginning perhaps (in the US) with the UPS strike of 1997 and the 'battle of Seattle' in 1999, now quickened by the abject financial and ideological meltdown (Fall 2008) of the three decades of the stifling 'neo-liberal' era, has favored a certain revival of the radical critique of capitalism, by which we understand first and foremost the work of Karl Marx.
    "Theory must seek its practice," Marx wrote long ago, but "practice must also seek its theory", and such theoretical ferment expresses the rising tide, in fits and starts reaching back to the 1990's, of an accelerating global reaction to the ravages of the 'neo-liberal', 'Washington consensus' phase of capitalism, after the rollback of what we might consider he last (l968-1977) offensive of the world working class.
  94. Private Property and Communism
    Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1844
  95. Proposed Communist Settlement
    A New Colony for Tyneside or Wearside

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1895
  96. 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.
  97. Quotes about Socialism and Communism
    Resource Type: Unclassified
  98. Radical Perspectives in the Arts
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
    An anthology of Marxist literary and cultural criticism.
  99. Raids and Reconstructions
    Essays on Politics, Crime, and Culture

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1976
    A collection of essays on culture and poltics.
  100. Red Bologna
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1977
    Examines the Communist administration of the city of Bologna.
  101. Red Emma Speaks
    Selected Writings and Speeches by Emma Goldman

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
    A collection of essays which provide a comprehensive view of Emma Goldman's theories and beliefs.
  102. 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.
  103. A Reluctant Memoir of the '50s and '60s
    Against The Current vol. 134

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    I have been asked to write a memoir that would give a sense of the old left/new left realities of the 1950s and ‘60s. That seems quite odd to me (why would I be writing such a thing?), until I look in the mirror and see this old guy looking back at me. As I reflect, it does seem to me that I went through a lot of experience, met a lot of people, and perhaps learned from all that…So I will share some of my story.
  104. Reluctant Memoir, Part 2
    Against The Current vol. 135

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    I think it was in 1963 that I first became aware of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). My older sister Patty had married a very nice guy named Earl Brecher, with whom she went to Liberia as one of the first Peace Corps volunteers, in a program, sending idealistic college graduates to “help” downtrodden areas in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, launched by the Kennedy administration.
  105. Rethinking Camelot
    JFK, the Vietnam War, and US Political Culture

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    Chomsky analyzes the Kennedy Administration's policy on the Vietnam War and compares the US Administrations of Presidents Kennedy and Reagan.
  106. Reviews and Articles
    From Die rote Fahne

    Resource Type: Book
    These pieces are mainly articles and book reviews written in 1922 for the Communist daily newspaper Die rote Fahne.
  107. Revolutionaries in the a Time of Retreat
    Book Review

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Book review of "Toward the United Front: Proceedings of the Fourth Congress of the Communist International, 1922" edited and translated by John Riddell.
  108. The Romance of American Communism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1978
    Using USA Communist Party members' personal experiences, Gornick examines the attraction of the party and its philosophy.
  109. Root & Branch: A Libertarian Socialist Journal, #1
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1970
  110. Rosa Luxemburg
    Abridged Edition

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1966   Published: 1969
    A biography of Luxemburg by a British academic.
  111. Rosa Luxemburg, Women's Liberation, and Marx's Philosophy of Revolution 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1981   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."
  112. Sex-Pol 
    Essays 1929-1934

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1934   Published: 1972
    Wilhelm Reich's writings from his Marxist period, outlining his thoughts about sexual and political liberation.
  113. She never was afraid
    The biography of Annie Buller

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1976
    The story of Annie Buller, a Canadian trade union activist and Communist.
  114. The Situation of Left Communism Today
    Interview with the Korean Socialist Workers Newspaper Group (SaNoShin), November-December 2007

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
  115. 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.
  116. Social and Sexual Revolution 
    Essays on Marx and Reich

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1979
    A collection of essays by Bertell Ollman. Ollman tackles issues such as Karl Marx's concepts of class, class consciousness, and communism; he argues for the absorption of Wilhelm Reich's insights about the social function of sexual repression in maintaining capitalist relations; and he dicusses the various problems involved in trying to teach 'Marxism' in an academic context without destroying its central purpose as an instrument of class struggle.
  117. Social Democracy and Communism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1919   Published: 1927
    Once again, as in the time of Marx, communism as a revolutionary and proletarian movement confronts socialism as a reformist and bourgeois movement. And the new communism is not just a new edition of the theory of radical social democracy. As a result of the world crisis, it has gained new depth, which totally differentiates it from the old theory.
  118. Socialism.ca 
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2016
    A gateway to resources about socialism, socialist history, and socialist ideas, compiled by Connexions.
  119. The Socialist Register 1969
    Volume 6: A Survey of Movements & Ideas

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1969
  120. The Socialist Register 1974
    Volume 11: A survey of Movements & Ideas

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1974
  121. The Socialist Register 1975
    Volume 12: A Survey of Movements & Ideas

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1975
  122. The Socialist Register 1988
    Volume 24: Problems of Socialist Renewal: East & West

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1988
    An examination of the prospects for socialism written shortly before the fall of the Soviet Union.
  123. Socialist Register 1994
    Volume 30: Between Globalism and Nationalism

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1994
  124. Socialist Register 1995
    Volume 31: Why Not Capitalism?

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1995
  125. Socialist Register 1996
    Volume 32: Are There Alternatives?

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1996
  126. Socialist Register 1997
    Volume 33: Ruthless Criticism of All that Exists

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1997
  127. Soviet Russia Masters the Comintern
    International Communism in the Era of Stalin's Ascendancy

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1974
    A documentary history.
  128. The Spectre of Capitalism
    The Future of the World Economy After the Fall of Communism

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
  129. Stalin and German Communism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1949
  130. Stalin, Marxism-Leninism and the Left
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1976
  131. The State and Revolution 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1917
    Lenin on the Marxist view of the state and revolution.
  132. The Swastika and the Maple Leaf
    Fascist Movements in Canada in the Thirities

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1975
    Betcherman deals with Adrien Arcand and other leading Canadian fascists of the 1930s, as well as Swastika Clubs, and fascist movements in the west.
  133. Sweat and Struggle
    Working Class Struggles In Canada 1789 - 1899

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1974
  134. Terrorism & Communism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1918   Published: 1969
    Trotsky defends the tactics of the Bolsheviks against Karl Kautsky's attacks.
  135. Terrorism and Communism
    A Contribution to the Natural History of Revolution

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1919
    Kautsky's attack on the methods used by the Bolsheviks after their seizure of power in Russia.
  136. The Third Camp
    Against U.S. militarism and Islamic terrorism

    Resource Type: Website
    We must stand up with all our power to the US government's and its allies' bullying. We must put an end to the crimes of the opposite pole, i.e. Islamic terrorism. We must help the people of Islam-stricken countries to get rid of the menace of Islamic terrorist states and forces. American militarism and Islamic terrorism have brutalised the world. Neither of them has a solution to the present crisis and its resulting problems. Rather, they are themselves the cause of this crisis and its aggravation. Civilised humanity must rise up against both these poles and the suffering that they have imposed on the world.
  137. Third International (Comintern)
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    An international Communist organization founded in Moscow in March 1919, and disbanded in 1943.
  138. The Wandering of Humanity
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973   Published: 1975
    Humans are subjugated by Capital. The logic of production removes decision-making from human control. Capital is anthropomorphized. Technology has no borders or limits. Nature is ravaged as humanity wanders.
  139. The War after the War
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1918   Published: 1973
  140. When in Doubt, Do Both
    The Times of My Life

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    Macpherson chronicles the stirrings that led to the modern women's movement in Canada, including the Royal Commission on the Status of Women in 1967.
  141. When the UAW Was Young
    Against The Current vol. 131

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    An interview with Erwin and Estar Baur.
  142. Why Marx Was Right 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2011
    Eagleton takes common objections to Marxism and demonstrates how and why they are wrong.
  143. The William Morris Internet Archive
    Resource Type: Website
    A subarchive of the Marxists Internet Archive, featuring the works of the English socialist, writer, and artist William Morris.
  144. Working Class Communism
    A Review of the Literature

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1971
  145. The World Turned Upside Down
    Radical Ideas During the English Revolution

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1984
    Hill looks at radical groups such as the Diggers, Levellers, Ranters, and others, whose ideas threatened to overturn the established order in the mid-seventeenth century.
  146. Year One of the Russian Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1930   Published: 1972
    The purpose of Year One of the Russian Revolution is essentially one of reconstructing the chain of events, in the Russia of revolution and counter-revolution, which has led from the 'Commune-State' of 1917 to the party dictatorship of late 1918. The terms of the narrative are fixed by Serge's basic convictions, firstly, that the October Revolution of 1917 was a genuine expression of mass feeling by workers and peasants in their overwhelming majority, and secondly that the revolutionary wave had very quickly exhausted itself, or rather bled itself dry, through the military depredation and economic ruin which wrought havoc in an already enfeebled Russia during the early months following the Bolshevik seizure of power.
  147. Yours in the Struggle
    Reminiscences of Tim Buck

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1997
    Tim Buck's reminiscences, taken from a series of interviews taped by John (Mac) Reynolds for the CBC.

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