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  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. An account of my involvement with Solidarity - Bob Potter
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Bob Potter's previously unpublished 2004 recollections of his involvement in the libertarian socialist group Solidarity in the 1960s and 70s and some of its key figures like Ken Weller and Chris and Jeanne Pallis.
  3. Action Will Be Taken 
    Left Anti-Intellectualism and Its Discontents

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2004
    Marxism's decline isn't just an intellectual concern -- it too has practical effects. If you lack any serious understanding of how capitalism works, then it's easy to delude yourself into thinking that moral appeals to the consciences of CEOs and finance ministers will have some effect. You might think that central banks' habit of provoking recessions when the unemployment rate gets too low is a policy based on a mere misunderstanding. You might think that structural adjustment and imperial war are just bad lifestyle choices.
  4. Alliance of the Libertarian Left
    Resource Type: Website
    A multi-tendency coalition of mutualists, agorists, voluntaryists, geolibertarians, left-Rothbardians, green libertarians, dialectical anarchists, radical minarchists, and others on the libertarian left, united by an opposition to statism and militarism, to cultural intolerance (including sexism, racism, and homophobia), and to the prevailing corporatist capitalism falsely called a free market; as well as by an emphasis on education, direct action, and building alternative institutions, rather than on electoral politics, as our chief strategy for achieving liberation.
  5. American Power and the New Mandarins 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1969
    Chomsky writes about American power and violence, especially in the context of the Vietnam war, and he focuses especially on the complicity of American intellectuals in supporting and enabling the American imperial project.
  6. Anarchism & Socialism
    Reformism or Revolution?

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2010
    In these essays grouped around common themes, Wayne Price draws on decades of extensive practical experience in antiwar and student movements, marxist tendency groups and affinity-based anarchist organizations, to make an insightful case for "pro-organizational," class-struggle anarchism.
  7. 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.
  8. The Anarchist Collectives
    Workers' Self-Management in the Spanish Revolution 1936-1939

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1974
    Examines the experiments in workers' self-management, both urban and rural, which took place in Spain during the revolution and Civil War.
  9. As We Don't See It 
    Resource Type: Article
    A clarification of Solidarity London's 1968 pamphlet, "As We See It." Distinction is placed between real socialism and the "exploitative privileged minorities" who controll(ed) the USSR and China, as well as the importance of controlling the means of production.
  10. Bakunin vs. Marx 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1978
    The anarchist-Marxist split started with Bakunin, who systematically misrepresented Marx's positions.
  11. 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.
  12. Book Review: "Anarchism & Socialism: Reformism or Revolution?" by Wayne Price
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
  13. Book Review: Michael Schmidt and Lucien van der Walt, Black Flame: The Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
  14. Bookchin, Murray
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    American libertarian socialist-anarchist, political and social philosopher, environmentalist, conservationist, atheist, speaker, and writer. (1921-2006).
  15. Break Their Haughty Power 
    Resource Type: Website
    Articles on capitalism, socialism, and revolution, from a left-Marxist perspective.
  16. Brinton, Maurice
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    Libertarian socialist writer and neurologist. (1923-2005).
  17. Brinton, Maurier - Writings - Index
    Resource Type: Article
    Writings of Maurice Brinton (1923-2005).
  18. Bureau of Public Secrets 
    Resource Type: Website
    Articles from a Situationist perspective.
  19. The Case for Grassroots Archives 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Grassroots archives play a valuable role in what has been called "the battle of memory". People's history projects such as grassroots archives preserve and share stories of resistance, hidden histories, and alternative visions.
  20. Castoriadis, Cornelius
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    Greek-French philosopher, libertarian socialist, and psychoanalyst. Author of the The Imaginary Institution of Society, co-founder of the Socialisme ou Barbarie group and 'philosopher of autonomy'. (1922-1997).
  21. Chomsky for Beginners
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1996
    An introduction to the life and works of Noam Chomsky.
  22. Chomsky, Noam
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    American linguist, philosopher, political activist, author, and lecturer. (Born 1928).
  23. Chomsky on Anarchism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
    This collection of essays and interviews paint a fresh picture of Chomsky, showing his life-long involvement with anarchist and libertarian socialist currents, his commitment to nonhierarchical models of political organization, and his hopes for a future world without rulers.
  24. Cohn-Bendit, Daniel
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    Political activist and politician, active in France and Germany. A student leader during the May 1968 revolt in France. (Born 1945).
  25. Collective Reinventions
    Resource Type: Website
    Focusing on contemporary social movements in Mexico.
  26. Collectivist Anarchism
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
  27. The Conflict between Marx & Bakunin
    Resource Type: Article
  28. Connexions Annual Resource and Reading List
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1994
    A short and selective list of resources on issues addressed in the Connexions Annual, such as environment, education, peace, interntional development, women's issues, urban issues, housing, human rights, civil liberties, social change.
  29. Connexions Library: Organizing Focus Page 
    Resource Type: Website
    Selected articles from the Connexions Online Library.
  30. The Crisis of Dialectical Materialism and Libertarian Socialism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1977
    Libertarian socialism is defined first and foremost by the negation of political authoritarianism and theoretical determinism.
  31. Critical distance (Bean)
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1979
    Letter: anarchists must make a choice.
  32. Debate with the International Socialist Organization Continued
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    From a libertarian socialist point of view, the "self-emancipation of the working class" can't happen unless the working class builds organized mass movements that they control, such as labor organizations. This is the fundamental basis of syndicalism as a revolutionary strategy.
  33. Debord, Guy
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    French Marxist theorist, writer, filmmaker, hypergraphist and founding member of the groups Lettrist International and Situationist International. (1931-1994).
  34. Diemer, Ulli
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Canadian socialist publisher, writer, and archivist.
  35. Draper, Hal
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    American socialist activist, Marxist and author of a number of key works about Marxism. (1914-1990).
  36. Hal Draper, Introduction to
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    Link to brief biography of Hal Draper, an American socialist activist, Marxist and author, and participant in the Berkeley, California Free Speech Movement. (1914-1990).
  37. Dunayevskaya, Raya
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    Founder of the philosophy of Marxist Humanism. (1910-1987).
  38. For Black Liberation Through Socialist Revolution! Part Two
    How the Liberals and Reformists Derailed the Struggle for Integration

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2004
    There is a lot of talk today about multiculturalism, diversity, whiteness and "racialized subjects" and other liberal jargon that essentially attempts to erase the centrality of anti-black racism and black oppression in racist capitalist America.
  39. For Black Liberation Through Socialist Revolution! Part One
    Contradictions of the Civil Rights Movement: A Marxist Analysis

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    We describe the black population in the U.S. as an oppressed race-color caste. From their arrival in this country, the Negro people have been an integral part of American class society while at the same time forcibly segregated at the bottom of this society. Thus blacks face discrimination, in different degrees, regardless of social status, wealth or class position. Blacks are today still an integral and strategic part of the working class, despite unemployment and mass incarceration.
  40. Fredy Perlman: An Appreciation
    Resource Type: Article
    The same energy which helped Fredy to describe the horrors of civilization made it possible for him to summon up the forces of life and expectations of hope.
  41. Glaberman, Martin
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    An influential American Marxist, teacher, and autoworker. (1918-2001).
  42. Gorter, Herman
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    Dutch poet and socialist. (1864-1927).
  43. Hal Draper
    Obituary

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1990
    American Marxist 1914-1990.
  44. Hal Draper on the Two Souls of Socialism
    Insights from Hal Draper

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1990
    A comparison of socialism-from-below and socialism-from-above that considers Marx's struggle for socialism through liberal democracy.
  45. The Historical Failure of Anarchism 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1996
    Day examines anarchism's failure to genuinely critique itself, understand history or theory, and grasp the conditions in the world today. "Anti-capitalism doesn't do the victims of capitalism any good if you don't actually destroy capitalism," Day writes. 'Anti-statism' doesn't do the victims of the state any good if you don't actually smash the state. Anarchism has been very good at putting forth visions of a free society and that is for the good. But it is worthless if we don't develop an actual strategy for realizing those visions.
  46. Ideas and Action
    Periodical profile published 1981

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1981
    Archive of some articles published in Ideas and Action, a radical paper published by the Workers Solidarity Alliance from 1981 to 1997.
  47. Interview with Ulli Diemer
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1990
    Jeff Orchard interviews Ulli Diemer about socialism, capitalism, life, and social change.
  48. Introduction to the Red Menace
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1976
    An introduction to, and the mission statement of, the libertarian socialist publication, The Red Menace.
  49. Introduction to this issue (#3)
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1978
  50. Left-libertarianism
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    A doctrine that has a strong commitment to personal liberty and egalitarianism.
  51. Left-Wing, Anti-Bolshevik and Council Communism
    Resource Type: Website
    Index to the works of 'Left Communists' (a.k.a. 'Council Communists' or 'Anti-Bolshevik Communists') and other ultra-left Communist currents and the debates between Left Communists and the leaders of the Comintern and each other.
  52. Let's Talk About Another Burning Color: Black Flame vs. Red Fire Extinguisher?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Class struggle anarchists are not the only revolutionary forces on the left, and are not the only libertarian left revolutionary forces. In my opinion, anarchists can learn a lot from some marxists.
  53. Libcom.org 
    Resource Type: Website
    Resource for all people who wish to improve their lives, their communities and their working conditions. We want to discuss with one another, learn from experiences of the past and develop strategies to increase the power that we, as ordinary people, have over our own lives.
  54. Libertarian communism: an introduction
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    A short introduction to what we at libcom.org refer to as communism or libertarian communism, what it is and why we think it is a good idea.
  55. Libertarian League
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    A name used by two American libertarian organisations during the twentieth century.
  56. A libertarian Marxist tendency map
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    This tendency map was produced by Chris Wright for endpage.com, now part of the libcom.org library - it is designed to trace some of the important tendencies in libertarian Marxism. Contains a brief written history with links to key individuals, groups and publications, and a graphic map.
  57. Libertarian Socialism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1977
    There must be a revolt against bureaucracy - the predominant trend of societal organization.
  58. 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
  59. Libertarian Socialism: Politics in Black and Red
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2017
    Explores the important, too often neglected left-libertarian currents that have thrived in revolutionary socialist movements. By turns, the collection interrogates the theoretical boundaries between Marxism and anarchism and the process of their formation, the overlaps and creative tensions that shaped left-libertarian theory and practice, and the stumbling blocks to movement cooperation.
  60. Libertarian Worker
    Poland: An Anarchist Viewpoint - Periodical profile published 1980

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1980
    This issue of Lbertarian Worker forcuses on the events of 1980 in Poland. One article also discusses feminist theory and anarchist feminism.
  61. A Life of Struggle: Farewell to Hermann Gorter
    Resource Type: Article
  62. 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?"
  63. Rosa Luxemburg 
    A letter about Rosa Luxemburg's contribution to Marxism

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2000
    In a time when the socialist movement was evolving in directions increasingly removed from Marx's positions -- Social Democratic reformism on the one hand, and Leninist bureaucratic centralism on the other -- Luxemburg was the leading exponent of a Marxism in the spirit of Marx.
  64. Luxemburg, Rosa
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    Marxist revolutionary. (1871-1919).
  65. Luxemburg, Rosa
    Connexipedia: Entry in Encyclopedia of Marxism Glossary of People

    Resource Type: Article
    Marxist revolutionary. (1871-1919).
  66. Luxemburgism
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    A revolutionary theory within Marxism and communism based on the writings of Rosa Luxemburg.
  67. Lynd, Staughton
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    American author, activist, historian, and lawyer. (Born 1929).
  68. Marx, Karl
    Connexipedia: Entry in Encyclopedia of Marxism Glossary of People

    Resource Type: Article
    Brief biography of Karl Marx. (1818-1883).
  69. Marx, Karl
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    German philosopher, political economist, historian, political theorist, sociologist, communist, and revolutionary, whose ideas are credited as the foundation of modern communism. (1818-1883).
  70. 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.
  71. Marxism & Anarchism: Documents in the Marxists Internet Archive
    Resource Type: Article
    Resources on the theory and practice of anarchism and the unity and conflict between Marxists and Anarchists over the past 150 years.
  72. 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.
  73. Marxism.ca 
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2016
    A gateway to resources about Marxism compiled by Connexions.
  74. Marxismo Libertario
    Resource Type: Website
    Lecturas para la Emancipacion del Proletariado.
  75. Marxists Internet Archive 
    Resource Type: Website
    Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
  76. The No State Solution: Institutionalizing Libertarian Socialism in Kurdistan
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    In what many outside of the territory are referring to as the Rojava Revolution, a major shift in political philosophy and political programmatics has taken place in Kurdistan.
  77. Noam Chomsky - Everyday Anarchist
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Interview with Noam Chomsky.
  78. Notes on Anarchism
    In Daniel Guerin, Anarchism: From Theory to Practice

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1970
    Noam Chomsky explores numerous variations and philosophies associated with the anarchist notion. He considers them in a context of historical development and elaborates with his own perspectives, explanations, and general commentary.
  79. On Organization 
    Resource Type: Article
    Discusses the democratic organizational forms appropriate to libertarian socialist organizations.
  80. An ongoing debate
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1978
    The Red Menace is meant to be a forum of dissenting views withing the broadly defined boundaries of libertarian socialism.
  81. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 13, 2014
    Libertarian Socialism

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2014
    The topic of the week is Libertarian Socialism. Articles on no-state solutions in Kurdistan; right-wing dirty tricks used to attack labour and environmental groups; scientists unravelling the risks of new pesticides; the terrors faced by fishermen in Gaza; and bringing books and seeking peace in Colombia. Film of the week is Even the Rain, and book of the week is Adolph Reed's Class Notes.
  82. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 29, 2015
    Land seizures and land take-overs

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2015
    This issue of Other Voices focuses on the issue of land seizures and land take-overs. Also included: Greece's solidarity movement, and the challenges and opportunities it faces after the election of a Syrizia government. From the archives, there are interviews about the 1974 occupation of Anicinabe Park, an article about anti-dicrimination fighter Viola Desmond, and the publication, in 1929, of All Quiet on the Western Front.
  83. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 21, 2015
    A Healthier Planet

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2015
    With the start of the growing season in much of the Northern hemisphere, Other Voices digs up articles and resources related to urban agriculture and local food production. Urban agriculture - growing food in and around cities - is a response to the problems created by industrial agriculture, a chemical-dependent industry shipping food thousands of miles from where it is produced to where it will be consumed. We also mark the release of Omar Khadr, the former child soldier who was abused, tortured, and imprisoned first by the U.S. government and then by Canada. Other articles look at the advances made by women in Latin America, privilege politics, and the myths of peaceful protests.
  84. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 20, 2016
    Connexions Enters Its Fifth Decade

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2016
    This issue of Connexions Other Voices falls on the 40th anniversary of the publication of the very first Connexions newsletter, which was published in February 1976. That first issue carried the title "Canadian Information Sharing Service", which was also the name of the collective which compiled it, from submissions from across Canada. Within a couple of years, the name of the publication became "Connexions" and then, a little later, "The Connexions Digest".
    In addition to our own history, in this issue we spotlight black history as our topic of the week. We look at the Haitian revolution, when slaves confronted the French empire and won; black resistance against the Ku Klux Klan in the American South, and the meaning and limits of anti-racism. We also look at the Kurdish liberation movement in Rojava, the dangers posed by geoengineering, and we mark the publication of the Communist Manifesto on February 21, 1848.
  85. Our Generation
    Volume 18 Number 1

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1986
  86. Our Generation
    Volume 24 Number 2

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1994
  87. 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.
  88. Pannekoek, Anton
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    Scientist and Marxist. (1873-1960).
  89. Perlman, Fredy
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    Radical author, publisher and activist. (1934-1985).
  90. A Political Statement of the Libertarian Socialist Collective
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1979
    The socialist perspective, as we see it, implies a total critique of human society as it is presently constituted. Socialism means a total transformation of life and social institutions - a project of collective self-transformation.
  91. The Politics Of Gorter
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1952
    In the years after 1920, Gorter in contact with the small groups of the extreme left, worked to clarify the idea of the organisation of workers councils and thus collaborated in the future renewal of the class struggle of the proletariat. During this time the socialist politicians of the second international, as members of parliament and ministers, were occupied in bailing out a bankrupt capitalism for the bourgeoisie.
  92. The Politics of Urban Liberation
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1978
    A broad-ranging study which covers the political economy of the urban question and the importance of the city in the history of social revolution. Schechter's evaluation of libertarian insurgency highlights the importance of movements from below dealing with housing, transportation and other issues of daily life.
  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. The Principle of Self-Emancipation in Marx and Engels 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1971
    For Marx and Engels, there was a direct relationship between the revolutionary (literally subversive) nature of their socialism and the principle of emancipation-from-below, the principle that, as Engels wrote, "there is no concern for ... gracious patronage from above."
    Marxism, as the theory and practice of the proletarian revolution, therefore also had to be the theory and practice of the self-emancipation of the proletariat. Its essential originality flows from this source.
  95. Querying Young Chomsky 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    Chomsky offers observations on what a desirable society might look like from the perspective of the heritage of libertarian socialist or anarcho-syndicalist or communist anarchist views.
  96. Radical Digressions 
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2006   Published: 2017
    Ulli Diemer's website/blog featuring comment from a radical left-libertarian Marxist perspective.
  97. Radical Digressions 1
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 1973   Published: 1979
  98. Radical Priorities
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1981
    Otero presents an analysis and overview of Chomsky's social and political philosophy. For the first time the roots of Chomsky's politics are examined and the relationship to his theory of linguistics demonstrated.
  99. Real Utopia 
    Participatory Society for the twenty-first century

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    Real Utopia identifies and obliterates the barriers to an egalitarian, bottom-up society, while convincingly outlining how to build it.
  100. Recovering the Libertarian Tradition 
    Resource Type: Article
    An interview with E.P. Thompson.
  101. Red & Black Notes
    Resource Type: Website
    A libertarian socialist project based in Toronto, Canada. The focus of the project is twofold : To circulate information from a libertarian socialist perspective, both current and historical, and to provide a forum for discussion of those issues.
  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. Red Menace #1
    Volume 1, Number 1 - February 1976

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1976
    The first issue of The Red Menace, a libertarian socialist newsletter.
  104. Red Menace #2
    Volume 2, Number 1 - Summer 1977

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1977
    A Libertarian Socialist Newsletter
  105. Red Menace #4
    Volume 3, Number 1 - Winter 1979

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1979
    A Libertarian Socialist Newsletter
  106. Redefining Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1963   Published: 1974
    Modern society certainly remains profoundly divided. It constantly functions against the immense majority of working people. In everyday life the exploited defend themselves against exploitation by part of every single one of their everyday gestures. The present crisis of humanity, it is true, will only be solved by a socialist revolution. But these ideas risk remaining empty abstractions, pretexts for sermons or for a blind, spasmodic activism if one doesn't try to understand the new ways in which the division of society assumes concrete form today, how modern capitalism functions, the new forms taken today by the working class struggle against the ruling classes and their system, and unless one seriously tries to understand what — under these conditions — a new revolutionary activity integrated to the real struggle of people in society might mean and how it could be linked to a coherent and lucid understanding of the world. To achieve this what is needed is nothing less than a radical theoretical and practical renewal.
  107. Review: International Socialist Review on "Contemporary Anarchism"
    Resource Type: Article
    The word "anarchism" is a rather vague word that covers such a wide variety of political views and approaches it is often hard to see how they have anything in common. This means it is also probably not very productive to produce "critiques" of anarchism that lump the many different viewpoints together.
  108. Revolution Re-Assessed 
    Politics of Human Liberation

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1980
    The political objectives and beliefs of the Australian-based Libertarian Socialist Organisation.
  109. Root & Branch
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1970   Published: 1979
    Inactive/Defunct Periodical
    A libertarian socialist journal.
  110. Root & Branch: A Libertarian Marxist Journal, #7
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1978
    Articles on the class situation in Spain, authority and democracy in the United States, Marxism and Anarchism.
  111. Root & Branch: A Libertarian Marxist Journal, #8
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1979
  112. Root & Branch: A Libertarian Socialist Journal, #1
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1970
  113. Root & Branch: A Libertarian Socialist Journal, #2
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1971
  114. Root & Branch: A Libertarian Socialist Journal, #4
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1973
  115. Root & Branch: A Libertarian Socialist Journal, #6
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1975
  116. Rosa Luxemburg
    A Life

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1986
    A biography of the Marxist revolutionary.
  117. Rosa Luxemburg 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1939   Published: 1972
    A biography of Rosa Luxemburg written by a German revolutionary who worked with Luxemburg in the Spartacist organization.
  118. Rosa Luxemburg
    Abridged Edition

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1966   Published: 1969
    A biography of Luxemburg by a British academic.
  119. Rosa Luxemburg 
    Selected Political Writings

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
    A selection of Rosa Luxemburg's writings which highlight her outstanding contributions to the theory and practice of revolutionary socialism.
  120. Rosa Luxemburg in Retrospect
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1978
    Mattick reconsiders the legacy of Rosa Luxemburg, particularly her critique of Bolshevism and her economic theory.
  121. The Rosa Luxemburg Reader 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2004
    A definitive one-volume collection of Luxemburg's writings.
  122. Rosa Luxemburg Speaks
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
    A selection of speeches and writings by Rosa Luxemburg.
  123. 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."
  124. Rühle, Otto
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    German Marxist. (1874-1943).
  125. Social Anarchism
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    Social anarchism sees individual freedom as conceptually connected with social equality and emphasize community and mutual aid.
  126. 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.
  127. Socialism.ca 
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2016
    A gateway to resources about socialism, socialist history, and socialist ideas, compiled by Connexions.
  128. Socialisme ou Barbarie
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    A French-based radical libertarian socialist group of the post-World War II period which existed from 1948 until 1965. Socialisme ou Barbarie was critical of Leninism, rejecting the idea of a revolutionary party, and placing an emphasis on the importance of workers' councils, and saw the daily struggles of working people as creating the true content of socialism.
  129. Socialismo libertario
    Resource Type: Article
    El socialismo libertario es una forma de socialismo que apunta a crear una sociedad basada en la descentralización política sin clases sociales. El socialismo libertario posee un concepto colectivista e igualitarista de la sociedad y aboga por la socialización de los medios de producción, mediante la abolición de las instituciones tales como el capitalismo o la propiedad privada, con el fin de que el control directo de los medios de producción y los recursos sean compartidos por la sociedad en su conjunto.
  130. Socialist anarchism
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    Social anarchism sees "individual freedom as conceptually connected with social equality and emphasize community and mutual aid
  131. Solidarity As We See It 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1967
    Ten Points on Solidarity's Socialist position - the compromised nature of the "Bolsheviks" and trade unions, the need to "build from below," the desire to see themselves as "merely an instrument of working class action."
  132. Solidarity (UK)
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    Libertarian socialist organisation and magazine of the same name in the United Kingdom.
  133. SOS Alternatives to Capitalism: A discussion with Richard Swift
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Montreal Serai had the opportunity to discuss SOS: Alternatives to Capitalism – a handy, slim compendium of vital, essential thoughts and discussions on the concept of an alternative economy and society – with Richard Swift.
  134. 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.
  135. Vaneigem, Raoul
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    Belgian writer and philosopher. (Born 1934).
  136. Vanguard: A Libertarian Communist Journal
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    A monthly libertarian communist journal published in New York from 1932-1939.
  137. What is anarcho-syndicalism?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    Libertarian syndicalism interprets liberty as self-management or control over one's life, and believes that freedom for the working class requires the elimination of working class subordination to capitalist or state bosses.
  138. What is Libertarian Socialism? 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1977
    Revolution is a collective process of self-liberation: people and societies are transformed through their struggles for freedom and for a better world.
  139. What is The Red Menace?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1977
    About The Red Menace, a libertarian socialist publication.
  140. Why I Choose Optimism Over Despair
    An Interview With Noam Chomsky

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Noam Chomsky explores the possibilities for a better human society.
  141. William Godwin
    A Biographical Study

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    A biography of the influential writer and thinker described by Woodcock as the first prophet of libertarian socialism.

Experts on Socialisme libertaire in the Sources Directory

  1. Center for Socialist History
  2. Connexions
  3. Ulli Diemer
  4. Marxists Internet Archive

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