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This category is for documents, texts and essays outlining or analyzing Socialist philosophy.

Subcategories

• Adorno, Theodor W.
• Althusser, Louis
• Bernstein, Eduard
• Draper, Hal
• Dunayevskaya, Raya
• Engels, Friedrich
• Frankfurt School
• Gramsci, Antonio
• Habermas, Jürgen
• Horkheimer, Max
• James, C.L.R.
• Kautsky, Karl
• Laski, Harold
• Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich
• Lukács, Georg
• Luxemburg, Rosa
• Mao Zedong
• Marcuse, Herbert
• Marx, Karl
• Trotsky, Leon

Resources in This Category

• "Why Socialism?" by Albert Einstein

  http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/26/001.html
  An indictment of capitalism by Time magazine's Man of the Century.

• Abram Leon: The Jewish Question - A Marxist Interpretation (1946)

  http://www.marxists.de/religion/leon/index.htm
  An influential work by the Belgian-Jewish Trotskyist published in 1946.

• archive: the left side of the brain is bigger

  http://archive.8m.net/
  A constantly growing collection of writings by left-wing thinkers: Sartre, Einstein, Orwell, Gandhi, Naomi Klein, Pinter, Picasso, Marx, Gore Vidal, Oscar Wilde, GB Shaw, Beauvoir, Martin Luther King, Alice Walker and others.

• CapitAllism

  http://www.capitallism.org/
  Calls for a cap on personal incomes as a solution to inequity.

• Erfurt Program, 1891

  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1891erfurt.asp
  Radical program adopted by the German Social Democratic Party in 1891 which signified the party's adoption of Marxism.

• Evolutionary Socialism

  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/bernstein-revsoc.asp
  Excerpts from Eduard Bernstein's revisions of Marxism which established modern social democracy.

• Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution

  http://reality.gn.apc.org/econ/gik1.htm
  Treatise from the Independent Group of Communists in Holland, 1930.

• Global Document Index

  http://www.marxists.org/history/etol/document/index.htm
  A series of documents from various Trotskyist groups and tendencies.

• Manifesto of the Communist Party

  http://www.literatureproject.com/comm-manifesto/index.htm
  Online text from Literature Project.

• Marxist.net

  http://www.marxist.net/
  Marxist discussion and analytical resource material to guide the building of the revolutionary party and the socialist revolution. From the Committee for a Workers' International (CWI)

• Marxists Internet Archive

  https://www.marxists.org/
  The most complete database of Marxism hitherto made. The archive is divided into three major sections: Marxist writers, Marxist history, and reference materials. Marxist writers has information on Marxists from Karl Marx and Frederick Engels to Che Guevara to Vladimir Lenin to Rosa Luxemburg.

• Socialist Perspective

  http://webspace.webring.com/people/hs/stewjackmail/
  This site promotes socialism by critiquing capitalism, rather than by describing socialism. All material on this site can be freely distributed on a non-profit basis.

• The Communist Manifesto

  http://www.anu.edu.au/polsci/marx/classics/manifesto.html
  The text that serves as the beginning of the communist movement

• The Fight For Socialism

  http://www.marxists.org/archive/shachtma/1946/ffs/index.htm
  Programme of the Workers' Party (1946). The WP was a "Third Camp" split from the Socialist Workers Party. It was led by Max Shachtman.

• The Genesis of Trotskyism

  http://www.marxists.org/archive/shachtma/1933/gentrot/index.htm
  Written in 1933, this pamphlet by Max Schachtman explains the development of Trotskyism and the International Left Opposition from the point of view of a leader of the American movement.

• The Gotha Program (1871)

  http://history.hanover.edu/texts/gotha.html
  Excerpts from the founding manifesto of the German Social Democratic Party

• The National Question and the Class Struggle

  http://www.angelfire.com/il2/borochov/class.html
  Thesis by Ber Borochov (1881-1917) arguing that national liberation is a necessary component of the class struggle. Distinguishes between progressive and reactionary nationalism.

• The Port Huron Statement

  http://coursesa.matrix.msu.edu/~hst306/documents/huron.html
  Written in 1962 and adopted by Students for a Democratic Society, the Port Huron Statement is considered to be a seminal document of the New Left.

• The State and Revolution

  http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/
  The Marxist theory of the state and the tasks of the proletariat in the revolution by Lenin.

• Towards a New Socialism

  http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/socialism_book/
  Polemic against market socialism by W. Paul Cockshott and Allin Cottrell.

• What is to be Done?

  http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1901/witbd/
  In which Lenin outlines the concept of the vanguard revolutionary party run according to the principles of democratic centralism.

• Working Class Movement Library

  http://www.wcml.org.uk/
  A collection of materials concerned with the activities, expression and enquiries of the labor movement, its allies and its enemies, since the late eighteenth century.

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