- The ABC of National Liberation Movements
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1969
A war is politics continued by other, that is forcible, means. Our attitude toward a war must be congruent with our attitude toward the politics of which it is the continuation. This determines our principled position on the question of whether to support or oppose a given war - not primarily our opinion of the men, the government or the class leading the war, not our opinion of their past or present crimes. The latter considerations will be very relevant to how we support or oppose a war, but not to whether we do.
- Advanced Capitalism and the Revolutionary Left
Towards a New Practice
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1973
The programme of the Winnipeg Labour Collective, its understanding of socialism's past forms and its conception of socialism's future.
- Anarchism
A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas
Resource Type: Book
- Anarchism vs. Marxism: A few notes on an old theme
Resource Type: Article
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.
- The Anarchists
The men who shocked an era
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1971
The history and ideology of anarchism.
- Anarcho-syndicalism
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
- Anatomy of the Micro-Sect
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1973
Is there an alternative to the sect mode of organization which dominates the whole history of American socialism, past and present?
- Arms and the Woman
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1980
The modern revolutionary movement must destroy this opposition of pleasure-activity, sensitivity-lucidity, conception-execution, habit-innovation.
- 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.
- Autonomous Struggles and the Capitalist Crisis
A Workers' Autonomy Pamphlet
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
- Break Their Haughty Power
Resource Type: Website
Articles on capitalism, socialism, and revolution, from a left-Marxist perspective.
- Build It Now
Socialism for the Twenty-First Century
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2006
Influenced by the dramatic proeesses unfolding in Venezuela, Lebowitz re-imagines a socialism for the twenty-first century that places workers and popular communities at the centre of the project.
- Class Composition and the Theory of the Party at the Origin of the Workers-Councils Movement
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1972
Re-examines a crucial segment of labour history, the German workers' council experience, which bridges the classical socialist phase of the Second and Third Internationals, and the post-Keynesian period.
- The Communist Manifesto
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1848
Written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels as the theoretical and practical platform of the Communist League, a workers' association.
- Critique of the Gotha Programme
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1875
Karl Marx's criticisms of the programme adopted by congress to unite the two German socialist parties in 1875.
- The Death of the State in Marx and Engels
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1970
Surveys the thinking of Marx and Engels on the 'dying-away' of the state in socialist (communist) society.
- Diemer, Ulli
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Canadian socialist publisher, writer, and archivist.
- Dual power
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A concept first articulated in an article by Lenin, "The Dual Power," (dvoevlastie) which described a situation in the wake of the February Revolution in which two powers, the workers councils (or Soviets, particularly the Petrograd Soviet) and the official state apparatus of the Provisional Government coexisted with each other and competed for legitimacy.
- Either Or
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1916
It is a question of either-or! Either we nakedly and shamelessly betray the International or we take the International in deadly seriousness and attempt to extend it into a firm stronghold, a bulwark, of the international socialist proletariat and of world peace.
- Emergence: An Irresistible Global Uprising
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2003
An Essay from the Book We Are Everywhere.
- Facing Reality
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
Inspired by the October 1956 Hungarian workers' revolution against Stalinist oppression, as well as the U.S. workers' "wild-cat" strikes (against capital and the union bureaucracies), the authors looked ahead to the rise of new mass emancipatory movements by African Americans as well as anti-colonialist/anti-imperialist currents in Africa and Asia. Virtually alone among the radical texts of the time, Facing Reality also rejected modern society's mania for "conquering nature," and welcomed women's struggles "for new relations between the sexes."
- Facing Reality 45 Years Later
Critical Dialogue with James/Lee/Chaulieu
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2003
According to Goldner, "In 1958, Facing Reality was an important book, uncannily anticipatory of the historical period which would unfold over the following 15 years. Its main assertions are still being debated.... What I find most interesting in Facing Reality is not so much the answers it offers as the questions it asks. Those questions revolve around the role of the revolutionary Marxist party today.
- For Communism: Propositions on a Strategy for Revolution in the Advanced Capitalist Countries
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1970
A series of 100 propositions addressing the strategic vacuum on the Italian and European left at the end of the 1960s.
- For Ourselves
Forgotten Goals of the Revolution
Resource Type: Book
- Free Association
Revolutionary Committees as a Method of Organization
Resource Type: Article
The revolutionary committee "More to Come" elucidates its vision of collective uprising and revolution. While abhoring the use of violence, the group acknowledges the need for defense against reactionary government that would see to overturn the revolution.
- French Revolution 1968
Resource Type: Book
- From the Bourgeois to the Proletarian Revolution
Resource Type: Book
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.
- Hamburg at the Barricades
Resource Type: Book
- Historical Retrogression or Socialist Revolution
A Discussion Article on the Thesis of the IKD
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1946
Capitalism fetters, i.e., hampers, impedes the development of the productive forces. But it does not bring them to a halt. They move forward by advance, retardation, standstill, but they move forward, bringing the proletariat with them. The theoretical analysis is that the more capitalism increases the productive forces, the more it brings them into conflict with the existing social relations. The more it increases and develops the productive forces the more it socializes labor and the more it degrades it and the more it drives it to revolt.
- History and Revolution
A Revolutionary Critique of Historical Materialism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1971
- House of Cards
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1919
Again and again the revolution will bring to the fore the basic question: the general reckoning between labour and capital. And this reckoning is a world historical conflict between two mortal enemies which can be fought out only in a long power struggle, eye to eye, hand to hand.
- Hungary 1956: A workers' revolt crushed by the "workers' state"
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1973
The Hungarian revolution, brief though it was, did as much as a century of socialist theorizing to show what a united and determined people could do to transform their society.
- Inaugural Address of the International Workingmen's Association
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1864
Speech by Karl Marx to the founding meeting of the First International.
- Industrial Workers of the World
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
A revolutionary industrial union founded in 1905. Wobblies were mostly unskilled, low-status migrant workers. The IWW advocated the organization of all workers into one body and supported direct action as the only form of protest open to immigrant workers, who were excluded from the electoral process.
- The 'Inevitability of Socialism'
The Meaning of a Much Abused Formula
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1947
It is our conviction that the socialist revolution will triumph. There is no question of 'equal possibility.' But this conviction is based on an examination of evidence - in the first place, upon our Marxist analysis of the social forces at work, the truth of which, like all human truth, is tested and confirmed only in practice (in struggle). It is not the same as saying that the socialist revolution is inevitable.
- Insurgent Notes
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
A journal of communist theory and practice.
- The International Workingmen's Association, General Rules
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1864
Rules of the First International, adopted at its founding congress in 1864.
- Introduction to Social Revolution
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1976
A Short Introduction to Social Revolutionary Politics, with short articles on ""Capitalism," "War," "State Capitalism," "National Liberation and Imperialism," "Racism," "Sex Roles," "Education," and "Reform and Revolution."
- Introduction to the Critique of the Gotha Programme
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1922
Next to the Communist Manifesto of 1847-8 and the 'General Introduction' to the Critique of Political Economy of 1857, the Critique of the Gotha Programme of 1875 is, of all Karl Marx's shorter works, the most complete, lucid and forceful expression of the bases and consequences of his economic and social theory.
- The Invading Socialist Society
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1947
History has shown that in moments of great social crisis, its farthest flights fall short of the reality of the proletarian revolution. Never was the proletariat so ready for the revolutionary struggle, never was the need for it so great, never was it more certain that the proletarian upheaval, however long delayed, will only the more certainly take humanity forward in the greatest leap forward it has hitherto made. The periods of retreat, of quiescence, of inevitable defeats are mere episodes in the face of the absolute nature of the crisis.
- The Junius Pamphlet
The Crisis of Social Democracy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1916
The voting of war credits in August 1914 was a shattering moment in the life of individual socialists and of the socialist movement in Europe. Those who had worked for and wholly believed in the ability of organized labour to stand against war now saw the major social democratic parties of Germany, France, and England rush to the defense of their fatherlands. Worker solidarity had proved an impotent myth. Rosa Luxemburg had for years warned against the stultifying effects of the overly bureaucratized German Social Democratic Party and the anti-revolutionary tendencies of the trade unions that played such a large role in the party's policy decisions. She spent much of the war in jail, where she wrote and then smuggled this pamphlet. Published under the name "Junius," the pamphlet became the guiding statement for the International Group, which became the Spartacus League.
- Karl Marx and the Anarchists
Resource Type: Book
Shows the continuity of Marx's political theory in the context of different ideological opponents.
- Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
Volume I: State and Bureaucracy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1977
A wide-ranging and thorough exposition of Marx's views on democracy.
- Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
Volume II: The Politics of Social Classes
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1978
Draper ranges through the development of the thought of Marx and Engels on the role of classes in society.
- Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
Volume III: The Dictatorship of the Proletariat
Resource Type: Book
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.
- Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
Volume IV: Critique of Other Socialisms
Resource Type: Book
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.
- Leading Principles of Marxism: A Restatement
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1937
Marx's study of society is based upon a full recognition of the reality of historical change. Marx treats all conditions of existing bourgeois society as changing, ie more exactly, as conditions in the process of being changed by human actions. Bourgeois society is not, according to Marx, a general entity which can be replaced by another stage in a historical movement. It is both the result of an earlier phase and the starting point of a new phase, of the social class war which is leading to a social revolution.
- 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.
- 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.
- Let's Stop Kidding Ourselves About the NDP
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1989
Canadian socialists are terribly reluctant to give up their illusions about the NDP.
- Letters of Insurgents
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1976
A fictional exchange of letters between people grappling with the question of what the struggle for freedom means in the West and in thecountries of the Soviet bloc. A gripping discussion of the issues of social change and liberation as they affect real
- Libertarian Socialism
Resource Type: Article
Overview of libertarian socialism.
- Listen, Marxist!
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1971
Murray Bookchin takes on the 'Marxist-Leninists' who are destroying the New Left.
- Rosa Luxemburg
A letter about Rosa Luxemburg's contribution to Marxism
Resource Type: Article
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.
- Luxemburg versus Lenin
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1935
On many essential points the conceptions of Luxemburg differ from those of Lenin as day from night, or -- the same thing -- as the problems of the bourgeois revolution from those of the proletarian.
- Luxemburgism
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A revolutionary theory within Marxism and communism based on the writings of Rosa Luxemburg.
- Malcolm X Speaks
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1965
A series of speeches, seminars and press conferences given by Malcolm X during the last years of his life in 1964 and early 1965.
- Manifesto of the Communist International to the Workers of the World
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1919
Adopted by the founding congress of the Third International (Comintern) in March 1919.
- Manifesto of the Communist Party
Resource Type: Book
- Manifesto of the Second Congress of the Third International
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1920
Adopted in Moscow, August 1920, at the Second World Congress of the Communist International.
- Manifestos, Programs, Visions
Selected Manifestos - Political Statements - Programs
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2009
A selection of left manifestos, programs, poltical statements and visions from the 1600s to today.
- Manual for Revolutionary Leaders
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
A devious satire aimed at Leninists, Trotskyists, Maoists, and vanguardists of all stripes.
- Marx and Engels
Basic Writings on Politics and Philosophy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1959
- Marx-Engels Chronicle, The
A Day-by-Day Chronology of Marx and Engels' Life and Activity. Vol. 1 of the Marx-Engels Cyclopedia
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1985
- Marx-Engels Glossary, The
Glossary to the Chronicle & Register, & Index to the Glossary. Vol. 2 of the Marx-Engels Cyclopedia
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1986
- Marx-Engels Register, The
A Complete Bibliography of Marx Engels' Individual Writings. Vol. 3 of the Marx-Engels Cyclopedia
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1985
- Marx for Beginners
Resource Type: Book
- Marxism and Freedom
From 1776 to Today
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1971
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.
- Marxism and Philosophy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1970
- Marxism and the Party
Resource Type: Book
- Marxism and the Russian Anarchists
Resource Type: Book
- The Marxism of the First International
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1924
On 28 September 1864 it was decided at an international meeting of workers in London to found the International Workingmen#s Association. On 25 July 1867, Karl Marx wrote the preface to the first edition of the first volume of Capital. Within one single period of history, in the 1860s, both aspects of Marxism attained their full realization: the new autonomous science of the working class attained its developed theoretical form in literature at the same time as the new autonomous movement of the proletariat achieved its practical form in history.
- Marxist Women versus Bourgeois Feminism
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1976
The texts presented here are intended to revive acquaintance with a revolutionary women#s movement which was undoubtedly the most important one of the kind that has yet been seen. Yet it has been so thoroughly dropped down the Memory Hole that even mention of its existence is hard to find.
- The Mass Strike, the Political Party and the Trade Unions
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1906
Luxemburg writes that "the mass strike in Russia [in 1905] has been realised not as means of evading the political struggle of the working-class, and especially of parliamentarism, not as a means of jumping suddenly into the social revolution by means of a theatrical coup, but as a means, firstly, of creating for the proletariat the conditions of the daily political struggle and especially of parliamentarism. The revolutionary struggle in Russia, in which mass strikes are the most important weapon, is, by the working people, and above all by the proletariat, conducted for those political rights and conditions whose necessity and importance in the struggle for the emancipation of the working-class Marx and Engels first pointed out, and in opposition to anarchism fought for with all their might in the International."
- May 1968 Graffiti
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1968
"Don't consume Marx, live him."
- The Meaning of Socialism
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1969
Paul Cardan's 1961 discussion of modern conceptions of socialism, and the future of socialist movements.
- Memoirs of a Revolutionary 1901- 1941
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1967
Victor Serge, who was bron in 1890 and died in 1947, was an anarchist, a Bolshevik, a Trotskyist, and a revisionist-Marxist. Belgian by birth and upbringing, French by adoption and in literary expression, Russian by parentage and later by citizenship, he eventually became stateless and was put down as a Spanish national for purposes of his funeral documents. He was a journalist, a poet, a pamphleteer, a historian, a political prisoner, an agitator, and a novelist.
- Modern Capitalism and Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1975
For revolutionaries one central point must be grasped to understand how the system works: the struggle of human beings against their alientation, and the ensuing conflict and split in all spheres, aspects and moments of socia life. As long as this struggle is there there ruling strata will continue to be unable to organise their system in a coherent way, and society will lurch from one accident to another. These are the conditions for revolutionary activity in the present epoch -- and they are amply sufficient.
- Modern Politics
Resource Type: Book
- The Myth of Lenin's 'Concept of The Party'
What They Did to What Is To Be Done?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1990
Lenin protested more than once that his initial formulations in WITBD were being distorted and misinterpreted by opponents, after which he went on to clarify and modify. If we want to know Lenin's 'concept of the party' we must look at the formulations he came to, after there had been discussions and attacks.
- The Myth of Lenin's 'Revolutionary Defeatism'
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1954
Lenin discovered in practice that the defeat-slogan was incompatible with a living Marxist approach to the problem of the defense of the nation, conceived not in the social-patriotic sense of the 'defense of the fatherland' but in the light of a Marxist class understanding of, and a dynamically revolutionary program for, the nation.
- The National Question
Selected Writings by Rosa Luxemburg
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1976
In her penetrating analysis of nationalism, Rosa Luxemburg argues that the formula of "the right of nations to self-determination" is essentially not a political or programmatic guide to the nationality question, but only a means of avoiding that question.
- Necessary and Unneccessary Utopias
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2000
Reasserts the need for a bold and revolutionary imagination, one aimed at saner ways of living and organizaing society.
- News & Letters: Draft for Marxist-Humanist Perspectives, 2006 - 2007
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2006
We aim to help fill the void on the question of "what happens after" by creatively rethinking and restating his concept of "revolution in permanence" for today.
- The Next Liberation Struggle
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy in Southern Africa
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2005
An indispensable guide to understanding how the resources of that era can be used to contribute to real liberation for the region and for the continent of Africa as a whole.
- Obsolete Communism
The Left-Wing Alternative
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1969
An account of the May 1968 uprising in Paris, positing a left radical alternative to the encrusted beliefs of the old left and the right. A comment on power, on bureaucracy, and on the paths to liberation.
- On Spontaneity and Organisation
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1975
On the relationship of spontaneityand revolution.
- On the Question of Revolutionary Organization: the Case of the NPA in France
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
The challenge of creating an anti-bureaucratic, democratic revolutionary socialist party.
- On the Spartacus Programme
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1918
For us the conquest of power will not be effected at one blow. It will be a progressive act, for we shall progressively occupy all the positions. of the capitalist state, defending tooth and nail each one that we seize.
- On the Transition to Socialism
Resource Type: Book
- Order Prevails in Berlin
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1919
Rosa Luxemburg's last article, written just before she was murdered.
She concludes with the words: "You foolish lackeys! Your 'order' is built on sand. Tomorrow the revolution will 'rise up again, clashing its weapons,' and to your horror it will proclaim with trumpets blazing:
I was, I am, I shall be!"
- The Organisational Structure of the Communist Parties, the Methods and Content of Their Work: Theses
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1921
Adopted at the Third Congress of the Communist International (Comintern) in 1921.
- Organizing for Worker's Power
Beyond Trade Unionism & Vanguardism
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1969
A discussion of the problem of "vanguardism," and the role of leadership in revolutionary organization, and its evolution through different stages of class struggle, by Adriano Sofri of the Italian socialist group Lotta Continua, with an introduction by militants in southern Ontario.
- Our Program and the Political Situation
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1918
Tthe text of a speech by Rosa Luxemburg to the Founding Congress of the Communist Party of Germany (Spartacus League), made on December 31, 1918.
- Philosophy and Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
- The Platform of the Communist International
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1919
Adopted by the founding congress of the Third International, March 1919.
- The Political Mass Strike
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1913
If we want to prove ourselves worthy of the great coming events then we must not begin at the wrong end by attempting to make technical preparations for the mass strike. When the situation is ripe, the tactic of the mass strike will present itself. Let us not rack our brains about supporting it at the right time. What is necessary is that you watch the party press to ensure that it is your instrument and expresses your opinion and your mood. You must also see to it that our parliamentarians feel a mass pressing them from behind.
- A Political Statement of the Libertarian Socialist Collective
Resource Type: Article
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.
- Politische Schriften 2
Resource Type: Book
- Portugal
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1976
The revolutionary process in Portugal is not one that lends itself very easily to a coherent political analysis. Political leadership is quickly thrown up by the creative energy of the workers and peasants and as quickly discarded as its usefulness to them wears thin.
- Portugal: The Impossible Revolution?
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1977
The story of what happened in Portugal between April 25, 1974 and November 25, 1975, as seen and felt by a deeply committed participant.
- Preliminaries Toward Defining a Unitary Revolutionary Program
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1960
Written as a platform for discussion within the Situationist International, and for its linkup with revolutionary militants of the workers movement.
- The Principle of Self-Emancipation in Marx and Engels
Resource Type: Article
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.
- The Program of the Minority
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1946
Statement of the minority in the (U.S.) Workers Party.
- The proliferation of neo-primitives
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1979
Neo-primitives prefer an imaginary past to the work of creating a different society.
- Propaganda and Consciousness: The Future of Big Flame Newspaper
Resource Type: Article
A political dicussion of the strategy and practice of Big Flame, written in the early 1970s.
- Radical Political Theory
Resources in the Connexions Library
Resource Type: Website
Books and articles on radical political thought in the Connexions Library.
- The Red Menace
A libertarian socialist newsletter
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
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.
- Reform and Revolution
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1968
An essay taken from Andre Gorz's Le Socialisme Difficile in which he discusses how socialist strategy can aim to crate the objective and subjective conditions which will make mass revolutionary action and engagement in a successful trail of strength with the bourgeoise possible.
- Revolution
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
- Revolution in the Revolution
Resource Type: Book
- The Revolution is Dead Long Live the Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1976
- Revolution Re-Assessed
Politics of Human Liberation
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1980
The political objectives and beliefs of the Australian-based Libertarian Socialist Organisation.
- The Revolutionary Answer to the Negro Problem in the USA
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1948
The impetus of the Negro movement toward the revolutionary forces, which we have traced in the past, is stronger today than ever before.
- A Revolutionary for our Times: Rosa Luxemburg
Resource Type: Book
- Revolutionary Nonviolence
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1971
- Revolutionary Organisation and Open Letter to IS
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1972
A 1972 pamphlet incorporating two previously published texts, 'Revolutionary Organisation' (1961) and 'An Open Letter to I.S.' (1968). They are presented as "a contribution to the serious discussing now taking place, within the ranks of revolutionaryies, as to what kind of organisation is necessary."
- Revolutionary Organization
Versus Bureaucratic and "Democratic" Centralism
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1973
An advocacy for democratic, "uncentred" socialism as an antidote to Stalinist repression, elitism by workers' leadership and blindness to the "understandings of today's reality." Also included is a short article by Anton Pennekoek, on "Party and Class".
- Revolutionary Strategy in the Advanced Capitalist Countries: A Reply to the Spontaneists
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1973
A Trotskyist perspective.
- Riot and Revolution
Speech by Rosa Luxemburg on Trial for Inciting to Riot
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1906
- Rosa Luxemburg
A Life
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1986
A biography of the Marxist revolutionary.
- Rosa Luxemburg
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
A biography of Rosa Luxemburg written by a German revolutionary who worked with Luxemburg in the Spartacist organization.
- Rosa Luxemburg
Abridged Edition
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1969
A biography of Luxemburg by a British academic.
- Rosa Luxemburg
Selected Political Writings
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
A selection of Rosa Luxemburg's writings which highlight her outstanding contributions to the theory and practice of revolutionary socialism.
- Rosa Luxemburg: Prison Letters
Resource Type: Book
- The Rosa Luxemburg Reader
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2004
A definitive one-volume collection of Luxemburg's writings.
- Rosa Luxemburg Speaks
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1970
A selection of speeches and writings by Rosa Luxemburg.
- Rosa Luxemburg, Women's Liberation, and Marx's Philosophy of Revolution
Resource Type: Book
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."
- The Russian Revolution and Leninism or Marxism?
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1961
The basic lesson of every great revolution, the law of its being, decrees: either the revolution must advance at a rapid, stormy, resolute tempo, break down all barriers with an iron hand and place its goals ever farther ahead, or it is quite soon thrown backward behind its feeble point of departure and suppressed by counter-revolution. To stand still, to mark time on one spot, to be contented with the first goal it happens to reach, is never possible in revolution. And he who tries to apply the home-made wisdom derived from parliamentary battles between frogs and mice to the field of revolutionary tactics only shows thereby that the very psychology and laws of existence of revolution are alien to him .
- Seeds of Fire May 5, 1818: Birth of Karl Marx
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Marx breathes dialectics and revolution. For Marx, radicalism means going to the root, and Marx’s radicalism seeks to go to the root of capitalism, to comprehend its essence dialectically, to understand its inherent contradictions – and the seeds of revolution it contains.
- Sex-Pol
Essays 1929-1934
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
Wilhelm Reich's writings from his Marxist period, outlining his thoughts about sexual and political liberation.
- Situationist International Anthology
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1981
- The Sixties
Years of Hope, Days of Rage
Resource Type: Book
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.
- '68: The Year of the Barricades
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1988
Caute's book looks at the explosive year 1968 (while situating it in the context of what had led up to it). One of the great strengths of this excellent book is that it looks at what was happening around the world.
- Social Reform or Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1908
Rosa Luxemburg's attack on reformism.
- Socialism and Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
Representative democracy in every industrially advanced country is in a state of profound crisis. But we have been accustomed for so long to accept democracy in the form of its outward appearances and parliamentary institutions that its decay often does not become apparent to us until those institutions have been either brushed aside or reduced to a purely decorative role.
- Socialism or Barbarism
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1969
The combined socialist objectives from members of "Socialisme ou Barbarie" of France, "Unita Proletaria" of Italy, "Socialism Reaffirmed" of Great Britain, and "Pouvoir Ouvrier Belge" of Belgium.
- Society of the Spectacle
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2005
An analysis of modern society and how it can be changed, written in the form of 221 theses. The first thesis reads: "In societies dominated by modern conditions of production, life is presented as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has receded into a representation." Translator Ken Knabb describes the book as "an effort to clarify the nature of the society in which we find ourselves and the advantages and drawbacks of various methods for changing it. Every single thesis has a direct or indirect bearing on issues that are matters of life and death."
- Solidarity As We See It
Resource Type: Article
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."
- Solidarity (US) Founding Statement
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1986
Adopted at the founding national convention of SOLIDARITY in the Spring of 1986.
- Spontaneitat und Organisation
Resource Type: Book
- The State and Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1917
Lenin on the Marxist teaching on the State and the tasks of the proletariat in the Revolution.
- Storming Heaven
1968 Revisted
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2008
The eruptions of #68 challenged the power structures north and south, east and west. Countries in each continent were infected with the desire for change. Hope reigned supreme.
- Strike!
The True History of Mass Insurgence from 1877 to the Present
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1997
A history-from-below that brings to light strikes as authentic revolutionary movements against the establishments of state, capital, and trade unionism.
- Theses on the Fundamental Tasks of the Communist International
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1920
Adopted at the Second Congress of the Communist International, August 1920.
- They Showed the Way to Labor Emancipation
On Karl Marx and the 75th Anniversary of the Paris Commune
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1946
Marx drew a great theoretical conclusions from the experience of the Commune. He showed that the capitalist army, the capitalist state, the capitalist bureaucracy, cannot be seized by the revolutionary proletariat and used for its own purposes. It had to be smashed completely and a new state organized, based upon the organization of the working class.
- Toward a New Beginning - On Another Road
The Alternative to the Micro-Sect
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1970
To Marx, any organization was a sect if it set up any special set of view (including Marx#s views) as its organizational boundary; if it made this special set of views the determinant of its organizational form.
Neither Marx nor Engels ever formed or wanted to form a #Marxist# group of any kind # that is, a membership group based on an exclusively Marxist program. All of their organizational activity was pointed along a different road.
- The Transitional Program: The Death Agony of Capitalism and the Tasks of the Fourth International
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1938
Leon Trotsky's program for the founding of the Fourth International.
- Trotsky
A Documentary
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
An illustrated biography of Leon Trotsky.
- The Two Souls of Socialism
Socialism from Above vs. Socialism from Below
Resource Type: Article
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 which 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.
- The Unknown Dimension
European Marxism Since Lenin
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
The radical intellectual tradition of European post-Leninist Marxism, so different from the dogma of the orthodox leftist parties, is an unknowwn dimension. This anthology sets out to recover this Marxist tradition and to restore the centrality of Marxist revolutionary thought and practice.
- The Veritable Split in the International
Resource Type: Book
- We Can Change the World
The Real Meaning Of Everyday Life
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
Stratman draws on his experiences as a parent in the Boston school busing battle and later as Washington director of the National PTA, interviews with British coal miners and striking American meatpackers, and wide ranging research and historical analysis, to show that fundamental social change is possible. The key to changing the world he argues, lies in a different view of ordinary people.
- What Does the Spartacus League Want?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1918
The proletarian revolution requires no terror for its aims; it hates and despises killing. It does not need these weapons because it does not combat individuals but institutions, because it does not enter the arena with naive illusions whose disappointment it would seek to revenge. It is not the desperate attempt of a minority to mold the world forcibly according to its ideal, but the action of the great massive millions of the people, destined to fulfill a historic mission and to transform historical necessity into reality.
- What is Libertarian Socialism?
Resource Type: Article
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.
- Who Advocates Spontaneity?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1973
The working class can come to understand its power to act only by acting.
- Why I am a Marxist
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1935
For the Marxist, there is no such thing as 'Marxism' in general any more than there is a 'democracy' in general, a 'dictatorship' in general or a 'state' in general. There is only a bourgeois state, a proletarian dictatorship or a fascist dictatorship, etc. And even these exist only at determinate stages of historical development, with corresponding historical characteristics, mainly economic, but conditioned also in part by geographical, traditional, and other factors. With the deferent levels of historical development, with the different environments of geographical distribution, with the well-known differences of creed and tendency among the various Marxist schools, there exist, both nationally and internationally, very different theoretical systems and practical movements which go by the name of Marxism.
- Why the Leninists will lose
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1978
The Leninist groups may still have the ability to disrupt the left, but they are long past the point of being able to achieve any kind of success in their own right.
- Worker-Student Action Committees France May '68
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1969
An account of the May-June 1968 events in Paris. The authors state that "our intention is not to 'clarify' the sequence of events which took place in France in order to make possible a ritual repetition of these events, but rather to contrast the limited views we had of the events at the time we were engaged in them, with the views we have gained from further action in different contexts."
- Workers Opposition
Solidarity London Pamphlet
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1968
Published in Soviet Russia in January 1921 and banned in March 1921.
- World Revolution 1917-1936
The Rise and Fall of the Communist International
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1937
No major economic or political development in Russia, and few of the minor ones, can be understood, except in relation to the strength of the revolutionary movement in Western Europe, so long dominated by the Third International.
- Writings on the Paris Commune
Resource Type: Book
Hal Draper's compilation of all the writings by Marx and Engels on the Paris Commune of 1871, when a working-class-led revolution took power and established a new type of state for the first time in the history of the world - temporarily, in one city.
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