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Marxists Internet Archive Marxists Internet Archive: 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 Guevar (Theory) http://www.marxists.org What is to be Done? What is to be Done?: In which Lenin outlines the concept of the vanguard revolutionary party run according to the principles of democratic centralism. (Theory) http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1901/what-itd/index.htm Global Document Index Global Document Index: A series of documents from various Trotskyist groups and tendencies. (Theory) http://www.marxists.org/history/etol/document/index.htm Chen Duxiu and the Trotskyists Chen Duxiu and the Trotskyists: Zheng Chaolin's memoirs written in 1945 documenting the story of Chen Duxiu, founder of the Chinese Communist Party, leader of the May 4th Movement and supporter of Leon Trotsky. (Theory) http://www.marxists.org/history/etol/document/zheng.htm British Labour Party Election Manifesto, 1945 British Labour Party Election Manifesto, 1945: "Let Us Face the Future: A Declaration of Labour Policy for the Consideration of the Nation." Full text of the manifesto on which Labour was elected in 1945, under which they instituted the welfare state in Britain. (Theory) http://www.labour-party.org.uk/manifestos/1945/1945-labour-manifesto.shtml The Manifesto of the Communist Party The Manifesto of the Communist Party: By Marx and Engels, the document that changed the world. Site includes introductions to all major releases in the nineteenth century. (Theory) http://csf.colorado.edu/psn/marx/Archive/1848-CM/ Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution: Treatise from the Independent Group of Communists in Holland, 1930. (Theory) http://reality.gn.apc.org/econ/gik1.htm Working Class Movement Library Working Class Movement Library: 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. (Theory) http://www.wcml.org.uk/ Guild Socialism Reconsidered Guild Socialism Reconsidered: An essay by Roger McCain examining the guild socialism of the pre-industrial era. (Theory) http://william-king.www.drexel.edu/top/personal/wkpaps/gildf/gildpref.html The National Question and the Class Struggle The National Question and the Class Struggle: Thesis by Ber Borochov (1881-1917) arguing that national liberation is a necessary component of the class struggle. Distinguishes between progressive and reactionary nationalism. (Theory) http://www.angelfire.com/il2/borochov/class.html Erfurt Program, 1891 Erfurt Program, 1891: Radical program adopted by the German Social Democratic Party in 1891 which signified the party's adoption of Marxism. (Theory) http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1891erfurt.html The State and Revolution The State and Revolution: The Marxist theory of the state and the tasks of the proletariat in the revolution by Lenin. (Theory) http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/sep/staterev/index.htm Prout World Prout World: Site concerning the Progressive Utilization Theory, "Prout" a "neo-humanist" system addressing the socio-economics of liberation. This seems to be a utopian socialist theory based on eastern religious principles. (Theory) http://www.proutworld.org/ Regina Manifesto Regina Manifesto: 1933 founding document of Canada's Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (now the NDP). (Theory) http://www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/ECON/needhdata/Regina_Manifesto.html Communism Simplified Communism Simplified: The principles of practical and ideal Communism. (Theory) http://www.geocities.com/inyukun/communism.html The Gotha Program (1871) The Gotha Program (1871): Excerpts from the founding manifesto of the German Social Democratic Party (Theory) http://history.hanover.edu/texts/gotha.html Socialism Web Socialism Web: An explanation and defence of socialism from an independent socialist. (Theory) http://home.vicnet.net.au/~dmcm Autarchic Socialism Autarchic Socialism: An analysis of socialism and communism which contrasts the failed experiments in the USSR and its satellites with true socialism. (Theory) http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Crete/4384/ Economic Socialism Economic Socialism: A text by Henry Sidgwick which examines socialist economics, originally published in 1886 in The Contemporary Review. (Theory) http://phare.univ-paris1.fr/textes/Sidgwick/Social.html Socialist Perspective Socialist Perspective: 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. (Theory) http://www.geocities.com/stewjackmail/ The SWP vs. Lenin: Bureaucratic Centralism or Democratic Centralism? The SWP vs. Lenin: Bureaucratic Centralism or Democratic Centralism?: Document produced by a dissident group expelled from Socialist Workers Party in Britain in 1994 criticizing the SWP's internal regime. The SWP leads the International Socialist tendency and is best known for publishing the newspaper Socialist Worker. (Theory) http://www.etext.org/Politics/International.Socialists-UK/swp.txt Abram Leon: The Jewish Question - A Marxist Interpretation (1946) Abram Leon: The Jewish Question - A Marxist Interpretation (1946): An influential work by the Belgian-Jewish Trotskyist published in 1946. (Theory) http://www.marxists.de/religion/leon/index.htm Capitalism and Socialism Capitalism and Socialism: Freya Hastings argues that Adam Smith was critical of laissez faire capitalism and saw communism as a viable system. (Theory) http://www.geocities.com/kew1788/CapitalismSocialism.htm Against the Theory of State Capitalism Against the Theory of State Capitalism: A refutation of Tony Cliff's theory written in 1949 by Ted Grant. Cliff went on to found the International Socialist Tendency and what is now the Socialist Workers Party in Britain. (Theory) http://www.geocities.com/syeire/pubpages/statecap.htm What is Dhammic Socialism? What is Dhammic Socialism?: Socialism examined from a Buddhist perspective. (Theory) http://www.suanmokkh.org/ds/what_ds1.htm CapitAllism CapitAllism: Calls for a cap on personal incomes as a solution to inequity. (Theory) http://www.capitallism.org Manifesto of the Communist Party Manifesto of the Communist Party: Online text from Literature Project. (Theory) http://www.literatureproject.com/comm-manifesto/index.htm International Socialist Group - Discussion Document International Socialist Group - Discussion Document: A 1994 document from the shortlived ISG which was formed by individuals expelled from the (British) Socialist Workers Party. Document crtiques the SWP's internal regime and its politics. (Theory) http://www.etext.org/Politics/International.Socialists-UK/isg.txt The Communist Manifesto The Communist Manifesto: The text that serves as the beginning of the communist movement (Theory) http://www.anu.edu.au/polsci/marx/classics/manifesto.html Towards a New Socialism Towards a New Socialism: Polemic against market socialism by W. Paul Cockshott and Allin Cottrell. (Theory) http://www.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/socialism_book/ archive: the left side of the brain is bigger archive: the left side of the brain is bigger: 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. (Theory) http://archive.8m.net/ The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius: Online version of George Orwell's 1941 work. The non-fiction work is in three parts, England Your England, Shopkeepers at War, and The English Revolution. (Theory) http://orwell.ru/library/essays/lion/ Why Did a Socialist Revolution not Occur in the United States? Why Did a Socialist Revolution not Occur in the United States?: An examination of why American society, especially in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, was remarkably free of socialist influence. Written by Dov Ben-Shimon. (Theory) http://www.geocities.com/dbslkk "Why Socialism?" by Albert Einstein "Why Socialism?" by Albert Einstein: An indictment of capitalism by Time magazine's Man of the Century. (Theory) http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/26/001.html The Fight For Socialism The Fight For Socialism: Programme of the Workers' Party (1946). The WP was a "Third Camp" split from the Socialist Workers Party. It was led by Max Shachtman. (Theory) http://www.marxists.org/archive/shachtma/works/ffsind.htm The Transitional Program for Socialist Revolution The Transitional Program for Socialist Revolution: Formal title is "the Death Agony of Capitalism and the Tasks of the Fourth International," written by Leon Trotsky this was the founding programme for the Fourth International and remains a guiding document for Trotskyists. (Theory) http://marxists.org/archive/trotsky/works/1938-tp/index.htm The Genesis of Trotskyism The Genesis of Trotskyism: 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. (Theory) http://www.marxists.org/archive/shachtma/works/shacht01.htm Marxist.net 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) (Theory) http://www.marxist.net Socialism: Theory and Practice Socialism: Theory and Practice: Information about the different schools of socialist thought and socialist history. Includes quotes, pictures, resources library, links. (Theory) http://www.the-wood.org/socialism/ The Port Huron Statement The Port Huron Statement: 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. (Theory) http://coursesa.matrix.msu.edu/~hst306/documents/huron.html Evolutionary Socialism Evolutionary Socialism: Excerpts from Eduard Bernstein's revisions of Marxism which established modern social democracy. (Theory) http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/bernstein-revsoc.html