1. Anarchist communism
   Connexipedia Article
   Resource Type: Article
   "Anarchist communism" is a term used by some anarchists to describe their vision of a future society. The term, like the related terms "libertarian communism" or "libertarian socialism," has been used to distinguish this vision of the future society from the so-called "Communism" that existed in the former Soviet Union, its satellite states, and in China. Because these states appropriated the terms "Socialism" and "Communism" as labels for authoritarian Stalinist state-capitalist regimes, those who adhere to the original vision of Communism have felt a need to clearly distinguish what they stand for from Stalinist "Communism."
   All of them refer to the project of creating a future society in which capitalism, private ownership of the means of production, and the capitalist state are abolished and replaced by common ownership of the means of production, direct democracy, and a horizontal network of voluntary associations and workers' councils with production and consumption.
2. An Anti-Capitalist Manifesto
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2003
   An extended argument about what the anti-capitalist movement should stand for.
3. Anti-Duhring
   Herr Eugen Duhring's Revolution in Science
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1878
   
4. Anti-statism
   Connexipedia Article
   Resource Type: Article
   
5. Are the police doing their job?
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2010
   It makes no sense to demand that the police 'do their job.' The job of the police is to protect the wealth and power of the ruling elite against any challenge.
6. Beyond Sovereignty
   Issues for a Global Agenda (2nd Edition)
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2003
   Discussion of the increasingly transnational structure of power in today's world and proposals forabandoning nation-state sovereignty for more integrated, cooperative rule between different types of governance bodies.
7. Das Capital, Volume 1
   A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1890
   Marx's great work sets out to grasp and portray the totality of the capitalist mode of production, and the bourgeois society that emerges from it. He describes and connects all its economic features, together with its legal, political, religious, artistic, philosophical and ideological manifestations.
8. Das Capital, Volume 2
   The Process of Circulation of Capital
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1956
   
9. Das Capital, Volume 3
   The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1971
   
10. Clandestinity: Resisting State Repression
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2003
    
11. The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, Volume I
    Economic Writings 1
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2013
    This first volume in Rosa Luxemburg's Complete Works, entitled Economic Writings 1, contains some of Luxemburg's most important statements on the globalization of capital, wage labour, imperialism, and pre-capitalist economic formations.
12. Connexions Annual Overview: Human Rights, Civil Liberties
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1994
    If we accept that anyone may be denied their rights, their freedom, then we undermine our own rights and freedoms even as we undermine social solidarity.
13. Corporate Power and Canadian Capitalism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1986
    Carroll looks at the accumulation of capital in Canada since the Second World War. Most of the book is devoted to tracing actual patterns of corporate ownership and intercorporate relationships.
14. Counterpunch
    Periodical profile
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Progressive U.S. website/newsletter.
15. 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.
16. 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.
    
17. A Dictionary of Marxist Thought
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
    
18. Ecology as Politics
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1980
    Socialism is no better than capitalism if it makes use of the same tools. The total domination of nature inevitably entails a domination of people by the techniques of domination.
19. The Ecology of Freedom
    The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2005
    Bookchin's synthesis of ecology, anthropology and political theory traces conflicting legacies of hierarchy and freedom from the first emergence of human culture to today's globalized capitalism, constantly pointing the way to a sane, sustainable ecological future.
20. The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1852
    Marx wrote The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon between December 1851 and March 1852. The "Eighteenth Brumaire" refers to November 9, 1799 in the French Revolutionary Calendar -- the day the first Napoleon Bonaparte had made himself dictator by a coup d'etat. Marx traces how the conflict of different social interests manifest themselves in the complex web of political struggles, and in particular the contradictory relationships between the outer form of a struggle and its real social content.
21. Empire of Capital
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2003
    Capitalism makes possible a new form of domination by purely economic means, argues Ellen Meiksins Wood. So, surely, even the most seasoned White House hawk would prefer to exercise global hegemony in this way, without costly colonial entanglements. Yet, as the author powerfully demonstates, the economic empire of capital has also created a new and unlimited militarism.
22. The Enemy of Nature
    The End of Capitalism or the End of the World?
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2007
    We live in and from nature, but the way we have evolved of doing this is about to destroy you. Capitalism and its by-products -- imperialism, war, neoliberal globalization, racism, poverty, and the destruction of community -- are all playing a part in the destruction of our ecosystem.
23. 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."
24. 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.
    
25. False Promises
    The Shaping of American Working Class Consciousness
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
    
26. For Reasons of State
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
    Essays in which Chomsky analyzes the role of the American state and discusses some of the ways in which individuals can respond to its growing power.
27. 'Free speech' - as long as it doesn't offend anyone
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    On the issue of free speech most of the right and much of the left are in agreement, and so too are many liberals, activists, and human rights apparatchiks. They hold essentially the same position on freedom of expression - they are for it -in principle-, but only so long as it isn't used to express views that they find unacceptable or offensive. What they disagree about is merely who gets to decide what ideas are unacceptable, i.e., who gets to censor who.
    
28. Globalization and the Decline of Social Reform
    Into the Twenty-First Century
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1995
    
29. Imperialism, Nationalism, and Canada.
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1977
    Interpretations of Canada's status in the system of world imperialism and the internal dynamics of class, race, and region within the Canadian national state.
30. 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.
31. 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.
32. 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.
33. Lenin 1917-18: the road to the authoritarian state.
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Lenin’s focus when he returned to Russia in 1917 was on the facts of the revolution, rather than outdated Bolshevik theory. He began with what was real, rather than an abstract possibility.
34. Lenin, Vladimir - Writings - Index
    Resource Type: Article
    
35. Main Currents of Marxism
    Volume 1: The Founders
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1978
    Kolakowski gives his interpretation of the origins of Marxism, and analyses the development of Marx's thought and its divergence from other forms of socialism.
36. Manual for Revolutionary Leaders
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
    A devious satire aimed at Leninists, Trotskyists, Maoists, and vanguardists of all stripes.
    
37. Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 26
    Engels 1882 - 1889
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1889
    Includes Manuscripts on Early German History and The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State, and Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy, and The Role of Force in History
38. Marxism, Feminism, the State
    Volume 1
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
    Includes essays on the sexual division of labour, and socialist organizing in the 80s, referring to Engels, Ryerson, and MacPherson.
39. Marxist Theories of the State Played out in Venezuela
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    The implications of Marxist state theories developed by Nicos Poulantzas and Ralph Miliband are useful for framing issues related to leftist strategy in twenty-first century Venezuela.
40. Marx's Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2013
    In contrast to the traditional view that Marx's work is restricted to a critique of capitalism – and that he consciously avoided any detailed conception of its alternative – this work shows that Marx was committed to a specific concept of a post-capitalist society which informed the whole of his approach to political economy.
41. The Masks of Proteus
    Canadian Reflections on the State
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
    A multi-faceted study of the modern state.
42. Miliband, Ralph - Writings - Index
    Resource Type: Article
    Writings of Ralph Miliband (1924-1994).
43. News and Letters
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
44. 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.
45. On the Socialist State
    Resource Type: Book
    
46. Organizational Platform of the General Union of Anarchists
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1926
    In 1926 a group of exiled Russian anarchists in France, the Delo Truda (Workers' Cause) group, published this pamphlet.
47. The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1884
    
48. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 22, 2017
    Secrecy and Power
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2017
    Secrecy is a weapon the powerful use against their enemies: us. This issue of Other Voices explores the relationship of secrecy and power.
49. Our Generation
    Volume 7 Number 3
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1970
    
50. Our Generation
    Volume 9 Number 2
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1973
    
51. Our Generation
    Volume 10 Number 1
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1974
    
52. Our Generation
    Volume 21 Number 2
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1990
    
53. Our Generation
    Volume 23 Number 1
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1992
    
54. Our Generation
    Volume 24 Number 2
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1994
    
55. The Penguin Atlas of World History - Vol. 2: From the French Revolution to the Present
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1978
    
56. A People's History of the World
    From the Stone Age to the New Millennium
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1999
    Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals.
57. Quotes about Government
    Resource Type: Unclassified
    
58. Quotes about the State
    Resource Type: Unclassified
    
59. Radical Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1997
    Lummis revives the meaning of democratic struggle and critques the economic and technological processes that have hindered its growth.
60. 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.
    
61. Reflexions sur le role de l'Etat et de la Police Series: On Vous a a l'Oeil
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1978
    
62. Secrecy and Power
    Introduction to the July 22, 2017 issue of Other Voices
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    It is one of the essential attributes of power that it insists on secrecy. Or, more precisely, those who wield power over others routinely claim that the details of what they do, and why they do it, are far too sensitive to be revealed to the public.
63. Selections from the Prison Notebooks
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
    Gramsci's Notebooks cover a wide range of subjects including history, culture, politics, and philosophy.
64. 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.
65. The Socialist Register 1970
    Volume 7: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1970
    
66. The Socialist Register 1990
    Volume 26: The Retreat of the Intellectuals
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1990
    Essays on the retreat away from socialism and Marxism by Left or formerly Left intellectuals.
67. Socialist Register 1994
    Volume 30: Between Globalism and Nationalism
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1994
    
68. Socialist Register 1995
    Volume 31: Why Not Capitalism?
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1995
    
69. The State as Protection Racket
    Chapters in the History of Daylight Robbery
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    The debate about the current global economic "crisis" is obscenely counterintuitive and illogical to the point of incoherence. Who is willing to 'follow the money"? This dictum appears utterly forgotten, despite recurring astronomic fraud perpetrated by US corporations.
70. The State in Capitalist Society
    The Analysis of the Western System of Power
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
    Miliband argues that the pluralist-democratic view of society, of politics and of the state in regards to the countries of advanced capitalism, is in all essential wrong.
71. The State in Global Perspective
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1986
    The expansion of the modern state is a central phenomenon of our time. A dominating force, as well as a guardian of society, it elecits contradictory feelings of repulsion and attraction. Fourteen scholars have contributed to this volume of essasy on the political, social, cultural and economic processes of the state.
72. The State in Revolutionary Periods
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1985
    The subject of the present discussion is "state in revolutionary periods." Under this heading we are going to deal with an aspect of the Marxist theory of the state, or, in other words, the methodology of Marxism in dealing with the phenomenon of the state -- an issue often overshadowed by stereotyped statements about the state, and therefore neglected.
73. The State & Institutional Power: Ulli Diemer - Selected snippets & quotes from Radical Digressions
    Resource Type: Article
    
74. State of Power 2014
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    A report with iinfographics and essays that expose and analyse the principal power-brokers that have caused financial, economic, social and ecological crises worldwide.
75. The State of the World Atlas
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1981
    
76. The State & Political Theory
    Resource Type: Book
    Synthesis of principal recent debates on the nature of the state.
77. The State and Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1917
    Lenin on the Marxist view of the state and revolution.
78. War is the Health of the State
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1918
    Once the State has begun to function, and a large class finds its interest and its expression of power in maintaining the State, this ruling class may compel obedience from any uninterested minority. The State thus becomes an instrument by which the power of the whole herd is wielded for the benefit of a class.
79. The Warfare State
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1967
    
80. Working Class Experience
    Rethinking the History of Canadian Labour, 1800-1991
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
    From nineteenth-century tavern life to late twentieth-century cinema, from rough canallers and the first stirrings of craft unionism to contemporary public-sector strikes, this books provides a sweeping interpretive study of the history of the Canadian working class since 1800.

Experts on State, The in the Sources Directory

1. International Court of Justice