- Beyond a Boundary
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1983
Part memoir of a boyhood in a black colony (by one of the founders of African nationalism), part passionate celebration of the game of cricket, this book raises serious questions about race, class, politics, and the realities of colonial oppression.
- C.L.R. James's "Critical Support" of Fidel Castro's Cuba
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
C.L.R. James's "critical support" of Fidel Castro’s Cuba is little understood among scholars of his life and work. This essay explores James’s 1967–1968 visit to Cuba and reconstructs private debates and discussion on Cuba within his revolutionary organizations, based in Detroit, in the 1950s and 1960s, and among anti-imperialist movements. Many of James's commentaries and disputes were consistent with his attempts to reconcile anti-colonialism with direct democracy and workers self-management.
- C.L.R. James's Conflicted Intellectual Legacies on Mao Tse Tung's China
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
On the evolution of C.L.R. James’s thoughts about Maoism.
- Connexions Library: Economy, Poverty, Work Focus
Resource Type: Website
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on the economy and economics.
- Connexions Library: Imperialism and Colonialism Focus Page
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2009
- "Culture", Science and State-Capitalism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1971
Neither culture nor science can lead lives separate from the economic realities of the societies which nurture them. Science and culture, even as they are procliamed to be the harbingers of revolutionary change, are being used today by the existing social order to preserve itself.
- A Dictionary of Marxist Thought
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1983
- 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.
- Interview with Ulli Diemer
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1990
Jeff Orchard interviews Ulli Diemer about socialism, capitalism, life, and social change.
- 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.
- A Marxist History of the World part 101: The Long Recession
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
By the early 1970s, the levers of state economic management had stopped working and the world economy entered a long period of stagnation.
- A Marxist History of the World part 103: 1989: the fall of Stalinism
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
The revolutions of 1989 represent great victories for mass action, but they were limited in effect.
- A Marxist History of the World part 84: State Capitalism in Russia
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
By the end of the 1920s, Stalin's party-state apparatus had become the dominant force in Russian society. A bureaucratic ruling class was formed, and all forms of dissent and resistance were treated as crimes against the state
- A Marxist History of the World part 91: The Cold War
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
The Second World War had created a world divided between two imperialist blocs. Their nuclear arsenals acted as a ‘deterrent’, but rivalry and suspicion meant that war was never far away.
- 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.
- 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.
- The Nature of Stalinist Russia
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1948
There is an unbridgeable antagonism between the definition of Russia as a degenerated workers' state and fundamental elements of Marxism, such as, to take one example, the self-mobilisation and self-conscious action of the masses as a necessary element for the socialist revolution.
- News and Letters
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
- On the Socialist State
Resource Type: Book
- 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.
- Our Generation
Volume 7 Number 3
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1970
- Out of the Driver's Seat
Marxism in North America Today
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1974
Outlines the political perspective of the Windsor-based Labour Centre in the wake of divisions in the Centre in 1974. Issues explored include the nature of the working class, women in the working class, gay rights, and students rights.
- 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.
- 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.
- A quick note on neoliberalism and state capitalism
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The key to understanding neo-liberalism, in my opinion, is power, not ideology.
- 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.
- Resisting Neoliberalism
Introduction to the April 9, 2015 issue of Other Voices
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Neoliberalism is a fraud. The so-called free markets and free trade which it pretends to promote are in fact controlled by giant corporations, and massively subsidized by workers and ordinary citizens.
- 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."
- Socialist Register 1994
Volume 30: Between Globalism and Nationalism
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1994
- 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."
- 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.
- State Banks Would Mean Jobs, Credit and Investment
Why Don't We?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
One of the many problems with the current banking system is that your tax money helps fuel speculation. Unless there is a public bank that your local government can place deposits into, revenues are the playthings of big banks.
- State Capitalism in Russia
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
- State Capitalism and World Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1986
The great organisations of the masses of the people and of workers in the past were not worked out by any theoretical elite or vanguard. They arose from the experience of millions of people and their need to overcome the intolerable pressures which society had imposed upon them for generations.
- The State & Institutional Power: Ulli Diemer - Selected snippets & quotes from Radical Digressions
Resource Type: Article
- Year 501
The Conquest Continues
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
An examination of the U.S. role in the world placed in the long historical perspective of the 500 years that followed the voyages of Columbus.
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