- An Anti-Capitalist Manifesto
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2003
An extended argument about what the anti-capitalist movement should stand for.
- Bernstein and the Marxism of the Second International
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1972
An essay from the collection entitled From Rouseau to Lenin: Studies in Ideology and Society, First published as Ideologia e Societá by Editori Laterza, Rome, Italy.
- Canadian Socialism
Essays on the CCF and the NDP
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
- The City and Radical Social Change
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1982
A collection of essays dealing with the dynamics of the new forces for social change in our urban milieu, discussing how new ideas are contributing to an urban insurgency which could lead to a new city and a new concept of citizenship.
- Classical Marxism and the Question of Reformism
Gluckstein, Donny
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
A central issue for our movement is whether to work towards a complete revolutionary overturning of capitalism and the state that protects it, or rely on partial methods of struggle. This choice is obvious in places such as Egypt or Greece, but applies with equal force to Britain where defence of the welfare state and living standards can mean waiting for the next election or relying on self-activity from below. This article will focus on the response of Marxists during the first quarter of the 20th century to this question.
- A comment on Greece and Syriza
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
This analysis is a rebuke to the notion that there is nothing between the far left and social democracy. That diagnosis may have been appropriate in the period of revolutionary growth beginning in 1968. This period, marked by the long-term decomposition of once dominant social democratic parties, is quite different.
- A Dictionary of Marxist Thought
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1983
- The End of Parliamentary Socialism
From New Left to New Labour
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1997
Argues against the assertion that there is no alternative to neo-liberalism. This account of the British Labour Party's recent history argues that Tony Blair's modernizing tendency was profoundly mistaken in asserting that the only alternative to traditional social democracy and narrow parliamentarianism was an acceptance of neo-liberalism.
- The Evil of the Lesser Evil
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2008
Lesser-evilism as a progressive strategy has succeeded -- succeeded in making American politics progressively more and more right-wing.
- Evolutionary Socialism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1899
- 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.
- Fragments of a Reformist Anarchism
A review of David Graeber (2004), Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2007
A collection of scattered thoughts about anarchism, anthropology, and academic studies. David Graeber argues against the need for a revolutionary confrontation with the state or its eventual overthrow. Instead, he favors a gradualist approach which leaves the state alone.
- Gramsci's Marxism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1976
Carl Boggs introduces Gramsci as one of the first marxist theorists to grapple with the problems of revolutionary change in advanced capitalist society and as the first to identify the importance of the ideological-cultural struggle against bourgeois values.
- Hallas, Duncas - Writings - Index
Resource Type: Article
Writings of Duncas Hallas (1925-2002).
- Imagine Democracy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2000
Rebick calls for the transformation of fundamental institutions in Canada: the economy, the media and the electoral system.
- The Impossibilities of Reformism
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
We would like to use this text to begin a dialogue with those comrades within social democracy who contend that the last 25, 15 or 5 years of bleak development is the result of a series of coincidences – poor leadership, international pressure, mistakes, cunning opponents, etc. – and we would instead propose a more fundamental explanation. The problems we face are problems that are inherent and unavoidable in the very reformist strategy that social democracy is built upon – in both its successes and its failures.
- 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."
- 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.
- Klein vs. Klein
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
This Changes Everything is a book capacious enough to allow Naomi Klein two positions at once. But a real climate-justice movement will at some point have to make choices.
- The Leap Manifesto
A Call for a Canada Based on Caring for the Earth and One Another
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
We start from the premise that Canada is facing the deepest crisis in recent memory. so we need to Leap.
- "Left Reformism" and socialist strategy
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Rooksby talks about the renewed interest in radical left "big picture" questions of socialist strategy that represents a return to "important debates of the left largely absent over the last three decades." The major factors driving this are several years of deep capitalist crisis together with the almost total capitulation of social democratic parties across Europe to the austerity agenda, opening up a clear space to the left of these organisations.
- Left reformism, the state and the problem of socialist politics today
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
The recent calls for the British left either to “reclaim Labour” (Len McCluskey) or to build a new party capable of emulating Syriza’s successes in Greece (Ken Loach) demand serious consideration on these pages. At their core these proposals reflect a widespread desire, shared by members of the Socialist Workers Party, to fight the cuts, alongside revulsion at the Labour Party’s failure to do so. They also reflect a genuine excitement across the left about the prospects for new left formations such as Syriza and France’s similar Front de Gauche.
- Left reformism, the state and the problem of socialist politics today
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Blackledge claims that, while it is of the first importance that revolutionaries welcome and work alongside these coalitions, it is also imperative that we maintain our political independence from them so that we are better able to struggle for an alternative beyond the limitations of their politics. This perspective demands a clear analysis of the nature of reformism.
- Luxemburg, Rosa - Writings - Index
Resource Type: Article
Writings of Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919).
- Manoeuvres from above, movements from below: Greece under Tsipras
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The Syriza left is at a crossroads. For all the belief that Syriza is a different kind of party, one that transcends the division between reform and revolution and therefore should be the home for the entire left, its left faces exactly the same problem as the reformist left in social democracy -- the trap of impotence. This article is written in the spirit of offering an alternative, around which the left as a whole can unite.
- A Marxist History of the World part 100: 1968-1975: the workers' revolt
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
As the crisis of capitalism spread around the world, the working class took centre stage – but the revolt did not result in successful revolution anywhere.
- A Marxist History of the World part 67: Reform or Revolution?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
The world Socialist movement was blown apart as its members supported the First World War. Neil Faulkner looks at how the question of reform or revolution lay behind the split.
- Mattick, Paul - Writings - Index
Resource Type: Article
Writings of Paul Mattick (1904-1981).
- Once more on left reformism: A reply to Ed Rooksby
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Paul Blackledge replies to Ed Rooksby’s arguements about left reformism.
- Opportunism and the art of the possible
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1898
Opportunism is a political game which can be lost in two ways: not only basic principles but also practical success may be forfeited.
- Our Generation
Volume 13 Number 12
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
- Pannekoek, Anton - Writings - Index
Resource Type: Article
Writings of Anton Pannekoek (1873-1960).
- Parecon and the nature of reformism
A review of Robin Hahnel (2005). Economic Justice and Democracy; From Competition to Cooperation. NY
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2005
The concept of participatory economics, as developed by Hahnel and Albert, is worth exploring. They are inspired by the tradition of libertarian, councilist, socialism. They share the values of revolutionary class struggle anarchism. Even in disagreeing with them, there is much to be learned from reading their work, since they are t houghtful people who are dealing with important issues. Yet they demonstrate, in spite of themselves, that it is not enough to attempt to not be reformist. It is necessary to be revolutionary.
- Privilege politics is reformism
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
A critique of privilege politics, which the author sees as a demobilizing force that boils down issues of oppression into what happens between individuals.
- Red Rosa
A Graphic Biography of Rosa Luxemburg
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2015
A giant of the political left, Rosa Luxemburg is one of the foremost minds in the canon of revolutionary socialist thought. Red Rosa gives Luxemburg her due as a radical and human being. In this beautifully drawn work of graphic biography, writer and artist Kate Evans has opened up her subject’s intellectual world to a new audience, grounding Luxemburg’s ideas in the realities of an inspirational and deeply affecting life.
- 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.
- Reformism - Social Democracy: Ulli Diemer - Selected snippets & quotes from Radical Digressions
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
- Revolution Re-Assessed
Politics of Human Liberation
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1980
The political objectives and beliefs of the Australian-based Libertarian Socialist Organisation.
- 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.
- 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: Speech to the Hanover Congress
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1899
In its struggle, the working class has no greater enemy than its own illusions -- and those who foster illusions.
- Rosa Luxemburg: Speeches to Stuttgart Congress
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1898
Luxenburg criticizes Eduard Bernstein's comment: "The final goal, whatever it may be, is nothing to me: the movement is everything!" with the reply "Anyone who says that does not stand for the necessity of seizing political power. You see that some comrades in the Party do not stand for the final goals of our movement, and that it is necessary to express that fact unambiguously."
- 1688 Germantown Quaker Petition Against Slavery
Wikipedia article
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
The 1688 Germantown Quaker Petition Against Slavery was the first protest against African-American slavery made by a religious body in the English colonies.
- Social Democracy and Parliamentarism
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1904
Parliamentarism is far from being an absolute product of democratic development, of the progress of the human species, and of such nice things. It is, rather, the historically determined form of the class rule of the bourgeoisie and – what is only the reverse of this rule – of its struggle against feudalism.
- 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.
- The Socialist Crisis in France
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1901
"The Republic is in danger! That is why it was necessary for a socialist to become the bourgeois Minister of Commerce. The Republic is in danger! That is why the socialist had to remain in the cabinet even after the massacre of the striking workers on the Island of Martinique and in Chalon. The Republic is in danger! As a result, inquiries into the massacres had to be blocked, the parliamentary investigations of the horrors perpetrated in the colonies had to be discarded, and the amnesty law accepted."
- The Socialist Register 1970
Volume 7: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1970
- The Socialist Register 1980
Volume 17: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1980
- The Socialist Register 1982
Volume 19: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1982
- The Socialist Register 1985/1986
Volume 22: Social Democracy and After
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1986
- Socialist Register 1991
Volume 27: Communist Regimes the Aftermath
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1991
- Socialist Thought
A Documentary History
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1964
An anthology of important documents in the history of European socialist thought, from pre-revolutionary France to the 1950s.
- The Story of Fabian Socialism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1961
A history of the Fabian Society and the organizations and individuals who were part of the Fabian milieu.
- Why changing our diets won't save the Earth
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Received wisdom says that to save the planet we have to change our eating habits. Elaine Graham-Leigh explains why the received wisdom isn't just wrong, it blames working people for a crisis they didn’t cause.
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