1. The ABC of Communism
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1920
   Written as a commentary on the Bolshevik Party program, combining a vision of communist society with a program for practical action.
2. 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.
   
3. A Dictionary of Marxist Thought
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1983
   
4. 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.
   
5. 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.
6. The Great Schism
   Socialism and War in 1914
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2014
   This article sketches the limitations of Second International Marxism before outlining the strengths and weaknesses of Lenin’s alternative.
7. 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.
   
8. Marxism vs. Anarchism Part 6
   1914-1918: Imperialist War and the Realignment of the Left
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 1996
   The conclusion to a six part series, this article deals with how the formation of the Communist International, under the profound impact of the Russian Bolshevik Revolution, culminated the realignment of the left which had begun in August 1914.
9. Marxists Internet Archive
   Resource Type: Website
   Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
10. Rebuilding the International
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1915
    The only real safeguard for peace depends on the resolution of the proletariat to remain faithful to its class politics and its international solidarity through all the storm of imperialism.
    
11. Rosa Luxemburg
    Abridged Edition
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
    A biography of Luxemburg by a British academic.
    
12. 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.
13. The Rosa Luxemburg Reader
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
    A definitive one-volume collection of Luxemburg's writings.
14. 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."
15. Second International
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Organization of socialist and labour parties formed in Paris on July 14, 1889.
16. The Second International (Social-Democracy)
    Resource Type: Website
    A collection of documents on the Second International 1880-1917.
17. 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.

Experts on Second International in the Sources Directory

1. Marxists Internet Archive