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  1. 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.
  2. A Dictionary of Marxist Thought
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
  3. The Great Transformation
    The political and economic origins of our time
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1968
    Polanyi analyzes the social and political upheavals that took place in England during the rise of the market economy. Polanyi contends that the modern market economy and the modern nation-state should be understood not as discrete elements, but as a single human invention he calls the "Market Society".
  4. 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.
  5. Marx as a Food Theorist
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    Marx developed a detailed and sophisticated critique of the industrial food system in Britain in the mid-nineteenth century, in the period that historians have called "the Second Agricultural Revolution." Not only did he study the production, distribution, and consumption of food; he was the first to conceive of these as constituting a problem of changing food "regimes" -- an idea that has since become central to discussions of the capitalist food system.
  6. Marxism and Freedom
    From 1776 to Today
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2000
    Dunayevskaya argues that Marx's theory is the generalisation of the instinctive striving of the proletariat for a new social order, a truly human society.
  7. A Marxist History of the World part 29: The peculiarity of Europe
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    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    Why Europe? Why was it that the second great transformation in human existence - the development of capitalism and industrial society - was pioneered on the western edge of the Eurasian land-mass?
  8. A Marxist History of the World part 50: The Industrial Revolution
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    Frederick Engels was sent to Manchester, centre of the Industrial Revolution, to dispel his radicalism. Instead it made him the revolutionary he is remembered as today, Neil Faulkner explains.
  9. A Marxist History of the World part 51: The origins of the Labour Movement
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    Capitalism's industrial revolution gave birth to its own gravediggers, argues Neil Faulkner as he examines the rise and fall of Chartism.
  10. A Marxist History of the World part 54: What is Capitalism?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    In this critical chapter of his world history, Neil Faulkner explores capitalism and what it means from the Industrial Revolution to the present day.
  11. A Marxist History of the World part 64: What is Imperialism?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Neil Faulkner looks at how the growth of giant monopolies and the fusing of industrial, bank, and state capital created global competition - and the roots of World War I.
  12. 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.
  13. The Rise of British Imperialism: Capitalism and Slavery (Part Two)
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    A presentation on the developments that made Britain the first modern imperialist power.
  14. The Road to Wigan Pier
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1937
    George Orwell's investigation of an English working class community in the 1930s.
  15. The Socialist Register 1965
    Volume 2: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1965
  16. The Socialist Register 1974
    Volume 11: A survey of Movements & Ideas
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1974
  17. The Struggle for Quebec
    Spokesman Pamphlet No. 13
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1971
    Essays analyzing class struggles in Quebec in, and leading up to, 1971.

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