Marxism
Articles about Marxism, and key Marxist texts.
Worlds apart: socialism in Marx and in early Bolshevism
Paresh Chattopadhyay's article on Marx and the divergence of the Bolsheviks from his conception of socialism.
A Provisional Overview
Bruno Bauer and Early Christianity - Engels
published May 4-11, 1882 in Sozialdemokrat
In Berlin, on April 13, a man died who once played a role as a philosopher and a theologian, but was hardly heard of for years, only attracting the attention of the public from time to time as a "literary eccentric". Official theologians, including Renan, wrote him off and, therefore, maintained a silence of death about him. And yet he was worth more than them all and did more than all of them in a question which interests us Socialists, too: the question of the historical origin of Christianity.
On the History of Early Christianity - Engels
From Die Neue Zeit Vol. 1, 1894-95, pp. 4-13 and 36-43 ONLINE VERSION: Translated by the Institute of Marxism-Leninism, USSR, 1957 from the newspaper copy. Transcribed for the Internet by director@marx.org.
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Karl Marx and the Paris Commune - CLR James
From 18 March 1946 issue of Labor Action, newspaper of the Workers Party of the United States
C.L.R. James
They Showed the Way to Labor Emancipation:
On Karl Marx and the 75th Anniversary of the Paris Commune
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The American working class is not yet as familiar as the European working class with the history and traditions of the revolutionary socialist movement. March 14, anniversary of the death of Karl Marx, and March 18, anniversary of the Paris Commune will be celebrated by only a small minority.
Listen, Marxist! - Murray Bookchin
Murray Bookchin's best-known leaflet, Listen, Marxist! was aimed predominantly at students influenced by the Maoist Progressive Labor Party which was heavily (and highly destructive) active in the mass Students for a Democratic Society movement in 1960s and 70s America. His criticisms of "Marxism" and Marxist terminology are not applicable to Marxism as a whole, but some do apply to the crude politics of the PLP. Despite this significant shortcoming, we reproduce the document here due to its importance in terms of the left and libertarian left in the US
Internationale Situationiste
Internationale Situationiste, aka International Situationist: the journal of the Situationist International - Issues 1-12
Going in the Wrong Direction or Mephistopheles: Not Saint Francis of Assisi
Toni Negri's work is enormously attractive, not only for its own merits, but because it responds to a desperate need. We are all looking for a way forward. The old state-centred model of revolution has failed catastrophically, reformism becomes more and more corrupt and barren, yet revolutionary change is more urgent than ever.
Bernard Reichenbach:The KAPD in Retrospect - An Interview with a Member of the Communist Workers Party of Germany
Revolutionary History, Vol. 5, No. 2 Spring 1994
We have omitted the footnotes from this text as they are mainly short biographies of people in the text. This interview first appeared in Solidarity Vol. 6 no.2 when Reichanbach was a militant in the anti-parliamentary Left in Germany. He was interviewed by Rudi Dutschke (RH)
The German Workers' Councils
Global War for the World Order, Part II
September 11 did not change the world and marked no change in era. It becomes more and more obvious that it was crystallization point and catalyst for developments which had started long before.
Global War for the World Order (Part I)
Behind the attacks of September 11 weren't the pauperized and exploited of this world, and the bombing of Afghanistan isn't aimed at the alleged masterminds of the attacks. Both incidents belong to the strategy of worldwide control of labor power and protection of the global valorization of capital.
