Revolutionary Bread - Emile Pouget Emile Pouget's short 1896 article for L’Almanach du Pere Peinard on capitalism and "the conquest of bread".
Capital - Karl Marx The complete text online of Marx's Magnum Opus, Capital: a critique of political economy, a devastating critical analysis of capitalism.
The great money trick - Robert Tressell The passage from Robert Tressell's 'The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists' in which one of the characters cleverly outlines how the use of money…
Chapter 1 of the first edition of Capital: The Commodity - Karl Marx Translation of The Commodity the original chapter 1 of the first edition of Das Kapital.
Private property, exclusion and the state - Junge Linke Junge Linke on the interdependence of private property, capitalism and the state
Nature of the period: background and perspectives (NEFAC) A short statement adopted by NEFAC, for the purposes of discussion, on the current economic…
Karl Marx on the transition from feudalism to capitalism - Claudio.J.Katz A useful summary of the argument that the class struggle of the peasantry was crucial in the…
The leopard in the 20th century: value, struggle and administration - William Dixon An examination of the changes within capitalism as a response to the development of the antagonistic…
Decline as a Concept - and Its Consequences - Hillel Ticktin This article produces a summary of a theory of decline of capitalism.
A Marxist Political Economy of Capitalist Instability and the Current Crisis - Hillel Ticktin Hillel Ticktin on a Marxist political economy of the financial crisis of 2008-9 and…
Capitalism - further reading guide libcom's guide to further reading on capitalist economics, crisis and the history of capitalism.
In for a storm: a crisis on the way - Troploin 2007 article on the state of global capitalism and the possibility of rupture.