Libertarian communism: an introduction A short introduction to what we at libcom.org refer to as communism or libertarian communism, what it is and why we think it is a good idea.
Fields, factories and workshops - Peter Kropotkin Fields, factories and workshops: or industry combined with agriculture and brain work with manual work is Peter Kropotkin's landmark anarchist…
The Mars trilogy - Kim Stanley Robinson The Mars trilogy is a series of award-winning science fiction novels by Kim Stanley Robinson that chronicles the settlement and terraforming of…
Voyage from yesteryear - James P. Hogan Praised as an "attractive and ... plausible depiction of a communist anarchy" by Ken Macleod, Voyage from Yesteryear is a 1982 science fiction…
The socialist programme - Socialism Reaffirmed Second text by Socialism Reaffirmed, later renamed Solidarity, laying out a libertarian socialist programme. Breaking with the politics of social democracy and Trotskyism, it tries to set forth the tasks of the socialist revolution and aims at eliminating the road which the working class can take to emancipate itself. Published around 1960.
Libertarian socialism: a practical outline - Gaston Leval In this pamphlet first published in Switzerland in 1959, Gaston Leval depicts a transitional society…
Ditching class: the praxis of anarchist communist economics A chapter on the economic of libertarian communism that argues that distribution is one of the key…
A world without money: communism - Les Amis de 4 Millions de Jeunes Travailleurs Un Monde Sans Argent: Le Communisme was originally published in three parts, as three separate…
Some thoughts on the post-revolutionary property system In one of Malatesta's most important articles he lays out the debate on the forms of the 'post-revolutionary property system', discussing the various anarchist approaches to the questions of ownership, use of the means of production, exchange, and distribution.
A worker's critique of parecon Criticism of the idea of participatory economics, or parecon, from the perspective of a worker. Despite its theoreticians' grand plans, we resist…
Omnigamy in Fourier's utopia - Christopher Prendergast Fourier's fantastic and minutely detailed descriptions of his utopian society, a world re-ordered to…
How hunter-gatherers maintained their egalitarian ways - Peter Gray Dr Peter Gray outlines his theories attempting to explain why and how hunter-gatherer societies were…
