Fascism and the American scene - Dwight Macdonald Fascism and the American Scene was written as the introduction to the American edition of Daniel Guerin’s Fascism and Big …
The origin of the family, private property and the state - Frederick Engels Engels' 1884 book focusing on early human history, following the disintegration of the primitive community and the emergence of a class society based on private property. Engels looks into the origin and essence of the state, and concludes it is bound to wither away leaving a classless society.
Black Marxism: the making of the black radical tradition - Cedric J. Robinson In this ambitious work, first published in 1983, Cedric Robinson demonstrates that efforts to…
Democracy mystified: a critical review of the book, Against Democracy by Miriam Qarmat (ICG) - Roi Ferreiro Roi Ferreiro reviews Against Democracy, and subjects its attack on “democracy as a …
State and Capital Excerpts about the relationship between the state and capitalism from Michael Heinrich’s recent book, An Introduction to the Three Volumes of Karl Marx’s Capital.
The class struggles in France, 1848-1850 - Karl Marx Marx's first full application of historical materialism to an ongoing event.
The factors of race and nation in Marxist theory - Amadeo Bordiga A book-length essay illustrating the principles of historical materialism with respect to the role…
The guignol in history - Amadeo Bordiga In this 1953 article from the “Thread of Time” series, Amadeo Bordiga addresses the role of the great man or “man of destiny” in history, whose…
Marxian Economics curriculum from 1935 IWW Work People's College The 'Marxian Economics' course of the IWW's Work People's College in 1935 Duluth, Minnesota.
Lessons of the counterrevolutions - Amadeo Bordiga A 1953 text in which Amadeo Bordiga examines the lessons of counterrevolutions from the defeat of Spartacus to the Battle of Legnano in 1176 and…
Anarchism in the Chinese revolution - Arif Dirlik The best book on early 20th century Chinese anarchist history, with broad theoretical considerations about China's revolutionary encounter with…
The historical "invariance" of Marxism - Amadeo Bordiga In these 26 theses presented at the Milan Meeting of the International Communist Party in 1952,…