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In which Lenin outlines the concept of the vanguard revolutionary party run according to the
principles of democratic centralism.
http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1901/what-itd/index.htm
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The State and Revolution
The Marxist theory of the state and the tasks of the proletariat in the revolution by Lenin.
http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/sep/staterev/index.htm
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Manifesto of the Communist Party
Online text from Literature Project.
http://www.literatureproject.com/comm-manifesto/index.htm
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The Communist Manifesto
The text that serves as the beginning of the communist movement
http://www.anu.edu.au/polsci/marx/classics/manifesto.html
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Communism Simplified
The principles of practical and ideal Communism.
http://www.geocities.com/inyukun/communism.html
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Capitalism and Socialism
Freya Hastings argues that Adam Smith was critical of laissez faire capitalism and saw communism as
a viable system.
http://www.geocities.com/kew1788/CapitalismSocialism.htm
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Why Did a Socialist Revolution not Occur in the United States?
An examination of why American society, especially in the late nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries, was remarkably free of socialist influence. Written by Dov Ben-Shimon.
http://www.geocities.com/dbslkk
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The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius
Online version of George Orwell's 1941 work. The non-fiction work is in three parts, England Your
England, Shopkeepers at War, and The English Revolution.
http://orwell.ru/library/essays/lion/
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CapitAllism
Calls for a cap on personal incomes as a solution to inequity.
http://www.capitallism.org
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Economic Socialism
A text by Henry Sidgwick which examines socialist economics, originally published in 1886 in The
Contemporary Review.
http://phare.univ-paris1.fr/textes/Sidgwick/Social.html
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Marxist.net
Marxist discussion and analytical resource material to guide the building of the revolutionary
party and the socialist revolution. From the Committee for a Workers' International (CWI)
http://www.marxist.net
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Marxists Internet Archive
The most complete database of Marxism hitherto made. The archive is divided into three major
sections: Marxist writers, Marxist history, and reference materials. Marxist writers has
information on Marxists from Karl Marx and Frederick Engels to Che Guevara to Vladimir Lenin to
Rosa Luxemburg.
http://www.marxists.org
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"Why Socialism?" by Albert Einstein
An indictment of capitalism by Time magazine's Man of the Century.
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/26/001.html
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What is Dhammic Socialism?
Socialism examined from a Buddhist perspective.
http://www.suanmokkh.org/ds/what_ds1.htm
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Socialist Perspective
This site promotes socialism by critiquing capitalism, rather than by describing socialism. All
material on this site can be freely distributed on a non-profit basis.
http://www.geocities.com/stewjackmail/
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Transhumanist Socialism
A type of socialism which holds that future transhumanist technologies such as nanotechnology will
make it much more feasible to bring about a truly socialist world.
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/ug/greenrd/trans-soc.htm
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Socialism Web
An explanation and defence of socialism from an independent socialist.
http://home.vicnet.net.au/~dmcm
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Socialism: Theory and Practice
Information about the different schools of socialist thought and socialist history. Includes
quotes, pictures, resources library, links.
http://www.the-wood.org/socialism/
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Prout World
Site concerning the Progressive Utilization Theory, "Prout" a "neo-humanist"
system addressing the socio-economics of liberation. This seems to be a utopian socialist theory
based on eastern religious principles.
http://www.proutworld.org/
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Guild Socialism Reconsidered
An essay by Roger McCain examining the guild socialism of the pre-industrial era.
http://william-king.www.drexel.edu/top/personal/wkpaps/gildf/gildpref.html
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Global Capitalist Turmoil And The Future For Socialism
May Day statement by the Committee for a Workers' International. Analyses the crisis of capitalism
at the dawn of the new millinium, and the need for a socialist alternative.
http://www.worldsocialist-cwi.org/eng/2000/md2000.html
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Autarchic Socialism
An analysis of socialism and communism which contrasts the failed experiments in the USSR and its
satellites with true socialism.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Crete/4384/
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archive: the left side of the brain is bigger
A constantly growing collection of writings by left-wing thinkers: Sartre, Einstein, Orwell,
Gandhi, Naomi Klein, Pinter, Picasso, Marx, Gore Vidal, Oscar Wilde, GB Shaw, Beauvoir, Martin
Luther King, Alice Walker and others.
http://archive.8m.net/
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Working Class Movement Library
A collection of materials concerned with the activities, expression and enquiries of the labor
movement, its allies and its enemies, since the late eighteenth century.
http://www.wcml.org.uk/
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Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution
Treatise from the Independent Group of Communists in Holland, 1930.
http://reality.gn.apc.org/econ/gik1.htm
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Against the Theory of State Capitalism
A refutation of Tony Cliff's theory written in 1949 by Ted Grant. Cliff went on to found the
International Socialist Tendency and what is now the Socialist Workers Party in Britain.
http://www.geocities.com/syeire/pubpages/statecap.htm
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British Labour Party Election Manifesto, 1945
"Let Us Face the Future: A Declaration of Labour Policy for the Consideration of the
Nation." Full text of the manifesto on which Labour was elected in 1945, under which they
instituted the welfare state in Britain.
http://www.labour-party.org.uk/manifestos/1945/1945-labour-manifesto.shtml
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Chen Duxiu and the Trotskyists
Zheng Chaolin's memoirs written in 1945 documenting the story of Chen Duxiu, founder of the Chinese
Communist Party, leader of the May 4th Movement and supporter of Leon Trotsky.
http://www.marxists.org/history/etol/document/zheng.htm
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The National Question and the Class Struggle
Thesis by Ber Borochov (1881-1917) arguing that national liberation is a necessary component of the
class struggle. Distinguishes between progressive and reactionary nationalism.
http://www.angelfire.com/il2/borochov/class.html
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The Tragedy of the Chinese Revolution
By Harold Isaacs with an introduction by Leon Trotsky.
http://www.zhongguo.org/Isaacs/default.htm
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International Socialist Group - Discussion Document
A 1994 document from the shortlived ISG which was formed by individuals expelled from the (British)
Socialist Workers Party. Document crtiques the SWP's internal regime and its politics.
http://www.etext.org/Politics/International.Socialists-UK/isg.txt
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The SWP vs. Lenin: Bureaucratic Centralism or Democratic Centralism?
Document produced by a dissident group expelled from Socialist Workers Party in Britain in 1994
criticizing the SWP's internal regime. The SWP leads the International Socialist tendency and is
best known for publishing the newspaper Socialist Worker.
http://www.etext.org/Politics/International.Socialists-UK/swp.txt
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The Manifesto of the Communist Party
By Marx and Engels, the document that changed the world. Site includes introductions to all major
releases in the nineteenth century.
http://csf.colorado.edu/psn/marx/Archive/1848-CM/
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Regina Manifesto
1933 founding document of Canada's Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (now the NDP).
http://www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/ECON/needhdata/Regina_Manifesto.html
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The Genesis of Trotskyism
Written in 1933, this pamphlet by Max Schachtman explains the development of Trotskyism and the
International Left Opposition from the point of view of a leader of the American movement.
http://www.marxists.org/archive/shachtma/works/shacht01.htm
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The Fight For Socialism
Programme of the Workers' Party (1946). The WP was a "Third Camp" split from the
Socialist Workers Party. It was led by Max Shachtman.
http://www.marxists.org/archive/shachtma/works/ffsind.htm
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Towards a New Socialism
Polemic against market socialism by W. Paul Cockshott and Allin Cottrell.
http://www.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/socialism_book/
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Global Document Index
A series of documents from various Trotskyist groups and tendencies.
http://www.marxists.org/history/etol/document/index.htm
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Abram Leon: The Jewish Question - A Marxist Interpretation (1946)
An influential work by the Belgian-Jewish Trotskyist published in 1946.
http://www.marxists.de/religion/leon/index.htm
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The Port Huron Statement
Written in 1962 and adopted by Students for a Democratic Society, the Port Huron Statement is
considered to be a seminal document of the New Left.
http://coursesa.matrix.msu.edu/~hst306/documents/huron.html
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The Gotha Program (1871)
Excerpts from the founding manifesto of the German Social Democratic Party
http://history.hanover.edu/texts/gotha.html
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The Transitional Program for Socialist Revolution
Formal title is "the Death Agony of Capitalism and the Tasks of the Fourth
International," written by Leon Trotsky this was the founding programme for the Fourth
International and remains a guiding document for Trotskyists.
http://marxists.org/archive/trotsky/works/1938-tp/index.htm
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Evolutionary Socialism
Excerpts from Eduard Bernstein's revisions of Marxism which established modern social democracy.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/bernstein-revsoc.html
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The Communist Manifesto
The basic tract of the Marxist movement, written by Marx and Engels in 1848.
http://www.flash.net/~detcpusa/manifesto.html
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Erfurt Program, 1891
Radical program adopted by the German Social Democratic Party in 1891 which signified the party's
adoption of Marxism.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1891erfurt.html
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