Where to Begin?
By: Vladimir Lenin
4.53
Format: 8 pages, Unknown Binding
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1. Reform or Revolution
By: Rosa Luxemburg , Κώστας Βρετός
4.20
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Why capitalism cannot overcome its internal contradictions and the working class cannot "reform" aw… read more
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"If the proletariat came to power, it could draw from Bernstein's theory the following 'practical' conclusion: to go to sleep."-Rosa Luxemburg, Reform or Revolution
"What distinguishes bourgeoisie society from other class societies…? Precisely the fact that class domination does not rest on “acquired rights"-Rosa Luxemburg, Reform or Revolution
"Fourier's scheme of changing, by means of phalansteries, the water of all the seas into tasty lemonade was surely a phantastic idea. But Bernstein, proposing to change the sea of capitalist bitternes…"-Rosa Luxemburg, Reform or Revolution
"Social Democracy, does not, however, expect to attain its aim either as a result of the victorious violence of a minority or through the numerical superiority of a majority. It sees socialism come as…"-Rosa Luxemburg, Reform or Revolution
2. The Principles of Communism
By: Friedrich Engels
4.06
Format: 25 pages, ebook
In 1847 Engels wrote two draft programmes for the Communist League in the form of a catechism, one … read more
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3. Dialectical and Historical Materialism
By: Joseph Stalin
3.91
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
A succinct presentation of the philosophical foundations of Marxism. read more
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"If there are no isolated phenomena in the world, if all phenomena are interconnected and interdependent, then it is clear that every social system and every social movement in history must be evaluat…"-Joseph Stalin, Dialectical and Historical Materialism
"But having developed productive forces to a tremendous extent, capitalism has become enmeshed in contradictions which it is unable to solve. By producing larger and larger quantities of commodities, …"-Joseph Stalin, Dialectical and Historical Materialism
4. Marxism and the National and Colonial Question
By: Joseph Stalin
3.75
Format: 316 pages, Paperback
Originally published 1934, a collection of articles and speeches on the nationalities question in t… read more
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6. Das Kapital
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth centu… read more
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7. Why Socialism?
By: Albert Einstein
4.09
Format: 12 pages, None
“Is it advisable for one who is not an expert on economic and social issues to express views on the… read more
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"Production is carried on for profit, not for use. There is no provision that all those able and willing to work will always be in a position to find employment; an “army of unemployed"-Albert Einstein, Why Socialism?
"I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward socia…"-Albert Einstein, Why Socialism?
"This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is …"-Albert Einstein, Why Socialism?
"The owner of the means of production is in a position to purchase the labor power of the worker. By using the means of production, the worker produces new goods which become the property of the capit…"-Albert Einstein, Why Socialism?
8. Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
By: Michael Parenti
4.41
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
Blackshirts & Reds explores some of the big issues of our time: fascism, capitalism, communism, rev… read more
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"Ecology's implications for capitalism are too horrendous for the capitalist to contemplate."-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
"Decentralized parochial autonomy is the graveyard of insurgency-which may be one reason why there has never been a successful anarcho-syndicalist revolution."-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
"A joke circulating in Russia in 1992 went like this: Q. What did capitalism accomplish in one year that communism could not do in seventy years? A. Make communism look good."-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
"...the [pure socialist] critics [of communist countries] seem unable to apply their own leadership genius to producing a successful revolutionary movement in their own country."-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
9. The Revolution Betrayed
By: Leon Trotsky , Max Eastman
3.86
Format: 262 pages, Paperback
One of Marxism's most important texts, The Revolution Betrayedexplores the fate of the Russian Revo… read more
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10. The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
By: Friedrich Engels , None
3.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
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11. The Transitional Program for Socialist Revolution
By: Leon Trotsky , Joseph Hansen
4.09
Format: None pages, Paperback
Contains discussions between leaders of the U.S Socialist Workers Party and exiled revolutionary Le… read more
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12. Lenin
By: Lars T. Lih
4.08
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
After Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924) is the man most associated with communism and its influ… read more
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13. The Communist Manifesto
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Gareth Stedman Jones
3.66
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A rousing call to arms whose influence is still felt today Originally published on the eve of th… read more
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"The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"Study of the past often turns into love of the past and a desire to keep it."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps"-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
14. Phenomenology of Spirit
By: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , A.V. Miller , John Niemeyer Findlay
3.96
Format: 640 pages, Paperback
Perhaps one of the most revolutionary works of philosophy ever presented, The Phenomenology of Spir… read more
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"The vanity of the contents"-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit
"The outcome is the same as the beginning only because the beginning is an end."-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit
"Everything turns on grasping and expressing the True, not only as Substance, but equally as Subject."-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit
"por lo poco que el espíritu necesita para contentarse, puede medirse la extensión de lo que ha perdido."-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit
15. Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
By: Friedrich Engels
4.24
Format: 86 pages, Paperback
Modern socialism is not a doctrine, Engels explains, but a working-class movement growing out of th… read more
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"State interference in social relations becomes, in one domain after another, superfluous, and then dies out of itself; the government of persons is replaced by the administration of things, and by th…"-Friedrich Engels, Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
"Las fuerzas activas de la sociedad obran, mientras no las conocemos y contamos con ellas, exactamente lo mismo que las fuerzas de la naturaleza: de un modo ciego, violento, destructor. Pero, una vez …"-Friedrich Engels, Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
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17. Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
By: Cornel West , Angela Y. Davis , Frank Barat
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Ange… read more
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18. The Condition of the Working Class in England
By: Friedrich Engels
4.17
Format: 267 pages, Paperback
The Condition of the Working Class is the best-known work of Engels, and in many ways still the bes… read more
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20. Philosophical Trends in the Feminist Movement
By: Anuradha Ghandy
4.41
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Ghandy's vital text that outlines the history of the world's feminist movements and critiques them … read more
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22. Anarchism or Socialism?
By: Joseph Stalin
3.72
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
This is the first English language edition of one of Stalin's earliest theoretical writings, first … read more
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"As you see, the point is not which class today constitutes the majority, or which class is poorer, but which class is gaining strength and which is decaying."-Joseph Stalin, Anarchism or Socialism?
"History teaches us that the class or social group which plays the principal role in social production and performs the main functions in production must, in the course of time, inevitably take contro…"-Joseph Stalin, Anarchism or Socialism?
"Socialist society presupposes an adequate development of productive forces and socialist consciousness among men, their socialist enlightenment. At the present time the development of the productive …"-Joseph Stalin, Anarchism or Socialism?
"Strikes, boycott, parliamentarism, meetings and demonstrations are all good forms of struggle as means for preparing and organising the proletariat. But not one of these means is capable of abolishin…"-Joseph Stalin, Anarchism or Socialism?
23. Eleven Theses on Feuerbach
By: Karl Marx
4.05
Format: 2 pages, Audiobook
The Eleven Theses on Feuerbach are brief metaphysical summaries penned by Karl Marx as a principal … read more
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"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it"-Karl Marx, Eleven Theses on Feuerbach
"Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it"-Karl Marx, Eleven Theses on Feuerbach
"Philosophers have hitherto interpreted the world in various way; the point, however, is to change it"-Karl Marx, Eleven Theses on Feuerbach
"Philosophers have hitherto interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it"-Karl Marx, Eleven Theses on Feuerbach
24. The Housing Question
By: Friedrich Engels
4.13
Format: 102 pages, Paperback
Die nachfolgende Schrift ist der Wiederabdruck dreier Artikel, die ich 1872 in den Leipziger "Volks… read more
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"For our workers in the big cities, freedom of movement is the prime condition of existence, and landownership can only be a fetter to them. Give them their own houses, chain them once again to the so…"-Friedrich Engels, The Housing Question
"It is perfectly clear that the existing state is neither able nor willing to do anything to remedy the housing difficulty. The state is nothing but the organized collective power of the possessing cl…"-Friedrich Engels, The Housing Question
25. On the History of Early Christianity
By: Friedrich Engels
3.60
Format: 66 pages, Paperback
The history of early Christianity has notable points of resemblance with the modern working-class m… read more
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26. The Social Basis of the Woman Question
By: Alexandra Kollontai
4.42
Format: 56 pages, Kindle Edition
Alexandra Kollontai (1872-1952) was one of the most prolific writers on Communism, Socialism and Fe… read more
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27. What Is Marxism?
By: Alan Woods
4.18
Format: 175 pages, Paperback
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"Trotsky once wrote: "How many Aristoteles are herding swine? And how many swineherds are sitting on thrones?" Class society impoverishes people, not just materially but psychologically. The lives of …"-Alan Woods, What Is Marxism?
"Just as Charles Darwin explains that species are not immutable, and that they possess a past, a present and a future, changing and evolving, so Marx and Engels explain that a given social system is n…"-Alan Woods, What Is Marxism?
28. Where to Begin?
By: Vladimir Lenin
4.53
Format: 8 pages, Unknown Binding
In recent years the question of “what is to be done” has confronted Russian Social-Democrats with p… read more
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29. The October Revolution and the Tactics of the Russian Communists
By: Joseph Stalin
4.12
Format: 66 pages, Paperback
WORKERS OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE! PREFACE TO THE BOOK On the Road to October Publisher's Note… read more
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30. El capital I
By: Karl Marx
4.30
Format: 841 pages, Kindle Edition
Este libro ha sido convertido a formato digital por una comunidad de voluntarios. Puedes encontrarl… read more
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31. A Single Spark Can Start a Prairie Fire
By: Mao Zedong
4.45
Format: None pages, None
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