- The Accumulation of Capital
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1913
Rosa Luxemburg's analysis of the inherent contradictions of capitalist accumulation.
- Adventures in Marxism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1999
Marshall Berman explores and rejoices in the emancipatory potential of Marxism.
- All That Is Solid Melts Into Air
The Experience of Modernity
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1988
Berman examines the clash of classes, histories, and clutures in the modern world, and ponders our prospects for coming to terms with the relationship between a liberating social and philosophical idealism and a complex, bureaucratic materialism.
- Billionaires, Crime, and Corruption
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2001
What does it really mean when somebody claims to own hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars? What is a billionaire like David Rockefeller really telling us? He's saying that land he may never have set foot on, but which thousands of other people spend their lives farming, belongs to him alone. He's saying that buildings and machinery which he probably has never seen and certainly has never worked at, but which whole communities of people spend their lives working at to produce goods like clothing and automobiles, belong to him alone.
- Capitalism, The Family, and Personal Life
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
- The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, Volume I
Economic Writings 1
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2013
This first volume in Rosa Luxemburg's Complete Works, entitled Economic Writings 1, contains some of Luxemburg's most important statements on the globalization of capital, wage labour, imperialism, and pre-capitalist economic formations.
- The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, Volume II
Economic Writings 2
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2015
This volume contains a new English translation of Luxemburg’s most important book, The Accumulation of Capital (1913) as well as her response to its critics. Taken together, they constitute one of the most important Marxist studies of the globalization of capital.
- A Dictionary of Marxist Thought
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1983
- Forty years after the portuguese Carnation Revolution
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
On the eve of April 25, 1974, Portuguese society was smouldering from contradictions accumulated in half a century of dictatorship. At the heart of these contradictions was a war that lasted thirteen years, to hold on to the African colonies of Angola, Mozambique, Guinea, Cape Verde and Sao Tome and Principe. This conflict conditioned the whole of national life, because of the social suffering caused by the mobilization of two hundred thousand men, a tenth of the working population (a human cost equivalent to twice that of Vietnam), because of the wave of migration driven by hunger and the war, and because of the impossibility of a military solution, the only one contemplated by the regime.
- Globalization and the Decline of Social Reform
Into the Twenty-First Century
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1995
- The Great Class War
1914-1918
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2016
In this critical, revisionist account, historian Jacques Pauwels shows how the First World War was rooted in class strife that begin with the French Revolution in 1789 and continued long past the war itself. As Pauwels sees it, war seemed to offer major benefits to the European upper classes of the early twentieth century, who felt threatened by the seemingly irresistible process of democratization or, as they saw it, the "rise of the masses." War was expected to serve as an antidote to social revolution, causing workers to abandon socialism's focus on overthrowing the established order via internaitonal worker solidarity in favour of nationalism and militarism.
- The History of Democracy
A Marxist Interpretation
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2013
Roper traces the history of democracy from ancient Athens to the emergence of liberal representative and socialist participatory democracy. He argues that democracy cannot be understood separately from the social and economic contexts in which democratic states operate.
- How Does the Subaltern Speak?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Vivek Chibber argues that postcolonial theory discounts the enduring value of Enlightenment universalism at its own peril. Focusing particularly on the strain of postcolonial theory known as subaltern studies, Chibber makes a strong case for why we can -- and must -- conceptualize the non-Western world through the same analytical lens that we use to understand developments in the West. He offers a sustained defense of theoretical approaches that emphasize universal categories like capitalism and class. His work constitutes an argument for the continued relevance of Marxism in the face of some of its most trenchant critics.
- Imperialism, Nationalism, and Canada.
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1977
Interpretations of Canada's status in the system of world imperialism and the internal dynamics of class, race, and region within the Canadian national state.
- Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
Volume I: State and Bureaucracy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1977
A wide-ranging and thorough exposition of Marx's views on democracy.
- A Marxist History of the World part 49: The French Revolution - Themidor, Directory and Napoleon
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
In his third chapter on the French Revolution, Neil Faulkner discusses the contradictions of bourgeois revolution - but celebrates the gains it won.
- A Marxist History of the World part 78: The First Chinese Revolution
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
In 1927, the Chinese nationalists smashed the country's first working-class revolutionary movement – a defeat that would shape the whole subsequent history of China.Counterfire
- Marx's Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2013
In contrast to the traditional view that Marx's work is restricted to a critique of capitalism – and that he consciously avoided any detailed conception of its alternative – this work shows that Marx was committed to a specific concept of a post-capitalist society which informed the whole of his approach to political economy.
- The New Parameters of the Quebec Bourgeoisise
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1980
Published in Studies in Political Economy 3 (1980)
- The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1997
- Our Path: Against Putschism
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1921
If a Communist Party is to be built up again in Germany, then the dead of central Germany, Hamburg, the Rhineland, Baden, Silesia and Berlin, not to mention the many thousands of prisoners who have fallen victim to this Bakuninist lunacy, all demand in the face of the events of the last week: “Never again!”
- A People's History of the World
From the Stone Age to the New Millennium
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1999
Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals.
- Pleasure Wars
The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud, Vol. V
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1998
A study of how the bourgeoisie responded to the new in art, music and literature.
- Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2013
Against the thesis that Western subalterns are made of different stuff, Chibber argues that human beings are, at their core, not that different across contexts. The winds of history and culture may change many things, but not human constitutions. His defense of this argument sets the stage for a deliberate, careful explication of the key tenets of historical materialism. This argument is that humans, everywhere, take an interest in defending their well-being and their dignity.
- Review of Vivek Chibber's Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
A book review of Vivek Chibber's Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital. Vivek Chibber challenges the post-Marxist framework of the Subaltern Studies group.
- Rosa Luxemburg
Abridged Edition
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1969
A biography of Luxemburg by a British academic.
- Rosa Luxemburg
Selected Political Writings
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
A selection of Rosa Luxemburg's writings which highlight her outstanding contributions to the theory and practice of revolutionary socialism.
- The Rosa Luxemburg Reader
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2004
A definitive one-volume collection of Luxemburg's writings.
- Selections from the Prison Notebooks
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
Gramsci's Notebooks cover a wide range of subjects including history, culture, politics, and philosophy.
- The Socialist Register 1968
Volume 5: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1968
- The Socialist Register 1970
Volume 7: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1970
- The Socialist Register 1975
Volume 12: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1975
- The Socialist Register 1976
Volume 13: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1976
- The Socialist Register 1977
Volume 14: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1977
- The Socialist Register 1981
Volume 18: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1981
- The Socialist Register 1989
Volume 25: Revolution Today. Aspirations and Realities
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1989
- Socialist Register 1991
Volume 27: Communist Regimes the Aftermath
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1991
- Society of the Spectacle
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2005
An analysis of modern society and how it can be changed, written in the form of 221 theses. The first thesis reads: "In societies dominated by modern conditions of production, life is presented as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has receded into a representation." Translator Ken Knabb describes the book as "an effort to clarify the nature of the society in which we find ourselves and the advantages and drawbacks of various methods for changing it. Every single thesis has a direct or indirect bearing on issues that are matters of life and death."
- Strike!
The True History of Mass Insurgence from 1877 to the Present
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1997
A history-from-below that brings to light strikes as authentic revolutionary movements against the establishments of state, capital, and trade unionism.
- Top 1 percent own more than half of world's wealth
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
A new report issued by the Swiss bank Credit Suisse finds that global wealth inequality continues to worsen and has reached a new milestone, with the top 1 percent owning more of the world’s assets than the bottom 99 percent combined. Of the estimated $250 trillion in global assets, the top 1 percent owned almost exactly 50 percent, while the bottom 50 percent of humanity owned collectively less than 1 percent. The richest 10 percent owned 87.7 percent of the world's wealth, leaving 12.3 percent for the bottom 90 percent of the population.
- The Trouble With Billionaires
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2010
The glittering lives of billionaires may seem to be a harmless source of entertainment, but authors Linda McQuaig and Neil Brooks argue that such financial power not only threatens everyone's economic and social well-being but also upsets the very functioning of democracy. Our society tends to regard great wealth as evidence of exceptional talent or accomplishment. Yet spectacular fortunes are often attributable to luck, ruthlessness, cheating, or advantageous positioning that allow some to build on the work and insights of others who have paved the way.
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