Revolutionary Reading List |
| This list provides an series of introductory documents that are
available online and give the reader an in to Marxist politics.
People looking for more depth should browse the
topic listings,
or take a look at the
other archives listed. |
| Comments and Suggestions to Marc |
|
The Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx & Frederick Engels
|
*The* classic introduction to Marxism by its founders. The Manifesto
of the Communist Party was written just before the revolutions of 1848, as the public
expression of the ideas of the German Communist League, of which they were leading members.
|
The Two Souls of Socialism
Hal Draper
|
This discusses revolutionary Marxism in contrast to other schools of left
wing thought (including Stalinism, reformism and anarchism), explaining the common thread
of elitist ideas that run through every school that doesn't place the revolutionary
self-emancipation of the working class at its centre.
|
How Marxism Works
Chris Harman
|
This pamphlet has been widely used for many years as a basic pamphlet for
elementary discussion groups on our ideas. Available for the first time online...
|
What is the Real Marxist Tradition?
John Molyneux
|
In this pamphlet Molyneux discusses the differences between Stalinism,
reformism and classical Marxism, making a compelling case for the latter.
|
The State and Revolution
V.I. Lenin
|
Lenin's crucial exegesis of the Marxist theory of the state, including the
class nature of the state and the role of the bourgeois and workers' states in revolution.
|
Fighting for Women's Liberation
Sandra Bloodworth
|
An excellent contemporary introduction to women's liberation.
|
The Poverty of Patriarchy Theory
Sandra Bloodworth
|
This article was originally published in the
Socialist Review and
is immensely useful. It contrasts feminist and Marxist accounts of women's
oppression and their different strategies in the struggle for women's liberation.
It has a considerable amount of material on the background to the family
and women's oppression in the Australian context.
|
Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
V.I. Lenin
|
Lenin's Imperialism is a powerful statement of opposition to the
system of imperialism, penned at the height of the First World War.
|
10 Days That Shook The World
John Reed
|
John Reed was an American journalist and socialist who was in Russia from
mid-1917, and wrote this novel based on his experiences. My copy reads "the epic novel that
Lenin read three times!".
|
Russia: The Making of the Revolution
Steve Wright
|
This pamphlet is a useful introduction to the Russian Revolution, outlining the chronology,
the context, and the political organisations that were involved.
|
Russia: How the revolution was lost
Chris Harman
|
This pamphlet is an introduction to the degeneration of the revolution and
the Stalinist counter-revolution.
|
Lenin and Democratic Centralism: Debunking the Myths
Sandra Bloodworth, Marc Newman & Mick Armstrong
|
This pamphlet looks the development of Lenin's ideas on the party, their
supposed practice on the left, and tries to extract the real core of Lenin's ideas on the
revolution organisation from under a pile of distortions.
|
