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— G. Dauvé, The "Renegade" Kautsky and his Disciple Lenin
TitleDate Epub Kindle PDF
Against Sleep and Nightmare
The Spectator of Democracy
Definitions and Resources
American Fraction of the Left Communist International
An Open Letter to the Comrades of the Revolutionary Workers League
Situation of the American Workers
Capitalist Democracy: A Contrast Between the Position of Lenin and That of Trotsky
The U.S. Elections - 1948
Aspects of the Russian Question
Trotskyism and the Labor Party
What We Stand For
Korea, the Scientific Slaughterhouse
The Dilemma Is Not War or Peace But War or Revolution
Anonymous
Give Up Activism
Antagonism
Class Analysis, for Anti-Capitalist Struggle
Bordiga versus Pannekoek
Antagonism and Practical History
Beasts of Burden: Capitalism, Animals, Communism
Berkman, Alexander
In Reply to Kropotkin
War Dictionary
Now and After: The ABC of Communist Anarchism
Black, Bob
Wooden Shoes or Platform Shoes: Class Struggle Social Democrats: Or, The Press of Business
Bordiga, Amadeo
The Balkan War
Seize Power or Seize the Factory?
Theses of the Abstentionist Communist Faction of the Italian Socialist Party
Party and Class
The Democratic Principle
Force, Violence and Dictatorship in the Class Struggle
Doctrine of the Body Possessed by the Devil
Proletarian Dictatorship and Class Party
Activism
The Fundamentals of Revolutionary Communism
The Revolutionary Program of Communist Society Eliminates All Forms of Ownership of Land, the Instruments of Production and the Products of Labor
Buick, Adam
Bordigism
Bukharin, Nikolai
Anarchy and Scientific Communism
Cafiero, Carlo
Anarchy and Communism
Camatte, Jacques
The Democratic Mystification
Bordiga and the Passion for Communism
Communist Effort
Platform
Communist League of Tampa
To Hell with Democracy?
Weekend at Bernie's
Damen, Onorato
The Russia We Love and Defend
Dauvé, Gilles
Capitalism and Communism
Notes on Trotsky, Pannekoek, Bordiga
The "Renegade" Kautsky and his Disciple Lenin
Critique of the Situationist International
Fascism and Anti-Fascism
When Insurrections Die
Debord, Guy
A User's Guide to Détournement
Endnotes
Communisation and Value-Form Theory
Engels, Friedrich
Outlines of a Critique of Political Economy
The German Ideology, Part I
The Communist Manifesto
Address of the Central Committee to the Communist League
Synopsis of Capital
On Authority
Gauche Communiste de France
The Russian Experience
Theses on the Nature of the State and the Proletarian Revolution
The Task of the Hour: Formation of the Party or Formation of Cadres
Nature and Function of the Proletarian Party
Present Problems of the Workers' Movement: Against the Concept of the "Brilliant Leader"
Present Problems of the Workers' Movement: "Discipline, the Principle Strength"
The Function of Trotskyism
Welcome to Socialisme ou Barbarie
The Evolution of Capitalism and the New Perspective
Goldner, Loren
Communism is the Material Human Community: Amadeo Bordiga Today
Didn't See the Same Movie: Review of Max Elbaum, Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao, and Che
Gorter, Herman
The World Revolution
Historical Materialism
Open Letter to Comrade Lenin
The Organisation of the Proletariat's Class Struggle
The Communist Workers' International
The World Revolution
International Communist Current
Bourgeois Organization: The Lie of the 'Democratic' State
The Perspective of Communism
The 1950s and 60s: Damen, Bordiga, and the Passion for Communism
International Communist Party
The Exploits of University Marxism
Why Russia Isn't Socialist
The Party Does not Arise from "Circles"
Capitalist Development and the American Civil War: the Civil War as the key moment in the subjugation of the black and white proletariat to the requirements of a rapacious bourgeoisie
Internationalist Communist Group
Trotskyism: Product and Agent of Counterrevolution
Communism against Democracy: Theses
Communism against Democracy
Theses of Programmatical Orientation
Against the Myth of Democratic Rights and Liberties
Internationalist Communist Tendency
Trotsky and Trotskyism
The Italian Communist Left - A Brief Internationalist History
Internationalist Perspective
Islamic Fundamentalism: Religious Fanaticism to Reinforce the State
The Economy in the Russian Revolution
Why Wealth Redistribution Cannot Solve Capitalism's Crisis
This is What Democracy Looks Like
Kämpa Tillsammans
Hamburgers vs Value
Kantorovitch, Haim
On Reading Trotsky's Book "The Third International After Lenin"
Kropotkin, Peter
The Conquest of Bread
La Guerre Sociale
The Question of the State
Toward the Human Community
Le Frondeur
Democracy
Les Amis de 4 Millions de Jeunes Travailleurs
A World without Money: Communism
Democracy
Excerpt from A World Without Money: Communism
L'Insecurite Sociale
Communism: Points for Consideration
The Communist Tendency in History
Luxemburg, Rosa
Introduction to Political Economy
Lyon, Bernard
We are not "anti"
Marx, Karl
The German Ideology, Part I
Wage Labour and Capital
The Communist Manifesto
Address of the Central Committee to the Communist League
Preface to "A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy"
Letter "On Proudhon"
Value, Price and Profit
New York World interview with Karl Marx
Mattick, Paul
What will I Do When America Goes to War?
Karl Kautsky: From Marx to Hitler
Monsieur Dupont
Democracy
Moss, Sam
The Impotence of the Revolutionary Group
Mouvement Communiste
Anti-Globalization: the Socialism of Imbeciles
Critical Review of "The ABC of Communism" 90 Years Later: The Bankruptcy of the Analysis of Capitalism Made by the Communist International
Négation
LIP and the Self-Managed Counter-Revolution
Nicolaievsky, Boris
Karl Marx: Man and Fighter
Pannekoek, Anton
Socialism and Religion
The Destruction of Nature
Roosevelt
The Great European War and Socialism
German Socialism in the War
New Tactics Against War Basis of New International
The New Blanquism
World Revolution and Communist Tactics
Social Democracy and Communism
Communism and Religion
On the Communist Party
Workers' Councils
People's Democracy
Perlman, Fredy
Commodity Fetishism
The Reproduction of Daily Life
Philoren
Money Must Go!
Poor, the Bad and the Angry
A Contribution to the Politics of the Future -- The Basic Perspectives of the Poor, the Bad and the Angry
Notes on Democracy
Our Antipolitics
Reinvention of Everyday Life
A Modest Proposal for How the Bad Old Days Will End
Robin Goodfellow
Marx-Engels and Democracy (Part One)
Marxism in a Nutshell: From the Criticism of Capitalism to a Classless Society
Rosenberg, Arthur
A History of Bolshevism: From Marx to the First Five-Year Plan
Rubin, Isaak Illich
Abstract Labour and Value in Marx's System
Rühle, Otto
Speech in the Reichstag
Moscow and Ourselves
Karl Marx: His Life and Work
Rutgers, S.J.
The Left Wing
Sauvage, Eden
Marx's Dialectical Method
The Poverty of Left-Wing Activism
Smith, Cyril
Marx versus Historical Materialism
Hegel, Marx and the Enlightenment
Socialist Propaganda League of America
Manifesto of the Socialist Propaganda League of America
Solidarity
Third Worldism or Socialism
Souvarine, Boris
Stalin: A Critical Survey of Bolshevism
Subversion
Ireland, Nationalism, and Imperialism: The Myths Exploded
Labouring in Vain: Why the Labor Party Is Not a Socialist Party
The Revolutionary Alternative to Left-Wing Politics
Surplus Club
Trapped at a Party Where No One Likes You
United Workers Party
Anti-Parliamentarism and Council Communism
Revolutionary Parliamentarism
Wildcat
Capitalism and its Revolutionary Destruction
How Socialist Is the Socialist Workers Party?
The Bosses Have No Country: Marxists and the So-Called Problem of Imperialism
Against Democracy
Wolman, Gil J.
A User's Guide to Détournement
Workers League for a Revolutionary Party
How to Explain a "Transitional Program" to a Simple Worker
World Communist Group
Programme
Theses