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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 ↘ ↘ ↘
Trotsky, Leon
Why Marxists Oppose Individual Terrorism ↘ ↘ ↘
United Workers Party
Anti-Parliamentarism and Council Communism ↘ ↘ ↘
Revolutionary Parliamentarism ↘ ↘ ↘
Widgery, David
Alternative Lenin ↘ ↘ ↘
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 ↘ ↘ ↘