This category is for documents, texts and essays outlining or analyzing Socialist philosophy.
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- Marxists Internet Archive The most complete database of Marxism hitherto made. The archive is divided into three major sections: Marxist writers, Marxist history, and reference materials. Marxist writers has information on Marxists from Karl Marx and Frederick Engels to Che Guevara to Vladimir Lenin to Rosa Luxemburg.
- Working Class Movement Library A collection of materials concerned with the activities, expression and enquiries of the labor movement, its allies and its enemies, since the late eighteenth century.
- The State and Revolution The Marxist theory of the state and the tasks of the proletariat in the revolution by Lenin.
- The Communist Manifesto The text that serves as the beginning of the communist movement
- The Gotha Program (1871) Excerpts from the founding manifesto of the German Social Democratic Party
- The Port Huron Statement Written in 1962 and adopted by Students for a Democratic Society, the Port Huron Statement is considered to be a seminal document of the New Left.
- Abram Leon: The Jewish Question - A Marxist Interpretation (1946) An influential work by the Belgian-Jewish Trotskyist published in 1946.
- Global Document Index A series of documents from various Trotskyist groups and tendencies.
- The National Question and the Class Struggle Thesis by Ber Borochov (1881-1917) arguing that national liberation is a necessary component of the class struggle. Distinguishes between progressive and reactionary nationalism.
- Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution Treatise from the Independent Group of Communists in Holland, 1930.
- archive: the left side of the brain is bigger A constantly growing collection of writings by left-wing thinkers: Sartre, Einstein, Orwell, Gandhi, Naomi Klein, Pinter, Picasso, Marx, Gore Vidal, Oscar Wilde, GB Shaw, Beauvoir, Martin Luther King, Alice Walker and others.
- "Why Socialism?" by Albert Einstein An indictment of capitalism by Time magazine's Man of the Century.
- Marxist.net Marxist discussion and analytical resource material to guide the building of the revolutionary party and the socialist revolution. From the Committee for a Workers' International (CWI)
- CapitAllism Calls for a cap on personal incomes as a solution to inequity.
- Manifesto of the Communist Party Online text from Literature Project.
- What is to be Done? In which Lenin outlines the concept of the vanguard revolutionary party run according to the principles of democratic centralism.
- Socialist Perspective This site promotes socialism by critiquing capitalism, rather than by describing socialism. All material on this site can be freely distributed on a non-profit basis.
- Evolutionary Socialism Excerpts from Eduard Bernstein's revisions of Marxism which established modern social democracy.
- Erfurt Program, 1891 Radical program adopted by the German Social Democratic Party in 1891 which signified the party's adoption of Marxism.
- Towards a New Socialism Polemic against market socialism by W. Paul Cockshott and Allin Cottrell.
- The Fight For Socialism Programme of the Workers' Party (1946). The WP was a "Third Camp" split from the Socialist Workers Party. It was led by Max Shachtman.
- The Genesis of Trotskyism Written in 1933, this pamphlet by Max Schachtman explains the development of Trotskyism and the International Left Opposition from the point of view of a leader of the American movement.