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"Marxism and Communism: Essential Readings" presents in compact and convenient format the most important statements of theory and policy that have shaped the Communist movement from its beginnings to the present day.
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- Introduction to Marxism
- CORE Classics: Marxist Classics Volume 1
- On Strategy and Tactics
- On Stalinism
- Introduction to Marxist Economics
- Imperialism and War
Introduction 1. What is Marxism?by Alan Woods and Rob Sewell (200 pages) Core Classics: Marxist Classics Volume 1 1. The Communist Manifestoby Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (30 pages) 2. Socialism: Utopian and Scientificby Friedrich Engels (40 pages) 3. State and Revolutionby V.I. Lenin (100 pages) 4. The Transitional Programby Leon Trotsky (42 pa...
What Is Marxism?
Written by Alan Woods and Rob Sewell in 2007 (200 pages). This work is aimed specifically at newcomers to Marxism. The book is organized into three broad sections, corresponding to the three component parts of Marxist theory: dialectical materialism, the materialist conception of history, and Marxist economics. Each chapter starts with a modern introductory overview, followed by key extracts from some of the great works of Marxism written by its most outstanding exponents: Marx, Engels, Lenin...
The four core classics by Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Trotsky that we list below are compiled in Marxist Books’ book Marxist Classics Volume One.
Where to Begin
Written by Lenin in 1901 (7 pages). A brilliant, compact summary of the ideas further developed by Lenin in his 1902 classic, What Is to Be Done?In it, he outlines the need for a disciplined revolutionary party, painstakingly prepared ahead of “explosions and outbursts,” and organized around a revolutionary newspaper. As he explains, “A newspaper is not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, it is also a collective organizer.” These and other essential insights into the rel...
“Left-wing” Communism: An Infantile Disorder
Written by V.I. Lenin in 1920 (97 pages). The Communist International, which was created after the Russian Revolution, was formed mostly from left-wing splits in the Socialist International. Many had ultraleft positions, as a reaction against decades of the reformist leadership of the Socialist Parties. Lenin used this book to educate the young cadres of the Comintern in the methods of Bolshevism and the relation between the class, the party, and the leadership. His insistence on combining su...
Stalinism and Bolshevism
By Leon Trotsky (1937) Get Marxist Classics Vol. 2 here | Read it online here
The Revolution Betrayed
Written by Leon Trotsky in 1936 (208 pages). The most serious Marxist analysis of what happened to the Russian Revolution after the death of Lenin. Trotsky provides a profound analysis of the 1930s Soviet state, explains the potential for genuine socialism hinted at by the advances of the USSR, and outlines the tasks of the Marxists in relation to it. He predicts in advance that if a political revolution did not succeed in overthrowing the bureaucratic regime and replacing it with workers’ de...
Wage Labor and Capital
Written by Karl Marx in 1847 (42 pages). This short work is one of the best-known introductory texts on Marxist economics. It is based on a series of lectures delivered by Marx at the Workingmen’s Club of Brussels in 1847, in which he explains in everyday language how labor creates value, how capital exploits labor, and how wages are determined in capitalism. Although it is an early work, it contains the outline of Marx’s development of the Labor Theory of Value and many important insights in...
Value, Price, and Profit
Written by Karl Marx in 1865 (56 pages). In contrast to Wage Labor and Capital, which was written before the Communist Manifesto and at a time when Marx had not yet fully developed his theories of political economy, Value, Price and Profit, was produced at a time when the Labor Theory of Value had already matured in Marx’s thinking. It was first delivered as a speech to the International Working Men’s Association (the First International) in 1865, while he was working on the first volume of C...
Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism
Written by V.I. Lenin in 1916 (132 pages) This classic work was written in the midst of World War I, and served to train a new layer of Marxists after the betrayal of many of the leaders of the Socialist International, who had capitulated to “their” national capitalist classes. It explains how industrial capital came to dominate merchant capital, only to be further dominated by finance capital. It also details the rise of gigantic monopolies concentrating enormous wealth in a few hands. In ad...
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