Marxism

Marxism is a worldview and method of societal analysis that focuses on class relations and societal conflict, that uses a materialist interpretation of historical development, and a dialectical view of social transformation. Marxist methodology uses economic and sociopolitical inquiry and applies that to the critique and analysis of the development of capitalism and the role of class struggle in systemic economic change.

Marxism Books

Capital: A Critique of Political Economy Volume 1

Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State

History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics

The German Ideology / Theses on Feuerbach / Introduction to the Critique of Political Economy

The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844

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The Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distri... by Group of International Comm...

Open Letter To Comrade Lenin by Herman Gorter

Bordiga Beyond the Myth by Onorato Damen

Anti-bolshevik communism by Paul Mattick

Left Communism

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The Economic Reconstruction of Northeast China by Gao Gang

Manifesto of the Communist Party, and Principles of Communism by Karl Marx

State Capitalism/Planned Capitalism to Socialism

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The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon

Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism by Chandra Talpade Mohanty

Discourse on Colonialism by Aimé Césaire

Imperialism and the Split in Socialism by Vladimir Lenin

Charlotte Revolutionary Student Front Reading List

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Socialism with Chinese Characteristics. A Guide for Foreigners by Roland Boer

The East is Still Red - Chinese Socialism in the 21st Century by Carlos Martínez

Socialism with Chinese Characteristics by Harpal Brar

The Destiny of Civilization by Michael Hudson

Marxism-Leninism - Xi Jinping Thought

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Manifeste d'une femme trans by Julia Serano

L’anatomie politique. Catégorisations et idéologies du sexe by Nicole-Claude Mathieu

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Pour une théorie générale de l'exploitation by Christine Delphy

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“ 1. Bangladesh.... In 1971 ... Kissinger overrode all advice in order to support the Pakistani generals in both their civilian massacre policy in East Bengal and their armed attack on India from West Pakistan.... This led to a moral and political catastrophe the effects of which are still sorely felt. Kissinger’s undisclosed reason for the ‘tilt’ was the supposed but never materialised ‘brokerage’ offered by the dictator Yahya Khan in the course of secret diplomacy between Nixon and China.... Of 1. Bangladesh.... In 1971 ... Kissinger overrode all advice in order to support the Pakistani generals in both their civilian massacre policy in East Bengal and their armed attack on India from West Pakistan.... This led to a moral and political catastrophe the effects of which are still sorely felt. Kissinger’s undisclosed reason for the ‘tilt’ was the supposed but never materialised ‘brokerage’ offered by the dictator Yahya Khan in the course of secret diplomacy between Nixon and China.... Of the new state of Bangladesh, Kissinger remarked coldly that it was ‘a basket case’ before turning his unsolicited expertise elsewhere. 2. Chile.... Kissinger had direct personal knowledge of the CIA’s plan to kidnap and murder General René Schneider, the head of the Chilean Armed Forces ... who refused to countenance military intervention in politics. In his hatred for the Allende Government, Kissinger even outdid Richard Helms ... who warned him that a coup in such a stable democracy would be hard to procure. The murder of Schneider nonetheless went ahead, at Kissinger’s urging and with American financing, just between Allende’s election and his confirmation.... This was one of the relatively few times that Mr Kissinger (his success in getting people to call him ‘Doctor’ is greater than that of most PhDs) involved himself in the assassination of a single named individual rather than the slaughter of anonymous thousands. His jocular remark on this occasion—‘I don’t see why we have to let a country go Marxist just because its people are irresponsible’—suggests he may have been having the best of times.... 3. Cyprus.... Kissinger approved of the preparations by Greek Cypriot fascists for the murder of President Makarios, and sanctioned the coup which tried to extend the rule of the Athens junta (a favoured client of his) to the island. When despite great waste of life this coup failed in its objective, which was also Kissinger’s, of enforced partition, Kissinger promiscuously switched sides to support an even bloodier intervention by Turkey. Thomas Boyatt ... went to Kissinger in advance of the anti-Makarios putsch and warned him that it could lead to a civil war. ‘Spare me the civics lecture,’ replied Kissinger, who as you can readily see had an aphorism for all occasions. 4. Kurdistan. Having endorsed the covert policy of supporting a Kurdish revolt in northern Iraq between 1974 and 1975, with ‘deniable’ assistance also provided by Israel and the Shah of Iran, Kissinger made it plain to his subordinates that the Kurds were not to be allowed to win, but were to be employed for their nuisance value alone. They were not to be told that this was the case, but soon found out when the Shah and Saddam Hussein composed their differences, and American aid to Kurdistan was cut off. Hardened CIA hands went to Kissinger ... for an aid programme for the many thousands of Kurdish refugees who were thus abruptly created.... The apercu of the day was: ‘foreign policy should not he confused with missionary work.’ Saddam Hussein heartily concurred. 5. East Timor. The day after Kissinger left Djakarta in 1975, the Armed Forces of Indonesia employed American weapons to invade and subjugate the independent former Portuguese colony of East Timor. Isaacson gives a figure of 100,000 deaths resulting from the occupation, or one-seventh of the population, and there are good judges who put this estimate on the low side. Kissinger was furious when news of his own collusion was leaked, because as well as breaking international law the Indonesians were also violating an agreement with the United States.... Monroe Leigh ... pointed out this awkward latter fact. Kissinger snapped: ‘The Israelis when they go into Lebanon—when was the last time we protested that?’ A good question, even if it did not and does not lie especially well in his mouth. It goes on and on and on until one cannot eat enough to vomit enough. ...more ”
― Christopher Hitchens

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“ After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was. ”
― Terry Eagleton, Why Marx Was Right

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