Political Development


The Wretched of the Earth
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
Confronting Black Jacobins: The U.S., The Haitian Revolution, and the Origins of the Dominican Republic
Decolonial Marxism: Essays from the Pan-African Revolution
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880
Slavery and Capitalism: A New Marxist History
Discourse on Colonialism
Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
History of West Africa to the Nineteenth Century
The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917–2017
Palestine, Israel and the U.S. Empire
All About Love: New Visions

Leon Trotsky
...you must remember that the political development of the masses proceeds not in a direct line, but in a complicated curve. And is not this, after all, the essential movement of every material process? Objective conditions were powerfully impelling the workers, soldiers and peasants toward the banners of the Bolsheviks, but the masses were entering upon this path in a state of struggle with their own past, with their yesterday’s beliefs, and partly also with their beliefs of today. At a difficu ...more
Leon Trotsky, History of the Russian Revolution