Theory Websites

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.

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 Marxist theory of the state and the tasks of the proletariat in the revolution by Lenin.

The text that serves as the beginning of the communist movement

Excerpts from the founding manifesto of the German Social Democratic Party

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.

An influential work by the Belgian-Jewish Trotskyist published in 1946.

A series of documents from various Trotskyist groups and tendencies.

Thesis by Ber Borochov (1881-1917) arguing that national liberation is a necessary component of the class struggle. Distinguishes between progressive and reactionary nationalism.

Treatise from the Independent Group of Communists in Holland, 1930.

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.

Calls for a cap on personal incomes as a solution to inequity.

Online text from Literature Project.

In which Lenin outlines the concept of the vanguard revolutionary party run according to the principles of democratic centralism.

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.

Polemic against market socialism by W. Paul Cockshott and Allin Cottrell.

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.