Series: Ten socialist classics

SocialistWorker.org writers introduce 10 of the most important writings by leading thinkers in the revolutionary socialist tradition.

Ten socialist classics

The Communist Manifesto

Karl Marx and Frederick Engels provided an overall theory to help explain history, how to fight for justice today and the possibility of a better future. March 21, 2008
Ten socialist classics

Socialism: Utopian and Scientific

Frederick Engels' pamphlet provided a popular account of the origin of socialist ideas and the Marxist view of history. April 11, 2008
Ten socialist classics

Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State

Frederick Engels provides a materialist analysis of the rise of class society and, with it, the roots of women's oppression. May 12, 2008
Ten socialist classics

The Civil War in France

The modern Marxist theory of the state owes its existence to the 1871 struggle of the Paris Communards, who taught people that workers can run society. June 9, 2008
Ten socialist classics

The Mass Strike

Rosa Luxemburg's book, written after the 1905 revolution in Russia, shows how "economic" issues can be the catalyst for "political" demands. June 13, 2008
Ten socialist classics

Reform or Revolution

Rosa Luxemburg’s book was the first major work to take up a critical issue that divided the socialist movement—and does still to this day. July 8, 2008
Ten socialist classics

State and Revolution

Lenin's classic work takes up the nature of the capitalist state and the question of how workers' power can be organized. July 22, 2008
Ten socialist classics

What Is To Be Done?

All too often, accounts of Lenin’s 1902 booklet What Is to Be Done? remove it from its political and historical context. September 29, 2008
Ten socialist classics

Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

Lenin showed how colonial expansion and imperialist rivalry were rooted in profound changes in the nature of capitalism. December 2, 2008
Ten socialist classics

Permanent Revolution

Leon Trotsky's theory explained how the working-class struggle for socialism could develop in countries that were economically backward. July 15, 2009

Series: Ten socialist classics

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