Series: ten socialist classics
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
Frederick Engels' pamphlet provided a popular account of the origin of socialist ideas and the Marxist view of history.
April 11, 2008
Frederick Engels provides a materialist analysis of the rise of class society and, with it, the roots of women's oppression.
May 12, 2008
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
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
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
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
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