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This category is for documents, texts and essays outlining or analyzing Socialist philosophy.

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• - A 1994 document from the shortlived ISG which was formed by individuals expelled from the (British) Socialist Workers Party. Document crtiques the SWP's internal regime and its politics.
  
• - An essay by Roger McCain examining the guild socialism of the pre-industrial era.
  
• - Treatise from the Independent Group of Communists in Holland, 1930.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Formal title is "the Death Agony of Capitalism and the Tasks of the Fourth International," written by Leon Trotsky this was the founding programme for the Fourth International and remains a guiding document for Trotskyists.
  
• - Information about the different schools of socialist thought and socialist history. Includes quotes, pictures, resources library, links.
  
• - The principles of practical and ideal Communism.
  
• - In which Lenin outlines the concept of the vanguard revolutionary party run according to the principles of democratic centralism.
  
• - A series of documents from various Trotskyist groups and tendencies.
  
• - Polemic against market socialism by W. Paul Cockshott and Allin Cottrell.
  
• - 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.
  
• - An influential work by the Belgian-Jewish Trotskyist published in 1946.
  
• - Online version of George Orwell's 1941 work. The non-fiction work is in three parts, England Your England, Shopkeepers at War, and The English Revolution.
  
• - A refutation of Tony Cliff's theory written in 1949 by Ted Grant. Cliff went on to found the International Socialist Tendency and what is now the Socialist Workers Party in Britain.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Excerpts from Eduard Bernstein's revisions of Marxism which established modern social democracy.
  
• - An examination of why American society, especially in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, was remarkably free of socialist influence. Written by Dov Ben-Shimon.
  
• - Socialism examined from a Buddhist perspective.
  
• - Programme of the Workers' Party (1946). The WP was a "Third Camp" split from the Socialist Workers Party. It was led by Max Shachtman.
  
• - The text that serves as the beginning of the communist movement
  
• - Document produced by a dissident group expelled from Socialist Workers Party in Britain in 1994 criticizing the SWP's internal regime. The SWP leads the International Socialist tendency and is best known for publishing the newspaper Socialist Worker.
  
• - Radical program adopted by the German Social Democratic Party in 1891 which signified the party's adoption of Marxism.
  
• - Site concerning the Progressive Utilization Theory, "Prout" a "neo-humanist" system addressing the socio-economics of liberation. This seems to be a utopian socialist theory based on eastern religious principles.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Excerpts from the founding manifesto of the German Social Democratic Party
  
• - "Let Us Face the Future: A Declaration of Labour Policy for the Consideration of the Nation." Full text of the manifesto on which Labour was elected in 1945, under which they instituted the welfare state in Britain.
  
• - Freya Hastings argues that Adam Smith was critical of laissez faire capitalism and saw communism as a viable system.
  
• - Zheng Chaolin's memoirs written in 1945 documenting the story of Chen Duxiu, founder of the Chinese Communist Party, leader of the May 4th Movement and supporter of Leon Trotsky.
  
• - An explanation and defence of socialism from an independent socialist.
  
• - 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 Guevar
  
• - 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.
  
• - Calls for a cap on personal incomes as a solution to inequity.
  
• - Marxist discussion and analytical resource material to guide the building of the revolutionary party and the socialist revolution. From the Committee for a Workers' International (CWI)
  
• - The Marxist theory of the state and the tasks of the proletariat in the revolution by Lenin.
  
• - Thesis by Ber Borochov (1881-1917) arguing that national liberation is a necessary component of the class struggle. Distinguishes between progressive and reactionary nationalism.
  
• - A text by Henry Sidgwick which examines socialist economics, originally published in 1886 in The Contemporary Review.
  
• - An indictment of capitalism by Time magazine's Man of the Century.
  
• - 1933 founding document of Canada's Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (now the NDP).
  
• - Online text from Literature Project.
  
  

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