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

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• The Gotha Program (1871) - Excerpts from the founding manifesto of the German Social Democratic Party
  
• Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution - Treatise from the Independent Group of Communists in Holland, 1930.
  
• The Genesis of Trotskyism - 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.
  
• What is to be Done? - In which Lenin outlines the concept of the vanguard revolutionary party run according to the principles of democratic centralism.
  
• Towards a New Socialism - Polemic against market socialism by W. Paul Cockshott and Allin Cottrell.
  
• "Why Socialism?" by Albert Einstein - An indictment of capitalism by Time magazine's Man of the Century.
  
• Against the Theory of State Capitalism - 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.
  
• Communism Simplified - The principles of practical and ideal Communism.
  
• The Communist Manifesto - The text that serves as the beginning of the communist movement
  
• Marxists Internet Archive - 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
  
• Socialism Web - An explanation and defence of socialism from an independent socialist.
  
• The Fight For Socialism - Programme of the Workers' Party (1946). The WP was a "Third Camp" split from the Socialist Workers Party. It was led by Max Shachtman.
  
• Working Class Movement Library - 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.
  
• archive: the left side of the brain is bigger - 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.
  
• Abram Leon: The Jewish Question - A Marxist Interpretation (1946) - An influential work by the Belgian-Jewish Trotskyist published in 1946.
  
• Evolutionary Socialism - Excerpts from Eduard Bernstein's revisions of Marxism which established modern social democracy.
  
• Prout World - 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.
  
• Economic Socialism - A text by Henry Sidgwick which examines socialist economics, originally published in 1886 in The Contemporary Review.
  
• British Labour Party Election Manifesto, 1945 - "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.
  
• Why Did a Socialist Revolution not Occur in the United States? - 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.
  
• Erfurt Program, 1891 - Radical program adopted by the German Social Democratic Party in 1891 which signified the party's adoption of Marxism.
  
• The National Question and the Class Struggle - Thesis by Ber Borochov (1881-1917) arguing that national liberation is a necessary component of the class struggle. Distinguishes between progressive and reactionary nationalism.
  
• The State and Revolution - The Marxist theory of the state and the tasks of the proletariat in the revolution by Lenin.
  
• CapitAllism - Calls for a cap on personal incomes as a solution to inequity.
  
• Regina Manifesto - 1933 founding document of Canada's Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (now the NDP).
  
• Socialist Perspective - 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.
  
• What is Dhammic Socialism? - Socialism examined from a Buddhist perspective.
  
• The Port Huron Statement - 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.
  
• Marxist.net - 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)
  
• Manifesto of the Communist Party - Online text from Literature Project.
  
• Global Document Index - A series of documents from various Trotskyist groups and tendencies.
  
  

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