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"Left-Wing" Communism, An Infantile Disorder
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“Left-Wing” Communism is a handbook of Communist Party strategy and tactics of Communist leadership, and the building of a mass party. It was written in 1920, at the time of the 2nd Congress of the Communist international, in order to correct the “leftist” mistakes being made by Communists in a number of countries. Lenin draws on the experiences of the Russian Bolsheviks as a guide for the world Communist movement. The Bolshevik Party, he points out, grew strong and became steeled not only in the fight against opportunism, but also in the fight against “petty-bourgeois leftism.” —Maurice Cornforth
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A Basic Understanding of the Communist Party
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Mao Tse-Tung
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The present book is a popular and easily comprehensible textbook acquainting with Bolshevik organisational principles and therefore, is extremely useful for the working class, revolutionary youth and the Communist ranks. During the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in China, several books on Marxist philosophy, Political Economy, Social Science, Natural Science and Art-Literature were published under the ‘Youth Self-Education Series’ for the revolutionary education and initiation of Party cadres and the young generation. This book was published under that series. In the Tenth Congress (1973) of the Communist Party of China, a significant theoretical discussion took place on the question of maintaining the dynamic revolutionary character of the Party, the new constitution (which has been given as appendix to this book) of the Party was passed and an important report was presented on the constitution. In this new light, after a long process of deliberation and discussion with the party-cadres and under the guidance of Party leadership, this book was prepared by a working-group and an editorial board.
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A Characterisation of Economic Romanticism
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"This book was written in 1897 and is directed against the economic theories of the Populists (Narodniks), whose standpoint was based on a utopian desire to halt the development of capitalism and return to small-scale production. In it Lenin criticises the theories of the Swiss economist Sismondi, whose views were highly prized by the Narodniks. This criticism contains illuminating explanations of Marxist economic analysis, and of its relation to the classical bourgeois political economy. ...Lenin deals especially with the question of the formation of the home market, the connection of production and consumption, the accumulation of capital, and the causes of capitalist crises."— Maurice Cornforth
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Anarchism or Socialism
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Stalin sets out to explain the ideas of Marxism in opposition to those of the anarchists. The book was addressed to the ordinary rank and file workers, and contains a very simple and popular exposition of the fundamental questions of Marxist theory; it is a model of how profound questions of theory should be linked with the immediate tasks of the working class struggle. Even after a hundred years, it remains extremely helpful for readers who are beginning their study of Marxist theory.
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Capitalism and After
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This volume is designed as a companion to George Thomson's book From Marx to Mao Tse-tung. It is intended to provide, in a form suitable for beginners, a brief introduction to historical materialism, with special attention to the role of commodity production in the history of civilisation. In the last two chapters, devoted to the Chinese people’s communes, it is shown how commodity production is brought under control in a socialist economy in preparation for the transition to communism.
This book is a part of a set of three books by the renowned British Marxist activist intellectual, George Thomson (1903-1987) — From Marx to Mao Tse-Tung: A Study in Revolutionary Dialectics; Capitalism and After: The Rise and Fall of Commodity Production and The Human Essence: The Sources of Science and Art. These three books were written by George Thomson as a short introduction to Marxism that addresses the political, historical, and ideological aspects of the subject. Such an accurate and pithy explanation of Marxist theory and practice is evident in very few books.
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Critique of the Gotha Programme
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Marx’s Critique of the Gotha Programme deals with fundamental questions of the theory and programme of the working class party. It consists of a series of comments on points contained in the draft programme prepared for a unity conference of the German working class movement held at Gotha in 1875. ...Marx did not set down a systematic account of how a socialist economy would function. But in this brief work, written towards the end of his life, he does offer more extensive comments on the conditions of emergence and the economic and social organisation of socialist and communist society.
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Economic Problems of Socialism in the U.S.S.R.
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In this essay, written in 1952, Stalin attempts to identify and address key problems arising from the remnants of capitalism still surviving under socialism. The discussion ranges over such issues as the law of value, commodity production, and their effects on the regulation of socialist production, and the continuing contradiction between the forces and relations of production. A serious work of socialist political economy, although with many flaws as pointed out by Mao Tse-tung in his Critique of Soviet Economics.
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Five Essays on Philosophy
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This collection contains five of Mao Tse-tung's most important essays on philosophy: (1) On Practice, (2) On Contradiction, (3) On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People, (4) Speech at the Chinese Communist Party's National Conference on Propaganda Work, (5) Where do Correct Ideas Come From. An important collection to understand Mao's contribution to Marxist theory and the science of revolution.
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From Marx to Mao Tse-Tung
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George Thomson
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This is a Marxist study of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the Chinese Revolution of 1949, designed to demonstrate their unity and continuity as two successive stages in the world socialist revolution. Their common theoretical foundation is expounded by means of extensive quotations from the Marxist classics, especially the writings of Lenin and Mao Tse-tung. These enable the reader to follow the two revolutions through the minds of those who led them, and at the same time they provide him with an introduction to the basic principles of dialectical and historical materialism; for that theory can only be understood in the light of the revolutionary struggles out of which it has grown and in which it finds its fullest and clearest expression.
This book is a part of a set of three books by the renowned British Marxist activist intellectual, George Thomson (1903-1987) — From Marx to Mao Tse-Tung: A Study in Revolutionary Dialectics; Capitalism and After: The Rise and Fall of Commodity Production and The Human Essence: The Sources of Science and Art. These three books were written by George Thomson as a short introduction to Marxism that addresses the political, historical, and ideological aspects of the subject. Such an accurate and pithy explanation of Marxist theory and practice is evident in very few books.
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Fundamentals of Political Economy
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Fundamentals of Political Economy is a popular introductory economics text published in the People's Republic or China in 1974 by the Shanghai People's Press. It has come to be known popularly as the "Shanghai Textbook." It explains the fundamental principles of Marxist political economy in a very simple and comprehensible manner and presents a thorough analysis of the bourgeois mode of production. And most of all, the thorough investigation of the mode of production of Socialism, the socio-economic formation, the class relations, the base and the superstructure during the period of socialist transition, that Mao presented for the first time, based on his summation of the experiences of the Socialist experiments in the Soviet Union and China and the thoughts of Marx, Engles and Lenin. It will not be an exaggeration to say that this is a representative textbook of the political economy of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism.
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Manifesto of the Communist Party
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This little booklet is worth whole volumes: to this day its spirit inspires and guides the entire organised and fighting proletariat of the civilised world.—V.I. Lenin
The present English edition of the MANIFESTO OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY is a reproduction of the translation made by Samuel Moore in 1888 from the original German text of 1848 and edited by Frederick Engels. Included in the present text are Engels’s annotations for the English 1888 edition and the German 1890 edition as well as all the authors’ prefaces to the various editions, and as an Appendix Engels’s Principles of Communism.
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Mao Tse-Tung’s Last Great Battle
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This essay by Raymond Lotta is a brilliant account of the events in China leading up to the counter-revolutionary coup of October 6, 1976, which shows how the two-line struggle within the Communist Party had been intensifying, coming to a climax with the arrest of the closest aides of Mao Tse-tung and the defeat of the revolutionary forces, after Mao’s death. The struggle in the years 1973-76 was a continuation of the struggles that came to a head in the early years of the Cultural Revolution in China when the working class successfully resisted attempts at restoration and carried out major transformations of society under Mao’s guidance and leadership. But, as Mao emphasised, many more such revolutions would be required.
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On Literature and Art
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This book contains Mao Tse-tung's “Talks at the Yenan Forum on Literature and Art” and other writings of his concerning culture and art. These brilliant contributions constitute a programme for the proletarian cultural revolution and a line for proletarian revolutionary literature and art. They serve as guiding principles for our cultural and art work and for the remoulding of the world outlook of intellectuals; they are a powerful weapon for defeating the modern revisionist ideology and all the different bourgeois ideology in the field of literature and art.
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On Marx
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This is a collection of three articles by Frederick Engels on Karl Marx in which he explains the historic importance of the ideas of this great philosopher. As Engels says in one the articles: Marx was the best hated and most calumniated man of his time. Governments, both absolutist and republican, deported him from their territories. Bourgeois, whether conservative or ultra-democratic, vied with one another in heaping slanders upon him. All this he brushed aside as though it were cabweb, ignoring it, answering only when extreme necessity compelled him... His name will endure through the ages, and so also will his work!" This small book is extremely useful to understand the man and his ideals.
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On Marx and Engels
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This is a collection of seven articles written by Lenin between 1895 and 1919. These include: (1) Karl Marx (A Brief Biographical Sketch with an Exposition of Marxism); (2) Frederick Engels; (3) Speech at the Unveiling of a Memorial to Marx and Engels; (4) The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism; (5) The Marx-Engels Correspondence; (6) The Historical Destiny of the Doctrine of Karl Marx; (7) Marxism and Revisionism. This is a very important and useful collection to understand the ideas of Marx and Engels as explained by another great Marxist thinker and revolutionary.
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On Organisation
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The extracts in the present volume are taken from the following sources: “Problems of Organisational Leadership,” from Stalin’s Report to the 17th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 1934; “Cadres Decide Everything,” from his Address to Graduates from Red Army Academies, 1935; “Selection, Promotion and Allocation of Cadres,” from his Report to the 18th Congress of the C.P.S.U.(B.), 1939. The section entitled “On Practical Work” contains extracts from “Seven Questions Answered,” Stalin’s concluding words at the Plenum of the Central Committee of the C.P.S.U.(B.), March 1937.
Two Appendices have been added. The first contains extracts from L. M. Kaganovitch’s Report on Organisational Problems, which followed and supplemented that of Stalin at the 17th Congress of the C.P.S.U.(B.). The second is from G. Dimitrov's Speech in Reply to Discussion at the 7th World Congress of the Communist International, 1935.
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On the Dictatorship of the Proletariat Selected Expositions
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This booklet contains a number of selected expositions by Marx, Engels and Lenin concerning the dictatorship of proletariat, which were originally published by Renmin Ribao (People's Daily), 22 February, 1975 and Hongqi (Red Flag), No. 3, 1975 in China.
This book is still helpful to correctly understand the dictatorship of the proletariat and will also help in the study of writings by Marx-Engels and Lenin on this subject.
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On the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, Q & A
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The question of Dictatorship of the proletariat is the focal point of the teachings of Marxism-Leninism on the question of state and revolution. This book presents selections from the thoughts of Marx, Engels and Lenin on the question of dictatorship of proletariat and discusses them in question and answer format for the common readers to help them understand the concept of dictatorship of the proletariat and to acquaint them with the reality. This reference material for study was published in its original form in 1975 in the issues of Peking Review (issue-40 to issue-51) in serialised format. This book is still helpful to correctly understand the dictatorship of the proletariat and will also help in the study of writings by Marx-Engels and Lenin on this subject.
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On the Party
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Lenin and Stalin
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“…whether or not a party is really a political party of the workers does not depend solely upon a membership of workers but also upon the men that lead it, and the content of its actions and its political tactics. Only this latter determines whether we really have before us a political party of the proletariat.” — Lenin
The present English edition of this book is reproduced from the same edition including the original Publishers’ Note which introduces the extracts in this collection outlining the Bolshevik principles of Party in a succinct manner. This booklet was first published in 1949 by Lawrence and Wishart, London under the Little Lenin Library series (Volume 27). This small volume remains extremely relevant even today and it will be helpful for political activists as well as serious students of Marxism-Leninism.
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Party Work in the Masses
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This is a collection of Lenin’s articles and excerpts from various sources which underline his approach to organize party work among the toiling masses. In these articles, Lenin criticizes anarcho-syndicalist and reformist tendencies in the labour movement and presents the correct revolutionary approach to facilitate the political development and the political organisation of the working class.
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Preface and Introduction to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
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This booklet contains Marx’s Preface and Introduction to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, and Engels’ two articles on that work by Marx. The Introduction, actually an unfinished rough draft, is taken from Marx’s economic manuscripts of 1857-58. The Preface contains Marx’s classic formulation of the principles of historical materialism. Reviews written by Engels contain an invaluable introduction to the study of Capital itself.
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Principles of Communism
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In question-answer form this booklet explains the factors for the development of scientific Communism in modern society, the essence of scientific communism, its different aspects and how it applies in practice. Read along with the Manifesto these question/answers directly address many issues that the readers might face.
Prior to collaborating with Karl Marx in preparing the Manifesto of the Communist Party in 1948, Engels wrote two draft programmes for the Communist League in 1847. The latter draft is known as the Principles of Communism. In writing the Manifesto, the founders of Marxism made use of the propositions enunciated in the Principles of Communism.
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Selected Letters
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Not only do Marx and Engels stand out before the reader in clear relief in all their greatness, but the extremely rich theoretical content of Marxism is unfolded in a highly graphic way, because in the letters Marx and Engels return again and again to the most diverse aspects of their teaching, emphasising and explaining—at times discussing and persuading each other—what is newest (in relation to earlier views), most important and most difficult.... There unfolds before the reader a strikingly vivid picture of the history of the working-class movement all over the world—at its most important junctures and in its most essential points. Even more valuable is the history of the politics of the working class. —Lenin
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Socialism Utopian and Scientific
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Of all the works of Marx and Engels, this is probably the best for the beginner. Written in a very clear and easy style, it introduces the reader to the basic ideas of scientific socialism.—Mausice Cornforth
Most of the editions of this book that have been available in India include only Engels’ introduction to the English edition. This edition also includes Marx’s foreword and two other prefaces by Engels which will enrich the understanding of this classic text about scientific socialism.
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The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
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The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte is one of the masterpieces of Marxism. In this important work Marx analysed the events of the Revolution of 1848-51 in France, and on that basis, elaborated further the fundamental tenets of historical materialism, the theory of the class struggle and the proletarian revolution, and the theory of the state and the dictatorship of the proletariat. Here, for the first time, Marx advanced the proposition that the victorious proletariat must necessarily smash the bourgeois state machine.
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The Human Essence
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This volume concludes the short introduction to Marxism which was begun in From Marx to Mao Tse-tung and continued in Capitalism and After. Starting from Marx’s analysis of the labour-process, Lenin’s theory of reflection, and Mao Tse-tung’s theory of perceptual and rational knowledge, the writer endeavours to show that science and art are two interdependent forms of the organisation of social energy, both rooted in the labour-process. The argument ranges over a number of interrelated problems in linguistics, psychology, anthropology, musicology and literary criticism, not to mention philosophy and history.
This is a part of a set of three books by the renowned British Marxist activist intellectual, George Thomson (1903-1987) — From Marx to Mao Tse-Tung: A Study in Revolutionary Dialectics; Capitalism and After: The Rise and Fall of Commodity Production and The Human Essence: The Sources of Science and Art. These three books were written by George Thomson as a short introduction to Marxism that addresses the political, historical, and ideological aspects of the subject. Such an accurate and pithy explanation of Marxist theory and practice is evident in very few books.
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The Poverty of Philosophy
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In this book Marx criticizes the economic and philosophical arguments of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon set forth in The System of Economic Contradictions, or The Philosophy of Poverty. Marx specifically accuses Proudhon of wanting to rise above the bourgeoisie. In Marx's own words: “This book contains in embryanic form all that took shape in the theories propounded in Capital after twenty years of hard work. The reader will understand that in this thankless task we have often had to abandon our criticism of M. Proudhon in order to criticise German philosophy, and at the same time to give some observations on political economy.”
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The Proletarian Revolution and Renegade Kautsky
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This book deals with the central theme of proletarian versus bourgeois democracy and can be read as a supplement to Lenin's The State and Revolution. It was written in 1918 in reply to Karl Kautsky who had denounced the Soviet Government as a “dictatorship.” Replying to Kautsky, Lenin shows how false it is to speak of democracy “in general.” We must always ask: “democracy for whom?” The question at issue is not between dictatorship and democracy but between proletarian democracy and bourgeois democracy, between the rule of the working class and the rule of the bourgeoisie. So long as classes exist, Lenin shows, there can be no “pure” democracy. Lenin exposes in detail how bourgeois democracy is in reality the rule of the capitalists and how the soviets represent the rule of the working class, that is, of the vast majority.
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They Made Revolution Within Revolution
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This is a brief story of China’s Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966-76) written by Mary Lou Greenberg under the penname Iris Hunter. This small book is helpful for readers to understand the circumstances, purpose, nature and process of that great historical event.
Mary Lou Greenberg was active in the women’s liberation movement in USA in the 1960s and visited revolutionary China during the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in 1971. She has written several articles on women question and a much discussed book ‘Women Are Not Incubators!’
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Turning Point in China
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The great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in China may well be the most important political development of the second half of the twentieth century. As a turning point in history it can be compared with the Russian Revolution of 1917. This short book by the writer of Fanshen and The Great Reversal is extremely helpful in enriching and deepening the understanding of the Cultural Revolution.
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Wages, Price and Profit
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This work is a lecture of Karl Marx delivered in a meeting of the General Council of the First International in June, 1865. Marx first presented the basis for his theory of surplus value in this lecture. Marx strongly opposed such propagandists who preached the proletariat to silently bear the exploitation of the capitalists and offer no resistance to it. He presented the theoretical basis for the economic struggles of the workers and emphasized to put this struggle under the final goal of the proletariat - the abolition of wage labour.
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