Category: From the Classics

Frederick Engels’ Speech at the Grave of Karl Marx Highgate Cemetery, London. March 17, 1883...

The Marxist theory of  ideology  — how social ideas and social consciousness arise from the...

Written in May 1913 not long before the beginning of the First World War, Lenin had his eye on the...

From The Communist Manifesto (1848):   The history of all hitherto existing society(2) is the...

V. I. Lenin: From his Differences in the European Labour Movement (December 1910)   The...

Henry Winston was national chairman of the CPUSA up until his death in 1986. In Chapter 14 of one...

Lenin gave this lecture on the class nature of war policy in May 1917, i.e., after the overthrow...

The Defeat of One’s Own Government in the Imperialist War In July 1915, when this article was...

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
from Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism, 1916
We have seen that in its economic essence imperialism is monopoly capitalism. This in itself determines its place in history

The NEP ( 1921-29) was the economic policy of the Soviet state aimed at restoring the alliance...

From Socialism: Utopian and Scientific (1880) Whilst, however, the revolution in the conception of...

Marx’s view of religion was subtle and complex and went far beyond the well-known...

Written in Pravda, November 6, 1919 Source: Women and Communism, Lawrence & Wishart, London,...

From Karl Marx,  A Contribution to a Critique of Political Economy, 1859   “In the...

Five Difficulties in Writing the Truth (1935)   By Bertolt Brecht   Nowadays, anyone who...

This letter was written by Lenin on August 20, 1918,  while the First World War (Aug. 1914- Nov....

The Marxist theory of  ideology  — how social ideas and social consciousness arise from the...

Lenin gave this talk on May 27, 1917. He was back in Russia from exile in Switzerland. The Tsar...