Marx and Marxism Web Guide
compiled by Ralph Dumain
Resources on the Web
Web resources on Marx and Marxism comprise too huge a category to document comprehensively. The focus here is Marxology and Marxist philosophy, theory, and history, primarily resources in the English language. While these links in turn lead to the widest variety of sources, the concentration here is on general sources and theoretical matters, implying, even with the coverage below, an inevitable slighting of: (1) specific thinkers, schools of thought, traditions, some of which I document separately (e.g. Soviet Philosophy, Frankfurt School); (2) organizations and political parties, political tendencies, journals, newspapers, and other periodicals, presses and publishers, archives, individuals, topical political issues, blogs, online discussion lists; (3) non-Marxist resources on socialism, communism, anarchism, the left, the general labor movement and social movements; (4) non-English-language sources.
Text Archives & Repositories & General Research & Theoretical Resources
Marxists Internet
Archive
The largest digital library of Marxist & related literature on
the web. Multilingual.
Note additional resources compiled in the Encyclopedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL), including tendencies, international & U.S. organizational history, pseudonyms, newspapers/periodicals, oral histories, research institutions, books (bibliography), audio-visual.
See also The Value of Knowledge: A Miniature Library of Philosophy.
From Marx to Mao
Substantial archive. See esp. collections
on Marx & Engels, Lenin, Stalin, Mao
& Other
Texts and Documents.
libcom.org | libertarian
community and organising resource for Britain
Excellent Libertarian
Communist Archive, esp. of
Marxist theory.
leninist.biz
Soviet titles & e-books. You are invited to contribute to the project to
put Soviet books online.
Offline. Try retrrieving web pages at archive.org.
Collective
Action Notes
Libertarian socialist perspective, includes important theoretical
articles.
Marxism
Page
Includes classic & other theoretical texts.
Radical
Ebook Archive
Downloadable e-books classical & contemporary
Reading from
the Left
Downloadable e-books & pamphlets
147
Authors: Social Theory: Marxist and Critical Theorists: Texts
(Alexander Street Press)
Incredibly extensive repository
Marxist and Socialist (Lust for Life)
Economarx (Marxist economy)
Marx Myths and Legends
Project dedicated to countering misinformation about Marx, initiated by
Rob Lucas. (R. Dumain, who independently thought up the basic concept,
encouraged such a project.) Note Dumain's comments and
criticisms.
Rainer Ganahl: Karl
Marx Lesen (Reading Karl Marx)
Reading seminar & exhibition. A unique project.
Karl Marx: Your Online Guide To The Communist Manifesto
Contemporary
Philosophy, Critical Theory and Postmodern Thought
Covers a wide range of philosophical and theoretical sources.
Voice
of the Shuttle: Marxist, Communist, Frankfurt School, &
Later-Marxist Critique
Wide variety of resources.
Generation
Online
Variety of theoretical & philosophical texts &
translations.
In Defence of Marxism
Trotskyist orientation. Comprehensive site. Includes materials on Marxist
theory, philosophy,
science
and technology, art
and revolution.
Trotsky.net
Trotskyist orientation. Provides texts, thematically organized.
World Socialist Web Site
Trotskyist orientation. Includes section on philosophy.
Movement
for a Socialist Future
Broad coverage. Includes section on Ideas
and philosophy.
See, e.g.: Contradiction,
reflection and cognition: three articles on philosophy.
Institute for
the Study of the Science of Society
Organizes classes, promotes study groups, provides study guides to
Marxism-the-science.
Historical
materialism: World History
Archives
See esp. Bibliography
for Historical Materialism by
Haines Brown
WWW Virtual
Library Labour History
Comprehensive reference source. See also WWW
Virtual Library Labour History: Special Topics.
This is part of the International
Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, Netherlands
web site.
Labor Arts
Virtual museum.
Socialist
History Project
Documentation of the revolutionary socialist movement in Canada and
Québec in the 20th Century.
Our History Digital Archive (Socialist History Society). Some articles:
Tom Mann 1890-92 by Dona Torr & E.P. Thompson (#26/27)
Shakespeare's Idea of History by A. L. Morton (#33)
Leveller Democracy- Fact or Myth? by A. L. Morton (#51)
T. A. Jackson - Revolutionary and Working Class Intellectual: Centenary Appreciation 1879-1979 by Vivien Morton & Stuart Macintyre (#73)
Graham Stevenson (includes the Compendium of Communist Biography)
Communist Party Historians Group
The same mould or different moulds? Reflections on a prosopography of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) by K. Morgan, Bruno Groppo, Berthold Unfried; Editors
The Red Encyclopedia: A Communism and Communists
Reference Guide
Not maintained since 11 July 2002.
Introduction to Marxism (Dino Felluga, 2002-2003)
Historical Dictionary of Marxism by David Walker and Daniel Gray
Initiative fur Praxisphilosophie und konkrete Wissenschaft
Berliner Instituts für kritische Theorie (InkriT) = Berlin Institute of Critical Theory
Historical-Critical Dictionary of Marxism (HCDM): Section in English
A Dictionary of Marxist Thought, 2nd. ed., T. B. Bottomore et al
BANNEDTHOUGHT.NET: Dialectical Materialism Page [sectarian Maoist site with philosophy links]
Left Communism, Councilism, Libertarian Socialism, Situationism, Anarchism, & Other Independent Tendencies
North American Anarchist Studies Network
Antagonism
"anti capitalist & anti state struggle, for world human
community"
See esp. links
page.
Bureau of Public
Secrets
Situationist and other texts.
Situationist International Archives
Red
& Black Notes
Libertarian Socialism. Includes texts by important authors & Martin
Glaberman Archive.
"Left Wing" Communism
- an infantile disorder?
"On the history and actuality of the Communist Left"
(Last updated Jan. 2003?)
Sojourner Truth
Organization
In the 1970s SJO published an interesting journal called Urgent
Tasks.
The journal is now in process of being archived on the web site.
See, e.g.: Stalin's
Little Book on Philosophy by
Lance Hill.
Break
Their Haughty Power
Loren Goldner's site. Theoretical, historical, topical writings.
Chicago
Political Workshop
". . . developing a critical understanding of contemporary society
through the categories of labor, value, and time. . ." With several
texts on critical theory.
Principia Dialectica Magazine - Enemies of utopia for the sake of its realisation
The Platypus Affiliated Society
platypus1917 · Platypus Affiliated Society discussion (Yahoo group)
See also site of Chris Cutrone
Texts & Resources on Marxist Philosophy, Philosophers & Theoreticians
Reading Marx’s Capital with David Harvey
Karl Marx Studies (on the early Marx) by Laurence Baronovitch
The Unknown Marx (1973) by Martin Nicolaus
Sources on Dialectical Materialism. Translations and Articles on Marxist Philosophy (Tom Weston)
Dialectics for Kids; alternative URL: Dialectics for Kids
Half-Baked Half Nelson: Dialectics Interruptus review by R. Dumain
SARTRE . ORG : Jean Paul Sartre, Existentialism, Philosophy, History
Galvano Della Volpe by Claudia Fazio
"Bernstein and the Marxism of the Second International" by Lucio Colletti
"Introduction to Marx's early writings" by Lucio Colletti
"Colletti on the Credit Crunch: A Response to Robin Blackburn" by Geoff Mann
Sito Web Italiano per la Filosofia-LUDOVICO GEYMONAT (in Italian)
Cornelius Castoriadis / Agora International Website
Ernest Mandel (1923-1995) Internet Archive
Permanent Revolution (philosophical essays include the following:)
Foreshadowing In Defense of Marxism: Trotsky’s Philosophical Notebooks with excerpts from Trotsky (March 2008)
Opportunism and Empiricism by Cliff Slaughter (1963), republished 5 Jan 2007
Marxism Without its Head or its Heart: A Reply to David North by Frank Brenner & Alex Steiner
with links to all the other chapters.
Trotsky’s Notebooks: Excerpts on Lenin, Dialectics, and Evolutionism by Leon Trotsky
Introduction to the Logic of Marxism by George Novack
Empiricism and Pragmatism (Chapter IX of Empiricism and Its Evolution: A Marxist View) by George Novack
On Materialism by Sebastiano Timpanaro, ttranslated by Lawrence Garner
Centre for Critical Realism (CCR) (Roy Bhaskar)
The Web Site for Critical Realism | WSCR
Dr. Helena Sheehan / Home Page
The New Dialectics: The Dialectical Phenomenology of Michael Kosok
Dialectic
of Defeat: Contours of Western Marxism
by Russell Jacoby.
Introduction
(PDF file).
Christopher John Arthur (with Dialectics of Labour et al)
Joseph McCarney: research into Hegel and Marx
DIALECTICAL MARXISM: The Writings of Bertell Ollman
Ethical Politics (Andy Blunden)
hegel.net - System of Science
The definitive site on Hegel & Hegelianism
Ideology Stop
On Zizek, psychoanalysis, popular culture
Polish Philosophy Page: The Poznan School
Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities
Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities (Rodopi)
Web Sites & Pages on Other Marxists
Michael Parenti Political Archive
Mansoor Hekma
Iranian Marxist (1951-2002).
Werner Cohn
Highly eccentric & tendentious old ex-Trotskyist.
See esp. From
Victim to Shylock and Oppressor: The New Image of the Jew in the
Trotskyist Movement.
Paul N. Siegel (1916-2004)
Ability Testing History, Paul F. Ballantyne. See esp.:
Flames
of Discontent - CULTURAL WORK & PROTEST SONG
Some terrific material & radical links
Chris Wright's Reading Guides & Other Writings
Humor
Me Start a Vanguard Party to Lead the Working Class to Revolution? You Must Be Kidding!!
Privilege: The Intersectionalising – New Card Game From PD
Worker’s Spatula
“Liberating the proletariat from itself.”
Individual Texts
Ethnological Notebooks by Karl Marx
Revolutionary
Self-Theory: A Beginners' Manual
First published as Self-Theory:
The Pleasure of Thinking for Yourself,
1975.
“On the Philosophy of the Superman” (1900) by Leon Trotsky
Partisanship and Objectivity in Theoretical Work by Maurice Cornforth (also on this site, see link below)
“Maurice Cornforth’s Contribution to Marxist Metaethics” by Renzo Llorente, in Nature, Society, and Thought, vol. 16, no. 3, 2003, pp. 261-275.
“On Reappraising Maurice Cornforth,” by Edwin A. Roberts, in Nature, Society, and Thought, vol. 18, no. 4, October 2005, pp. 461-499.
“A Philosophy of Revolutionary Practice: The first two theses on Feuerbach” [1977]by Jairus Banaji, Historical Materialism, 29 May 2020.
LUDOVICO GEYMONAT A cura di Diego Fusaro (in Italian)
Fabio Minazzi, La Passione della Ragione. Studi sul pensiero di Ludovico Geymonat reviewed by Nicla Vassallo (In Italian)
Dialectics of the Concrete: A Study on Problems of Man and World by Karel Kosík [editorial preface & chapter 1]
Letter: Herbert Marcuse to Karel Kosik, March 22, 1963 (trans. Charles Reitz)
The Two Marxisms by Alvin Gouldner
Biographies of Sociologists: Alvin Ward Gouldner (1920-1980)
Marxism and science
studies: a sweep through the decades
by Helena Sheehan
International Studies in the
Philosophy of Science, 21: 2
(2007): 197-210.
Philosophical Essays on Materialism and Marxism by Franz J. T. Lee
History of Wisdom by Franz J. T. Lee
Chapter 1: "The Nature of Reality: Dialectical Materialism" (pp. 3-39), in The Philosophy of Marxism: An Exposition by John Somerville (Minneapolis: Marxist Educational Press, 1967)
The
Unbroken Thread
by Ted Grant
The Development of Trotskyism Over 60 Years.
Jack Lindsay: writer, Romantic, revolutionary [the definitive site]
The Fullness of Life: Autobiography of an Idea by Jack Lindsay
The
Origins of Alchemy in Graeco-Roman Egypt
by Jack Lindsay
Poem To
Marie Delcourt-Curvers [HMTL]
To
Marie Delcourt-Curvers [pdf file]
The
First and Concluding Chapters
Aspects of Dialectics and Nonlinear Dynamics by J. Barkley Rosser, Jr.
Karl Marx and the Jewish Question by Louis Harap (Jewish Currents, July-August 1959)
Late Marx and the Russian Road: Marx and 'the Peripheries of Capitalism' [intro & chapter 1] by Teodor Shanin
I.Q.
Heritability, and Racism by
James M. Lawler (New York: International Publishers, 1978)
"Introduction"
(pp. 3-6)
"Reliability
and validity of IQ tests" (pp.
53-68)
"Heritability"
(pp. 133-158)
Fred Moseley, ed. Marx's Method in Capital: A Reexamination, reviewed by James Lawler
The Attack on Margaret Mead and the Dialectics of Anthropology by Gordon Welty
"The Class Structure of Machinery: Notes on the Value Form" by Hans-Dieter Bahr
Consciencism [expanded ed.] by Kwame Nkrumah
Hegelian
Marxism discussion
Ralph Dumain et al, on
Hegel-by-Hypertext.
"Retorts"
[letter to the editor], The
Alembic, no. 2, Summer 1989, p.
8.
Anarchist texts and debate, with an embarrassing sample of R. Dumain's
pre-1992 writing.
Bibliographies
A
Marx Bibliography
(with sections on the Young Hegelians and 20th-century Marxists)
Bibliography for Historical Materialism by Haines Brown
The Lubitz
TrotskyanaNet
Comprehensive documentation of Trotsky & Trotskyism.
CPGB Bibliography (Communist Party of Great Britain) by Dave Cope (2008)
Emancipatory
Social Thought: A Bibliography
by James Herod, May-June 2002
Revolutionary Reading Guide by Chris Wright
Publishers
Marxist Educational Press / Nature, Society, and Thought (USA)
AK Press (USA)
Alternative Press
New Pages
"News, information and guides to independent bookstores, independent
publishers, literary periodicals, alternative periodicals, independent
record labels, alternative newsweeklies and more."
Journals, Periodicals, Newsletters: Print, Current, Some with Texts Online
Science
& Society (USA)
A Journal of Marxist Thought and Analysis.
"Published quarterly since 1936, Science & Society is the
longest continuously published journal of Marxist scholarship, in any
language, in the world."
Nature, Society, and Thought
(USA)
A Journal of Dialectical and Historical Materialism.
MEP Publications (Marxist Educational
Press)
Includes index, sample back issues, selected articles. Index also available
here.
Rethinking Marxism
(USA)
Theoretical journal. Also information on the association
& conferences.
Radical
Philosophy Review (USA)
Biannual journal of the Radical
Philosophy Association.
Access via POIESIS.
Radical
Philosophy (UK)
Includes abstracts (1 p.) of articles only, in most cases.
Historical Materialism: Research in Critical Marxist Theory (UK)
Thesis Eleven: A Journal of Critical Theory and Historical Sociology (Australia)
Capitalism
Nature Socialism (USA)
A Journal of Socialist Ecology.
Published by the Center
for Political Ecology (CPE).
International Socialism
Quarterly journal of socialist theory
Revolutionary
History (UK)
Print journal. Trotskyist orientation. Several texts online. See also
mirror at Marxists
Internet Archive.
Critique:
Journal of Socialist Theory (UK)
Originates from anti-Stalinist Marxism with Trotskyist inclinations.
What Next?
Marxist Discussion Journal (UK)
Trotskyist orientation. See, e.g. sections on Marxist
Theory & Socialist
History.
Against
the Current
Bi-monthly analytical journal published by Solidarity.
New Politics
A journal of socialist thought
Z Magazine
Online
"Z is an independent monthly magazine dedicated to resisting injustice,
defending against repression, and creating liberty."
Labor Standard
Trotskyist publication
Political
Affairs
From the CPUSA. Contains some top-notch articles on intellectual
& cultural matters.
Actuel
Marx (in French)
Includes philosophical & theoretical articles.
Alternative Press Review
:: Your Guide Beyond the Mainstream
(USA)
Anthologizes the alternative press.
Journals, Periodicals, Newsletters, Zines: Online, Archives, Current &/or Defunct
Aufheben
Libertarian socialism. Issues 1-12 (1992-2004) online.
Communist History
Network Newsletter On-Line
Biannual, 1996- .
Twentieth Century Communism: a journal of international history (blog)
Twentieth Century Communism: a journal of international history (new journal)
Cultural Logic
An Electronic Journal of Marxist Theory and Practice
Democracy & Nature (The International Journal of Inclusive Democracy), vols. 1-9 (1992-2003), succeeded by:
The International Journal of Inclusive Democracy (Vol. 1 - , October 2004- )
Fast
Capitalism (2005 - )
"Journal devoted to analyzing the impact of information and
communication technologies on self, society and culture in the 21st
century." Some really excellent material herein.
The Hobgoblin (UK Marxist-Humanist online journal)
The
International Newsletter of Communist Studies
Online: #14-#17 (2000-2004).
Marxist Interventions (Australia)
New series, 2009-
Old series, 1998-2006
The Unz Review: An Alternative Media Selection
The Communist (USA)
March 1927 to December 1944Politics (Dwight Macdonald),
March 1944 to October 1, 1949
Blogs
Marxist Update
Reproduces documents, many sectarian & worthless, many of intellectual value
Interventions
Althusser material.
Ted
Stolze: Resources of Hope, Logics of Struggle
February 20, 2006: Debating Lenin and Philosophy.
Thomas Riggins' blog
Riggins also writes for the CPUSA's Political Affairs.
He writes very interesting material on philosophical topics.
Hackett Blog
See also Hackett's Communist
Web Site
Karel Kosík (26 June 1926 - 21 February 2003) (blog, 28 June 2015 - )
Twentieth Century Communism: a journal of international history (blog)
Marxist Philosophy & Theory Discussion Lists
Marxist Philosophy Yahoo Discussion List
lists.econ.utah.edu Mailing
Lists
Several Marxism & socialism related discussion lists.
Hegel-Marx yahoo discussion group
Marxist Philosophy & Theory Discussion Lists—Archives of Defunct Lists
Archives of the Spoon Collective's lists from the University of Virginia, 1994-2004
Marxist Politics Discussion Lists
lbo-talk (sponsored by Left Business Observer)
Marxism -- Activists and scholars in Marxist tradition
Libraries, Archives, Institutes, Information Centers (Materials Partially or Not Available Online)
Tamiment Institute
Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives.
Several collections of relevance including American Trotskyist collections and
oral history.
See also Guide
to the Max Shachtman Papers 1917-1969.
Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State
University
Several collections, including archives of Martin Glaberman & James &
Grace Lee Boggs.
Holt Labor Library
Labor Studies and Radical History.
Prometheus Research Library
Comprehensive collection on the Trotskyist movement.
Center for Socialist History
Archive of Hal Draper & Workers Party.
The Marx-Engels
Cyclopedia is being made available online.
Texas
Archives of Autonomist Marxism
See Alphabetical
Index to the collection.
International Institute for Research and Education
(IIRE)
Includes Ernest Mandel Study
Centre (eminent Trotskyist thinker & leader).
James & Grace Lee Boggs Center
News & Letters
Organization dedicated to the Hegelian Marxist Humanism of Raya Dunayevskaya.
Site includes texts & articles from the periodical News & Letters.
Marxist-Humanist Committee
New splinter group from News & Letters.
See also The Hobgoblin (UK Marxist-Humanist
online journal).
Marxist-Humanist Initiative (MHI)
The Center for
Political Ecology
See also Cyberbooks.
The Brecht Forum
Formerly known as the New York Marxist School.
Papers of Jack Lindsay (1900-1990) (MS 7168, National Library of Australia)
Wystawa BUND - SOCJALIZM POLSKICH ŻYDÓW
Exhibition on the Jewish Labor Bund in Poland
Organizations: Marxist & Radical Philosophy & Theory
Marx and Philosophy Society (UK)
Society for the Philosophical Study of Marxism (USA)
Radical Philosophy Association (USA)
Political Studies
Association, Marxism Specialist Group (UK)
See also the annual Studies in Marxism,
Annual & Conference
Reports, & MEGA.
Organizations: Political Parties & Groups
Foreign Language Federations 1890s-1930 (USA)
Revolutionary Communist Party, USA (Maoist)
Note theoretical articles by topic.
The Workmen's Circle
Historic left-wing Yiddishkeit
Esperanto
Esperanto & Laborista Movado / Esperanto
& the Labor Movement
Retgvidilo, Bibliografio, Dokumentado / Web Guide, Bibliography, Documentation
On this site, with external links.
Resources on this Site
Instead of listing all web pages by Marxists or pertaining to Marxism individually, I will list bibliographies and study guides where relevant links can be found, and individual pages that don't fit into these categories or that belong to other categories designated below. This task is inherently selective as there is no boundary delimiting Marxism.
Study Guides
Bibliographies
Labor & Black Radicalism
Blogs
Texts by Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky
R. Dumain on Karl Marx
Texts by & about Bakunin
Alvin Gouldner
Study Materials
Other Marxist & Radical Thinkers, Writers, & Activists
Selected Writings of Various Authors
Science and Nature, issues #1-10 (1978-1989) with links to complete issues offline
Philosophical Quotations
Selected Writings of R. Dumain
Esperanto Texts
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