This is a list of important works in the Marxist canon. Each of the works has three features:
*I have read it
*The work is available to read online
*I find it invaluable in explaining some aspect of Marxism.
Marxist CanonMarx:The Manifesto Of the Communist Party [
X][
PDF] { the Manifesto }
READ THIS NOW!Wage Labour and Capital [
X] { WLC }
Value, Price and Profit [
X] (also called
Wages, Price and Profit) { WPP }
The Civil War in France [
X] { CivWar }
Critique of the Gotha Programme [
X] { Gotha }
The Class Struggles in France [
X] { Class Struggles }
The Holy Family [
X] { Holy Family }
Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right [
X] { CritRight }
Writings on the North American Civil War [
X] { US Civil War }
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte [
X] { Brumaire }
Engels:Principles of Communism [
X] {PrinCom}
READ THIS NOW! READ THIS NOW! READ THIS NOW!Dialectics of Nature [
X][
PDF] { DoN }
Origins of the Family, Private Property, and the State [
X][
PDF] { OFFPS }
READ THIS NOW!Socialism: Utopian and Scientific [
X] [
PDF] { Socialism }
READ THIS NOW!The Housing Question [
X] [
PDF] { HQ }
Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical Germany Philosophy [
X] { Feuerbach }
On the History of the Communist League [
X] { HCL }
Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Germany [
X] { RCRG }
The Bakuninists At Work [
X] { B@W }
Anti-Duhring [
X] { Anti-Duhring }
Lenin:Better Fewer, But Better [
X] { Better Fewer }
The State and Revolution [
X] { S&R }
READ THIS NOW!Proletarian Reavolution and the Renegade Kautsky [
X] { PR&RK }
What Is To Be Done? [
X][
PDF] { WITBD? }
The Three Sourses and Three Component Parts of Marxism [
X] { Three Sources }
READ THIS NOW!Materialism and Empirio-Criticism [
X] { MEc }
Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism [
X][
PDF] { Imperialism }
"Left-Wing" Communism: An Infantile Disorder [
X][
PDF] { Infantile }
Purging the Party [
X] { PurgeParty }
Can the Bolsheviks Retain State Power [
X] { RetPower }
Trotsky:Terrorism and Communism [
X] { TerCom }
The lessons of October [
X][
PDF { LesOct }
The Death Agony of capitalism and the Tasks of the Fourth International [
X][
PDF] { TransProg }
READ THIS NOW!The Revolution Betrayed [
X] { RevBet }
Some Results and Prospects [
X] { ResPros }
The Permanent Revolution [
X] { PermRev }
The Third International After Lenin [
X][
PDF] { 3intAfter }
The Stalin School of Falsification [
X][
PDF] { Falsification }
Their Morals and Ours [
X] { Morals }
READ THIS NOW!In Defence of Marxism [
X][
PDF] { IDM }
Others:Hill: The English Revolution [
X]
Kautsky: The Foundations of Christianity [
X]
Luxemburg: The Junius Pamphlet [
X]
Mehring: On Historical Materialism [
X]
Plekhanov: The Materialist Conception of History [
X]
Not in the Marxist canon, but great articles:International Communist League (Fourth Internationalist):Declaration of Principles and Some Elements of Program [
X]
Critical Notes on the “Death of Communism” and the Ideological Conditions of the Post-Soviet World [
X]
The Bankruptcy of "New Class" Theories [
X]
China on the Brink: Workers Political Revolution or Capitalist Enslavement? [
X]
The "N" Word in Racist America [
X]
Marxist Principles and Electoral Tactics [
X]
Afghanistan and the Left: The Russian Question Point Blank [
X]
The Senile Dementia of Post-Marxism [
X]
U.S./UN Crusade Against "Sex Trafficing" [
X]
Obama: Commander-In-Chief of Racist U.S. Imperialism [
X]
U.S. Capitalism in Decay [
X]
How Marx Became a Marxist [
X]
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Marxism vs Anarcism [
X]