Theory

John Molyneux • What is the real Marxist tradition?

Click here to learn more about the central ideas of Marx21 US by reading John Molyneux’s pamphlet “What is the real Marxist Tradition?”

Chris Harman • How Marxism works

A short book introducing Marxists ideas.

Hal Draper • The Two Souls of Socialism

The classic essay on Marx and “socialism from below” as opposed to the Stalinist states, reformist social democracy, and other varieties of socialism from above (first drafted in 1960, and printed in New Politics in 1966).

Tony Cliff • Marxism at the Millennium

A collection of brief essays on Marxism. These essays were written in the last year of his life for revolutionary socialist organizations in Germany and turkey.

Tony Cliff • Rosa Luxemburg

“The Russian Revolution of 1905 gave flesh and blood to an idea Rosa Luxemburg had conceived some years earlier: that mass strikes – political and economic – constitute a cardinal element in the revolutionary workers’ struggle for power, distinguishing socialist from all previous revolutions. Now she elaborated the idea on the basis of a new historical experience” Read More…

Chris Harman • Party and Class

“Party and Class” was released in 1968, published originally as a pamphlet, and outlines Marx21’s perspective on party-building and its relationship to class politics.

Tony Cliff • Lenin I, Building the Party

Click here to read the 1975 text “Lenin I, Building the Party” the first volume of Tony Cliff’s four-volume political biography of V.I.Lenin.