1. Agrarian Socialism
   The Co-operative Commonwealth in Saskatchewan: A Study in Political Sociology
   Resource Type: Book
   
2. Alex in Wonderland
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1993
   
3. The Anatomy of a Party
   The National CCF 1932-1961
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1961
   
4. Bernstein and the Marxism of the Second International
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 1969   Published: 1972
   An essay from the collection entitled From Rouseau to Lenin: Studies in Ideology and Society, First published as Ideologia e Societá by Editori Laterza, Rome, Italy.
   
5. Beyond Social Democracy
   The City and Urban Socialism
   Resource Type: Book
   
6. Briefe aus dem Gefangnis
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1946
   
7. Build It Now
   Socialism for the Twenty-First Century
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2006
   Influenced by the dramatic proeesses unfolding in Venezuela, Lebowitz re-imagines a socialism for the twenty-first century that places workers and popular communities at the centre of the project.
8. Can the NDP be Socialist?
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 1978
   Simon Rosenblum argues that the left should work to transform the NDP, not ignore it.
9. Co-operative Commonwealth Federation
   Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   a Canadian political party founded in 1932 in Calgary, Alberta, by a number of socialist, farm, co-operative and labour groups, and the League for Social Reconstruction. In 1944, it became the government of Saskatchewan under T.C. Douglas.
10. Coldwell, Major James William
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    (1888-1974). Canadian social democratic politician, and leader of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation party from 1942 to 1960.
11. Co-operative Commonwealth Federation
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A political coalition of progressive, socialist and labour forces anxious to establish a political vehicle capable of bringing about economic reforms to improve the circumstances of those suffering the effects of the Great Depression.
12. A Critique of the Draft Social-Democratic Program of 1891
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1891
    
13. Debating the NDP
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1991
    Activists seeking radical change need to understand that it is fruitless to base their strategies on the assumption that the NDP can be the vehicle for achieving their goals.
14. The Dilemma of Canadian Socialism
    The C.C.F. in Ontario
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
    
15. Douglas, Tommy
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    (1904-1986). Scottish-born Baptist minister who became a prominent Canadian social democratic politician.
16. The End of Parliamentary Socialism
    From New Left to New Labour
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1997
    
17. Essays on the Left
    Essays in Honour of T.C. Douglas
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1971
    
18. Evolutionary Socialism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1899
    
19. For Communism: Propositions on a Strategy for Revolution in the Advanced Capitalist Countries
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1970
    A series of 100 propositions addressing the strategic vacuum on the Italian and European left at the end of the 1960s.
    
20. Ginger Group
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    An independent group of members of Parliament who in 1924 split from the Progressive Party.
21. Imagine Democracy 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    Rebick calls for the transformation of fundamental institutions in Canada: the economy, the media and the electoral system.
22. Imperialism, the World War and Social Democracy
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1914
    The true cause, the trigger, the author of this war, is therefore not any particular State, but all the States that pursue an imperialist policy and seek to expand their territories: Germany, England, France, Austria-Hungary, Russia, Belgium and Japan; each one separately and all of them together are its cause. All the chatter of the bourgeois and socialist parties and their newspapers, according to which we are witnessing a war of national defense in which we are obliged to participate because we were attacked, all this chatter is nothing but a trick to dissimulate each country's culpability under a beautiful façade. To say that Germany, Prussia or England is the cause of the war is as stupid and as false as to assert that the cracks which open up on a volcano are the cause of its eruption.
    For many years, all the European States have been arming for this conflict. All of them want to satisfy their own rapacity and greed. All of them are equally guilty.
23. Irvine, William
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    (1885-1962). Was a Canadian politician, journalist and clergyman.
24. Karl Kautsky: From Marx to Hitler
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1939
    What distinguished Kautsky from the general run of intellectuals who flocked to the labour movement as soon as it became more respectable and who were only too eager to foster the trend of class collaboration, was a greater love for theory, a love which refused to compare theory with actuality. Only as a theoretician could Kautsky remain a revolutionist; only too willingly he left the practical affairs of the movement to others. owever, he fooled himself. In the role of a mere ‘theoretician’, he ceased to be a revolutionary theoretician, or rather he could not become a revolutionist. As soon as the scene for a real battle between capitalism and socialism after the war had been laid, his theories collapsed because they had already been divorced in practice from the movement they were supposed to represent.
25. Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution 
    Volume III: The Dictatorship of the Proletariat
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1986
    Hal Draper examines how Marx and Marxism dealt with the issue of dictatorship in relation to the revolutionary use of force and repression, particularly as this debate has centered on the use of the term "dictatorship of the proletariat." Draper strips away the layers of misinterpretation and misinformation that have accumulated over the years to show what Marx and Engels themselves meant by the term.
    
26. League for Social Reconstruction
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Organization of left-wing intellectuals, founded 1931-32 in Montréal and Toronto, largely in response to the Great Depression.
27. League for Social Reconstruction
    Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A circle of Canadian socialist intellectuals formed in 1931 by academics advocating radical social and economic reforms and political education.
28. Let's Stop Kidding Ourselves About the NDP
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1989
    Canadian socialists are terribly reluctant to give up their illusions about the NDP.
29. Living socialism, The experience of the eighties
    New Internationalist November 1985
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1985
    Discussion focusing on the challenges of living a socialist life in modern times. Political commitments to meeting people's needs can be more rhetoric than reality. "How can socialism maintain its ideals in an international climate shaped by those hostile towards it?"
30. Main Currents of Marxism
    Volume 1: The Founders
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1978
    
31. Manifestos, Programs, Visions 
    Selected Manifestos - Political Statements - Programs
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 1649   Published: 2009
    A selection of left manifestos, programs, poltical statements and visions from the 1600s to today.
32. Marxism and Freedom 
    From 1776 to Today
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1958   Published: 1971
    Dunayevskaya argues that Marx's theory is the generalisation of the instinctive striving of the proletariat for a new social order, a truly human society.
33. Marxists Internet Archive 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
34. The NDP: The Dream of Power
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1974
    
35. The No-Nonsense Guide to Democracy 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2002
    Ths book explores how democracy is constricted and deformed by economic power-brokers and a self-serving political class.
36. Our Canada
    The Story of the New Democratic Party Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    
37. Parliamentary Socialism
    Resource Type: Book
    
38. A People's History of the World
    From the Stone Age to the New Millennium
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1999
    Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative or ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals.
39. A Prophet in Politics
    A Biography of J.S. Woodsworth
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1959
    
40. Radical Digressions 2
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 1981   Published: 2000
    
41. Reclaiming a Continent: Experiments in Radical Social Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
    An in-depth and accessible introduction to Latin American politics. Avoiding superficial analysis and simplistic leftist cheerleading, this book addresses the complexity and diversity of the new Latin American left.
42. The Red Menace 
    A libertarian socialist newsletter
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1975   Published: 1980
    Articles on topics such as socialism, Marxism, anarchism, work, popular education, organizing, wages for housework, Leninism, bureaucracy, hierarchy, jargon, prostitution, obscenity, science fiction, and terrorism.
    
43. The Regina Manifesto: Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Programme
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Adopted by the founding convention of the CCCF in Regina, Saskatchewan, July, 1933.
    
44. Rosa Luxemburg 
    Selected Political Writings
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
    A selection of Rosa Luxemburg's writings which highlight her outstanding contributions to the theory and practice of revolutionary socialism.
    
45. Rosa Luxemburg, Women's Liberation, and Marx's Philosophy of Revolution 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1981   Published: 1982
    Part I - Rosa Luxemburg as Theoretician, as Activist, as Internationalist. Part II - The Women's Liberation Movement as Revolutionary Force and Reason. Part III - Karl Marx—From Critic of Hegel to Author of Capital and Theorist of "Revolution in Permanence."
    
46. Second International
    Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Organization of socialist and labour parties formed in Paris on July 14, 1889.
47. The Second International (Social-Democracy)
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    A collection of documents on the Second International 1880-1917.
48. Social Democracy
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Social democracy could be defined by its opposition not only to capitalism but also to communism. Social democrats are resolute in their defence of individual rights and constitutional methods, and in their repudiation of the Marxist concept of the dictatorship of the proletariat.
49. Social Democracy and Communism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1919   Published: 1927
    Once again, as in the time of Marx, communism as a revolutionary and proletarian movement confronts socialism as a reformist and bourgeois movement. And the new communism is not just a new edition of the theory of radical social democracy. As a result of the world crisis, it has gained new depth, which totally differentiates it from the old theory.
50. Social Democracy and Parliamentarism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1904
    
51. Social Democracy in Manitoba
    A History of the C.C.F- NDP
    Resource Type: Book
    
52. Social Reform or Revolution 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1900   Published: 1908
    Rosa Luxemburg's attack on reformism.
53. La Social-Democracie et les militants chretiens; texte-outil no. 6
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1978
    
54. The Socialist Register 1988
    Problems of Socialist Renewal: East & West
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1988
    An examination of the prospects for socialism written shortly before the fall of the Soviet Union.
    
55. Society of the Spectacle 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1967   Published: 2005
    An analysis of modern society and how it can be changed written in the form of 221 theses. The first thesis reads: "In societies dominated by modern conditions of production, life is presented as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has receded into a representation." Translator Ken Knabb describes the book as "an effort to clarify the nature of the society in which we find ourselves and the advantages and drawbacks of various methods for changing it. Every single thesis has a direct or indirect bearing on issues that are matters of life and death."
56. The Unknown Dimension 
    European Marxism Since Lenin
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
    The radical intellectual tradition of European post-Leninist Marxism, so different from the dogma of the orthodox leftist parties, is an unknowwn dimension. This anthology sets out to recover this Marxist tradition and to restore the centrality of Marxist revolutionary thought and practice.
57. Waffle
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A group established in 1969 as a caucus within the new democratic party.
58. The Waffle Manifesto: For an Independent Socialist Canada
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1969
    The founding statement of the Waffle group within the New Democratic Party.
59. Winnipeg Declaration of Principles
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    The principles of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation.
60. Woodsworth, James Shaver
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    (1874-1942). Methodist minister, social worker, politician.

Experts on Social Democracy in the Sources Directory

1. Marxists Internet Archive