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  1. The Abolition of the State
    Anarchist & Marxist Perspectives

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    Both Anarchists and Marxists believe that it will be possible to do away with the state. But what do they mean by that? What is the state, after all? What institutions, if any, would be necessary to replace its functions? Would a transitional “dictatorship of the proletariat” be needed or will it be possible to immediately abolish the state? Does modern technology require a centralized institution such as the state? Throughout the history of revolutions, the people have created workplace councils and neighborhood assemblies--how could these replace the state?
  2. The Accumulation of Capital 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1913
    Rosa Luxemburg's analysis of the inherent contradictions of capitalist accumulation.
  3. The Accumulation of Capital An Anti-Critique
    The Accumulation of Capital, or What the Epigones Have Made of Marx's Theory

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1915   Published: 1921
    Rosa Luxemburg's reply to the critics of her book The Accumulation of Capital. Originally written in 1915 while Luxemburg was interned in the women’s prison, Barnimstrasse, Berlin, and published after her death.
  4. Advanced Capitalism and the Revolutionary Left
    Towards a New Practice

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1973
    The programme of the Winnipeg Labour Collective, its understanding of socialism's past forms and its conception of socialism's future.
  5. Adventures in Marxism 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1999
    Marshall Berman explores and rejoices in the emancipatory potential of Marxism.
  6. After the Crash
    The Emergence of the Rainbow Economy

    Resource Type: Book
  7. After the New Economy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003
  8. Against Capitalism
    The European Left on the March

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
  9. Against the Market
    Political Economy, Market Socialism and the Marxist Critique

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
  10. Alienation, Marx's theory of
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    As expressed in the writings of the young Karl Marx, refers to the separation of things that naturally belong together, or to put antagonism between things that are properly in harmony. In the concept's most important use, it refers to the social alienation of people from aspects of their "human nature". He believed that alienation is a systematic result of capitalism.
  11. All That Is Solid Melts Into Air 
    The Experience of Modernity

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1982   Published: 1988
    Berman examines the clash of classes, histories, and clutures in the modern world, and ponders our prospects for coming to terms with the relationship between a liberating social and philosophical idealism and a complex, bureaucratic materialism.
  12. Alternative Press Center
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Annotated links to alternative points of view available on the Internet.
  13. The American Socialist Movement: 1897-1912
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1952
  14. Another World is Possible 
    Globalization and anti-capitalism

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2002   Published: 2006
    A polemical call-to-arms for all progressive activists. McNally argues that capitalism is synonymous with imperialism and fundamentally incompatible with democracy.
  15. Another world is possible if... 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2004
    Susan George suggests that we can create a new and better world -- if we act together to bring about changes. She discusses the ifs and hows.
  16. An Anti-Capitalist Manifesto 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003
    An extended argument about what the anti-capitalist movement should stand for.
  17. Autonomous Struggles and the Capitalist Crisis
    A Workers' Autonomy Pamphlet

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1974
  18. Bad Marxism
    Capitalism and Cultural Studies

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2004
    Cultural Studies commonly claims to be a radical discipline. This book thinks that's a bad assessment. After an introduction critiquing the 'Marxism' of the academy, Hutnyk provides detailed critical analyses of the approaches and theorists of cultural studies.
  19. Baran and Sweezy's Monopoly Capital
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1966
  20. Beating Back the Corporate Attack 
    Socialism and the struggle for global justice

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    Our movement is calling for a new direction -- for democratic control of our political life, and for democratic control over the most important aspects of the economy. Why should handful of the super-rich run the planet, and, moreover, run it into the ground?
  21. Behind Closed Doors 
    How The Rich Won Control of Canada's Tax System... And Ended Up Richer

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
  22. The Biggest 'October Surprise' Of All: A World Capitalist Crash 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2008
    Today we see the Western bourgeoisie, disarmed by its own neo-liberal ideology, falling back in a flash on Keynesianism, injecting hundreds of billions of dollars into the banking system to stave off collapse, and dusting off forgotten laws and powers from 70 years ago to push through their emergency measures.
  23. Break Their Haughty Power 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Articles on capitalism, socialism, and revolution, from a left-Marxist perspective.
  24. 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.
  25. Canada's Great Divide
    The politics of the growing gap between rich and poor in the 1990s

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
  26. The Canadian City
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
  27. Das Capital, Volume 1 
    A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1867   Published: 1890
    Marx's great work sets out to grasp and portray the totality of the capitalist mode of production, and the bourgeois society that emerges from it. He describes and connects all its economic features, together with its legal, political, religious, artistic, philosophical and ideological manifestations.
  28. Das Capital, Volume 2
    The Process of Circulation of Capital

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1893   Published: 1956
  29. Das Capital, Volume 3
    The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1894   Published: 1971
  30. Capitalism and the Ecological Footprint
    Published in Monthly Review, Volume 61, Number 6 - November 2009

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    The capture of ecological discourse by the political culture of the consensus (a necessary expression of the conception of capitalism as the end of history) is well advanced. In contrast, the expression of the demands of the socialist counterculture is fraught with difficulty—because socialist culture is not there in front of our eyes. It is part of a future to be invented, a project of civilization, open to the creativity of the imagination.
  31. Capitalism and the Information Age
    The Political Economy of the Global Communication Revolution

    Resource Type: Book
    A rigorous examination of some of the most crucial problems and possibilities of new technologies.
  32. Capitalism and the National Question in Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
  33. Capitalism and Theory
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1974
    About the permanent arms economy, the latest phase of capitalism.
  34. Capitalism for Beginners
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1981
    An amusing, soundly researched, and highly accessible illustrated book that tells you everything you want to know about capitalism.
  35. Capitalism is Icky!
    Resource Type: Photo/Image/Poster
    First Published: 1977
  36. Capitalism, The Family, and Personal Life
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
  37. Centre for Social Justice
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Research and education for the movement for social justice.
  38. Challenging McWorld
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2001
  39. Chomsky.Info 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    The Noam Chomsky Web site.
  40. Class Warfare
    Interviews with David Barsamian

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1996
  41. The Common Good
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1998
    Interviews with Noam Chomsky on the U.S. and the world.
  42. The Competition Myth - The Real Meaning of the Last Twenty-five Years
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1997
    The problems which working people have suffered in the last twenty-five years are not problems which the ruling elite are trying to solve but weapons they have devised to attack working people in a class war.
  43. Connexions
    Volume 5, Number 5 - January 1981 - Militarism/Militarisme

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1981
  44. Connexions
    Volume 6, Number 2 - April 1981 - Urban Core/Milieu Urbain

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1981
  45. Connexions Annual Resource and Reading List
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1994
    A short and selective list of resources on issues addressed in the Connexions Annual, such as environment, education, peace, interntional development, women's issues, urban issues, housing, human rights, civil liberties, social change.
  46. The Corporate Consensus
    A Guide to the Institutions of Global Power

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2000
    A detailed guide to the institutions and corporations which occupy the commanding heights of corporate power in the world today.
  47. Corporate Power and Canadian Capitalism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1986
    Carroll looks at the accumulation of capital in Canada since the Second World War. Most of the book is devoted to tracing actual patterns of corporate ownership and intercorporate relationships.
  48. The Corporation
    The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2003
    Makes the case that corporations function as a psychopathic entity. A companion to Mark Achbar's 2003 documentary of the same name.
  49. The Corporations and the State
    Essays in the Theory of Capitalism and Imperialism

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1974
  50. Creative Destruction: The Madness of the Global Economy
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2008
    The current system of economics, particularly the latest stage of #turbo-capitalism#, known inoffensively as #neoliberalism#, is built upon painful boom-and-bust cycles fuelled by corporate greed and maintained by cynical deception of the public. The costs to the planet # in terms of human suffering and environmental collapse # are staggering.
  51. 'Creative Destruction' - The Madness of the Global Economy - Part 2
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2008
    The dominant system of economics is unstable, inimical to social justice and lethally damaging to the environmental support systems on which we all depend. A major failure in professional journalism has been the refusal to analyse this; or even to report that real growth rates in the developed world have been declining since the 1970s.
  52. The Crisis of Modern Society
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1967
    Based on a talk given by Paul Cardan at Kent in 1965, "Crisis" elucidates upon the several endemic problems of modern societies, touching on the sciences, education, and the organization of work.
  53. The Critique of Capitalist Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
  54. The Death Agony of Capitalism and the Tasks of the Fourth International
    Resource Type: Book
  55. Decolonization and Empire
    Contesting the Rhetoric and Reality of Resubordination in Southern Africa and Beyond

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    John Saul scrutinizes the subjects of empire and the new neocolonialist states of Southern Africa funded by the International Monetary Fund, World Trade Organization and World Bank. The gap between rich and poor continues to grow as the unequal opportunities and material outcomes of the free market entrench themselves. This hierarchy is in part self-creating and self-sustaining but also locked into place by these international institutions.
  56. Democracy Against Capitalism 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1995
    Wood provides a brilliant explication and defense of the key theoretical concepts relevant to socialism, understood to be the most radical social and economic democracy.
    For a review, see http://www.solidarity-us.org/node/2198.
  57. Democracy for the Few
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988   Published: 1995
    How does the U.S. political system work and for what purpose? What are the major forces shaping political life and how do they operate? Who governs in the United States? Who gets what, when, how, and why? Who pays and in what ways. These are the central questions investigated in this book.
  58. Democracy's Oxygen
    How Corporations Control the News

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1997
    Winter shows that far from providing "democracy's oxygen," the news media legitimize a fundamentally undemocratic system. Instead of keeping the public informated, news organizations manufacture public consent for policies which favour the corporate elite.
  59. Devastating Crisis Unfolds
    Against The Current vol. 132

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2008
    Bob Brenner, for the ATC editors. The current crisis could well turn out to be the most devastating since the Great Depression. It manifests profound, unresolved problems in the real economy that have been — literally — papered over by debt for decades, as well as a shorter term financial crunch of a depth unseen since World War II. The combination of the weakness of underlying capital accumulation and the meltdown of the banking system is what’s made the downward slide so intractable for policymakers and its potential for disaster so serious. The plague of foreclosures and abandoned homes — often broken into and stripped clean of everything, including copper wiring — stalks Detroit in particular, and other Midwest cities.
  60. A Dictionary of Marxist Thought
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983
  61. Dilemmas of Domination
    The Unmaking of the American Empire

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
    Argues that in a not-too-distant future the American empire's hidden weaknesses will pose fatal challenges to American supremacy.
  62. Discussion of Marx's Theory of Crisis (Part 1)
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1972
  63. Do It
    Scenarioes of the Revolution

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
  64. Don't socialize the losses - take the whole thing! 
    Socialize all of finance under democratic control!

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2008
    A demand that a few weeks ago would have seemed leftist utopianism is now entirely reasonable and indeed the only practical solution. If ALL the financial institutions- banks, insurance companies, saving and loans, pension funds - become state property, their worthless loans to each other can be wiped off the books as the mere paper that they are.
  65. Ecology Against Capitalism
    Resource Type: Book
    Deals with such issues as pollution, sustainable development, technological responses to environmental crisis, population growth, soil fertility, the preservation of ancient forests, and the "new economy" of the Internet age.
  66. Ecology as Politics 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1980
    Socialism is no better than capitalism if it makes use of the same tools. The total domination of nature inevitably entails a domination of people by the techniques of domination.
  67. The Ecology of Freedom 
    The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1982   Published: 2005
    Bookchin's synthesis of ecology, anthropology and political theory traces our conflicting legacies of hierarchy and freedom from the first emergence of human culture to today's globalized capitalism, constantly pointing the way to a sane, sustainable ecological future.
  68. Economics for Everyone
    A Short Guide to the Economics of Capitalism

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
  69. The Economics of Imperialism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1974
    Brown discusses different theories of the connection between capitalism and imperialism. His own position is derived from Rosa Luxemburg, holding that imperialism is a process of assimilation and transformation of economies into the sphere of competitive capital accumulation.
  70. Economics of the War Economy
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1959
    Ever since Lord Keynes# dictum that wars#like pyramid-building and earthquakes#may serve to increase wealth, it has been increasingly recognized that war and preparation for war are necessary aspects of the prevailing economy and a condition of its proper functioning.
  71. The Economics of War and Peace
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1956
    Wars, like crises, are inherent in uncontrolled capital accumulation even though their actual occurrence in time is not predictable.
  72. The Economy of Cities
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
  73. Emergence: An Irresistible Global Uprising
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2003
    An Essay from the Book We Are Everywhere.
  74. The Empire God Built
    Inside Pat Robertson's media machine

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1996
    A profile of the demagogue who become one of the most successful media moguls in the world.
  75. The End of Capitalism?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    For all those who wish to see a different world, this moment is dripping with opportunity because the old order is crumbling before our eyes.
  76. The Enemy
    Notes on Imperliasm and Revolution

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
  77. The Enemy of Nature 
    The End of Capitalism or the End of the World?

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2002   Published: 2007
    We live in and from nature, but the way we have evolved of doing this is about to destroy you. Capitalism and its by-products -- imperialism, war, neoliberal globalization, racism, poverty, and the destruction of community -- are all playing a part in the destruction of our ecosystem.
  78. The Enigma of Capital And the Crisis of Capitalism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2010
  79. Ernest Mandel#s Late Capitalism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1972
  80. Eurocentrism
    Resource Type: Book
    Amin argues that Eurocentrism is an ideological distortion, a myth and historical fallacy and argues for a new social, economic, cultural and political system based on socialist universalism.
  81. Europe's Green Alternative
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    The authors propose a continent of autonomous regions that are economically decentralized, feminist and underpinned by nonviolent social structures.
  82. Failure of a Dream?
    Essays in the History of American Socialism

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1974
    Examines the reasons for the relative weakness of American socialism.
  83. False Promises 
    The Shaping of American Working Class Consciousness

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
  84. The Faltering Economy
    The Problem of Accumulation Under Monopoly Capitalism

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1984
    The essays in this volume are part of a radical attempt to grapple with the problems of advanced capitalist development without discarding the real theoretical breakthroughs made by Keynes.
  85. Fictitious Capital for Beginners 
    Imperialism, 'Anti-Imperialism', and the Continuing Relevance of Rosa Luxemburg

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2007
    Rosa Luxemburg's framework enabled her to see how capitalism could ultimately destroy society - barbarism, in her words, or the 'mutual destruction of the contending classes' as the Communist Manifesto put it in 1847 - by being required to turn more and more to primitive accumulation and non-reproduction, a prophecy we see materializing before our eyes today.
  86. Fictitious Capital, Real Retrogression
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2002
    Rarely in its history has capital been so explicit in affirming that people exist for the well-being of the economy rather than the opposite. What is prescribed today in a language synthesizing Orwell and Goebbels is #reform#, #flexibility#, #risk#, #perfect markets=perfect democracy# and above all the pulverization of anything smacking of the #social#, from job security to decent retirement to public housing to welfare to progressive taxation to health care to unemployment insurance to the Social Security system to state-owned enterprises.
  87. Fictitious Capital and the Transition Out of Capitalism 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2005
    To understand the weight of fictitious capital in the current context, it is necessary to look beyond the merely economic to the class struggle. Despite the colossal efforts of ideology to deny or trivialize social antagonism, everything today is shaped by class struggle, both the one-sided class struggle waged for 30 years by the capitalist class, and even more so the potential threat of a two-sided struggle to re-emerge into the open.
  88. Food, Shelter and the American Dream
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1974
    Discusses the state of the American economy, the consequences for politics and culture that might arise from the new situation, and possible solutions.
  89. For a Worker's Recovery Plan - The Causes and Cures of a New Great Depression 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Economics is now not just for the experts. If anything is clear from the panic that started in mid- September, 2008, it is that workers must understand the economy. For clearly the 'experts' have no idea what they are doing.
  90. For Reasons of State
    Resource Type: Book
  91. For the Common Good
    Redirecting the Economy Toward Community, the Environment, and a Sustainable Future

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    The authors argue that America's growth-oriented, industrial economy has led to environmental problems and propose an alternative economic paradigm.
  92. Four Books on Hegemony and Resistance
    Against The Current vol. 120

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2006
    There are times when a key analysis has a wakeup effect. The last year saw the publication of four books that together have a potential of such an event, at least for those U.S. citizens who are motivated to try and understand and change the world. The four were not written with the idea that they would be read together, yet taken together they are, I believe, more thought-provoking than if considered separately.
  93. The Freudian Left
    Wilhelm Reich, Geza Roheim, Herbert Marcuse

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1969
    Paul Robinson tries to define a particular tradition in the history of psychoanalysis - the "radical" or "left-wing" tradition - through an analysis of its three most important representatives: Wilhelm Reich, Geza Roheim, and Herbert Marcuse.
  94. The FTAA and the WTO: the meta-program for global corporate rule
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2001
    The deepest and most systemic threat to civil and planetary life the world has ever faced is underway. Behind the disasters of regional economies and planetary ecosystems melting down, the threat is driven by an underlying meta-program, in terms of which every decision, every policy, every regulation and implementation is demanded and instituted by servant governments.
  95. FTAA, The Hydra's New Head
    Against The Current vol. 90

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2001
    Capitalism in many ways is like the mythical hydra of Greek legend, a gigantic serpent with multiple heads, the center one being immortal; every time an attacker chopped off one of its outer heads, two others grew in its place. It was killed by Heracles, with the assistance of his charioteer Iolaus. As Heracles chopped off a head, Iolaus would burn its neck cavity to keep new heads from growing. Eventually they were able to reach the center head and sever it from the body.
  96. General Perspectives on the Capitalist Development State and Class Struggle in East Asia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    We begin with a rather complex historical elaboration of the context in which a socialist and later specifically Marxist left arose in Japan, China and Korea, first of all to show the importance of the entire region (including Siberia) for the early Korean left, especially after colonization by Japan in 1910 made most legal socialist activity in Korea itself impossible. More importantly, this East Asian left, it will be argued, was as statist as the German-influenced modernizers building the region#s capitalism. There was nothing specifically Asian about this, as it characterized mainstream currents of the international left everywhere.
  97. Getting Started on Social Analysis in Canada
    Third Edition

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1984   Published: 1988
    See also CX2933.
  98. The Global Gang Thang
    A World of Change: Armed Young Men and Gansta Culture (Globalization and Community)

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
  99. Globalization and Feminism
    Against The Current vol. 135

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2008
    In the concluding chapter of this innovative and insightful anthology, Torry Dickinson and Robert Schaeffer argue that “A key development for both theory and politics has been that the intersection of different global hierarchies has led to the rise of global, intersecting social movements. Many of the movements that have emerged are feminist-inspired and women-centered because women have been targeted by male-dominated institutions as new sources of accumulation, profit, and greed.”
  100. Globalization and the Decline of Social Reform
    Into the Twenty-First Century

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1995
  101. The Great Unravelling
    From Boom to Bust in Three Short Years

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003
  102. Green Business: Hope or Hoax?
    Toward an Authentic Strategy for Restoring the Earth

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
    Is green business a viable strategy or a contradiction in terms?
  103. Green on Red
    Evolving Ecological Socialism

    Resource Type: Book
    Essays exploring alternative economic and political strategies within an ecological context.
  104. The Growth Illusion
    How economic growth has enriched the few, impoverished the many and endangered the planet

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992   Published: 1999
  105. The Grundrisse 
    Outlines of the Critique of Political Economy

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1857   Published: 1973
    Marx wrote this huge manuscript as part of his preparation for what would become A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy (published in 1859) and Capital (published 1867). The series of seven notebooks were rough-drafted by Marx, chiefly for purposes of self-clarification, during the winter of 1857-8. The manuscript became lost in circumstances still unknown and was first effectively published, in the German original, in 1953.
  106. Heretics and Renegades
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1955   Published: 1969
    Heretics and Renegades is a collection of essays which appeared in a number of British, American and French literary and scholarly periodicals.
  107. Highrise and Superprofits
    An Analysis of the Development Industry in Canada

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
  108. The Historical Moment That Produced Us 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    As we emerge, hopefully, from this dismal period of rollback, we recall Rosa Luxemburg's remark, shortly before her murder in 1919: "The revolution says: I was, I am, I shall be!" We assert the ongoing reality of communism, "the real movement developing before our eyes," as Marx put it in the Manifesto. Like Hegel's "knights of history," we locate our identities not in any immediacy but in the emerging new universal that must be the cutting edge of the next global offensive.
  109. A History of Canadian Wealth
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1914   Published: 1972
  110. A History of Capitalism
    1500#2000, New Edition

    Resource Type: Book
    Beaud#s analysis provides a realistic and thorough examination of the developments of capitalism in the last twenty years, including globalization, the accelerating speed of capital transfer, and the collapse of the Soviet empire.
  111. The History of Costa Rica
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1998   Published: 2007
    An overview of Costa Rican history with an emphasis on how Costa Ricans have been able to make their own history, "though they do not make it just as they choose."
  112. Imperialism, Nationalism, and Canada.
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1977
    Interpretations of Canada's status in the system of world imperialism and the internal dynamics of class, race, and region within the Canadian national state.
  113. International Forum on Globalization
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    An alliance of activists, scholars, economists, researchers and writers formed to stimulate new thinking, joint activity, and public education in response to economic globalization.
  114. Die Internationalisierung der kapitalistischen Produktionsverhältnisse und der Nationalstaat
    Internationale Marxistische Diskussion 42

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
  115. Interview with Ulli Diemer
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1990
    Jeff Orchard interviews Ulli Diemer about socialism, capitalism, life, and social change.
  116. Introduction to Capital 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1932
    Marx's book on capital, like Plato's book on the state, like Machiavelli's Prince and Rousseau's Social Contract, owes its tremendous and enduring impact to the fact that it grasps and articulates, at a turning point of history, the full implications of the new force breaking in upon the old forms of life. All the economic, political, and social questions, upon which the analysis in Marx's Capital theoretically devolves, are today world-shaking practical issues, over which the real-life struggle between great social forces, between states and classes, rages in every corner of the earth.
  117. An Introduction to Capitalism
    Four lectures on Marxian Economies

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1971
  118. Introduction to Marx's Capital
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
    This book is aimed to guide the first time reader through a difficult and intricate text. Harvey makes CAPITAL relevant to the understanding of contemporary capitalism.
  119. Introduction to Social Revolution
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1976
    A Short Introduction to Social Revolutionary Politics, with short articles on ""Capitalism," "War," "State Capitalism," "National Liberation and Imperialism," "Racism," "Sex Roles," "Education," and "Reform and Revolution."
  120. Inventing Reality 
    The Politics of News Media

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    Parenti sets out to demonstrate how the news media distort important aspects of social and political life and why they do.
  121. The Invention of the White Race
    Volume One: Racial Oppression and Social Control

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    One of the great contributions of Allen's study is a complete debunking of the myth that race and skin colour are the same thing.
  122. Ireland and the Irish Question
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1971
    Brings together all of Marx's and Engels' writing on Ireland in one volume.
  123. Is Capitalism Sustainable?
    Political Economy and the Politics of Ecology

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    The book concludes that world-scale capitalism may be viable for some time, but its costs (cultural, ecological, increased conflict) will be great.
  124. The Joy of Revolution 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1997   Published: 2007
    Knabb says "What is needed, I believe, is a worldwide participatory-democracy revolution that would abolish both capitalism and the state. This is admittedly a big order, but I'm afraid that nothing less can get to the root of our problems. It may seem absurd to talk about revolution; but all the alternatives assume the continuation of the present system, which is even more absurd."
  125. Just Around the Corner
    The Paradox of the Jobless Recovery

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
    Aronowitz details how U.S. capitalism has achieved higher profits at the expense of the quality and quantity of jobs, and contradicts the ideological justifications that seek to justify deteriorating jobs, showing how they are neither a mark of efficiency nor a merely temporary problem.
  126. Karl Marx: Essential Writings
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
    A selection of Marx's writings ranging from his early works on philosophy, religion, alienation, and Hegelianism, through the materialist conception of history, the theoretical analysis of capitalism, and the politics of revolution. Bender provides informatative introductions setting the context for each set of materials.
  127. Karl Marxs Capital
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1939
    Otto Rühle's abridged version of Volume One of Das Capital. First published undeer the title "Living Thoughts of Karl Marx".
  128. Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution 
    Volume I: State and Bureaucracy

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1977
    A wide-ranging and thorough exposition of Marx's views on democracy.
  129. Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution 
    Volume II: The Politics of Social Classes

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1978
    Draper ranges through the development of the thought of Marx and Engels on the role of classes in society.
  130. Key Problems of the Transition from Capitalism to Socialism
    Resource Type: Book
  131. Killer Coke Exposed
    Against The Current vol. 135

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2008
    In their September-October 2006 Against the Current (ATC 124) article “The Real Life Side of Coke,” Camilo Romero and Leslie Gill documented the growing movement of students and labor organizations that developed as a response to calls for international solidarity by victims of torture and intimidation at Coke bottling plants in Colombia starting in the 1990s. Joe Zacune wrote in the same issue about a movement of communities in India fighting to preserve their water and their health from a series of infractions on Coke’s part.
  132. Left Business Observer
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Left Business Observer is a newsletter on economics and politics.
  133. Lies The Media Tell us
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    Outlines the extent to which the mainstream media is subject to its corporate publishers and advertisers.
  134. Life, Money & Illusion
    Living on Earth as if We Want to Stay

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
    The failure to reduce green house gas emissions, the success of efforts to curb ozone depletion, causes related to prosperity and social justice are just some the topics covered. By using the example of Kerela, India, Nickerson shows how a society by working together can become car-free, religious and bigotry free, have a high level of health care and literacy and be able to sustain itself on a fraction of the money on which we depend.
  135. 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?"
  136. The Logic of Marx's Capital
    Replies to Hegelian Criticisms

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
  137. The Long Twentieth Century
    Money, Power and the Origins of Our Times

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994   Published: 2009
    A comprehensive analysis of the development of world capitalism over the millennium.The Long Twentieth Century traces the epochal shifts in the relationship between capital accumulation and state formation over a 700-year period.
  138. Long Way From Home
    The story of the Sixties generation in Canada

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1980
    An account of the upheavals and transformations experienced by those who came of age in the 1960s, a time when international currents of change intersected with specifically Canadian events and circumstances.
  139. Malcolm X Speaks
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1965
    A series of speeches, seminars and press conferences given by Malcolm X during the last years of his life in 1964 and early 1965.
  140. Man's Worldly Goods
    The Story of the Wealth of Nations

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1936   Published: 1968
  141. Marx, Freud, and the Critique of Everyday Life
    Toward a Permanent Revolution

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1974
  142. Marx on Economics
    Resource Type: Book
  143. 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.
  144. Marx's Theory of Crisis as a Theory of Class Struggle
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1982
  145. The Meaning of Socialism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1961   Published: 1969
    Paul Cardan's 1961 discussion of modern conceptions of socialism, and the future of socialist movements.
  146. Melbourne: WEF Meets Real World
    Against The Current vol. 89

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2000
    Over 15 000 people from all corners of Australia and farther afield blockaded the Asia-Pacific summit of the World Economic Forum (W.E.F.) in Melbourne between September 11 and 13 in the latest expression of the mood of anti-capitalist action around the world.
  147. Meltdown
    The End of the Age of Greed

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
    Paul Mason, the economics editor of BBC Newsnight, discusses the current economic recession and how it has caused for the neo-liberal orthodoxy to be undermined. He explores the roots of the crisis , and envisions a new era of hyper-regulated capitalism.
  148. Modern Capitalism
    Resource Type: Book
    Sweezy treats capitalism as a world system within which the so-called underdeveloped regions are a necessary part, backward precisely because they have been forced to contribute so much to the development of the advanced capitalist countries.
  149. Modern Capitalism and Revolution 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1959   Published: 1975
    For revolutionaries one central point must be grasped to understand how the system works: the struggle of human beings against their alientation, and the ensuing conflict and split in all spheres, aspects and moments of socia life. As long as this struggle is there there ruling strata will continue to be unable to organise their system in a coherent way, and society will lurch from one accident to another. These are the conditions for revolutionary activity in the present epoch -- and they are amply sufficient.
  150. The Modern Crisis
    Resource Type: Book
  151. Modernity, postmodernity, or capitalism?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1996
  152. Monopoly Capital
    An essay on American economic and social order

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1966   Published: 1969
  153. Monopoly Capital
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1966
    For Baran and Sweezy, capitalist problems are exclusively market problems.
  154. Moscow Gangsters
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1992
    A conversation with Boris Kagarlitsky, a Russian social activist.
  155. Murdered by Capitalism
    A Memoir of 150 Years of Life & Death on the American Left

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2004
    Much of this book is in the form of a fictional dialogue between two radicals discussing the political events of both of their lifetimes.
  156. The Myth of the Labor Aristocracy, Part 1
    Against The Current vol. 123

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2006
    The persistence of reformism and outright conservatism among workers, especially in the imperialist centers of North America, Western Europe and Japan, has long confounded revolutionary socialists. The broadest outlines of Marxist theory tell us that capitalism creates it own "gravediggers" - a class of collective producers with no interest in the maintenance of private ownership of the means of production. The capitalist system's drive to maximize profits should force workers to struggle against their employers, progressively broaden their struggle and eventually overthrow the system and replace it with their democratic self-rule.
  157. The Myth of the Market
    Promises and Illusions

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    Advocates expelling the market from all those spaces it has inappropriately invaded.
  158. Naming the Moment
    Political Analysis for Action: A Manual for Community Groups

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    A given moment - this moment - is unlike any other moment in time. Howe can we understand what it offers so that we can make the best use of it? How have people used moments in the past to push toward greater social justice?
  159. Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism - Review
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Naomi Klein provides us with an engaging and easy to read account of the rise and rise of neoliberalism. However, her limited historical and analytical scope are disappointing.
  160. The New Capitalism and the Old Class Struggle
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1975
  161. New Democracy Internet site
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Supports a democratic revolution to overthrow corporate capitalism, but opposes socialism. Features short articles on labour issues, the deficit, education.
  162. News and Letters
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
  163. News & Letters: Draft for Marxist-Humanist Perspectives, 2006 - 2007
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2006
    We aim to help fill the void on the question of "what happens after" by creatively rethinking and restating his concept of "revolution in permanence" for today.
  164. The Next Liberation Struggle
    Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy in Southern Africa

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
    An indispensable guide to understanding how the resources of that era can be used to contribute to real liberation for the region and for the continent of Africa as a whole.
  165. 1973 Redux?: Continuity and Discontinuity in the Decline of Dollar-Centered World Accumulation
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2006
    The world today is poised between the U.S. and East Asian centered phases of capitalist expansion.
  166. The No-Nonsense Guide to Fair Trade
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2001
    Ransom suggests that fair, environmentally-conscious trade is not only a viable alternative to unfair free trade, but that it is the way of the future.
  167. The Nonsense of Planning
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1937
    The literature dealing with the problems of a planned economy has attained proportions comparable only with those of the depression which brought it forth. In all this welter of thought, we may distinguish three main currents: one which stands for the possibility of capitalist planning, another which denies it on principle, and a third which hovers between these extremes and finds its champions both in the bourgeois and socialist camps.
  168. On Naomi Klein's "The Shock Doctrine"
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2007
    Capitalism has always been a shock doctrine of selfish predation, as one can discover from Hobbes and Locke, Marx and Weber, none of them saluted by Klein. However there are huge third world economies that have been ravaged by neoliberalism that haven't endured "the shock doctrine" as defined by Klein. Ultimately Klen's analysis is limited and she is too gloomy and pessimistic about the power of capitalism.
  169. Once Again, On Fictitious Capital
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2003
    Luxemburg rightly took seriously, as a guide to Capital, Marx's vision of capitalism as a transitory phase between feudalism and socialism, and analyzed capitalism's expanded reproduction of society as meaningful in laying the material basis for a higher form of society.
  170. One Market Under God
    Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism, and the End of Economic Democracy

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
  171. The Ontogenesis of the Interest in Money
    Resource Type: Book
  172. Ontological "Difference" and the Neo-Liberal War on the Social 
    Deconstruction and Deindustrialization

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2001
    We have today legions of people with a smattering of knowledge turning out reams of books filled with buzz words that could be (and have been) produced by a computer program, and could be (and are) picked up in peer-group shop talk in a few months at the nearest humanities program or academic conference. Everyone these people don't like is trapped in a "gaze"; everyone "constitutes" their "identity" by "discourse"; to the fuddy-duddy "master narratives" that talk about such indelicate subjects as world accumulation these people counterpose "pastiche" and "bricolage", the very idea of being in any way systematic smacking of "totalitarianism"; it is blithely assumed that everyone except heterosexual white males now and for all time have been "subversives" (one wonders why we are still living under capitalism); a crippling relativism makes it somehow "imperial" to criticize public beheadings in Saudi Arabia or cliterodectomy practiced on five-year old girls in the Sudan.
  173. Outline of Marx#s Capital Volume I
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1979
    Marxism is wrongly considered to be a new #political economy.# It is true that, loosely speaking, even Marxists refer to Marx#s analysis of capitalist production as #Marxian political economy# But #Marxian political economy# is, in reality, a critique of the very foundations of political economy, which is nothing else than the bourgeois mode of thought of the bourgeois mode of production.
  174. The Paradox of Wealth: Capitalism and Ecological Destruction
    Published in Monthly Review Volume 61, Number 6- November 2009

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    A growing army of self-styled “sustainable developers” argues that there is no contradiction between the unlimited accumulation of capital and the preservation of the earth. The system can continue to expand by creating a new “sustainable capitalism,” bringing the efficiency of the market to bear on nature and its reproduction. In reality, these visions amount to little more than a renewed strategy for profiting on planetary destruction.
  175. The Passion for Free Markets
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1997
    Chomsky discusses the reasons for being skeptical of the WTO and its use as the forum for the export of American values.
  176. The People vs. Global Capital
    The G-7, NTCs, SAPs, and Human Rights

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    This book includes testimony presented to the Tribunal, the text of the Tribunal's indictment, and proposals for follow-up to the event.
  177. A People's History of the United States
    1492 - Present

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1995   Published: 2003
    Zinn's history includes those most ignored by typical American textbook history, including Indians, blacks, women and workers.
  178. 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.
  179. The Permanent Revolution & Results and Prospects
    Resource Type: Book
  180. The Perspective of the World
    Civilization and Capitalism 15th-18th Century, Vol. 3

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1984
  181. The Political Economy of Growth
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1968
  182. The Political Economy of Health
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1979   Published: 1889
  183. The Politics of Urban Liberation
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1978
  184. The Post- Industrial Utopians
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
  185. Poverty in Wealth
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1976
    A critique of existing poverty research in Canada.
  186. Powers and Prospects
    Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1996
  187. Pre-Capitalist Economic Formations
    Resource Type: Book
  188. Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1859
    Perhaps Marx's most succinct summary of his analysis of political economy.
  189. Presenting Insurgent Notes
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    We take our Marx and Engels seriously. Recent history, beginning perhaps (in the US) with the UPS strike of 1997 and the 'battle of Seattle' in 1999, now quickened by the abject financial and ideological meltdown (Fall 2008) of the three decades of the stifling 'neo-liberal' era, has favored a certain revival of the radical critique of capitalism, by which we understand first and foremost the work of Karl Marx.
    "Theory must seek its practice," Marx wrote long ago, but "practice must also seek its theory", and such theoretical ferment expresses the rising tide, in fits and starts reaching back to the 1990's, of an accelerating global reaction to the ravages of the 'neo-liberal', 'Washington consensus' phase of capitalism, after the rollback of what we might consider he last (l968-1977) offensive of the world working class.
  190. The Privatization Putsch
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    According to Hardin, privatization is the expression of the ideology of a right wing, corporate agenda: business wants to gets its hands on public funds and politicians are more than willing to hand over publicly owned enterprises and public services to business friends, nearly always on terms that are immensely favourable to the corporations involved.
  191. Production or Reproduction?
    Against A Reductionist Reading of Capital In the Left Milieu, And Elsewhere

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2002
    Most readers of Capital come to it with a #tool kit# of prejudices acquired from their immediate political and social milieu, (and one of course influenced by the dominant society), a #tool kit# usually imbued with various #hard-headed# ideas about an #early# and a #late# Marx, about Marx as being a completion of the #political economy# of Smith and Ricardo (and not the critique of political economy, as the sub-title of his book suggests), that this #late Marx# was an #economist# in the way that Keynes or Milton Friedman are (in fact) economists, and so on.
  192. Profit over People
    Neoliberalism and Global Order

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1999
  193. Progress Without People
    In Defense of Luddhism

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1995
    This book describes how jobs and skills will be lost through new technologies as they were in the 19th century industrial revolution.
  194. Property and Progress
    The Historical Origins and Social Foundations of Self-Sustaining Growth

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
    A collection of texts on the origins of capitalism with substantive material on the debate regarding the transition from feudalism to capitalism.
  195. Radical Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1997
    Lummis revives the meaning of democratic struggle and critques the economic and technological processes that have hindered its growth.
  196. Radical Digressions 2
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 1981   Published: 2000
  197. Radical Digressions 4
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 2006   Published: 2008
  198. Radical Perspectives in the Arts
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
    An anthology of Marxist literary and cultural criticism.
  199. Radical Perspectives on the Economic Crisis of Monopoly Capitalism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1975
  200. Ralph Nader and the Legacy of Revolt (Part 3)
    Against The Current vol. 90

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2001
    Ralph Nader has a complex relationship with the historical currents of change before World War I (populism, socialism and progressivism), but it may be his relationship to the Communism of the mid-twentieth century that has shaped his view of reform. Nader readily accepted the prevailing view that the Soviet regime exemplified the definition of socialism, that is, a concentration of bureaucratic power based on government ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution.
  201. Reading Capital Politically
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1981   Published: 2000
  202. Real Utopia 
    Participatory Society for the twenty-first century

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    Real Utopia identifies and obliterates the barriers to an egalitarian, bottom-up society, while convincingly outlining how to build it.
  203. Red and Green Eco-socialism comes of age
    New Internationalist November 1998

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1998
    Why socialists and environmentalists need to work together to bring about lasting change. Discussion of how inequality and environmental destruction are directly linked. Articles on development in India, predictions for the future, working hours and global consumption.
  204. 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.
  205. Reform and Revolution 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1967   Published: 1968
    An essay taken from Andre Gorz's Le Socialisme Difficile in which he discusses how socialist strategy can aim to crate the objective and subjective conditions which will make mass revolutionary action and engagement in a successful trail of strength with the bourgeoise possible.
  206. Restructuring and Resistance
    Diverse voices of struggle in Western Europe

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    The book consists of 77 individual chapters, almost all of them written by activists based on their experiences of struggle against the different aspects of capitalist globalisation. Those that aren't are chapters that give a theoretical background that links these struggles together, particularly in the opening section, 'The Europe of Capital'.
  207. Rethinking Camelot
    JFK, the Vietnam War, and US Political Culture

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    Chomsky analyzes the Kennedy Administration's policy on the Vietnam War and compares the US Administrations of Presidents Kennedy and Reagan.
  208. The Roaring Nineties
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003
  209. 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.
  210. Rosa Luxemburg
    Abridged Edition

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1966   Published: 1969
    A biography of Luxemburg by a British academic.
  211. The Rosa Luxemburg Reader 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2004
    A definitive one-volume collection of Luxemburg's writings.
  212. Rosa Luxemburg's Shock Doctrine
    The "Hideous Nakedness" of Imperial Wars

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2008
    Luxemburg's discussion regarding capitalism and democracy speaks to the world we live in today. Imperial war, she wrote, shows capitalism in 'all its hideous nakedness.' This bloody nakedness is not only essential to capitalist development, but depends on it. Indeed, it is the most cataclysmic and radical of all capitalist shocks.
  213. Selling Free Enterprise
    The Business Assault on Labor and Liberalism, 1945-60

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
  214. Seven Reasons Why Capitalism Can't Recover Anytime Soon
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    There is a larger disease in the international economic system, a disease that cannot be cured by politicians who swear allegiance to this deteriorating system and to the wealthy elite who benefit from it.
  215. The Shock Doctrine
    The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    Klein chronicles free-market disasters of recent years and advances a theory that we are living in the age of 'disaster capitalism'.
  216. Sign Crimes/Road Kill
    From Mediascape to Landscape

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    A collection of thirty short essays by Joyce Nelson, a writer specializing in the politics of the mass media.
  217. Silent Surrender
    The multinational corporation in Canada

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
  218. The Silent Takeover
    Global Capitalism and the Death of Democracy

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2001
    A combination of globalisation and the growing power of major corporations is rendering democratic governments impotent for influencing key decisions that affect the lives of ordinary people.
  219. Social Democracy Without Illusions
    Renewal of the Canadian Left

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
  220. Socialism and Revolution 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1967   Published: 1973
    Representative democracy in every industrially advanced country is in a state of profound crisis. But we have been accustomed for so long to accept democracy in the form of its outward appearances and parliamentary institutions that its decay often does not become apparent to us until those institutions have been either brushed aside or reduced to a purely decorative role.
  221. Socialism or Barbarism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1961   Published: 1969
    The combined socialist objectives from members of "Socialisme ou Barbarie" of France, "Unita Proletaria" of Italy, "Socialism Reaffirmed" of Great Britain, and "Pouvoir Ouvrier Belge" of Belgium.
  222. The Socialist Register 1979
    A Survey of Movements & Ideas

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1979
    A series of essays on the state of the global economy.
  223. The Socialist Register 1985/1986
    Social Democracy and After

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1986
  224. 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."
  225. The Sociology of Marx
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1966   Published: 1969
  226. Some Big Things Ha-Joon Chang Doesn’t Tell You About Capitalism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2011
    Chang exposes deadly falsehoods in many of the prevalent neoliberalism’s supposedly self-evident “free market” truths. But Chang’s book is plagued by key difficulties that belie its claim to iconoclasm, suggesting Chang’s own conservative adherence to dominant Western power structures and doctrines.
  227. The Spectacle
    A Skeleton Key

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1981
    An anarchistic meditation on the bankruptcy of contemporary life. Specifically the role of "spectacle" in representing reality has led to a complete dearth of presence in everyday human interaction.
  228. The Spectre of Capitalism
    The Future of the World Economy After the Fall of Communism

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
  229. Speed Up Rush to nowhere How turbo-capitalism eats time
    New Internationalist March 2002

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2002
    A look into the act of speeding up time and rushing to accomplish tasks and its consequences.
  230. The State as Protection Racket
    Chapters in the History of Daylight Robbery

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    The debate about the current global economic "crisis" is obscenely counterintuitive and illogical to the point of incoherence. Who is willing to #follow the money"? This dictum appears utterly forgotten, despite recurring astronomic fraud perpetrated by US corporations.
  231. The State in Capitalist Society
    The Analysis of the Western System of Power

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
  232. Strategy for Labour
    A Radical Proposal

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1964   Published: 1967
  233. Strike! 
    The True History of Mass Insurgence from 1877 to the Present

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972   Published: 1997
    A history-from-below that brings to light strikes as authentic revolutionary movements against the establishments of state, capital, and trade unionism.
  234. Studies in the Development of Capitalism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1947   Published: 1968
  235. Sustainability Searching for solutions
    New Internationalist November 2000

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2000
    A look at the issues and facts regarding sustainability around the world.
  236. Talk on Anarchism and Capitalism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2008
  237. Targeting Iran
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    A critical analysis of the Bush administration's policies towards Iran.
  238. Tearing Down the Seven Pillars of Neoliberalism 
    Manifesto 2007

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
  239. Telling the Truth
    Socialist Register 2006

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
    A collection of essays that examines the difficulties of illuminating the degenerative and secretive nature of public life.
  240. The Theory of Monopoly Capitalism
    An Elaboration of Marxian Political Economy

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1986
    This is the first systematic discussion of the Marxian political economy of Paul Baran, Paul Sweezy, Harry Magdoff, and Samir Amin. Foster explains their theoretical contributions and situates these in the context of ongoing debates on economic theory.
  241. The theory of the collapse of capitalism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1934
    Struggle is never simple or convenient.
  242. Today#s Epigones Who Try to Truncate Marx#s Capital
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1974
    Far from #ownership# alone determining the class relationship, Marx, from his first break with bourgeois society in 1843, through his leadership in the Workingmen#s (First) International Association in 1864, to his death in 1883, never varied from #dead labor dominating living labor# as the determinant of capitalism.
  243. Towards a Canadian Economy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1986   Published: 1995
  244. Trafficking and Prostitution Reconsidered
    New Perspectives on Migration, Sex Work, and Human Rights

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
    This collection of essays underscores the interlocking relationship between prostitution, migration and trafficking. They reveal a deep seated anxiety about borders, economic resources and the fragility of the nation-state. Far from from helping women and children become free from explotaiton, the obession with women sex workers has led to the detriment of all by excluding the questions of human rights, freedon of movement, basics such as food and shelter and a living wage. The book is a call for all those involved -- governments, aid workers and trafickees -- to go beyond a paternalistic and colonial view of these issues and deal with them in a spirit of cooperation.
  245. The Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism
    A Symposium

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1967   Published: 1979
  246. U.S. Labor's Subterranean Fire
    Against The Current vol. 131

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2007
    The broad outlines of the crisis of the U.S. labor movement -— sharply declining union density, concession bargaining, failures to organize the growing non-union manufacturing and service sectors, the labor officialdom’s reliance on institutionalized labor-management cooperation schemes — are familiar to readers of Against the Current. The roots of this crisis — the dominance of bureaucratic business unionism and the weakness of rank-and file-led reform movements from below — are also well-known.
  247. Value, Price and Profit
    Speech by Marx to the International Working Men's Association, June 1865

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1865   Published: 1898
  248. Viewpoint: Transnationals After Seattle
    Against The Current vol. 88

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2000
    Mass politics in the streets disappeared in the United States between 1970 and 1973. In retrospect, it is clear that the years 1964 to 1970 were not a “pre-revolutionary situation,” but anyone who lived through those years as an activist can be forgiven for thinking it was. Any number of people in the ruling circles shared the same error of judgment.
  249. Violence Today
    Actually Existing Barbarism

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    Looks at violence in many contexts: violence by men against women, violence by the state in inner cities, prisons, politically motivated violence and terror and the superabundance of weapons. Reflection is given to the sources of imperialism and globalized capitalism. The opening essay offers an overview of the scale and variety of contemporary violence while also taking up once again the question of socialism versus barbarism. Other essays analyze the nature and roots of paradigmatic cases and types of violence today around the world. Several essays deal from various different standpoints, with the still important question of whether violence has any place in socialist strategy in the context of today#s actually-existing barbarism.
  250. Voyages To Utopia
    From Monastery to Commune - The Search for the Perfect Society in Modern Times

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    The story of William McCord's exploration of utopian communities, both in person and through literature.
  251. Wall Street
    How it works and for whom

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1997
    A definitive overview of the financial markets and their economic and political role.
  252. The War after the War
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1918   Published: 1973
  253. We are everywhere: The irresistable rise of global anticapitalism 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003
    Global voices presenting alternative visions of democracy.
  254. We Can Get There From Here
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1998
    We pose the following question: Is the capitalist system really meeting our needs or is it undermining our needs by giving us artificial motivators which actually result in feelings of inadequacy and isolation?
  255. Western Capitalism Since the War
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1968   Published: 1970
  256. What Do We Do Now? Building a Social Movement in the Aftermath of Free Trade 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1989
    We have the potential to create a social movement in this country that goes beyond single-issue organizing to work toward an integrated vision of a more just and caring society.
  257. What Every Environmentalist Needs To Know about Capitalism
    A Citizen's Guide to Capitalism and the Environment

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2011
    A manifesto for those environmentalists who reject schemes of “green capitalism” or piecemeal reform. Magdoff and Foster argue that efforts to reform capitalism along environmental lines or rely solely on new technology to avert catastrophe misses the point. The main cause of the looming environmental disaster is the driving logic of the system itself, and those in power — no matter how “green” — are incapable of making the changes that are necessary.
  258. Who do we try to rescue today?
    Canada under corporate rule

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    A collection of essays discussing aspects of the role of corporations in late-20th-century Canada.
  259. Why Marx Was Right 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2011
    Eagleton takes common objections to Marxism and demonstrates how and why they are wrong.
  260. Within and Against the Market
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Radical initiatives which take subversive action from within the system.
  261. Working Lives
    Vancouver 1886-1986

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1986
  262. Working Toward Whiteness
    How America's Immigrants Became White

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
  263. World Orders Old and New
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
  264. Year 501 
    The Conquest Continues

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    An examination of the U.S. role in the world placed in the long historical perspective of the 500 years that followed the voyages of Columbus.
  265. Yesterday's News
    Why Canada's Daily Newspapers are Failing Us

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1998
    Illuminates the decline of print journalism, suggests reasons for this decline and proposes solutions to reverse this downward trend.

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