1. Action Will Be Taken
   Left Anti-Intellectualism and Its Discontents
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 2004
   Marxism's decline isn't just an intellectual concern—it too has practical effects. If you lack any serious understanding of how capitalism works, then it's easy to delude yourself into thinking that moral appeals to the consciences of CEOs and finance ministers will have some effect. You might think that central banks' habit of provoking recessions when the unemployment rate gets too low is a policy based on a mere misunderstanding. You might think that structural adjustment and imperial war are just bad lifestyle choices.
2. American Power and the New Mandarins
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1969
   
3. Anarchism vs. Marxism: A few notes on an old theme 
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 1978
   Anarchist critiques of Marxism typically reveal a lack of knowledge of what Karl Marx actually wrote, resulting in sterile denunciations of a straw-man opponent.
4. As We Don't See It 
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   A clarification of Solidarity London's 1968 pamphlet, "As We See It." Distinction is placed between real socialism and the "exploitative privileged minorities" who controll(ed) the USSR and China, as well as the importance of controlling the means of production.
5. Bakunin vs. Marx 
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 1978
   The anarchist-Marxist split started with Bakunin, who systematically misrepresented Marx's positions.
6. Beyond the Fragments 
   Feminism and the Making of Socialism
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1979   Published: 1980
   A call for various fractions of the left to unite and work for a socialism through grass-roots activism.
   
7. Break Their Haughty Power 
   Resource Type: Internet WWW site
   Articles on capitalism, socialism, and revolution, from a left-Marxist perspective.
   
8. Bureau of Public Secrets 
   Resource Type: Internet WWW site
   Articles from a Situationist perspective.
9. Chomsky for Beginners
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1996
   An introduction to the life and works of Noam Chomsky.
10. Chomsky on Anarchism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2005
    This collection of essays and interviews paint a fresh picture of Chomsky, showing his life-long involvement with the anarchist community, his constant commitment to nonhierarchical models of political organization, and his hopes for a future world without rulers.
11. Collective Reinventions
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Focusing on contemporary social movements in Mexico.
    
12. The Conflict between Marx & Bakunin
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    
13. 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.
14. The Crisis of Dialectical Materialism and Libertarian Socialism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1977
    Libertarian socialism is defined first and foremost by the negation of political authoritarianism and theoretical determinism.
15. Critical distance (Bean)
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1979
    Letter: anarchists must make a choice.
16. Fredy Perlman: An Appreciation
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    The same energy which helped Fredy to describe the horrors of civilization made it possible for him to summon up the forces of life and expectations of hope.
17. The Historical Failure of Anarchism 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1996
    Day examines anarchism’s failure to genuinely critique itself, understand history or theory, and grasp the conditions in the world today. “Anti-capitalism doesn’t do the victims of capitalism any good if you don’t actually destroy capitalism,” Day writes. “Anti-statism doesn’t do the victims of the state any good if you don’t actually smash the state. Anarchism has been very good at putting forth visions of a free society and that is for the good. But it is worthless if we don’t develop an actual strategy for realizing those visions.
18. Ideas and Action
    Periodical profile published 1981
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1981
    Archive of some articles published in Ideas and Action, a radical paper published by the Workers Solidarity Alliance from 1981 to 1997.
19. Interview with Ulli Diemer
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1990
    Jeff Orchard interviews Ulli Diemer about socialism, capitalism, life, and social change.
20. Introduction to the Red Menace
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1976
    An introduction to, and the mission statement of, the libertarian socialist publication, The Red Menace.
21. Introduction to this issue (#3)
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1978
    
22. Left-libertarianism
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A doctrine that has a strong commitment to personal liberty and egalitarianism.
23. Left-Wing, Anti-Bolshevik and Council Communism
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Index to the works of “Left Communists” (a.k.a. “Council Communists” or “Anti-Bolshevik Communists”) and other ultra-left Communist currents and the debates between Left Communists and the leaders of the Comintern and each other.
24. Libcom.org 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Resource for all people who wish to improve their lives, their communities and their working conditions. We want to discuss with one another, learn from experiences of the past and develop strategies to increase the power that we, as ordinary people, have over our own lives.
25. Libertarian League
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A name used by two American libertarian organisations during the twentieth century.
26. A libertarian Marxist tendency map
    Connexipedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    This tendency map was produced by Chris Wright for endpage.com, now part of the libcom.org library - it is designed to trace some of the important tendencies in libertarian Marxism. Contains a brief written history with links to key individuals, groups and publications, and a graphic map.
27. Libertarian Socialism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1977
    There must be a revolt against bureaucracy - the predominant trend of societal organization.
28. Libertarian Socialism
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A group of political philosophies that aspire to create a society without political, economic, or social hierarchies, i.e. a society in which all violent or coercive institutions would be dissolved, and in their place every person would have free, equal access to the tools of information and production.
29. Libertarian Worker
    Poland: An Anarchist Viewpoint - Periodical profile published 1980
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1980
    This issue of Lbertarian Worker forcuses on the events of 1980 in Poland. One article also discusses feminist theory and anarchist feminism.
    
30. 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?"
31. Marx, theoretician of anarchism 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1973
    Under the name communism, Marx developed a theory of anarchism; and further, in fact it was he who was the first to provide a rational basis for the anarchist utopia and to put forward a project for achieving it.
32. Marxism & Anarchism: Documents in the Marxists Internet Archive
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Resources on the theory and practice of anarchism and the unity and conflict between Marxists and Anarchists over the past 150 years.
33. Marxismo Libertario
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Lecturas para la Emancipacion del Proletariado.
    
34. 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.
35. On Organization
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Discusses the democratic organizational forms appropriate to libertarian socialist organizations.
    
36. An ongoing debate
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1978
    The Red Menace is meant to be a forum of dissenting views withing the broadly defined boundaries of libertarian socialism.
37. Pannekoek and Gorter's Marxism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1978
    
38. A Political Statement of the Libertarian Socialist Collective
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1979
    The socialist perspective, as we see it, implies a total critique of human society as it is presently constituted. Socialism means a total transformation of life and social institutions - a project of collective self-transformation.
    
39. 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.
40. Radical Digressions 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 2006   Published: 2010
    Ulli Diemer's website/blog featuring comment from a radcial left-libertarian perspective.
    
41. Radical Digressions 1
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 1973   Published: 1979
    
42. Radical Priorities
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1981
    A broad range of subjects is covered with a view to alerting people about the problems humanity is facing, and possible solutions we can undertake. What is particularly significant about this collection is that C.P. Otero lucidly presents an analysis and overview of Chomsky’s social and political philosophy. For the first time the roots of Chomsky’s politics are examined and the relationship to his theory of linguistics demonstrated.
43. Red & Black Notes
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    A libertarian socialist project based in Toronto, Canada. The focus of the project is twofold : To circulate information from a libertarian socialist perspective, both current and historical, and to provide a forum for discussion of those issues.
44. 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.
    
45. Redefining Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1975
    
46. Review: International Socialist Review on "Contemporary Anarchism"
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    The word "anarchism" is a rather vague word that covers such a wide variety of political views and approaches it is often hard to see how they have anything in common. This means it is also probably not very productive to produce "critiques" of anarchism that lump the many different viewpoints together.
47. Revolution Re-Assessed 
    Politics of Human Liberation
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1980
    The political objectives and beliefs of the Australian-based Libertarian Socialist Organisation.
48. Social Anarchism, Individualist Anarchism, the State and Leninism
    A Reply to the International Socialist Organization
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    I take it that social or Left-anarchism and libertarian socialism are the same thing. Both stand opposed to Leninism, and both stand opposed to individualist anarchism.
49. Socialisme ou Barbarie
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A French-based radical libertarian socialist group of the post-World War II period which existed from 1948 until 1965. Socialisme ou Barbarie was critical of Leninism, rejecting the idea of a revolutionary party, and placing an emphasis on the importance of workers' councils, and saw the daily struggles of working people as creating the true content of socialism.
50. Solidarity As We See It 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1967
    Ten Points on Solidarity's Socialist position - the compromised nature of the "Bolsheviks" and trade unions, the need to "build from below," the desire to see themselves as "merely an instrument of working class action."
51. Solidarity (UK)
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Libertarian socialist organisation and magazine of the same name in the United Kingdom.
52. The Two Souls of Socialism 
    Socialism from Above vs. Socialism from Below
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1960   Published: 1970
    It was Marx who finally brought the two ideas of Socialism and Democracy together, because he developed a theory which made the synthesis possible for the first time. The heart of the theory is this proposition: that there is a social majority which has the interest and motivation to change the system, and that the aim of socialism can be the education and mobilization of this mass-majority. This is the exploited class, the working class, from which comes the eventual motive-force of revolution. Hence a socialism-from-below is possible, on the basis of a theory which sees the revolutionary potentialities in the broad masses, even if they seem backward at a given time and place. Marxism came into being, in self-conscious struggle against the advocates of the Educational Dictatorship, the Savior-Dictators, the revolutionary elitists, the communist authoritarians, as well as the philanthropic dogooders and bourgeois liberals.
53. Vanguard: A Libertarian Communist Journal
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A monthly libertarian communist journal published in New York from 1932-1939.
54. What is anarcho-syndicalism?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2006
    Libertarian syndicalism interprets liberty as self-management or control over one’s life, and believes that freedom for the working class requires the elimination of working class subordination to capitalist or state bosses.
55. What is Libertarian Socialism? 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1977
    Revolution is a collective process of self-liberation: people and societies are transformed through their struggles for freedom and for a better world.
56. What is The Red Menace?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1977
    About The Red Menace, a libertarian socialist publication.
57. William Godwin
    A Biographical Study
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2008
    A biography of the influential writer and thinker described by Woodcock as the first prophet of libertarian socialism.

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