Communist Manifesto in the Age of Imperialism
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The Revolutionary Ideas of Karl Marx (Alex Callinicos)
“My aim in this book has been to fill a gap in the literature on Marx by providing an accessible modern introduction to his life and thought by someone who shares his basic beliefs on history, society and revolution. I am grateful to a number of people for their help and encouragement: to Peter Clark and Tony Cliff, who had the idea in the first place; to Tony Cliff for his searching criticisms of the book in manuscript; and to Peter Goodwin and Peter Marsden, who performed the same task as well as the more difficult one of trying to make the book readable. Although the general political standpoint taken in this book is that of the Socialist Workers Party, the errors it undoubtedly contains are all my own. I would like to dedicate The Revolutionary Ideas of Karl Marx to Joanna Seddon, to whom I owe, among other things, such knowledge as I have of the Utopian socialists.” (Foreword)
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Selections from Political Writings 1910-1920 (Antonio Gramsci)
“This volume is the first of two containing a selection of Antonio Gramsci’s political writings from the time of his initial involvement in Italian politics to his imprisonment by Mussolini in 1926.”
Selections from the Prison Notebooks of Antonio Gramsci (Quentin Hoare and Geoffrey Nowell Smith, eds.)
“It was during his years at Turin University that Gramsci first came into serious contact with the intellectual world of his time. The deficiencies of liberal Italy had created a certain vogue for socialist ideas even in bourgeois circles, and many of the professors at the University had links with the socialist movement.” (from the general introduction)
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Manifesto of the Communist Party (Karl Marx and Fredrick Engels)
“Where is the party in opposition that has not been decried as communistic by its opponents in power? Where is the opposition that has not hurled back the branding reproach of communism, against the more advanced opposition parties, as well as against its reactionary adversaries?” (Marx and Engels)
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Is It Possible to Be Communist Without Marx? (Antonio Negri)
“This paper explores the question of whether it is possible to be communist without Marx. This entails encountering the ontological dimension of communism, that is, the material tenor of this ontology, its residual effectiveness, the desire of human beings to go beyond capital, and the reality of the episode of statism.”
Aklatang Bayan 