Socialism
Socialist traditions, institutions, strategies, and historical experience.
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- Marxist Theory
Introductory guides
These public guides distinguish political terminology from organizational history and individual biography:
- Democratic Socialism: Meaning, History, and Terminology
- What Is the Democratic Socialists of America?
- Who Is Zohran Mamdani? Background and Political Career
For a structured introduction to primary texts and concepts, see the Marxism Fundamentals pathway.
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Material classified under Socialism
Analysis and articles
Scientific Socialism and the American Left
An essay applying Marx and Engels to American socialist discourse, scientific socialism, and online political commentary.
Learning
From Utopian Schemes to Materialist Strategy
Week 2 of Marxism Fundamentals: distinguish a desirable social blueprint from an explanation of the forces, relations, and conflicts that could produce social change.
Transition, Distribution, and Communist Society
Week 6 of Marxism Fundamentals: distinguish production from distribution, compare lower and higher phases of communist society, and integrate the pathway's concepts in a final a...
Labor and Socialist History in the United States
Follow American labor from emancipation and agrarian revolt through industrial unionism, socialism, the CIO, and neoliberal decline.
Marxist-Leninist Core Curriculum
A 24-week intensive study of the primary texts that establish the Marxist-Leninist framework of materialism, political economy, state power, organization, imperialism, national ...
Library and reference
Manifesto of the Communist Party
Marx and Engels' concise account of class struggle, capitalist development, proletarian politics, and the communist program.
The Civil War in France
Marx's address on the Paris Commune, the class character of the state, and the political form of working-class emancipation.
Manifesto of the Communist Party
Marx and Engels' concise account of class struggle, capitalist development, proletarian politics, and the communist program.
The Civil War in France
Marx's address on the Paris Commune, the class character of the state, and the political form of working-class emancipation.