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The '''Marxists Internet Archive''' ('''MIA''') is a volunteer-based, non-profit online public library for [[Marxism|Marxist]] texts. Established in its current form in 1998, it has | The '''Marxists Internet Archive''' ('''MIA''') is a volunteer-based, non-profit online public library for [[Marxism|Marxist]] texts. Established in its current form in 1998, it has 70 active volunteers from 33 different countries as of 2017. It contains the writings of 850 different authors in 80 different languages, amounting to over 180,000 documents and 288 GB of data. In 2016, MIA averaged 2.1 million visitors per month, transferring an average of 12.4 million files for the same period, representing a 63% increase in visitors since 2010.<ref name="mia-intro">Marxists Internet Archive. [https://www.marxists.org/admin/intro/index.htm ''Introduction''].</ref> | ||
==Criticism== | ==Criticism== | ||
===Trotskyist bias and censorship=== | ===Trotskyist bias and censorship=== | ||
The Marxists Internet Archive's potential use an educational resource is hampered by the Trotskyist bias of the site's owners. The most obvious example of this bias is the absence of [[Stalin]] and [[Mao]] on the main pages of each of the language sections and on the list of selected significant Marxist authors. By the site's own admission, the owners think that the [[Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (1922–1991)|USSR]] under Stalin's leadership and Mao's [[People's Republic of China|China]] do not represent Marxism.<ref>Marxists Internet Archive. [https://www.marxists.org/admin/janitor/faq.htm#stalin-mao ''FAQ'']</ref> Their glossary of terms claims that [[Stalinism|"Stalinism"]] had uprooted Marxism and [[Leninism]].<ref>Marxists Internet Archive. [https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/s/t.htm#stalinism ''Encyclopedia of Marxism: Glossary of Terms'']</ref> | The Marxists Internet Archive's potential use an educational resource is hampered by the [[Trotskyist]] bias of the site's owners. The most obvious example of this bias is the absence of [[Stalin]] and [[Mao]] on the main pages of each of the language sections and on the list of selected significant Marxist authors. By the site's own admission, the owners think that the [[Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (1922–1991)|USSR]] under Stalin's leadership and Mao's [[People's Republic of China|China]] do not represent Marxism.<ref>Marxists Internet Archive. [https://www.marxists.org/admin/janitor/faq.htm#stalin-mao ''FAQ'']</ref> Their glossary of terms claims that [[Stalinism|"Stalinism"]] had uprooted Marxism and [[Leninism]].<ref>Marxists Internet Archive. [https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/s/t.htm#stalinism ''Encyclopedia of Marxism: Glossary of Terms'']</ref> | ||
The uploaders of texts also sometimes censor them by omitting content. Two chapters were removed from [[Library:Mastering Bolshevism|Mastering Bolshevism]]<ref>Marxists Internet Archive. [https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1937/03/03.htm ''Defects in Party Work and Measures for Liquidating Trotskyite and Other Double Dealers'']</ref> and the endnotes in the texts of [[Lenin]] have been "deleted, corrected, or toned down".<ref>Marxists Internet Archive. [https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/note.htm ''A Note on Notes and other issues…'']</ref> | The uploaders of texts also sometimes censor them by omitting content. Two chapters were removed from [[Library:Mastering Bolshevism|Mastering Bolshevism]]<ref>Marxists Internet Archive. [https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1937/03/03.htm ''Defects in Party Work and Measures for Liquidating Trotskyite and Other Double Dealers'']</ref> and the endnotes in the texts of [[Lenin]] have been "deleted, corrected, or toned down".<ref>Marxists Internet Archive. [https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/note.htm ''A Note on Notes and other issues…'']</ref> |