Library of ProleWiki

A collection of texts, articles and books relating to socialism. Previously this was only for Marxist-Leninist works, but it is currently being expanded to include a wider spectrum of content, including non-Marxist socialists, as well as works that are adversarial to socialism, but still important to understand socialism.

You can find the works of all Marxist-Leninist authors here.

ProleWiki Selected Works

1. The three sources and three component parts of Marxism (A brief outline of Marxist philosophy, written by Lenin.)
2. Manifesto of the communist party (An analysis of class struggle through history and an outline communist principles by Marx and Engels.)
3. The principles of communism (A series of questions about communist ideals answered by Engels.)
4. On authority (A response from Engels on the rejection of authority under a socialist state.)
5. The state and revolution (A description of the state and its role in society, and the necessity of a revolutionary movement, from Lenin.)

Main works

Marx and Engels

• Critique of Hegel's philosophy of right (1843)
• The holy family (February 1845)
• Theses on Feuerbach (1845)
• The German ideology (1846)
• The poverty of philosophy (1847)
• The principles of communism (1847)
• Manifesto of the communist party (1848)
• The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (1852)
• A contribution to the critique of political economy (1859)
• Capital, vol I (1867)
• The civil war in France (1871)
• On authority (1872)
• Critique of the Gotha Program (1875)
• Anti-Dühring (1878)
• Socialism: utopian and scientific (March 1880)
• The origin of the family, private property and the state (1884)
• Ludwig Feuerbach and the end of classical German philosophy (1886)

Lenin

• What is to be done? (February 1902)
• Two tactics of social-democracy in the democratic revolution (July 1905)
• Materialism and empiriocriticism (February 1908)
• The three sources and three component parts of Marxism (1913)
• Imperialism, the highest stage of capitalism (June 1916)
• The state and revolution (August 1917)
• The proletarian revolution and the renegade Kautsky (November 1918)
• “Left-wing” communism, an infantile disorder (May 1920)

Stalin

• Anarchism or socialism? (January 1907)
• The foundations of Leninism (April, 1924)
• Trotskyism or Leninism? (November 19, 1924)
• Dialectical and historical materialism (September 1938)
• History of the communist party of the Soviet Union (1939)
• Marxism and problems of linguistics (June 2, 1950)
• Economic problems of socialism in the USSR (September 1952)

Mao Zedong

• On guerrilla warfare (1937)
• On practice (July 1937)
• On contradiction (August 1937)
• Combat liberalism (September 7, 1937)

Ho Chi Minh

• On revolutionary morality

Kim Il-sung

• For the establishment of a united party of the working masses (1946)
• On eliminating dogmatism and formalism and establishing Juche in ideological work (1955)
• Let us further strengthen the people’s government (1977)
• Enhancing the role of the masses of the people is the guarantee for victory in the cause of independence (1992)

Complimentary works

Domenico Losurdo

• Has China turned to capitalism? — Reflections on the transition from capitalism to socialism

Georges Politzer

• Elementary principles of philosophy
• Fundamental principles of philosophy

Grover Furr

• Khrushchev lied

Plekhanov

• Essays on the history of materialism‎
• Fundamental problems of marxism

Xi Jinping

• The governance of China

Interviews

Stalin

• Interview with H. G. Wells
• Interview with Emil Ludwig

Transcripts

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Videos

Yanis Varoufakis

• Is capitalism devouring democracy?

Documents

Brazil

• Congresses of Brazilian Communist Party

China

• The constitution of the Communist Party of China