This article is adapted from an original work. It may be also be translated from the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, EcuRed, or Baidu Baike.
The Marxists Internet Archive (MIA) is a volunteer-based, non-profit online public library for 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 and average of 12.4 million files for the same period, representing a 63% increase in visitors since 2010.[1]
Criticism
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 which 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 it is because the owners think that Stalin's Soviet Union and Mao's China do not represent Marxism.[2]
The site also hosts a subsite dedicated to Trotskyism, Encyclopedia of Trotskyism Online (ETOL).[3]