1. Anarchism, Marxism and the Bonapartist State
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2004
   A critique of Marxism, with emphasis on its obsession with economics.
2. Beyond Sovereignty
   Issues for a Global Agenda (2nd Edition)
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2003
   Discussion of the increasingly transnational structure of power in today's world and proposals forabandoning nation-state sovereignty for more integrated, cooperative rule between different types of governance bodies.
3. Das Capital, Volume 1
   A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1890
   Marx's great work sets out to grasp and portray the totality of the capitalist mode of production, and the bourgeois society that emerges from it. He describes and connects all its economic features, together with its legal, political, religious, artistic, philosophical and ideological manifestations.
4. Das Capital, Volume 2
   The Process of Circulation of Capital
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1956
   
5. Das Capital, Volume 3
   The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1971
   
6. Connexions Annual Overview: Human Rights, Civil Liberties
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 1994
   If we accept that anyone may be denied their rights, their freedom, then we undermine our own rights and freedoms even as we undermine social solidarity.
7. Corporate Power and Canadian Capitalism
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1986
   Carroll looks at the accumulation of capital in Canada since the Second World War. Most of the book is devoted to tracing actual patterns of corporate ownership and intercorporate relationships.
8. Critique of the Gotha Programme
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 1875
   Karl Marx's criticisms of the programme adopted by congress to unite the two German socialist parties in 1875.
9. The Death of the State in Marx and Engels
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 1970
   Surveys the thinking of Marx and Engels on the 'dying-away' of the state in socialist (communist) society.
   
10. A Dictionary of Marxist Thought
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
    
11. Ecology as Politics
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1980
    Socialism is no better than capitalism if it makes use of the same tools. The total domination of nature inevitably entails a domination of people by the techniques of domination.
12. The Ecology of Freedom
    The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2005
    Bookchin's synthesis of ecology, anthropology and political theory traces our conflicting legacies of hierarchy and freedom from the first emergence of human culture to today's globalized capitalism, constantly pointing the way to a sane, sustainable ecological future.
13. The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1852
    Marx wrote The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon between December 1851 and March 1852. The "Eighteenth Brumaire" refers to November 9, 1799 in the French Revolutionary Calendar -- the day the first Napoleon Bonaparte had made himself dictator by a coup d'etat. Marx traces how the conflict of different social interests manifest themselves in the complex web of political struggles, and in particular the contradictory relationships between the outer form of a struggle and its real social content.
14. The Enemy of Nature
    The End of Capitalism or the End of the World?
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2007
    We live in and from nature, but the way we have evolved of doing this is about to destroy you. Capitalism and its by-products -- imperialism, war, neoliberal globalization, racism, poverty, and the destruction of community -- are all playing a part in the destruction of our ecosystem.
15. Facing Reality
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
    Inspired by the October 1956 Hungarian workers' revolution against Stalinist oppression, as well as the U.S. workers' "wild-cat" strikes (against capital and the union bureaucracies), the authors looked ahead to the rise of new mass emancipatory movements by African Americans as well as anti-colonialist/anti-imperialist currents in Africa and Asia. Virtually alone among the radical texts of the time, Facing Reality also rejected modern society's mania for "conquering nature," and welcomed women's struggles "for new relations between the sexes."
    
16. Facing Reality 45 Years Later
    Critical Dialogue with James/Lee/Chaulieu
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2003
    According to Goldner, "In 1958, Facing Reality was an important book, uncannily anticipatory of the historical period which would unfold over the following 15 years. Its main assertions are still being debated.... What I find most interesting in Facing Reality is not so much the answers it offers as the questions it asks. Those questions revolve around the role of the revolutionary Marxist party today.
    
17. For Reasons of State
    Resource Type: Book
    
18. 'Free speech' - as long as it doesn't offend anyone
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    On the issue of free speech most of the right and much of the left are in agreement, and so too are many liberals, activists, and human rights apparatchiks. They hold essentially the same position on freedom of expression - they are for it -in principle-, but only so long as it isn't used to express views that they find unacceptable or offensive. What they disagree about is merely who gets to decide what ideas are unacceptable, i.e., who gets to censor who.
    
19. Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
    Volume I: State and Bureaucracy
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1977
    A wide-ranging and thorough exposition of Marx's views on democracy.
20. Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
    Volume II: The Politics of Social Classes
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1978
    Draper ranges through the development of the thought of Marx and Engels on the role of classes in society.
21. Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
    Volume III: The Dictatorship of the Proletariat
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1986
    Hal Draper examines how Marx and Marxism dealt with the issue of dictatorship in relation to the revolutionary use of force and repression, particularly as this debate has centered on the use of the term "dictatorship of the proletariat." Draper strips away the layers of misinterpretation and misinformation that have accumulated over the years to show what Marx and Engels themselves meant by the term.
    
22. Manual for Revolutionary Leaders
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
    A devious satire aimed at Leninists, Trotksyists, Maoists, and vanguardists of all stripes.
    
23. Marxism, Feminism, the State
    Volume 1
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
    Includes essays on the sexual division of labour, and socialist organizing in the 80s, referring to Engels, Ryerson, and MacPherson.
24. The Masks of Proteus
    Canadian Reflections on the State
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
    
25. Obsolete Communism
    The Left-Wing Alternative
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
    An account of the May 1968 uprising in Paris, positing a left radical alternative to the encrusted beliefs of the old left and the right. A comment on power, on bureaucracy, and on the paths to liberation.
26. On the Socialist State
    Resource Type: Book
    
27. Organizational Platform of the General Union of Anarchists
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1926
    In 1926 a group of exiled Russian anarchists in France, the Delo Truda (Workers' Cause) group, published this pamphlet.
28. The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1884
    
29. The Penguin Atlas of World History - Vol. 2: From the French Revolution to the Present
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1978
    
30. A People's History of the World
    From the Stone Age to the New Millennium
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1999
    Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative or ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals.
31. The Secret Secret
    Of Wikileaks and Literacy
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2010
    Only those with proper clearances can participate in discussions that affect significant aspects of our lives. Certain technological achievements, our collective ethical decisions (torture, secret prisons, air strikes, etc.), our collective behavior towards other nations and peoples (foreign policy discussions) and more are often obscured by state secrecy. Like the medieval clergy, those holding classified clearances are the sole legitimate interpreters of the 'really important' knowledge. In effect, they are a caste that guides our political and technological cosmologies.
32. Selections from the Prison Notebooks
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
    Gramsci's Notebooks cover a wide range of subjects including history, culture, politics, and philosophy.
33. Socialism and Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
    Representative democracy in every industrially advanced country is in a state of profound crisis. But we have been accustomed for so long to accept democracy in the form of its outward appearances and parliamentary institutions that its decay often does not become apparent to us until those institutions have been either brushed aside or reduced to a purely decorative role.
34. The State & Political Theory
    Resource Type: Book
    Synthesis of principal recent debates on the nature of the state.
35. The State and Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1917
    
36. The State in Capitalist Society
    The Analysis of the Western System of Power
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
    
37. Telling the Truth
    Socialist Register 2006
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2005
    A collection of essays that examines the difficulties of illuminating the degenerative and secretive nature of public life.
38. War is the Health of the State
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1918
    Once the State has begun to function, and a large class finds its interest and its expression of power in maintaining the State, this ruling class may compel obedience from any uninterested minority. The State thus becomes an instrument by which the power of the whole herd is wielded for the benefit of a class.

Experts on State, The in the Sources Directory

1. International Court of Justice