Communism. selections from marx, engels, kropotkin, lenin, stalin, trotsky

Communism is a left-wing to far-left sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology within the socialist movement, whose goal is the establishment of a communist society, a socioeconomic order centered around common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange that allocates products to everyone in the society. Communist society also involves the absence of private property, social classes, money, and the state. Communists often seek a voluntary state of self-governance but disagree on the means to this end. This reflects a distinction between a more libertarian approach of communization, revolutionary spontaneity, and workers' self-management, and a more vanguardist or Communist party-driven approach through the development of a constitutional socialist state followed by the withering away of the state. As one of the main ideologies on the political spectrum, communism is placed on the left-wing alongside socialism, and communist parties and movements have been described as radical left or far left. Contents: Karl Marx Manifesto of the Communist Party The Class Struggles in France The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte Friedrich Engels Socialism: Utopian and Scientific Peter Kropotkin The Conquest of Bread Mutual Aid: A Factor in Evolution Vladimir Lenin State and Revolution What Is to Be Done? Imperialism: the Highest Stage of Capitalism Joseph Stalin The Foundations of Leninism Anarchism or Socialism? Marxism and the National Question Organization of a Russian Federal Republic The October Revolution and the National Question Dialectical and Historical Materialism Marxism and Problems of Linguistics Leon Trotsky History of the Russian Revolution My Life The Revolution Betrayed Our Revolution Essays on Working-Class and International Revolution, 1904-1917 Dictatorship vs. Democracy From October to Brest-Litovsk Lenin Results and Prospects The Permanent Revolution Literature and Revolution The Bolsheviki and World Peace