Historical materialism
The New York Times' 1619 Project and the Racialist Falsification of History
David North & Tom Mackaman
A historical-materialist demolition of the New York Times' 1619 Project —
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History of the Russian Revolution
Leon Trotsky
Trotsky's three-volume study remains the indispensable account of how a working class came to power for the first time in history. Written drawing on archival material and the testimony of participants, it is narrative, polemic, and historical materialism applied to the moment when world history bent.
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Books from the publishing house — anniversary editions, new translations, and the political theory and history that defines the moment.
Second edition
In Defense of Leon Trotsky (second edition)
David North
A rebuttal of the academic slander against Trotsky — the third wave of anti-Trotsky historiography, from Robert Service and Bertrand…
Was There an Alternative?
Bolsheviks Against Stalinism 1928–1933; Leon Trotsky and the Left Opposition
Vadim Rogovin
Vadim Rogovin's archival study of the 1928–33 Left Opposition — the political struggle inside the Bolshevik Party against the Stalinist…
The State and Revolution
V. I. Lenin
Lenin's most theoretically rigorous work — the recovery of Marx and Engels' theory of the state from the distortions of Second…
Volume I
Capital Volume I (unabridged): A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production
Karl Marx
Marx's analysis of the value-form, the commodity, and the production process of capital —
Study edition
Capital: Volume I, Chapter 1
Karl Marx
The opening chapter of Capital — the commodity, value, and the fetishism of the commodity —