For the Year 2000
(March, April & May)
April, 2000: Thanks to Trevor Schroeder, we have a Perl script that formats text files into complete HTML markup, separating a single text file into chapters, with an index, and with all the appropriate HTML and the links set up within that book. The results of this script are an extremely increased productivity and a great deal of time saved in the markup process. Combined with some texts recently acquired from Project Gutenberg you can see the results clearly below, in the past weeks of uploads.
28 April, 2000: Added to the Lenin Internet Archive is Lenin's Conspectus of Hegel's Logic. The Lenin Assembly Line Project has added several new works from the beginning of Volume 22 of Lenin's Collected Works:
New Data on the Laws Governing the Development of Capitalism in Agriculture. Part One 255k
Preface to N. Bukharin's Pamphlet, Imperialism and the World Economy
Opportunism and the Collapse of the Second International
Draft Resolution on the Convocation of the Second Socialist Conference
For the Conference To Be Held On April 24, 1916 (Proposal of the Delegation)
[Thanks to Charles Russell, David Walters, and Andy Blunden]
26 April, 2000: Into the — Political Economy section, Rudolf Hilferding's 1904 essay, Böhm-Bawerk's Criticism of Marx. [Thanks to Sally Ryan]
24 April, 2000: Charles Darwin's Origin of Species has been uploaded to the reference archive. Marx and Engels were contemporaries of Darwin, and tremendously praised his work. Darwin laid the foundations for a materialist examination of the origins of all life on earth, breaking down the backward religious conception that living things were set in a particular form and remained unchanged in that form throughout all time. As a result of this work, scientific understanding of the past history of earth changed irrevocably and a totally new science of evolutionary theory was substantiated. The effects of this work traveled as far as changing religion, when once the Old Testament of the Bible had been furiously upheld as the true origin of humans, it began to become a "symbolic" or "meaningful" account. [Thanks to Project Gutenberg]
23 April, 2000: Emma Goldman's My Disillusionment in Russia has been uploaded. In this work american anarchist Emma Goldman visits Russia and discusses her negative experiences in 1920-1921, during the Russian Civil War. [Thanks to Anarchy Archives and Brian Baggins]
22 April, 2000: Upton Sinclair's 1906 The Jungle has been uploaded. This extremely popular work intended to create sympathy for the exploited and poorly treated immigrant workers in the U.S. meat-packing industry. It's popular result was widespread public indignation at the quality of and impurities in processed meats and thus helped bring about the passage of federal food-inspection laws.[Thanks to Project Gutenberg]
21 April, 2000:
Eleanor Marx Aveling's translation of the Henrik Ibsen play, An Enemy of Society, into the Women and Marxism section. Trotsky references his situation to this drama in the essay, "Leon Trotsky in Norway". [Thanks to Sally Ryan]
Soviets in Action by John Reed, has been transcribed. This document gives an excellent historical account of the creation of Soviets in Russia and deals with the specifics of their activity in 1918, as part of the Soviet government.
20 April, 2000:
Looking Backward from 1887 to 2000 by Edward Bellamy has been uploaded to the Reference Archive. This book was an extremely popular Socialist-utopian novel in the United States, written shortly following the Depression of 1883 and such movements as the Haymarket uprising the year previous. The book describes an ideal American society in the year 2000 where capitalism had long been done away with and socialism established.[Thanks to Project Gutenberg]
The Time Machine, written by H. G. Wells, has been uploaded to the Reference Archive. This was the first book written by Wells, in 1895, and received outstanding success in England and the United States. In this work a Time Traveler travels into the future to find a society that he at first describes as communistic. He witnesses the results of a society that have long overcome battles with nature, and have before them a life unfettered by conflict, struggle, or any challenges of the kind. "To adorn themselves with flowers, to dance, to sing in the sunlight: so much was left of the artistic spirit, and no more. Even that would fade in the end into a contented inactivity. " Soon however, the Time Traveler learns that there exists another race, living below the surface, controlling everything.[Thanks to Project Gutenberg]
19 April, 2000: Crisis in Russia: Coming back a year after his last visit, British reporter Arthur Ransome examines in detail the government apparatus of the Soviet system. He emphasizes the background of the World War and the Civil War to follow which caused economic collapse, and on this basis describes the actions of the Soviet institutions. Among the issues he explains are the communist dictatorship, trade unions, communist propaganda, and non-partyism.[Thanks to Project Gutenberg]
The History of Marxism archive has added a new section on writers, hitherto holding the two works of Arthur Ransome. The Writers on the History of Marxism archive holds the works of writers who directly experienced the events of Marxist history that they describe. It is the intention of this archive to explain history as it can only be explained: from the viewpoint of as many different people, from as diverse opinions, as possible.
16 April, 2000:
The complete text of Feliks Mikhailov's Riddle of the Self - has been added to the Philosophy Reference Archive. Mikhailov was one of a group of Soviet academics, along with Evald Ilyenkov, who began to publish very deep and authoritative philosophical work in the 1970s. "Riddle" is his most well-known work and is a study of the "fundamental question of philosophy".[Thanks to Andy Bluden]
The remaining sections of Hegel's Science of Logic have now been loaded to the Hegel-by-HyperText section. This is a huge work, comprising 844 pages of text, and was hitherto available on the Hegel-by-HyperText site only in relatively short extracts.[Thanks to Andy Bluden]
Also recently added to the Philosophy site is a talk by Evelyn Reed on "The Matrirachy" which raises questions of the relation between sexism and science.[Thanks to Andy Bluden]
Another Stalinist has been added to the Reference Archive: Enver Hoxha . Hoxha was the first head of the Albanian Socialist government, devoutly following Stalinist political practices, criticizing all who came after Stalin as false, including even Mao.[Thanks to Juan Fajardo]
Reject the Revisionist Theses
of the XX Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Anti-Marxist Stand of Krushchev's Group! Uphold Marxism-Leninism!
Speech in Commemoration of the 20th Anniversary of the Founding of the Party of Labor of Albania and the 44th Anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution
Imperialism and the Revolution.
Eurocommunism is Anti-Communism.
With Stalin: Memoirs from my Meetings with Stalin.
15 April, 2000: The reference archive has added the first in a series of books by Utopian Socialists: Thomas More's Utopia . More's Utopia was one of the first socialistic works written, while King Henry VIII reigned, in 1515. More's socialism was designed to work within a feudal system, and More believed that if a sufficient number of people had knowledge of his Utopian government, it could be established.[Thanks to Project Gutenberg and Trevor Schroeder]
14 April, 2000: We are pleased to announce the addition of the Kautsky Internet Archive to the Marxist Writers Archive. Karl Kautsky was a prominent German Social-Democrat, one of the best-known theoreticians of the Second International. Kautsky, though close friend to Engels, was at times criticised by both Marx and Engels, and later was thoroughly attacked by Lenin. [Thanks to Sally Ryan]
1903: The Intellectuals and the Workers
1906: Ethics and the Materialist Conception of History
1908: The Social Revolution and On The Day After the Social Revolution
1924: Epitaph of Lenin
13 April, 2000: Russia in 1919: Written by Arthur Ransome, this book describes the economic, social and political situation he saw during his visit to Russia in February and March of 1919. Underlining the description of these events is the wrenching famine in Russia caused by the Civil War. In this work Ransome interviews several prominent members of the Soviet government as well as ordinary citizens of Soviet Russia. [Thanks to Project Gutenberg and Brian Baggins]
11 April, 2000: A new reference section centered on the political writings of literary figure and social democrat George Bernard Shaw into the Reference Archive. [Thanks to Sally Ryan]
1883: An Unsocial
Socialist (comic novel)
1904: The Perfect
Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring (essay)
1910: Socialism and
Superior Brains (Fabian pamphlet)
1928: Excerpts from The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism,
Capitalism, Sovietism and Fascism
7 April, 2000: Lenin's famous thesis given at the First Congress of the Communist International has been transcribed. Also transcribed is Lenin's work explaining the necessity of democracy for the development of Socialism in Democracy and Dictatorship [Thanks to Brian Baggins]
6 April, 2000: We are pleased to announce the addition of another mirror in our growing network of servers around the world. This time from the staff at the Australian National University in Canberra Australia. This should provide faster and more reliable access for readers in Southeast Asia and Australia: http://marxists.anu.edu.au/
30 March, 2000: Two new essays into the Paul Lafargue Internet Archive. [Thanks to Sally Ryan]
1883: The Woman Question
1883: The Socialist Ideal
29 March, 2000:
The transcription of Lenin's collection of Last works has been completed, and the page has been filled out with descriptions of each work:
[Thanks to Brian Baggins]
On Education
On Co-operation
Our Revolution
28 March, 2000: We've added to the Subject Archive on Political-Economy Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk's 1896 Karl Marx and the Close of His System [Thanks to Sally Ryan]
26 March, 2000: The Encyclopedia of Marxism has been thoroughly updated, with over 250 pages of information and nearly 1000 definitions added, as a result of adding the glossary of the Hegel Reference Archive. The Encyclopedia of Marxism's glossary on people and on terms has increased dramatically: in the people glossary additional scientists and philosophers have been added; in the terms glossary Hegelian terms have been added (see especially the definition on dialectics). [Thanks to Andy Blunden and Brian Baggins]
25 March, 2000: We are pleased to announce the addition of a new mirror of the Marxists Internet Archive: boston.marxists.org. Located in Boston, MA, for faster access for people on the East Coast of the U.S.A. We have our hopes now set on mirror offers from Africa to Eastern Europe, the Middle East to all of Asia. If you have the capacity to mirror the Marxists Internet Archive, anywhere outside the U.S.A. or England, please contact us! [Thanks to Trevor Schroeder]
24 March, 2000: The Marx/Engels Image Library has been remade with thumbnail links to pictures. [Thanks to the janitor]
23 March, 2000: A new archive has been added to the Marxist Writers Library: Paul Lafargue. Member of the First International and was involved in the Paris Commune, Paul Lafargue supported an orthodox Marxist position in his time. See a short Biography for more details. [Thanks to Sally Ryan]
1883: The Right To Be Lazy
1883: The Bankruptcy of Capitalism
1883: The Rights of the Horse and the Rights of Man
1900: Socialism and the Intellectuals
21 March, 2000: The Crisis of Democracy, the twelfth chapter of The History of the World Crisis has been added to the J. C. Mariátegui Internet Archive. [Thanks to Juan Fajardo]
20 March, 2000: Three works Análisis de las clases sociales de la sociedad china, Informe sobre una investigación del movimiento campesino en Junán, and Sobre la guerra prolongada have been added to the Spanish Language Section's Archivo Mao Zedong. [Thanks to Juan Fajardo]
18 March, 2000: We have added three new documents to the Spanish Language Section: Amadeo Bordiga's Las contradicciones del maximalismo electoral, and into the Archivo León Trotsky, A noventa años del Manifiesto Comunista and a selection from En defensa del marxismo, La URSS en guerra [Thanks to Comité Iniciativa Obrera Socialista (Argentina), Izquierda Revolucionaria (Spain) and Juan Fajardo]
17 March, 2000:
We have added a PDF version of Leon Trotsky's Transitional Program for Socialist Revolution to the Leon Trotsky Internet Archive [Thanks to Chris Russell]
A link has been made on the Einstein Reference Archive to Einstein's extensive FBI File -- a 1,427 page document, describing Einstein's links with over 30 Communist organisations.
12 March, 2000:
The Lenin Internet Archive has begun the transcription of The Development of Capitalism in Russia with the prefaces and Chapter 1 completed. [Thanks to Sally Ryan]
Into the Women and Marxism section, the Eleanor Aveling Marx translation of Gustave Flaubert's novel, Madame Bovary. [Thanks to Sally Ryan]
Lenin's attack on Rosa Luxemburg's work on encapsulating national minorities into a greater nation, The Right of Nations to Self-Determination expounds Lenin's belief of "Complete equality of rights for all nations; the right of nations to self-determination; the unity of the workers of all nations..." [Thanks to David Walters and Brian Baggins]
11 March, 2000: A PDF version of Lenin's What is to be Done? has been uploaded. [Thanks to Chris Russell]