For the Year 2000
October—November, 2000
October 2000: Production and distribution has resumed on our Marxists CD Archive. This is a CD-ROM of the entire MIA through September 2000. To find out how to order this CD-ROM, click here. All proceeds from the sale of the CD are used to maintain this web site or to subsidize the free distribution of the CD to users in developing countries who can not afford to purchase it.
October 2000: We have been contacted by the lawyer of Pathfinder Press (the publishing branch of the Socialist Workers Party of the United States), who has claimed Pathfinder owns the copyright of some works published in the MIA. The lawyer has asked us to remove the works, stop distributing the CDs containing them, and destroy our stock of such CDs. Pending further investigation into these issues, we have provisionally removed the works in question from the archive, and had to temporarily suspend distribution of the CD. We apologize for any inconvenience caused to our readers until this issue is resolved. To read the letter from Pathfinder Press click here. To read our response click here.
30 November, 2000: The V.I.Lenin Internet Archive has added 8 new documents, written during and immediatly after the October Revolution, from Volume 26 of Lenin's Collected Works:
Socialist-Revolutionary Party Cheats the Peasants Once Again
Letter To Central Committee Members
To the Citizens of Russia!
Meeting Of The Petrograd Soviet Of Workers' And Soldiers' Deputies
Second All-Russia Congress of Soviets of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies
Draft Regulations On Workers' Control
Direct-Line Conversation With Helsingfors
Conference Of Regimental Delegates Of The Petrograd Garrison
[Thanks to Charles Farrell and David Walters]
28 November, 2000:
Added to the John Reed Internet Archive is one of Reed's last works Soviet Russia Now
[Thanks to Alphansos Pangas]
28 November, 2000: At the Encyclopedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL), new writers sections have opened for:
Nahuel Moreno
Victor Serge
Cliff Slaughter
[Thanks to the ETOL crew]
28 November, 2000: New articles and speeches,1917-1946, into the Alexandra Kollontai Internet Archive:
Our Memorial to the Fighters for Freedom
Our Tasks
Lenin at Smolny
Women Fighters in the Days of the Great October Revolution
Why the Bolsheviks Must Win
The First Steps Towards the Protection of Motherhood
V.I. Lenin and the First Congress of Women Workers
What Are We Fighting For?
On the History of the Movement of Women Workers in Russia 1919
What Has the October Revolution Done for Women in the West?
The Soviet Woman--a Full and Equal Citizen of Her Country
[Thanks to Sally Ryan]
27 November, 2000:
The German Langauge Hal Draper Internet Archive has been upated with the addition of Die zwei Seelen des Sozialismus ("The Two Souls of Socialism")
[Thanks to Einde O'Callaghan and Rosemarie Nunning]
26 November, 2000: Added to the German Laungage Section has started a Clara Zetkin Archive. Three pieces have been added to date:
Friedrich Engels (an obituary) (1895)
Wider die Kompensationspolitik ("Against the policy of compensation") (two speeches at the SPD congress) (1898)
Wider die sozialdemokratische Theorie und Taktik ("Against Social democratic theory and tactics") (an attack on Bernstein) (1899)
[Thanks to Einde O'Callaghan]
26 November, 2000:
Karl Marx's Theses on Feuerbach have been added to the Arabic section of the MIA. Your browser must be able to render Arabic fonts in order to display this text.
[Thanks to Jaw for the Transcription and Abu Nicola for the HTML markup]
25 November, 2000: We added over 300 new photographs of V.I.LeninM to The V.I.Lenin Internet Archive Photo Gallery. Special thanks to Alexander Pogrebinsky Jr., for scanning, organizing and formatting these photos. They are organized according to date and subject. It represents the largest collection of photos of Lenin anywhere on the Internet, to go along with the largest collection of Lenin's writings.
25 November, 2000: We've added five pieces to the German Laungage Section Karl Liebknecht Archive:
Französische Friedenskundgebung mit Karl Liebknecht (French peace meeting with Karl Liebknecht) (1914)
Der Hauptfeind steht im eigenen Land! (The main enemy is at home!) (1915)
Arbeiter und Soldaten! ("Workers and soldiers!") (1918)
Was will der Spartakusbund?("What does the Spartacus League want?")
Liebknechts' last article.
[thanks to MLWerke]
24 November, 2000: Added to the German Laungage Section are the following texts:
N. Bucharin:
Imperialismus und Weltwirtschaft(Bukharin: Imperialism and World Economy) (1917) [Thanks to Einde O'Callaghan]
Lenin:
Drei Quellen und drei bestandteile des Marxismus (3 Sources and 3 Component Parts of Marxism) (1913) [Thanks to the MLWerke]
Marx: Kritik des Gothaer Programms (Critique of the Gotha Programme)
[Thanks to the MLWerke]
23 November, 2000: The V.I.Lenin Internet Archive has added 9 new documents, written during the October Revolution, from Volume 26 of Lenin's Collected Works:
Letter to the Central Committee The Moscow And Petrograd Committees and the Bolshevik Members of the Petrograd and Moscow Soviets
Letter to the Bolshevik Comrades Attending the Congress of Soviets of The Northern Region
Revision of the Party Programme
Advice of an Onlooker
The Tasks Of Our Party in the International
Letter To The Central Committee Of The R.S.D.L.P.(B.)
Letter to Comrades
Meeting of the Central Committee of the R.S.D.L.P.(B.) October 16 (29), 1917
Meeting of the Central Committee of the R.S.D.L.P.(B.) October 10 (23), 1917
[Thanks to Charles Farrell and David Walters]
21 November, 2000: The V.I.Lenin Internet Archive has added 7 new documents from Volume 26 of Lenin's Collected Works:
Can the Bolsheviks Retain State Power?
Theses for a Report at the October 8 Conference
Letter To The Petrograd City Conference
The Tasks of the Revolution
Letter To I. T. Smilga
To Workers, Peasants, and Soldiers!
The Crisis Has Matured
[Thanks to Charles Farrell and David Walters]
20 November, 2000: The V.I.Lenin Internet Archive has added 4 documents from Volume 26 of Lenin's Collected Works:
Heroes of Fraud and the Mistakes of the Bolsheviks
From A Publicist's Diary
The Russian Revolution And Civil War
[Thanks to Charles Farrell and David Walters]
20 November, 2000: We've added 4 new writings to the German language Antonio Gramsci Internet Archive from the 1917-1918 period.
The Russian Maximalists (July, 1917).
One
Year of History (March 1918)
Utopia(July 1918)
Lenin's Works (September 1918)
[Thanks to Einde O'Callahan]
We've also added to the German language Trotsky Internet Archive Trotsky's Learn to think
[Thanks to Peter Feist and Johannes Schneider]
19 November, 2000:
The William Morris Internet Archive has added a new Preface and Introduction to his 1886 Socialism from the Root Up
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
19 November, 2000: The V.I.Lenin Internet Archive has added two documents from 1917:
The Bolsheviks Must Assume State Power
Marxism and Insurrection
[Thanks to Charles Farrell and David Walters]
16 November, 2000:
The Leon Trotsky Internet Archive is please to announce the addition of the classic polemic in defense of the extraordinary measures to taken by the Communists in defense of the Russian Revolution written by Trotsky: Terrorism and Communism; Published in 1920 at the height of the Russian Civil War.
[Thanks to David Walters]
16 November, 2000: At the Encyclopedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL), new writers sections have opened for:
Joseph Hansen
Walter Held
Sal Santen
[Thanks to the ETOL crew]
16 November, 2000:
The Women and
Marxism section is pleased to announce a new co-Director. Adina Storm has already begun a redesign and reorganization for that subject section. New texts recently added: Fellow Dogberry Club member Marian Comyn's
1922, "My Recollections of Karl Marx", and
Larissa Reissner's 1918 essay, "Svyazhsk," one of her writings from The Front, essays on the Russian Civil War.
[Thanks to Adina Storm and Sally Ryan]
13 November, 2000: We've added 17 new documents to the Antonio Gramsci Internet Archive:
Editorial: March 1924 (1924)
"leader" (1924)
Against pessimism (1924)
Gramsci to Togliatti, Scoccimarro, Leonetti, etc. (1924)
Gramsci to Togliatti Scoccimarro, etc. (1924)
Gramsci to Zino Zini (1924)
Gramsci's intervention at the Como conference (1924)
The Como conference: Resolutions (1924)
Problems of today and tomorrow (1924)
The programme of L'Ordine nuovo (1924)
The Italian crisis (1924)
Democracy and fascism (1924)
The fall of fascism (1924)
Report to the central committee (1925)
Introduction to the first course of the party school (1925)
The internal situation in our party and the tasks of the forthcoming congress (1925)
Elements of the situation (1925)
[Thanks to Rolf Vorhaug]
12 November, 2000: At the Encyclopedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL), new writers sections have opened for:
Pierre Frank
Li Fu-Jen
Jean van Heijenhoort
Ernest Mandel
Natalia Sedova Trotsky
[Thanks to the ETOL crew]
11 November, 2000: Recent additions to the Spanish language section of the MIA:
To the Archivo V. I. Lenin:
Testamento político
Telegrama a comunistas de Penza (11 de agosto de 1918)
[Thanks to Juan Rafael Fajardo]
To the Archivo Marx-Engels:
Trabajo asalariado y capital
[Thanks to Biblioteca Virtual
Espartaco]
Just launched the Archivo John Reed with:
Los Soviets en acción
[Thanks to Juan Rafael Fajardo]
11 November, 2000:
The Leon Trotsky Internet Archive has added The struggle for State Power—1917. This is a collection of four articles published by Louis C. Fraina in New York in 1918 by the Communist Press.
[Thanks to Abu Nicosa and David Walters]
8 November, 2000: The Lenin Internet Archive has added The State, a lecture given by Lenin at Sverdlov University in July of 1919. [Thanks to Jon Muller]
7 November, 2000:
The Leon Trotsky Internet Archive has added To The Memory of Sergei Essenin a tribute to famed Soviet poet who died that year. Additonally, we've added a 1932 letter by Trotsky to the International Secretariat of the International Left Opposition on the "negro question" Closer to the Proletarians of the Colored Races
[Thanks to Sally Ryan]
5 November, 2000:
An archive of Marxist Paintings has been added to The Arts of Marxism subject section. The paintings archive contains two small galleries featuring diverse examples of Socialist Realist and Mexican Muralist painters, and an extensive links listing. Also, the index to the Arts section has been remade with an image map, and our main page has been revised, with a link to the ever expanding Subject Archives.
[Thanks to Brian Baggins]
5 November, 2000: New articles and speeches, 1907-1916, into the Alexandra Kollontai Internet Archive:
International Socialist Conferences of Women Workers
Introduction to the Book The Social Basis of the Women's Question
The International Proletariat and War
Women's Day
The War and Our Immediate Tasks
A Giant Mind, a Giant Will
Who Needs the War?
Preface to the Book Society and Motherhood
Why Was the German Proletariat Silent in the July Days?
The Statue of Liberty
[Thanks to Sally Ryan]
4 November, 2000: The German Language section of the Marxists Internet Archive now has added several new texts:
Leon Trotsky:
Bolshevism and Stalinism
Trade Unions in the Epoch of Imperialist Decay
1932 Copenhagen Speech
Hands off Rosa Luxemburg!
V.I.Lenin:
Draft Theses on the National and Colonial Question
Rosa Luxemburg:
1903 Article on Karl Marx
1913 Archive on Karl Marx
Additionally, we've just added two more writers, Nicolai Bukharin
and Yevgeni
Preobrazhensky to the German Language Marxist Writers Archive.
[Thanks to Einde O'Callaghan]
2 November, 2000:
At the Encylopedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL), dozens of new letters and documents 1951-53, related to Pabloism, and the split in the Fourth International as well as, A Memoir on Leon Trotsky, by James T. Farrell.
[Thanks to the ETOL crew]
30 October, 2000: The German Language section of the Marxists Internet Archive now has texts in several new sections:
Franz Mehring
August Bebel
John Reed
SPD.
[Thanks to Einde O'Callaghan]
30 October, 2000:
Several chapters of Vygotsky's 1925 masterpiece, Psychology of Art into the Vygotsky Internet Archive.
[Thanks to Nate Schmolze]
30 October, 2000:
Updates to the film and music pages in the subject section, Marxism and
Art
[Thanks to Nate Schmolze]
30 October, 2000: New articles from The Masses, 1913-1917, into the John Reed Internet Archive:
A Taste of Justice
War in Paterson
The Worst Thing in Europe
Roosevelt Sold Them Out
Whose War?
One Solid Month of Liberty
[Thanks to Sally Ryan]
29 October, 2000:
We have just added the 1916 poem "Elogio a Cervantes" to the MIA's Archivo JosT Carlos Mariátegui.
[Thanks to Juan Fajardo.]
29 October, 2000:
The James Connolly Internet Archive has added his major historical work "Labour in Irish History".
[Thanks to Einde O'Callaghan]
29 October, 2000: The Helen Keller Reference archive has added the final set of documents in the collection we have (if you have other Socialistic documents by her, please let us know):
Introduction: The Socialist Legacy of Helen Keller
1913: Why Men Need Woman Suffrage
1917: Letter to Morris Hillquit
1918: What Is The IWW?
1918: In Behalf of the IWW
1919: To Eugene V. Debs
1919: End the Blockade of Soviet Russia!
1921: Help Soviet Russia
1929: The Spirit of Lenin
[Thanks to Anonymous and Brian Baggins]
27 October, 2000: The William Morris Archive has had a face-lift (html update, links corrected, etc) and added several new documents.
Socialism from the root up
Lecture on Bellamy's Looking Backward
An address delivered at the distribution of prizes
to students of the Birmingham Municipal School of Art
Communism
Monopoly; or, How Labour is Robbed
Socialism up-to-date [portions]
The Art of Dyeing
Address on the Collection of Paintings of the English
Pre-Raphaelite School
Equality [portions]
Textile Fabrics
True and False Society
[Thanks to Nick Salmon, Chris Croome, and Adam Moran]
26 October, 2000: In the new subject section, Marxism and Art a new compilation of excerpts and new pieces of Marxist critiques of Henrik Ibsen's work. New texts:
Letter from Engels to Paul Ernst, 1890, Fredrick Engels
Excerpt from "Ibsen" by Leon Trotsky, 1901
Ibsen, Petty Bourgeoise Revolutionist, 1908, Georgi Plekhanov
Excerpt from "Eleanor Marx" by Havelock Ellis, 1935
Ibsen, by Anatol Lunacharsky, 1937
[Thanks to Nate Schmolze and Sally Ryan]
25 October, 2000: We've added 21 new items to the Antonio Gramsci Internet Archive:
The Communists and the Elections
The Elections and Freedom
Elemental Forces
The Old Order in Turin
Socialists and Fascists
Reactionary Subversiveness
Referendum
Leaders and Masses
Bonomi
The "Arditi del Popolo"
The Development of Fascism
Against Terror
The Two Fascisms
The Agrarian Struggle in Italy
Those Mainly Responsible
Parties and Masses
Masses and Leaders
One Year
The "Alleanza del Lavoro"
A Crisis within the Crisis
Lessons
[Thanks to Rolf Vorhaug]
24 October, 2000: We've added a sampling of the hundreds of messages of support the Marxists Internet Archive has received or been sent to others from around the world in response to the threats made against us by Pathfinder Press (see above paragraph).
24 October, 2000: We've added new items to the Antonio Gramsci Internet Archive:
Four parts of The Modern Prince from his Prison Notebooks [Thanks to Dylan Stillwood]
The italian situation and the tasks of the PCI ("Lyons theses") - Gramsci; Togliatti (Lyons, January 1926)
The party's first five years (L'Unita, 24 February 1926)
A study of the italian situation (Report to the 2-3 August 1926 meeting of the Party's Executive Commitee.)
The peasants and the dictatorship of the proletariat (L'Unità, 17 September 1926)
Once again on the organic capacities of the working class (L'Unità, 1 October 1926)
We And The Republican Concentration (L'Unità, 13 October 1926)
Some aspects of the southern question (Unfinished, october 1926)
[Thanks to Rolf Vorhaug]
23 October, 2000:
Reorganized and refomatted, the James Connolly Internet Archive has added the famous John Connolly-Daniel DeLeon debate over wages, marriage and religion from 1904.
[Thanks to Einde O'Callaghan]
23 October, 2000:
Two articles from the radical magazine The Masses regarding their 1914 legal problems brought on the monopolistic practices of The Associated Press, defended by the AP bourgeoise New York attorneys.
In The Masses editor, Max Eastman's Internet Archive, located in the Encyclopedia of Trotskyism On-Line.
[Thanks to Sally Ryan]
23 October, 2000:
The Leon Trotsky Internet Archive has added The History of the Russian Revolution to Brest-Litovsk. Written in February of 1918 at Brest-Litovsk on behalf of the new Soviet Government during the negotiations with the German High Command, this rare booklet could very well be the first written account of the history of the Russian Revolution.
[Thanks to Abu Nicosa and David Walters]
21 October, 2000: A new section of Classics of Political Economy texts has opened in the Reference Writers Archive, including these recently marked-up titles:
The First Book on the Duty of Man and Citizen, by Samuel von Pufendorf 1673
A Discourse of Trade, by Nicholas Barbon 1690
Political Arithmetick, by Sir William Petty 1690
Consequences of Lowering of Interest and Raising the Value of Money, by John Locke 1691
An Inquiry into the Principles of Political Economy, by Sir James Steuart, 1767
An Essay on the Principle of Population, by Thomas Malthus, 1798
Grounds for Restricting the Importation of Foreign Corn, by Thomas Malthus, 1815
Political Economy, by Simonde de Sismondi, 1815
A New View of Society , by Robert Owen, 1816
On The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation, by David Ricardo, 1817
Letters to Malthus on Political Economy and Stagnation of Commerce, by Jean Baptiste Say, 1821
Three Lectures on the Rate of Wages, by Nassau Senior, 1830
Elements of Political Economy, by James Mill, 1844
The Philosophy of Poverty, by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, 1847
General Mathematical Theory of Political Economy, by William Stanley Jevons, 1866
Principles of Economics, by Alfred Marshall, 1890
The New Theories of Economics, by Vilfredo Pareto, 1890
On the Concept of Social Value, by Joseph Schumpeter, 1908
[Thanks to Andy Blunden]
19 October, 2000:
The Leon Trotsky Internet Archive has added Our Revolution. Published first in 1918 it represents a compilation of a dozen essays by Trotsky prior to, but including the year, 1917. It was translated into many languages by the Communist International for world-wide distribution.
[Thanks to Alphansos Pangas and David Walters]
19 October, 2000: The Mao Reference Archive has added three works:
Critique of Stalin's Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR
We Are Not Going To Turn The Country Over To Moscow!
Bombard the Headquarters
[Thanks to Brian Baggins]
18 October, 2000:
A new Internet Archive for the works of Franz Mehring has been started. It opens with a 1900 essay, Ibsen's Greatness and Limitations, and the first six chapters of the 1935 biography, Karl Marx: The Story of His Life.
[Thanks to Sally Ryan]
17 October, 2000: We've begun distribution of our Marxists CD Archive again, after remastering the CD and removing the questionable documents from the Marxists Internet Archive (see intro paragraph to this page).
17 October, 2000:
We are pleased to announce the opening of the Helen Keller Reference archive. Currently we have transcribed seven works by this famous American Socialist, from 1912-1916, detailing her opposition to WWI, support of the working class and Socialist revolution. We have also included her FBI file, and a biography should be included shortly. Soon we will include her papers in support of the Soviet Revolution; and we are trying to find material on her support of the Spanish Civil War.
[Thanks to Anonymous and Brian Baggins]
14 October, 2000: This is to announce a new subject section (beta stage) called Marxism and Culture. The major section at present are:
Literary Criticism
Literature
Poetry and Song
Audio/Visual
13 October, 2000:
A newly transcribed biography of C.L.R. James
by Anna Grimshaw into the C.L.R. James Internet
Archive.
[Thanks to Ralph Dumain]
11 October, 2000: The Italian language section of the MIA has added the following items:
La Sezione Italianaéorgogliosa di presentare l'Enciclopedia Marxista— Personaggi storici
Prima voce: Togliatti
[Thanks to Ivan A., Luciano Dondero and Dario Romeo]
Pagina dei volontari for those that want to volunteer transcribing Marxists works for the Italian language section. [Thanks to Ivan A.]
11 October, 2000:
We have just started the Archivo de Referencia Jorge Dimitrov on the MIA's Spanish language section.
[Thanks to Aritz.]
7 October, 2000:
At the Encyclopedia of Trotskyism
On-Line (ETOL), 12 new documents 1951-53, related to the split in the Fourth
International as well as 2 documents regarding the decision by the SWP
(U.S.) to publish the documents.
[Thanks to ETOL
crew]
5 October, 2000:
The German Language section of the Marxists Internet Archive has added a very timely piece: Leon Trotsky on The Working Class and Freedom of the Press.
[Thanks to Nickolaus Braun]
5 October, 2000:
We've started to add files to the our new Gramsci Internet Archive
[Thanks to Rolf Vorhaug]
3 October, 2000:
We are pleased to announce the launching of the MIA's Marxist Philosopy page, a subject index grouping the various philosophical writings of the various authors on the Marxist Internet Archive.
[Thanks to Andy Blunden]
1 October, 2000: The German Language section of the Marxists Internet Archive has been adding many works. The following are some of the recent additions:
Marx: Thesen ber Feuerbach
Marx: Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei
Engels Engels: Von der Autoritt
[Thanks to MLWerke]
Marx/Engels: Ansprache der Zentralbehrde (Mrz1850)
Marx: Inauguraladress der IAA
Marx: Provisorische Statuten der IAA
[Thanks to MLWerke]
Marx: IAA und Allianz der sozialistischen Demokratie
Marx: Brgerkrieg in Frankreich
[Thanks to MLWerke]
Trotzki: Ergebnisse und Perspektiven
[Thanks to Einde O'Callaghan]
Trotzki: Arbeiterstaat, Thermidor und Bonapartismus
[Thanks to Einde O'Callaghan]
1 October, 2000: The Norwegian language section has added the following items:
A Norwegian language John Reed Internet Archive
Leon Trotsky: For arbeidernes enhetsfront mot fascismen (1931)
Rosa Luxemburg: Reform eller revolusjon (1899) og Hva vil Spartakus-forbun
Marx-Engels: Teser om Feuerbach
Lenin: Staten og Revolusjonen
[Thanks to Rolf Vorhaug]