For the Year 2003
January—February and March, 2003
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We added several new language sections that we started last year
Several whole new volumes of Lenin’s Collected Works
Hundreds of new works by Marx and Engles and their contemporiries: Bernstein, Kautsky and others
A major revamp and expansion of the Encylcopedia of Marxism
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31 March 2003: The Leon Trotsky Internet Archive has added 2 documents one from 1935 and one from 1937:
Romain Rolland Executes an Assignment [1935]
Once Again: The USSR and its Defense (On the class nature of the Soviet state) [1937]
[Thanks to David Walters]
30 March 2003:
Annoucning the initiation of a Thai Marxist Internet Archive. This makes it our 32nd language! Included are selections from Marx and Engels, Lenin, Trotsky, Kollontai and Gramsci with material on its way from Tony Cliff.
[Thanks to Thanks to Giles]
30 March 2003: The Leon Trotsky Internet Archive has added 4 documents from 1935 and 1936:
The Stalinist Turn [1935]
Who Defends Russia? Who Helps Hitler? [1935]
On Dictators and the Heights Of Oslo [1936]
Notes Of A Journalist[Essays on Uruguay, USSR, and “Socialist Culture” [1936]
[Thanks to David Walters]
29 March, 2003: The V. I. Lenin Internet Archive has completed the next 28 documents from Volume 42 of Lenin’a Collected Works These documents contains, essays, letters and some shorter speeches given by Lenin March through July to December of 1918:
Library Organisation
Re Draft Decree on the Organisation and Supply of the Village Poor
Re Draft Decision for the C.P.C. on the Composition of the Committee of Public Works
Rehabilitation of Railway Transport Draft Decision for the C.P.C.
Draft Decision for the C.P.C. On Advancing Money To Centrotextil
Draft Decision for the C.P.C. on the Financing of the Chief Committee for the Tanning Industry
The Democratism and Socialist Nature of Soviet Power
Interview Given to the Correspondent of Folket Dagblaij Politiken
Draft Decision for the C.P.C. On Supplying The Peasants With Agricultural Machines
Draft Decision for the C.P.C. On Non-Fulfilment of the “Decree On Monuments of the Republic”
Rough Draft of Article 20, Section 2 of the Constitution of the R.S.F.S.R
Speech At A Meeting In Presnya District July 26, 1918
Draft Decision for the C.P.C. On Potato Prices
Confiscation of Seeds from the Kulaks By The Poor Peasants’ Committees
Re The Decree on the Imposition of a Tax In Kind on Farmers
Re Decision of the C.P.C. Allocating Funds for the Upkeep of the Poor Peasants’ Committees
Re Decision of the C.P.C. On Logging
Rough Theses of A Decision on the Strict Observance of the Laws
Draft Decision for the C.P.C. On Children’s Homes
Addendum to the Draft Decree on the Organisation of Supply for the Population
The Tasks And Organisation of the Work of the Council of Defence
Draft Decision for the Defence Council’s Fuel Commission
Proposals Concerning The Work of the Vecheka
Rough Draft Proposals for Intensifying and Increasing Food Purveyance
Re Draft “Regulations on the Organisation of A Workers’ Food Inspection”
Notes At A Meeting of the Commission On Cartridges
Re Draft Resolution for the C.C., R.C.P.(B.) On An All-Russia Congress of Bank Employees
Proposals on the Question of Financing Centrotextil
[Thanks to David Walters and Robert Cymbala]
27 March 2003: The Leon Trotsky Internet Archive has added 2 documents:
Twenty Years of Stalinist Degeneration [1938]
Open Letter For The Fourth International [1935]
[Thanks to David Walters and the Holt Labor Library]
26 March 2003: The Leon Trotsky Internet Archive has added Trotsky’s 1938 analysis Lenin on Imperialism
[Thanks to David Walters]
25 March 2003: A new document has been added to the Zhou Enlai Reference Archive:
Guidelines for Myself
[Thanks to Roland Ferguson]
25 March, 2003: Added to the Reference Archive:
James Guillaume Archive
Guillaume was a comrade of Bakunin's and later a founder of Anarcho-syndicalism
and the most important 19th century theorist of anarchism. His biography of
Bakunin is chock full of slanders against Marx, but Eh! C'est la vie!
[Thanks to Andy Blunden]
22 March, 2003: The V. I. Lenin Internet Archive has completed the next 22 documents from Volume 42 of Lenin’a Collected Works These documents contains letters and shorter speeches given by Lenin March trough June of 1918, concentrating on the growing famine in Russia during these winter monts:
Re Draft Decree Concerning the Establishment of State Control Over All forms of Insurance.
Original Version of the Article &38220;the ImmediateTasks of the Soviet Government”, Chapters IV through X
The State Of Inland Water Transport. Draft Decision for the C.P.C
Draft Decision for the C.P.C. On Control of S.E.C. Expenditure
Speech At A Meeting of thePresidium of the S.E.C. April 1, 1918 .
Addenda to the Draft Decree on the Procedure for Sending Commissars Out to the Provinces
Speech At A Joint Meeting of Representatives of the All-Russia Central Council of Trade Unions, the Central Committee of the Metalworkers’ Union and the Supreme Economic Council. April 11, 1918. From a Newspaper Report
To the Presiding Committee of the First Con-gress of Soviets of the Don Republic
Addendum to the Draft Decree on the Registration of Shares, Bonds and Other Interest-Bearing Securities
Decision of the C.P.C. on the Financing of Sugar-Beet Sowing Campaign
Draft Decree on the Institution of An All-Russia Evacuation Commission
Addendum to the Draft Decree for the C.P.C. On Supplying Agriculture With Implements and Metals
Addendum to the Draft Decree for the C.P.U. On A Department for Organising the Cultivated Area
Draft Decision for the Preliminary Conference on the Leadership of the Commissariat for Agriculture
Addendum to the Decree on the Food Dictatorship
Mobilisation Of The Workers To Combat Famine
Draft Decision for the C.P.C. on Fuel
Draft Decision For The C.P.C. On Motor Transport
Draft Decision For The C.P.C. On Private Purveyance Of Food
Measures To Combat Famine
Rough Draft Of An Agreement With The S.E.C. And The Commissariat For Trade And Industry On The Conditions Of Barter Between Town And Country
Comments On The Draft “Regulations For The Management Of The Nationalised Enterprises”
[Thanks to David Walters and Robert Cymbala]
21 March 2003: A new document has been added to the Pantelis Pouliopoulos Archive:
Who Are the Wreckers?
[Thanks to Anthony Megremis and Roland Ferguson]
21 March, 2003: Added to the Proudhon Archive:
"What is Property?", the founding document of anarchist theory, 1840, and an
exchange of letters with Marx and Engels, 1846, in addition to his "Philosophy
of Poverty", famously the subject of Marx's critique, which we have had for
some time.
[Thanks to Andy Blunden]
20 March, 2003: Added to the Mikhail Bakunin Archive:
22 new works have been added, bringing the archive to a total of 40 works, from
1842 to 1875, covering Bakunin's whole adult life. This resource now makes it
possible to closely follow the struggle between Marx and Bakunin over Poland
and Pan-Slavism, the International Workingmen's Association, the Paris Commune,
the German Workers' Movement (Lassalle, etc) and the Russian Revolution.
[Thanks to Andy Blunden]
19 March, 2003: Added to the James Connolly Archive:
Home Thrusts
(September 1898), Regicide and
Revolution (September 1898), A Socialist Candidate
for Dublin Corporation (Octember 1898) and Home Thrusts (May
1899)
[Thanks to Andrias Ó Cathasaigh]
18 March, 2003: Added to the Marx-Engels Archive:
Marx’s Economic Manuscripts of
1861
Written Aug 1861 and March 1862, at which point Marx abandoned the work to take
up what became known as Theories of Surplus Value (Currently nearing
completion on MIA courtesy of Hans Ehrbar), this was to be Chapter Three of Contribution to the Critique of Political
Economy, on capital. Marx returned to the work in January 1863, and
abandoned it again in July to begin what finally became Capital. Thus
this manuscript is the immediate predecessor of Capital. It deals
mainly with Marx’s concepts of capital, relative and absolute surplus value,
with an important digression on Productive Labour.
The manuscript breaks off in a consideration of the role of machinery, where
Marx will pick up again in January 1863.
The only previous publication of this manuscript is in Volume 30 of MECW.
[Thanks to Andy Blunden]
17 March 2003: A new document has been added to the Pantelis Pouliopoulos Archive:
What the Veterans and Army Victims Demand
[Thanks to Anthony Megremis and Roland Ferguson]
17 March, 2003:
The
Mansoor Hekmat Archive.
has expanded with the following works:
[Thanks to the Worker-Communist Party of Iran and Brian Baggins]
1988, December: The International Situation and State of Communism [Abridged]
1990, May 1: Developments in Eastern Europe and Prospects for Worker-socialism
1992, May: Fundamental Characteristics of The Worker-communist Party
2000, Fall: Capital Punishment: The most Deplorable form of Deliberate Murder
2001, September 14: Ending Terrorism is our Task
9 March, 2003:
We are proud to announce the creation of a new archive for the Marxist Library:
Mansoor Hekmat.
A Marxist of 25 years, Hekmat made substantial theorectical contributions to contemporary Marxism, and dedicated much of his life to party building for the workers’ movements in Iran and Iraq. We presently have four of his works online:
[Thanks to the Worker-Communist Party of Iran and Brian Baggins]
1991, October: End of the Cold War and Prospects for Worker-socialism
1994, July: A Better World
1999: Religion is Part of the ’Lumpenism’ in Society
2001: The Rise and Fall of Political Islam
7 March, 2003: The Marxists Internet Archive CD-ROM office will be on vacation until March 18. We will gladly continue to receive orders but shipments of the CD but they will not go out until March 18.
7 March, 2003: The V. I. Lenin Internet Archive has completed 24 new documents Volume 42 of Lenin’a Collected Works These documents contains letters and shorter speeches given by Lenin December of 1917 trough March of 1918:
Draft Decision For C.P.C. On The Irregular Actions Of People’s Commissar For Justice I. Z. Stfinderg and Member Of The Board Of The People’s Commissariat For Justice V. A. Karelin
Draft Resolution For The C.C., R.S.D.L.P(B.) Concerning The Expulsion from the Party Of S. A Lozovsky. Resolution of the C.C., R.S.D.L.P.(Bolsheviks)
Decision of the C.P.C. On the Fight Against Kaledin
Rates of Pay for High-Ranking officials. Draft Decision for the C.P.C.
Measures for, Improving the Food Situation. Draft Decision for the C.P.C.
Inquiry of the C.P.C. to the C.C. of the Left S. R. Party
Draft Decision for the C.P.C. on the Order of Subordination of the Baltic and Black Sea Fleets
On Salaries, Draft Decision for the C.P.C.
Draft Decisions for the C.P.C. on the Organisation of Food Supply
On the Activities of the Committee of Inquiry Under the Petrograd Soviet Draft Decision for the C.P.C.
The Conversion of Munition Works To Economically Useful Work. Draft Decision for the C.P.C.
Addendum to the Draft of the “Fundamental Law On The Socialisation Of The Land”.
Addendum to the Draft Decree on the Institution of An All-Russia Inter-Departmental Extraordinary Commission for Guarding the Railways
Proposals On Measures To Improve the Food Situation In Petrograd
Decision of the C.P.C. Concerning the Employment of Saboteurs
Speech at a Joint Meeting of the Bolshevik and Left SR. Groups in the All-Russia Central Executive Committee. February 19, 1918. Brief Newspaper Report .
Speech to the Lettish Riflemen. February 20, 1918. Brief Newspaper Report
Telephone Message to the Executive Commission of the Petrograd Committee and To All District Committees of the Bolshevik Party
Decision of the C.P.C, on the Acceptance of the German Peace Terms
Treaty With the Finnish Socialist Workers Republic
1. Draft Decision of the C.P.C.
2. Directive of the C.P,C, to the Russo-Finnish
Conciliation Board
3. Draft Decision for the C.P.C.
Addendum to the Draft Decision for the C.P.C. Concerning the Activities of the Committee of Inquiry Under the Petrograd Soviet.
Speeches At the Meeting of the C.P.C. March 4, 1918
Draft Decision for the C.P.C. on the Setting Up of A Water Transport Management Board
Interview With Arthur Ransome, Correspondent of the Daily News.
[Thanks to David Walters and Robert Cymbala]
6 March, 2003: New History Archive: The First International:
This new history archive was started in February and now includes most of History of the First International by G M Stekloff (1928) and The International Working Men’s Association, Its Establishment, Organisation, Political and Social Activity and Growth, by W. Eichhoff (1868), written under Marx’s guidance.
The Archive also contains hundreds of pages of records of
speeches by Marx, extracts from the Minutes of the Central Council, resolutions
and annual reports. The archive is very comprehensive up to the end of 1869,
material for the 1870s to be added later on. There is an abundance of
footnotes, which together with the histories and documents allows the reader to
get a vivid picture of the growth of the first international organisation and
the first genuinely mass organisation of workers the world had ever seen. The
records of Marx’s speeches are mostly stenographic records by the Minutes
Secretary, but they give a fascinating and evocative picture of these meetings.
See Marx’s speeches on Education for how things have changed, or his speeches
on the Irish prisoners for how much things have stayed the same!
[Thanks to Ted Crawford and Andy Blunden]
1 March, 2003: The V. I. Lenin Internet Archive has completed 8 new documents Volume 42 of Lenin’a Collected Works These documents contains letters and shorter speeches given by Lenin in November and December of 1917:
Liability For Unfounded Accusations. Draft Resolution tor the C.C., R.S.D.L.P.(R.)
The Conversion Of Munition Works To Economically Useful Work. Decree Of The Council Of People’s Commissars
Theses On The Tasks Of The Party + The Present Situation
Answers To Questions Put By A Workers’ Delegation Of Alexandro-Orushevsky District
Draft Decision for the C.P.C. On Staff Salaries In Government Offices
The Organisation Of A Commission Of Practitioners. Draft Decision for the C.P.C.
Instructions On The Procedure For Tabling Questions In The C.P.C.
Draft Decision For C.P.C. On The Irregular Actions Of People’s Commissar For Justice I. Z. Stfinderg and Member Of The Board Of The People’s Commissariat For Justice V. A. Karelin
[Thanks to David Walters and Robert Cymbala]
26 February, 2003: Added to the German-language Archiv Paul Lafargue:
Hochzeitslieder
und -brä<;uche – Studie über die Entstehung der Familie
(1889) (Wedd ing songs and Customs - A Study of the Origins of the
Family)
[Thanks to Fritz Keller]
23 February, 2003: The V. I. Lenin Internet Archive has added the last 8 documents from Volume 21 of the Lenin Collected Works. This brings to 17 the total number of completed volumes from the LCW:
Kautsky, Axelrod and Martov—True Internationalists
Several Theses Proposed by the Editors
The Revolutionary Proletariat and the Right of Nations to Self-Determination
On the Two Lines in the Revolution
At the Uttermost Limit
Letter To The Secretary Of The Socialist Propaganda League
Social-Chauvinist Policy Behind A Cover Of Internationalist Phrases
Opportunism, and the Collapse of the Second International
[Thanks to David Walters and Robert Cymbala]
20 February, 2003: Added to the German-language Archiv Paul Lafargue:
Das
Mutterrecht – Studie über die Entstehung der Familie
(1889) (Mother Right - A Study of Origins of the Family)
[Thanks to Fritz Keller]
19 February 2003: The Leon Trotsky Internet Archive has added Trotsky’s Young Turks, a article from Kievskaya Myls written in 1909.
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
19 February, 2003: The V. I. Lenin Internet Archive has added 21 new documents from Volume 21 of the Lenin Collected Works:
On The Struggle Against Social-Chauvinism
The Collapse of the Second International
British Pacifism and the British Dislike of Theory
How Servility To Reaction Is Blended With Playing At Democracy
The Main German Opportunist Work On The War
Defeat of “Our” Government in the Imperialist War
The State Of Affair’s In Russian Social-Democracy
The “Peace” Slogan Appraised
The Question of Peace
Socialism and War
On the Slogan for a United States of Europe
On the Slogan for a United States of Europe, Editorial Comment By Sotsial-Demokrat On The Manifesto On War Issued By The Central Committee Of The R.S.D.L.P.
The Draft Resolution of the Left Wing at Zimmerwald
The Voice of an Honest French Socialist
Imperialism and Socialism in Italy
Appeal On The War
We Are Thankful For Such Frankness
To The International Socialist Committee (I.S.C.)
The Defeat of Russia and the Revolutionary Crisis
The First Step
Revolutionary Marxists at the International Socialist Conference
[Thanks to Robert Cymbala and David Walters]
18 February 2003:Just added to the Mao Zedong Reference Archive:
Nine volumes of The Collected Works of Mao Tse-tung on pdf. These documents were compiled, edited and published by the U.S. Government’s Joint Publications Research Service (JPRS) in 1978. Because this collection was published by the U.S Government, there may be some questions concerning authenticity of these documents. However, most JPRS documents can be evaluated for authenticity by comparing similar documents found in CCP sanctioned Foreign Language Press and Kranti Press compilations of Mao’s work. These volumes total almost 1,500 pages of text in all. Most pdfs on this site are 4 MB or less.
Collected Works of Mao on pdf
[Thanks to Roland Ferguson]
18 February, 2003: Added to the German-language Archiv Tony Cliff:
Erdbeben im
Osten (1989) (Earthquake in the East)
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]
11 February, 2003: Three articles have been added to the Karl Kautsky Internet Archive:
Germany, England and the World. Policy, 1900
The Hanover Congress, 1899
Class War and Ethics, 1901
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
8 February, 2003: The V. I. Lenin Internet Archive has completed The Collapse of the Second International, thereby completing over half of Volume 21 of the V. I. Lenin’s Collected Works. This particular piece holds valuable lessons for today with the threat of war in the Middle-East and socialists response to it. The document is thoroughly intergrated with notational links to the Encyclopedia of Marxism. Separately, we have added a “Note on Notes” an explanation as to how the V. I. Lenin Internet Archive editors organized all the notes from the original volumes of the Collected Works, commentary on the notes, and other related issues.
[Thanks to Robert Cymbala and David Walters]
7 February, 2003: The V. I. Lenin Internet Archive has started to complete Volume 21 of Lenin’a Collected Works with the first 25 documents. Some of these were already on the V.I. Lenin Internet Archive, un-indexed or un-formatted. These first documents represent approximately the first half of this Volume:
The Tasks of Revolutionary Social-Democracy in the European War
The European War and International Socialism
The War and Russian Social-Democracy
Position and Tasks of the Socialist International
Letter To Vorwärts and Wiener Arbeiter-Zeitung
Karl Marx (A Brief Biographical Sketch with an Exposition of Marxism) [Granat encyclopaedia article]
A German Voice on the War
Dead Chauvinism and Living Socialism - How the International can be Restored
On the National Pride of the Great Russians
What Next? On the Tasks Confronting the Workers’ Parties with Regard to Opportunism and Social-Chauvinism
The Russian Brand Of Südekum
To The Editors Of Nashe Slovo
How The Police And The Reactionaries Protect The Unity Of German Social-Democracy
Under a False Flag
The London Conference
The Conference of the R.S.D.L.P. Groups Abroad
Letter From The Central Committee Of The R.S.D.L.P To The Editors Of Nashe Slovo
What Has Been Revealed By The Trial Of The Russian Social-Democratic Labour Duma Group
On The London Conference
The Slogan Of Civil War Illustrated
The Social-Chauvinists’ Sophisms
The Question of the Unity Of Internationalists
Bourgeois Philanthropists and Revolutionary Social-Democracy
The Collapse Of Platonic Internationalism
On The Struggle Against Social-Chauvinism
[Thanks to Robert Cymbala and David Walters]
4 February, 2003:Added to new German-language
DiePredigt der Kurtisane (1889) (The Courtesan#9217;s Sermon) and
[Thanks to Fritz Keller]
4 February, 2003:Added to the Portuguese Marxists Internet Archive are:
Engels: Do Socialismo Ut.pico ao Socialismo Cientifico
[Thanks to Grupo Acropolis]
Marx: Produtividade do Capital, Trabalho Produtivo e Improdutivo
[Thanks to “O Vermelho”]
New Portuguese additions are collected at:
http://www.marxists.org/portugues/admin/new.htm
2 February, 2003:Added to the new German-language
Der Ehebruchin Gegenwart und Vergangenheit (1889) (Adultery past and present)and DerMythos von Adam und Eva (1891) (The myth of Adam and Eve)
[Thanks to Fritz Keller]
31 January, 2003:Added to the
More Years ofteh Locust (1997) by Jim Higgins – a critique of Tony Cliff
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
30 January, 2003: The V. I. Lenin Internet Archive has started Volume 42 of Lenin’a Collected Works with the first 9 documents. This volume contains letters and shorter speeches given by Lenin between 1917 and 1923.:
Speech At A Meeting Of The Council Of People’s Commissars, November 8 (15), 1917
Addenda To The Draft Decree On The Requisition Of Articles Of Warm Clothing For The Soldiers At The Front
Interview Given To Gregori Yarros, Correspondent Of The Associated Press Agency, November 15 (28), 1917
The Salaries Of High-Ranking Office Employees And Officials. Draft Decree For The C.P.C.
Draft Decision For The C.P.C. On The Question Of The War Ministry
Theses For A Law On The Confiscation Of Apartment and Tenement Houses
Draft Decision For The C.P.C On The Question Of Following A Socialist Policy In The Economic Field
Outline Of A Programme Of Economic Measures
Demonstration Slogans
[Thanks to David Walters]
29 January, 2003:Added to the
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
27 January, 2003: Tentang Agama (On Religion), an extract from Sumbangan untuk Kritik terhadap Filsafat Hukum Hegel ("Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Law") has been added to the Indonesian Section’s Marx-Engels Archive. [Thanks to Suara Socialis]
22 January, 2003: Added to the
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
21 January, 2003: The Leon Trotsky Internet Archive has completed all 77 orders, reports and speeches to Volume 4, The Military Writings of Leon Trotsky, How the Revolution Armed. There is now only the 5th and final Volume to complete.
[Thanks to David Walters]
14 January, 2003: We have added several important works to the Spanish-language Archivo León Trotsky:
La guerra y la Internacional
¿A dónde va Francia?
Programa de Transición
León Sedov
[Thanks to Partido Obrero Socialista Internacionalista of Spain]
We are also pleased to be able to include a politicla biography and chronology to the Spanish language reference archive dedicated to the writings of the "Guerrilla Priest", Camilo Torres. [Thanks to Edgar Camilo Rueda]
6 January, 2003: The Leon Trotsky Internet Archive has added yet another 10 essays, orders, reports and speeches to Volume 4, The Military Writings of Leon Trotsky, How the Revolution Armed:
Report to the conference of military-education institutions of the Moscow Military District, December 12, 1921
Alas, we are not accurate enough!
The disabled of the civil war
Conference of military delegates to the Congress of Soviets
Care for the army
Thanks, workers’ Moscow!
The fifth year—a year for study
peech at the parade on Red Square, February 23, 1922
Report to the 11th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), March 29, 1922
Speech at the AU-Russia Conference of Navy men, April 1, 1922
[Thanks to David Walters, and Index Books]
4 January, 2003: The Leon Trotsky Internet Archive has added 5 new essays and speeches to Volume 4, The Military Writings of Leon Trotsky, How the Revolution Armed:
Tula is still the great smithy of the Red Army
The Tula Soviet’s Division
Not one week, but fifty-two weeks!
It is necessary to learn to write!
Concluding remarks at the 2nd Conference of Communist Party cells in higher military-education institutions, December 10, 1921
[Thanks to David Walters, and Index Books]
3 January 2003: Starting out the new year we’ve added to Hegel-by-HyperText: Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion
[Thanks to Andy Blunden]