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Marxism is the political and economic philosophy developed by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in the mid-19th century, built on the premise that history is driven by class struggle and that capitalism's internal contradictions would inevitably give rise to a revolutionary working class and ultimately a classless, stateless society. From its origins in the 1848 Communist Manifesto, Marxist theory branched into dozens of competing schools—Leninism, Trotskyism, Maoism, & beyond—each adapting the core framework to different national contexts and revolutionary strategies, & each leaving a profound & often catastrophic imprint on the 20th century. This collection gathers the foundational primary texts of that tradition, from the original manifesto to the revolutionary handbooks and ideological writings that shaped the movements that remade the modern world.

The archive includes multiple editions of The Communist Manifesto—the founding document of modern socialist thought in which Marx and Engels laid out the materialist conception of history and the case for proletarian revolution—alongside Lenin's Selected Writings on the National Question and The Revolutions of 1917, the tactical and ideological texts that guided the Bolshevik seizure of power. You'll find Stalin's Marxism and the National Question, the essay that established his theoretical credentials within the Bolshevik movement, Mao Tse-tung's Quotations from Chairman Mao (The Little Red Book) and On Guerrilla Warfare, the ideological and military texts that drove the Chinese Communist Revolution and inspired insurgencies across the developing world, and Che Guevara's Guerrilla Warfare, the practical manual for revolutionary armed struggle that became a handbook for liberation movements from Cuba to Africa. These are the original texts—preserved here as essential primary sources for understanding the ideology that defined the Cold War and continues to shape political movements worldwide.