ICFI/Marxist Archive
Leon Trotsky - Marxism in Our Time - 1939
By Leon Trotsky, November 1, 2008
In 1939, Longmans published
Marxism and Science: An addendum to “The Frankfurt School vs. Marxism”
By Ann Talbot and Chris Talbot, October 28, 2008
This essay supplements “The Frankfurt School vs. Marxism: The Political and Intellectual Odyssey of Alex Steiner” by David North, recently published by the WSWS.
Leon Trotsky - Culture and Socialism - 1927
By Leon Trotsky, October 23, 2008
This work concisely explains the fundamentals of a Marxist approach to culture and art, explaining the link between the growth of technological culture and mass acquisition of artistic and spiritual c...
The Frankfurt School vs. Marxism:
The Political and Intellectual Odyssey of Alex Steiner—Part 2
By David North, October 23, 2008
In the autumn of 1978, as the Workers League was in the final stages of moving its political headquarters from New York to Detroit, Alex Steiner left the party without any explanation. Steiner had pr...
Leon Trotsky - Lessons of October - 1924
October 22, 2008
In this document, written just months after the failure of the Communist Party to take power in Germany in the fall of 1923, Trotsky analyzes the struggle that unfolded within the Bolshevik Party from...
The Frankfurt School vs. Marxism:
The Political and Intellectual Odyssey of Alex Steiner—Part 1
By David North, October 22, 2008
In May-June 2006, I wrote Marxism, History & Socialist Consciousness, a reply to an attack on the International Committee of the Fourth International by Alex Steiner and Frank Brenner, two former memb...
Leon Trotsky - Three Conceptions of the Russian Revolution - 1939
By Leon Trotsky, October 21, 2008
Written as an appendix to Trotsky's projected biography of Lenin, and included in his unfinished biography of Stalin, this work contrasts the perspectives of the Russian Revolution advanced by Plekhan...
Leon Trotsky - In Defense of October - 1932
By Leon Trotsky, October 21, 2008
Delivered before a meeting of Social-Democratic students in Copenhagen on November 27, 1932, this is a concise presentation of the main driving forces of the Russian Revolution. Trotsky defends the ga...
Leon Trotsky - Report on the World Economic Crisis and the New Tasks of the Communist International - 1921
By Leon Trotsky, October 21, 2008
In this report, Trotsky introduces the concept of the curve of world capitalist development and uses it to elucidate the revolutionary potential of the world situation. He details the titanic politico...
Leon Trotsky - The Transitional Program - 1938
October 21, 2008
This is the founding document of the Fourth International, published in September of 1938. It was previously drafted by Trotsky and discussed widely by sections of the Trotskyist movement. Assessing t...
A Letter to Trotskyists Throughout the World - 1953
By James P. Cannon, October 21, 2008
This Open Letter to the Trotskyist Movement signaled the founding of the International Committee of the Fourth International...
Socialism: Scientific and Utopian
By Friedrich Engels, October 21, 2008
In this popular pamphlet, Engels describes the greatest accomplishment of Marxism - that of transferring Socialism from the realm of abstract morality and basing it upon the laws and potentialities of...
