Communism is a left-wing to far-left sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology within the socialist movement, whose goal is the establishment of a communist society, a socioeconomic order centered around common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange that allocates products to everyone in the society. Communist society also involves the absence of private property, social classes, money, and the state. Communists often seek a voluntary state of self-governance but disagree on the means to this end. This reflects a distinction between a more libertarian approach of communization, revolutionary spontaneity, and workers' self-management, and a more vanguardist or Communist party-driven approach through the development of a constitutional socialist state followed by the withering away of the state. As one of the main ideologies on the political spectrum, communism is placed on the left-wing alongside socialism, and communist parties and movements have been described as radical left or far left.
Contents:
Karl Marx
Manifesto of the Communist Party
The Class Struggles in France
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
Friedrich Engels
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
Peter Kropotkin
The Conquest of Bread
Mutual Aid: A Factor in Evolution
Vladimir Lenin
State and Revolution
What Is to Be Done?
Imperialism: the Highest Stage of Capitalism
Joseph Stalin
The Foundations of Leninism
Anarchism or Socialism?
Marxism and the National Question
Organization of a Russian Federal Republic
The October Revolution and the National Question
Dialectical and Historical Materialism
Marxism and Problems of Linguistics
Leon Trotsky
History of the Russian Revolution
My Life
The Revolution Betrayed
Our Revolution Essays on Working-Class and International Revolution, 1904-1917
Dictatorship vs. Democracy
From October to Brest-Litovsk
Lenin
Results and Prospects
The Permanent Revolution
Literature and Revolution
The Bolsheviki and World Peace
