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