Basic writings on historical materialism by the founder of Russian Marxism. An invaluable resource for those seeking to broaden their understanding of Marxism and its intellectual history today. Learn More

Leon Trotsky (1879-1940) – the leader of the Russian Revolution and Stalin’s unyielding opponent – remains an immensely controversial figure seventy years after his assassination in Mexico City. In this penetrating analysis and comprehensive refutation of three recently-published biographies of Leon Trotsky by well-known British historians -- Professors Robert Service, Ian Thatcher and Geoffrey Swain -- David North raises troubling questions about the state of contemporary historical
scholarship.

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Leon Trotsky (1879-1940) – the leader of the Russian Revolution and Stalin’s unyielding opponent – remains an immensely controversial figure seventy years after his assassination in Mexico City. In this penetrating analysis and comprehensive refutation of three recently-published biographies of Leon Trotsky by well-known British historians -- Professors Robert Service, Ian Thatcher and Geoffrey Swain -- David North raises troubling questions about the state of contemporary historical scholarship.
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This book documents Trotsky's intervention in the political struggle with the Burnham-Shachtman tendency inside the US Socialist Workers Party, which was of fundamental importance for the Fourth International. Learn More

This short book examines the relation of Marxist philosophy to that of Hegel. Engels acknowledges the impact that the critique of Hegel's idealism by the German materialist philosopher Ludwig Fueurbach had on the development of the ideas of both himself and Marx. This edition contains Marx's eleven theses on Fueurbach. Learn More

This lecture by David North is one of seven delivered to the 1998 international symposium Marxism and the Fundamental Problems of the 20th Century by the International Committee of the Fourth International in Sydney, Australia. Learn More

This polemical essay defends the foundations of scientific socialism against pseudo-Marxist conceptions prevalent among various philosophical tendencies influenced by the Frankfurt School and contemporary neo-utopianism. Learn More

This polemical essay defends the foundations of scientific socialism against pseudo-Marxist conceptions prevalent among various philosophical tendencies influenced by the Frankfurt School and contemporary neo-utopianism.

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Speech delivered by Trotsky on March 1, 1926 to the First All-Union Congress of the Society of Friends of Radio. He relates the new discoveries in the field of electro-magnetism to questions of dialectical materialist philosophy and the problems of the construction of socialism. Learn More