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In the terminology of Marx and Engels the words communism and socialism are synonymous. They are alternately applied without any distinction between the...

Major work by Patrick Clawson on the structure of Egyptian capitalism and the changes it has undergone throughout its history, arguing that these changes can be understood only as part of developments in international capitalism and the demands of advanced capitalist countries.

Maximilien Rubel's 1973 article highlighting the libertarian elements within Marx's work and its importance to anarchism, regardless of Marx's lengthy critiques of famous anarchist theoreticians.

David Adam addresses Marx’s concept of a socialist society in relation to various concepts of the state.

First published at Socialist Project. Given that the immanent drive and constant tendency of capital is to atomize the working class, what are the effects of this tendency? For the atomized worker, all other workers are competitors; all other workers are enemies in so far as they are competing for the same jobs. All other workers potentially stand between them and the satisfaction of their needs.

Bolshevik Revolution and socialist Russia.

Communism, political and economic doctrine that aims to replace private property and a profit-based economy with public ownership and communal control of at least the major means of production (e.g., mines, mills, and factories) and the natural resources of a society. Communism is thus a form of socialism—a higher and more advanced form, according to its advocates. Exactly how communism differs from socialism has long been a matter of debate, but the distinction rests largely on the communist...

From the December 1973 issue of the Socialist Standard Marx usually referred to the society he aimed to see established by the working class as “communist…

It was actually Lenin taking advantage of the already growing revisionism of the gradualists (then called state-socialists) in the 2 nd International who was…

"The theory of the communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property."