Historical Figures

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's: The Phenomenology of Spirit 

• Hegel and the Freedom of Moderns by Domenico Losurdo 

• A Map of Hegel's Science of Logic 

• Half Hour Hegel: The Complete Phenomenology of Spirit 

• "Conspectus of Hegel’s Book Lectures On the History of Philosophy" by Lenin 

• Why did Schopenhauer HATE Hegel? 

• What is Knowledge? An Immanent Critique of Education by Zifeng 

Immanuel Kant

• Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant (1785)

• The Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant (1788)

• Critique of the Power of Judgment by Immanuel Kant (1790)

• Kant's Transcendental Idealism (2021)

Jean Kacques Rousseau

• Discourse on the Origin of Inequality: A Discourse on a Subject Proposed by the Academy of Dijon: What is the Origin of Inequality Among Men, and is it Authorised by Natural Law? by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1754)

• Discourse on the Sciences and Arts, and Polemics by Rousseau (1762)

Charles Fourier

• Selections from the works of Fourier by Charles Fourier (1901)

• Design for Utopia: Selected Writings of Charles Fourier (1971)

• Charles Fourier on Work and Play (2019)

• How Fourier Can Still Teach Us to Make Lemonade By Dominic Pettman (2019)

• Charles Fourier and Cuck Philosophy (2020)

Friedrich Engels

• The Condition of the Working Class in England by Friedrich Engels (1844)

• The Principles of Communism by Friedrich Engels (1847)

• The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State by Friedrich Engels (1884)

• The Housing Question by Friedrich Engels (1887)

• On Historical Materialism by Friedrich Engels (1892)

• Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 by Friedrich Engels: Part One , Part Two (2019)

• Socialism: Utopian and Scientific Explanation (2020) | Audiobook

Karl Marx

• Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 by Karl Marx (1844)

• The German Ideology by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (1846)

• The Poverty of Philosophy by Karl Marx (1847)

• The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (1848)

• Wage-Labour and Capital & Value, Price and Profit by Karl Marx (1849)

• The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte by Karl Marx (1852)

• A Spy in the Workers Movement by Karl Marx (1860)

• Das Kapital by Karl Marx (1867)

• Critique of the Gotha Programme by Karl Marx (1875)

• Wages, Price and Profit by Karl Marx (1898)

• Karl Marx in the years of Herr Vogt (2008)

(There are audiobook versions for most, if not all of these all over the Internet)

Paul Lafargue 

• The Right to be Lazy, and Other Studies by Paul Lafargue (1883)

Pëtr Kropotkin

• The Conquest of Bread (1892)

• Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution (1902)

• The Great French Revolution 1789–1793 (1909)

• Fields, Factories and Workshops (1912)

• Wars and Capitalism (1914)

• P. A. Kropotkin on Legality and Ethics (1996)

• What A Strike Is  | The Use of the Strike  (2022)

Pierre Joseph Proudhon

• What is Property?  (1840)  Audiobook: Part One ,  Part Two 

• The System of Economic Contradictions (1847)

• The Coming Era of Mutualism | The State  (1849)

• The General Idea of the Revolution in the 19th Century (1851)

• The Philosophy of Progress  (1853)

• The Theory of Taxation  (1861)

• Property is Theft: An Anthology  (2011)

Jean Jaures

The Socialist History of the French Revolution by Jean Jaurès  (In French)

• Volume 1: The Constituent Assembly

• Volume 2: The Work of the Constituent Assembly

• Volume 3: The Legislative Assembly

• Volume 4: The Republic

• Volume 5: The Revolution in Europe

• Volume 6: The Gironde

• Volume 7: The Mountain

• Volume 8: The Government Revolutionary

Alexandra Kollontai

• The Social Basis of the Woman Question (1909) by Alexandra Kollontai [Audiobook] 

• Who Needs the War? (1915) by Alexandra Kollontai [Audiobook] 

• International Women's Day (1920) by Alexandra Kollontai [Audiobook] 

• Political biography of Alexandra Kollontai 

Amadeo Bordiga

• The Amadeo Bordiga Collection 

• "Against Activism" 

• Amadeo Bordiga’s last interview  

• Apostles And Agitators: Italy's Marxist Revolutionary Tradition  

• The Science and Passion of Communism : Selected Writings of Amadeo Bordiga

• Meeting of the Italian Delegation with Stalin in 1926  

Angela Davis

• If They Come in the Morning: Voices of Resistance by Angela Y. Davis  

• Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis  

• The Challenge of Prison Abolition: A Conversation  

• Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis  

• The Meaning of Freedom: And Other Difficult Dialogues by Angela Y. Davis 

• Angela Davis & Herbert Marcuse at UC Berkeley from 1969  

• Introduction to Negative Dialectics by Angela Davis 

Antonio Gramsci 

• The Struggle of Gramsci Against The Opportunism of Bordiga, And For the Bolshevisation of the Party  (1950-1951)

• It's time to jailbreak Gramsci  | Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks: Towards a ‘War of Position’   

• The Strengths and Limitations of Lenin’s State and Revolution  

• The Two Fascisms (1921)  | Understanding Fascism  (Audiobooks)

• Against Pessimism (1924)  | Neither Fascism Nor Liberalism: Sovietism  (Audiobook)

Bhagat Singh

• The Selected Works of Bhagat Singh  

• Words of Freedom: Ideas of a Nation 

• When Stalin invited Bhagat Singh to the Soviet Union 

Deng Xiaoping

• Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping: (1938-1965) , (1975-1982) , (1982-1992)

• Revealing Quotes from Arch-Revisionist Deng Xiaoping 

• Deng Xiaoping interviewed by Oriana Fallaci (1980)    

Enver Hoxha

• The Complete works of Enver Hoxha, November 1941-December 1965 (In Albanian) | Books by Enver Hoxha

• Record of I. V. Stalin's Conversation with E. Hoxha concerning Albanian-Yugoslavian Relations and the Foreign and Domestic Policy of Albania 

• On the International Situation and the Tasks of the Party 

• Remarks to Enver Hoxha (1949): Excerpts from a 1949 meeting of Soviet and Albanian delegations 

Ernst Thalmann Cha

• The Combined Speeches and Articles about History of the German Labor Movement by Ernst Thalmann (1919-1933)

• Ernst Thaelmann: The Leader of the German Workers by R. Groetz 

• Ernst Thälmann: Son of his class, A Biographical Historical Film  | IMDB

• "Smash the Fascists..." German Communist Efforts to Counter the Nazis, 1930-31 

• German Archive: 1918-1945

Fidel Castro 

• Fidel Castro History Archive  (1950's-2000s)

• Fidel Castro's Speeches (In Spanish)

• 1991 Clip of Fidel Castro in in Guadalajara on Capitalism, Consumerism, and the Environment

• 2001 Documentary on the extraordinary life of Fidel Castro, directed by Estela Bravo (Can be watched for free on numerous websites)

• Michael Parenti died January 24th, 2026 at the age of 92, Michael was a giant on the American left, who influenced generations of activists, scholars and ordinary Americans.