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 

• The Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant 

• Critique of the Power of Judgment by Immanuel Kant 

• Kant's Transcendental Idealism 

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 

• Discourse on the Sciences and Arts, and Polemics by Rousseau 

Charles Fourier

• Selections from the works of Fourier by Charles Fourier 

• Design for Utopia: Selected Writings of Charles Fourier 

• Charles Fourier on Work and Play 

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

• Charles Fourier and Cuck Philosophy 

Friedrich Engels

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

• The Principles of Communism by Friedrich Engels 

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

• The Housing Question by Friedrich Engels 

• On Historical Materialism by Friedrich Engels 

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

• Socialism: Utopian and Scientific Explanation | Audiobook

Karl Marx

• Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 by Karl Marx 

• The German Ideology by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels 

• The Poverty of Philosophy by Karl Marx 

• The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels 

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

• The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte by Karl Marx 

• A Spy in the Workers Movement by Karl Marx 

• Das Kapital by Karl Marx 

• Critique of the Gotha Programme by Karl Marx 

• Wages, Price and Profit by Karl Marx 

• Karl Marx in the years of Herr Vogt 

(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 

Pëtr Kropotkin

• The Conquest of Bread 

• Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution 

• The Great French Revolution 1789–1793 

• Fields, Factories and Workshops 

• Wars and Capitalism 

• P. A. Kropotkin on Legality and Ethics 

• What A Strike Is  | The Use of the Strike 

Pierre Joseph Proudhon

• What is Property?  | Audiobook: Part One ,  Part Two 

• The System of Economic Contradictions 

• The Coming Era of Mutualism | The State  

• The General Idea of the Revolution in the 19th Century 

• The Philosophy of Progress 

• The Theory of Taxation 

• Property is Theft: An Anthology  

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)

Eric Arthur Blair (George Orwell) 

• George Orwell was a terrible human being

• Orwell's list

• George Orwell, an anti-communist traitor

• Anti-Communist Propagandist, Champion of Trotskyism and State Informer   

Georgy Dimitrov

• Georgi Dimitrov's legendary speech in 1933 Leipzig trial

• Georgi Dimitrov Internet Archive (1882-1949) 

https://libcom.org/article/orwells-list  

Ho Chi Minh

• The Selected Works of Ho Chi Minh

• Ho Chi Minh on Trotskyites

James Connolly

• Labour in Irish History

• The Re-Conquest Of Ireland

• Socialism and the Irish Rebellion

• The Lost and Early Writings of James Connolly, 1889 - 1898    

John Maclean

• John MacLean's Speeches and Articles (1879-1923) 

• John Maclean: Hero of Red Clydeside by Henry Bell 

Joseph Stalin 

• The Foundations of Leninism

• Dialectical and Historical Materialism  

• Stalin: History and Critique of a Black Legend by Domenico Losurdo

• The Stalin Era by Anna Louise Strong  

• Another View of Stalin by Ludo Martens

• An Interview Of Stalin By H.G. Wells

• Five Myths About Stalin

• The American Historical Review: October 1993 Soviet Union Penal System 

• Declassified, Sanitized CIA Reports on Stalin 

• Stalin: What They Don't Teach You in School 

• Stalin on Fighting Bureaucracy 

The American Historical Review October 1993 Soviet Union penal system.pdf    

Leon Trotsky

• Grover Furr: Trotsky’s Lies – What They Are, and What They Mean 

• Trotskyist Revisionism 

• A Brief Guide to the Ideological Differences Between Marxism-Leninism and Trotskyism  

• Why Am I Not a Trotskyist? 

• Trotskyism: A Tool of Imperialism 

• Trotskyism as an Opportunist Movement

• Trotskyism: Counter-Revolution in Disguise by M. J. Olgin

• Trotskyite Revisionism

• Vladimir Lenin quotes on Leon Trotsky    

Malcolm X

• The Autobiography of Malcolm X 

• Malcolm X speaks

• FBI Vault: Malcolm X

• Malcolm X Speeches and Interviews  

Mao Zedong

• Combat Liberalism by Mao Zedong

• On Practice and Contradiction by Mao Tse-Tung 

• Be Concerned with the Well-being of the Masses 

Throughout the various volumes of Mao's selected works, it has been revealed that:

• Contrary to popular belief Mao wasn’t against landlords.

"The policies of the Chinese Communist Party are merely liberal. Our rent reduction is from the old 80-70-60% down to the legal (by unenforced Kuomintang law) 37.5%. Even this we only try to accomplish gradually because we don't want to drive away the landlords. Our limit on interest is 10% a year. This is not extreme - though it is much lower than it used to be. Even the most conservative American businessman can find nothing in our program to take exception to. China must industrialize. This can be done - in China - only by free enterprise and with the aid of foreign capital. Chinese and American interests are correlated and similar. They fit together, economically and politically. We can and must work together. The United States would find us more cooperative than the Kuomintang. We will not be afraid of democratic American influence - we will welcome it."

• Mao rejected the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. 

"If the capitalist road of bourgeois dictatorship is out of the question, then is it possible to take the socialist road of proletarian dictatorship? No, that is not possible either. Without a doubt, the present revolution is the first step, which will develop into the second step, that of socialism, at a later date. And China will attain true happiness only when she enters the socialist era. But today is not yet the time to introduce socialism. The present task of the revolution in China is to fight imperialism and feudalism, and socialism is out of the question until this task is completed. The Chinese revolution cannot avoid taking the two steps, first of New Democracy and then of socialism. Moreover, the first step will need quite a long time and cannot be accomplished overnight. We are not utopians and cannot divorce ourselves from the actual conditions confronting us."

Mao initially didn’t want to fight or oppose the Japanese empire: "It was sent in by Comrade Mao Tse-tung," the comrade replied. "This afternoon he held a conference with our editors and comrades from the Central Committee propaganda department. He said that we must set the sights on an alliance between Germany, Italy, Japan and the Soviet Union in international relations, and on a united front with the Japanese and Wang Ching-wei inside the country. He said he had prepared an editorial and told us to publish it in our next issue. The question is a serious one. Hasn't he discussed it with the other members of the Politbureau?"  

"Stalin and Dimitrov suggested an anti-fascist alliance of Britain, the United States, France and the Soviet Union against Germany, Italy and Japan. Events have proved this to be a mistake. What we want is not an alliance between Britain, the United States, France and the Soviet Union, but between Germany, Italy, Japan and the Soviet Union."

"Germany, Italy and Japan are poor," Mao replied. "We will gain nothing from fighting them. In case we win, we can take nothing from them. Britain, the United States and France are rich, especially Britain. Look at her colonies. If she is crushed, great profits will accrue from just dividing her colonies. You may accuse me of a ,pro-fascist line, but I do not care. In China we want a united front with the Japanese and Wang Ching-wei against Chiang Kai-shek, not the anti-Japanese front suggested by you. In short, you are wrong."

"We cannot overpower the Japanese," Mao said. "So why fight them? We would do better to fight Chiang Kai-shek with the help of Japan and Wang Ching-wei. Look at the large territories Chiang Kai-shek controls in the southwest and northwest. If he is beaten, we can get a piece of the northwest. This would be a gain. I know you will say that I am pro-Japanese and guilty of national treason, but I do not care. I am not afraid of being a national traitor."

• Mao wanted to give the bourgeois political power

“Places in the organs of political power should be allocated as follows: one-third to . . . the proletariat and the poor peasantry; one third to . . . the petty-bourgeoisie, and the remaining one-third to . . the middle bourgeoisie and the enlightened gentry”. 

• Mao attacked and repressed worker organizations, purged and overworked them.

Mao Tse-tung is breaking up the Party of the working class— the Chinese Communist Party. He has disbanded mass organizations of the working class — the All-China Federation of Trade Unions and trade unions of all levels, is brutally persecuting the leaders, functionaries and rank and file of the trade unions. Mao Thc-tung is openly advocating a reduction of wages. He has abolished piece-rates and bonuses. He openly calls for lowering the living standard of the working class to that of the rural population. On the pretext of "the struggle against counter-revolutionary economism", he is against improving the life of factory and office workers, is arresting and killing all who advocate an improvement in the life of factory and office workers. Ignoring the difficult living conditions of the workers, he pursues the so-called "combination of industry, agriculture and military affairs", compelling the workers, in addition to their jobs, to engage also in agriculture and undergo military drill. He has sent to each industrial, mining and transport enterprise military units for permanent billeting in order to institute military control over the workers and other employees and bring military pressure to bear on them. Before their shift starts, workers and other employees are forced to recite and sing "quotations" in front of Mao Tse-tung's portrait. This is called "asking Chairman Mao for directives"; at the end of the shift, they also recite and sing "quotations" — "report to Chairman Mao about their work for the day". Military men make use of every free minute to compel the workers and other employees "to study Mao Tse-tung's thought", depriving them of any possibility of resting. By coercion and deception, he forces part of the 'workers and other employees to organize into so-called tsaofans, to attack the overwhelming majority of the workers and other employees at factories, mines and on transport as conservatives and reactionaries, to rebel against them and capture power from them. This splits the unity of the working class and causes conflicts in their ranks. On many occasions Mao Tse-tung has falsely proclaimed that "in conditions of the dictatorship of the proletariat there are no grounds within the working class for necessarily splitting into two irreconcilably hostile camps". But the question is asked, who split the working class into two irreconcilably hostile camps? Was it not Mao Tse-tung and his group? The aim pursued by Mao Tse-tung in splitting the working class is. on the one hand, to prevent the working class from being a solidlv-knit and united foremost leading force in China's political and social life and. on the other, to prevent the working class from acting as a solidly-knit and united force against the counter-revolutionary military coup of Mao Tse-tung. Recently, under the demagogic slogans that the "working class must lead everything" and "the proletariat must exercise its dictatorship in the entire superstructure, including all the spheres of ideology and culture", Mao Tse-tung has forcibly organized so-called "workers brigades for the propaganda of Mao Tse-tung s thought". Actually, these are a kind of detachments of storm troopers who act merely as assistants of military units in suppressing the intelligentsia, hungweipings and other student youth; they have nothing in common either with the "leadership of everything by the working class" or with the dictatorship of the proletariat. This venture of Mao Tse-tung is foul mockery of the ideas of scientific communism about the leading role of the working class and the dictatorship of the proletariat. 

Mao’s ministry of foreign affairs statement openly admitted to collaborating with the United States to resist Soviets.

Nikos Zachariadis

• Nikos Zachariadis on Marxism-Leninism-Stalinism 

• The KKE rejects Mao: "...Mao Zedong, with his theory, did not and does not provide a Marxist-Leninist answer to the problems of our era". 

• Tito's dagger stabs the People's Democratic Greece in the back 

• Nikos Zachariadis: Half a century since the death of the Greek communist leader 

• The struggle of the KKE against Opportunism. The experience from 1949-1968

• The Collected Works of Nikos Zachariadis (In Greek)  

Rosa Luxemburg

• Who Was Rosa Luxemburg? 

• Rosa Luxemburg Internet Archive

• The Junius Pamphlet analyzes the causes of WWI. this pamphlet includes further critiques of revisionism and an insightful analysis of the imperialist relation between the German Reich and the Osman Empire that shows how imperialism functions.

Thomas Sankara

• Thomas Sankara Speaks: The Burkina Faso Revolution, 1983-87

• A Certain Amount of Madness The Life, Politics and Legacies of Thomas Sankara

• Sankara’s stance on sovereignty still resonates today   

Vladimir Lenin

• Lenin Selected Writings by Vijay Prashad in a single volume 

• Lenin, Hegel and Western Marxism: From the 1920s to 1953 

• Left Anticommunism: An Infantile Disorder

• "Democracy and Narodism in China" - What Lenin thought of Mao 

• The Immediate Tasks of the Soviet Government - What Happens After a Socialist Revolution?

• Seven Myths about Lenin

• Lenin's speech: The Middle Peasants   

Vladimir Mayakosvky

• Mayakovsky: A Biography by Bengt Jangfeldt

• Vladimir Mayakovsky Poems (1893-1930) 

• Lenin on Mayakovsky

Walter Rodney

• Decolonial Marxism: Essays from the Pan-African Revolution

• The Russian Revolution: A View from the Third World

• Walter Rodney Speaks: The Making of an African Intellectual

• How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

• The Groundings with My Brothers

• A History of the Guyanese People, 1881-1905 

• Aspects of the International Class Struggle in Africa, the Caribbean and America 

William Z. Foster

• American Trade Unionism: Principles and Organization Strategy and Tactics

• History of the Communist Party of the United States

• History of the Three Internationals: The World Socialist and Communist Movements from 1848 to the Present   

• The Russian Revolution by William Z. Foster 

• The Struggle Against Revisionism  (1945)

Eugene V. Debs 

• The Eugene V. Debs Reader: Socialism and the Class Struggle

• Writings of Eugene V. Debs

• Note: You can find numerous video discussions about Eugene Debs on Youtube, I just couldn't find any from those who aren't reformists. 

Huey P. Newton 

• The Huey P. Newton Reader edited by David Hilliard and Donald Weise

• Seize The Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party

• The Genius of Huey P. Newton (In the Library) 

• Essays from the Minister of Defense Huey Newton

• Intercommunalism: The Late Theorizations of Huey P. Newton, ‘Chief Theoretician’ of the Black Panther Party by Delio Vasquez 

Josip Broz Tito

• From Trotsky to TIto by James Klugmann 

• Tito Unmasked by Dino Kyosev

• Tito's plot against Europe: The story of the Rajk conspiracy by Derek Kartun 

Grover Furr

• Khrushchev Lied | Blood Lies

• Why Does the Pseudo-Left Hate Grover Furr? 

• The Crisis of Soviet History of the Stalin Period and What We Should Do About It, A Speech by Grover Furr 

Michael Parenti

• Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

• The Real Causes Of World War Two

• Inventing Reality: The Politics of News Media | Dirty Truths 

• To Kill a Nation: The Attack on Yugoslavia  

• The Michael Parenti Video Library

• The Michael Parenti Political Archive   

• 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.

Muammar Gaddafi

• The Green Book 

• A Brief History of Muammar Gaddafi 

• Hillary Clinton and the Brutal Murder of Gaddafi

• The Assassination of Gaddafi has Resulted in the Death of the Nation of Libya and the Destruction of its People 

Nelson Mandela 

• The Long Walk To Freedom

• Nelson Mandela: A Brief Biography

Noam Chomsky 

• Left Anticommunism: The Unkindest Cut 

• Noam Chomsky’s Hypocrisy and Support for Israel

• Noam Chomsky: A Liar who 'Manufactures Consent' for the United States Empire

• Noam Chomsky has made numerous academic contributions over the years but in truth he is nothing more than a liberal who opposes real meaningful change. Not only that, he was also mentioned numerous times in the Epstein Files.