Marxist and Socialist


Karl Marx

Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)

Carl Sandburg worked from the time he was a young boy. He quit school following his graduation from eighth grade in 1891 and spent a decade working a variety of jobs. He delivered milk, harvested ice, laid bricks, threshed wheat in Kansas, and shined shoes in Galesburg's Union Hotel before traveling as a hobo in 1897.
His experiences working and traveling greatly influenced his writing and political views. As a hobo he learned a number of folk songs, which he later performed at speaking engagements. He saw first-hand the sharp contrast between rich and poor, a dichotomy that instilled in him a distrust of capitalism.

As the first decade of the century wore on, Sandburg grew increasingly concerned with the plight of the American worker. In 1907 he worked as an organizer for the Wisconsin Social Democratic party, writing and distributing political pamphlets and literature. At party headquarters in Milwaukee, Sandburg met fellow socialist, Lilian Steichen, whom he married in 1908.

Jack Griffith London (1876-1916)

George Orwell (1903-1950)

Pen name for Eric Blair

Christopher Caudwell (1907-1937)

Pseudonym of Christopher St. John Sprigg, the British Marxist writer who died in the Spanish Civil War

Upton Sinclair (1878-1968)

Oscar Ameringer (1870-1943)

"Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other."

Daniel DeLeon (1852-1914)

Anton Pannekoek  (1873-1960)

Arnold Petersen

Alexandra Kollantai (1872-1952)

Georgs Lukacs (1885-1971)

Karl Korsch (1911-1962)
 Rosa Luxembourg (1871-1919)
 Otto Ruhle (1874-1943)
 John Keracher (1880-1958)
Josef Dietzgen (1828-1888)
Martin Glaberman (1918-2001)
Maurice Brinton
 Istvan Meszaros
 Paul Mattick
1. Introduction

2. Capitalism and Socialism

3. Reform and Revolution

4. Limits of Reform

5. Lenin's Revolution

6. The Idea of the Commune

7. State and Counter-Revolution

8. The German Revolution

9. Ideology and Class Consciousness
Antonio Gramsci (1891-1931) I. I. Rubin
Eugene V. Debs  (1855-1926)
"While there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free."
 Peter Wilberg
 Miscellaneous
Organizations