Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism

Lenin's classic on the Marxist theory of the state, written on the eve of the October Revolution. Explains why workers must replace the old state rather than take it over.

V. I. Lenin

Lenin's case for a party of professional revolutionaries and against relying on spontaneity. The founding text of the vanguard party.

V. I. Lenin

Lectures from 1924 that sum up Lenin's ideas on theory, strategy, the party and the national question. Long used as the standard primer on Leninism.

Joseph Stalin

A short primer on Marxist-Leninist philosophy, political economy and social science, written as a study course for activists.

Jose Maria Sison