Internet Modern History Sourcebook: Socialism

Robert Owen (1771-1858): A New View of Society, Or, Essays on the Principle of the Formation of the Human Character, and the Application of the Principle to Practice, 1813-16 [At McMaster][Full Text] or here [At Yale]
The Peterloo Massacre, 1819 [At this Site]
Samuel Bamford (1788-1872): Passages in the Life of a Radical-on the Peterloo Massacre, 1819 [At this Site]
WEB The Peterloo Massacre, 1819 [At spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk]
Chartism: The People's Petition, 1838, excerpts [At this Site]
Claude-Henri de Rouvroy St. Simon (1760-1825): Lettres d'un habitant de Gen�eve a ses contemporains [At Internet Archive, from Warwick]
Claude-Henri de Rouvroy St. Simon (1760-1825): Series of the Development of Human Intelligence [At Internet Archive, from Warwick]
Claude-Henri de Rouvroy St. Simon (1760-1825): The Failure of European Liberalism, 1824 [At Internet Archive, from Warwick]
Charles Fourier (1772-1837): Theory of Social Organization, 1820 [At this Site]
A proponent of "phalanxes" as a form of industrial organization. They are best exemplified in modern Israeli kibbutzim.
Louis Blanc (1811�1882): The Organization of Labour, 1840, excerpts [At this Site]

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Marxism

WEB Marx/Engels Internet Archive[At Marxists.org]
Almost all the major texts by Karl Marx, Friederich Engels, and major texts by James Connolly, Daneil DeLeon, Hal Draper, Georgi Dimitrov, Alexandra Kollontai, Antonio Labriola, Lenin, Anatoly Lunacharsky, Rosa Luxemburg, Mao Tsetung, Jose Carlos Mariategui, William Morris, David Riazanov, Anton Pannekoek, Max Shachtman, Stalin, Leon Trotsky. The site also contains a major image archive and a search engine.
G.W.F. Hegel (1770-1831): Introduction to the Lectures on the Philosophy of History,(1840 edition) [At WSU]
G. W. F. Hegel: The Dialectic of History, 1812-1820, an epitome [At this Site]
Karl Marx (1818-83): Full Texts [index at Marxists.org]
Karl Marx (1818-83) and Frederich Engels (1820-1895): Communist Manifesto, 1848, extracts [At WSU]
RG Study Guide [At WSU]
Karl Marx (1818-83) and Frederich Engels (1820-1895): Communist Manifesto, 1848 [At Yale][Full Text]. German Edition [At ArtBin][Full Text]
Karl Marx (1818-83): Scientific Socialism, 1844-1875, an epitome [At this Site]
Karl Marx (1818-83): On Alienated Labour, from Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts, 1844 [At WSU]
Karl Marx (1818-83): A Contribution to the Critique of the Political Economy 1859 [At Internet Archive, from Warwick]
Karl Marx (1818-83): The Fetishism of Commodities, from Das Kapital, Vol 1: chap 3 [At WSU]
An Interview with Karl Marx, The Chicago Tribune, January 5, 1879 [At Marxists.org]
Frederich Engels (1820-1895): Speech at the Graveside of Karl Marx, 1883 [At Internet Archive, from Warwick]
Friederich Engels (1820-1895): The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State, 1884 [At Marxists.org][Full Text]

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Versions of Socialism

Albert Einstein (1879-1955): Why Socialism, 1949 [At Monthly Review]
Emma Goldman: Was My Life Worth Living
2ND Emma Goldman: A Guide to Her Life and Documentary Sources [At Berkeley]
Prince Peter Kropotkin (1842-1921) : Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal, 1896 [At this Site]
Rosa Luxemburg: "The War and the Workers"-- The Junius Pamphlet, 1916 [At this Site]
Revisionism
- Edouard Bernstein (1850-1932): Evolutionary Socialism, 1909, [At this Site]
- Vladimir Illyich Lenin (1870-1924): Marxism and Revisionism, 1908, excerpts [At Hanover]
- Alexandre Millerand: Reformist Socialism, 1903 [At this Site]
Fabianism
- John Stuart Mill (1806-73): Liberalism Evaluated, 1873, from his Autobiography [At this Site]
  Mill discusses how his faith in Liberalism slipped away and he began tending towards Liberal Socialism (i.e., that of Hobhouse rather than the Fabians).
- Joseph Schumpeter: On the Concept of Social Value, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 23, 1908-9. (At Macmaster)
- George Bernard Shaw: An Unsocial Socialist [At Project Gutenberg]
- Sidney James Webb (1859-1947): The Historic Basis of Socialism, 1889 [At this Site]
  By one of the founders of British non-revolutionary intellectual socialism - known as "Fabianism".
- William Morris (1834-1896): Why I Am a Socialist, 1884, excerpts [At this Site]
Labor Parties
- The Gotha Program, 1875 [At Hanover]
- German Social Democrat Party: The Erfurt Manifesto, 1891, excerpts [At this Site]
- French Socialist Progam, 1905, excerpts [At this Site]

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Socialist Culture

Anne Maier: Autobiography, 1912, excerpts [At this Site]
The Internationale [At this Site] WM [MIDI/RA]
Text in English, French, German, and Castilian [plus Billy Bragg's version] with both RA and MIDI sound files of the music, and two sung versions - one a Chinese military version and another a Turkish discobeat version!
The Internationale [with multimedia]
text in French and German, and with sound files!
Di Shvue (The Vow) [At ANU]
The song of the Bund, the dominant party among East European Jews.
The Red Flag [At This Site][with multimedia]
2ND Hal Draper: The Two Souls of Socialism [At ANU]

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Trade Unionism

The Gotha Program, 1875, excerpts [At Hanover] - trade unionist manifesto.
The Erfurt Program, 1891 [At Hanover]
A Social Democrat unionist manifesto with more Marxist tones.
2ND Lucy Parsons: Woman of Will [At IWW], The 19th century American woman trade-unionist]

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