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[Book] From Class Society to Communism by Ernest Mandel

7 July 2025 · Theory

We are publishing here the text of a book by Marxist writer Ernest Mandel, first published in 1977, which is a very good introduction to Marxism and key positions of the revolutionary tradition.

From class society to communism: introduction
Chapter 1 Social Inequality and Social Struggle Throughout History 
Chapter 2 – The Economic Sources of Social Inequality [From Class Society to Communism]
Chapter 3 – The State, Instrument of Class Domination [From Class Society to Communism]
Chapter 4 –  From Petty Commodity Production to the Capitalist Mode of Production  [From Class Society to Communism]
Chapter 5 – The Capitalist Economy [From Class Society to Communism]
Chapter 6 –  Monopoly Capitalism [From Class Society to Communism] 
Chapter 7  – The World Imperialist System  [From Class Society to Communism] 
Chapter 8 – The Origins of the Modern Labour Movement  [From Class Society to Communism] 
Chapter 8 – The Origins of the Modern Labour Movement  [From Class Society to Communism] 
Chapter 9 – Reforms and Revolution [From Class Society to Communism] 
Chapter 10 – Bourgeois Democracy and Proletarian Democracy [From Class Society to Communism]
Chapter 11 – The First Inter‑Imperialist War and the Russian Revolution [From Class Society to Communism]
Chapter 12 – Stalinism [From Class Society to Communism]
Chapter 13 – From the Current Mass Struggles to the World Socialist Revolution [From Class Society to Communism]
Chapter 14 – The Winning Over of the Masses by the Revolutionaries [From Class Society to Communism]
Chapter 15 – The Coming of the Classless Society [From Class Society to Communism] 
Chapter 16 Materialist Dialectics [From Class Society to Communism]
Chapter 17 – Historical Materialism  [From Class Society to Communism]

Tags: Ernest Mandel, Marxist Theory