Socialism and Liberation in the United States is a handbook for understanding the world we live in, and a guide on how to make meaningful change based on workers’ power over the corporate elite and their capitalist system of exploitation.It outlines the basic political and ideological positions of the Party for Socialism and Liberation, a revolutionary Marxist party in the United States. The book describes the basis for a united, working-class struggle against imperialism, a system that imperils the lives and livelihoods of the majority of people in the United States and across the globe. Socialism and Liberation in the United States envisions a socialist future based upon principles of workers’ democracy, cooperation, equality, solidarity and sustainability. It argues that the workers who produce all of society’s wealth should own and control it.“The capitalist system has proven to be incapable of meeting the needs of the people—even in the richest capitalist country in history. For the people and planet to live, capitalism must go.” —The Program of the PSL

Socialism and Liberation in the United States: What we are fighting for

Politics & Social Sciences

Socialism and Liberation, Party for

Politics & Government

PSL Publications

Whether it is brutal murders by the police, the injustices perpetrated everyday in the legal and prison system, or the military interventions around the globe—the state remains a topic of utmost importance for today’s revolutionaries. In the everyday struggles of working class and oppressed people the state often presents itself as the main enemy. Can anything be done to change this reality? Is this just the way it is and always will be?This volume answers the question of why the capitalist government and its enforcers are set up against the people, and why, in order to win radical change, we need a revolution that builds a new state on new foundations. Revolution Manifesto revisits the theories of the state first developed by Marx, Engels and especially Lenin in his groundbreaking work “The State and Revolution.” Nearly a century later, Lenin’s analysis on the class nature of the state, and the need to overthrow it, has been proven true time and again. Examining the historical experience of revolutions in France, Russia and Cuba, as well as precolonial Indigenous societies, the book asks: do we even need a state? What are the possibilities for revolutionary states to “wither away” completely?As struggles against exploitation and oppression continue to heat up, this book is a must read for all those serious about understanding and resolving the serious injustices facing our world. This publication reflects the views of the Party for Socialism and Liberation.“Anyone who aspires ... to understand the theory of modern communism must study Lenin’s pamphlet “The State and Revolution.” ... The book’s primary objective was to rescue Marxism from its devolution into a doctrine of reform, to restore Marxism as a doctrine of revolution.”—From Revolution Manifesto

Revolution Manifesto: Understanding Marx and Lenin’s Theory of Revolution

Liberation Media

A vision of the first decade of socialism in the United States. The diverse multinational working class has achieved political supremacy and is actively eliminating bigotry, racism, and national oppression as it expands economic, social, and political democracy.\n“This courageous and visionary book provides a realistic and realizable socialist alternative to our decaying predatory capitalist civilization! It grounds a grand socialist reconstruction of the present US regime in our present sufferings and struggles, especially in the crucial role of an awakening of working peoples! Genuine hope trumps despair in this prophetic text!” 
—DR. CORNEL WEST\n"Every project that is fed up with the failed capitalist system must develop a vision for socialism that builds the confidence of people that such a post-capitalist world is possible. Sharp clarity of thought based on experiments by people around the world defines this crucial book, a roadmap for our work." 
—VIJAY PRASHAD\n"This book is a great political and pedagogical tool for everyone who dares to imagine the end of capitalism and oppressive structures in the United States. It comes at a crucial time and should be utilized by organizers as a conversation starter within every community in the US to explore the concrete ways in which socialism can and must be constructed as a real social, economic and political project." 
—CLAUDIA DE LA CRUZ

Socialist Reconstruction: A Better Future for the United States

Legal Theory & Systems

Posing the question “Why socialism?” today is not dispassionate or academic. The starting point is that for millions of people in the United States and around the world—for the vast majority, in fact—this capitalist system is not working.Why Socialism? It is a question that takes on greater urgency with every passing day in the United States and around the world. This book takes for granted that revolutionary change is needed. In that sense, the starting points for this discussion are the Pentagon’s rule over oppressed people in other countries, mass incarceration and racist police murder here in the United States, and an economic system based on greed and exploitation. The Party for Socialism and Liberation was founded for this purpose: to intervene in a world struggle between the exploiters and the exploited. It is for the liberation of the majority—the workers and oppressed. It is for our future. To build a new society based on cooperation and revolutionary ideology to root out the scourges of capitalism: racism, war and injustice. If this is the type of future you envision, read this book.

Why Socialism?

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Socialism and Liberation in the United States: What we are fighting for

Revolution Manifesto: Understanding Marx and Lenin’s Theory of Revolution

Socialist Reconstruction: A Better Future for the United States

Why Socialism?