The Red Star Library

A book that combines Lenin’s “Karl Marx: A Brief Biographical Sketch with an Exposition of Marxism,” “The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism,” and “Friedrich Engels” into one convenient form.

The Red Star Library is proud to present H. Bruce Franklin’s popular defense of Stalin in a brand new, hi-res scan.

Bill Bland’s “Class Struggles In China” is the reason he’s sometimes called “the Hoxhaist before Hoxha.” In it, he makes a powerful and correct analysis of Chinese revisionism while Hoxha and Mao were still on good terms.

In this short work, Friedrich Engels does what Karl Marx was so often unwilling to do: summarizes the science of Marxism.

A fascinating and relatively unknown interview of Joseph Stalin conducted by none other than famous science fiction author & self-described socialist HG Wells. In it, Stalin defends Marxism-Leninism and talks about FDR and America, among other things.

We are proud to present this out-of-print work online for the first time in English. In it, comrade Hoxha reprints fascinating entries from his political diary dealing with China, revealing once and for all the revisionist and opportunist nature of Mao Tse-Tung and the Chinese Communist Party.

The Marxist-Leninist Movement and the World Crisis of Capitalism The international situation is becoming ever more complicated. In saying this I have in mind that the situation is not tranquil either for capitalism or for the revolutionaries. Capitalism is in a great fever, in crisis. In my opinion, we Marxist-Leninists, the working class, the revolutionaries …

This highly influential speech delivered by Enver Hoxha at the Conference of the 81 Communist and Workers’ Parties in November 1960 marked the Party of Labour of Albania’s public break with Nikita Khrushchev, who was clearly leading the USSR down the path of revisionism and capitalist restoration.

The Foundations of Leninism by Joseph Stalin – Table of Contents – Introduction The Historical Roots of Leninism Method Theory The Dictatorship of the Proletariat The Peasant Question The National Question Strategy and Tactics The Party Style in Work Dedicated to the Lenin Enrollment J.V. Stalin Introduction The foundations of Leninism is a big subject. …

The CPUSA has changed drastically for the worse since Stalin gave these speeches, but they are still worthwhile reads in context. As Stalin says herein, “you look at the situation too pessimisti­cally, dear comrades of the American delegation. My outlook is optimistic.”

The Modern Revisionists on the Way to Degenerating Into Social-Democrats and to Fusing with Social-Democracy Every day that passes by brings new facts to light testifying that the modern revisionists, N. Khrushchev’s group and their followers, have completely deviated and have turned into enemies of Marxism-Leninism and of proletarian internationalism, of socialism and of the …

In this classic, yet unfinished, work, Stalin describes the “unsoundness of anarchism” and argues forcefully against it.

Friedrich Engels’ brief, but effective deconstruction of the arguments of the anarchists and “anti-authoritarians.”

Written in 1848 for the Communist League, the Manifesto of the Communist Party (the “Communist Manifesto”) is Marx & Engel’s most famous work and one of the defining texts of scientific socialism.