Works:
1919: No One Knows Where
1925: Children of Revolution
1925: First Time in History
1925: Stalin ‘The Voice of the Party’ Breaks Trotsky
1941: Stalin
1946: Talk with Mao Tse Tung
1949: In North Korea: First Eye-Witness Report
1952: Letter to Susan Talmadge Detweiler
1956: The Stalin Era (Off Site)
1959: When Serfs Stood up in Tibet
1963: Letters from China
Helen Keller Reference Archive
How I Became a Socialist
By Helen Keller
The politics of Helen Keller | International Socialist Review
The politics of Helen Keller | International Socialist Review
Helen Keller is one of the most widely recognized figures in US history that people actually know very little about. That she was a serious political thinker who made important contributions in the fields of socialist theory and practice, or that she was a pioneer in pointing the way toward a Marxist understanding of disability oppression and liberation—this reality has been overlooked and censored.
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“We can’t have education without revolution. We have tried peace education for 1,900 years and it has failed. Let us try revolution and see what it will do now… . I am not for peace at all hazards. I regret this war [World War I], but I have never regretted the blood of the thousands spilled during the French Revolution. And the workers are learning how to stand alone. They are learning a lesson they will apply to their own good out in the trenches… . Under the obvious battle waging there is an invisible battle for the freedom of man.”
– Helen Keller
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Archive
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Archive
A founding member of the American Civil Liberties Union, she was involved in the campaign against the conviction in the Sacco-Vanzetti case. In 1936 Flynn joined the Communist Party and wrote a bi-weekly column for women’s rights for the Daily Worker, and chaired the women’s commission. In two years she was elected to the CP national committee. In 1942 Flynn ran for Congress in New York and received 50,000 votes.
Women and Marxism: Marxists Internet Archive
Women and Marxism: Marxists Internet Archive
This subject section has been created to provide broad documentation both on women’s issues and Marxism, and also a space for women’s writings that are significant, but transcriptions not currently volumous or organized enough to warrant their own section.
Some of these writers are not Marxists, but are included for context or reference. The intention is to also include the cultural as well as political milieu in which revolutionary women have worked during their struggles.
As with the rest of MIA, most heavily represented are classic texts. The few references to contemporary Marxism-Feminism are meant to be a gateway to further exploration for interested readers.