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Your source of comprehensive, accurate & relatively objective
info about the expanding universe of marxism related email lists
To avoid confusion, here is a list of  other sites that have names that are similar to ours
 • Marxism ListsThe list of lists related to marxism
Important Note: We take absolutely no position on whether these lists, the moderators, participants, topics covered or general atmosphere represent genuine marxism, or something entirely different.  Lists will be listed in this 'Marxism Lists' section (a) at the request of the list owner or moderator, or (b) if the list title contains any variation of the following words: MarxLeninTrotskyStalinMaocommunismsocialismbolshevismworkerproletariat.
 • Progressive ListsThat have caught our eye
We include here lists that may not present themselves as marxist but which relate to: (a) news of workers' struggles, (b) news of popular insurgencies or national liberation struggles, (c) general progressive politics, (d) leftist economic theory, (e) progressive academic discussion or (f) anarchism
 • Meta Lists • Other lists of marxism lists (we link to our "competitors")
 • Resources • Want to start your own list? Here are free services to host eLists, web pages and email archiving
 • The Classics • Well known archives of Marx, Engles, Lenin and others
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Progressive Lists
We include here lists that may not present themselves as marxist but which relate to: (a) news of workers' struggles, (b) news of popular insurgencies or national liberation struggles, (c) general progressive politics, (d) leftist economic theory, (e) progressive academic discussion or (f) anarchism  

Important Note: Keeping this part of our List of Lists up-to-date is not part of our core mission. For every list which presents itself as marxist there will be ten or one hundred lists with progressive politics which do not. In order to avoid being overwhelmed we will update this section strictly on the basis of how much time The Eighth Floor has available.

How to use
this chart
eList name will be a "pop up" link to the web site if it exists and we know about it.
public archive "posts" = link to archived posts.
email for sub & unsub Just click and send if the host is eGroups or OneList. If the host is majordomo (and if your email program supports the "body" tag) you can click "sub", "unsub", "dig" or "undig" to subscribe, unsubscribe, or subscribe to the digest or unsubscribe to the digest. (More details will show up in the "dropdown box" when you click the little down arrow.)
Please Note: One of the most frequent problems happens when someones uses email account "A" to try to unsubscribe from a list that they subscribed to using email account "B". If you use multiple email accounts, please watch out for this :-)

eList name
posts/
month
moderator
people
who
subscribe
date
created
host
public
archive
email for
sub & unsub
Labour Start
3
Eric Lee
?
?
ListBot.com
No
(see below)
[LBO] Left Business Observer Discussion List
950
Doug Henwood
300
May 1998
Panix (majordomo)
flat and grouped by title
subunsub, digundig (see below)
[PEN-L] Proceedings of Progressive Economists
1000
Michael Perelman
?
?
CSF
here
(see below)
Stachkom
11
stachkom-owner@onelist.com
28
May 1998
OneList
posts
sub, unsub
Stachkom Debate
14
Vladimir Bilenkin
15
Jan 2000
OneList
No
sub, unsub
Stachkom International
40
Vladimir Bilenkin
77
Jul 1999
OneList
No
sub, unsub
Stachkomru (Russian language)
30
stachkomru-owner@onelist.com
33
Jan 1999
OneList
No
sub, unsub

 

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Meta lists
(This space reserved)
This space reserved for links to other "metalists" of marxist lists.

We intend to link to all sites which list a half dozen or more marxism related lists.

If you have a site which, like us, lists lots of marxist or semi-marxist elists, please send us info and we will link to your page from here.

Spoon's Marxism Lists
The Spoon Collective was the original meeting ground for marxists who discovered the internet and wanted to talk. The Spoon's relatively loose moderation meant that all sorts of trends could come together and interact with a speed and intensity that before could only have happened in the midst of a vast upsurge. For a while, all hell broke loose. By the time that the Spoons closed down their various marxism lists in May 1998, they had become the direct and indirect spawning ground for the "Cambrian Explosion" that created most of the current major marxist lists.

Links are provided for the complete archives for the following Spoon's lists: Marxism, Marxism2, Marxism-and-Sciences, Marxism-Feminism, Marxism-General, Marxism-International, Marxism-News, Marxism-Thaxis. This page also gives the email and listserver address for the following lists: Marxism-International, Marxism-and-Sciences, Marxism-News, Marxism-Ezines, Marxism-Thaxis, Marxism-Psych, Marxism-Unmoderated, Socialism, M_Fem, Marxism, LBO-Talk

Unfortunately, the archive links do not appear to be functional at this time [bensea 25.Dec.99]
eGroups

and

OneList

Discussion groups concerned with Marxism, socialism, communism (and general progressive politics) are sprouting at eGroups and OneList like seedlings after a Spring rain. Each month more pop up. eGroups and OneList offer users the ability to easily search for eLists in various categories. For example, on eGroups I did a search on marxism, socialism and communism and came up with 6, 12 and 8 discussion groups respectively.

On OneList, a search under government/liberalism/left-wing yields 62 discussion groups.

Also three other categories yielded the following numbers of discussion groups:

Bob Malecki and Cockroach!
present the

"Marxist" Mailing List Page

We said that we intend to link to all sites which list a half dozen or more marxism related lists.

We meant it.

(For those unfamilar with Mr. Malecki ... click and learn ...)

[bensea 27.Dec.99]

Labour Left Briefing Links to email lists, usenet newsgroups and web boards
email lists
Usenet newsgroups
alt.politics.socialism.trotsky, alt.society.labor-unions, misc.activism.progressive, soc.politics.marxism, uk.politics.announce
WWWboards

 

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Resources
Free technical resources to help you build your marxism related email list or web site
Free email list creation, web hosting and related resources
Important Note: Keeping this part of our List of Lists up-to-date is not part of our core mission. We will update this section strictly on the basis of how much time The Eighth Floor has available.
Email Lists
Email Archiving
  • www.mail-archive.com All you do is subscribe "archive@jab.org" to your list and messages will automatically be placed in a public archive. This service, as of January 2000, archives 2,757 lists and 2.2 million messages.
Web Hosting
  • thunder.prohosting.com • FREE and NO obnoxious stupid advertising
    • Free • 15 MB • FTP account • CGI/SSI scripts • No forced pop-ups • No forced watermarks • No forced banners • No forced buttons • No forced images • No forced links
  • www.GeoCities.com (Yahoo), www.Tripod.com (Lycos) and Angelfire.lycos.com are all very similar. 15 to 30 MB but usually annoying pop-ups or watermarks, etc unless you pay money. Important: angelfire.lycos is not to be confused with www.angelfire.com which is now a disgusting site that pops up an obnoxious new window every time you get rid of the old one.
  • Tao Communications (a progressive communications cooperative offers "pay-what-you-are-able" web sites)
Mnemonic Front-Ends
  • Come.To • Let's you have a URL of the form: come.to/xyz
    which is easier to remember than a damn geocities address.
    (They also offer: go.to, fly.to, get.to, welcome.to, walk.to, surf.to, zip.to, etc.to)

 

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The Classics and ...
Well known archives of Marx, Engles, Lenin
and ...
Here are some of the more well known sites that contain archives of marxist writers (or writers whom many people consider to be marxists).
Important Note: Keeping this part of our List of Lists up-to-date is not part of our core mission. We will update this section strictly on the basis of how much time The Eighth Floor has available.
Marxists Internet Archive
 
www.marxists.org
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Archive or works of: Karl Marx, Fredrick Engels, James P. Cannon, James Connolly, Eugene V. Debs, Daniel De Leon, Georgi Dimitrov, Che Guevara, Hal Draper, C.L.R. James, Alexandra Kollantai, Antonio Labriola, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, Anatoly Lunacharsky, Rosa Luxemburg, Mao Tse Tung, Josй Carlos Mariategui, William Morris, Michel Pablo, Anton Pannekoek, David Riazanov, Max Shachtman, Joseph Stalin, Leon Trotsky and probably others

In case the server is down a mirror site now exists at: http://csf.colorado.edu/mirrors/marxists.org

From Marx to Mao
 
www.marx2mao.org
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Mainly Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, Mao

Also includes material by: the Comintern, the Communist Party of China, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the Party of Labor of Albania, Georgi Dimitroff, Etienne Balibar, Enver Hoxha, Chang Chun-chiao, Martin Nicolaus, Chou En-lai (Zhou Enlai) and the Racism Research Project

Encyclopedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL)
 
trotskyism.org
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"An attempt to create archives for Trotskyist literature and categorize various groups in this tradition. Is in a bit of a hiatus, because of the daunting nature of the task" [LNP]
Maoist Documentation Project
 
www.maoism.org
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Good source of writings by Mao, the Peruvian Communist Party (Shining Path) and other Maoist currents present and past. Includes Mao's military writings.

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