Marxists Internet Archive
Marxists Internet Archive | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Type | Online literature collection, encyclopedia |
| Available in | 80 languages |
| Founded |
The Marx/Engels Archive 1990 |
| Espoused ideology |
Trotskyism Anti-Stalinism |
| URL | marxists.org |
The Marxists Internet Archive[a] is a non-profit online archive of Marxist and other socialist texts. In addition, the site maintains the Marxists Internet Archive Encyclopedia (MIAE), which contains brief entries on a plethora topics. The site claims to host writings from nearly 1,000 authors in 83 languages.[1] However, the founders and maintainers of the site are primarily Trotskyists and much of its content is biased in favor of this tendency.
Criticism and issues
Trotskyist bias
The Marxists Internet Archive's potential use as an educational resource is impeded by the Trotskyist bias present with many of its contributors and maintainers. The most obvious example is the inclusion of Trotsky's writings on the curated "Selected Marxists" page while omitting classic authors such as Stalin.[2] Trotsky's portrait is also featured on many of the front pages for different languages on the site, including Chinese, French, Spanish, and Persian. The entry for "Stalinism" on the site's encyclopedia (which particularly suffers from bias) holds the Soviet Union under Stalin's leadership, and Stalinism itself, to be unrepresentative of Marxism, having "uprooted the very foundations of Marxism and Leninism"[3] and constituting "probably the most effective totalitarian regime in history."[4][b]
Censorship
The Marxists Internet Archive altered, censored, and at times removed content which contradicts their Trotskyist positions. For instance, on their hosted version of the Lenin Collected Works, they "deleted, corrected, or toned down" notes supposedly inserted by "Stalinist editors."[5] Contributors to the site have also mistranslated works from Lenin to present his opinion of Stalin as far more harsh than it truly was.[6] Additionally, they removed multiple chapters of Stalin's work Mastering Bolshevism while including a misinformative note on the top of the page.[7]
See also
References
- ↑ Introduction Marxists Internet Archive. Retrieved August 25, 2024.
- ↑ Frequently Asked Questions. Marxists Internet Archive. Retrieved August 25, 2024.
- ↑ Glossary of Terms — Stalinism Marxists Internet Archive. Retrieved August 25, 2024.
- ↑ Glossary of Terms — Totalitarianism Marxists Internet Archive. Retrieved August 25, 2024.
- ↑ A Note on Notes and other issues… Marxists Internet Archive. Retrieved August 25, 2024.
- ↑ The Subversion and Disruption of a Writing of Lenin (April 2020). revolutionarydemocracy.org Retrieved August 25, 2024. Archived from the original.
- ↑ Defects in Party Work and Measures for Liquidating Trotskyite and Other Double Dealers, "Transcribers Note". Marxists Internet Archive. Retrieved August 25, 2024.
Notes
- ↑ Also known as MIA or by its domain name Marxists.org.
- ↑ The MIAE classifies Josip Broz Tito and Mao Zedong and others as "Stalinists", despite both of whom being opposed to the theory and legacy of Stalin.
External links
- Front page, including links to several language options
- Index of works by Karl Marx