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Study Course

ABC of Marxism

In Ten Lessons
With Foreword & Appendix

(May 1939)

Compiled under the direction of the Central Committee of the Revolutionary Workers League of the United States.
Published by Demos Press, BOX 141-Alfred STA., Detroit, Michigan in 1939.
Transcribed by S. Curtis.
Marked up by Einde O’Callaghan for the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL).

[Dedication]

Introduction

I. The Basic Ideas of Marxism

II. The Evolution of Society

III. Dialectic Materialism

IV. The Development of Capitalism

V. Surplus Value and Capitalist Production

VI. Capitalist Contradictions and Decline

VII. Imperialism

VIII. The State and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat

IX. The Struggle for Power and the Revolutionary Marxist Party

X. The Four Internationals

APPENDIX
How to Organize and Conduct Successful Study Groups

* * *

To Louis Basky

worker, militant unionist, Marxist, proletarian revolutionist, party builder, tireless soldier in the war for the emancipation of the oppressed, who died August 18, 1938 at the age of fifty six, after forty one years of continuous service and sacrifice in the cause of his class, worn out by the strain of innumerable strikes, demonstrations, political strife and the daily grind of building the revolutionary movement.

Our comrade, Louis, is dead but the spirit, the faith and wisdom which are his legacy to us live on in the great truths of Marxism embodied in the following pages which inspire our movement. With the help of this pamphlet to which Louis contributed much in various ways other workers will come forward to close and swell the ranks of the army of the proletarian revolution.

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