Wages, hours, rent, debt
Start with political economy and class/labor.
Political EconomyTopic Map
Ten problem maps turn the archive into paths
Each map begins with a problem and links entry texts, core texts, common misreadings, and next reading.
Choosing a topic
Begin from a real confusion, not a term
The topic index is not an encyclopedia. It turns “what problem am I facing?” into “which texts should I read first?”
Law, police, parliament, bureaucracy
Start with state theory.
State TheoryWar, colonies, supply chains, finance
Start with imperialism and national liberation.
ImperialismHow to use these maps
Choose one real question, read the entry texts, and only move to core/advanced texts after you can state source, argument steps, and common misreadings.
Problem orientation
Enter 381 works through topics
Political Economy
Value, wages, surplus value, accumulation, crisis, and capitalist production.
Core questions
- How are value and surplus value produced through everyday wage relations?
- Why does accumulation produce wealth, poverty, and recurrent crisis together?
Core texts
Theory of the State
State power, democratic forms, class rule, revolutionary power, and public authority.
Core questions
- Why is the state not a supra-class neutral machine?
- How are democracy, law, military, and administration embedded in class rule?
Entry texts
Core texts
Imperialism
Imperialism, war, colonial rule, world market, and internationalism.
Core questions
- Why is imperialism not merely aggressive policy but a stage of the capitalist world system?
- How are finance capital, capital export, colonial systems, and war crises connected?
Entry texts
Core texts
Class and Labor
Class formation, labor process, workers’ movements, and social relations.
Core questions
- Why is class not income stratification but position in production relations?
- How do wages, hours, housing, debt, and platform management shape everyday control of workers?
Core texts
Women’s Liberation
Women’s liberation, family, private property, labor, and political rights.
Core questions
- How is women’s oppression linked to labor division, family institutions, property relations, and social reproduction?
- How do paid labor, unpaid care, and public services form a class question together?
Entry texts
Cultural Hegemony
Culture, ideology, education, intellectuals, and hegemony.
Core questions
- Why does rule rely not only on coercion but also common sense, education, media, and cultural institutions?
- How do organic intellectuals, publications, and public education participate in long-term positional work?
Entry texts
Core texts
National and Colonial Questions
Self-determination, colonies, oppressed nations, and internationalist strategy.
Core questions
- How do national oppression, colonial systems, and the capitalist world market constitute one another?
- Why are national self-determination and proletarian internationalism not opposed principles?
Core texts
Party Theory
Workers’ parties, organization, political press, discipline, and cadre development.
Core questions
- How can parties, publications, study circles, and documentation turn scattered experience into durable public capacity?
- What is the relation between political consciousness, spontaneous struggle, and theoretical education?
Entry texts
Organization Theory
Mass work, study circles, public collaboration, meetings, publishing, and documentation.
Core questions
- How can public, lawful, transparent documentation collaboration build long-term organizational capacity?
- How do discipline, division of labor, review, and source traceability serve public education?
Red Classics
Revolutionary literature, wartime narrative, socialist realism, people-centered writing, and international reportage.
Core questions
- How do red classics connect individual fate, organization, and historical task?
- How should fiction, prose, and reportage be read differently?