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Welcome to Leftypedia The online encyclopedia dedicated to providing a coherent platform for leftist politics Our aims: Document and propagate left-wing theory from a variety of different tendencies, and thus contribute to a more unified leftist movement in which no view is misrepresented De-mystify dense theoretical texts by engaging in direct analysis of primary sources while also providing readily understandable-explanations Create original leftist theory and discourse In short, to let the left-wing movement do the talking and expound upon it.

How can I contribute? Community portal All new editors should start here. Suggestion box Ideas for improvements to the site, interesting content, or new pages you'd like to see go here. Essays The Essay namespace will make it easy for leftists to share resources, arguments, and rhetoric in one place. Work in progress! Leftypedia Matrix chatroom If you are at least fairly involved in Leftypedia, we recommend you join the Matrix server, where a lot of site decisions are made.

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Other resources Marxist Internet Archive University of the Left bannedthought.net Books scanned by Ismail from eregime.org that were uploaded to archive.org The Great Soviet Encyclopedia: Articles from the GSE tend to be towards the bottom. Russian version Мифы истории СССР: Russian-language wiki on myths about Soviet history EcuRed: Cuba's online encyclopedia Books on libcom.org Library Genesis Dictionary of Revolutionary Marxism

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Community Portal The Community Portal is an entry point for those who wish to contribute to Leftypedia. Here you will find information on how to get started and suggestions on things to do. Leftypedia Project: Leftypedia Matrix room Community Guidelines Editing Leftypedia Research & Sources The following links can help you find sources. Articles - https://sci-hub DOT tw/ Texts - https://www.marxists.org/ Books - https://gen.lib.rus DOT ec/

Things to do If you are unsure on where to contribute, try starting here: Stubs: Articles that need additional work. Short pages: The shortest articles on the wiki. Articles that need rewriting: Articles that contain issues in their content. Articles with insufficient sources: Articles that need more or better references. Articles with slanted statements: Articles that need to be rewritten in a way that's more considerate of different leftist traditions. Articles that need creation: Non-existent articles that users have suggested be created. Broken redirects: A better alternative to the Wanted Pages page. Sorted alphabetically, but clearly shows how many redirects exist for each page. Wanted pages: Non-existent articles that are being linked to most often. Currently cluttered with links due to imported data from Wikipedia. View at your own risk. Beyond this, you can: Patrol the recent changes page to find recent additions to copyedit or expand upon. Adapt entries from the Marxists Internet Archive Encyclopedia to the wiki format. If you do, please add Template:MIAE at the beginning of the references section at the bottom of the page. Be careful that the entry you're adapting is fit for Leftypedia. If there are issues that you can't immediately resolve, add a template indicating this (e.g. Template:Rewrite, Template:Slanted). Expand our lists of internet resources. Discussions General suggestions Main page discussion FAQ discussion Marxism-Leninism discussion