Outline of Marxism

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Karl Marx in 1875
Short description: Overview of and topical guide to Marxism

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Marxism:

Marxism – method of socioeconomic analysis that analyzes class relations and societal conflict using a materialist interpretation of historical development and a dialectical view of social transformation. It originates from some of the work of or all of the work of the mid-to-late 19th century works of German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.

According to Marxist perspective, class conflicts conditions the evolution of modes of production, such as the development of slavery to feudalism to capitalism, and as such, the contradictions of capitalism demands the organization of the proletariat to establish a communist society through revolution and maintenance of the dictatorship of the proletariat. Marxism has since developed into different branches and schools of thought, and there is now no single definitive Marxist theory.[1]


History of Marxism

Marxist fields of study

Marxian critique of political economy

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Marxist sociology

  • Social class / Marxian class theory
    • Bourgeoisie
    • Petite bourgeoisie
    • Proletariat
    • Peasantry
    • Lumpenproletariat
  • False consciousness
  • Class consciousness
  • Class struggle
  • Alienation
  • Base and superstructure
  • Social metabolism
  • Marxist philosophy

    Marxist schools of thought

    From left to right, Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin. Faces of key Marxist thinkers are often used to represent some Marxism branches, with variations including Mao and others.

    Persons influential in Marxism

    Marx and Engels influences
    Marxist theorists
    Other persons
      • Eric Hobsbawm

    Marxist bibliography

    Works by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

    Marx and Engels
    • The Holy Family (1844)
    • The German Ideology (1846)
    • The Communist Manifesto (1848)
    • Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Germany (1851–1852)
    • The Civil War in the United States (1861–1862)
    Marx
    • The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon (1852)
    • Grundrisse (1857–1858)
    • A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy (1859)
    • Theses on Feuerbach (1888)
    • Das Kapital
      • Das Kapital, Volume I (1867)
      • Das Kapital, Volume II (1885)
      • Das Kapital, Volume III (1894)
    Engels
    • Anti-Dühring (1878)
    • The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (1884)

    Works by Karl Kautsky

    Works by Vladimir Lenin

    • What Is to Be Done? (1902)
    • The State and Revolution (1917)
    • Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism (1917)
    • The Tasks of the Proletariat in the Present Revolution (The April Theses, 1917)
    • "Left-Wing" Communism: An Infantile Disorder (1929)

    Works by Joseph Stalin

    Works by Leon Trotsky

    • The Permanent Revolution (1930)
    • The Revolution Betrayed (1937)

    Works by Mao Zedong

    • On Guerrilla Warfare (1937)
    • On Practice (1937)
    • On Contradiction (1937)
    • On Protracted War (1938)

    Other influential works

    • History and Class Consciousness (György Lukács, 1923)
    • Prison Notebooks (Antonio Gramsci, 1929–1935)
    • Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (Louis Althusser, 1970)

    Marxist academic journals

    Marxist organizations

    Early organizations

    International Marxist organizations

    Ruling Marxist Parties

    • Chinese Communist Party
    • Communist Party of Vietnam
    • Workers' Party of Korea
    • Communist Party of Cuba
    • Lao People's Revolutionary Party
    • Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1912-1991)
    • League of Communists of Yugoslavia (1919-1991)
    • Party of Labour of Albania (1945-1991)
    • Socialist Unity Party of Germany (1946-1989)
    • Romanian Communist Party (1921-1989)

    United States

    • All-African People's Revolutionary Party
    • American Labor Party
    • American Workers Party
    • Black Panther Party
    • Communist Party (Marxist–Leninist) (United States)
    • Communist Party USA
    • Freedom Socialist Party
    • Internationalist Workers Party (Fourth International)
    • Party for Socialism and Liberation
    • Red Guard Party
    • Revolutionary Communist Party, USA
    • Socialist Action (United States)
    • Socialist Alternative (United States)
    • Socialist Equality Party (United States)
    • World Socialist Party of the United States
    • Workers Party (United States)
    • Workers Party of the United States
    • Workingmen's Party of the United States

    See also

    References

    1. Wolff and Resnick, Richard and Stephen (August 1987). Economics: Marxian versus Neoclassical. The Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 130. ISBN 0-8018-3480-5. https://archive.org/details/economicsmarxian00wolf_0. "The German Marxists extended the theory to groups and issues Marx had barely touched. Marxian analyses of the legal system, of the social role of women, of foreign trade, of international rivalries among capitalist nations, and the role of parliamentary democracy in the transition to socialism drew animated debates ... Marxian theory (singular) gave way to Marxian theories (plural)." 




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