Outline of 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 communism
• Marxist historiography
• Revisionism
  • Anti-revisionism

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Marxian critique of political economy
Concepts Capitalist mode of production Capital Commodity Concrete and abstract labour Critique of political economy Means of production Mode of production Productive forces Relations of production Socially necessary labour time Socialization Wage labour Wage slavery Wertkritik Wertabspaltungskritik Value-form
Topics Crisis theory Imperialism Historical materialism Technological unemployment Falling profit-rate tendency
Works Outlines of a Critique of Political Economy Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844 Wage Labour and Capital A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy Grundrisse Das Kapital Theories of Surplus Value Value, Price and Profit
People Karl Marx Friedrich Engels Paul Lafargue Roman Rosdolsky Étienne Balibar Robert Kurz Mark Fisher Claus Peter Ortlieb Geoff Pilling Moishe Postone NML: Hans-Georg Backhaus Helmut Reichelt Hans-Jürgen Krahl
Journals Monthly Review New School Economic Review Crisis and Critique Historical Materialism Socialist register Capital & Class
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• Mode of production
  • Primitive communism
  • Asiatic mode of production
  • Feudal mode of production
  • Capitalist mode of production
  • Socialist mode of production
• Means of production
• Relations of production
  • Exploitation of labour
• Factors of production
  • Subject of labor
  • Means of labor
  • Labour power
• Capital
  • Rate of profit
  • Capital accumulation
  • Organic composition of capital
    • Constant capital
    • Variable capital
• Surplus value
• Surplus labour
• Surplus product
• Law of value
  • Commodity
  • Value form
  • Use value
  • Exchange value

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Marxism
Theoretical works Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 The Condition of the Working Class in England The German Ideology The Communist Manifesto The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte Grundrisse Capital Critique of the Gotha Programme Dialectics of Nature The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State What Is to Be Done? The Accumulation of Capital Philosophical Notebooks Terrorism and Communism The State and Revolution Essays on Marx's Theory of Value History and Class Consciousness Prison Notebooks The Black Jacobins On Practice Theses on the Philosophy of History Dialectic of Enlightenment A Critique of Soviet Economics The Long Revolution Guerrilla Warfare The Wretched of the Earth Reading Capital The Society of the Spectacle Pedagogy of the Oppressed Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses Ways of Seeing How Europe Underdeveloped Africa Social Justice and the City Women, Race and Class Marxism and the Oppression of Women Imagined Communities Hegemony and Socialist Strategy The Sublime Object of Ideology Time, Labor and Social Domination The Age of Extremes The Origin of Capitalism Empire Late Victorian Holocausts Change the World Without Taking Power Caliban and the Witch An Introduction to the Three Volumes of Karl Marx's Capital Capitalist Realism Capital in the Anthropocene Towards Socialism or Capitalism? The Revolution Betrayed Literature and Revolution The Struggle Against Fascism in Germany Their Morals and Ours: The class foundations of moral practice
Philosophy Alienation Dialectical materialism Ideology Philosophy of nature Philosophy in the Soviet Union Reification Marxist ethics
Critique of political economy Capital (accumulation) Crisis theory Commodity Concrete and abstract labor Factors of production Falling profit-rate tendency Means of production Mode of production Capitalist Socialist Productive forces Scientific socialism Surplus product Socially necessary labour time Value-form Wage labour
Sociology Base and superstructure Bourgeoisie Class Class consciousness Classless society Commodity fetishism Communist society Critical theory Cultural hegemony Democracy Dictatorship of the proletariat Soviet Radical Democratic centralism Exploitation False consciousness Human nature Immiseration Imperialism Lumpenproletariat Metabolic rift Proletariat Private property Relations of production State theory Working class
History Class struggle Historical determinism Primitive accumulation Proletarian revolution World revolution Theory of historical trajectory
Aspects Aesthetics Archaeology Criminology Cultural analysis Cultural Studies Ethics Film theory Geography Historiography Literary criticism Marxism and religion Sociology Philosophy
Common variants Structural Autonomist Marxism–Leninism Guevarism Maoism Titoism Trotskyism Neo-Gramscianism Regulation school Third-worldist Hegelian Budapest School Frankfurt School Humanist Neue Marx-Lektüre Open Political Praxis School Both Black Classical Communization Feminist Leninism Neo Post Western
Other variants Analytical Austromarxism Centrist Council communism Eurocommunism Instrumental Marxism–Leninism–Maoism Nkrumaism Orthodox Revisionist Situationist Socialism with Chinese characteristics Wertkritik
People Marx Engels Morris Lafargue Rubin Kautsky Plekhanov Du Bois Connolly Lenin Luxemburg Liebknecht Kollontai Bogdanov Stalin Trotsky Grossman Zinoviev Bloch Lukács Korsch Bukharin Ho Serge Gramsci Galiev Pashukanis Bordiga Benjamin Mao Basu Mariátegui Horkheimer Dutt Brecht Marcuse Kalecki Fromm Cox Lefebvre James Adorno Padmore Sartre Deutscher Hoxha Beauvoir Sombart Nkrumah Sweezy Emmanuel Hill Bettelheim Draper Jones Hobsbawm Althusser Hinton Williams Freire Mandel Sivanandan Miliband Cabral Thompson Bauman Fanon Kosik Berger Castro Guevara Liebman Heller Guattari Mészáros O'Connor Wallerstein Mies Tronti Debord Amin Hall Nairn Parenti Negri Jameson Gonzalo Dussel Harvey Laclau Bahro Poulantzas Vattimo Badiou Harnecker Altvater Anderson Löwy Vogel Sison Easthope Rancière Berman Przeworski Cohen Therborn Losurdo Ture Postone Rodney Bannerji Spivak Newton Sakai Wood Federici Wolff Balibar Eagleton Kurz Hartsock Rowbotham Mouffe Geras Brenner Davis Massey Cleaver Bishop Haraway Panitch Clarke Jessop Davis Wright Fraser Burawoy Holloway Rose Screpanti Tamás Hampton Cano Žižek Berardi Sankara Hennessy McDonnell Douzinas Roediger Foster West Ghandy Marcos Heinrich Prashad Kelley Dean Lordon Linera Fisher Li Coulthard Malm Seymour Toscano Bhattacharya Moufawad-Paul Srnicek Horvat Hamza Saito
Journals Antipode Capital & Class Capitalism Nature Socialism Constellations Critique: Journal of Socialist Theory Historical Materialism Mediations Monthly Review New Left Review Race & Class Rethinking Marxism Science & Society Socialist Register
Related topics 21st-century communist theorists Anarchism Creative destruction Conflict theory Criticism of Marxism Communism Communalism Economic determinism History of communism Left-wing politics Marxian economics New Left Old Left Municipalism Political ecology Socialism Authoritarian Democratic Market Reformist Revolutionary Social Utopian Left-wing populism Universal class Vulgar Marxism Economism Worker cooperative Workers' council
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• Social class / Marxian class theory
  • Bourgeoisie
  • Petite bourgeoisie
  • Proletariat
  • Peasantry
  • Lumpenproletariat
• False consciousness
• Class consciousness
• Class struggle
• Alienation
• Base and superstructure
• Social metabolism
  • Metabolic rift

• Dialectical materialism
• Philosophy in the Soviet Union

• Classical Marxism
• De Leonism
• Orthodox Marxism
• Luxemburgism
• Leninism
  • Marxism–Leninism
    • Stalinism
    • Titoism
    • Hoxhaism
    • Juche
    • Maoism
      • Socialism with Chinese characteristics
        • Deng Xiaoping Theory
          • Xi Jinping Thought
      • Marxism–Leninism–Maoism
        • Marxism–Leninism–Maoism–Prachanda Path
  • Trotskyism
• Bordigism
• Council communism
• Eurocommunism

Marx and Engels influences

Marxist theorists

Other persons

• Marxists by nationality
• Anti-Revisionists
• Marxian economists
• Marxist historians
  • Eric Hobsbawm
• Marxist writers

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)

• The Class Struggle (Erfurt Program) (1892)
• Forerunners of Modern Socialism (1895)
• The Dictatorship of the Proletariat (Kautsky) (1918)

• 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)

• Marxism and the National Question (1913)

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

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

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

• New Left Review
• Capital & Class
• Radical Philosophy
• Rethinking Marxism
• Historical Materialism

• League of the Just
• Communist League

• Communist International
• Committee for a Workers' International
• International Communist Party

• 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

• Outline of socialism
• Outline of economics
• Outline of political science

• Marxists Internet Archive (MIA)
• Marxmail.org
• Marx Myths & Legends
• Marxism Page
• History of Economic Thought: Marxian School
• History of Economic Thought: Neo Marxian
• London Philosophy Study Guide on Marxism (offers many suggestions on what to read, depending on student's familiarity with the subject)