Tradition
Classical Marxism
Overview
Classical Marxism is the body of Marxian economics and Marxist theory expounded by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in their works. It is contrasted with orthodox Marxism, Marxism–Leninism, and autonomist Marxism which emerged after their deaths. The core concepts of classical Marxism include alienation, base and superstructure, class consciousness, class struggle, exploitation, historical materialism, ideology, revolution; and the forces, means, modes, and relations of production. Marx's political praxis (application of theory), including his attempt to organize a professional revolutionary body in the First International, often served as an area of debate for subsequent theorists.
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But, in its theoretical form, modern Socialism originally appears ostensibly as a more logical extension of the principles laid down by the great French philosophers of the eighteenth century. Like every new theory, modern Socialism had, at first, to connect itself with the intellectual stock-in-trade ready to its hand, however deeply its roots lay in material economic facts. The great men, who in France prepared…
Friedrich Engels, Socialism, Utopian and Scientific
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The organization of the advanced Communist party in Germany was of this kind. In accordance with the principles of the "Manifesto"[11] (published in 1848), and with those explained in the series of articles on "Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Germany," published in the _New York Daily Tribune_, this party never imagined itself capable of producing, at any time and at its pleasure, that revolution which was to…
Friedrich Engels, Revolution and Counter-Revolution
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Theoretically the German labor movement marched under the banner of Marxism. Still in its dependence on the conditions of the period, Marxism became for the German proletariat not the algebraic formula of the revolution that it was at the beginning, but the theoretic method for adaptation to a national-capitalistic state crowned with the Prussian helmet. Capitalism, which had achieved a temporary equilibrium…
Leon Trotsky, The Bolsheviki and World Peace
Close in meaning to Classical Marxism; the term itself is not named.
Philosophers who discussed Classical Marxism
Related ideas
- Productive forces
- Karl Marx
- Marx's theory of alienation
- Marxism–Leninism
- Slavery
- Social class
- The Communist Manifesto
- Relations of production
- Class struggle
- Marxian economics
- Marxist philosophy
- Vanguardism
- Proletariat
- Orthodox Marxism
- Scientific socialism
- A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
- Anti-Dühring
- Praxis (process)
- Political economy
- Historical materialism
- Friedrich Engels
- Means of production
- Dialectic
- Ineffability
Place in the tradition
Part of Communism.