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     MARXISM

     DEFINITION AND PHILOSOPHERS

     DEFENITIONS

     The political and economic theories in which class struggle is a central element in the analysis of
    social change in Western societies.

     A system of economic, social and political philosophy based on the ideas that view social change
    in terms of economic factors. A central tenet is that the means of production is the economic
    base that influences or determines the political life.

     The economic and political theory that holds that actions and human institutions are
    economically determined, that the class struggle is the basic agency of historical change and
    that capitalism will ultimately be superseded by communism.

     doctrines

    The Hegelian Dialectic

     Stated that every thesis contains its own antithesis, its negation, opposite or contradiction and
    that the two confliction forces merge to produce a synthesis, a new and greater reality.

    Historical Materialism

     A theory that regards material economic forces as the basis of social and political institutions
    and ideas.

     The society mode of economic production determines the nature of its culture and social
    structure.

     PHILOSOPHERS

     Karl heinrich Marx


    (1818-1883)

     Karl heinrich Marx


    (1818-1883)

     A German philosopher, economist, social scientist, sociologist (one of the founder of sociology),
    historian, journalist and revolutionary socialist.

    He is known for:

     Proposing that the excesses of capitalism would lead to conflict between the lower and middle
    classes.

     Advocating communism.

     1848 With German political economist Friedrich Engels, published the Communist Manifesto
    (famous work, in which they argued that the working class should rebel and build a Communist
    society) the central text of modern communism.
     1864 In London, helped found the International Workingmen's Association (First International),
    a revolutionary socialist organization that aspired to represent the working class across national
    lines.

     1867 Published the first volume Das Kapital(The Capital); the second and third volumes were
    edited and published by Friedrich Engels after Marx's death.

     Friedrich Engels

     (1820-1895)

     A German revolutionary political economist and cofounder, with Karl Marx, of scientific
    socialism, now known as communism.

     His greatest single contribution to Marxism after the death of Marx by editing, from rough drafts
    and notes, the second and third volumes of Marx's Das Kapital.

     Engels participated actively in building the revolutionary movement of his time. Following the
    outbreak of the revolution in 1848 in Germany, he and Marx went to Cologne, where they
    published a Communist newspaper.

     Engels moved to London in 1870 and, after becoming a member of the General Council of the
    International Workingmen's Association, or First International, began to relieve Marx of the
    work of directing the council's affairs.

     Vladimir Lenin 

     (1870-1924)

     A Russian revolutionary leader and theorist, who presided over the first government of Soviet
    Russia and then that of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR, Term - 1918-1924).

     Known for: Organizing the revolutionary movement that overthrew the Russian imperial
    leadership and contributing to the movement's ideological foundation, which was based on
    Marxist theory.

     He revived, developed and applied the doctrines of Marxism. Marx’s ideas, as interpreted by
    Lenin, continued to have influence throughout most of the 20th century. In much of the world,
    including Africa and South America, emerging nations were formed by leaders who claimed to
    represent the proletariat.

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