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 Marxism

Marxist fields of study

Marxian critique of political economy

Marxist sociology

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

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 Mao Zedong

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

United States

References

^ Wolff and Resnick, Richard and Stephen (August 1987). Economics: Marxian versus Neoclassical. The Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 130. ISBN 0-8018-3480-5. 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).