MARXISM WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE
MARXISM SCIENTIFIC SOCIALISM Karl Marx and Friederich Engels: Founders of most radical form of socialism = COMMUNISM Utopian Socialism’s critique of capitalism + Marx EngelsHegel Georg Hegel’s theory of dialectical development of history
MARXISM
SCIENTIFIC SOCIALISM Left Hegelians - followed Hegel’s method but rejected doctrine Ludwig Feuerbach God was invention of man, man should worship self replaced idealism with materialism Feuerbach
MARXISM SCIENTIFIC SOCIALISM Enter Karl Marx Hegelian dialectic method + Feuerbachian materialism material conditions = driving forces of history political systems result from interaction of conditions & forces
MARXISM DIALECTICAL MATERIALISM
MARXISM DIALECTICAL MATERIALISM
RUSSIAN MARXISM DEVELOPMENT OF MARXISM IN RUSSIA Liberation of Labor Movement (1883) Georgi Plekhanov & Pavel Axelrod Union of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class (1890s) modeled on German Social Democratic Party Plekhanov Axelrod
RUSSIAN MARXISM VLADIMIR ILICH ULIANOV RUSSIAN SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC WORKERS’ PARTY (founded 1898) Adopts name LENIN Publishes newspaper ISKRA (THE SPARK) with Plekhanov Forces split in party – becoming leader of BOLSHEVIKS