Outline of Marxism explained

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

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

Marxian critique of political economy

See also: Marxian economics.

• 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

Marxist sociology

See main article: Marxist sociology.

• 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

Marxist philosophy

See main article: Marxist philosophy.

• Dialectical materialism
• Philosophy in the Soviet Union

Marxist schools of thought

See main article: Marxist schools of thought.

• 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

Persons influential in Marxism

Marx and Engels influences

See also: Influences on Karl Marx.

Marxist theorists

Other persons

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

Marxist bibliography

See main article: Marxist bibliography.

Works by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

Marx and Engels

See also: Marx/Engels Collected Works.

• 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 Karl Kautsky

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

Works by Vladimir Lenin

See main article: Vladimir Lenin bibliography.

• 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)
• (1929)

Works by Joseph Stalin

• Marxism and the National Question (1913)

Works by Leon Trotsky

See main article: Leon Trotsky bibliography.

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

Works by Mao Zedong

See also: Selected Works of Mao Tse-Tung and Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung.

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

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

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

Marxist organizations

Early organizations

• League of the Just
• Communist League

International Marxist organizations

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

United States

• 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

See also

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

External links

• 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)

Notes and References

1. Book: Wolff and Resnick, Richard and Stephen . Economics: Marxian versus Neoclassical . registration . The Johns Hopkins University Press . August 1987 . 0-8018-3480-5 . 130 . 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)..