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Marxism
alt=Black-and-white head shot of Marx|upright=1.05|thumb|Karl Marx, after whom Marxism is named
proletariat
thumb|The Fourth Estate (painting)|The Fourth Estate (1901) by [[Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo]]
Capital: A Critique of Political Economy
foundational theoretical text of Karl Marx
Workers of the world, unite!
political slogan that is the rallying cry of communism
planned economy
type of economic system
Mensheviks
The Mensheviks () were a faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) which split with Vladimir Lenin's Bolshevik faction at the Second Party Congress in 1903. Mensheviks held more moderate and reformist views as compared to the Bolsheviks, and were led by figures including Julius Martov and Pavel Axelrod.
historical materialism
Marxist historiography
division of labour
separation of tasks in any system (particularly the society) so that participants may specialize
anti-capitalism
thumb|right|The "Pyramid of Capitalist System" cartoon made by the [[Industrial Workers of the World (1911) is an example of a socialist critique of capitalism and of social stratification.]]
détente
thumb|Leonid Brezhnev (left), [[Viktor Sukhodrev (center), and Richard Nixon (right) during Brezhnev's 1973 visit to Washington, D.C., a high-water mark in détente between the United States and the Soviet Union]]
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right|thumb|upright=1.35|A photograph of the Great Chartist Meeting on Kennington Common, London, 1848
Communist League
international political party established in June 1847 in London, England
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Reformism is a political tendency advocating the reform of an existing system or institution—often a political or religious establishment—as opposed to its abolition and replacement via revolution.
eco-socialism
thumb|300px|Socialist Alternative (Australia)|Socialist Alternative banner at the Global Climate Strike 2021 in [[Melbourne, Australia]]
workers' self-management
form of organizational management based on self-directed work processes on the part of an organization's workforce
austromarxism
thumb|right|Austromarxist theorist Otto Bauer, photographed in 1919 thumb|right|Former Staatkanzler Karl Renner, photographed in 1920
revisionism
various ideas, principles and theories based on a significant revision of fundamental Marxist premises
creative destruction
in economics, the linked processes of the accumulation and annihilation of wealth under capitalism
praxis
philosophical concept
autonomism
left-wing political and social movement and theory
from each according to his ability, to each according to his need
slogan coined by Karl Marx, coined in Critique of the Gotha Program
Materialism and Empirio-criticism
1909 essay by Lenin
accelerationism
Accelerationism is a range of ideologies that call for the use of capitalism and associated processes to create radical social transformations. Broadly, accelerationism engages with antihumanism, as well as posthumanism, and seeks to accelerate desired tendencies within capitalism at the expense of negative ones, though variants differ greatly on which tendencies and if this will lead beyond capitalism or further into it.
The Poverty of Philosophy
essay by Karl Marx
Opium of the people
Karl Marx's description of religion: “Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.”
Marxists Internet Archive
Internet Archive
socialist sef-management
economic or business model practiced in Yugoslavia
Left-wing Youth
youth community in China
revolutions of 1917–1923
Emancipation of Labour
Marxist political party in Russia (1883–1903)
anti-Stalinist left
opposition to Stalinism from those on the left-wing
Centrist Marxism
Marxist position between reformism and revolution
Marxism–Leninism–Maoism
thumb|right|Poster produced by the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA showing Marx, Lenin, and Mao
social consciousness
consciousness shared by individuals within a society
criticisms of Marxism
criticism of the marxist politics and economy
Göran Therborn
Swedish sociologist, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge
fellow traveler
person who sympathizes and co-operates with a political organization without being a formal member
withering away of the state
concept coined by Engels that, with the realization of socialism, the state will become obsolete and disappear as the society will govern itself without coercive enforcement of the law
Marxism and religion
overview about how Marxism influences religion
Marxist historiography
school of historiography
Marxist literary criticism
impossibilism
Impossibilism is a Marxist theory that stresses the limited value of political, economic, and social reforms under capitalism. As a doctrine, impossibilism views the pursuit of such reforms as counterproductive to the goal of achieving socialism as they stabilize, and therefore strengthen, support for capitalism. Impossibilism holds that reforms to capitalism are irrelevant or outright counter-productive to the goal of achieving socialism and should not be a major focus of socialist politics.
Erfurt Program
1891 party platform of the German SPD
crisis theory
Marxian theory of causes and consequences of the tendency for the rate of profit to fall in a capitalist system
Marhaenism
Marhaenism ( ) is a socialistic political ideology originated and developed by the first President of Indonesia, Sukarno. It was developed from the ideas of Marxism applied according to the nature and culture of Indonesia, or simply described as "Marxism adapted to Indonesian conditions".
Hague Congress (1872)
socialism conference
7th World Congress of the Comintern
1935 conference
Marxist international relations theory
Marxism as applied specifically in the academic discipline of International Relations
Communization
Communization is a contemporary communist theory that posits revolution as the immediate abolition of capitalist social relations, including the state, wage labour, and value. Unlike traditional Marxist conceptions which often involve a transitional stage of socialism, communization theory holds that a communist society must be created directly through the revolutionary process itself. The theory emerged from left communist currents in France during the 1970s and gained renewed attention in the early 21st century amid the perceived failures of 20th-century revolutionary movements.
liquidationism
Liquidationism () was the ideology among some members of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) who argued for the abandonment of the underground party work and transition to exclusively legal political activities.
historical determinism
philosophical view that events are entirely determined by history
tankie
thumb|T-54/T-55|T-54 tanks of the [[Soviet Army deployed in response to the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, from which the term "tankie" originated|265x265px]]
Marxist aesthetics
theory of aesthetics based on, or derived from, the theories of Karl Marx
young Marx
German philosopher before the 1850s, as expressed in his writings
overdetermination
Overdetermination occurs when a single observed effect is determined by multiple causes, any one of which alone would be conceivably sufficient to account for ("determine") the effect. The term "overdetermination" () was used by Sigmund Freud as a key concept in his psychoanalysis, and later by Louis Althusser.
Pact of the Catacombs
vow of poverty by 42 bishops of the Catholic Church
two-stage theory
Marxist–Leninist theory that underdeveloped countries must pass through a capitalistic stage via bourgeois revolution before moving to a socialist stage
Redskin
communist or anarchist skinheads
Deutscher Memorial Prize
British literary award
Marxist geography
strand of critical geography that uses the theories and philosophy of Marxism to examine the spatial relations of human geography