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The 193 pages that link to Karl Marx, each with the reason it gives.
MarxismBroader topic: His analysis of capitalism and class conflict supplies the tradition’s central arguments.
Social stratificationRelated: Marx made ownership and conflict between classes central to explaining stratification.
SocialismRelated: Marx gave a lasting account of class conflict, capital, and socialist transformation.
Historical materialismRelated: Marx developed the theory as part of his analysis of capitalism and historical change.
Émile DurkheimCompared with: Marx foregrounded class struggle, while Durkheim emphasized cohesion and moral regulation.
Marxism–LeninismRelated: Marx’s critique of capitalism and account of class conflict supply the synthesis’s theoretical core.
CapitalismRelated: Marx analyzed capitalism as a historically specific system shaped by class relations.
Max WeberCompared with: Weber treated economic interests as vital but rejected class and material production as sufficient explanations.
Friedrich EngelsRelated: Their lifelong collaboration produced The Communist Manifesto and shaped Marxist theory.
Adam SmithCompared with: Marx criticized the political economy Smith helped establish while drawing on its analysis of production and value.
Michel FoucaultCompared with: Foucault’s accounts of power extend beyond the class and economic structures emphasized in Marxist analysis.
Paris CommuneRelated: His essay on the Commune made it a lasting model in debates over workers’ political power.
Revolutions of 1848Related: The upheavals shaped the political context in which Marx and Engels published the Communist Manifesto in 1848.
CommunismRelated: His critique of capitalism and account of class struggle became central to communism.
Social classRelated: His account centered on ownership, wage labor, and conflict between classes.
Division of laborRelated: Marx examined how capitalist production reorganized workers through increasingly divided tasks.
Class struggleRelated: Marx made conflict between classes a central explanation of historical change.
RevolutionRelated: Marxist accounts interpret revolutions as outcomes of conflict between social classes and modes of production.
SociologyRelated: His account of economic power became a major source of sociological theory.
IdeologyRelated: Marx made ideology central to debates about class, material interests, and social consciousness.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelRelated: Marx retained Hegel’s account of development while grounding it in material social relations.
Technological determinismRelated: Some readings of Marx make productive forces the primary drivers of social transformation.
Social structureRelated: Marx connected social organization to production, ownership, and class relations.
Political economyRelated: His critique made ownership and class power central questions for the field.
Classical economicsCompared with: He drew on classical political economy while rejecting its account of exploitation and capitalist stability.
Marxist historiographyRelated: His account of class relations and production became a foundation for later Marxist historical interpretation.
AlienationRelated: Marx made alienation a critique of workers’ relations to production under capitalism.
The Communist ManifestoRelated: Marx co-wrote the pamphlet and supplied much of its theoretical argument.
Auguste ComteCompared with: Marx also sought laws of social change but centered conflict rather than Comtean consensus.
Central planningRelated: His critique inspired projects to replace private ownership and market coordination.
ModernityRelated: He framed modernity as a transformation driven by capitalist production and struggle.
Second InternationalRelated: Marx's ideas shaped the movement, though he died before the Second International was founded.
Labor theory of valueRelated: Marx made labor-based value central to his critique of capitalist production and exploitation.
Mikhail BakuninCompared with: Their conflict centered on whether revolutionary workers should seize centralized political power.
Capital accumulationRelated: Marx made accumulation central to his account of capitalist reproduction and expansion.
Class consciousnessRelated: Marx's analysis of class conflict supplied the framework in which class consciousness became central.
Alexis de TocquevilleCompared with: Marx centered economic class struggle, whereas Tocqueville emphasized political institutions, mores, and social equality.
Commodity fetishismRelated: Marx introduced commodity fetishism as a central analysis in his critique of capitalist exchange.
Pierre-Joseph ProudhonCompared with: Marx attacked Proudhon’s economic theories and their disagreement shaped later socialist divisions.
DialecticRelated: Marx adapted dialectical thought to material conditions and social conflict.
Marxist literary criticismNarrower topic: His analysis of class and material production supplies the tradition’s conceptual starting points.
Conflict theoryRelated: Marx made class struggle and control of production foundational to conflict analysis.
Critical theoryNarrower topic: Critical theory draws on Marx's analysis of class, capitalism, and historical change.
Marxian economicsBroader topic: His critique of political economy established the tradition’s central questions and categories.
Working classRelated: Marx made workers' relation to productive property central to his account of class.
HegelianismRelated: Marx reworked Hegelian dialectic into a materialist account of history and society.
Herbert SpencerCompared with: Marx offered a sharply different explanation of social change and inequality.
ProletariatRelated: Marx developed the proletariat’s role in his critique of capitalist production.
State socialismRelated: Marx's critique of capitalism became a major intellectual source for state-socialist movements.
The Wealth of NationsCompared with: Marx inherited classical political economy while criticizing its account of capitalist production and distribution.