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The 193 pages that link to Karl Marx, each with the reason it gives.

• Werner SombartRelated: Marx supplied a major framework that Sombart adapted and contested.

• Eric WolfRelated: Wolf drew on Marxian analysis to investigate labor, production, and power across societies.

• Iron law of wagesRelated: Marx engaged with classical subsistence theories while developing his own account of wages and labor.

• Karl MannheimCompared with: Mannheim extended the social analysis of ideas beyond Marx’s focus on class and economic structure.

• Terry EagletonNarrower topic: Marx’s historical materialism provides a central foundation for Eagleton’s criticism.

• The Conquest of BreadCompared with: The book’s stateless ideal differs from Marxist strategies centered on political power and historical transition.

• The Open Society and Its EnemiesBroader topic: Popper criticizes Marx’s historical predictions while distinguishing them from his humanitarian aims.

• Albert SoboulNarrower topic: Marxist concepts informed Soboul’s analysis of class, social change, and revolution.

• Anti-revisionismNarrower topic: Anti-revisionists invoke Marx's writings as foundational standards for judging later changes.

• Criticism of religionRelated: His analysis treats religion as both consolation amid suffering and part of the social order that sustains it.

• Ferdinand LassalleCompared with: Marx exchanged sharp criticism with Lassalle over political strategy, theory, and Lassalle’s dealings with Bismarck.

• François-Noël BabeufRelated: Marx and Engels treated Babeuf’s movement as an early communist current.

• György LukácsRelated: Lukács reworked Marx’s critique of commodity production into a theory of reification.

• Karl LöwithRelated: Löwith reads Marx’s promised historical culmination as a secularized form of redemptive expectation.

• Late modern periodRelated: His critique made industrial class relations central to modern political thought.

• Lewis H. MorganRelated: Marx studied Morgan’s account of early society while developing arguments about historical materialism.

• Mario TrontiNarrower topic: Tronti reworked Marx’s analysis of capital and class conflict for postwar Italian industry.

• Petite bourgeoisieRelated: His analysis of small capital and independent producers shaped later uses of the class category.

• Social philosophyRelated: His critique connects social institutions to material interests and relations of production.

• The Origins of TotalitarianismRelated: Arendt examines how Marxist historical claims were transformed within Stalinist ideology.

• Thomas PikettyCompared with: Piketty revisits capitalism’s tendency toward concentration without adopting Marx’s theory of class struggle.

• Ulrich BeckRelated: Beck’s shift from class conflicts to risk conflicts revises questions central to Marxian social analysis.

• Wage slaveryRelated: Marx’s account of exploitation gave later uses of wage slavery a systematic economic framework.

• 19th centuryRelated: His critique of capitalism influenced labor movements and revolutionary politics.

• Anarchy of productionRelated: Marx used the phrase to describe the lack of conscious coordination among capitalist producers.

• Das KapitalNarrower topic: He wrote the book and continued its unfinished volumes through his research.

• Far-left politicsRelated: His critique of capitalism and theory of class struggle became central to Marxist politics.

• Frédéric Le PlayCompared with: Marx located industrial conflict in class relations, unlike Le Play’s emphasis on family and social authority.

• Freudo-MarxismRelated: His analysis of class and economic power supplied the tradition's social framework.

• George FitzhughRelated: Both criticized capitalism, but Marx sought workers’ emancipation rather than a slaveholding hierarchy.

• Heinrich von TreitschkeCompared with: Marx’s account of class and economic power differed sharply from Treitschke’s state-centered nationalism.

• History of CommunismRelated: His critique of capitalism became the most influential intellectual foundation for communist movements.

• History of social democracyRelated: Marx’s writings supplied much of the early social democratic movement’s analysis of capitalism and class.

• History of socialismRelated: His critique of capitalism reshaped socialist politics and later inspired parties and revolutions.

• History of sociologyRelated: His critique of capitalism shaped sociology’s study of inequality and power.

• History of the social sciencesBroader topic: His critique of political economy shaped social theory and movements worldwide.

• Law of valueRelated: Marx made the law of value central to his account of capitalist production.

• Marx's Theory of AlienationNarrower topic: Marx formulated alienation as part of his critique of capitalist labor and property.

• Marxist philosophyBroader topic: His writings are the tradition’s principal source and continuing point of debate.

• Modern era (history)Related: His work framed industrial class conflict as a force driving historical change.

• Scientific communismRelated: His analysis of class, capital, and historical change forms the theory's foundation.

• Theories about religionRelated: His critique interprets religion in relation to suffering, ideology, and material conditions.

• Thomas SowellCompared with: Sowell’s early Marxism later gave way to a sustained critique of Marxist analysis.