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The 154 pages that link to Marxism, each with the reason it gives.
Karl MarxNarrower topic: Marx’s writings became the central texts interpreted and contested across this tradition.
AnarchismCompared with: Anarchists and Marxists share opposition to capitalism but dispute the state’s role in revolution.
Vladimir LeninNarrower topic: Lenin adapted Marxist ideas to Russia’s conditions and revolutionary movement.
SocialismBroader topic: Marxism is one influential socialist tradition, not a synonym for socialism as a whole.
PostcolonialismCompared with: Its focus on class and capital can conflict with postcolonial emphasis on race, empire, and culture.
Marxism–LeninismNarrower topic: Marxism–Leninism adopts Marx’s critique of capitalism and class struggle as its theoretical foundation.
John Stuart MillCompared with: Mill’s reformist liberalism offers a distinct response to inequality and economic power.
Friedrich EngelsNarrower topic: Engels’s writings and editorial work helped establish the tradition associated with both thinkers.
Bertolt BrechtRelated: Marxist analysis informed Brecht’s portrayals of class, exploitation, and historical change.
Dependency theoryNarrower topic: Dependency theory adapts Marxist analysis to international relations and unequal development.
MaoismNarrower topic: Maoism adapts Marxist class analysis to revolutionary conditions in China.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelRelated: Marxism inherits and transforms Hegelian ideas about contradiction and historical change.
Rosa LuxemburgNarrower topic: Luxemburg developed her revolutionary theory within Marxism’s analysis of capitalism and class struggle.
Theodor W. AdornoRelated: Adorno adapted Marxian critique while rejecting simple economic explanations of culture.
Political economyCompared with: It explains economic institutions through ownership and conflicts between classes.
Factory systemRelated: Factory relations informed Marxist accounts of wage labor and capitalist control.
Angela DavisNarrower topic: Davis uses Marxist analysis to connect racial oppression with class relations and capitalism.
Frankfurt SchoolRelated: The school adapted Marxist analysis while revising its account of modern capitalism.
Frantz FanonRelated: Fanon drew on materialist analysis while arguing that colonial societies could not be reduced to class relations.
The Communist ManifestoNarrower topic: The pamphlet became one of the best-known introductions to ideas later gathered under this name.
Walter BenjaminRelated: Benjamin adapted historical materialism to account for culture, memory, and political rupture.
MaterialismRelated: Marxist thought develops a distinctive materialist analysis of social life.
LeninismNarrower topic: Leninism adapts Marxist analysis to conditions of revolution and political organization.
Mikhail BakuninCompared with: Bakunin rejected its perceived reliance on centralized political authority.
TrotskyismNarrower topic: Trotskyism is a current within Marxism, retaining its class analysis and revolutionary aims.
BolshevismNarrower topic: Bolshevism adapted Marxist theory to revolutionary politics in Russia.
Epic theatreNarrower topic: Marxist analysis supplied epic theatre with its focus on changeable social relations.
Fabian SocietyCompared with: Fabian socialists drew selectively on socialist analysis while rejecting revolutionary class struggle as their route.
New LeftNarrower topic: New Left currents reworked Marxist criticism while rejecting orthodox communist politics.
HegelianismBroader topic: It is the most influential tradition to transform Hegelian historical thinking.
MensheviksNarrower topic: Mensheviks grounded their strategy in a Marxist account of historical development.
Stuart HallNarrower topic: Hall reworked Marxist ideas to account for culture, race, ideology, and political contingency.
Che GuevaraNarrower topic: Guevara’s revolutionary program and writings drew on Marxist ideas about class and imperialism.
ProletariatNarrower topic: The proletariat is a foundational class concept within Marxist theory.
The Second SexRelated: The book considers material conditions while arguing that class analysis alone cannot explain women’s position.
First InternationalNarrower topic: The association’s conflicts helped establish Marxism as a distinct organized current within socialism.
BonapartismRelated: Marx's analysis of Louis-Napoléon offered a class-based interpretation of Bonapartist rule.
Cultural hegemonyNarrower topic: Cultural hegemony extends Marxist analysis by examining how ideas help stabilize class relations.
Utopian socialismCompared with: Marxism explained socialism through structural conflict rather than advocates' ideal designs.
C. L. R. JamesNarrower topic: James used Marxist analysis to understand colonial rule, workers’ movements, and revolutionary change.
J. B. S. HaldaneRelated: Haldane’s Marxist commitments shaped his public views on science, politics, and society.
Ludwig FeuerbachNarrower topic: Feuerbach’s critique of religion fed into Marx’s early philosophical development, though Marx moved beyond it.
Vilfredo ParetoCompared with: Pareto rejected Marxist explanations that reduce social change to economic class conflict.
Council communismNarrower topic: Council communism develops within Marxism while disputing how workers should organize and govern.
E. P. ThompsonNarrower topic: Thompson’s humanist interpretation was one influential current within this broader tradition.
HegemonyNarrower topic: Hegemony became influential through Marxist debates about how class power persists beyond economic control.
Imre LakatosRelated: Lakatos’s earlier commitment to Marxism shaped his later scrutiny of doctrines that resist contrary evidence.
SyndicalismRelated: Syndicalists drew on class struggle while disputing Marxist parties’ claims to lead labor movements.
What Is to Be Done?Narrower topic: The pamphlet applies Marxist ideas while disputing how socialist consciousness and organization develop.
Analytical MarxismNarrower topic: Analytical Marxism is a reconstruction within this broader intellectual tradition.