Marxism
MarxismThe body of theory and diverse political practices and policies associated with (or justified by reference to) the writings of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. For a substantial part of the 20th century, and until the closing years of the millennium, Marxism was the alleged organizing principle of societies which contained more than one-third of the earth's population. Its influence on culture, history, sociology, politics, economics, and philosophy is explained and documented in David McLellan (ed.), Marx: The First Hundred Years (1983). However, one of the best treatments is still to be found in C. Wright Mills, The Marxists (1962), which offers an especially useful introduction for students of sociology.
In one way the political success of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) in establishing itself as the principal voice of the German working-class movement in the 1880s was...
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