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English 126 Mariel Uceta. Marxism is a set of political and philosophical doctrines derived from the work of Karl Marx, German philosopher and revolutionary
Marxism is a set of political and philosophical doctrines
derived from the work of Karl Marx, German philosopher and
revolutionary journalist who contributed in fields such as
sociology, economics and history, and his friend Friedrich Engels,
who helped in the progress of their theories. To distinguish the
original doctrine from current doctrines derived from it, the
Marxist theory proposed by Marx and Engels is historically known as
scientific socialism.
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Marxism emerged based on two major philosophical influences:
-Feuerbach, which brought us and affirm its materialist vision of
history. -and Hegel: who inspired Marx about the dialectic
materialism.
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Marxism was born in the XIX century, the century of the modern
age. Their places of birth were the major economic centers in
Brussels, London, Manchester, and Paris, the epicenter of the
bourgeois revolutions of 1789 and 1830. It is without a doubt, that
Marx and Engels were Germans and Germanic determination of Marxism
cannot be ignored. But it was only outside of Germany where the new
theory would see the light. Except one, all the formative works of
historical materialism were written outside Germany.
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Social Democratic Party of Germany, communism, currently in
Laos, North Korea, Vietnam, Cuba, China and Moldova. Many
governments, political parties, social movements and academic
theorists have claimed to have been founded on Marxist principles:
social democrats of the twentieth century Europe. Russian
Bolshevism, the Soviet Union (Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin). Mao Zedong,
Fidel Castro.
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The main effect is communist society. The idea is to end the
exploitation of man by man. Marx proclaimed the need for the
proletariat, through revolution, conquered the political and
economic power and would create a new state workers to service
workers. This would result in a new mode of production (socialism),
in which there would be no private property, since the first
mission of the revolution would be the socialization of property,
which would go to the State.
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C ALLINICOS, A LEX. The Revolutionary Ideas of Karl Marx.
Bloomsbury, London: Bookmarks. ISBN 9781905192687 Avineri, Shalom.
The Social and Political Thought of Karl Marx. Cambridge University
Press. Jon Elster, An Introduction to Karl Marx. Cambridge,
England.