Western Marxism, the Glossary

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1. 135 relations: Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez, Alexandre Kojève, Alfred Schmidt (philosopher), Alfred Sohn-Rethel, Analytical Marxism, André Gorz, Anti-Dühring, Anton Pannekoek, Antonio Gramsci, Antonio Negri, Art, Austria, Austromarxism, Baruch Spinoza, Base and superstructure, Bertolt Brecht, Bourgeoisie, Budapest School, Central Europe, Class consciousness, Classical Marxism, Claude Lefort, Commodity fetishism, Communist International, Communist state, Cornelius Castoriadis, Council communism, Critical theory, Critique of political economy, Cultural hegemony, Cultural studies, Culture, Daniel Bensaïd, Dialectic, Eastern Bloc, Economics, Edgar Morin, Encyclopædia Britannica, Epistemology, Erich Fromm, Ernst Bloch, Eurocommunism, Existentialism, François Châtelet, Frankfurt School, Franz Jakubowski, Franz Neumann (political scientist), Fredric Jameson, French Communist Party, Freudo-Marxism, ... Expand index (85 more) »

2. Marxist schools of thought

Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez

Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez (September 17, 1915 – July 8, 2011) was a Spanish-born Mexican philosopher, writer and professor born in Algeciras, Andalucia.

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Alexandre Kojève

Alexandre Kojève (28 April 1902 – 4 June 1968) was a Russian-born French philosopher and statesman whose philosophical seminars had an immense influence on 20th-century French philosophy, particularly via his integration of Hegelian concepts into twentieth-century continental philosophy.

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Alfred Schmidt (philosopher)

Alfred Schmidt (born 19 May 1931, Berlin – 28 August 2012, Frankfurt am Main) was a German philosopher.

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Alfred Sohn-Rethel

Alfred Sohn-Rethel (4 January 1899 – 6 April 1990) was a French-born German Marxian economist and philosopher especially interested in epistemology.

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Analytical Marxism

Analytical Marxism is an academic school of Marxist theory which emerged in the late 1970s, largely prompted by G. A. Cohen's Karl Marx's Theory of History: A Defence (1978). Western Marxism and Analytical Marxism are marxist schools of thought.

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André Gorz

Gérard Horst (9 February 1923 – 22 September 2007), more commonly known by his pen names André Gorz and Michel Bosquet, was an Austrian and French social philosopher and journalist and critic of work.

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Anti-Dühring

Anti-Dühring (Herrn Eugen Dührings Umwälzung der Wissenschaft, "Herr Eugen Dühring's Revolution in Science") is a book by Friedrich Engels, first published in German in 1877 in parts and then in 1878 in book form.

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Anton Pannekoek

Antonie “Anton” Pannekoek (2 January 1873 – 28 April 1960) was a Dutch astronomer, historian, philosopher, Marxist theorist, and socialist revolutionary.

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Antonio Gramsci

Antonio Francesco Gramsci (22 January 1891 – 27 April 1937) was an Italian Marxist philosopher, linguist, journalist, writer, and politician.

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Antonio Negri

Antonio Negri (1 August 1933 – 16 December 2023) was an Italian political philosopher known as one of the most prominent theorists of autonomism, as well as for his co-authorship of Empire with Michael Hardt.

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Art

Art is a diverse range of human activity and its resulting product that involves creative or imaginative talent generally expressive of technical proficiency, beauty, emotional power, or conceptual ideas.

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Austria

Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps.

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Austromarxism

Austromarxism (also stylised as Austro-Marxism) was a Marxist theoretical current led by Victor Adler, Otto Bauer, Karl Renner, Max Adler and Rudolf Hilferding, members of the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Austria in Austria-Hungary and the First Austrian Republic, and later supported by Austrian-born revolutionary and assassin of the Imperial Minister-President Count von Stürgkh, Friedrich Adler. Western Marxism and Austromarxism are Eponymous political ideologies and marxist schools of thought.

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Baruch Spinoza

Baruch (de) Spinoza (24 November 163221 February 1677), also known under his Latinized pen name Benedictus de Spinoza, was a philosopher of Portuguese-Jewish origin.

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Base and superstructure

In Marxist theory, society consists of two parts: the base (or substructure) and superstructure. Western Marxism and base and superstructure are marxist theory.

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Bertolt Brecht

Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956), known professionally as Bertolt Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet.

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Bourgeoisie

The bourgeoisie are a class of business owners and merchants which emerged in the Late Middle Ages, originally as a "middle class" between peasantry and aristocracy.

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Budapest School

The Budapest School (Budapesti iskola; Budapester Schule) was a school of thought, originally of Marxist humanism, but later of post-Marxism and dissident liberalism that emerged in Hungary in the early 1960s, belonging to so-called Hungarian New Left. Western Marxism and Budapest School are marxist schools of thought.

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Central Europe

Central Europe is a geographical region of Europe between Eastern, Southern, Western and Northern Europe.

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Class consciousness

In Marxism, class consciousness is the set of beliefs that persons hold regarding their social class or economic rank in society, the structure of their class, and their class interests. Western Marxism and class consciousness are marxist theory.

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Classical Marxism

Classical Marxism is the body of economic, philosophical, and sociological theories expounded by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in their works, as contrasted with orthodox Marxism, Marxism–Leninism, and autonomist Marxism which emerged after their deaths. Western Marxism and Classical Marxism are marxist schools of thought.

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Claude Lefort

Claude Lefort (21 April 1924 – 3 October 2010) was a French philosopher and activist.

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Commodity fetishism

In Marxist philosophy, the term commodity fetishism describes the economic relationships of production and exchange as being social relationships that exist among things (money and merchandise) and not as relationships that exist among people.

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Communist International

The Communist International (Comintern), also known as the Third International, was an international organization founded in 1919 that advocated world communism, and which was led and controlled by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

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Communist state

A communist state, also known as a Marxist–Leninist state, is a one-party state in which the totality of the power belongs to a party adhering to some form of Marxism–Leninism, a branch of the communist ideology.

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Cornelius Castoriadis

Cornelius Castoriadis (Κορνήλιος Καστοριάδης; 11 March 1922 – 26 December 1997) was a Greek-FrenchMemos 2014, p. 18: "he was...

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Council communism

Council communism or Councilism is a current of communist thought that emerged in the 1920s.

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Critical theory

A critical theory is any approach to humanities and social philosophy that focuses on society and culture to attempt to reveal, critique, and challenge power structures.

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Critique of political economy

Critique of political economy or simply the first critique of economy is a form of social critique that rejects the conventional ways of distributing resources.

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Cultural hegemony

In Marxist philosophy, cultural hegemony is the dominance of a culturally diverse society by the ruling class who shape the culture of that society—the beliefs and explanations, perceptions, values, and mores—so that the worldview of the ruling class becomes the accepted cultural norm. Western Marxism and cultural hegemony are marxist theory.

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Cultural studies

Cultural studies is a politically engaged postdisciplinary academic field that explores the dynamics of especially contemporary culture (including the politics of popular culture) and its social and historical foundations.

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Culture

Culture is a concept that encompasses the social behavior, institutions, and norms found in human societies, as well as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, customs, capabilities, and habits of the individuals in these groups.

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Daniel Bensaïd

Daniel Bensaïd (25 March 1946 – 12 January 2010) was a philosopher and a leader of the Trotskyist movement in France.

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Dialectic

Dialectic (διαλεκτική, dialektikḗ; Dialektik), also known as the dialectical method, refers originally to dialogue between people holding different points of view about a subject but wishing to arrive at the truth through reasoned argumentation.

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Eastern Bloc

The Eastern Bloc, also known as the Communist Bloc (Combloc), the Socialist Bloc, and the Soviet Bloc, was the unofficial coalition of communist states of Central and Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America that were aligned with the Soviet Union and existed during the Cold War (1947–1991).

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Economics

Economics is a social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.

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Edgar Morin

Edgar Morin (né Nahoum; born 8 July 1921) is a French philosopher and sociologist of the theory of information who has been recognized for his work on complexity and "complex thought" (pensée complexe), and for his scholarly contributions to such diverse fields as media studies, politics, sociology, visual anthropology, ecology, education, and systems biology.

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Encyclopædia Britannica

The British Encyclopaedia is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia.

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Epistemology

Epistemology is the branch of philosophy concerned with knowledge.

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Erich Fromm

Erich Seligmann Fromm (March 23, 1900 – March 18, 1980) was a German-American social psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, humanistic philosopher, and democratic socialist.

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Ernst Bloch

Ernst Simon Bloch (July 8, 1885 – August 4, 1977; pseudonyms: Karl Jahraus, Jakob Knerz) was a German Marxist philosopher.

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Eurocommunism

Eurocommunism was a trend in the 1970s and 1980s within various Western European communist parties, which said they had developed a theory and practice of social transformation more relevant for Western Europe. Western Marxism and Eurocommunism are marxist schools of thought.

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Existentialism

Existentialism is a family of views and forms of philosophical inquiry that explores the issue of human existence.

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François Châtelet

Michel François Jacques Châtelet (27 April 1925 – 26 December 1985) was a historian of philosophy and political philosophy, philosopher and professor in the socratic tradition.

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Frankfurt School

The Frankfurt School is a school of thought in sociology and critical philosophy. Western Marxism and Frankfurt School are marxist schools of thought and marxist theory.

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Franz Jakubowski

Franz Jakubowski (10 June 1912, Posen, Province of Posen, Prussia, Germany, now Poznan, Poland1970, U.S.) was a philosopher and Western Marxist theorist.

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Franz Neumann (political scientist)

Franz Leopold Neumann (23 May 1900 – 2 September 1954) was a German political activist, Western Marxist theorist and labor lawyer, who became a political scientist in exile and is best known for his theoretical analyses of Nazism.

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Fredric Jameson

Fredric Jameson (born April 14, 1934) is an American literary critic, philosopher and Marxist political theorist.

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French Communist Party

The French Communist Party (Parti communiste français,, PCF) is a communist party in France.

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Freudo-Marxism

Freudo-Marxism is a loose designation for philosophical perspectives informed by both the Marxist philosophy of Karl Marx and the psychoanalytic theory of Sigmund Freud. Western Marxism and Freudo-Marxism are marxist schools of thought and marxist theory.

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Friedrich Engels

Friedrich Engels (. Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.; 28 November 1820 – 5 August 1895) was a German philosopher, political theorist, historian, journalist, and revolutionary socialist.

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Friedrich Pollock

Friedrich Pollock (22 May 1894 – 16 December 1970) was a German social scientist and philosopher.

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Galvano Della Volpe

Galvano Della Volpe (24 September 1895 – 13 July 1968) was an Italian professor of philosophy and Marxist theorist.

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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (27 August 1770 – 14 November 1831) was a German philosopher and one of the most influential figures of German idealism and 19th-century philosophy.

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Georges Politzer

Georges Politzer (3 May 190323 May 1942) was a French philosopher and Marxist theoretician of Hungarian Jewish origin, affectionately referred to by some as the "red-headed philosopher" (philosophe roux).

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Germany

Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.

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Guy Debord

Guy-Ernest Debord (28 December 1931 – 30 November 1994) was a French Marxist theorist, philosopher, filmmaker, critic of work, member of the Letterist International, founder of a Letterist faction, and founding member of the Situationist International.

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György Lukács

György Lukács (born György Bernát Löwinger; szegedi Lukács György Bernát; Georg Bernard Baron Lukács von Szegedin; 13 April 1885 – 4 June 1971) was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher, literary historian, literary critic, and aesthetician.

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Henri Lefebvre

Henri Lefebvre (16 June 1901 – 29 June 1991) was a French Marxist philosopher and sociologist, best known for pioneering the critique of everyday life, for introducing the concepts of the right to the city and the production of social space, and for his work on dialectical materialism, alienation, and criticism of Stalinism, existentialism, and structuralism.

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Herbert Marcuse

Herbert Marcuse (July 19, 1898 – July 29, 1979) was a German–American philosopher, social critic, and political theorist, associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory.

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Herman Gorter

Herman Gorter (26 November 1864 – 15 September 1927) was a Dutch poet and Council Communist theorist.

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History and Class Consciousness

History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics (Geschichte und Klassenbewußtsein – Studien über marxistische Dialektik) is a 1923 book by the Hungarian philosopher György Lukács, in which the author re-emphasizes the philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's influence on the philosopher Karl Marx, analyzes the concept of "class consciousness," and attempts a philosophical justification of Bolshevism.

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Humanism

Humanism is a philosophical stance that emphasizes the individual and social potential, and agency of human beings, whom it considers the starting point for serious moral and philosophical inquiry.

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Hungary

Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe.

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Ideology

An ideology is a set of beliefs or philosophies attributed to a person or group of persons, especially those held for reasons that are not purely epistemic, in which "practical elements are as prominent as theoretical ones".

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Ideology of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Before the perestroika Soviet era reforms of Gorbachev that promoted a more liberal form of socialism, the formal ideology of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) was Marxism–Leninism, a form of socialism consisting of a centralised command economy with a vanguardist one-party state that aimed to realize the dictatorship of the proletariat.

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Immanuel Kant

Immanuel Kant (born Emanuel Kant; 22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804) was a German philosopher and one of the central Enlightenment thinkers.

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Italy

Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe.

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Jürgen Habermas

Jürgen Habermas (born 18 June 1929) is a German philosopher and social theorist in the tradition of critical theory and pragmatism.

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Jean Duvignaud

Jean Duvignaud (22 February 1921 – 17 February 2007) was a French novelist, sociologist and anthropologist.

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Jean Piaget

Jean William Fritz Piaget (9 August 1896 – 16 September 1980) was a Swiss psychologist known for his work on child development.

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (28 June 1712 – 2 July 1778) was a Genevan philosopher (philosophe), writer, and composer.

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Jean-Paul Sartre

Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980) was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic, considered a leading figure in 20th-century French philosophy and Marxism.

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Joseph Gabel

Joseph Gabel (12 July 1912 in Budapest – 15 June 2004 in Paris) was a French Hungarian-born sociologist and philosopher.

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Karl Korsch

Karl Korsch (August 15, 1886 – October 21, 1961) was a German Marxist theoretician and political philosopher.

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Karl Marx

Karl Marx (5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German-born philosopher, political theorist, economist, historian, sociologist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist.

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Kostas Axelos

Kostas Axelos (also spelled Costas Axelos; Κώστας Αξελός; 26 June 1924 – 4 February 2010) was a Greek-French philosopher.

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Lebensphilosophie

Lebensphilosophie (meaning 'philosophy of life') was a dominant philosophical movement of German-speaking countries in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, which had developed out of German Romanticism.

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Left communism

Left communism, or the communist left, is a position held by the left wing of communism, which criticises the political ideas and practices espoused by Marxist–Leninists and social democrats. Western Marxism and left communism are marxist schools of thought.

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Leninism

Leninism is a political ideology developed by Russian Marxist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin that proposes the establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat led by a revolutionary vanguard party as the political prelude to the establishment of communism. Western Marxism and Leninism are Eponymous political ideologies and marxist schools of thought.

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Leo Kofler

Leo Kofler (also known by the pseudonyms Stanislaw Warynski or Jules Dévérité; 26 April 1907 – 29 July 1995) was an Austrian-German Marxist sociologist.

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Leo Löwenthal

Leo Löwenthal (3 November 1900 – 21 January 1993) was a German sociologist and philosopher usually associated with the Frankfurt School.

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Les Temps modernes

Les Temps Modernes was a French journal, founded by Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty.

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Louis Althusser

Louis Pierre Althusser (16 October 1918 – 22 October 1990) was a French Marxist philosopher who studied at the École normale supérieure in Paris, where he eventually became Professor of Philosophy.

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Lucien Goldmann

Lucien Goldmann (20 July 1913 – 8 October 1970) was a French philosopher and sociologist of Jewish-Romanian origin.

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Lucio Colletti

Lucio Colletti (8 December 1924 – 3 November 2001) was an Italian Western Marxist philosopher.

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Ludwig Feuerbach

Ludwig Andreas von Feuerbach (28 July 1804 – 13 September 1872) was a German anthropologist and philosopher, best known for his book The Essence of Christianity, which provided a critique of Christianity that strongly influenced generations of later thinkers, including Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, Friedrich Engels, Mikhail Bakunin, Richard Wagner, Frederick Douglass and Friedrich Nietzsche.

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Marshall Berman

Marshall Howard Berman (November 24, 1940 – September 11, 2013) was an American philosopher and Marxist humanist writer.

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Marx's theory of alienation

Karl Marx's theory of alienation describes the estrangement (German: Entfremdung) of people from aspects of their human nature (Gattungswesen, 'species-essence') as a consequence of the division of labour and living in a society of stratified social classes. Western Marxism and Marx's theory of alienation are marxist theory.

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Marxism

Marxism is a political philosophy and method of socioeconomic analysis. Western Marxism and Marxism are Eponymous political ideologies.

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Marxism–Leninism

Marxism–Leninism is a communist ideology that became the largest faction of the communist movement in the world in the years following the October Revolution. Western Marxism and Marxism–Leninism are Eponymous political ideologies and marxist schools of thought.

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Marxist cultural analysis

Marxist cultural analysis is a form of cultural analysis and anti-capitalist cultural critique, which assumes the theory of cultural hegemony and from this specifically targets those aspects of culture which are profit driven and mass-produced under capitalism.

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Marxist humanism

Marxist humanism is an international body of thought and political action rooted in a humanist interpretation of the works of Karl Marx. Western Marxism and Marxist humanism are marxist schools of thought and marxist theory.

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Marxist philosophy

Marxist philosophy or Marxist theory are works in philosophy that are strongly influenced by Karl Marx's materialist approach to theory, or works written by Marxists. Western Marxism and Marxist philosophy are marxist theory.

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Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Maurice Jean Jacques Merleau-Ponty.

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Max Horkheimer

Max Horkheimer (14 February 1895 – 7 July 1973) was a Jewish-German philosopher and sociologist who was famous for his work in critical theory as a member of the Frankfurt School of social research.

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Max Weber

Maximilian Karl Emil Weber (21 April 186414 June 1920) was a German sociologist, historian, jurist, and political economist who was one of the central figures in the development of sociology and the social sciences more generally.

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Moishe Postone

Moishe Postone (17 April 1942 – 19 March 2018) was a Canadian historian, sociologist, political philosopher and social theorist.

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Natural science

Natural science is one of the branches of science concerned with the description, understanding and prediction of natural phenomena, based on empirical evidence from observation and experimentation.

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Neo-Marxism

Neo-Marxism is a collection of Marxist schools of thought originating from 20th-century approaches to amend or extend Marxism and Marxist theory, typically by incorporating elements from other intellectual traditions such as critical theory, psychoanalysis, or existentialism. Western Marxism and Neo-Marxism are Eponymous political ideologies, marxist schools of thought and marxist theory.

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New Left

The New Left was a broad political movement that emerged from the counterculture of the 1960s and continued through the 1970s.

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Nicos Poulantzas

Nicos Poulantzas (Νίκος Πουλαντζάς; 21 September 1936 – 3 October 1979) was a Greek-French Marxist political sociologist and philosopher.

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October Revolution

The October Revolution, also known as the Great October Socialist Revolution (in Soviet historiography), October coup,, britannica.com Bolshevik coup, or Bolshevik revolution, was a revolution in Russia led by the Bolshevik Party of Vladimir Lenin that was a key moment in the larger Russian Revolution of 1917–1923.

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Open Marxism

Open Marxism is a collection of critical and heterodox Marxist schools of thought which critique state socialism and party politics, stressing the need for openness to praxis and history through an anti-positivist method grounded in the "practical reflexivity" of Karl Marx's own concepts. Western Marxism and open Marxism are Eponymous political ideologies and marxist theory.

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Orthodox Marxism

Orthodox Marxism is the body of Marxist thought which emerged after the deaths of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in the late 19th century, expressed in its primary form by Karl Kautsky. Western Marxism and Orthodox Marxism are Eponymous political ideologies and marxist schools of thought.

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Perry Anderson

Francis Rory Peregrine "Perry" Anderson (born 11 September 1938) is a British intellectual, political philosopher, historian and essayist.

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Phenomenology (philosophy)

Phenomenology is the philosophical study of objectivity and reality (more generally) as subjectively lived and experienced.

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Philosophy

Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, value, mind, and language.

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Philosophy of science

Philosophy of science is the branch of philosophy concerned with the foundations, methods, and implications of science.

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Political economy

Political economy is a branch of political science and economics studying economic systems (e.g. markets and national economies) and their governance by political systems (e.g. law, institutions, and government).

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Post-Marxism

Post-Marxism is a perspective in critical social theory which radically reinterprets Marxism, countering its association with economism, historical determinism, anti-humanism, and class reductionism, whilst remaining committed to the construction of socialism. Western Marxism and Post-Marxism are Eponymous political ideologies and marxist schools of thought.

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Praxis School

The Praxis school was a Marxist humanist philosophical circle, whose members were influenced by Western Marxism. Western Marxism and Praxis School are marxist schools of thought and marxist theory.

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Prison Notebooks

The Prison Notebooks (Quaderni del carcere) are a series of essays written by the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci.

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Proletariat

The proletariat is the social class of wage-earners, those members of a society whose only possession of significant economic value is their labour power (their capacity to work). Western Marxism and proletariat are marxist theory.

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Psychoanalysis

PsychoanalysisFrom Greek: +. is a set of theories and therapeutic techniques"What is psychoanalysis? Of course, one is supposed to answer that it is many things — a theory, a research method, a therapy, a body of knowledge.

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Psychology

Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior.

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Reification (Marxism)

In Marxist philosophy, reification (Verdinglichung, "making into a thing") is the process by which human social relations are perceived as inherent attributes of the people involved in them, or attributes of some product of the relation, such as a traded commodity. Western Marxism and reification (Marxism) are marxist theory.

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Russia

Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.

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Second International

The Second International, also called the Socialist International, was an organisation of socialist and labour parties, formed on 14 July 1889 at two simultaneous Paris meetings in which delegations from twenty countries participated.

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Situationist International

The Situationist International (SI) was an international organization of social revolutionaries made up of avant-garde artists, intellectuals, and political theorists. Western Marxism and Situationist International are marxist theory.

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Socialism is an economic and political philosophy encompassing diverse economic and social systems characterised by social ownership of the means of production, as opposed to private ownership.

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Socialism or Barbarism was a French-based radical libertarian socialist group of the post-World War II period whose name comes from a phrase which was misattributed to Friedrich Engels by Rosa Luxemburg in the Junius Pamphlet, but which probably was most likely first used by Karl Kautsky.

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Sociology

Sociology is the scientific study of human society that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life.

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Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

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Structural Marxism

Structural Marxism (sometimes called Althusserian Marxism) is an approach to Marxist philosophy based on structuralism, primarily associated with the work of the French philosopher Louis Althusser and his students. Western Marxism and structural Marxism are Eponymous political ideologies and marxist schools of thought.

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Subjectivity and objectivity (philosophy)

The distinction between subjectivity and objectivity is a basic idea of philosophy, particularly epistemology and metaphysics.

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Theodor W. Adorno

Theodor W. Adorno (born Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund; 11 September 1903 – 6 August 1969) was a German philosopher, musicologist, and social theorist.

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Walter Benjamin

Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin (15 July 1892 – 26 September 1940) was a German Jewish philosopher, cultural critic, media theorist, and essayist.

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Western Europe

Western Europe is the western region of Europe.

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Wilhelm Reich

Wilhelm Reich (24 March 1897 – 3 November 1957) was an Austrian doctor of medicine and a psychoanalyst, a member of the second generation of analysts after Sigmund Freud.

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Working class

The working class is a subset of employees who are compensated with wage or salary-based contracts, whose exact membership varies from definition to definition.

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World War I

World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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Young Hegelians

The Young Hegelians (Junghegelianer), or Left Hegelians (Linkshegelianer), or the Hegelian Left (die Hegelsche Linke), were a group of German intellectuals who, in the decade or so after the death of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel in 1831, reacted to and wrote about his ambiguous legacy.

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Young Marx

The correct place of Karl Marx's early writings within his system as a whole has been a matter of great controversy. Western Marxism and Young Marx are marxist theory.

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See also

Marxist schools of thought

• Allendism
• Analytical Marxism
• Austromarxism
• Bordigism
• Budapest School
• Classical Marxism
• Eurocommunism
• Frankfurt School
• Freudo-Marxism
• Gonzalo Thought
• Left communism
• Leninism
• Libertarian Marxism
• Maoism
• Marxism–Leninism
• Marxism–Leninism–Maoism
• Marxist feminism
• Marxist humanism
• Marxist schools of thought
• Neo-Marxism
• Neue Marx-Lektüre
• Nkrumaism
• Orthodox Marxism
• Orthodox Marxists
• Post-Marxism
• Praxis School
• Reproductive labor
• Stalinism
• Structural Marxism
• Trotskyism
• Vulgar Marxism
• Western Marxism

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Marxism

Also known as Western European Marxists, Western Marxist, Western Marxists.

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