Outline of Marxism

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A photo of Karl Marx from a book owned by communist revolutionary, Vladimir Lenin.

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Marxism:

Marxism – method of socioeconomic analysis that analyzes class relations and societal conflict using a materialist interpretation of historical development and a dialectical view of social transformation. It originates from the mid-to-late 19th century works of German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. According to Marxist perspective, class conflict caused the progression of a society from capitalist to socialist to communist. Marxism has since developed into different branches and schools of thought, and there is now no single definitive Marxist theory.^[1]

History of Marxism[]

• History of communism
• Marxist historiography
• Revisionism
  • Anti-revisionism

Marxist fields of study[]

Marxian economics[]

• Mode of production
  • Primitive communism
  • Asiatic mode of production
  • Feudal mode of production
  • Capitalist mode of production
  • Socialist mode of production
• Means of production
• Relations of production
  • Exploitation of labour
• Factors of production
  • Subject of labor
  • Means of labor
  • Labour power
• Capital
  • Rate of profit
  • Capital accumulation
  • Organic composition of capital
    • Constant capital
    • Variable capital
• Surplus value
• Surplus labour
• Surplus product
• Law of value
  • Commodity
  • Value
  • Use value
  • Exchange value

Marxist sociology[]

• Social class / Marxian class theory
  • Bourgeoisie
  • Petite bourgeoisie
  • Proletariat
  • Peasantry
  • Lumpenproletariat
• False consciousness
• Class consciousness
• Class struggle
• Alienation
• Base and superstructure
• Social metabolism
  • Metabolic rift

Marxist philosophy[]

• Dialectical materialism
• Philosophy in the Soviet Union

Marxist schools of thought[]

From left to right, Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin. Faces of key Marxist thinkers are often used to represent some Marxism branches, with variations including Mao and others.

• Orthodox Marxism
• Luxemburgism
• Leninism
  • Marxism–Leninism (see also Stalinism)
    • Titoism
    • Hoxhaism
    • Juche
    • Maoism
      • Socialism with Chinese characteristics
        • Deng Xiaoping Theory
          • Xi Jinping Thought
      • Marxism–Leninism–Maoism
        • Marxism–Leninism–Maoism–Prachanda Path
• Bordigism
• Trotskyism
• Council communism
• Eurocommunism

Persons influential in Marxism[]

Marx and Engels influences

Marxist theorists

Other persons

• Marxists by nationality
• Anti-Revisionists
• Marxian economists
• Marxist historians
  • Eric Hobsbawm
• Marxist writers

Marxist bibliography[]

Works by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels[]

Marx and Engels

• The Holy Family (1844)
• The German Ideology (1846)
• The Communist Manifesto (1848)
• Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Germany (1851–1852)
• The Civil War in the United States (1861–1862)

Marx

• The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon (1852)
• Grundrisse (1857–1858)
• A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy (1859)
• Theses on Feuerbach (1888)
• Das Kapital
  • Das Kapital, Volume I (1867)
  • Das Kapital, Volume II (1885)
  • Das Kapital, Volume III (1894)

Engels

• Anti-Dühring (1878)
• The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (1884)

Works by Vladimir Lenin[]

• What Is to Be Done? (1902)
• The State and Revolution (1917)
• Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism (1917)
• The Tasks of the Proletariat in the Present Revolution (The April Theses, 1917)
• "Left-Wing" Communism: An Infantile Disorder (1929)

Works by Joseph Stalin[]

• Marxism and the National Question (1913)

Works by Leon Trotsky[]

• The Permanent Revolution (1930)
• The Revolution Betrayed (1937)

Works by Mao Zedong[]

• On Guerrilla Warfare (1937)
• On Practice (1937)
• On Contradiction (1937)
• On Protracted War (1938)

Other influential works[]

• History and Class Consciousness (György Lukács, 1923)
• Prison Notebooks (Antonio Gramsci, 1929–1935)
• Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (Louis Althusser, 1970)

Marxist academic journals[]

• New Left Review
• Capital & Class
• Radical Philosophy
• Rethinking Marxism
• Historical Materialism

Marxist organizations[]

Early organizations[]

• League of the Just
• Communist League

International Marxist organizations[]

• Communist International
• Committee for a Workers' International
• International Communist Party

United States[]

• All-African People's Revolutionary Party
• American Labor Party
• American Party of Labor
• American Workers Party
• Black Panther Party
• Communist Party (Marxist–Leninist) (United States)
• Communist Party USA
• Freedom Socialist Party
• Internationalist Workers Party (Fourth International)
• Party for Socialism and Liberation
• Red Guard Party
• Revolutionary Communist Party, USA
• Socialist Action (United States)
• Socialist Alternative (United States)
• Socialist Equality Party (United States)
• World Socialist Party of the United States
• Workers Party (United States)
• Workers Party of the United States
• Workingmen's Party of the United States

See also[]

• Outline of socialism
• Outline of economics
• Outline of political science

References[]

External links[]

• Marxists Internet Archive (MIA)
• Marxmail.org
• Marx Myths & Legends
• Marxism Page
• History of Economic Thought: Marxian School
• History of Economic Thought: Neo Marxian
• London Philosophy Study Guide on Marxism (offers many suggestions on what to read, depending on student's familiarity with the subject)