A photo of Karl Marx in a book with the title of the same name, which was written by 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 some of the work of or all of the work of the mid-to-late 19th century works of German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.

According to Marxist perspective, class conflicts conditions the evolution of modes of production, such as the development of slavery to feudalism to capitalism, and as such, the contradictions of capitalism demands the organization of the proletariat to establish a communist society through revolution and maintenance of the dictatorship of the proletariat. 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 critique of political economy

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Concepts Capitalist mode of production Capital Commodity Concrete and abstract labor Critique of political economy Means of production Mode of production Productive forces Relations of production Socially necessary labour time Socialization Wage labour Wage slavery Wertkritik Wertabspaltungskritik Value-form
Topics Crisis theory Imperialism Historical materialism Technological unemployment Falling profit-rate tendency
Works Grundrisse Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844 Das Kapital A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy Outlines of a Critique of Political Economy Time, Labor and Social Domination Disassembling Capital
People Karl Marx Friedrich Engels Paul Lafargue Roman Rozdolsky Étienne Balibar Robert Kurz Mark Fisher Claus Peter Ortlieb Nicole Peperell Geoff Pilling NML: Hans-Georg Backhaus Helmut Reichelt Hans-Jürgen Krahl
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• Mode of production
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  • 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 form
  • Use value
  • Exchange value

Marxist sociology

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Theoretical works Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 Theses on Feuerbach The German Ideology Wage Labour and Capital The Communist Manifesto The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte Grundrisse der Kritik der Politischen Ökonomie A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy Das Kapital Critique of the Gotha Programme Dialectics of Nature
Philosophy Historical materialism Parametric determinism Marx's dialectic Dialectical materialism Marx's method Philosophy of nature
Critique of political economy Capital (accumulation) Crisis theory Commodity Marxian economics Concrete and abstract labor Factors of production Falling profit-rate tendency Means of production Mode of production Asiatic Capitalist Socialist Productive forces Scientific socialism Surplus product Socially necessary labour time Value-form Wage labour
Sociology Alienation Base and superstructure Bourgeoisie Class Class consciousness Conflict theory Class struggle Classless society Commodity fetishism Communist society Critique of political economy Cultural hegemony Democracy Dictatorship of the proletariat Exploitation Free association General intellect Human nature Ideology Immiseration Imperialism Lumpenproletariat Metabolic rift Proletariat Private property Relations of production Reification State theory Social metabolism Working class
History Anarchism and Marxism Philosophy in the Soviet Union Primitive accumulation Proletarian revolution Proletarian internationalism World revolution Young Marx
Aspects Aesthetics Archaeology Criminology Cultural analysis Feminism Film theory Geography Historiography Literary criticism Marxism and religion
Classical variants Hegelian Neue Marx-Lektüre Western Humanist Praxis School
Orthodox variants Instrumental Impossibilism Leninism Bolshevism Left Marxism–Leninism Trotskyism Orthodox Pabloism Posadism Third camp Bordigism Nkrumaism Right communism Luxemburgism Menshevism Marxism–Leninism Anti-revisionism Castroism Guevarism Ho Chi Minh Thought Hoxhaism Husakism Juche Kadarism Khrushchevism Maoism Marxism–Leninism–Maoism Gonzalo Thought Maoism-Third Worldism Prachanda Path Socialism with Chinese characteristics Dengism Scientific Outlook on Development Three Represents Xi Jinping Thought Stalinism Titoism
Left communist variants Autonomism Bordigism Communization Council communism Left Bolshevism Situationism
Libertarian variants Autonomism Council communism De Leonism Lettrism Mao-Spontex Neo-Marxism Analytical Freudian Frankfurt School Open Structural Situationism
Other variants Budapest School Centrist Austromarxism Democratic socialism Eurocommunism Feminist Neo-Gramscianism Political Post-Marxism Revisionist Shachtmanism
People Karl Marx Engels Bernstein De Leon Kautsky Eleanor Marx Debs Plekhanov Zetkin Gorky Connolly Lenin Luxemburg Liebknecht Kollontai Pannekoek Bukharin Stalin Trotsky Borochov Lukács Korsch Ho Gramsci Benjamin Mao Horkheimer Ibárruri Aragon Brecht Marcuse Fromm Lefebvre Adorno Mariátegui Sartre Rubel Beauvoir Allende Dunayevskaya Mills Hobsbawm Althusser Pasolini Zinn Miliband Parenti Bauman Guevara Castro Davis Debord Fanon Harvey Mészáros Wolff Sankara Žižek Losurdo Wood Woods
Related topics Creative destruction Critical theory Criticism of Marxism Communism Anti-communism Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory Economic determinism History of communism Left-wing politics New Left Old Left Social democracy Social anarchism Anarcho-communism Socialism Libertarian Revolutionary Utopian Vulgar Marxism Workers' council
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• 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.

• Classical Marxism
• De Leonism
• 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 Karl Kautsky

• The Class Struggle (Erfurt Program) (1892)
• Forerunners of Modern Socialism (1895)
• The Dictatorship of the Proletariat (Kautsky) (1918)

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 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