Lecture:  Marx and Marxism

 

Karl Marx (1818-1883)

   Biography:  student, Rheinische Zeitung, exile

Frederick Engels (1820-1895)

Attacks on Proudhon

Communist Manifesto

First International:  Marx vs. Mikhail Bakunin

Marxism

            - Hegel and Hegelianism

            - dialectical materialism

Ludwig Feuerbach and the Young Hegelians

Determinism

Economic interpretation of history--dialectics of class relations

Labor theory of value and class struggle

"False consciousness"

Socialist parties and politics

   Germany:  SPD, ADAV--Ferdinand Lassalle

   France:  anarcho-syndicalism, possibilism, SFIO; Jules Guesde

   Britain:  Henry Hyndman and the SDF;  Sidney and Beatrice Webb and Fabian socialism; Labour Party

   Russia:  narodnik movement; Alexander Herzen

The Second International