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Democracy. In Marxist theory, a new democratic society will arise through the organised actions of an international working class, enfranchising the entire population and freeing up humans to act without being bound by the labour market. [ 1][ 2] There would be little, if any, need for a state, the goal of which was to enforce the alienation of ...
Nikita Khrushchev. " Communism needs democracy like the human body needs oxygen. Leon Trotsky. " The devotion of such titans of spirit as Lenin to an Ideal must bear fruit. The nobility of his selflessness will be an example through centuries to come, and his Ideal will reach perfection." Mahatma Gandhi. " Today's Communism can survive only if ...
The Communist Manifesto ( German: Das Kommunistische Manifest ), originally the Manifesto of the Communist Party ( Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei ), is a political pamphlet written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, commissioned by the Communist League and originally published in London in 1848. The text is the first and most systematic ...
Abraham Lincoln in 1863. Address of the International Working Men's Association to Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America is a letter written by Karl Marx between November 22 to 29, 1864 that was addressed to then-United States President Abraham Lincoln by United States Ambassador Charles Francis Adams Sr. [1] The letter was written on behalf of the International Workingmen ...
Marxism. The opium of the people or opium of the masses ( German: Opium des Volkes) is a dictum used in reference to religion, derived from a frequently paraphrased partial statement of German revolutionary and critic of political economy Karl Marx: "Religion is the opium of the people." In context, the statement is part of Marx's analysis that ...
Criticism of Marxism. Karl Marx and the Close of His System is a book published in 1896 by the Austrian economist Eugen von Bohm-Bawerk, which represented one of the earliest detailed critiques of Marxism. Criticism of Marxism (also known as Anti-Marxism) has come from various political ideologies, campaigns and academic disciplines.
Citing Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx, Lenin investigates theoretical questions about the existence of the State after the proletarian revolution, addressing the arguments of anti-authoritarians, anarchists, social democrats, and reformists, in describing the progressive stages of societal change — the revolution, establishing “the lower ...
v. t. e. " On the Jewish Question " is a response by Karl Marx to then-current debates over the Jewish question. Marx wrote the piece in 1843, and it was first published in Paris in 1844 under the German title " Zur Judenfrage " in the Deutsch–Französische Jahrbücher. The essay criticizes two studies [ 1][ 2] by Marx's fellow Young Hegelian ...