Marxism is a left-wing to far-left method of socioeconomic Marxist analysis that uses a materialist interpretation of historical development, better known as historical materialism, to understand class relations and social conflict and a dialectical perspective to view social transformation.
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Marxist analysis claimed that the term was being abusively used as a rhetorical qualifier by those attempting to cast themselves as genuine followers of Marx while casting others in different terms, such as Lassallians.
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Marxist analysis humanism was born in 1932 with the publication of Marx's Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 and reached a degree of prominence in the 1950s and 1960s.
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Marxist analysis humanists contend that there is continuity between the early philosophical writings of Marx, in which he develops his theory of alienation, and the structural description of capitalist society found in his later works, such as Capital.
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Contrary to the official dialectical materialism of the Soviet Union and interpretations of Marx rooted in the structural Marxism of Louis Althusser, Marxist analysis humanists argue that Marx's work was an extension or transcendence of enlightenment humanism.
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Marxist analysis education develops Marx's works and those of the movements he influenced in various ways.
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Marxist analysis historiography is a school of historiography influenced by Marxism, the chief tenets of which are the centrality of social class and economic constraints in determining historical outcomes.
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Marxist analysis historiography has contributed to the history of the working class, oppressed nationalities, and the methodology of history from below.
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Marxist analysis historiography suffered in the Soviet Union as the government requested overdetermined historical writing.
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Marxist analysis literary criticism is a loose term describing literary criticism based on socialist and dialectic theories.
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Marxist analysis aesthetics is a theory of aesthetics based on or derived from the theories of Karl Marx.
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Some notable Marxist aestheticians include Anatoly Lunacharsky, Mikhail Lifshitz, William Morris, Theodor W Adorno, Bertolt Brecht, Herbert Marcuse, Walter Benjamin, Antonio Gramsci, Georg Lukacs, Ernst Fischer, Louis Althusser, Jacques Ranciere, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Raymond Williams.
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Marxist analysis posthumously went on to become an internationally recognised icon.
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