School · 1818 CE–1919 CE
Marxist traditions
Marxist traditions is critique of capitalism, class society, ideology, labor, historical change, and political emancipation.
Shared questions
- How do material production and class relations shape consciousness, institutions, and possibilities for liberation?
Internal disagreements
- Whether historical change follows economic laws, political struggle, cultural transformation, or contingent combinations of all three.
Key texts
- The Communist Manifesto · 1848 — Written with Engels for the Communist League on the eve of the 1848 revolutions.
- Capital, Volume I · 1867 — The only volume Marx saw through the press; Engels edited the second and third from his manuscripts.
- The Accumulation of Capital · 1913 — Luxemburg's argument that capitalism depends on a non-capitalist outside, and her main theoretical work.