Outline of Marxism



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.

History of Marxism

 * History of communism
 * Marxist historiography
 * Revisionism
 * Anti-revisionism

Marxist fields of study
• Marxist aesthetics

• Marxist archaeology

• Marxist criminology

• Marxist cultural analysis

• Marxian economics

• Marxist feminism

• Marxist film theory

• Marxist historiography

• Marxist international relations theory

• Marxist literary criticism

• Marxist philosophy

• * Chinese Marxist philosophy

• Marxist sociology

Marxian critique of political economy

 * Mode of production
 * Primitive communism
 * Asiatic mode of production
 * Feudal mode of production
 * Capitalist mode of production
 * 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

 * 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



 * Classical Marxism
 * De Leonism
 * Orthodox Marxism
 * Luxemburgism
 * Leninism
 * Marxism–Leninism
 * 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
• Karl Marx

• Friedrich Engels


 * Marx and Engels influences

• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

• Ludwig Feuerbach

• Adam Smith

• David Ricardo


 * Marxist theorists

• Karl Kautsky

• Walter Benjamin

• Antonio Gramsci

• György Lukács

• Theodor W. Adorno

• Herbert Marcuse

• Louis Althusser

• Guy Debord

• Raya Dunayevskaya

• Raymond Williams

• Antonio Negri

• Michael Hardt

• Slavoj Žižek

• Alain Badiou

• Vladimir Lenin


 * Other persons


 * Marxists by nationality
 * Anti-Revisionists
 * Marxian economists
 * Marxist historians
 * Eric Hobsbawm
 * Marxist writers

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

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