What Is Marxism?
Capital's first volume came out in 1867, nineteen years later.
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1.In which year did the Communist Manifesto appear?
Capital's first volume came out in 1867, nineteen years later.
2.What did a critic reproach Marx with in 1873?
That tells you how even critics saw his big work: as analysis of the present, not a plan.
3.Did Marx draw up a blueprint for an economic system?
Those are notes on someone else's draft, not a full plan.
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Sources (10)
- V. I. Lenin, Karl Marx: A Brief Biographical Sketch (1914), chapter 1, Marxists Internet Archive
- Karl Marx, Capital, Volume I (1867), Afterword to the Second German Edition (dated January 24, 1873, London), Marxists Internet Archive
- Karl Marx, Capital, Volume I, Chapter 7 (The Labour-Process and the Process of Producing Surplus-Value), Section 2, Marxists Internet Archive
- Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848), chapter 1
- Karl Marx, Critique of the Gotha Programme (1875), Section I, Marxists Internet Archive
- V. I. Lenin, The State and Revolution (1917), chapter 1, Marxists Internet Archive
- Karl Kautsky, The Dictatorship of the Proletariat (1918), chapter 1, Marxists Internet Archive
- Library of Congress, In Custodia Legis: Treaty on the Creation of the Soviet Union (2013)
- Suchauszug zu Boehm-Bawerk (1896)
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