A lot of institutions can be said to exist only because the government provides the framework for their existence ; for instance, Marxists argue that the institution of private property only exists due to government.

While Marxists argue that entryism flows from the " demands of the class struggle ", others allege it is more akin to infiltration.

Other Marxists argue for the necessity of a strong and cohesive repressive institution during revolutions, and support this position by pointing to the defeat of anarchist-led revolutions such as that during the Spanish Civil War, or other revolutions which were defeated.

Marxists often point to the irony of this situation, and use it to argue in favour of a more honest approach to the relationship between party, or party like organisation, and the rest of the working class.

Some Marxists even argue that anarchism springs from the ideas of proletarians ( or even petty bourgeoisie ) who have been marginalized by capitalism as an unorganized and unrefined reactionary struggle against the forces of capitalism.

Marxists would argue that culturalists are too idealistic in their notion of the social construction of reality and too weak in their analysis of external ( i. e. material ) constraints on individuals that affect their livelihood choices.

Marxists and socialists who advocate socialism argue that welfare states and ( modern ) social democratic policies limit the incentive system of the market by providing things such as minimum wages, unemployment insurance, taxing profits and reducing the reserve army of labor, resulting in capitalists have little incentive to invest ; in essence, social welfare policies cripple the capitalist system and its incentive system, the only solution being a socialist economic system.

They argue that welfare reforms had historically been used for this purpose in Prussia by Otto von Bismarck to ameliorate the impact of his anti-socialist laws, while others, such as Frederick Engels argue that the campaigns of the Marxists in Germany forced Bismarck to carry out reforms.

Marxists, who are skeptical of right-wing populist conspiracy theories, also accuse the global power elite of not having the best interests of all at heart, and many intergovernmental organizations of suffering from a democratic deficit, but they argue that the superclass are plutocrats only interested in brazenly imposing a neoliberal or neoconservative new world order — the implementation of global capitalism through economic and military coercion to protect the interests of transnational corporations — which systematically undermines the possibility of a socialist one-world government.

Recently two prominent neo-Confederates Walter Donald Kennedy and Al Benson published the book " Red Republicans and Lincoln's Marxists: Marxism in the Civil War " in which they argue that Lincoln and the Republican Party were influenced by Marxism.

Further, the positivists, the orthodox Marxists and the state autonomists argue that state should be the central unit of analysis.

The result, some Marxists argue, is an international transfer of value, from countries with a weaker bargaining position to those with a stronger one: products produced in country A with undervalued labour are acquired for a low price and resold in country B where labour is more highly valued, for a much higher price.

Marxists define private property as the right of an individual, or group of individuals, to exclude others from the use of an object.

This is distinct from theories of economic determinism such as that of Marx, namely that an individual or class ' role in the means of production determines outlook and cultural roles ( although some Marxists reject the label " economic determinism " as an accurate description of Marx's views ).

British historians, apart from a few Marxists, were generally hostile.

These critics range from those who reject markets entirely, in favour of a planned economy, such as that advocated by various Marxists, to those who wish to see market failures regulated to various degrees or supplemented by government interventions.

Those who describe themselves as autonomists now vary from Marxists to post-structuralists and anarchists.

Some Marxists, together with others on the left, view nationalism, racism ( including anti-Semitism ), and religion, as divide and conquer strategies used by the ruling classes to prevent the working class from uniting against them.

Bukharin developed an interest in the works of Austrian Marxists and non-Marxist economic theorists, such as Aleksandr Bogdanov, who deviated from Leninist positions.

Other radical feminists have criticized Marxists ; during the 1960s in the U. S., many women became feminists because they perceived women as being excluded from, and discriminated against by, leftist political groups.

For orthodox Marxists, socialism is the lower stage of communism based on the principle of " from each according to his ability, to each according to his contribution " while upper stage communism is based on the principle of " from each according to his ability, to each according to his need "; the upper stage becoming possible only after the socialist stage further develops economic efficiency and the automation of production has led to a superabundance of goods and services.

In the deconstruction procedure, one of the main concerns of Derrida is not to collapse in Hegel ´ s dialectic where these oppositions would be reduced to contradictions in a dialectic whose telos would, necessarily, be to resolve it into a synthesis, The presence of Hegelianism was enormous in the intellectual life of France during the second half of the 20th century with the influence of Kojève and Hyppolite, but also with the impact of dialectics based on contradiction developed by Marxists, and including the existentialism from Sartre, etc.

Following on from the theories of Marx and Engels, Marxists believe that such a socialist state is an inevitable step in the evolution of human society.

Marxists, in contrast, would say that markets have inefficient and democratically-unwanted outcomes – viewing market failure as an inherent feature of any capitalist economy – and typically omit it from discussion, preferring to ration finite goods not exclusively through a price mechanism, but based upon need as determined by society expressed through the community.

The ARP derived its name " Anti Revolutionary Party " from its opposition to the ideals of the liberal French Revolution ( and certainly against those of Marxists ).

* South African Communist Party Documents from Marxists Internet Archive.

There were some similarities between Ernő and Auric: both were Jewish immigrants who came to Britain from Eastern Europe in the 1930s and both were Marxists, although they were physically very different.

Marxists assert that value derives from the volume of socially necessary abstract labour time exerted in the creation of an object.

This result, which orthodox Marxists believe is a principal contradictory characteristic leading to an inevitable collapse of the capitalist order, was held by Marx and Engels to, as a result of various contradictions in the capitalist mode of production, result in crises whose resolution necessitates the emergence of an entirely new mode of production as the culmination of the same historical dialectic that led to the emergence of capitalism from prior forms.

As the social democratic Marxists of the Old Guard were expelled and left the SP in 1936, revolutionary Marxists from the Workers Party of the United States were admitted en masse.

However, after Admiral Kolchak was installed as " Supreme Leader ," of the White Movement in November 1918, he expelled all Marxists from the ranks.

* April Theses from the Marxists Internet Archive

It was during this period that Plekhanov began to write and publish the first of his important political works, including the pamphlet Socialism and Political Struggle ( 1883 ) and the full-length book Our Differences ( 1885 ) These works first expressed the Marxist position for a Russian audience and delineated the points of departure of the Marxists from the Populist movement.

Alongside and sometimes connected to the councilists were the early Hegelian Marxists, György Lukács ( a council communist himself from 1918 – 21 or 22 ) and Karl Korsch ( who turned to council communism in the 1930s ).

Pope John Paul II encouraged opposition to the Communist regime in such a way that it would not draw retaliation, becoming ( in a quote from CNN ) " a resilient enemy of Communism and champion of human rights, a powerful preacher and sophisticated intellectual able to defeat Marxists in their own line of dialogue.

Not all Marxists accepted the necessity of socialist realism ( Marx's, Engels ' and Trotsky's views on art and culture were very liberal and may have balked at the propagandism of Socialist realism themselves ).

In doing so, he repudiated Marxists within the Winnipeg Labour Party, alienating the city's more radical and revolutionary socialists.

Marxists worried that Ehrlich's work could be used to justify genocide and imperial control, as well as oppression of minorities and disadvantaged groups or even a return to eugenics.

Marxists worried that Ehrlich's work could be used to justify genocide and imperial control, as well as oppression of minorities and disadvantaged groups or a even a return to eugenics.

Marxist philosophy or Marxist theory are terms that cover work in philosophy that is strongly influenced by Karl Marx's materialist approach to theory or that is written by Marxists.

Key differences thus include the fact that Anarchists do not differentiate between peasants, lumpen, and proletarians and instead define all people who work for the profit of others as members of the working class, regardless of occupation ; and that anarchists do differentiate between the economic and political elites who set policy and the business and government functionaries that carry those policies out whereas Marxists lump the two together.

* Archive of Bax's work on Marxists. org

Grant argued that leaving Labour would amount to throwing away many decades of patient work and maintained that Marxists should remain within the party.

Marxists should work " inside, outside and around the mass organisations " for " workers begin to move through their own traditional mass organisations " and therefore " outside the workers ' movement, there's nothing ".

With the 1942 publication of The Theory of Capitalist Development Sweezy established himself as the “ dean of American Marxists ” and laid foundations for later Marxist work on these themes.

Despite the influence of the Marxists, many labor historians rejected the revolutionary implications implicit in the work of Thompson, Hobsbawm et al.

" Take away Canguilhem and you will no longer understand much about Althusser, Althusserism and a whole series of discussions which have taken place among French Marxists ; you will no longer grasp what is specific to sociologists such as Bourdieu, Castel, Passeron and what marks them so strongly within sociology ; you will miss an entire aspect of the theoretical work done by psychoanalysts, particularly by the followers of Lacan.

He now realized that his entire life's work was ` defective `, damaging `, and ` totally spurious ` because it had all been based on unreliable thinkers-Freemasons nourished by the Pahlavis ; secularists such as Ahmad Kasravi ; Western liberals and Marxists linked to ` imperialism ` and ` Zionism ` ...

Instead of feminism, the Marxists supported the more radical political program of liberating women through socialist revolution, with a special emphasis on work among women and in materially changing their conditions after the revolution.

Marxists, and some non-Marxist sociologists, think " work ethic " is not a useful sociological concept.

Also, the amount of unpaid, voluntary and housework labour performed outside the world of business and industry, as revealed by time use surveys, suggests to some feminists ( e. g. Marilyn Waring and Maria Mies ) that Marxists may have overrated the importance of industrial surplus labour performed by salaried employees, because the very ability to perform that surplus-labour, i. e. the continual reproduction of labour power depends on all kinds of supports involving unremunerated work ( for a theoretical discussion, see the reader by Bonnie Fox ).

Azzam issued a fatwa Defense of the Muslim lands, The First Obligation After Iman, and other work on behalf of jihad against Afghan Marxists and Russian invaders in Afghanistan.