This view has been criticised by some Marxists ( especially Trotskyists ) who characterized this approach as ' substitutionism '- or what they saw as the misguided and apparently non-Marxist belief that other groups in society could ' substitute ' for the revolutionary agency of the working class.

By 1921, small groups of Marxists existed in six Chinese cities: Shanghai, Peking, Changsha, Wuhan, Canton and Tsinan, with a further group having been founded by Chinese students in Paris.

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.

During this period, the Shining Path assassinated specific individuals, notably leaders of other leftist groups, local political parties, labor unions, and peasant organizations, some of whom were anti-Shining Path Marxists.

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.

Some advocates focused on working conditions and found common cause with trade unions and Marxists and socialist political groups, or progressive movement and the muckrakers.

The following Wednesday, July 19, the planned Unity Congress was convened, attended by seven delegates claiming to represent a membership of 3, 000 in four organizations: the trade union-oriented Marxists of the now-disbanded International, and three Lassallean groups — the Workingmen's Party of Illinois, the Social Political Workingmen's Society of Cincinnati, and the Social-Democratic Party of North America.

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.

The International Workingmen's Association ( the First International ), at its founding, was an alliance of socialist groups, including both anarchists and Marxists.

The Marxist analysis of class struggles and of power as the cause of injustice has consequences on how Marxists relate themselves to the liberation movements of groups such as women, indigenous peoples, ethnic minorities, and cultural minorities ( such as homosexuals ).

The Waffle also had its own leftist wing the Red Circle, which was composed of Marxists and Trotskyists, and these groups became the inheritors of what was left of the Waffle.

The relationship of Marxists and other radical left-wing groups with anti-war movements often involves them trying to convince other activists to turn pacifism into anti-imperialism-that is, to move from a general opposition to war towards a condemnation of the economic system that is seen as driving wars ( or from pacifism to specific anti-imperialist antimilitarism ).

A middle-aged revolutionary named Giuseppi Fanelli came to Spain on a journey planned by Mikhail Bakunin in order to recruit members for the First International, an international organization that aimed to unify groups working for the benefit of the working class, which later came to be dominated by Marxists.

She believes that as blank slate theory becomes increasingly marginalised by advances in genetics, Marxists should refocus their efforts on the espousal of blind redistribution over more equitable concepts of social justice such as those advocating the need for different groups to make concrete contributions to society.

The 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica called the series of wars the Great Rebellion, while some historians, especially Marxists such as Christopher Hill ( 1912 – 2003 ), have long favoured the term English Revolution.

Mach's positivism also influenced many Russian Marxists, such as Alexander Bogdanov ( 1873 – 1928 ).

" In the French Revolution of 1789, France experienced what Marxists called a " bourgeois-democratic revolution " – a regime was established wherein the bourgeoisie overthrew the existing French feudalistic system.

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 Smith administration fought against African Marxists during the Bush War as part of its campaign to maintain its policy of a gradual transition of power, and negotiated an Internal Settlement with black moderates in 1979 – this agreement led to majority rule, the renaming of the country to Zimbabwe Rhodesia and a coalition government led by the country's first black prime minister, the United African National Council leader Abel Muzorewa, who included Smith in the cabinet as a minister without portfolio.

* The Patriotes Rebellion Quebec 1837 – 1839, selection of French documents translated into English for the Marxists Internet Archive

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 ).

Also thought responsible was the underestimation of Khomeini's Islamist movement by both the Shah's regime – who considered them a minor threat compared to the Marxists and Islamic socialists – and by the secularist opponents of the regime – who thought the Khomeinists could be sidelined.

Fred Harrison provides a full treatment of Marxist objections to land value taxation and Henry George in " Gronlund and other Marxists – Part III: nineteenth-century Americas critics ", American Journal of Economics and Sociology, ( November 2003 ).

The first major armed conflicts between anarchists and Marxists occurred during the 1917 – 1923 revolutions in the Russian Empire between urban anarchists, rural Makhnovist anarchists, the Marxist Menshevik Russian Social Democratic Party and the Marxist Bolshevik Russian Social Democratic Party.

During the Spanish Civil War of 1936 – 1939, although the anarchists and Marxists both fought in a united front against the fascist movement of General Francisco Franco, the revolutionary Marxists of the Workers ' Party of Marxist Unification ( POUM ), the anarcho-syndicalists of the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo ( CNT ), and the anarchists of the Federación Anarquista Ibérica ( FAI ) faced repression and attacks from the Communist party.

In this context " crisis " refers to what is called, even currently and outside Marxian theory in many European countries a " conjuncture " or especially sharp bust cycle of the regular boom and bust pattern of what Marxists term " chaotic " capitalist development, which, if no countervailing action is taken, develops into a recession or depression-see, for example, 1994 economic crisis in Mexico, Argentine economic crisis ( 1999-2002 ), South American economic crisis of 2002, Economic crisis of Cameroon, Financial crisis of 2007 – 2012, Great Depression, etc.

Marxists would also point out that in times of intense revolutionary struggle ( the most evident being the revolutionary periods of 1848-9, 1917 – 1923 and 1968 ) internationalism within the proletariat can overtake petty nationalisms as intense class struggles break out in multiple nations at the same time and the workers of those nations discover that they have more in common with other workers than with their own bourgeoisie.

Marxists define classes on the basis of their relation to the means of production – especially on whether they own capital.

In Dialectical Economics: An Introduction to Marxist Political Economy, a book published in 1975 by D. C. Heath and Company under the pen name Lyn Marcus, LaRouche tried to show that numerous Marxists – ranging from the Monthly Review group to Ernest Mandel, Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, Fidel Castro and the " Soviet economists " – had failed to correctly understand and interpret Marx's writing.

Marxists he admired – apart from Marx himself – were Rosa Luxemburg and Yevgeni Preobrazhensky.

" problem of Original Accumulation presented itself first to those authors, chiefly to Marx and the Marxists, who held an exploitation theory of interest and had, therefore, to face the question of how exploiters secured control of an initial stock of ' capital ' ( however defined ) with which to exploit – a question which that theory per se is incapable of answering, and which may obviously be answered in a manner highly uncongenial to the idea of exploitation " ( Joseph Schumpeter, Business Cycles, Vol.

These Marxists in the Kuomintang opposed the Chinese communist party ideology.

The dictatorship of the proletariat or workers ' state are terms used by Marxists to describe what they see as a temporary state between the capitalist and communist society.

Chinese Marxists declared ' the death of God ', and considered religion a defilement of the Chinese communist vision.

Theoretically, " communist state " is a contradictio in terminis as a communist society as defined by both Marxists and anarcho-communists is in principle stateless.

Some Marxists have also opposed the usage of the term " communist state ".

For Marxists, socialism or, as Marx termed it, the first phase of communist society, can be viewed as a transitional stage characterized by common or state ownership of the means of production under democratic workers ' control and management, which Engels argued was beginning to be realised in the Paris Commune of 1871, before it was overthrown.

The first major ideological conflict between anarchists and Marxists occurred within the First International, a European revolutionary communist political movement.

However, Christian communists sometimes disagree with Marxists ( and particularly with Leninists ) on the way a socialist or communist society should be organized.

Other Marxists such as Luxemburgists disagree with the Leninist idea of a vanguard, and insist that the entire working class-or at least a large part of it-must be deeply involved and equally committed to the socialist or communist cause in order for a proletarian revolution to be successful.

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.

During the 1930s, Niebuhr was a prominent leader of the militant faction of the Socialist Party of America, although he disliked die-hard Marxists by calling their beliefs a religion and a thin one at that.

For the Marxists who had come to dominate the Socialist Labor Party by the 1890s, this idea was exactly backwards.

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.

" Taaffe argues that the: " right-wing Labour leadership who usually hurl insults against the Marxists on the alleged undemocratic character of ' democratic centralism ' themselves actually practice an extreme form of ' bureaucratic centralism ', as the experience of the witch-hunt against Militant and others on the left in the Labour Party demonstrated.

The Marxists within the Labour Party differed in their attitude to the Communists.

In 1987, some Worker's Party members were among a group of 22 people arrested by Singapore's Internal Security Department, accused of being Marxists.

Marx21 aims at being " a network for Marxists within the new Left Party " and is a component of the party's Socialist Left caucus.

In 2009, Hitchens wrote of this period, " Against the Labour Party, which I knew to be penetrated by all manner of Marxists, and soaked in the ideas of the revolutionaries, it was increasingly necessary to support the Tories.

Marxists, such as the members of the U. S. Party for Socialism and Liberation, reject conspiracy theories in general and New World Order conspiracism in particular because it produces false consciousness and cultism.

Ahead of the 1999 DGHC elections, ABGL was part of the United Front, an alliance consisting of Communist Party of Revolutionary Marxists, ABGL, Indian National Congress, Bharatiya Gorkha Janashakti, Communist Party of India, All India Trinamool Congress, Bharatiya Nepali Bir Gorkha and Sikkim Rashtriya Mukti Morcha.

Communist Party of Revolutionary Marxists ( CPRM ) is a political party based in the Darjeeling District of the Indian state of West Bengal.

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BGJS was part of the United Front launched by Communist Party of Revolutionary Marxists and Akhil Bharatiya Gorkha League.

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.