Classical Marxism And The Second International

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels themselves, together with the socialist theorists of the Second International (roughly 1864 to 1916) who developed, popularized and debated Marxist political economy in the decades before the Bolshevik Revolution split the socialist movement. This group gathers the orthodox and revisionist Marxists of this founding generation, including the theorists of the German Social Democratic Party and its European counterparts, whose formulations of historical materialism, surplus value and class struggle set the terms every later current in this atlas's Marxist and critical theory group argues with or builds from.