Schools of Thought

 

Marxism is not a single entity. Marxism schools some but not all

 

Marxism–Deleonism (Daniel De Leon)

Combining f revolutionary syndicalism with orthodox Marxism.

 

Left communism (Rosa Luxemburg)

Anti-elitist party autonomous mass organization of the working class

 

Marxist Revisionists

Eduard Bernstein revolution through force was not necessary to achieve a socialist society, peacefully through legal means.

 

Marxism–Leninism

Revolution led by a vanguard party of professional revolutionaries.

 

Trotskyism

Is the theory that socialism should be established throughout the world by continuing revolution is its founding principle.

 

Council Marxist

Revolutions led by locally independent worker councils worldwide.

 

Antonio Gramsci

The domination of a culturally diverse society by the ruling class who manipulate the culture of that society, revolution created a counter culture

 

The Frankfurt School

Critical of both capitalism and Soviet socialism, their writings pointed to the possibility of an alternative path to social development. Led by in depth by scientific analysis based Hegelian dialectic.

 

Maoism

Revolution could be won by the sheer will of a large revolutionary majority.

 

Anti-revisionism

Opposed to any reinterpretation of basic Marxism-Leninism

 

Monthly Review School of Marxism

Studies the end of the freely competitive stage of capitalism and the beginning of monopoly capitalism.

 

Marxist theology

Liberation theology is a synthesis of Christian theology and Marxist socio-economic analyses that emphasizes social concern for the poor and the political liberation for oppressed peoples.

 

 

Marxist humanism

Workers are alienated because under capitalism individuals and are alienated from their productive activity and become a commodity to be bought and sold.

 

Analytical Marxism

Workers exploitation and class were generated not in the sphere of production but of market exchange completion among workers for a job.

 

Neo-Marxism or New Left

Marxism incorporating elements from other intellectual traditions such as critical theory, psychoanalysis, and existentialism

 

Autonomist Marxism

Autonomous social movements involve people directly in decisions affecting their everyday lives.

 

Structural Marxism

People's actions are shaped by society and in particular the economic system. It is the upper class control all of society, politics, law, religion and culture thus what the rest of us believe. Alternatives develop when societies begin to fall apart.

 

Communist Party Historians Group of British Marxism

To seek out a popular revolutionary traditions that could inspire contemporary activists

 

Anti-humanism Marxist (Louis Althusser)

The reproduction of the conditions of production and the reproduction of the relations of production happens through the state apparatuses which are insidious machinations controlled by the capitalist ruling ideology in the context of a class struggle to repress, exploit, extort and subjugate the ruled class.

 

Marxist Existentialist (Jean-Paul Sartre)

All societies are best understood as arenas of struggle between powerful and powerless groups, in which individual decisions play a critical role. We cannot escape freedom of choice. All choices come down too supporting the oppressor or the oppressed.

 

Herbert Marcuse

Mass culture, serves to reinforce political repression. In advanced industrial society (capitalism), the development of technical thought including efficiency by achieving the maximum results with a minimum amount of effort is destroying the oppositional and autonomous rudiments in advanced society

 

Euro communism

National Parties that emphasis independence from the former Soviet Communist Party and preservation of many elements of Western liberal democracy.

 

Marxist feminism

A system of thought feminism focused on investigating and explaining the ways in which women are oppressed through systems of capitalism and private property.

 

Marxist instrumentalist

This is a theory which reasons that policy makers in government and positions of power tend to "share a common business or class background, and that their decisions will reflect their business or class interests".

 

Marxist Dependency Theory

Starts with the idea that resources flow from a “periphery” made up of the poor is the underdeveloped are exploited states providing resources for a "core" of wealthy states, at below costs enriching these powerful nations at the expense of the prior colonies and semi-colonies. It is a main theme of dependency theory that poor states are impoverished and rich ones enriched by the way poor states are integrated into the "world system".

 

 

Marxist World Systems theory

World-systems theory is influenced by dependency theory.  The focus on nation states is their unit of analysis. Historical the global is a single integrated economy from the 16^th century on. Thus this is the main path of evolutionary development worldwide, disregarding transnational economic systems that constrain local and national development.

 

 

Marxist Anthropologist

Is the concept in which separate modes of production (economic systems) are coexisting within one society. Thus not totaling disagreeing the two theories just above, but each community has its own historical development while being integrated into a larger world system.

 

 

Marx – Weber synthesis

Weber used Marxist analysis but start with the super-structure’s influence on the base. For example how religion influence the development of Capitalism. Many Marxist find this useful to re-establish a dialectical relationship between base and ideology. The arrows go both ways.

 

Marx Freud synthesis

Studies the influence of the economic base on the rest of society and how this relationship effects the development the personality of the individual.

 

 

Environmental Marxist

Just what it says how the economy effects the environment, Starting from earliest hominids to the evolution of modern capitalism.

 

 

Anarchist Marxist

Uses Marxist analysis in the service of anarchist struggles’

 

 

Social Democrat

It is a political party that supports the expansion of the public sector and social services, under democratic control.