The concept of a Marxist sociology does not refer to a clearly defined approach to social research; indeed, it is "now employed so widely that it has begun to lose all meaning" (Abercrombie et al. 1988, p. 148). The ambiguity of the term...
An intellectual tradition and political movement initiated by Karl Marx (1818–1883) and Friedrich Engels (1820–1895), Marxism has devoted much attention and debate on matters of science, technology, and ethics. Marx and Engels themselves...
Marxism is an approach to the study of society (also called ‘historical materialism’) in which analysis of the totality of social relations of production and reproduction is central. At the same time Marxism is a political movement that...
Marxist ideas have had a deep and enduring influence on political, economic, and literary thinking in South Asia, even though Communist parties have been in power in only a few regional pockets. This influence has advanced along two routes:...
Marxism is a general label to attach to any social theory that can claim a vague philosophical derivation from the works of Karl Marx. In fact Marxism as a general position has become so broad that there is often little serious connection, even in...
The term ‘crisis tendencies’, coined by Jürgen Habermas (1975), describes inherent, structural tensions and inequalities in social systems that lead to social crisis. Habermas’ focus was late capitalism. Connell (1995), though,...
The relationship between Marxism and anthropology has been both fruitful and often antagonistic. There are several distinct phases which can be described. First of all, there are Marx and Engels’s own writings on anthropological topics which...
Marxism Marxist theories, insofar as they are of philosophical interest, are discussed in detail in the entries Dialectical Materialism ; Historical Materialism ; and Marxist Philosophy . Various Marxist ideas are also discussed in the articles...
Since Marx's death in 1883, various groups around the world have appealed to Marxism as the theoretical basis for their politics and policies, which have often proved to be dramatically different and conflicting. One of the first major political splits...
