10 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Italian Marxist thinker who developed the concept of cultural hegemony — explaining how the ruling class maintains power through cultural and ideological consent rather than just force — from his prison cell under Mussolini.
British Marxist historian who wrote The Making of the English Working Class — the founding text of 'history from below' — and developed the concept of the moral economy of the crowd.
British Marxist historian who wrote the most authoritative narrative history of the 19th and 20th centuries and remained a committed Communist Party member until his death.
G. A. Cohen was a Canadian political philosopher who combined Marxist political economy with analytic rigor, critiquing both Nozick's libertarianism and Rawls's difference principle.
Canadian political philosopher who applied the methods of analytic philosophy to Marxism and later developed a stringent egalitarian critique of Rawlsian liberalism.
Lenin's economic analysis of imperialism as the latest stage of capitalist development — explaining WWI as a conflict between imperialist powers over the division of the world.
Welsh cultural theorist and critic who developed cultural materialism — a Marxist account of culture that takes cultural practices as materially embedded rather than as superstructural reflections.
Lenin's theoretical account of the Marxist theory of the state — written in hiding in August 1917, arguing that the bourgeois state must be smashed and replaced with a workers' state that will eventually wither away.
Lenin's pamphlet on revolutionary organization — arguing for a disciplined party of professional revolutionaries rather than a broad, spontaneous mass movement.
Hungarian Marxist philosopher and literary critic — author of History and Class Consciousness (1923), the foundational text of Western Marxism, and one of the most significant Marxist thinkers outside of Marx himself.