Anarchism and Marxism - Arguments concerning the method of historical materialism

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• Anarchism and Marxism - Arguments surrounding the issue of the state
• Anarchism and Marxism - Arguments concerning the method of historical materialism
• Anarchism and Marxism - Points of political commonality
• Anarchism and Marxism - Selected Bibliography

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Marxism uses a form of dialectical analysis of human societies called historical materialism. At the crux of historical materialist analysis is the idea that people find themselves in a predetermined material world, and act to produce changes upon that world within the limits of what changes they can conceive of. An example of historical materialism would be that feudal peasants would find themselves with a lord above them, and imagine religious, instead of political, solutions to the problem of their unfree status. Underlying these processes is a ...

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Anarchism and Marxism, Anarchism and Marxism - Arguments surrounding the issue of the state, Anarchism and Marxism - Arguments concerning the method of historical materialism, Anarchism and Marxism - Points of political commonality, Anarchism and Marxism - Selected Bibliography

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Marxism has a very precise definition of the state: that the state is an organ of one class's repression of all other classes. To Marxists any state is intrinsically a dictatorship by one class over all others. Within this definition the idea of a "dictatorship of the proletariat" can mean anything from the monopoly on the legitimate use of physical force by armed working people's councils, to a monopoly of force by a party composed of intellectuals claiming to be the leadership of the working people. Within Marxist theory, ...

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Anarchism and Marxism, Anarchism and Marxism - Arguments surrounding the issue of the state, Anarchism and Marxism - Arguments concerning the method of historical materialism, Anarchism and Marxism - Points of political commonality, Anarchism and Marxism - Selected Bibliography

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