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Karl Marx: Chinese Communist
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[O]f course, Marx's first truly history-impacting influence came with the Russian Revolution of 1917. Many millions of people died in the resulting Russian Civil War of 1917-1922. yet apart from the Mongolian People's Republic, no other Communist state was created before World War II. The Chinese Communist party was founded in 1921 and began a long struggle for power... it received little aid from the USSR, and it was not to achieve its goal until 1949. But from the late 1940s, Marxist influence spread like wildfire.
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These ideas first saw the light of day as an integrated whole in the Communist Manifesto which Marx wrote with his compatriot Frederick Engels in 1847/8. The Manifesto begins with a glowing tribute to the historical and revolutionary role of the bourgeoisie. It points out how the bourgeoisie had totally altered the face of the earth as it revolutionized the means of production, constantly expanded the market for its products, created towns and cities, moved vast populations from rural occupations into factories and centralized political administration. Karl Marx sums up the massive achievements of the bourgeoisie by declaring that "during its rule of scarce one hundred years (it) has created more massive and more colossal productive forces than have all preceding generations together. Subjection of Nature’s forces to Man, machinery, application of chemistry to industry and agriculture, steam-navigation, railways, electric telegraphs, clearing of whole continents for cultivation, canalization of rivers, whole populations conjured out of the ground - what earlier century had even a presentiment that such productive forces slumbered in the lap of social labour?". However, the creation of these productive forces had the effect, not of improving the lot of society, but of periodically creating a situation of crisis.
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When the Communist League dissolved in 1852, Marx continued to correspond with hundreds of revolutionists with the aim of forming another revolutionary organization. These efforts and those of his many collaborators culminated in 1864 when the First International was established in London. Marx made the inaugural address, wrote the statutes of the International and subsequently directed the work of its general council or governing body. After the suppression of the Commune, in which members of the First International participated, the International declined, and Marx recommended moving its headquarters to the United States. The last eight years of his life were marked by an incessant struggle with physical ailments that impeded his political and literary labors. He died in London on March 13, 1883.
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In January 1846 Marx set up a Communist Correspondence Committee. The plan was to try and link together socialist leaders living in different parts of Europe. Influenced by Marx's ideas, socialists in England held a conference in London where they formed a new organisation called the Communist League. Marx formed a branch in Brussels and in December 1847 attended a meeting of the Communist League' Central Committee in London. At the meeting it was decided that the aims of the organisation was "the overthrow of the bourgeoisie, the domination of the proletariat, the abolition of the old bourgeois society based on class antagonisms, and the establishment of a new society without classes and without private property".
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The German philosopher, radical economist, and revolutionary leader Karl Marx founded modern scientific socialism. His basic ideas--known as Marxism--form the foundation of socialist and communist movements. Marx spent most of his life in exile,...
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At the present time [1978], about one century after Marx's death, the number of persons who adhere at least nominally to Marxism is close to 1.3 billion. This is a greater number of adherents than any other ideology has had in the entire history of mankind--not only in absolute numbers, but ... as a fraction of the total world population. This has led many Communists, and some non-Communists as well, to believe that the future may see the eventual worldwide triumph of Marxism. It is very difficult, though, to extrapolate such trends into the future with confidence. There have been many ideologies which seemed very important during their heyday, but which eventually died out. (The religion founded by Mani is an interesting example.) Back in 1900, it seemed obvious that constitutional democracy was the wave of the future.
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