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ae Laer re ot gees, pememre eg “ he . materialism, | _ MARXISU-LENINISN-MAO TSE~TONG THOUGHT “Ih tHetr early wiitings Marx and Engels ‘atiténiptisa te" . develop a philosophy which got at the foundation. on. ae be “political systems were organized, KX This process led - them to develop the philosophy of dialectical ‘and historical | rom there, Marx turned his. attention toward _@ detailed analysis of what he saw as the foundation: the : - economic system, His detailed analysis of the economic system ~ of the day (capitalism) is.contained in his most famous work, | Capital (Das Kapital). — . . . Th&S analysis of the workings of capitalism , coupled , with the employment of the philosophy of dialectcial. and - historicsl materialism, led Marx and Engels to then develop | @ more concrete theory on how to rid. the world of: capitalism -and create a’ worldwide dictatorship of the proletariat. For’ as Marx said, "The philosophers have only. teen preted the world differently, the point is.to. change. it. Reading: The Three Compnonent Parts of Marxism . Lenin Further Reading: _ CO Dialectical and Historical Materialism Stalin’ 40 pp. ontradiction Mao © 30 pp. BS Ludwig Feurbach Engels 65 pp a The German Ideology Marx and Engels 100 pp. Anti-Duhring Engels 200 pp Criticism and Empiro-Criticism "Lenin ie PDs Value, price, and Profit Marx 40 p i Socialism, Utopian ané Scientific Engels 55 pp. Anthology: ; Reader in Marxist Philosophy ed.. by Howard Selsam and Harry Martel 350 pp. , Lenin "In the reading below Stalin refers to Leninism as HMarxism d@ the eroch of imperialism and proletarian revolutions, Marxist historians refer to World War I and the Russian Revolution as the two events which alterred the course of world history in the early twentieth A century. World War i represented the Xd@AxX¥HRK culmination of the development of the imperialist system, It marked the date at which the entire world was either colonised or colonizer. The War itself was fought to divide up the colonized territories amongst the .. imperialist powers. No netion on earth was unaffected by imperialism after this point. The fact that the imperialist system had finally become ' worldwide meant that the world was divided into two camps: imperialist and anti-imperialist, Since Lenin defined imperialism as monovoly sttge of capitalism, no country could have a essor without it being revolution against an imperialist a