Name: The Ideas of Karl Marx
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Author: Leon Trotsky
ISBN: 9781900007801

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English

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Paperback

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19.8x12.9x1.5 cm

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0.22 kg.

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9781900007801

Synopsis "The Ideas of Karl Marx"

"Marx was the best hated and most calumniated man of his time. Governments, both absolutist and republican, deported him from their territories. Bourgeois, whether conservative or ultra-democratic, vied with one another in heaping slanders upon him. All this he brushed aside as though it were a cobweb, ignoring it, answering only when extreme necessity compelled him. And he died beloved, revered and mourned by millions of revolutionary fellow workers - from the mines of Siberia to California, in all parts of Europe and America... "His name will endure through the ages, and so also will his work." Two hundred years after the birth of the great revolutionary Karl Marx, across the world, the capitalist system is in crisis and the working class are moving in to action to change their lives. In ruling class circles, no longer do they snidely declare the death of Marx. On the contrary, there is fear and consternation in their ranks. There has, therefore, never been a more urgent time to study his ideas. This short book, released for the two hundredth birthday of Marx, contains a series of articles on the man, his life, and his ideas: from an explanation of the philosophy of Marxism; to Marx's battles against petty-bourgeois anarchist ideas; to Trotsky's assessment of the Communist Manifesto. And much more! This book should be read by all class-conscious workers as the beginning of the study of the ideas of Marxism. As Lenin said, "without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement."

Leon Trotsky

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Lev Davidovich Bronstein, better known as Leon Trotsky, was a politician and revolutionary of Russian origin

Although he initially sympathized with the Mensheviks[4] and had ideological and personal disputes with the Bolshevik leader, Vladimir Lenin, Trotsky was one of the key organizers of the October Revolution, which allowed the Bolsheviks to take power in November 1917 in Russia. During the subsequent civil war, he served as the commissioner of military affairs

He negotiated Russia's withdrawal from World War I through the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. He was in charge of creating the Red Army which would definitively consolidate the revolutionary achievements by defeating poor support from foreign armies and the White armies during the Russian civil war; he supported the Red Terror and was awarded the Order of the Red Banner

Subsequently, he politically and ideologically confronted Joseph Stalin, leading the left opposition, which caused him exile and later assassination. After his exile from the Soviet Union, he was the leader of an international left-wing revolutionary movement identified with the name of Trotskyism and characterized by the idea of the "permanent revolution". In 1938, he founded the Fourth International

He was assassinated in Mexico by Ramón Mercader, a Spanish agent of the Soviet NKVD, by order of Stalin.

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Vladimir Ilich Lenin

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Vladimir Ilich Uliánov —conocido mundialmente como Lenin— nació en 1870 y marcó el rumbo político del siglo XX con una mezcla de rigor teórico y olfato estratégico que pocos han igualado. Fue el principal arquitecto de la Revolución de Octubre y el fundador del Estado soviético, impulsando una lectura combativa del marxismo que buscaba llevar la teoría directamente a la práctica. Su estilo, directo y sin concesiones, lo convirtió en una figura que todavía provoca discusiones encendidas.

Además de su actividad política, dejó una obra escrita extensa y verificable, donde analiza desde la organización del partido hasta la economía global. Entre sus textos más influyentes destaca El imperialismo: fase superior del capitalismo, un ensayo que disecciona con precisión quirúrgica la expansión económica mundial de su época. También aportó obras como ¿Qué hacer? y El Estado y la revolución, fundamentales para entender la estructura y la lógica de su proyecto político.

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