Second in a series around the anniversary of the death of Vladimir Ulyanov (Lenin) in 1924. In the first instalment of this series (Solidarity 697) I traced in broad outline the populist revolutionary environment in and from which Russian Marxism emerged.
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Second in a series around the anniversary of the death of Vladimir Ulyanov (Lenin) in 1924. In the first instalment of this series (Solidarity 697) I traced in broad outline the populist revolutionary environment in and from which Russian Marxism emerged.
Karl Marx (1818-83) and Friedrich Engels (1820-95) viewed the 1789 French Revolution as a symbol of the demise of feudalism and inauguration of a bourgeois society which eventually would be dislodged by the socialist revolution. The idea of apocalyptic change, central to Marxism, came from it.