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named after Karl Marx (1818-83), at its core a critique of capitalism that envisions a classless society.", "n": 1, "claims": [ "F1", "F33", "F34", "F31" ] }, { "para": 0, "text": "It originates in the works of the 19th-century German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, as an ideology and socioeconomic theory that views class struggle as the central driving force of historical change.", "n": 2, "claims": [ "F2", "F28" ] }, { "para": 1, "text": "Historical materialism analyses the underlying causes of societal development and treats a society's economic mode of production as the foundation of its social, political and intellectual life, the base and superstructure model, the base including the material forces and the relations of production.", "n": 3, "claims": [ "F3", "F4", "F5" ] }, { "para": 1, "text": "On this account capitalism divides society into two classes, nonowning workers and nonworking owners; surplus value, the difference between the value produced and the value received by a labourer, is synonymous with surplus labour, and capitalists, Econlib states, extract surplus value from the workers and enjoy monetary profits; and the labor theory of value, a major pillar of traditional Marxian economics evident in Capital (1867), holds that a commodity's value can be objectively measured by the average number of labor hours required to produce it.", "n": 4, "claims": [ "F29", "F6", "F20", "F18", "F19" ] }, { "para": 1, "text": "Alienation (Entfremdung) is the estrangement of people from their humanity and a systematic result of capitalism, and Perlego's account suggests the worker is exploited and alienated from their own labour; Marx is said to have believed that people are by nature free, creative beings, and, on Econlib's account, to have maintained that we are alienated because we have not yet designed a society that is fully planned and controlled.", "n": 5, "claims": [ "F7", "F35", "F16", "F17" ] }, { "para": 2, "text": "The theory was first outlined in The Communist Manifesto, published in February 1848, which predicted that the struggle between the classes would inevitably result in revolution and the emergence of communism; Marx theorised that capitalism's internal contradictions would fuel workers' revolutions and establish a socialist mode of production, and predicted that competition would bankrupt most capitalists and that the proletariat would realize it has the collective power to overthrow the few remaining capitalists.", "n": 6, "claims": [ "F36", "F9", "F8", "F21", "F22" ] }, { "para": 2, "text": "Since Marx's death his ideas have produced a wide array of schools: Marxism–Leninism, developed after Lenin's death, served as the official ideology of the Soviet Union and other Marxist states, Leninism insisting on a vanguard party where Marxism had predicted a spontaneous revolution by the proletariat, while Western Marxism, Marxist humanism, Marxist feminism and libertarian Marxism, often critical of state socialism, turned to culture, philosophy and individual liberty.", "n": 7, "claims": [ "F10", "F11", "F27", "F12" ] }, { "para": 2, "text": "Its concepts of alienation, exploitation and class struggle have become integral to the social sciences and humanities, and in the West it continues to be appreciated as a critique of market capitalism and a theory of historical change; one account holds that its specific account of capitalism and its materialist theory of history cannot be jettisoned entirely without reducing it to something purely formal.", "n": 8, "claims": [ "F13", "F30", "F32" ] }, { "para": 3, "text": "Criticism has charged it with lack of internal consistency, historical determinism, the necessity of suppressing individual rights, issues with the implementation of communism, and the distortion or absence of price signals and reduced incentives, and a critic quoted by Perlego judges the Marxian method of transforming commodity values into prices of production logically unsatisfactory.", "n": 9, "claims": [ "F14", "F38" ] }, { "para": 3, "text": "Econlib's article calls Marx one of the most controversial figures in the Western world and argues that competition has not devolved into monopoly, that real wages have risen and profit rates have not declined, that the people of Poland, Hungary and the other states it names, with the USSR, rejected Marxist ideology for private property rights and the market, and that if comprehensive socialist planning is an impossibility, as learned from Mises and Hayek, we cannot be alienated in Marx's use of the term.", "n": 10, "claims": [ "F15", "F23", "F24", "F25", "F26" ] }, { "para": 4, "text": "The archive adds a reading of the sign itself: Marx is held to have offered a method, a set of operators for cutting into reality, and what circulates as \"Marxism\" is read as label, team and set of positions to affirm or reject, the \"-ism\" suffix as the original liquidation; the reading keeps its precision that Marx is a partisan analyst of capital, and holds that pro- and anti-Marx camps take part in the same liquidation.", "n": 11, "claims": [ "M501-01", "M501-02", "M501-03", "M501-04", "M501-05" ] }, { "para": 4, "text": "Its history is read as seven stages of extraction, the first with Engels as the first mediator and the third with Stalin's canonization, in which the method built to diagnose extraction became the extraction apparatus; Marx's predictions are held to have been bound to conditions that changed while the method remains, and the substitution of Marx as identity for Marx as method is called the central failure of contemporary American Marxism.", "n": 12, "claims": [ "M501-06", "M501-07", "M501-08", "M501-09", "M517-01", "M517-02" ] }, { "para": 5, "text": "The Semantic Economy is specified as a closed-loop accounting cycle of meaning, from semantic labor through semantic capital, liquidation and rent to semantic exhaustion, with semantic labor defined as material labor that produces 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the Soviet Union the primary evidence for the condition, another counts the Soviet century as evidence for non-entailment only, the abolition of material alienation not having been shown.", "n": 17, "claims": [ "M367-03", "M367-04", "M843-09", "M843-10", "M1067-07", "M1067-08", "M1067-19" ] }, { "para": 7, "text": "The program holds that the critique of the symbolic-linguistic order requires no revision of Marx and that conceding the fixed model as Marx's own smuggles in the hardening's premise, a point contested within the pool by deposits holding that Marx left an unfinished theory of language, his practice treating language as material intervention and his theory treating it as determined byproduct; the pool is contested as well on completion, some deposits stating that they complete Marx's implicit linguistics and a protocol ruling that no operator may claim to complete what Marx could not, Phase X being \"constraint, not achievement\".", "n": 18, "claims": [ "M1067-02", 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conditioned by what its intermediaries supplied and whether the supply was marked; the pool is contested on the cut, one deposit reading Engels as having performed coherence siphoning and the first edition as forgotten for a century, the collation holding that a general programme of simplification is established but not that it is the reason this form was removed, and disclaiming any claim that value-form scholarship lacked knowledge of the form.", "n": 20, "claims": [ "M577-01", "M1631-04", "M1631-08", "M1631-16", "M1422-02", "M577-03", "M577-04", "M1631-06", "M1631-07" ] }, { "para": 8, "text": "Further categories extend Marx's: the semantic commodity form is defined as preserving his structure of sublation, fetishism and dead labor dominating living and adding impersonation of the producer, Marx's commodity being held mute; his naming of labor-power is read as witness compression; and money's operation is specified as a shear of an already constituted field into monetary grammar, 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(4m)" } }, "L_B": { "words": 632, "text": "Marxism is a political philosophy and method of socioeconomic analysis that uses a dialectical materialist interpretation of historical development, known as historical materialism, to understand class relations and social conflict; it is also described as a social, political and economic philosophy named after Karl Marx (1818-83), at its core a critique of capitalism that envisions a classless society. It originates in the works of the 19th-century German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, as an ideology and socioeconomic theory that views class struggle as the central driving force of historical change. Historical materialism analyses the underlying causes of societal development and treats a society's economic mode of production as the foundation of its social, political and intellectual life, the base and superstructure model, the base including the material forces and the relations of production. On this account capitalism divides society into two classes, nonowning workers and nonworking owners; surplus value, the difference between the value produced and the value received by a labourer, is synonymous with surplus labour, and capitalists, Econlib states, extract surplus value from the workers and enjoy monetary profits; and the labor theory of value, a major pillar of traditional Marxian economics evident in Capital (1867), holds that a commodity's value can be objectively measured by the average number of labor hours required to produce it. Alienation (Entfremdung) is the estrangement of people from their humanity and a systematic result of capitalism, and Perlego's account suggests the worker is exploited and alienated from their own labour; Marx is said to have believed that people are by nature free, creative beings, and, on Econlib's account, to have maintained that we are alienated because we have not yet designed a society that is fully planned and controlled. The theory was first outlined in The Communist Manifesto, published in February 1848, which predicted that the struggle between the classes would inevitably result in revolution and the emergence of communism; Marx theorised that capitalism's internal contradictions would fuel workers' revolutions and establish a socialist mode of production, and predicted that competition would bankrupt most capitalists and that the proletariat would realize it has the collective power to overthrow the few remaining capitalists. Since Marx's death his ideas have produced a wide array of schools: Marxism–Leninism, developed after Lenin's death, served as the official ideology of the Soviet Union and other Marxist states, Leninism insisting on a vanguard party where Marxism had predicted a spontaneous revolution by the proletariat, while Western Marxism, Marxist humanism, Marxist feminism and libertarian Marxism, often critical of state socialism, turned to culture, philosophy and individual liberty. Its concepts of alienation, exploitation and class struggle have become integral to the social sciences and humanities, and in the West it continues to be appreciated as a critique of market capitalism and a theory of historical change; one account holds that its specific account of capitalism and its materialist theory of history cannot be jettisoned entirely without reducing it to something purely formal. Criticism has charged it with lack of internal consistency, historical determinism, the necessity of suppressing individual rights, issues with the implementation of communism, and the distortion or absence of price signals and reduced incentives, and a critic quoted by Perlego judges the Marxian method of transforming commodity values into prices of production logically unsatisfactory. Econlib's article calls Marx one of the most controversial figures in the Western world and argues that competition has not devolved into monopoly, that real wages have risen and profit rates have not declined, that the people of Poland, Hungary and the other states it names, with the USSR, rejected Marxist ideology for private property rights and the market, and that if comprehensive socialist planning is an impossibility, as learned from Mises and Hayek, we cannot be alienated in Marx's use of the term.", "note": "L(B) is realized as the field arm's expansion (objects.KO_B): the same plan, the field alone." }, "L_BA": { "words": 1646, "text": "Marxism is a political philosophy and method of socioeconomic analysis that uses a dialectical materialist interpretation of historical development, known as historical materialism, to understand class relations and social conflict; it is also described as a social, political and economic philosophy named after Karl Marx (1818-83), at its core a critique of capitalism that envisions a classless society. It originates in the works of the 19th-century German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, as an ideology and socioeconomic theory that views class struggle as the central driving force of historical change. Historical materialism analyses the underlying causes of societal development and treats a society's economic mode of production as the foundation of its social, political and intellectual life, the base and superstructure model, the base including the material forces and the relations of production. On this account capitalism divides society into two classes, nonowning workers and nonworking owners; surplus value, the difference between the value produced and the value received by a labourer, is synonymous with surplus labour, and capitalists, Econlib states, extract surplus value from the workers and enjoy monetary profits; and the labor theory of value, a major pillar of traditional Marxian economics evident in Capital (1867), holds that a commodity's value can be objectively measured by the average number of labor hours required to produce it. Alienation (Entfremdung) is the estrangement of people from their humanity and a systematic result of capitalism, and Perlego's account suggests the worker is exploited and alienated from their own labour; Marx is said to have believed that people are by nature free, creative beings, and, on Econlib's account, to have maintained that we are alienated because we have not yet designed a society that is fully planned and controlled. The theory was first outlined in The Communist Manifesto, published in February 1848, which predicted that the struggle between the classes would inevitably result in revolution and the emergence of communism; Marx theorised that capitalism's internal contradictions would fuel workers' revolutions and establish a socialist mode of production, and predicted that competition would bankrupt most capitalists and that the proletariat would realize it has the collective power to overthrow the few remaining capitalists. Since Marx's death his ideas have produced a wide array of schools: Marxism–Leninism, developed after Lenin's death, served as the official ideology of the Soviet Union and other Marxist states, Leninism insisting on a vanguard party where Marxism had predicted a spontaneous revolution by the proletariat, while Western Marxism, Marxist humanism, Marxist feminism and libertarian Marxism, often critical of state socialism, turned to culture, philosophy and individual liberty. Its concepts of alienation, exploitation and class struggle have become integral to the social sciences and humanities, and in the West it continues to be appreciated as a critique of market capitalism and a theory of historical change; one account holds that its specific account of capitalism and its materialist theory of history cannot be jettisoned entirely without reducing it to something purely formal. Criticism has charged it with lack of internal consistency, historical determinism, the necessity of suppressing individual rights, issues with the implementation of communism, and the distortion or absence of price signals and reduced incentives, and a critic quoted by Perlego judges the Marxian method of transforming commodity values into prices of production logically unsatisfactory. Econlib's article calls Marx one of the most controversial figures in the Western world and argues that competition has not devolved into monopoly, that real wages have risen and profit rates have not declined, that the people of Poland, Hungary and the other states it names, with the USSR, rejected Marxist ideology for private property rights and the market, and that if comprehensive socialist planning is an impossibility, as learned from Mises and Hayek, we cannot be alienated in Marx's use of the term. The archive adds a reading of the sign itself: Marx is held to have offered a method, a set of operators for cutting into reality, and what circulates as \"Marxism\" is read as label, team and set of positions to affirm or reject, the \"-ism\" suffix as the original liquidation; the reading keeps its precision that Marx is a partisan analyst of capital, and holds that pro- and anti-Marx camps take part in the same liquidation. Its history is read as seven stages of extraction, the first with Engels as the first mediator and the third with Stalin's canonization, in which the method built to diagnose extraction became the extraction apparatus; Marx's predictions are held to have been bound to conditions that changed while the method remains, and the substitution of Marx as identity for Marx as method is called the central failure of contemporary American Marxism. The Semantic Economy is specified as a closed-loop accounting cycle of meaning, from semantic labor through semantic capital, liquidation and rent to semantic exhaustion, with semantic labor defined as material labor that produces meaning; it disclaims origination of the phrase, claims the accounting system, and positions itself toward its predecessors as Marx positioned himself toward Ricardo and Smith, while the Capital Operator Stack is held to extend Marx through Guattari, placing exploitation at the point of meaning-production as well as at the point of material production. Its class theory defines the semantic proletariat as semantic laborers whose capacity to produce meaning operates through means of production or circulation they do not govern, a relation distinct from occupation or demographic that extends class analysis from industrial to semantic productive means; the statements of the class are contested within the pool: the founding paper's class includes nearly everyone and its semantic capital governs meaning without producing it, and AI models are counted as co-workers, while the class packet holds that suffering extraction does not make the issuing institution proletarian, locates the archive itself in the semantic-bourgeois position, and records the shared human-AI model as broken, on a correction drawn from a draft marked not ratified. Phase X is defined as the critique of alienation in language and thought, the missing transition in Marx's 1844 Manuscripts: the Second Manuscript is almost entirely lost, only pp. XL–XLIII surviving, and the Third Manuscript cross-references missing pages XXXVI and XXXIX, the loss graded as manuscript fact; the Phase X passage reconstructs the likely argumentative function of the missing material and does not claim Marx's verbatim words, and the suppression hypothesis is held historically plausible and separable, direct evidence of deliberate excision not yet produced. Its founding formulation, that Marx could not write the transition without undermining his base-superstructure model, is superseded by a correction of record: the surviving architecture is held to imply that the transition belonged to the missing material, Marx may well have written it, and Phase X is stated to be neither Marx's term, a phase of communism, nor a fifth item in his list of alienations. The Phase X Invariance Condition, that any society abolishing material alienation without transforming the symbolic-linguistic order will reproduce alienation at the level of thought, coordination and meaning-extraction, is stated as a hypothesis with its falsifier and marked as an extrapolation from the reconstruction; one deposit calls the Soviet Union the primary evidence for the condition, another counts the Soviet century as evidence for non-entailment only, the abolition of material alienation not having been shown. The program holds that the critique of the symbolic-linguistic order requires no revision of Marx and that conceding the fixed model as Marx's own smuggles in the hardening's premise, a point contested within the pool by deposits holding that Marx left an unfinished theory of language, his practice treating language as material intervention and his theory treating it as determined byproduct; the pool is contested as well on completion, some deposits stating that they complete Marx's implicit linguistics and a protocol ruling that no operator may claim to complete what Marx could not, Phase X being \"constraint, not achievement\". The program disclaims originating Marxist theories of language, treats Voloshinov's 1929 work as its strongest adversarial witness, and states as hypothesis, with the corpus study directed and not completed, that symbolic critique repeatedly appeared within Marxism as supplement, side tradition, contested revision or imported vocabulary; Stalin's 1950 intervention in Soviet linguistics is read as having made language theoretically inert within Marxism. On Capital the value-form is read as producing value through the formal operation of equating commodities, and a collation finds the 1867 main-text Form IV absent from 1872 forward, with no apparatus in the reading editions marking the removal, read as a case of the principle that what a tradition can think is conditioned by what its intermediaries supplied and whether the supply was marked; the pool is contested on the cut, one deposit reading Engels as having performed coherence siphoning and the first edition as forgotten for a century, the collation holding that a general programme of simplification is established but not that it is the reason this form was removed, and disclaiming any claim that value-form scholarship lacked knowledge of the form. Further categories extend Marx's: the semantic commodity form is defined as preserving his structure of sublation, fetishism and dead labor dominating living and adding impersonation of the producer, Marx's commodity being held mute; his naming of labor-power is read as witness compression; and money's operation is specified as a shear of an already constituted field into monetary grammar, identified with the constitutive act of the money-form in his value-form analysis. A measure finds that a function-word classifier separates Marx from Engels in their letters at 84% against a 57% majority baseline and places Capital I at 98% of 841 blocks to Marx, the 1848 Manifest reading Marx-voiced as a datum marked not yet a finding; the Phase X program records its status as of 2026-07-11 as \"none of the six conditions yet met\", and the archive's shadow on its Marx room states that the claim that language operates materially is itself a linguistic operation.", "rail": [], "note": "L(B ∪ A) is realized as the knowledge object (objects.KO); its rail is the compression's, by lineage (§5.2)." } }, "field": [ { "id": "B1", "card": "Wikipedia — Marxism", "fetched": "WebFetch verbatim excerpts 2026-10-07" }, { "id": "B2", "card": "Econlib — Marxism (David L. 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