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View submission: I'm a ~~Marxist ~~ Nazi and that's ok.
Wouldn't Marxism be a very narrow theory since it came from one man? Compared to Communism which would be a broad theory, because many different people had different ideas about it.
Comment by nytehauq at 06/12/2011 at 22:26 UTC
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I'm not sure what you mean by narrow, but communist theories are more diverse than the ideas of Marx because they came from marxism and developed from there.
Comment by ProfDirt at 06/03/2012 at 08:27 UTC
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I guess it depends on what perspective you are coming from, but if you consider the history of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, especially during the years leading up to WWI, then Marxism isn't all that narrow of an ideology. Eduard Bernstein was nominally a Marxist, but advocated a reformist approach. Rosa Luxemburg was on the other end of the Marxist spectrum and was--i think--a council communist. Karl Kautsky positioned himself somewhere between the two (he differentiated himself from Bernstein by insisting on the importance of Republicanism as a stepping stone to economic democracy).