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Comment: “Marx’s work could be seen as a compound of three elements-Green philosophy, English political economy and French socialism.” (Lenin)

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  • Western Political Thought

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The triad comes from Vladimir Ilyich Lenin's short essay "The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism" (Prosveshcheniye, March 1913), written for the thirtieth anniversary of Karl Marx's death. Lenin calls Marxism "the legitimate successor to the best that man produced in the nineteenth century": German philosophy, English political economy and French socialism. Accurate…

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  • The Three Sources and What Marx Made of Them
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