Critique of the Gotha Programme - Karl Marx
Red Menace
Advancing Revolutionary Political Project
The primary theoretical contributions highlighted in the text are Marx's defense of a revolutionary political project over an opportunist and reformist one, the clarification of essential elements of Marx's political theory including the need for a dictatorship of the proletariat, the transition between capitalism and communism, proletarian internationalism, rejection of nationalism, and a scientific understanding of distribution inseparable from the mode of production. Although some may initially see Marx's critique as nitpicking, the depth and scope of his arguments become evident as one engages with them.
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