Legal Marxism

As Legal Marxist social science journalists were called in Russia in the late 19th century ( 1894-1899/1901 ), subjects derive from Marxism that Russia was imminent, a gradual development of capitalism. Because they rejected the motion of the Populists and tended to be reformist -oriented, revolutionary Marxists were in exile, and there was no binding to larger parts of the population to give them the legal publication of certain Marxist- argue Direction works in the Tsardom was briefly possible to the opposition movement of the Populists, which was also partly influenced by Marxist ideas to weaken. Tony Cliff writes in this regard:

As a well-known representative of the legal Marxists to Peter Struve. His treatise " Critical Notes on the economic development of Russia " included both a critique of Populism also a justification of capitalism in Russia. Later, the legal Marxists tended politically to liberalism and opposed the seizure of power Lenin in October 1917 as a culturally and socioeconomically from premature.

Other Marxists in the legality phase

Etc. In the yearbooks, anthologies the legal Marxists published initially, Plekhanov and Lenin, came to their own publications by the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Russia. Lenin was in exile out also the publication of his comprehensive work " The Development of Capitalism in Russia " (1899 ) is possible. Lenin distanced himself even at that time explicitly from other legal texts published picked up this Marxist theories from. In contrast, Plekhanov sympathies with certain points of the legal Marxists are ausmachbar.

Works during the legal period of 1894-99 in Russia

• Peter Struve, Critical notes on the economic development of Russia, 1894.
• Lenin, The Development of Capitalism in Russia, 1899.
• Engels, The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State, 1884/1894 in Russian.