The growing wealth of the middle class, and increasing living standards for all classes of people that resulted from the rise of industrial capitalism in Western Europe, led people to be LESS inclined towards violent revolution and social unrest; completely opposite of what Marx had predicted.
With the failure of Marxism apparent, the revolutionaries looked towards less developed agrarian societies to test their theories(Russia), while the socialist/leftists who remained in Western Europe sought to reform Marxist ideology.
So they replaced the concept of race with class. They also flipped means and ends; for the Marxists, dictatorship was the means to achieve socialism, while for the Nazi/fascists socialism was the means to achieve dictatorship. Fascism Nazism and communism all have their roots in Marxist ideology.
The growing wealth of the middle class, and increasing living standards for all classes of people that resulted from the rise of industrial capitalism in Western Europe, led people to be LESS inclined towards violent revolution and social unrest; completely opposite of what Marx had predicted.
With the failure of Marxism apparent, the revolutionaries looked towards less developed agrarian societies to test their theories(Russia), while the socialist/leftists who remained in Western Europe sought to reform Marxist ideology.
So they replaced the concept of race with class. Fascism Nazism and communism all have their roots in Marxist ideology. They also flipped means and ends; for the Marxists, dictatorship was the means to achieve socialism, while for the Nazi/fascists socialism was the means to achieve dictatorship.
The growing wealth of the middle class, and increasing living standards for all classes of people that resulted from the rise of industrial capitalism in Western Europe, led people to be LESS inclined towards violent revolution and social unrest; completely opposite of what Marx had predicted.
With the failure of Marxism apparent, socialists the revolutionaries looked towards less developed agrarian societies to test their theories(Russia), while the socialist/leftists who remained in Western Europe sought to reform Marxist ideology.
So they replaced the concept of race with class. Fascism Nazism and communism all have their roots in Marxist ideology. They also flipped means and ends; for the Marxists, dictatorship was the means to achieve socialism, while for the Nazi/fascists socialism was the means to achieve dictatorship.
The growing wealth of the middle class, and increasing living standards for all classes of people that resulted from the rise of industrial capitalism in Western Europe, led people to be LESS inclined towards violent revolution and social unrest; completely opposite of what Marx had predicted.
With the failure of Marxism apparent in their own socialists the revolutionaries looked towards less developed agrarian societies to test their theories(Russia), while the socialist/leftists who remained in Western Europe sought to reform Marxist ideology.
So they replaced the concept of race with class. Fascism Nazism and communism all have their roots in Marxist ideology. They also flipped means and ends; for the Marxists, dictatorship was the means to achieve socialism, while for the Nazi/fascists socialism was the means to achieve dictatorship.
The growing wealth of the middle class, and increasing living standards for all classes of people that resulted from the rise of industrial capitalism in Western Europe, led people to be LESS inclined towards violent revolution and social unrest; completely opposite of what Marx had predicted.
With the failure of Marxism apparent in their own socialists the revolutionaries looked towards less developed agrarian societies to test their theories(Russia), while the socialist/leftists who remained in Western Europe sought to reform Marxist ideology.
So they replaced the concept of race with class. Fascism Nazism and communism all have their roots in Marxist ideology. They also flipped means and ends; for the Marxists, dictatorship was the means to achieve socialism, while for the Nazi/fascists socialism was the means to achieve dictatorship. It’s the end the categorical distinction was meaningless however
The growing wealth of the middle class, and increasing living standards for all classes of people that resulted from the rise of industrial capitalism in Western Europe, led people to be LESS inclined towards violent revolution and social unrest; completely opposite of what Marx had predicted.
With the failure of Marxism apparent in their own socialists the revolutionaries looked towards less developed agrarian societies to test their theories(Russia), while the socialist/leftists who remained in Western Europe sought to reform Marxist ideology.
So they replaced the concept of race with class. Fascism Nazism and communism all have their roots in Marxist ideology, all having the end goal if a socialist utopia