Marxism is the movement which fights for self-emancipation of the working class which was founded by Karl Marx and Frederich Engels. Karl Marx was a German philosopher and a revolutionary socialist. Marx's work in economics actually laid out the fundamental basis for the current understanding of labor and economics. Frederich Engels was a German social scientist and political theorist; he also authored and co-authored with Karl Marx.
Marxism arose in the mid 19th century. At this time, the advocates of socialism were fascinated individuals who promoted a vision of the future and how society would be. Karl Marx did not claim himself to be the creator of some "new kind of knowledge". Marx defines a philosopher to be an "alienated human being" who deals with "idea entities" as if they had some "existence seperate from the material life of human beings".
During the first decades, Marxism was just a few people coming into the workers' movement and promoting revolutionary perspectives and criticizing ideologies of ther critical theories during this time. The Marxist movement included a great number of figures, such as Georgi Plekhanov (founder of Russian Marxism), Karl Kautsky (worked with Engels), and many more important figures. All of these figures produced a kind of orthodoxy, which is summarized in Georgi Plekhanov's "Materialist Conception of History" which was published in 1897 http://www.marxists.org/archive/plekhanov/1897/history/part1.htm
Marxism arose in the mid 19th century. At this time, the advocates of socialism were fascinated individuals who promoted a vision of the future and how society would be. Karl Marx did not claim himself to be the creator of some "new kind of knowledge". Marx defines a philosopher to be an "alienated human being" who deals with "idea entities" as if they had some "existence seperate from the material life of human beings".
During the first decades, Marxism was just a few people coming into the workers' movement and promoting revolutionary perspectives and criticizing ideologies of ther critical theories during this time. The Marxist movement included a great number of figures, such as Georgi Plekhanov (founder of Russian Marxism), Karl Kautsky (worked with Engels), and many more important figures. All of these figures produced a kind of orthodoxy, which is summarized in Georgi Plekhanov's "Materialist Conception of History" which was published in 1897 http://www.marxists.org/archive/plekhanov/1897/history/part1.htm