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   Karl Marx

   Nevertheless, there have been numerous debates among Marxists over how to interpret Marx's writings and how to apply his concepts to current events and conditions. ... Karl Popper has criticized Marx's theories for not being falsifiable, which he believed rendered some aspects of Marx’s historical and socio-political argument unscientific; Popper's falsifiability standard, though very influential, has itself been controversial.
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   Ideology

   History of the concept of ideology ... Karl Marx used the term in his own context often throughout his works.
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   Marxism

   Historical materialism: Historical materialism was first articulated by Marx, although he himself never used the term. ... Marx's theory of history
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   Labor theory of value

   Marx uses the concept of "socially necessary abstract labor-time" to introduce a social perspective distinct from his predecessors and neoclassical economics. ... The starting point for Marx's argument was: "What is the common social substance of all commodities?
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   Communism

   Some critics were former Marxists, such as Wittfogel , who applied Marx's concept of "Oriental despotism" to Communist states such as the Soviet Union, and Silone, Wright, Koestler (among other writers) who contributed essays to the book The God that Failed (the title refers not to the Christian God but to Marxism) ... Karl Marx
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   Transformation problem

   Marx's value theory was developed from the labour theory of value discussed by Adam Smith and used by many British classical economists. ... What mattered was the application of the concept.
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   Classical Marxism

   Marx critiqued Smith and Ricardo for not realizing that their economic concepts reflected specifically capitalist institutions, not innate natural properties of human society, and could not be applied unchanged to all societies. ... Marx's concept of class
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   Labour power

   Labour power (in German: Arbeitskraft, or labour force) is a crucial concept used by Karl Marx in his critique of capitalist political economy. ... There are five main kinds of criticism of Marx's concept.
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   Proletariat

   The term was initially used in a derogatory sense, until Karl Marx used it as a sociological term to refer to the working class.
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    Mikhail Bakunin

    He also strongly rejected Marx's concept of the "dictatorship of the proletariat", which Marx's adherents translate in modern terms to mean a "workers democracy" but which also maintains the state in existence during the transition to communism. ... Bakunin used Anti-Semitic arguments during his argument with Karl Marx.

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