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Georgi Plekhanov
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1856 – 1918
“There is no historical fact that did not owe its origin to social economics; but it is no less true to say that there is no historical fact that was not preceded, not accompanied, and not succeeded by a definite state of consciousness.”.Materialist Conception of History
Works:
Socialism and the Political Struggle, 1883
Programme of Social-Democratic Emancipation of Labour Group, 1884
Our Differences, 1885
Second Draft Programme of The Russian Social-Democrats, 1887
A New Champion of Autocracy, 1889
Speech at the International Workers’ Socialist Congress in Paris, July 1889
For the 60th Anniversary of Hegel’s Death, 1891
The Meaning of Hegel, 1891 (alternative translation of the above by Raya Dunayevskaya)
Essays on the History of Materialism, 1893
Notes on Engels’ Ludwig Feuerbach ..., 1892
Bourgeois of Days Gone By, 1893
The Development of the Monist View of History, 1895
Anarchism and Socialism, 1895
Belinski and Rational Reality, 1897
The Materialist Conception of History, 1897
On the Role of the Individual in History, 1898
On the Alleged Crisis in Marxism, 1898
Bernstein and Materialism, July 1898
What Should We Thank Him For?, October 1898
Historical Materialism and the Arts, 1899
Cant Against Kant, 1901
French Drama and Painting of the 18th Century, 1905
Socialism and Internationalism, 1905
Ibsen, Petty Bourgeoise Revolutionist, 1908
Letter to Jules Guesde, 27 October 1912
Further reading:
Antonio Labriola
History & Class Consciousness, Lukacs
Marxism and Philosophy, Korsch
The Materialist Conception of History, Kautsky
Dialectical & Historical Materialism, Stalin 1938
“Historical Materialism”, Cyril Smith 1998