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A quick reference to the life and works of Karl Korsch (1886-1961), a German Marxist philosopher who was a participant in the anarcho-syndicalist movements and a friend of Brecht. Learn about his role in the Frankfurt School, his critique of theory and practice, and his biography of Bakunin.

influence on Brecht In Bertolt Brecht … in the late 1920s was Karl Korsch, an eminent Marxist theoretician who had been a Communist member of the Reichstag but had been expelled from the German Communist Party in 1926. Read More

It examines the work of the early Western Marxist Karl Korsch, who was deeply engaged in that project, showing that his most famous text, 1923's Marxism and Philosophy, can be read as a reflection on its problems and goals, especially the demand that the theory taught to the workers should “express” their life experience and struggle.

Karl Korsch was a German Marxist theoretician and political philosopher. He is recognized as one of the "dissidents" that challenged the Marxism of the Second International of Karl Kautsky, Georgi Plekhanov and Lenin. Along with György Lukács, Korsch is considered to be one of the major figures responsible for laying the groundwork for Western Marxism in the 1920s.

Upload book purchases, access your personalized book recommendations, and more from here. In Marxism and Philosophy Korsch argues for a reexamination of the relationship between Marxist theory and bourgeois philosophy, and insists on the centrality...