Marxism is a political theory of action demanding strict compliance with its core principles. Comment.
How the answer moves
The flow snapshot — the routes in, the body, the counter-view and the routes out.
Route 1 Marxism as praxis: theory must change the world → scientific self-image creates logic of compliance
Route 2 Historical materialism + class struggle → deviation = betrayal of revolutionary project
Lenin formalizes compliance: vanguard party, democratic centralism → strict discipline necessary → dictatorship of party, not proletariat
Luxemburg: spontaneous mass action vs. bureaucratic centralism Popper: closed unfalsifiable system Arendt: doctrinal rigidity feeds totalitarianism
Route 1 Later traditions (Gramsci, Marcuse, Frankfurt School) open the framework → compliance belongs to one strand, not the whole tradition
Route 2 Marxism remains theory of action — but emancipation, not orthodoxy, is its core demand
Model answer
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