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Ideologies / Luxemburgist / Franz Mehring
Franz Mehring — ink portrait
§ The minds · 1846–1919 · Germany · Historian & journalist

Franz Mehring

The movement's historian

Marxism with a democratic conscience.

Reformist Luxemburgist →
Economic−88
SocialistMarket
Governance−24
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Social+50
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The historian and biographer of Marx who joined Luxemburg and Liebknecht in the Spartacus League, lending the democratic-revolutionary left its sense of history.

social

Progressive man of letters.

economic

Common ownership grounded in historical materialism.

governance

Democratic revolutionary; Spartacist against the war.

Notable for
  • Biography of Karl Marx
  • Co-founded the Spartacus League
  • Marxist historian
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