ABSTRACT
Basic Marxist writings by Marx, Engels and Lenin, which expound what contemporary specialists refer to as ‘orthodox Marxist theory’, in fact comprise not one theory but several, which present, or attempt to present, a comprehensive and integrated system of philosophical, economic and socio-political views. This monolithic world outlook is what, in the final analysis, gives Marxist theory its totalitarian nature. Such an interconnection is the direct outcome of Hegel’s dialectics, which reached Karl Marx by way of the German philosopher Ludwig Feuerbach, leader of the left-wing Young Hegelians who turned away from Hegel to form the school of dialectical materialism.
