ABSTRACT
Marxism grows from modest local origins to serious global reach, in east and west alike. This chapter begins at the Marxian source, leading onto the bifurcation between classical social democracy and bolshevism and then Trotskyism. This is the point at which critics begin to differentiate between warm and cold currents in Marxism or its ‘two souls’. The Marxian legacy is then traced through western Marxism and critical theory, and East European Marxism through to post-Marxism. The aftermath in the last decade includes a scholarly Marx revival and the renewal of grassroots activism, these two however not obviously connected in the manner of Marx's hopes or dreams.
