ABSTRACT
Like many another powerful teaching that becomes the ideology of movements carried on in its name and dedicated to its realization, Marxism has not always reflected its original inspiration. Marxism was born of this fusion in an intellectual process recorded in Marx's Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, whose publication in the present century presaged a new era in Marxian scholarship in the West. In a basic sense, revolution was the master theme of Marx's thought, and an exposition of the Marxian revolutionary idea in complete form would be nothing other than an exposition of Marxism itself as a theoretical system. It follows that the Marxian revolutionary idea has as many dimensions of meaning as Marxism itself. Each historical episode of self-knowledge begins with Spirit confronted by a seemingly objective world of "otherness" outside and beyond it.
