Political Science · Western Political Thought
Marx's theory of the state and revolution is taken from?
AGerman classical philosophy
BBritish political economy
CFrench revolutionary tradition ✓ Correct
DThe American war of independence
Correct answer: (C) French revolutionary tradition — Marx's theory of the state and revolution is taken from the French revolutionary tradition.
Explanation
★Marx's theory of the state and revolution is taken from the French revolutionary tradition.
★Lenin identified the three sources of Marxism as German philosophy, British economy and French socialism.
★From German classical philosophy, mainly Hegel, Marx took the dialectical method.
★From British political economy, mainly Ricardo, he took the labour theory of value.
★From the French revolutionary and socialist tradition he took the theory of class struggle and revolution.
★The French experience of revolution shaped his ideas of the state, class war and the seizure of power.
★So the revolutionary and statist side of Marxism springs from the French tradition.
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