The deep distinction between classes was the inspiration for Karl Korsch to work on a new national economic system, which would decrease dissatisfaction between consumer and producer. The model of his economic system is called "industrial autonomy". Continuing and deepening differences between classes makes it possible to discuss "industrial autonomy" in the 21st century. On the other hand, incompletion of Korsch's research makes it difficult to grasp this model and he was faced with many criticisms. From the other aspects, his "industrial autonomy" is not a guideline for transition to socialism, because Korsch's work should be considered as an educative and motivated one for society. Korschian industrial autonomy is not available with whole features in the 21st century. However, few characters of his economic system can be seen such as profit-sharing, worker-cooperatives in firms and institutions. This paper focuses at his "industrial autonomy", criticism against Korschian economic system and its implementation in the 21st century.

Karl Korsch was the prominent member of Western Marxism. The deaths of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels led to separation of Marxists in Western Europe. K. Korsch was more independent and critical than others. His approach to Marxism was defensive in the context of its philosophy. In this case, he emphasized the relationship between Marxism and philosophy. According to K. Korsch, variety of statements about this relationship was the main factor of separation between Western Marxists. In addition, the analysis of Marxism by K. Korsch to revive it as theoretical expression of proletarian movement, and his emphasis on relationship between theory and practice made his philosophy debatable between 19-21st centuries. Thus, the problems of western Marxism will be analysed from K. Korsch’s point in this paper. The investigation will focus on his Marxists philosophy.

The ideology of Marxism-Leninism was developed by Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin. Marxism-Leninism was created in the example of a situation in Russia, and was supposed to be an ideology that fought for a proletarian. This ideology was stated to be utilized in revolutions of working class as a guideline in Cuba. Karl Korsch was worry about the misdirection of working class with Marxism-Leninism ideology which was different from Marxism. According to K. Korsch, decaying of revolutionary Marxism for the proletarian class was its misused by J. Stalin. Marxism-Leninism doesn’t serve for social welfare within society but pursue power of authority in Cuba. The absence of non-dogmatism in J. Stalin’s Marxism-Leninism policy is considered to be the bad reputation of general Marxism for proletarian in the 21st century. The countries which utilized Marxism-Leninism to keep power seems because of dogmatic approach to Marxism-Leninism. Thus, this paper will focus on MarxismLeninism and its implementation in 21st century in the frame of K. Korsch’s Marxist philosophy.

K. Korsch was famous in Western Europe because of his researches about Marxism. According to him, the theory was important for proletarian movement as an expression of their struggle. His all emphasizes were for the ideological struggle of proletarian and to develop Marxism according to new conditions of social movements. He worked on that and wrote articles, essays and books. Because of these works, he was called sometimes “revisionist”, or protector of Western Marxism. K. Korsch’s attempts to revive Marxism faced with many critiques thus many scholars analyse his philosophy. To understand the reason of this criticism against him, this paper will investigate K. Korsch’s political and ideological life