Karl Korsch’s ideological life and critiques

Abstract

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