In Terence Ball's Reappraising Political Philosophy, there is a chapter that attempts to destroy the myth that Marx was heavily influenced by Darwinism and intended to dedicate Capital volume II to Charles Darwin. Instead Ball argues, the myth was propagated by a comment by Engels after Marx's death, two misread letters and and effort to make Marx's work be unassailably scientific.
Which begs the question, what was the important steps and important figures in the development of Marxism after the death of Karl Marx? How did Marxism veer from Marx's writings? Would Marx recognise the outcome of his work fifty, a hundred years after his death? What misconceptions have we gained about Marx's writings since Marx died? And is there any reason why Marxism produced a plethora of positions among Marxists, which we represented as the differences between Berstein and Lenin?
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