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Karl Korsch (August 15 1886 – October 21 1961) was a German Marxist theoretician. Along with György Lukács Korsch is considered to be one of the major figures responsible for laying the groundwork for Western Marxism in the 1920s.

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birth date
1886-08-15
birth place
German Empire, Germany, Tostedt
death date
1961-10-21
death place
Belmont Massachusetts, United States
influenced
Bertolt Brecht, Frankfurt School, New Left, Douglas Kellner
influenced by
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Immanuel Kant, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Mikhail Bakunin, Fabian Society, Vladimir Lenin
main interest
Economics, Politics, Law
philosophicalSchool
Marxism
region
Western philosophy

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