Editing Marxism (section)

===Before Marxism===
Prior to the start of 'proto-Marxism', the concept of proto-communism was somewhat popular in the form of [[Tribalism|Primitive Communism]] as many early Marxists took inspiration from primitive societies and the two concepts functioned similarly.

Proto-Marxists can be found in the 'Young Hegelian' school. The Young Hegelians, also known as the Left Hegelians or the Hegelian Left was a group of [[File:Cball-Germany.png]] German intellectuals who, in the decade or so after the death of [[File:Hegel.png]] [[w:Georg_Wilhelm_Friedrich_Hegel|Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel]] in 1831, reacted to and wrote about his ambiguous legacy. Often expanding on the idea of a 'dialectic'. This is where dialectical materialism find's its roots, particularly in the works of [[w:Ludwig_Feuerbach|Ludwig Feuerbach]].
The Young Hegelians drew on Hegel's idea that the purpose and promise of history was the total negation of everything conducive to restricting freedom and reason; and they proceeded to mount radical critiques, first of religion and then of the [[File:Cball-Prussia.png]] Prussian political system. They rejected anti-utopian aspects of his thought that "Old Hegelians" had interpreted to mean that the world has already essentially reached perfection. 

However, Marx later became disillusioned with many of the Young Hegelians. He and Fredrich Engels would go on to co-write [https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/holy-family/index.htm The Holy Family], and [https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/german-ideology/ The German Ideology] as a critique of the Young Hegelians. The latter majorly consists of a refutation of [[File:Anego.png]] [[Anarcho-Egoism|Max Stirner's]] "Der Einzige und Sein Eigentum", which allowed Marx to abandon the Young Hegelian concept of humanism for his 'Dialectical Materialism'. 

Some of the many other influences on Marxism can be found in classical economics such as [[File:Clib.png]] [[Classical Liberalism|Adam Smith]] and [[File:Ricardocube.png]] [[Classical Liberalism|David Ricardo]] who created the labor theory of value (LTV), and the "[[File:Utsoc.png]] utopian socialists" such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Étienne Cabet, Henri de Saint-Simon.

Prior to the publishing of the Communist Manifesto, Marx himself was into the philosophy of [[File:Hedonism.png]] Epicurus.