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'''The three sources and three component parts of Marxism''' is a short article written by [[Vladimir Lenin]] in which he explains how the teachings of [[Karl Marx]] “arose as a direct and immediate continuation of the teachings of the greatest representatives of philosophy, political economy and socialism.”<ref>{{Citation|author=[[Vladimir Lenin]]|year=1913|title=[[Library:The three sources and three component parts of Marxism|The three sources and three component parts of Marxism]]}}</ref>

Lenin shows how, taking as his point of departure the highest point reached by his predecessors, Marx revolutionized both [[philosophy]], [[political economy]] and [[socialism]]. Marx’s philosophy is [[materialism]], and he deepened and developed materialism by means of the conception of [[dialectics]]. He carried materialism to its conclusion in [[historical materialism]], by wedding it to the understanding of human society, showing that the economic order of society is the basis on which the whole political and ideological [[superstructure]] of society arises.

Marx then studied the economic order of modern [[Capitalism|capitalist]] society. The doctrine of [[surplus value]] is the cornerstone of his economic theory. He traced the development of capitalism from the first germs of [[commodity]] economy and simple exchange to its highest forms, to large-scale production, showing that the capitalist system creates the great power of combined labour. Marx elaborated the doctrine of the [[class struggle]], showing that the working class was the social force which was capable of becoming the creator of a new social system.

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