Marxism and the Revolution Essay Two important ideal’s in Marx’s ideas were the philosophies of Materialism and Dialectics. Materialism in philosophy is the recognition that the material word, the world we can see, hear, feel and touch is the only real world. Therefore it is logical to base our actions around it for the best interests of the people in it. Dialectics is the theory that everything in the world is in a …showed first 75 words of 497 total…

…showed last 75 words of 497 total…They also had not way of deciding their leaders and representatives. The bureaucratic caste took control over the state apparatus, and used it in their own interests. This had nothing to do with socialism and in fact, in order to come to power Stalin had first to kill hundreds of thousands of socialist and communist militants, including most of the members of the central committee of the Bolshevik Party who organized the Russian Revolution in 1917