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Rh the Marxists are overshadowed by the wide divergence between the two camps in the historico-philosophical domain. The two trends are distinguished in respect of the philosophic foundations they attach to socialism, and as a political party the narodniki have since 1905 exhibited numerous transitional stages between the left and the right. Some of them incline towards liberalism, others towards Marxism and social democracy. Of the latter, again, some are revisionists, others orthodox revolutionary Marxists. As previously explained, the social revolutionaries, like their predecessors the adherents of the Narodnaja Volja, are likewise counted among the narodniki.

OR the understanding of Russian Marxism it will be advantageous, in view of the intimate mutual connection between Russian and European Marxism and especially between Russian and German Marxism, that we should give a brief account of the state of Marxism in Europe, concentrating our attention upon German Marxism. We shall discuss the crisis within the Marxist movement—for such is the aptest designation of the state of Marxism.