Editing Karl Korsch (section)

{{Short description|German theoretician and political philosopher (1886–1961)}}
{{Infobox philosopher
|region           = [[Western philosophy]]
|era              = [[20th-century philosophy]]
|image            = Karl Korsch 1924 Edit.jpg
|caption          = Korsch's official [[Reichstag (Weimar Republic)|Reichstag]] portrait, 1924
|name             = Karl Korsch
|birth_date       = 15 August 1886
|birth_place      = [[Tostedt]], [[Province of Hanover]], [[Kingdom of Prussia|Prussia]], [[German Empire]]
|death_date       = {{death date and age|1961|10|21|1886|8|15|df=y}}
|death_place      = [[Belmont, Massachusetts]], U.S.
|education        = [[University of Munich]]<br>[[University of Geneva]]<br>[[FWU Berlin|University of Berlin]]<br>[[University of Jena]] ([[Dr. jur.]])
|institutions     = [[Tulane University]]<br>[[Columbia University]]
|school_tradition = [[Western Marxism]]
|main_interests   = [[Politics]], [[economics]], [[law]]
|notable_ideas    = The principle of historical specification (comprehending all things social in terms of a definite historical epoch)
|module          =
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   | office1        = Minister of Justice of the<br />[[State of Thuringia (1920–1952)|Free State of Thuringia]]
   | 1blankname1    = [[List of minister-presidents of Thuringia|Minister-President]]
   | 1namedata1     = [[:de:August Frölich|August Frölich]]
   | term_start1    = 16 October 1923
   | term_end1      = 12 November 1923
   | predecessor1   = [[:de:Roman Rittweger|Roman Rittweger]]
   | successor1     = [[:de:Richard Leutheußer|Richard Leutheußer]]
   | office2        = Member of the [[Reichstag (Weimar Republic)|Reichstag]]<br />for [[Thuringia (electoral district)|Thuringia]]
   | term_start2    = 26 July 1924
   | term_end2      = [[1928 German federal election|1 July 1928]]
   | predecessor2   = [[Hermann Schubert (politician)|Hermann Schubert]]
   | successor2     = ''Multi-member district''
   | office3        = Member of the [[Landtag of Thuringia]]
   | term_start3    = [[1924 Thuringian state election|February 1924]]
   | term_end3      = July 1924
   | party          = [[Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany|USPD]] {{small|(1917–1920)}}<br>[[Communist Party of Germany|KPD]] {{small|(1920–1926)}}<br>[[Communist Workers' Party of Germany|KAPD]] {{small|(1927)}}
   | otherparty     = [[Entschiedene Linke|Determined Left]] {{small|(1926)}}<br>[[:de:Groepen van Internationale Communisten|Group of International Communists]] {{small|(1926)}}<br>[[Left Communists (Weimar Republic)|Left Communists]] {{small|(1926–1928)}}
  }}
}}

'''Karl Korsch''' ({{IPA|de|kaʁl kɔʁʃ|lang}}; August 15, 1886 – October 21, 1961) was a German [[Marxist]] [[Theoretician (Marxism)|theoretician]] and political philosopher.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Devlin|first=Nicholas|date=2021|title=Karl Korsch and Marxism's interwar moment, 1917–1933|journal=History of European Ideas|volume=48 |issue=5 |pages=574–593 |doi=10.1080/01916599.2021.1975149|issn=0191-6599|doi-access=free}}</ref> He is recognized as one of the "[[dissident]]s" that challenged the [[Marxism]] of the [[Second International]] of [[Karl Kautsky]], [[Georgi Plekhanov]] and [[Vladimir Lenin|Lenin]].{{sfnp|Renton|2004|pp=60–63}} 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.{{sfnp|Jacoby|1983|pp=523}}