Editing Karl Korsch (section)

==Exile==
[[File:Korsch-karl.jpg|thumb|right|Korsch later in life]]
Having been active in left-wing politics in Germany from 1917 to 1933, he left his country of birth on 27 February 1933, the night of the [[Reichstag fire]]. At first he stayed in [[England]] and [[Denmark]].

===The deaths of Dora Fabian and Mathilde Wurm===
The bodies of [[Dora Fabian]] and [[Mathilde Wurm]] were found in a locked bedroom in London on 4 April 1935. In the subsequent [[coroner's inquest]], Korsch was to play a significant role. Fabian had been working with (Anton) Roy Ganz of the Swiss Police to investigate the activities of [[Hans Wesemann]], a former Social Democrat journalist who had become a Nazi agent.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eRSDDQAAQBAJ&q=Dr.&pg=PT37|title=A Matter of Intelligence: MI5 and the surveillance of anti-Nazi refugees, 1933-50|first1=Charmian|last1=Brinson|first2=Richard|last2=Dove|date=May 16, 2016|publisher=Manchester University Press|isbn=9781526110466 |accessdate=Feb 1, 2023|via=Google Books}}</ref> In fact Korsch had attended an interview with Ganz at which Inspector Jempson of the [[Special Branch (Metropolitan Police)|Special Branch]] had been present, but without Korsch being aware of his identity. Korsch later claimed that Ganz had encouraged him to reveal his revolutionary sentiments in front of the policeman and suggested that this was a factor in the expulsion of Korsch from Britain a few months later.

===Life in the United States===
In 1936, he settled in the United States with his wife, teaching at [[Tulane University]], [[New Orleans]], and working at the [[University of Frankfurt Institute for Social Research|Institute for Social Research]], then part of [[Columbia University]], [[New York City]]. Korsch died in [[Belmont, Massachusetts]], on October 21, 1961.<ref>{{cite book|title=Thinkers of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical, Bibliographical, and Critical Dictionary|publisher=Gale Research Company|year=1983|page=300}}</ref>

In his later work, he rejected [[orthodox Marxism]] as historically outmoded, wanted to adapt Marxism to a new historical situation, and wrote in his ''Ten Theses'' (1950) that "the first step in re-establishing a revolutionary theory and practice consists in breaking with that Marxism which claims to monopolize revolutionary initiative as well as theoretical and practical direction" and that "today, all attempts to re-establish the Marxist doctrine as a whole in its original function as a theory of the working classes social revolution are reactionary utopias."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.marxists.org/archive/korsch/1950/ten-theses.htm|title=Ten Theses on Marxism Today by Karl Korsch (1950)|website=www.marxists.org|accessdate=Feb 1, 2023}}</ref>