Karl Korsch

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Karl Korsch
Korsch's official Reichstag portrait, 1924
Born	15 August 1886 Tostedt, Province of Hanover, Prussia, German Empire
Died	21 October 1961(1961-10-21) (aged 75) Belmont, Massachusetts, U.S.
Alma mater	University of Jena (Dr. jur.)
Era	20th-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	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)
Minister of Justice of the Free State of Thuringia
In office 16 October 1923 – 12 November 1923
Minister-President	August Frölich
Preceded by	Roman Rittweger
Succeeded by	Richard Leutheußer
Member of the Reichstag for Thuringia
In office 26 July 1924 – 1 July 1928
Preceded by	Hermann Schubert
Succeeded by	Multi-member district
Member of the Landtag of Thuringia
In office February 1924 – July 1924
Personal details
Political party	USPD (1917–1920) KPD (1920–1926) KAPD (1927)
Other political affiliations	Determined Left (1926) Group of International Communists (1926) Left Communists (1926–1928)

Karl Korsch (German: [ˈkaɐ̯l ˈkɔɐ̯ʃ]; August 15, 1886 – October 21, 1961) was a German Marxist theoretician and political philosopher.^[1] He is recognized as one of the "dissidents" that challenged the Marxism of the Second International of Karl Kautsky, Georgi Plekhanov and Lenin.^[2] 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.^[3]