The concept of private ownership is rooted in classical Marxism.

They identify with the ideas of classical Marxism which sees society as divided by opposing class interests, that of the ruling and the working class.

The group sought to relate the texts of classical Marxism to contemporary politics.

Colajanni who counted himself a socialist, continued to reject in substance the ideological importunings of classical Marxism.

Too much is at stake for a book dedicated to proving the continuing value of classical Marxism to dislodge them.

In taking up this challenge, classical Marxism as a guide to action has much to offer" (85).

The show-trials produced a more important, and principled, reaction among these intellectuals: a return to classical Marxism.

Despite this, her "stress on the potential autonomy of the state avoids the 'class struggle reductionism' of classical Marxism."

It is seen as an inverse to classical Marxism, where the "emancipation of the working class must be the work of the working class itself".

Gramsci modified classical Marxism in seeing culture as a key instrument of political and social control.