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The greatest challenge facing socialist leaders following Marx's death in 1883 was to organize and unify his vast theoretical legacy into a unified and comprehensive scientific worldview on which to build the revolutionary education of the emerging industrial working class. * The enormous educational responsibilities of the socialist movement, in its effort to create and direct a class-conscious working class, determined the form and nature of the theoretical work of that period. In his book _The Development of the Monistic View of History,_ and in countless articles, Plekhanov articulated the scientific worldview of "dialectical materialism", a term he coined... On the basis of the theoretical and programmatic foundations, created by this extraordinary collective intellectual effort of \[of Engels, Meiring, Kautsky, and Plekhanov\], the authority of Marxism was established in the European mass workers' movement. David North _Plekhanov and the Tragedy of the Second International_ “Let me add in parentheses for the benefit of young party members that _you_ cannot hope to become a _true_ intelligent Communist without studying - and I mean _study_ - all of Plekhanov's philosophical writings, because nothing better has been written on Marxism anywhere in the world.'