With People for People – Early leftist Partisan Theories

(Marx, Engels and Lenin on the Revolutionary War)

Abstract

Marx, Engels and Lenin were outstanding military theorists of the guerrilla warfare who influenced the leftist guerrilla wars of the 20th century. After Clausewitz, Jomini, Davidov and other first guerrilla theorists they improved the concept of irregular warfare – that’s why their works are the links between the first guerrilla theories and Mao’s works. This paper focuses on Marx, Engels and Lenin’s main works and their theories on the revolutionary war. This paper was supported by the János Bolyai Research Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.