death_date death_place influenced era birth_place school_tradition influences main_interests thumb|caption name birth_date image article_title region
21 october 1961 belmont , massachusetts , usa frankfurt douglas kellner school , new left , bertolt brecht , 20th century tostedt , germany marxism fabian hegel , karl marx , friedrich engels , vladimir lenin society , mikhail bakunin , immanuel kant , georg wilhelm friedrich politics , economics , law karl korsch karl korsch 15 august 1886 korsch-karl . jpg karl korsch
 western philosophy
karl korsch

karl korsch -lrb- august 15 , 1886 -- october 21 , 1961 -rrb- was a german marxist theoretician .
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 .
