Explore: Marxism And Communism

19th-century German philosopher Karl Marx, the founder and primary theorist of Marxism, viewed religion as "the soul of soulless conditions" or the "opium

and Friedrich Engels offered a new definition of communism in The Communist Manifesto. In the 20th century, Communist governments espousing Marxism–Leninism

Communism in India has existed as a social or political ideology as well as a political movement since 1920's. In its early years, communist ideology

(anarcho-communism and council communism), Marxist communism (left communism, libertarian Marxism, Maoism, Leninism, Marxism–Leninism, and Trotskyism)

production, also known as socialism or communism, is a specific historical phase of economic development and its corresponding set of social relations

Left communism differs from most other forms of Marxism in believing that communists should not participate in bourgeois democratic elections, and some

and Herder, 1973. Joravsky, D. and C. Koblernicz. "Party-Mindedness" Marxism and Communism in Western Society. Ed. C. D. Kering. New York: Herder and

Marxism is a political philosophy and method of socioeconomic analysis, that uses a dialectical materialist interpretation of historical development,

communist state led to communism's widespread association with Marxism–Leninism and the Soviet model, several academics say that Marxism–Leninism in practice

Mattick and Council Communism]. Marxismo e Autogestão (in Portuguese). 2 (5): 77–101. Rachleff, Peter (1979). Marxism and Council Communism: The Foundation