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Marxism is known as that set of ideas and theories raised by the German philosopher Karl Marx (It can also appear as Carlos Marx in its translation into Spanish) in the second half of the century XIX. Marxism is perhaps one of the richest and most prolific currents of thought philosophical, historical, economic, social and cultural of history or at least of modernity, having led to numerous subsequent undercurrents that used this set of theories and ideas in very particular ways.

Marxism revolves mainly around the socio-economic relationships that characterized 19th century Europe in the aftermath of the outbreak of the French Revolution and in the historical period in which the industrialization it profoundly changed the social and economic forms known so far. For Marxism the basis of social organization It was the division of classes, a certainly complex concept that to this day generates conflicts around its definition. For Marx and other contemporary philosophers such as Engels, capitalist society was divided into classes according to the means of

production or be possessed work force.

While the capitalists, owners of money and the means of production act in theory Marxist such as the exploiters who force vast numbers of human beings to become simple force of work, the workers would be, despite their lack of recognition and power, those responsible for carrying out the revolution proletarian. This proletarian revolution would mean the seizure of power of those means of production, which cannot belong to other than to whom they manage them day by day in the factories, and to the establishment of governments in which workers and social rights are recognized. The culmination of this revolution was for Marx the establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat and the consequent disappearance of the class struggle.

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