Marxism is a social, philosophical, economic and political doctrine and theory devised by Karl Marx and his followers, which is solidly linked to two ideologies and political movements: socialism and communism. In reaction to the idealism of the utopian socialists and anarchists, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels initiated during the 1840s a renewal of socialist ideology that, over time, would come to powerfully influence the development of the labor movement and even the set of western thought.
Marxism, also called " scientific socialism ", was based on a deep economic analysis of capitalist society. Through Hegel's dialectical materialism, Marx demonstrated the need for historical modifications in the development of forms of social organization as a consequence of the existence of contradictions in the modes of production.
The economic infrastructure explained the division of society based on the ownership of the means of production and labor power by one ruling class that exercised power over another. In the case of the time we had the capitalist-proletarian (worker).
This ideology established that the working class plays an important and transcendent role in the States, and that the class struggle favored the development of the media and the evolution of society towards the end of contradictions and exploitation of the man for man: communism. Marx's thoughts led the working class in the factories to put pressure on the industrialized societies of Great Britain and Germany, and later in other countries.
Marxism has had a great influence on political and social movements, and it was in Tsarist Russia of a feudal type with the Bolshevik Revolution and later with the governments of Lenin and Stallin, where the Marxist-Communist Ideology had its greatest height.
