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*Not to be [confused](often_confused.md) with [communism](communism.md).*
Marxism comprises of ideas, theories (known as *historical materialism*) and ideologies strongly based in works of [Karl Marx](marx.md) (and also Friedrich Engels), roughly aiming for (and scientifically predicting) a violent [revolution](revolution.md) that should end [capitalism](capitalism.md), replace it with "[socialist](socialism.md)" society and eventually a truly [communist](communism.md) society. Despite the terms Marxism and communism NOT being equal (communism is a general idea with many branches, e.g. [anarcho communism](ancom.md), Christian communism etc.), most common people see them as equivalent, which is unfortunate because communism is a purely [good](good.md) idea while Marxism is mostly a bad way of trying to achieve and sustain their own idea of communism (the relationship between communism and Marxism may be roughly compared to the relationship between Christianity and Catholicism). Marxism comes with aggressive, revolutionary mindset that has caused great tragedies mainly during the 20th century (see especially [USSR](ussr.md)). Many non-Marxist communists even see Marxist "communist" states as capitalist (so called state capitalism). Marxism sees itself as a [scientific](science.md) effort, it is studied by intellectuals and lives mainly in written works of Marxists.
Marxism comprises of ideas, theories (known as *historical materialism*) and ideologies strongly based in works of [Karl Marx](marx.md) (and also Friedrich Engels), roughly aiming for (and scientifically predicting) a violent [revolution](revolution.md) that should end [capitalism](capitalism.md), replace it with "[socialist](socialism.md)" society and eventually a truly [communist](communism.md) society. Despite the terms Marxism and communism NOT being equal (communism is a general idea with many branches, e.g. [anarcho communism](ancom.md), Christian communism etc.), most [common people](npc.md) see them as equivalent, which is unfortunate because communism is a purely [good](good.md) idea while Marxism is mostly a bad way of trying to achieve and sustain their own idea of communism (the relationship between communism and Marxism may be roughly compared to the relationship between Christianity and Catholicism). **Existence of Marxism is probably as great a tragedy for communism as the existence of capitalism**. Marxism comes with aggressive, revolutionary mindset that has caused great tragedies mainly during the 20th century (see especially [USSR](ussr.md)). Many non-Marxist communists even see Marxist "communist" states as capitalist (so called state capitalism). Marxism sees itself as a [scientific](science.md) effort, it is studied by intellectuals and lives mainly in written works of Marxists.
Marx himself wasn't just some angry peasant pissed of at the system, but more of an intellectual, a philosopher who tried to [scientifically](science.md) examine [history](history.md) and came up with so called [historical materialism](historical_materialism.md), a theory that basically states that everything (structure of society, its [law](law.md), [culture](culture.md) etc.) is subdued to human production and economic forces and that society changes exclusively due to these forces, i.e. things like changes in [technology](technology.md), modes of production, economic relationships etc. -- he said individual humans are just slaves to these forces, their will cannot change them. He identified certain classes in society, mainly the proletariat (workers) and bourgeoisie (their overlords) and then reasoned some stuff about their conflict etcetc. until he came to the conclusion that capitalism will be surpassed by socialism and eventually communism -- not as anything ethical or "just", but purely as superior systems in terms of economy. So he basically only predicted the revolution would inevitably happen, however some other people -- those whom we typically now use the term "Marxists" for -- took this theory and started to use it as a basis to PROMOTE an active revolution.