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*[[File:Councom.png]] [[Council Communism|Paul Mattick]] (1904-1981) [[File:Cball-Germany.png]] Germany
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[[File:Ormarxf.png]] '''Marxism''',
He believes that the history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles, and history can be viewed in stages of development based on which class holds a dictatorship over the other classes, and that today (with this stage starting around the English Civil War, 1642–1651) the world is under a dictatorship of the bourgeoise.
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While Marxism acknowledges the revolutionary role that the bourgeoisie have played in history, tying all corners of the world together in a global web of industry and consumption and revolutionizing the of production creating tools and machinery capable of producing far beyond the necessary requirement to sustain society, he believes that the forces of production are now constrained by the mechanics of capitalism, just as they were constrained by the mechanics of feudalism in the previous stage of development.
On top of that, he believes that how [[File:Cap.png]] capitalists extract surplus value from the
Another thing worth noting is that Marxism does not differentiate between "socialism" or "communism" very much, calling them "lower- stage Communism" and "higher- stage Communism" respectively, and the different names for those stages is an idea that his son [[File:Orthlen.png]] [[Leninism]] came up with. What is consistent, however, is that both communism and socialism are stateless and classless, with only the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, preceding both, requiring a "commune state" akin to the Paris Commune at most. The only times he differentiates between the two is when refering to socialist tendencies he disagrees with, such as [[File:Mutalist.png]][[Mutualism|"Proudhonian socialism"]] or [[File:Reactsoc.png]][[Reactionary socialism|"reactionary socialism"]].[[File:Engels drawing of the Young Hegelians .jpg|thumb|A sketch by Fredrich Engels of the young Hegelians.]]
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