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   History of communism

   Karl Marx saw communism as the original, hunter-gatherer state of humankind, from which it arose.
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   Communism

   Karl Heinrich Marx saw primitive communism as the original, hunter-gatherer state of humankind from which it arose.
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   Karl Marx

   Karl Heinrich Marx (May 5, 1818 – March 14, 1883) was a German philosopher, political economist, historian, sociologist, humanist, political theorist and revolutionary credited as the founder of communism. ... Some argue that while socioeconomic gaps between the bourgeoisie and proletariat remained, industrialization in countries such as the United States and Great Britain also saw the rise of a middle class not inclined to revolution, and of a welfare state that helped mitigate any revolutionary tendencies among the working class.
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   Anti-communism

   These conservatives saw communism as dangerous due to its intention to abolish private property and its desire to do away with cultural norms, such as traditional gender roles and - sometimes - sexual norms. ... Karl Marx
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   History of socialism

   Unlike the utopian socialists, who often idealised agrarian life and deplored the growth of modern industry, Marx saw the growth of capitalism and an urban proletariat as a necessary stage towards socialism. ... Anti-communism
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   Critique of capitalism

   Karl Marx saw capitalism as a historical stage which could be followed by socialism ... Communism
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   Marxist philosophy

   Instead, Marx saw consciousness as political. ... This notion is often understood as a simple historical narrative: primitive communism had developed into slave states.
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   Marxism

   The works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels Marx ... Council communism · Titoism
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   Criticisms of Marxism

   Peter Singer proposes that the way to solve this problem is to understand that Marx saw the economic base as ultimately real. ... Some sociobiologists have criticised communism on evolutionary grounds: Edward O. Wilson, referring to ants, once said that "Karl Marx was right, socialism works, it is just that he had the wrong species", meaning that while ants and other social insects appear to live in communist-like societies, they only do so because they are forced to do so from their basic biology, as they lack reproductive independence: worker ants, being sterile, need their ant-queen to survive as a colony and a species and individual ants cannot reproduce without a queen, thus being forced to live in centralised societies.
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    Christian communism

    Or, to put it another way, in a final bizarre twist of the dialectic of history, the total conquest by 1848 of the Christian variants of communism at the hands of the superior revolutionary will and organizing of Karl Marx, was now transcended and negated. ... 39 Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?

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• Criticisms of Marxism,
• Christian communism