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Karl Marx has been a nineteenth-century theorist, his theory of society, economics and politics has been called Marxism. This author postulated a dialectical theory based on the critique of capitalism, societies advance in the dialectic of the class struggle. Capitalism is carried out by the classes that possess the means of production for their own benefit. For Marx, as well as in the preexisting socioeconomic systems that have ruled societies, there would be internal tensions in society that would lead to the replacement of capitalism by a new system under a new social class, the proletariat. He was in favor of socialism, since he believed that it would be ruled by the working class, and he thought that this at the same time would eventually be replaced by a stateless and classless society called communism.
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