Assess The Relevance Of Marxism In The 20th Century

Marxism is the theory of an economic, social, and political philosophy taken from the work of the 19th-century historians Karl Marx along-side Friedrich Engels. Marx believed that his theory was the only way to both divide and control citizens in different social class, for example, separating the middle class, from the working, less advantaged class. It views the majority of human history in society as a struggle between social classes and asserts that capitalism, as a result of this division, is inherently inevitable. Marxism advocates a "revolution of the proletariat" in which the working class will claim all possible political power internationally and establish new societies based on collective ownership among them. In the 20th century,