Was Karl Marx a communist

Answer 1

Karl Marx, author of "The Communist Manifesto" is the founder of communism. However, the philosophy of communism as described by Marx is very different from the ruthless totalitarian states subsequently created by the hybrid philosophy of Marxist-Leninism, or Maoism, or Stalinism, all of which make some use of Marx but for their own purposes.

Answer 2

Karl Marx was a political thinker and economist who co-authored "The Communist Manifesto" with Friedrich Engels. While Marx is often associated with the development of communist theory, he did not self-identify as a communist. He is best known for his contributions to socialist theory and his critique of capitalist society.

Answer 3

Marx postulated a system that he called Communism - though never knew any modern incarnation of it. It is possible to say that Marx would've dismissed the USSR's version of Communism as a veiled capitalist society. Classes continued to be in conflict, the worker was hardly the emancipatory class, and the Proletariat continued to be alienated and exploited.

Answer 4

No, he did not "invent" communism. In his life's work, "Das Kapital", Marx divided all of history into four epochs: Asiatic, ancient, feudal and the then current bourgeois modes of production. In the Asiatic era there was a type of primitive communism within the small communities and tribes scattered over the continent and India. Tribal land worked by members of the tribe without individual ownership of parcels of the land the tribe occupied. The produce of the land was distributed to members of the tribe without regard to who worked the hardest or who held what position in the tribe.

Communism isn't something that had to be invented or discovered. He did not set down rules of a communist society. It is what it is. Marx simply postulated what he thought it would be like when the inevitable forces of society converted it to communism.

Answer 5

Marx wanted true communism as he defined it. He did not want the type of communism that exists today. Marx would never accept today's perverted form of communism, because the exploitation of the proletariat continues as under capitalism. The main difference is that the state, through dictators and despots, rather than the Bourgeoisie do the oppressing.

Answer 6

Yes, he was. He and his best friend and comrade Friedrich Engels were the founders of communism as a philosophy and a political movement.

Answer 7

He was one of the founders of the movement.

Answer 8

Yes, not only did he believe in it as the most equitable economic system but he believed it was historically inevitable.