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Communism is the ideology developed by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels and others. It proposes that capitalism is exploitative and will superseded by a proletarian(working class) state, then socialism, where the means of production are democratically overseen by the population under a worker's state, then communism, a stateless, classless and wageless society.

Communism's supporting ideologies is historical materialism, which states that humanity goes through historical stages: slave societies to feudalism to capitalism, socialism(or lower stage of communism) to (higher stage) communism. The other supporting ideology is dialectical materialism, which states the ideas form around the material conditions, ideas such as religion, instead of material conditions being formed by religion, it's hard to explain.

The Cold War was fought between the US, the leading capitalist nation, and the USSR, the leading worker's state(by definition not actual communism).

The battle between capitalism and "communism" was the Cold War and officially ended in 1991. And the battle isn't over.

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