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KARL MARX had the view that history was inexorably trending to communism and that capitalism would improve to socialism and socialism would improve to communism.
Karl Marx predicted that capitalism would expand and eventually engulf the entire world. It would develop and mature and eventually it would break down beyond all repair and it would become necessary for the working classes to overthrow capitalism and replace it with socialism.
capitalism would lead first to socialism then to communism
Under state capitalism, the government controls the means of production. But this is for the benefit of the ruling class, not for ‘the public good’.
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There can be no such compromise, as Socialism and capitalism are completely distinct systems. Socialism means a classless stateless society based on production for use, while capitalism has a class division and production for profit.
KARL MARX had the view that history was inexorably trending to communism and that capitalism would improve to socialism and socialism would improve to communism.
The answer is Karl Marx.
Karl Marx predicted that capitalism would expand and eventually engulf the entire world. It would develop and mature and eventually it would break down beyond all repair and it would become necessary for the working classes to overthrow capitalism and replace it with socialism.
It depends what you mean by "most powerful". If you mean "most advanced", Communism was the most advanced stage of society posited by Karl Marx and Engels. The progression was from Feudalism to Capitalism to Socialism to Communism. If by powerful you mean the most influential paradigm and ideology today, it would be capitalism in its neoliberal flavor.
capitalism would lead first to socialism then to communism
That would be state capitalism, with the government owning the means of production. In Socialism, there is no exchange, and the whole community owns the means of production.
There is no such thing as "Marx capitalism." The Catholic Church however as a conservative institution as a great defender of capitalism and hates socialism, Marx, etc. Essentially the total opposite of what Jesus himself probably would have supported.
Under state capitalism, the government controls the means of production. But this is for the benefit of the ruling class, not for ‘the public good’.
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Marx talked about the dictatorship of the proletariat as the transition between capitalism and Communism. This just meant the working class taking temporary control of the state and using it as part of the changeover to a classless society.
In his Communist Manifesto, he argued for socialism as a realistic solution to many of the class problems evident in his society. He also assumed socialism would eventually be replaced by pure communism, but that a jump from capitalism to communism was not viable without socialism as a transfer system.