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Marxism is the collective term for the economic, social, and political philosophy of Karl Marx. In particular, the philosophy states that capitalism is a self-destructive system that eventually leads to a revolution of the working class so that they can establish a classless society.Karl Marx was a German radical socialist thinker who lived from 1818 until 1883. He worked with his friend, Friedrich Engels, to develop his ideas, which are very complex. Because of this and the various political ideologies Marxism inspired, Marxism is an extremely controversial topic today.Marx was extremely critical of capitalism, seeing it as an oppressive, flawed system that would inevitably collapse. According to Marxism, capitalism is a system in which an elite, wealthy upper class, known as the bourgeoisie, exploits the labor of the working class, known as the proletariat.Marx argued that because the wealthy desired only to make money, it was inevitable that they would try to get workers to work as hard as possible for as little money as possible. The inevitable result of this, according to Marx, was that the workers would grow to hate the wealthy and would unite to revolt against their oppressors.Marxism states that the workers’ (often violent) revolution would destroy the upper class and establish a socialist or communist society, in which there would be no more economic classes dividing people.Marxism is based on the theories of socialism, and Marx himself was a radical socialist. Marxism is also very closely related to the political ideology of communism. Many communist thinkers and leaders such as Vladimir Lenin, Josef Stalin, and Mao Zedong were inspired by Marx’s ideas and based their own political ideas off his work.