m, urging that his followers disdain softhearted bourgeois tendencies” (Hewett 4). Many of Marx’s theories and ideas became known as Marxism or scientific socialism; yet Marx claims that he is ‘not a Marxist’ (Marx 3 1). The terms “socialist” and “communist” have been defined in a bewildering variety of ways. For Marx socialism was the more comprehensive term and communism was an advanced stage of socialism. Socialism would prepare the way by nationalizing the mean of production which were factories, farms, mines, transportation, etc. and putting them under the control of those he viewed as the sole producers of wealth: the workers. He felt that political equality was incomplete without economic equality. So Marx’s redistribution of economic power was aimed at extending democracy far beyond limits ever imagined. Social services like health, education and housing would be provided free, but people would still be paid wages according to their work. When all nations had developed socialist economies, they would begin to evolve their international communist society. This began to show signs of anarchism, which is a stateless government in which the central government had withered way. It is a system full of chaos with no order or ruled.Marx quickly rejected the belief that such a society could be set up immediately as utopian. People would need a long period of reeducation under socialism to condition them away from the selfish orientation produced by the capitalism. Many of Marx’s socialists argued that it was impossible to achieve communism by passing through a state which retained and even strengthened the centralized state government. Of course Marx did not agree and had his own philosophy. He felt that it was impossible to leap directly into communism from socialism. This statements are both somewhat true because when one gets accustomed to a specific form of ...
