Marxism on the 12 Axes

Marx and Engels set out their ideas in The Communist Manifesto (1848) and Capital (1867). They argued that the way a society produces its goods shapes its laws, culture and politics, a view called historical materialism. Under capitalism, they held, workers create value that owners keep as profit, and recurring crises would push the working class to take power, abolish private ownership of production and eventually let the state wither away. Marxism is a method and a tradition more than a single program: it gave rise to social democracy, Leninism, Trotskyism, Western Marxism and many academic schools. Compared with Leninism it leaves open how the revolution is organized, and compared with anarchism it accepts a transitional workers' state before statelessness.

• Trotskyism 82%Trotskyism is the Marxist current founded by Leon Trotsky, centered on permanent world revolution, workers' democracy within a planned economy, and opposition to the Stalinist bureaucracy.
• Eurocommunism 81%Eurocommunism was a current within Western European communist parties in the 1970s that sought socialism through parliamentary democracy and independence from the Soviet Union.
• Revolutionary Socialism 81%Revolutionary socialism holds that capitalism cannot be reformed away and must be overthrown by a mass uprising of the working class, which then reorganizes society on socialist lines.
• De Leonism 80%De Leonism is a form of Marxism developed by Daniel De Leon that seeks socialism through a peaceful election victory combined with industrial unions that take over and run the economy.