FAQ

The following is an FAQ by the Leftypedia editor team on topics relevant to Marxist communism.

What is communism?

"Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality [will] have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the premises now in existence."

For Marx, communism is the movement to overthrow capital. Its politics are firmly rooted in the current conditions of capitalism. It is not a society schematic, nor is it an 'ideal to be achieved'.