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This article is about the form of society and political movement. For information on Communist organizations, see Communist party. For states ruled by Communist parties, see Communist states.

Distinguish from Communalism.

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Communism is a socioeconomic structure that promotes establishment of a classless, stateless society based on common ownership of the means of production. It is usually considered a branch of the broader socialist movement that draws on the various political and intellectual movements that trace their origins back to the work of Karl Marx. Opponents say that communism is an ideology, whereas promoters say that it is the only political system without ideology.

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The Communists... are on the one hand, practically, the most advanced and resolute section of the working-class parties of every country, that section which pushes forward all . The immediate aim of the Communists is the same as that of all other proletarian parties: formation of the proletariat into a class, overthrow of the bourgeois State, conquest of political power by the proletariat. - Karl Marx, Communist Manifesto, 1848

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Although many forms of communism, such as Leninism, Trotskyism and Luxemburgism, are based on Marxism, non-Marxist versions of communism (such as Christian communism and anarchist communism) also exist.