The doctrine on the struggle of emancipation of the proletariat, the idea and theory of the proletariat aimed at abolishing capitalism and establishing communism; meanwhile, a political movement, and a new and higher social system that replaces capitalism. The word communism is derived from the Latin word communis, which originally means public, common, universal…
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