About politics: The left-wing

Today I will conquer the differences between communism, socialism and marxism. 

They seem to blend together well and even Karl Marx used communism and socialism as synonyms. However as this is not always the case as some differences can be distinguished. 

Hereby one shall start by the definitions of each ideology. 

Communism has been positioned in the far end of the left-wing. Defined as a theory of social organisation in which all property is owned by the community and each person contributes and receives according to their ability and needs, the quotation of Karl Marx encapsulates the ideology adequately: "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs". It is said that Marx was not only the father of Marxims but simultaneously created the basis to communism. 

According to Socialism, the social organisation is based on the idea of everyone in the society equally owns the factors of production. To follow Marx quote, socialists would say: "From each according to his ability, to each according to his contribution". In the left-right political spectrum, Socialism falls between communism and liberalism. 

The major difference between these two ideologies can bee seen that when one contributes to the society, he receives back which is the case in socialism. Communism nevertheless gives back what one needs and expects everyone to work as hard as they can. Also under communism the society is thought to be classless and stateless whereas in socialism this does not apply.

Now the question arises that how marxism is positioned with communism and socialism. 

Marxims is a framework for an ideology based on the German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engles. The central idea is that human society is primarily built on economic relations between classes and around those relations, the political and social structures are built on. This relation is however one way street; economic organisation determines the culture and never other way around. Maxism uses historical materialism to analyse and critique the development of capitalism and the idea of class-struggle in systemic economic change. Th class-struggle is between the bourgeoisie who controls the capital and means of production and the proletariat who provides the labour. The class struggles happens when the rich business owners (the bourgeoisie) pay everyday workers (the proletariat) to make things for them to sell. The workers have no say in their pay or what things they make as they cannot live without a job or money. The class-struggle ends up in the proletarian revolution as they will get more conscious on their position in the hierarchy and that will lead into the communism as happened in the October revolution 1917.