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How did Marx conceive the transition from capitalism to communism?  

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Modern Political Ideas and Doctrines a) How did Marx conceive the transition from capitalism to communism? Karl Marx is considered to be a historian, a philosopher, a political thinker, and an economist amongst other things. There is a standard misconception that Marx had no idea of economics, by contrast he was quite the economist, and was able to layout the transition of capitalism to communism in a very logical and understanding way. The transition of capitalism arises through three core factors: the philosophy behind the capitalist system, the economic and the political part of it Marx presented the fact that capitalism was doomed, by bringing in history and showing how other systems (such as feudalism) fell. Marx theorized the transition of capitalism to communism, in the same way history showed stage which tribal systems shifted to a feudalist system, and thereafter a feudalist system to a capitalist system. The basics...

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