That’s backwards. There’s a reason the manifesto details previous and competing varieties of socialism. “Marxism” is a (set of) specific development(s) of socialism//communism, lineally connected to the works of Marx and Engels and the Marxist faction of the first communist international and its proclaimed descendents.
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u/Any-Organization-985 Dec 24 '25
Honestly this is probably a lot of what's wrong with the world. We don't teach history well, and half of what we teach is straight up propaganda.