Marxism is a scientific worldview upholding the fundamental interests of the working class developed by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. The marxist scientific worldview is developed through the study of social and historical development and is the guiding theoretical framework of the working-class political parties.
Marx and Engels were the developers of the scientific worldview of the working class, the program, strategy and tactics of its revolutionary struggle. They critically rethought and creatively reworked the achievements of the previous scientific and social thought of mankind, summarized the experience of the class struggle and revolutionary movement of the working masses.
The most important theoretical sources of marxism were classical German philosophy, English political economy and French utopian socialism. Marxism took a fundamentally new approach to solving practical and theoretical problems and gave a scientific answer to the main questions posed by the course of social development and, above all, by the development of capitalism and the labor movement; it overcame the idealism and anti-historical, contemplative nature typical of previous social thought.
History
Marxism, as a complete theoretical system, was developed in the course of integration with the practice of workers' movements and revolutionary struggles in various countries, as well as in the course of struggle against all kinds of erroneous ideological trends, and in the course of creative research on new problems and new situations raised by the development of the times.
After the death of Marx and Engels, their successors continued to push marxism forward. Lenin combined marxism with the concrete practice of the Russian Revolution to develop marxism creatively. Created marxism's theory of imperialism. He developed the theories of Marx and Engels on the proletarian revolution and the dictatorship of the proletariat, and formulated the doctrine of the establishment of a new type of proletarian party. He summed up the practical experience of Soviet Russia and put forward the basic principles and guiding theory of socialist construction. Lenin's development of marxism brought marxism to a new stage - the stage of leninism.
Historical developments
China
In China, the Chinese Communist Party, represented by Mao Zedong, combined the basic theories of Marxism with Chinese history and social practice, and founded Mao Zedong Thought.
The essence of Marxism-Leninism's theoretical features are the same as those of Marxism and Leninism, such as: a guide to the necessity of taking violent forms to overthrow capitalism through revolution.