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A famous propagandist and theoretician, Karl Marx, was both a social thinker and a political leader during the 1800's. Marx is one of the most influential socialist thinkers to appear in the 19th century. Marx's theories of socialism made a great impact on the middle management and labor classes in the 19th century. Socialism is a philosophy of social organization by which the major incomes of production and distribution are controlled by the community as …

…the working class fighting for power from the bourgeoisie. Marx's pure socialism had many variations. The Purists were a group of people that believed in everything Marx said. They wanted to completely reorder the government and change it entirely. The Revisionist are somewhat different then the Purists. They wanted to revise the government and still participate in the politics as well. Another variation would be the Capitalists. They wanted to reform the evils of society.