Historical Materialism

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Historical Materialism is what Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels believed to be a key process in human evolution explaining how one obtains basic needs from society. Marx and Engels thought there was six stages of this process inevitably ending in Communism.

Primitive Communism

Where the society lived as nomadic tribes working together for their survival. Everything was shared with the tribe other than clothing and what very few commodities there were.

Slave Society

Slave Society was the beginning of the class, with one man owning another through the creation of the state. Following the state's creation was the concept of private property.

Feudalism

Before Feudalism, Democracy had been widely practiced with small scale Authoritarianism. Then, the magical idea of the rulership of one individual arises be either heredity or religion.

Capitalism

Capitalism, the stage we now live in, began during and after the Industrial Revolution with the rise of Market Economies across the globe. It was during this time that monarchies and noble lost control of the means of production to corporations in order to pay off their war debt from the Nepolianic Wars to the Rothschild bank (which funded both sides).

Socialism

After the working class mounts a revolution against the corporations, Socialism, will be attained, if the workers win. The workers will then take control of the means of production, form a Workers' Council, and slowly remove money from existance.

Communism

Once the Workers' Council has finished removing the remnants of capitalism it will cease to exist giving way to Communism. This era Marx described as a Stateless, Classless, propertyless society with no greed that works for the good of society.