Karl Marx lived during the 19th century and shaped the idea of communism as a political concept with his contribution, together with Engels, “The communist manifesto”.
Marx described the world as driven by an underlying force, the ‘capitalist system‘, through which political elites – the bourgeoisies – dominate the social class of the workers, referred to as proletariat.
Marx believed that the elites – the owners – control the production of the workers in an asymmetric and exploitative manner, a situation that confers inequality at the global level. He believed that revolution would be the key to subvert the established system and obtain a more just world, free of wars.