समानतावादः कार्ल् मार्क्सेन परिपोषितः प्रसारितश्च । स एव “माक्सवाद’ इत्यनेन नाम्नापि विश्रुत आस्ते। साम्प्रतं जगदिदं प्रायशः वर्गद्वयसंविभक्तम्-

• समानतावादिनः (Communists)
• धनवादिनश्च (Capitalists)

Communism is a left-wing to far-left sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology within the socialist movement, whose goal is the creation of a communist society, a socioeconomic order centered around common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange that allocates products to everyone in the society based on need. A communist society would entail the absence of private property and social classes, and ultimately money and the state.