Quote Originally Posted by Fragony View Post
Things are always really complicated (the crusades especially, the first especially), what I mean is that Marx was a philopher rather than a political theorisf some take him for, the term marxism is often used wrongly nowadays, words evolve of course, machivellian, sadism racism take your pick, marxism is an evolved word as well.
Marx's "philosophy" (with Lenin's amendments) was made into an ideology that guided a sixth part of the Earth's area (and the allied states) for seventy years. It surely influenced geopolitics.